Grand Theft Auto "Definitive" Edition is a Soulless Joke

It’s all bugs, Sonny. None of the families would touch that shit

This looks like a pretty okay remake made in Unity by like two dudes. Edit: holy christ i get it, Unity is a good engine

“Licensing is a thing” So is the 6 billion dollars Rockstar made off of GTA V

I despise the whole “music costs money” argument as if GTA online hasn’t made Take Two billions.

The foggyness of the og gta 3 was an absolute mood. That needs to come back

The fact that a single NPC can have 3 different artstyle approaches on their body is fucking with my head. They'll have a cartoonish face, a semi-detailed but still stylised jacket with minor details, and a photoreal undershirt with visible stitching, all on top of a low poly model with a misaligned skeleton. And then, to top it off, some of those textures will have the deep shadows (eg; around the pockets) "painted" on, but without any sort of bump mapping so that the simulated world lighting will just hit everything with a flat sheen, making it look like one of those funny shirts with a tuxedo printed onto it. And THEN, sometimes things WILL have bump mapping, BUT the specular and reflectiveness settings are the same across what should be leather and what should be cotton. It's unbelievable that a company who made £1 billion in under 3 days could allow this to go on sale.

I really liked Simpsons Hit & Run as a kid, I’m so glad they finally made a sequel 20 years later.

This studio ( not rockstar ) of literal 10 people were expected to remaster three games in 6 months. Seriously that’s a crime. No one can do that. Rockstar parent company really did it for the cash grab. It was a easy cash grab. Exploiting nostalgia. The og devs are quitting because of this. They have no power. They can watch but with no say.

"If you're playing on pc your only option now is play definitive edition" Not while I sail under the black flag

This whole game looks like a unity asset flip.

In my head, GTA never looked "Realistic" untill 4. I always viewed it like an MTV cartoon in the style of something like Aeon Flux and thought China Town Wars really capitalized on that aesthetic. It seems the "Definitive" edition tried to make these toony chars look realistic like the newer games and it failed hard. Clearly the AI was turned to "realism" and not "stylized" lmfao.

Funniest part is that Grove Street Games is the same company that made the XBox 360 port of San Andreas, which was a technical mess and used a version of the IOS port. This still used it too, still having assets in the files for Mobile buttons.

Rockstar be pulling off a Blizzard with removing the original games over the "Remastered" edition of the games

I like how this "remaster" still has a heavily compressed audio from the base game.

5:36 that reverb fart sound effect tho

Honestly, Vice City was my childhood. Especially on PS2 it was such a precious part of my childhood (yes I was about 12 lol). Seeing this remaster is like a knife through my heart. Honestly, I think this remaster might be the thing that finally turns me off gaming. If this is what we have been reduced to, whats the point? A comment someone else makes is so true: GTA Online has made them billions, but they can't afford the licences for the old radio stations?

"They keep the OG games down, helps the people forget" "Peoplearegonnaremembersoonenough, when they see the definitive edition"

"Remake, remaster, or whatever the hell I'm supposed to call it." Regurgitation. That's a good name for it.

We started this remaster saying, "I can't wait." Then ended saying, "Fuck this game."

14:28 - dear GmanLives, thank you very much for sublime everything that I wanted to say about GTA3's Liberty City and it's atmosphere. For me it always was a criminal capital, that lives last days before 911, it capitalises everything about crime right before it, and its foggy cold atmosphere was making game unique, and, as you said, make you want to take 2 showers. Yet feels like nobody loves it today, everyone is blinded of 80s vhs nostalgia and seeing in Vice city something, that it have not