DJ Arcas, Vira Gunn, and the Gaming Goose discuss:
- IGN’s “Fake or Gay?: Yoshi” story snafu. Is it homophobic?
- The PSN debacle.
- FortressCraft revisited with insight from its creator — DJ Arcas!
- L.A. Noire’s skippable action sequences.
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The Third Chair - Episode 4 - DJ Arcas
– June 4, 2011Posted in: Shows and Podcasts, The Third Chair, Video Games
With regard to the bit about the bank robbery mission, I know a lot of people who played GTA IV who called that mission their favorite in the game. I wouldn’t go that far, but I was good enough by that point that I didn’t have any trouble at all with the mission. The car ride is rather fast, and you can get health and armor power ups along the way during the fight if you’re vigilant enough to stop them. My real problem was escaping from the police at the end. Sometimes, in that game, the police suck so bad that you can just run through them and go fast enough that they are left behind, and sometimes they’re like rabid bulldogs that just won’t let go no matter what you try to do to get away from them.
I would also like to point out, alongside the fact that there are a lot of extra medkits and armor around, that GTA is unique in that, if you don’t want to do that mission, you can do a multitude of other things. You can go do another set of missions, you can blow off some steam elsewhere, you can re-arm yourself and get yourself some armor before the mission such that you’ll be able to survive. So I’m afraid the guarantee D.J. made wasn’t exactly true. Granted, I’m playing on the PC version, but I still know people who enjoyed it on the consoles.