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GTA: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition |OT| Ah shit, here we go again
01011001
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Kssio_Aug
Member
I understand shit about gaming development, but it seems to me that, other than some details here and there and some stuff on the main characters, they just made an AI upgrade everything else and didn't even bother to adjust all the inaccuracies it created.
They also were super lazy by keeping the same menu interface for the 3 games, since each of them are suppose to have quite different vibes.
Seems like a super lazy port, but I'm sure they're gonna make fucking tons of easy money on it anyway.
They also were super lazy by keeping the same menu interface for the 3 games, since each of them are suppose to have quite different vibes.
Seems like a super lazy port, but I'm sure they're gonna make fucking tons of easy money on it anyway.
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Little Chicken
Member
What the fuck is up with vehicles just appearing out of nowhere and smashing into shit randomly in San Andreas 
stranno
Member
Reminds me Mercenaries 2 for Playstation 2. Sometimes the buildings kick in... agresivelyWhat the fuck is up with vehicles just appearing out of nowhere and smashing into shit randomly in San Andreas
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Superwave
Banned
Well I played around 7 hours of SA today and I loved it. Not played a game that long in many many years.
The amount of hate this is getting is comical. If you are a San Andreas fan (some missing music aside) this is leaps and bounds ahead of the PS2 game and it is an essential purchase. It honestly looks beautiful without being a full remake. Seeing SA like this is uncanny. Having accelerate on the trigger, camera on the stick, better saving etc go a long way. The PS2 game which I have for PS4/5 is a slog to play, is damn fugly, dated in all the wrong ways it is definitely of its time. Even though this is a minimal reworking it pushes it into enjoyable and compelling again.
The driving is the central experience and it is so much fun, arcade yet satisfying and that is why GTA V is toilet by comparison. I loathe that shallow central pole hyper-unrealistic driving model in V. Doesn't feel fun, doesn't feel satisfying.
Don't know why lens flare is off by default but I put that back on.
The amount of hate this is getting is comical. If you are a San Andreas fan (some missing music aside) this is leaps and bounds ahead of the PS2 game and it is an essential purchase. It honestly looks beautiful without being a full remake. Seeing SA like this is uncanny. Having accelerate on the trigger, camera on the stick, better saving etc go a long way. The PS2 game which I have for PS4/5 is a slog to play, is damn fugly, dated in all the wrong ways it is definitely of its time. Even though this is a minimal reworking it pushes it into enjoyable and compelling again.
The driving is the central experience and it is so much fun, arcade yet satisfying and that is why GTA V is toilet by comparison. I loathe that shallow central pole hyper-unrealistic driving model in V. Doesn't feel fun, doesn't feel satisfying.
Don't know why lens flare is off by default but I put that back on.
dotnotbot
Member
Yep, they even admitted themselves to using some machine learning tools to upscale things. It's obvious looking at many textures and character models.
Typical OCR errors: "m" replaced by "ni", "e" by "o" (fixed in the final release):
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Vae_Victis
Banned
Lol what in the fuck is this
8BiTw0LF
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Stuart360
Member
I'm surprised no one seems to be talking about the pussified difficulty. Just watched DSP's San Andreas stream and its just so easy now. Everything is super accurate, including npc's meaning missions like the one with the guys on the train can be beaten in like a minute. Hit light poles and you dont come off your bike anymore, guys die with much less bullets, cops seem even more useless than before, missions where you have to chase someone in a vehicle, they seem to slow down now meaning its almost impossible to get the 'you let them get away' mission end, etc, etc.
Just awful.
Just awful.
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GametimeUK
Member
I'm happy to be playing San Andreas via gamepass, but I would have loved and appreciated more effort going into this port. This trilogy of games are worthy of more attention and care going into the remaster than we currently got.
The original games are so important and iconic.
The remasters should have been an amazing homage to the originals and treated with quality and care to help immortalise these remasters as an amazing update that modernised the games and brought them to a new audience.
In the end it's fallen short. Just a "meh" port that doesn't do anything to recapture what we felt about the originals and was not handled with the same care as the originals either. We should have been looking back at these remasters in years time and reflecting on them fondly just like with games like Crash, Spyro or Shadow of the Colossus. In years time we'll reflect on it like "remember when we got that half assed remaster"?
The original games are so important and iconic.
The remasters should have been an amazing homage to the originals and treated with quality and care to help immortalise these remasters as an amazing update that modernised the games and brought them to a new audience.
In the end it's fallen short. Just a "meh" port that doesn't do anything to recapture what we felt about the originals and was not handled with the same care as the originals either. We should have been looking back at these remasters in years time and reflecting on them fondly just like with games like Crash, Spyro or Shadow of the Colossus. In years time we'll reflect on it like "remember when we got that half assed remaster"?
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Ezquimacore
Banned
this is the first time since AC 2 that I want to pirate a game so bad, this remaster is trash.
thatJohann
Member
Terrible ports. Already deleted San Andreas despite being included in GamePass. Barf.
GreatnessRD
Member
Damn, that's tough my guy. Glad you didn't spend retail to play it though.
BlackM1st
Banned
Masterpiece!
Dave_at_Home
Member
I too am enjoying it, but it's far from a great port. The manual aiming is not up to par with what we were told to expect. I've had some real frustration with early missions that I did not have issues with on the original release. My biggest issues is the terrible lighting. Anything that isn't in direct contact with light is completely dark. I've lost count on the amount of times I've watched cutscenes and couldn't make out any details of characters on screen. They need to fix this big time. Also the rain effects look awful. The original was had a much more subtle look while the remaster is totally in your face and every drop is illuminated. Honestly looks like a shitty Snapchat filter. Gross. At least the only bug I've encountered is subtitles not staying off after I've turned them off in menu.
Javthusiast
Banned
What we have here is a company giving zero fucks about their legacy.
Also, nice fucking move deleting prior versions from stores so only option you have are these shoddy jobs.
Also, nice fucking move deleting prior versions from stores so only option you have are these shoddy jobs.
Punished Miku
Member
My estimate of making it a few hours may have been too generous.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
Of all companies too Rockstar is one of the biggest and richest. That's what gets to me when I see all the issues these remasters have. Make no mistake they are vastly more enjoyable to play then the 30 fps ps2 versions on ps4/xb1 but still, no excuse for such shoddy work.
Punished Miku
Member
This and GTA IV are bandaids because GTAVI must not be going well.
Ezquimacore
Banned
The thing is developed by "Grove Street Games" probably a team of freelancers from fiverr
Marty-McFly
Banned
GTA on the go.
I don't care if it only looks slightly better than before.
I don't care if it only looks slightly better than before.
Ezquimacore
Banned
Never thought I was going to say this but the trilogy on Android is miles better. That's GTA on the go.
Marty-McFly
Banned
I mean, we should wait to see what DF says.
I'm sure this will be much better overall. Android is jank.
Android is supposed to be getting this remake next year as well.
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Excess
Member
Hell, the original PC versions are better. I can play them at 60 FPS with no compromises. The remasters are two steps back.
Kacho
Member
Nope. GTA IV on Xbox via BC due to unlocked framerate.
GodLordPaddock
Banned
Gonna boot up SA on my series x tonight. Its the only one of the three that I haven't played extensively. Hopefully it's playable.
ReBurn
Gold Member
The PS4 2014 versions are just the emulated PS2 games. I have them, too. To be honest they play like complete ass. I don't see how this could be worse than those.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I’ve been playing GTAIII on PS5. I might just be echoing what everyone else has been saying. It’s like a modder added a texture pack and controller mods. Which isn’t bad if these were free and optimized around the game. Rockstar makes a billion dollars off a single entry in the franchise and their Remastered game looks like someone on the internet created mods for it. I’m enjoying myself in the sense that it’s GTA, but I can’t get over low budgeted this collection feels.
drotahorror
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Kacho
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Marty-McFly
Banned
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
Paging crowbcat at the minute.
Played San Andreas with game pass and man, it's ridiculous I got frame drops on a game this old. Even explosion are super turned down.
Played San Andreas with game pass and man, it's ridiculous I got frame drops on a game this old. Even explosion are super turned down.
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Hargate
Member
Anyone have any idea what the hell is going on today at rockstar. No one seems to be talking about the fact that rockstar's launcher and all titles have been down for maintence for 8 hours now. Launch day and you can't even play because the launcher doesn't work. https://support.rockstargames.com/servicestatus GTA V / RDR 2 PC have also been down all day.
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eastcoastkody
Member
well, San Andreas is one of my fave games of all time. I just put 2 hours into this remaster on Game Pass.
and my feeling is that this was just a waste of time. Its not much of an improvement. Frame rate is bad. Lighting is bad. The game is so dark i can barely see anything unless im inside. Some characters dont look right. So i thought ok. At least the driving and aiming will be leagues above the original. And its really not. The aiming might actually be somehow worse than the PS2 game. Driving feels about the same
the only positives i have are the cars and city look good visually. Im not sure that this is even a step up from the weird phone versions of the game that were on xbox/playstation store years ago.
and my feeling is that this was just a waste of time. Its not much of an improvement. Frame rate is bad. Lighting is bad. The game is so dark i can barely see anything unless im inside. Some characters dont look right. So i thought ok. At least the driving and aiming will be leagues above the original. And its really not. The aiming might actually be somehow worse than the PS2 game. Driving feels about the same
the only positives i have are the cars and city look good visually. Im not sure that this is even a step up from the weird phone versions of the game that were on xbox/playstation store years ago.
ParaSeoul
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Megatron
Member
When did they lose it?
Marty-McFly
Banned
Watched some of the GTA SA footage.
Never played that game before. This is going to be a blast on Switch game looks so fun
Never played that game before. This is going to be a blast on Switch game looks so fun
thatJohann
Member
Aside from the terrible ports on the technical side, I honestly find the games to be so wonky and with terrible animation and very dated. And just not fun to play at all. Only thing I like is the soundtrack of the originals. Hard pass.