Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[The Last Stand]

I was watching GTASeriesVideo's stream of the game and holy shit the draw distance.

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You can literally see Mount Chiliad from Las Venturas and they aren't even at the highest point in the city in that shot. Removing the fog really shows how small the map of San Andreas really is and not for the better. This reminds me of those videos where people deliberately remove the fog to show off the map size but at least in those videos it's intentional.

I think what made the map bigger is the dead space in between. Having no GPS contributed to that as well.

 

[Vermin God]

 

[Anachronistic]

I think what made the map bigger is the dead space in between. Having no GPS contributed to that as well.

I think San Andreas had a pretty good road layout too. I'm unsure how to describe it but the roads are windy and full of turns yet they always seem to go somewhere that keep them from being wasted space. Alot of roads in GTA V just loop back to Los Santos or Sandy Shores which make them feel pretty artificial in a way.

 

[The Last Stand]

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And that's why game developers get away with such shady practices. Narrow minded consumers with money to burn.

 

[Korpon]

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The amount of people who will love literal shit from a billion dollar company and will defend them furiously online will never not be mind boggling to me.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

GTA Series Videos just did a Graphics Comparison of III, Vice City and San Andreas when it comes to the Definitive Edition.

Spoiler

Obviously, PS2, Xbox and PC have the better graphics, and it’s not because it’s old.

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

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GTA Series Videos just did a Graphics Comparison of III, Vice City and San Andreas when it comes to the Definitive Edition.

Spoiler

Obviously, PS2, Xbox and PC have the better graphics, and it’s not because it’s old.

Right, it's because the oldschool artstyle is gritty and actually has definition to it, unlike the smooth plastic dogshit in the Definitionless Edition.

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA Series Videos just did a Graphics Comparison of III, Vice City and San Andreas when it comes to the Definitive Edition.

I think the Xbox version is superior for 3 and VC. But the PS2 has a charm to it because of its graininess. It's like you're playing those games on a boxy TV again.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I think the Xbox version is superior for 3 and VC. But the PS2 has a charm to it because of its graininess. It's like you're playing those games on a boxy TV again.

When looking at the Trilogy made for the PS4 and PS5, it legit looked like GTA IV and V clones that were fan made. It would have been funnier if Rockstar admitted that they have actual modders working on these games as a big prank to the studio as a whole.

Too bad that I don’t think they will be in on the joke.

 

[The Last Stand]

When looking at the Trilogy made for the PS4 and PS5, it legit looked like GTA IV and V clones that were fan made. It would have been funnier if Rockstar admitted that they have actual modders working on these games as a big prank to the studio as a whole.

Speaking of GTA IV and remaster:

Looks like GTA IV may get the remaster treatment as well for 2023. If so, it's a couple years too late.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Speaking of GTA IV and remaster:

Looks like GTA IV may get the remaster treatment as well for 2023. If so, it's a couple years too late.

If they touch The Ballad Of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned, then this will be dead on arrival. I can only take so much possible and unnecessary censorship if they remove a scene like this in question:

5:10-5:22 mark for those interested

 

[The Last Stand]

If they touch The Ballad Of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned, then this will be dead on arrival. I can only take so much possible and unnecessary censorship if they remove a scene like this in question:

5:10-5:22 mark for those interested in question

No multiplayer. I guess with GTA Online, they don't want to distract from its cash cow.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

I still think SA is perfect as is, but I've always thought VC physics are weird and awkward so I'm hoping they'll be better. My only complaint about 3 is the timed missions.

Also wrong side of the tracks is easy as hell after you finally beat it the first time. You've just got to consider smokes angle

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

My kate bush ☹

Here's a list of missing songs:

Emotion 98.3
“Wow” - Kate Bush
“Missing You” - Jon Waite

Fever 105
“Wanna Be Startin Something” - Michael Jackson

Flash FM
“Billie Jean” - Michael Jackson
“Steppin Out” - Joe Jackson
“One Thing Leads to Another” - The Fixx
“Running With the Night” - Lionel Ritchie

Radio Espantoso
“A Gozar Con Mi Combo” - Cachao
“Anunga Nunga” - Irakere

V-Rock
“Cum On Feel The Noize” - Quiet Riot
“She Sells Sanctuary” - The Cult
“Bark at the Moon” - Ozzy Osbourne
“Working for the Weekend” - Loverboy
“God Blessed Video” - Alcatrazz

Wave 103
“Cars” - Gary Numan
“Poison Arrow” - ABC
“Obsession” - Animotion

Wildstyle
“Pump Me Up” - Trouble Funk
“Rockit” - Herbie Hancock
“Looking for the Perfect Beat” - Afrika Bambataa
“Get It Girl” - 2 Live Crew
“The Smurf” - Tyrone Brunson

I still like a lot of the songs that are still in the game. There appears to be confusion as allegedly Aneka and Buggles aren't in game for example yet Twitch streamers have confirmed they heard them in the game.

 

[The Last Stand]

Wildstyle
“Pump Me Up” - Trouble Funk
“Rockit” - Herbie Hancock
“Looking for the Perfect Beat” - Afrika Bambataa
“Get It Girl” - 2 Live Crew
“The Smurf” - Tyrone Brunson

Well, Wildstyle is neutered.

Flash FM
“Billie Jean” - Michael Jackson

If Self Control plays when you get on the moped for the first time, then Billie Jean was omitted.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

youre telling me a multi billion dollar corporation cant afford to renew licenses for old music? what they need to pay the electric bill?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Well, Wildstyle is neutered.

If Self Control plays when you get on the moped for the first time, then Billie Jean was omitted.

SC is in. Its actually better than Gloria imo at least for Laura Branigan.
Apparently Wow was absent from the IOS port in 2010 (?) so I guess it makes sense that its not back.

@Deadwaste songs can be extremely expensive and im not surprised Jackson's shit is going up. Its because he has that **tarnished** rep. Remember Simpsons removed the episode he was in. Doesn't he own the Beatles music too?

 

[Ita Mori]

The fact the mission names are centered smack in the middle like the ipad/mobile versions give me a lot of suspicion that they ported over the shitty 10th anniversary version of the games rather than port the PC version or use code from the PS2 original.
Wardrum studi- err, Grove Street Studios, please don't prove me right.

 

[The Last Stand]

youre telling me a multi billion dollar corporation cant afford to renew licenses for old music? what they need to pay the electric bill?

Buy more shark cards!

The fact the mission names are centered smack in the middle like the ipad/mobile versions give me a lot of suspicion that they ported over the shitty 10th anniversary version of the games rather than port the PC version or use code from the PS2 original.
Wardrum studi- err, Grove Street Studios, please don't prove me right.

Look at the San Andreas remaster. The UI is literally the same as the mobile port.

I literally cannot tell if this is modded clickbait or the actual product. It still looks fake to me.

 

[Ita Mori]

Holy shit, flying looks so bad without the shitty draw distance, lmao.
Lifeless and sterile; like it's a toyset.
I don't even know if I can blame GSS for this though, UE4 was never made to render only a pathetically small area at once like Renderware was. I wonder if the games even use a timecyc file anymore.
But for real, SA is so small by today's standards that the entire map is drawn (with LODs of course) with no sweat, something that would've crashed consoles and most PCs 16 years ago. Is GSS to blame for using tech that's too new and too good for an old ass game made on an archaic engine that was a 6th gen darling?

What I can blame GSS for though, is the lack of adding detail and life to the map.
Mods like Project2DFX added LOD sprites to give cities lighting from a distance and appear lived in and active, and you're telling me a professional studio couldn't even do that?

This was too much to ask for? Something that was done some 7 or so years ago by enthusiasts for free?
Lol fuck this version.
Keep your friends original copies close.

Edit:

*Looks at highway closeby in all it's 144p/240 polygon count glory with no vehicles drawn*
WTF IS THE POINT OF A HIGH DRAW DISTANCE IF THE ACTUAL RENDER DISTANCE IS AS LOW AS IT WAS ON PS2!?!?!

You're intentionally sabotaging yourselves at this point. This is a fucking cash grab of the most vile order.
R* games used to pride themselves on attention to detail, to an autistic degree. These versions vomit all over these iconic masterpieces and the original teams that developed them.

I refuse on principle to ever touch these iterations in exchange for money.