♬ Hey Hey Hey, I’m Hot Tonight ♬
…and with that little snippet from Flashback 95.6, I proudly, and with only a hint of shame, announce the fact that this afternoon, I completed Grand Theft Auto III.
Yes, you read that right…THREE.
This actually marks the end of an era, really. I’ve owned the game (which came out in 2001) for over five years, one of the first discs I bought after I got the PS2. It’s been my white whale; the unsurmountable challenge I’ve never managed to overcome. I’ve started and restarted a bunch of times. I’d get hung on a particular mission, and put it away for months. Hell, it took me almost four years to get off of Portland….
And now it’s done. I don’t know what’s going to hang there in the back of my consciousness, mocking me with it’s crappy targeting system now…oh wait, I picked up Vice City for five bucks a few months back.
I guess you’ll be seeing that “I finished it!” post shortly after Mary’s high school graduation.
