GTA: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition

[Hobo]

I haven't played any of these games since they came out but I have to assume a lot of the humour has aged poorly and that going back and playing it would be akin watching Attitude Era WWF.
 

[Bobfoc]

Sounds about right. It's teenage edgelord rubbish throughout.

[Josh]

12 minutes ago, Hobo said:

I haven't played any of these games since they came out but I have to assume a lot of the humour has aged poorly and that going back and playing it would be akin watching Attitude Era WWF.
 

Yeah, I’ve decided not to go back because of exactly that.

[King Ellis]

4 hours ago, Kyle. said:

Good to see the level of common sense that went into these.

I saw something similar where someone was suggesting it was like a computer upscaled it and no one bothered checking the end result or just said 'close enough'.

In the example they had, I think there's a shop in vice city where the window has a display saying air guitars $200 but the remaster now says A15 Gutter or something.

Edit: found it, guitar Henk! https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/qrjl9w/guitarhenk_booths_avaiable/

[fourstarfizzle]

4 hours ago, King Ellis said:

I saw something similar where someone was suggesting it was like a computer upscaled it and no one bothered checking the end result or just said 'close enough'.

In the example they had, I think there's a shop in vice city where the window has a display saying air guitars $200 but the remaster now says A15 Gutter or something.

Edit: found it, guitar Henk! https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/qrjl9w/guitarhenk_booths_avaiable/

From what I recall reading the vast majority of the upscaling was done by an AI system so that would explain a lot.

[probablyoliver]

I'm doing the Casino missions in San Andreas, and I hate to say it but I'm actually really enjoying my time with it.

It's an incredibly lazy remaster, and there's a lot of stuff worthy of eye rolling, but it's still a great game.

Rockstar deserve every bit of bad press they're getting from this, but I'm having fun at least.

[therockbox]

15 hours ago, Ollie said:

I'm doing the Casino missions in San Andreas, and I hate to say it but I'm actually really enjoying my time with it.

It's an incredibly lazy remaster, and there's a lot of stuff worthy of eye rolling, but it's still a great game.

Rockstar deserve every bit of bad press they're getting from this, but I'm having fun at least.

I think that's pretty much where I am with it, it's an amazing blast of nostalgia and although dated I think the games (well, SA at least so far) generally stand up.

I know people have mentioned their annoyance that the original games with fanmade mods was better, but tbh I would never have been arsed to mod the games so that doesn't really effect my judgement of it. Some of the bugs are glitches are atrocious though, I'd hope it will stop people from getting overexcited about stuff like this in the future but if it still happens after Cyberpunk I don't think anything will.

[Bobfoc]

I've read that GTA 3 and Vice City don't have the mid-mission checkpoints that San Andreas does, and that you can only restart missions from the beginning. That's a bit rubbish. There are some long missions with a lot of annoying pitfalls in those games.

[Mick]

5 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

I've read that GTA 3 and Vice City don't have the mid-mission checkpoints that San Andreas does, and that you can only restart missions from the beginning. That's a bit rubbish. There are some long missions with a lot of annoying pitfalls in those games.

 

*Glares at the mission 'Grand Theft Auto'*

[The Buscher]

Espresso 2 Go is the mission I most remember being a huge nightmare.  Especially because several of the coffee stands you have to destroy are in the territory of gangs that actively try to kill you when they see you, including the Mafia who can easily set your car ablaze with shotguns.

[Bobfoc]

SAM was another horrible GTA 3 mission.

[Mick]

3 hours ago, CM Busch said:

Espresso 2 Go is the mission I most remember being a huge nightmare.  Especially because several of the coffee stands you have to destroy are in the territory of gangs that actively try to kill you when they see you, including the Mafia who can easily set your car ablaze with shotguns.

 

I had found out about the Bitchin' Dog Food missions after I had killed Salvatore, and they were pretty much impossible to do thanks to the Mafia   . 

[Ruki]

Hecking annoyed you basically need body armor for every mission. I swear, I used to be good at this game.

[FLiam]

Give me a GTA: London Definitive Edition already.

[Schlitzbrille]

Classic versions coming back-ish in the Rockstar Store

[VerbalPuke]

17 hours ago, FLiam said:

Give me a GTA: London Definitive Edition already.

I actually would love if they made a modern version of that. That could be a ton of fun.

[apsham]

If you thought the over top accents were bad in Watchdogs Legion, I'd love to see what would happen if Rockstar decided on a modern version of GTA London.

[Bobfoc]

The first patch has been released. It's probably a drop in the ocean, but it's a start.

[probablyoliver]

Got the platinum on San Andreas last night (around 20 minutes after the patch came out, typical), and my thoughts remain the same.

Absolutely loved replaying it, it wasn't nearly as offensive as I was afraid of it being (only one mission centred around homophobic stereotypes, and only a couple more with racial overtones. Also only one hard R that I remember hearing), and all the bugs I witnessed were more on the funny side than annoying - after one mission I was stripped of all my clothes for some reason, and the invisible bridges were always kinda fun.

I did have a few hard crashes, and that's pretty unforgivable on an almost 20 year old game, but for the most part it ran well enough.

Overall, it's still San Andreas, and I loved it for all of its faults then, and I love it the same now.

Still, fuck Rockstar for thinking this was good enough to put out into the public.

[The Buscher]

So I wasn't intending on getting this but was given it at Christmas so hey, may as well have fun with it.  I've only played GTA 3 so far and really haven't experienced any bad glitches.  I never did 100% the games back in the day so I figured that would be my goal.

My overall strategy has been to knock out every possible side hustle as soon as I get to an island.  Rampages, unique jumps, hidden packages etc.  Also means doing stuff like the paramedic missions in Portland before anybody hates me.  The actual story missions themselves are a breeze in comparison to the stuff you have to grind through.

I know for a fact I didn't finish the Rampages and Offroad missions 20 years ago, I found a lot of them just too damn hard and I really only cared about finishing the main story and then screwing around causing mayhem.

Gripped in particular...shit, I was at that mission for two hours yesterday, almost never getting past the first six checkpoints.  I was very close to just tapping out and moving to Vice City.  Given I'd already beaten the main stories years ago, I figured I would much rather just stop in my place at 78% than get an agonizingly close 98% with only one damn mission keeping me from finishing it all.

But I finally finished it, as I approached the final checkpoint with only a few seconds to go my hands were friggin trembling.