i got this from the gta3 garage....

Thought I'd drop a note about flying the dodo. It really flies-- my longest
flight so far is 711 seconds (no typo-- over 10 minutes). To do this, start
out like you describe... accelerate down the runway with very slight forward
pressure until the plane starts to bounce and doesn't want to stay on the
ground anymore. Then let the stick back to neutral and the plane will soar
into the air. At this point, it acts more or less like a real plane (with
clipped wings, no less.) In particular, most people think of a plane's stick
as the control for going higher or lower, but it's really not-- it's really
the speed control. Pushing forward speeds the plane up, and pulling back
slows it down. The plane in Grand Theft Auto 3 is the same way. The goal is
to keep the plane above stall speed (the speed at which the wings stop
generating lift and the plane falls out of the sky.) This basically means
that it's your goal to conserve speed and push forward whenever the nose gets
too high. You should almost never be pulling back. And also, turn very,
very gently, because a plane's stall speed increases during a bank-- another
aspect of flying that the game seems to simulate more or less accurately.
It even seems to do a rudimentary lift calculation for each wing, because
I got it into a spin once that was very realistic.
So once you're up in the air, the plane will swoop a little... try to dampen
the swoops by preventing the plane from reaching the peak of any swoop
(let it nose down pretty much whenever it wants, though.) Eventually the
plane will level off and you can fly around the islands. Even meet up with
the other Cessna that's up there near north Portland. Don't hit anything,
and don't stall, and you can fly indefinitely. (oh, except for one bug--
if you fly directly over any unique jump, it'll pop to the cut scene and
your plane will quickly fly out of scene-- but the cut scene doesn't go
away until you crash, so you can't fly anymore.)

or a plane. i'd wait for gta3 though.

I'm with Maximama. I need Rockstar to hurry up the X-Box development of this game.

*Points and laughs at people with X-Box.*

:D

I'm not quite sure why you're laughing at us. We will be getting GTA3 eventually, while you will not be getting Project Ego, Halo, etc..

*Points and laughs at everyone with PS2*

:D

Oh yeah, I know PS2 has plenty of exclusives such as FFX, etc. (MGSX is still up in the air though) so you don't have to bother yelling at me, I was just making a counterpoint and having a little fun.:p

I don't own an Xbox...but I will get Halo...

when it comes out for PC :p

Don't even talk about exclusives when Sony has SQUARESOFT exclusive (for now at least)

so :p

Square... I don't really care about them. The only decent games they seem to be able to put out are the FF series, and honestly I've grown tired of them. They've become too heavy handed and they haven't put out anything innovative gameplay wise in long while. I actually think they're still coasting from the hype and quality of FF7. Plus, they probably will start developing for other consoles in a while.

Now Skies of Arcadia... that was a breath of fresh air. PS2 will be getting that. Thankfully I have it for Dreamcast.

As for Halo, no definite release date or information on the PC version has come out for a LONG TIME. It will eventually make it there, but not until MS has solidly entrenched the X-Box securely in Japan and Europe. Porting their killer app on the X-Box to PC any time soon before that would make absolutely no sense business wise. MS has invested WAY too much money in the Box to let an early PC port potentially ruin sales of their new console internationally.

So :p back atcha! :D

halo comes out for pc this summer. gta3 comes out for pc sometime soon also. as for project ego, some xbox magazine from a while ago implied that it would probably come out for pc as well.

Um, could you please post some sources on the Halo and Project Ego info you gave. I have seen no information giving a definite release date for Halo on PC, and as for Ego Peter Molyneux himself said it was a XBox exclusive. I've been to every PE site imaginable and PC development or release has never been mentioned.

i'll do it tomorrow.

I'll look forward to it.

edit 2/7

Still looking forward to it. hmmmm...:hmm:

lol, sorry i've been busy. i'll go find it now.

Thanks, I was starting to worry about you.:D

here is the info...
 

halo-http://pc.ign.com/news/37514.html

as for project ego, i read the info in the 2nd issue or 1st of the official xbox mag, but i threw it away. it said that project ego won't be coming out on the other systems except maybe pc. it implied that it would come out for pc pretty heavily. i posted the thread a long time ago but its not there now.