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Justisaur <[email protected]> writes:

On 1/23/2026 10:52 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

I don't remember if I 100%'d Vice City (or if it even measured
that?)

It most definitely did, I remember the last achievement I did was get $1,000,000 in property damage by using the gunship and just destroying
all the army sent after me for quite some time.

Sure, there were even some silly stats that didn't count towards 100%
like "keepie uppie beach ball" or something like that which meant
bouncing a beach ball off any body part a few times, without letting the
ball hit the ground. Harder than one would imagine, considering the
physics in the game.

I tried to 100% GTAIII as well, I did a whole new game because of a
glitch that prevented me, but the glitch repeated as well in my repeat
play. so 99%.

I remember that too, on the PS2 if you had finished the game, you
couldn't reach 100% on the same memory card even if you started over
because members of some specific gang would no longer spawn. Due to the
glitch the completion was saved in some kind of global area so it
affected all GTA3 saves on the same card. I don't know if the PC port
was bug compatible.

To be sure, I remember trying to get even close to the 100% was
extremely frustrating in GTA3 anyways, there was at least one (or more?)
of those timed rampages of the kind "kill x members of gang y in z
seconds" but then usually not enough gang members would spawn in the
time allotted. Really tedious grind.

But really, frustrating missings are a staple of the GTA games. San
Andreas had some pretty awful plot missions too and others, like the
tanker truck missions. And Zero's missions, first fly a model plane to
destroy some vans, main problem being running out of fuel! Other than
the extremely wobbly controls. At least the fuel issue was fixed on
PC. And right after that, the next mission for Zero was shooting down a
zillion model planes. Not much fun with gamepad controls but a breeze on
the PC with mouse aiming.
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Anssi Saari wrote:

026 10:52 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

I don't remember if I 100%'d Vice City (or if it even measured
that?)

It most definitely did, I remember the last achievement I did was get
$1,000,000 in property damage by using the gunship and just destroying
all the army sent after me for quite some time.

Sure, there were even some silly stats that didn't count towards 100%
like "keepie up

with the moteo boat. This one is different because you can't outrun him
either - he will go back the opposite direction & run away. Hypocrisy is
at hand.
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