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[Kenneth Haight]

Looking forward to the Digital Foundry comparisons…… if they ever return

Edit: they’re back already, jokes on me

 

[FunkMiller]

Definitely not going anywhere near this until I’ve seen enough reviews and impressions to get a full idea of how the games have been remastered.

 

[Certinty]

That explains why SA and 3 are “free” on GP and Now…

 

[Kacho]

Feel like we should merge some of these GTA threads. There’s like four on the front page. Mod of War DGrayson pls respond!

Here’s a couple comparison videos that do a good job at showing the differences between versions. The shooting shown at the end of the Vice City one actually looks decent.

 

[Darknssfalls]

I agree that the effort put into this is questionable at least. Anyways! My nostalgic body its ready (so its my Reshade+RTGI too )

 

[Polelock]

The vehicles and other objects look amazing, but the characters look bloody awful.

 

[bender]

I just don't understand why they are putting such minimal effort into these ports. The trilogy deserves love and care, not to mention a restored soundtrack. It's not like GTA V isn't still printing money for Rockstar. They should have just remastered these one at a time and put some proper effort into them. They could have charged more money this way. What a fucking bummer.

 

[Javthusiast]

 

[Skifi28]

Taken from the video 3 posts above:

The games seem to have issues for sure, but they're also doing some good things. It's a mixed bag, but if they don't abandon it and patch it a few times to squash bugs, it could really turn out great.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Taken from the video 3 posts above:

it could really turn out great.

Yeah maybe you can buy the removed songs with shark cards.

 

[RAIDEN1]

It was obvious that they weren't going to go all out to bring back the removed songs, they did just fine with the revised version from previous generation...there was no massive uproar then...you could see it from a mile away they wouldn't have any of M.J's tracks back...

 

[bender]

Yeah maybe you can buy the removed songs with shark cards.

I'm probably a sucker, but I wish this were an option or a digital deluxe package. I'd be fine shelling out more cash for a fully restored soundtrack. Then again, the price on this collection is insane considering the flaws and the fact that it seems like most of the heavy lifted for the assets was done via AI upscaling.

It was obvious that they weren't going to go all out to bring back the removed songs, they did just fine with the revised version from previous generation...there was no massive uproar then...you could see it from a mile away they wouldn't have any of M.J's tracks back...

It's obvious in so much that they would have used this as a bullet point in their already limited marketing.

 

[RAIDEN1]

I would like to see what ACG makes of this...

 

[Kacho]

Switch gameplay

 

[kiryani]

A lot of people are wildly misremembering they ‘OG’ versions and using PC screenshots in HD etc.

Try going back to a PS2 & a SCART lead then you’ll see what the vast majority of people are actually upgrading from.

 

[nordique]

Switch gameplay

Nice! This looks solid.

Upgrade over PS2 version thats for sure haha

 

[paparazzo]

I didn't play these back in the day, so I'm not too bothered by missing tracks. A little janky in parts, but it looks decent to me.

Won't be buying at full price though.

 

[Kacho]

Nice! This looks solid.

Upgrade over PS2 version thats for sure haha

I was harsh on it in the Switch screenshots thread but I agree. Looks impressive.

 

[Soltype]

I don't know why they would put such low effort into remastering such important games, it honestly looks like a bunch of mods running on old code.

 

[amigastar]

I don't know why they would put such low effort into remastering such important games, it honestly looks like a bunch of mods running on old code.

My theory is that it looks like it looks because they wanted to release the game also on Switch and Mobile, so the graphic fidelity is maybe not so expensive as it should be.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Switch gameplay

This is a modded PC version.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Hmmmm

“The thing that drew people to these titles early on was the very specific way that they felt," says Rosado. "So when it comes to redoing them, you hit a crossroads. You can either try and rebuild them and improve them, and in doing so that means rescripting everything and adding new physics. Or you acknowledge that these games had a very secret sauce that people fell in love with, and it would be a fool's errand to try and replicate every single element—the good bits and the frustrating bits. So one of the first choices we made for these remasters was to leave them intact."

Interview: Rockstar On Remastering Its Classic 3D GTA Games For A New Generation

A deep dive into the Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas remasters with Rockstar producer Rich Rosado.

www.thegamer.com

 

[Kacho]

This is a modded PC version.

What?

 

[Slaylock]

Hmmmm

“The thing that drew people to these titles early on was the very specific way that they felt," says Rosado. "So when it comes to redoing them, you hit a crossroads. You can either try and rebuild them and improve them, and in doing so that means rescripting everything and adding new physics. Or you acknowledge that these games had a very secret sauce that people fell in love with, and it would be a fool's errand to try and replicate every single element—the good bits and the frustrating bits. So one of the first choices we made for these remasters was to leave them intact."

Interview: Rockstar On Remastering Its Classic 3D GTA Games For A New Generation

A deep dive into the Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas remasters with Rockstar producer Rich Rosado.

www.thegamer.com

"So there's an expensive way to do these and a cheap way. We went with the cheap way."

 

[Filben]

Fired up the OG version just now with 'Updated Classic' mods that improve them already a bit. They still have great atmosphere and decent but fun gameplay. But you really see some oddities when you look too close. Also these games are quiet man... when you're not in the car and listen to the radio there is no music, score, whatsoever. And with the light traffic density it really hurts the atmosphere.

I find RDR had a good solution with quiet moments but some subtle score playing in the background from time to time. Not sure how it was in GTA IV and V... it's been too long ago.

But the new graphics are really something I'd like to see on my PC... really like how they managed to get closer to the artworks with the actual visuals. Like the style and I think for a remaster it's okay. But damn 60 EUR or 20 EUR per game is a bit much. If it was 30 EUR in total I wouldn't think twice. And using a VPN only get me close to 48 EUR.

Think I'll wait for reviews and patches and the first price drop.

 

[clem84]

With the amount of money the GTA franchise is racking in, they had all the ressources necessary to polish it up and make this newer release something really special. It's really disappointing they didn't do that.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

What?

This.
Is.
A.
Modded.
PC.
Version.

 

[Fake]

“ So one of the first choices we made for these remasters was to leave them intact."

Interview: Rockstar On Remastering Its Classic 3D GTA Games For A New Generation

A deep dive into the Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas remasters with Rockstar producer Rich Rosado.

www.thegamer.com

They leave the price intact too.

 

[Kacho]

This.
Is.
A.
Modded.
PC.
Version.

Whatever you say man. Just take it easy, ok?

 

[DapperSloth]

Switch gameplay

This one is sadly fake.

 

[Superwave]

YOU WANT A HOLE IN YOU?

 

[digoutyoursoul]

I don't know why they would put such low effort into remastering such important games, it honestly looks like a bunch of mods running on old code.

It’s easy money, they know people will buy this in droves. The tail wags the dog these days, there are exceptions like Konami with efootball however more and more people don’t like expectations from others.

“Well what do you expect “
“Let the haters hate”

And let’s not forget the avalanche of media and “influencers”, because of the likes of them and their relationships with publishers, it’s the consumer who has to call things out and on occasion is seen as the bad guy , toxic and hate. When the consumer calls bullshit out the media label it as such “fans react negatively” , well what’s their take? Silence.

So what happens to expectations and standards? They dwindle from time to time.

It’s becoming a farce . They work for us, to get our money which is now taken for granted and having some standards for games is seen as some unreasonable trait.

 

[Kacho]

This one is sadly fake.

Oh I guess that’s what the other guy was trying to say. No wonder it looked impressive.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Whatever you say man. Just take it easy, ok?

You can't be serious. It's so obviously fake. They didn't even bother to hide PC keyboard buttons prompts.

 

[Kacho]

You can't be serious. It's so obviously fake. They didn't even bother to hide PC keyboard buttons prompts.

Skipped through the video on my phone and didn’t pay close attention. Stay safe.

 

[nordique]

Oh I guess that’s what the other guy was trying to say. No wonder it looked impressive.

Someone May have been replying to this video that it was fake (this is the one I referred to earlier and someone said it was confirmed to be a fake)

How are people faking these on the switch? And why go through so much time to fake it lol

We will see the real version tomorrow

 

[Gordon Freeman]

Will this be live for Game Pass with the New Zealand trick?

 

[Kacho]

Someone May have been replying to this video that it was fake (this is the one I referred to earlier and someone said it was confirmed to be a fake)

How are people faking these on the switch? And why go through so much time to fake it lol

We will see the real version tomorrow

Yeah not sure either. The guys channel seems legit and Switch focused, but I don’t care enough to dig in further. We’ll have loads of gameplay tomorrow.

 

[Stephen Curry]

Will this be live for Game Pass with the New Zealand trick?

No, sadly. Global release at 7am PST

 

[Gordon Freeman]

No, sadly. Global release at 7am PST

Then how do all these random people have it before that?

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Then how do all these random people have it before that?

Probably mystic early release physical copies

 

[Stephen Curry]

Then how do all these random people have it before that?

I think there was an error on the PlayStation side allowing early time zones like New Zealand in. All the gameplay vids are on PlayStation

 

[nightmare-slain]

no billie jean in vice city?

that should be illegal. even if they patch this janky ass game i ain't buying it. put the original songs in you cheap cunts

 

[Roufianos]

'I know she sounds kinda crude but she feels kinda good'.

Genuinely can't put a price on cruising around Liberty City with this playing

 

[TGO]

 

[R6Rider]

Switch gameplay

I don't know how people can fall for this.

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

These are basically the same games with updated graphics and QoL improvements, yeah?

 

[R6Rider]

These are basically the same games with updated graphics and QoL improvements, yeah?

They've also added more bugs, haven't fixed known ones, and removed more songs.

 

[dotnotbot]

These are basically the same games with updated graphics and QoL improvements, yeah?

And some new bugs and old bugs from mobile versions and originals.

Oh and physics might be still tied to FPS.

 

[ripeavocado]

DOT NOT BUY

I REPEAT: DO NOT BUY

The framerate on PS5 is absolute garbage on all 3 games, frequent pop in and the grass in San Andreas appearing few metres away from you.

GSG are incompetents and R* management is completely out of their minds.