to hyperbolically visualize the core issue, this should look like silent hill, but it looks like the simpsons game

Ik the Original San Andreas has song copyright issues but then people forget that GTAIII is an old game (closing in on 24 years) and no remastering would be absolute.

Maybe they should try a GTA remaster or GTA2, although I believe R* has forgotten what brought them to the show in the first place. :p

They could've made a decent model for rims on Banshee/Infernus/Cheetah/Stinger but instead it's an unly looking AI upscale model. One rim for 4 of the most desirable cars.
Main problem is they didn't care at all, not even comparing to original developers didn't care in general.

I think it is more of a concern that R* is using the broken UE4 game engine which has a shader compiling issue (or something similar).

All 3 games were broken at release, that's why the negative reviews.

They are fixed now, but most people won't bother going back to write positive reviews about it.

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All 3 games were broken at release, that's why the negative reviews.

They are fixed now, but most people won't bother going back to write positive reviews about it.

Sadly, even if the games were perfect at release, people would still be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and moaning.

Just look at the Diablo 2 and TR remasters.

It wasn't until the most recent patch that these remakes were straight trash. The new team did an okay job touching up as much as they could (Hence why Rockstar have hired them fully). They're a decent way to play the games.

First impressions are hard to forget. They games were pretty rough on release. They are great now. But most people who got angry back then can't be won over. They are not even aware of how much improvement was made.

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First impressions are hard to forget. They games were pretty rough on release. They are great now. But most people who got angry back then can't be won over. They are not even aware of how much improvement was made.

Having just bought the trilogy today (coming into it from the perspective of someone who played & loved the originals back in the day... Well Vice and III anyway (San Andreas I completed the story so quickly and dropped it, even one shot that train mission everyone ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about somehow) I'm downloading and looking forward to it. Obviously it wont be the same as back in the day (nothing ever is) but given playing the old games now is quite the poor experience (we've all moved on) and with their own foibles (controller support needing modding for instance), we make do as best we can.

Cannot wait to come back here in a few hours and start ranting about what they did, and wheres my favourite song (one of the more forgivable missing aspects frankly, music copyright being a minefield at the best of times) etc etc etc lol.

Edit - I missed my point though with my rambling! Waiting often helps with these things. Trilogy has been out for a good while now and I'm hopefully picking it up in a much better state & on sale too!

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ik it used to be buggy, but it seems fixed now, and sure some textures look a bit... ugly. but the games are decent enough. (i do think they should have added the OG versions in the purchase as well, but yeah)

Edit 2 - I mean the textures could look ugly but they look a lot better than the original. I don't have to play through tinted goggles, as I own the originals still and as I said earlier in my post... We've moved on!

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Cannot wait to come back here in a few hours and start ranting about what they did, and wheres my favourite song (one of the more forgivable missing aspects frankly, music copyright being a minefield at the best of times) etc etc etc lol.

Soundtrack missing is a non issue. Pretty easy to bring it back with a mod. Just a file to copy and drop inside a folder in the game.

https://www.nexusmods.com/grandtheftautothetrilogy/mods/681

Go to the directory where the game is installed and go where the paks file is located:

Example: D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\GTA Vice City - The Definitive Edition\Gameface\Content\Paks

Make a folder named: "~mods" in that Content folder

Place the mod file in this folder and that's it.

Michael Jackson is playing again in that first car you get in in Vice City. That song was removed even on later versions of the PS2 game. If you bought VC on original PS2 a year after release, that song was already missing.

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Cannot wait to come back here in a few hours and start ranting about what they did, and wheres my favourite song (one of the more forgivable missing aspects frankly, music copyright being a minefield at the best of times) etc etc etc lol.

Soundtrack missing is a non issue. Pretty easy to bring it back with a mod. Just a file to copy and drop inside a folder in the game.

https://www.nexusmods.com/grandtheftautothetrilogy/mods/681

I mean I did basically say that in my post anyway!

I'll probably skip the mods, there's enough of the stuff I liked back in the day to keep me happy. I'm not feeling like I'm missing out.

Which is my entire feeling about the games. They're really not bad at all, quite enjoyable with only minor issues. A much better, more modern experience than going back and playing the originals which have aged very badly, sadly.

I modified GTA 3 with better LOD config, updated DLSS with Swapper, installed DLSS Enabler to activate FSR FG on my 3080 and tune DLSS quality. 140+ FPS absolute smoothness without major stutters and crashes like it was in the original GTA with graphics mods.