airspoon

I too had great difficulty with the 'Sexy Time' mission and it quickly turned an otherwise fun game into a chore. The fun quickly evaporated. Sadly, it wasn't due to lack of training either, as I consider myself pretty proficient with the helicopters in the GTA4 series. Instead, it was due to the boats and arms dealers simply not dying, even after multiple rocket and machine gun direct hits. I have read "walkthroughs" and watched videos on youtube of that mission and every single one of them said or demonstrated that 3 or 4 rocket hits would sink the yacht and a quick burst of machine gun fire would sink each of the three boats carrying the arms dealers. However, that simply wasn't the case for the game that I have and apparently the same game that you have. It took me around 10 hours of monotonous gameplay to finally pass that mission. Instead of three direct rocket hits on the yacht, it would take 20+ before it sank. With that being said, the yacht was the easiest part. On the boats carrying the arms dealers, each one took around 12 direct rocket hits and more machine gun ammo than what a real chopper could ever imagine to carry. Then, when the boats don't sink because they took an impressive amount of gunfire and rockets, the arms dealers flee on foot, which is the absolute hardest part, without a doubt. Each person -on foot- can take at least 100 rounds of machine gun fire and 5-10 rockets each before they die. What's more, there are a bunch of them. I would have to agree with the original poster, Rockstar sure did screw up on this one. It kind of ruined the whole game. As I said earlier, the fun quickly dissapated and set a tone for the rest of the game that simply doesn't seem to shake. With that being said, this isn't my only gripe or the even the major dissapointment with this game, at least for me. The major dissapointment is the lack of polish and apparent glitches in the game, which surprises me because Red Dead Redemption was such an outstanding game. All too often, "L" or even "Niko" fails to respond to button presses or does the exact opposite of the command, opting instead to either take cover, fail to take cover and collect bullets like a magnet. It's not my console either, as every single other game seems to work perfectly. Another thing and one of the biggest problems for me, is that there is a glitch or something, where I'm not getting weapon spawns after completing 10+ drug wars, nor did I recieve a trophy after 15 (and no, I haven't used any cheats). All in all, I'm very dissapointed in this game and it appears as if Rockstar has certainly dropped the ball here, sadly. I'm wondering if this is just a PS3 problem, as you can clearly see videos on youtube of gamers quickly and easily completeing the mission 'Sexy Time', where a quick burst of machine gun fire takes out those boats. Oh well, I'll be more cautious before spending my money on a game just because the same publisher has put out other excellent titles.

I started playing TBoGT a couple of days ago and I have been wondering if I'm playing the same game as everyone else. I mean, it's the same game but the various walkthroughs and youtube videos on the internet seem to have a completely different difficulty level and some walkthroughs are almost completely irrelevant. For instance on the mission 'Sexy Time', where you have to blow up the yacht then the arms dealers with the helicopter. Most walkthroughs and YouTube videos says that three rockets would sink the yacht and a burst of gun fire would blow up the boats with the arms dealers. This is not what it took for the TBoGT that I have. It took 22 rocket bursts to sink the yacht and 12 rocket bursts each for the smaller boats carrying the arms dealers (with machine gun fire too!). For this reason, it took me for ever to pass that level. I eventually did, only after hours and hours of replaying the same mission over and over again. It also took several bursst of heli machine gun fire to kill each individual person after the boats had landed and one guy took 3 direct rocket bursts and didn't even die. This mission, 'Sexy Time', was almost impossible to complete. I could understand it being a glitch if that was the only problem but now weapons aren't spawning after I'm completeing the drug wars. I have now completed 11 drug wars and there is no .44 pistol spawning in the safehouse. Is it just me, or am I missing something here? Could it be that I'm on a ps3 and the ps3 version is just much, much more difficult than on other consoles? Am I watching YouTube videos and reading online walkthroughs of a different console, which doesn't apply to the PS3? Could I have just gotten a faulty disc or something? For whatever it's worth, I beat GTAIV and Red Dead Redemption with almost complete ease, so it isn't like I'm just a horrible gameplayer and even if I was, it doesn't explain the weapons not spawning after 10 complete drug wars. I kind of don't even want to continue playing because I have no idea what else is wrong -or different- with this game. Anyway, can someone tell me if I'm missing something or if I just have a deffective game? Thanks. -Me