[Swan]

Ok, so i speedrun GTA 3 on PS4. It's night and day compared to how you can glitch on PC, but i have some pretty decent times (WR in all but one Console GTA 3 speedrunning category)

Speedrunning is super addictive, takes a lot of skill and practice, but i love it.

So yeah, are you a Trophy hunter? Do you speedrun? Ever beat a near impossible game to beat?

Post your achievements here.

Youtube video

[Calderyon]

Not into speedruns.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

Not into speedruns.

That's fair, not for everyone, hence why it's 'gaming achievements' so can be anything? Mine just happens to be speedrunning.

I have a ton of respect for Trophy Hunters.

[The Slim Reaper]

I speedrun splinter cell, but that's the only one, and back on the ps3. Had a world record for a few weeks after release, then this Russian just dominated the whole leaderboard with insane times and scores. Still load it up once in a while to replay some missions.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I speedrun splinter cell, but that's the only one, and back on the ps3. Had a world record for a few weeks after release, then this Russian just dominated the whole leaderboard with insane times and scores. Still load it up once in a while to replay some missions.

Oh nice, the only game i run is GTA 3, one trick pony etc Do you have any videos of your runs? Would like to have a look

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Swan

Oh nice, the only game i run is GTA 3, one trick pony etc Do you have any videos of your runs? Would like to have a look

Unfortunately not as I don't have a capture card. I have the game on the current gen xbox though (through backwards compatibility), so I'll load it up over the next couple of weeks and record a few missions.

GTA 3 seems like a weird game to speedrun, how did you get into it?

[Swan]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Unfortunately not as I don't have a capture card. I have the game on the current gen xbox though (through backwards compatibility), so I'll load it up over the next couple of weeks and record a few missions.

GTA 3 seems like a weird game to speedrun, how did you get into it?

Ah ok cool.

I mean the PS2 Trilogy to speedrun is super popular, granted VC and SA are more popular to run, but plenty run GTA 3 too (most on PC, granted).

There's a fairly big community for it. I just happened to prefer to run as i played it a lot as a kid. Will probably start to learn VC and then SA too.

[Calderyon]

I played through Vagrant Story 3 times and I think I got a 100% map reveal rate, but I did not get all of the weapons.

I would have to check my PS1 memory cards though as I think my save files are still there.

[Swan]

FWIW my All Missions WR is 3:45:11, that one was stressful lol

[Calderyon]

I got all except the Master League Trophy on ISS Pro Evolution Soccer on PSX.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

I got all expect the Master League Trophy on ISS Pro Evolution Soccer on PSX.

I LOVED that game

GG man.

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by Swan

I LOVED that game

GG man.

The Master League cup is tough to get as you have to win the league on the 1st try with most of the team being crappy/mediocre. I'll have to try that again at some point.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

The Master League cup is tough to get as you have to win the league on the 1st try with most of the team being crappy/mediocre. I'll have to try that again at some point.

Yeah it's hard for sure. You should yeah.

[Calderyon]

I think I aced ISS Deluxe on SNES and ISS 64, ISS 98 and ISS 2000 on N64. (Won all the World tournaments and World Leagues on all levels from 3 to 5. Scenarios only on levels 3/4, I think.

I think I did the Short Tournament on those games that it was available.

[Calderyon]

I won the league in my 2nd/3rd try, but it was of no use.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

I won the league in my 2nd/3rd try, but it was of no use.

Dude you're making wanna play it again

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by Swan

Dude you're making wanna play it again

It was such a thrill to having to first lose and lose & occasionally win, then as the times goes on finally win games with the team as you got better and comfortable with your players & strategy and then be able to buy the best players to help you further with the money you earned through your wins.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

It was such a thrill to having to first lose and lose & occasionally win, then as the times goes on finally win games with the team as you got better and comfortable with your players & strategy and then able to buy the best players to help you with the money you earned through your wins.

Yeah i loved that so much, would play for hours and hours.

[Calderyon]

I won all the tournaments on FIFA 2000 and cleared the season mode (2/3 seasons + Cups & Champions league).

Mind you, it's not very hard.

I won the International tournaments with Finland and the season ones with Arsenal.

[Calderyon]

I beat WC2 Tides of Darkness + Beyond the Dark Portal with Orcs and Tides of Darkness with Humans and got to the penultimate mission of Beyond the Dark portal with Humans. I will look into finishing it someday.

[Calderyon]

Cleared SC1 in terms of both the actual game and the expansion pack.

[Dogeatdog]

I think finishing the Driver 2 story mode when I was 10 was an achievement . That game had some tough ****ing missions made even worse by the terrible AI.

Out of curiosity Swan (and sorry to sound proper dumb) but when you speed run GTA3 is it 100% completion you go for or just the main storyline missions? GTA3 would probably be the easiest for me to speed run out of all the PS2 GTA games I think. I only remember one or two missions being fairly difficult (I think one was called ‘Espresso 2 Go’ or something like that).

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog

I think finishing the Driver 2 story mode when I was 10 was an achievement . That game had some tough ****ing missions made even worse by the terrible AI.

Out of curiosity Swan (and sorry to sound proper dumb) but when you speed run GTA3 is it 100% completion you go for or just the main storyline missions? GTA3 would probably be the easiest for me to speed run out of all the PS2 GTA games I think. I only remember one or two missions being fairly difficult (I think one was called ‘Espresso 2 Go’ or something like that).

You don't sound proper dumb Basically no, 100% is it's own category (which i've yet to route for yet, but it'll happen soon, hoping for around a 9/10 hour run, RNG will play a huge part in that), i've done every category BUT 100%. So like any% will be the fastest because i dupe 4 missions (meaning you set on om0 and duplicate the mission and tricking the script, and pass with a death/bust), and any% is just that, complete the game as fast as you can, however you like, without cheating.

All missions, so all 73 missions is it's own category, that one i have a 3:45:11 time in, so yes quite a big difference from any% which is 1:18:56.

GTA 3 is a decent game to speedrun, little things will annoy you more than not, and RNG can really make or brake a run. As for the missions, yeah Espresso 2 Go is notorious with casual playthroughs because you have to get near the stalls for the blips to appear on the map, and it's across all 3 islands, so if you don;t know the map well then yeah it's very tricky. I've seen people stuck on this mission for hours (obviously in speedruns we know the best route, and it's fairly straightforward )

[Dogeatdog]

Originally Posted by Swan

You don't sound proper dumb Basically no, 100% is it's own category (which i've yet to route for yet, but it'll happen soon, hoping for around a 9/10 hour run, RNG will play a huge part in that), i've done every category BUT 100%. So like any% will be the fastest because i dupe 4 missions (meaning you set on om0 and duplicate the mission and tricking the script, and pass with a death/bust), and any% is just that, complete the game as fast as you can, however you like, without cheating.

All missions, so all 73 missions is it's own category, that one i have a 3:45:11 time in, so yes quite a big difference from any% which is 1:18:56.

GTA 3 is a decent game to speedrun, little things will annoy you more than not, and RNG can really make or brake a run. As for the missions, yeah Espresso 2 Go is notorious with casual playthroughs because you have to get near the stalls for the blips to appear on the map, and it's across all 3 islands, so if you don;t know the map well then yeah it's very tricky. I've seen people stuck on this mission for hours (obviously in speedruns we know the best route, and it's fairly straightforward )

Ah ok so you’ve done speed runs on this game a fair few times then I take it? The hidden packages part is what I’d probably find the most annoying but I suppose if you’ve learned and memorised all the locations for them it can be fairly easy. That’s some impressive times btw, I doubt I could finish the game that quickly .

I think as well, one of the harder things I found with this game is that as you progress through it, you become more hostile to gangs which can be a pain, especially in the Mafia turf on Portland because they walk around with shotguns that can blow up your car with 2 hits near enough. Speedrunning this game is probably so much fun tho, I’d literally have MSX FM playing throughout the whole thing to make me play faster (Chatterbox FM was another great station from that game, had me in hysterics listening to it ).

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Dogeatdog

Ah ok so you’ve done speed runs on this game a fair few times then I take it? The hidden packages part is what I’d probably find the most annoying but I suppose if you’ve learned and memorised all the locations for them it can be fairly easy. That’s some impressive times btw, I doubt I could finish the game that quickly .

I think as well, one of the harder things I found with this game is that as you progress through it, you become more hostile to gangs which can be a pain, especially in the Mafia turf on Portland because they walk around with shotguns that can blow up your car with 2 hits near enough. Speedrunning this game is probably so much fun tho, I’d literally have MSX FM playing throughout the whole thing to make me play faster (Chatterbox FM was another great station from that game, had me in hysterics listening to it ).

I have yeah, tons and tons of runs, 1/1000 completed PB runs isn't considered bad lol. Yeah i know where every package is off by heart now haha, same with jumps and rampages lol.

I would LOVE to see you try, i have tutorials on yt

You have a good knowledge of the game, love it! And yeah you're right, the hostile gangs can be a thing too.