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This Just Cause 2 Stunt Was Worth $10,000

Kotaku writes: "All Daniel Steinberg of Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, had to do to win $10,000 from Square Enix was fly a jet plane through a casino.

Steinberg is the winner of the Square Enix Just Cause 2 Stunt Challenge, beating out several solid competitors with his precision flying. It's not the most impressive Just Cause 2 stunt visually, but the skill it took making the plane fit through those windows was enough to impress the hell out of the contest's judging, and that's what counts."

Heartnet4937d ago

He did this video using PC and Xbox? looks like it from the controls haha

Most unimpressive video ive ever seen tbh

TheIneffableBob4937d ago

Some people use a 360 controller for flying planes and helicopters (because the analogs are more similar to a flight stick) and then switch over to keyboard and mouse for on-foot action. I did the same in GTA4.

thrust4937d ago (Edited 4937d ago )

@ heartnet =>your a fanboy! the worst type aswell, Do not get jelous just say well done or be happy when people do or have better than you.

would love to see you do this!

great clip, and them GFX are amazing the bit where the plane is flying over the mountains looks really nice.

Heartnet4937d ago

Lol how am i a fanboy lol for seeing this trick as unimpressive.. im more impressed by CoD players and i hate CoD..

And if i could be assed to do this i would lol but there is little point lol :) say well done? the chances of him reading this news article is fairly slim :P and i dont want to congratulate some1 whose so called 'stunt' is unimpressive

edhe4936d ago

You try flying that jet and see how far you get :)

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sdtarm4937d ago (Edited 4937d ago )

is it not????????

I havent played this game :/

WildArmed4937d ago (Edited 4937d ago )

No, it requires hella lot of skill.
The stunt may not be visually appealing, but definitely the best skill-based stunt I've seen.
Flying a plane is bitch in JC2.
Man, that was effen epic.
not only did he fly through the casino, BUT HE ALSO, flew beneath 2 bridges (and one upside down)

D:
Crazy mofo

Cyrus3654937d ago

Disagree, I've seen people fly a plane, and parachoot out of it, and land on another plane...

MaxOpower4937d ago (Edited 4937d ago )

well that was disappointing...

Great to see that I'm not the only one feeling that way.

Made me think of this
GTA:SA Impossible Hydra Stunts:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Hideo_Kojima4937d ago

GTA SA flying was much harder than in Just Cause 2...

I mean this is pretty easy and if you fail you just repeat it 2-3-4-5-20 times and you will get it right.

Why did they pay him so much for so little?
Will they give me 10k if I do the same thing and send it to them?

Soldierone4937d ago

@Cyrus, thats what I'm thinking. This may have been "hard" but its not like it couldn't be mastered with a few tries.

It'd been more epic if he was creative. Jump off one plane onto another, take that plane through the casino, dive down under the bridge, do some trick again, and go upside down the other, then have a grand finale finish. That way his "complicated" gameplay actually looks complicated.

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rroded4937d ago (Edited 4937d ago )

for 10 grand tho

damn got ta buy the game now jus ta see if i can lol

so many games i havnt even finished yet... meh whats one more

Cyrus3654937d ago

Stunt looks lame, i've seen better on Just cause 2, just flying through a window?

xX TriiCKy Xx4937d ago

The hell do you mean, "just flying through a window?" That shit took skill. I want to see you do it in JC2.

Heartnet4937d ago

flying through a window? this could have just took numerous tries lol.. to make a stunt worth 10 grand u want some fluky shit going on lol not oh he flew through a window.. wow? no

despair4937d ago

I agree with Heartnet, it just takes a little practice and I'm sure its not insanely hard to do, although he had to come up with the idea and perform it so its still a great feat. I'd like to see some of his competition though as I find it hard to believe that this one was the best of the lot.

Cyrus3654937d ago

Agreed I felt the same way...

Kingdom Come4937d ago

Extraordinary. I mean Jesus, if that's worthy of $10,000... Jesus.

AllroundGamer4937d ago

as you probably know Square Enix is making the best games nowadays and therefor have lot of money to throw at people ;)

/s

(upcoming news - Square Enix goes bankrupt)

despair4937d ago

or scary news, Activision and Square Enix merger....

Kingdom Come4937d ago

If Kotick got his hands on Square Enix, Final Fantasy XVIII would be out by the end of next year *Shudders*

skynidas4937d ago

That was lame as hell... With enought practice almost everyone can do that.

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Knushwood Butt471d ago

The Yakuza Games

Haha, yeah, currently over 100 hours into Yakuza 0. Considering going for 100% and well on the way but may not get there. Cat Fights are a real chore.

blackblades471d ago

I use to be a trophy hunter, was getting around 20 to 30 platinums a year. Had a saying of Play-Beat-Platinum, play and enjoy the game like there wasn't no trophies, beat it and at least get 50% then look at them and see if I'll platinum and platinum it. I think death star was a pain, the servers was ending so i had to rush and play that for awhile none stop. NGs2 was hard because of that online trophy but easy if you had the partner that can do it for you while you grab the enemy attention. Grinding idk, death was grinding last one I had to grind for platinum literally 1 trophy needed was dungeon travler or something vita gave up on it. After that I stop trophy hunting get like a 1 platinum a year or 0.

Knushwood Butt471d ago

Yeah, if I enjoy a game I usually go for the platinum unless there are some unreasonable trophies in there.

For Yakuza 0 I've invested too much time in it to give up just yet and most of the content is good fun, apart from Cat Fighting which is broken and dull after a couple of fights.

DarXyde470d ago

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 was literally the last platinum I got on PS3. After that, I went into PS4 kinda deflated and getting them where it felt appropriate.

I genuinely HATED that platinum, but it was a personal challenge I took upon myself. It was a lot of "get 1,000 kills with [insert weapon]" and it got to be a bit tedious. Master Ninja really pissed me off, but the WORST which you alluded to was that bloody Gold trophy for missions that you needed to do online because the AI was useless and got wrecked in moments. I jumped on the game a bit late so I struggled with finding a partner for at least 1.5 months. After that, I burned out hard with trophy hunting. I still came back for games I really enjoyed (Bloodborne, Dark Souls III, Nier: Automata, and a few others that escape me) and low hanging fruit that was just a bit time consuming and I didn't want to buy new games at the time (Final Fantasy XV). Total, it becomes clear where I taper off since I've only plat'ed 33 games since there inception of trophies which really isn't much.

Screw Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 lol. That game was pure nightmare fuel.

blackblades470d ago

I say never force getting a platinum, its not worth the trouble definitely if it costing you to waste time on chore like grind. Those brainless design trophies.

hotnickles470d ago

Dead rising was the worst one I’ve ever tried. I haven’t tried it with the modern console “rest mode” but the 360 didn’t have that.

Duke19470d ago (Edited 470d ago )

Was GTa4 the on where you had to collect a shit ton of pigeons around the map and there was no help in finding them?

roadkillers470d ago

Yep. I’d say GTASA was more difficult since there were so many collectibles

Profchaos470d ago

The saving grace was that there was only on average 50 collectables with the two exceptions being graffiti and oysters from memory horseshoes and photos were capped at 50 each.

But for me it was all the other grind that was way more painful in SA like the car export lists which even with guides took way longer than collecting stuff

iivGHOST470d ago

There was a guide book that came out with the game that had all the pigeons in it. I actually still have it

Chocoburger470d ago

One of the more recent games I got a Platinum in was Killzone: Mercenary for Vita. What a crap game, that requires so much terrible grinding.

Awful game, awful experience.

outsider1624469d ago

Oh man..wish i could get a vita. I've been trying to get a preowned too(in my country) but no luck.

CantThinkOfAUsername470d ago

I can vouch for Just Cause 2. It was the reason I quit achievement hunting. 86 hours in, the game bugged on me during one of the last side quests (it failed no matter what I did) and my save file got corrupted. Wiped it off my drive and never looked back.

SonyStyled470d ago

I downloaded the ‘complete edition’ or whatever it was called for $2 about 7yrs ago in hopes of trophy hunting it for a platinum. It always sounded fun and I would like to commit time to it but not enough for a platinum trophy

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