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Re: New Games Rant

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From: Anssi Saari
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:15
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Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> writes:

> But none of them just let you steal cars and deliver them to the docks
> and sell them for cash.

True but then again, there wasn't that much you could do with cash
anyways. Well, in San Andreas there were quite a few safe houses you
could buy but the earlier ones not so much. GTA3, Vice City and San
Andreas all had an extremely similar thing, here's a list of cars,
bring any one of them for cash and a bonus if you get them all. 

GTA3 had also this emergency vehicle crane which accepted all of those
for cash but only one each. Vice City Stories or Liberty City Stories
expanded this sort of thing to boats too. Which was excruciatingly
boring to do especially with a slow sailing boat... In the end these
were nothing but fedex quests and you had to be careful too to not
damage the car at least from SA onwards. They should've added an option
to hire a truck to take the car to wherever... Or in SA with the gang
stuff it could've been a car theft management minigame. Hire guys, find
buyers, bribe the cops etc. Take part sometimes if you want to,
otherwise watch the money roll in.

> Haven't actually played GTA4 yet so...

As I recall you get emails in GTA4 about cars that are wanted and a
general area where it could be found. Didn't do those much, again not
much use for money in GTA4. Real improvement over SA though where some
cars could get seriously rare or only had one specific spawn location.
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From: Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi>
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Subject: Re: New Games Rant
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