Really baffling that one of the most significant improvements came for mobile a long time ago and only now it's hitting consoles, but better super late than nothing I guess
I get the sense publishers/developers are treating their games more like long term investments and so they are prioritizing upkeep/improvement of existing products.
I'm glad I'm not the only one and we're all collectively shocked at how long ago this came out. Must have something to do with how much stuff has happened in gaming since then and how little they actually tried to change the definitive edition before this
@@shigerumiyamoto9612 Investors force them to rush the product or else they won't meet full demand of sale. Game Freak is stuck in this hell too since they're expected to have a new mainline Pokémon every few years. Pretty much a standard since 2013 for games to do this. Not defending it, though. Just saying they got a leash and that's usually the reason "day one" patches exist. Though nowadays, makes much less sense with many physicals (besides Switch) just downloading the game anyway.
I hope they'll continue to optimize performance and the resolution. The switch shouldn't break a sweat running PS2 games. The fact that even next gen consoles had frame rate issues is insane.
@@ayru28 from my understanding the games are still running renderware code, just with unreal wrapped around it all. final product's still unreal but yeah
@@CrashFan03It still runs like doodoo, what's unreal is that the switch was outdated the moment it came out in 2017 and despite the devs optimizing as much as they can for "newer" games it won't change the fact that they use that same hardware today lol
@@Sheepybish "Outdated in 2017" is still leagues more powerful than a PS2, so no, PS2-era games not running well on the Switch is NOT the fault of the hardware. I swear some people seem to genuinely think the Switch is as weak as the Wii or Gamecube which is wild.
No, you‘re not the only one. In fact, I also want to see GTA Chinatown Wars being brought to the Switch with all the contents from the DS, mobile version and even the PSP exclusive contents. But I highly doubt that Rockstar Games is even interested by that point, as they are quite busy with GTA VI.
Reminder that the CEO of Grove Games bragged about releasing the game in the state it did saying it was good, and tried to defend them. Remember kids, an art style matters more than rendering technological accomplishments. For me the mind blowing stuff is at 6:38, it actually looks so much like the original and Ryder speaks again (well, you can see his mouth moving better now)
This update finally has me interested in this collection, and while I usually buy multi-platform games on PS5, I think this might be a case where I'll pick up the Switch version. Finally having good portable versions of these games is massive.
steam deck or any gaming handheld, pc or not, capable of ps2 emulation has been able to play these games for years, but more accurately it's good to finally have a good copy for the switch
Will still be playing the OG versions, as they still haven't bothered to pay the licenses to include all the amazing music. There's so many omissions in that category, which are essential parts of the game in the OGs in terms of atmosphere.
With all the map bugs, weird character models, super compressed audio and still botched up controls, the licensed music is the least of the problems here.
@@zachhiggins1668nah they fixed the rain awhile ago. And supposedly this latest update ironed out frame timing (so no stuttering) and other performance stuff.
This is great news! Been wanting to play San Andreas on a modern console but I refused to buy Definitive Edition because of how it ran and looked. The Xbox version is on sale for its lowest price ever at 23.99 right now, but I might still hold off for a Switch version sale
Still needs a bit more work, but it's decent now, at least. They still need to fix the traffic issues, aerial controls, put moving garbage back on the streets of GTA 3, fix overall texture issues and etc.
I wish they'd completely redo the character models (or at least give us the option to switch to the PS2 character models), restore the missing dialogue (stuff like pedestrians reacting to CJ's appearance), and get the paramedics to spawn and revive pedestrians like they're supposed to. There are other problems that still need fixing (like renewing the license for songs that got cut), but those are definitely at the top of my list.
They're in much better shape but 2 issues still bug me. In all of them on the OLED switch theres a thin white line that pops up at the bottom of the screen pretty often, and in all of them but mostly 3 and Vice there's a weird haze or distortion effect under your car when driving. It almost looks like the censoring/bluring tool effect. Its really apparent in Vice, just hop in a car during the day and look at the road just behind/under your car as you drive. Its like a blurry puddle that constantly follows your car. Really hope they address this now that GSG isnt at the wheel anymore.
I was so happy to see all the work they put into the switch version. I primarily played vice city and was excited to see they finally fixed the weird ghosting effect when you spun the camera around tommy. And they finally fixed the weapon wheel...never thought that would get addressed.
I like seeing bad ports/remasters be updated to a better estate instead of being abandoned, now, *it shouldn't have been like this in the first place* but there are other examples too. At least this shows a modicum of care coming from Rockstar as they could've just ignored the issue because the upcoming GTA 6 will sell like crazy and make them a ton of money anyways.
My only real remaining niggle is the lack of litter and newspapers blowing around the city in gta3... IT'S TOO CLEAN!! And with these improved visuals and lighting/shadow rendering, it looks even cleaner
Getting Red Dead, GTA Trilogy, the Battlefront games, etc on Switch has been nice as a lifelong Nintendo gamer. I can finally play these games I missed out on growing up
I have one of two minds on GSG being removed from the credits On one hand, their output for GTA has been consistently poor; they were responsible for all of the mobile versions of these games back in the early 2010’s as well as the PS3, Xbox 360, and forcibly updating the Steam version in 2014 (used to be the original PC version). And yet Take Two continued to contract work to them 🤷♂️ On the other hand, I do think a large amount of blame should fall on Rockstar/Take Two for continuing to ask a small, inexperienced team to meet unrealistic deadlines. Seems like they’re just throwing GSG under the bus when it isn’t necessarily 100% their fault
One really obscure improvement is one of the steet NPCs in Las Venturas. A rich lady wears a mink coat, and in all versions before the DE, the coat was a nice natural brown. But in the DE up to now, it was... dark with neon yellow green highlights. Even for dyed furs it was bad. Now the coat is slate gray, which again is a nice natural color. 😁 But a less obscure fix is that some of the textures on CJ's jeans were way off (not a shock since the ai upscaling seemed to be as sloppy as llm images), and that's now fixed.
So they never added gyro to the PlayStation versions? That’s weird, especially considering that the gyroscope on the DualSense is actually better than the Switch’s.
Yep, this is our life now. Not only are new games released as a broken, unfinished mess (mostly, there are exceptions of course), but now we have to wait for 3 years to get OLD-ASS PS2-ERA GAMES to be playable on modern tech. From fucking Rockstar, no less. Boy, the video game crash can’t come soon enough.
So many bad reviews when it came out I passed actually picked it up on the reviews on the patch can't wait for a trip down memory lane nice one Rockstar for stepping in ,loved your review nice one
Rockstar gets credit for continuing to work on the game. Due to its original reception, and that it’s a few years old not many new buyers will jump on board. This is more to say hey we messed up bad and we made it right.
SA is still a little blurry, especially when playing in docked. But its hard to complain now when they were so bad at release. And the Super Switch should hopefully auto upscale in the future.
This is really good news! Glad to see the trilogy getting major improvements! Maybe one day sega could do the same thing and fix up sonic colours ultimate. I'm well aware of the re rainbow mod I'm just thinking for those who don't play on pc. Maybe give it the same treatment they gave generations.
I bought this game at launch on Switch and couldn't believe glitches that would regularly take place. It is great for comedic value but was irritating to play. I remember trying to drive my moped between buildings on Vice City when my ride suddenly started spinning around in circles uncontrollably within buildings at a rate of inertia that would have killed any real human being until I finally got stuck inside a building and feel to my death.
It's wild just how massive of a difference the classic lighting makes. The character models are still horrendous, but the definitive edition *actually* looks like a somewhat proper remaster of the PS2 trilogy now, which is kind of pathetic that it took then 3 years to figure out such a basic feature.
It's wild that Grove Street Games used AI to generate textures in the game, but then didn't bother checking them and fixing the ones that came out wrong. Rockstar don't want us playing these old games so much I think, or they just don't care.
I think I’ll stick with the original versions for now. Glad they are working on fixing the game but hearing the switch version still has issues kinda sucks. I’m just gonna stick with my og versions
the only problem i still have with these remasters are the car physics. when you get into a car, it feels like it’s slightly hovering above the ground. i wish that they would add in car physics similar to gta 5
I’ve heard they haven’t added option to change the axis of gyro. From my memory it only used yaw, why is not a great option axis for handheld mode as it results in turning the console like a steering wheel. I would test to see if gyro was improved from previous versions, but I have a sd card detection problem with my switch which makes that a bit difficult. Also I wished it was an included feature on playstation.
This pisses me off because this how the game should've been. We shouldn't have to reward Rockstar for doing the bare minimum three years later just like with the PS5 60 FPS patch for Red Dead Redemption 1 port. That and I will never forgive them for canceling the Red Dead Redemption 2 next-gen ports.
4:23 Dang, yet another game removing flashing effects with no option to restore them. Feels real bad. Thunder doesn't look nearly as good on 1.80. Otherwise, every other change is a big improvement.
Some games have a big enough name (such as with Cyberpunk and also Rockstar's GTA) to have them patched to be _at least_ decent. Also, I think it's pretty cool to buy a game (perhaps at a discount) and still receive updates for it like 3+ years later, letting the improvements drip in; I bought Cyberpunk in 2020 and put it on the backlog and as far as I know; now in 2024 it's good. 🙂
It's nice that Rockstar finally rectified this all these years later, but let's not forget that they are at least partially to blame for how the orignal release turned out and still decided to put it on market despite knowing the poor state of the product. I'll still just stick with the original releases I have on Steam, at least they can be easily modded to improve the visuals and most importantly, keep the full soundtrack in taxt.
Is it really three years already since GTA trilogy The definitive edition? I got the switch port at the beginning of this year and I thought it ran okay what it was but yeah, I did notice some frame drops but nothing that affected the gameplay for me but any improvements that will make the gameplay and the overall experience is welcome in my book. In regards to Grove Street games not being credited in the title screens, I don’t think they deserve any credit for the mess up that they did they did such a bad job.
Rockstar really took their sweet ass time with this update. Not really a GTA guy at all but its really bizarre how businesses like this is normalized, especially when its taking years to update what didn't need to be a busted set of remasters. Really feel bad for people looking forward to these games.
The lighting may be better but the horrible character models and flat roblox textures in some places haven’t been touched. It’s like comparing a turd in different lighting. Sure the lighting may be a little better, but it’s still fundamentally a turd
Really baffling that one of the most significant improvements came for mobile a long time ago and only now it's hitting consoles, but better super late than nothing I guess
the mobile version looked worse than the current ver
the mobile version is the base, so maybe they were trying it out there first
I get the sense publishers/developers are treating their games more like long term investments and so they are prioritizing upkeep/improvement of existing products.
wait, 3 years?? 💀 I feel like the trilogy just released last year...
I'm glad I'm not the only one and we're all collectively shocked at how long ago this came out. Must have something to do with how much stuff has happened in gaming since then and how little they actually tried to change the definitive edition before this
Welcome to the fog my friend
1 more point for "never buy games on release"
kinda shitty that this has become a standard.
This is kinda of a stretch, took them 3 years to almost fix it
3 hundredths of a point towards "I wait two years for them to be patched"
@@shigerumiyamoto9612 Investors force them to rush the product or else they won't meet full demand of sale. Game Freak is stuck in this hell too since they're expected to have a new mainline Pokémon every few years.
Pretty much a standard since 2013 for games to do this. Not defending it, though. Just saying they got a leash and that's usually the reason "day one" patches exist. Though nowadays, makes much less sense with many physicals (besides Switch) just downloading the game anyway.
@@JS2123-m9xWhat do you think it's short off to remove that "almost"?
I hope they'll continue to optimize performance and the resolution. The switch shouldn't break a sweat running PS2 games. The fact that even next gen consoles had frame rate issues is insane.
Yeah but at the the same time isn´t a PS2 game, they ported all to UE4 so is more demanding now (also they done a horrible job with the optimization)
@@ayru28 from my understanding the games are still running renderware code, just with unreal wrapped around it all. final product's still unreal but yeah
@@CrashFan03It still runs like doodoo, what's unreal is that the switch was outdated the moment it came out in 2017 and despite the devs optimizing as much as they can for "newer" games it won't change the fact that they use that same hardware today lol
@@Sheepybish You're just a hater.
@@Sheepybish "Outdated in 2017" is still leagues more powerful than a PS2, so no, PS2-era games not running well on the Switch is NOT the fault of the hardware. I swear some people seem to genuinely think the Switch is as weak as the Wii or Gamecube which is wild.
Am I the only one who wants a port of Chinatown Wars on Switch?
5 would be nice 🤣
You are not. Would be a day one purchase for me.
it would probably just be the phone version without touch movement lol
@@dan250dospuntosv I would be fine with that honestly
But it will never happen in any form unfortunately
No, you‘re not the only one. In fact, I also want to see GTA Chinatown Wars being brought to the Switch with all the contents from the DS, mobile version and even the PSP exclusive contents. But I highly doubt that Rockstar Games is even interested by that point, as they are quite busy with GTA VI.
Today I learned that the Wii had a port of Bully. Going to need to check that out....
Yeah, it's the Scholarship Edition.
The Wii also got Manhunt 2 & Rockstar's Table Tennis.
@@paulbell3682
Also Godfather which was an amazing port.
Scholarship Edition is awesome
@louisdellalucca8969 The forced motion controls for basic actions like punching suck.
And it's the best version! If you see someone complain about the motion controls, has poor skill issues or a very small room
Reminder that the CEO of Grove Games bragged about releasing the game in the state it did saying it was good, and tried to defend them. Remember kids, an art style matters more than rendering technological accomplishments.
For me the mind blowing stuff is at 6:38, it actually looks so much like the original and Ryder speaks again (well, you can see his mouth moving better now)
this confirms that TakeTwo moved the project back to Rockstar NorthWest Branch
This update finally has me interested in this collection, and while I usually buy multi-platform games on PS5, I think this might be a case where I'll pick up the Switch version. Finally having good portable versions of these games is massive.
steam deck or any gaming handheld, pc or not, capable of ps2 emulation has been able to play these games for years, but more accurately it's good to finally have a good copy for the switch
Will still be playing the OG versions, as they still haven't bothered to pay the licenses to include all the amazing music. There's so many omissions in that category, which are essential parts of the game in the OGs in terms of atmosphere.
Thankfully all of my Vice City favorites were kept but I do miss hearing Herbie Hancock, Quiet Riot, Ozzy and The Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary” 😢
Aw man thx for the heads up, vice city is so bound to its soundtrack in my head
With all the map bugs, weird character models, super compressed audio and still botched up controls, the licensed music is the least of the problems here.
Licensing music can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s not a big deal.
@@BruceMichaelFilms If it's so impossible to do, then how did they do it before?
Hope they continue to improve and patch the trilogy, specifically the models, interior lighting, and LODs.
Is the rain and frame rate still butt too?
So basically still like 25% of the game lmao
@@zachhiggins1668nah they fixed the rain awhile ago. And supposedly this latest update ironed out frame timing (so no stuttering) and other performance stuff.
They should re-release the game on cartridge with 1.0.8 as the base and include all 3 games on the cart.
Not something that hasn’t been done before. However, it would probably have to be a Limited Run, type, release.
or if they're still making copies they should just make 1.0.8 what is put on them
Make it a limited release :^)
they might do that for the switch 2 with a 60fps patch. much like gta 5 on ps4/xbone
Why would they be able to put all three games on the cart now if they weren’t at release? Honest question
Only took 3 years, great to see it fully polished now haha
Now all we need are the spinoffs to get ported over.
Hello, Fresh!
4 years for those to work properly haha
Phil Collins license first
@@ES457 True. Phil's a good sport, let's hope!
This is great news! Been wanting to play San Andreas on a modern console but I refused to buy Definitive Edition because of how it ran and looked. The Xbox version is on sale for its lowest price ever at 23.99 right now, but I might still hold off for a Switch version sale
The switch version has noticeable input lag tho, most likely from the upscalling. Definitely not for everyone
On Xbox you can use Developer mode to play the PS2 version there, is much better, with lesser bugs
There's a 50% sale on eshop in UK atm ❤
@EAssassins if it's not 80% off it's not worth it
4:55 Claude just vibrating
Still needs a bit more work, but it's decent now, at least. They still need to fix the traffic issues, aerial controls, put moving garbage back on the streets of GTA 3, fix overall texture issues and etc.
Thanks for taking the time to detail the drastic improvements, Jon! I will now, finally, pick this collection up thanks to your video. Cheers!
This might be the only video I've ever seen to put GTA gameplay to peaceful Animal Crossing music
My San Andreas is not fixed with the update the lamppost still go straight through the concrete when I drive into them help .
3:59 for the classic meme
10:07 struck gold there
Now we just need a remastered portable collection - Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, Chinatown Wars, GTA Advance...
I wish they'd completely redo the character models (or at least give us the option to switch to the PS2 character models), restore the missing dialogue (stuff like pedestrians reacting to CJ's appearance), and get the paramedics to spawn and revive pedestrians like they're supposed to. There are other problems that still need fixing (like renewing the license for songs that got cut), but those are definitely at the top of my list.
They're in much better shape but 2 issues still bug me. In all of them on the OLED switch theres a thin white line that pops up at the bottom of the screen pretty often, and in all of them but mostly 3 and Vice there's a weird haze or distortion effect under your car when driving. It almost looks like the censoring/bluring tool effect. Its really apparent in Vice, just hop in a car during the day and look at the road just behind/under your car as you drive. Its like a blurry puddle that constantly follows your car. Really hope they address this now that GSG isnt at the wheel anymore.
I notice that too especially the white line on the bottom they need to adjust the safe area or something idk
That, along with the subpar frame-rate and poor resolution make these "passable" on Switch now imo. I wouldn't call them great, personally.
yeah, i saw them when i played, the haze thing is kinda distracting
Dude sounds like paradox from Wolverine n Deadpool lmao
I was so happy to see all the work they put into the switch version. I primarily played vice city and was excited to see they finally fixed the weird ghosting effect when you spun the camera around tommy. And they finally fixed the weapon wheel...never thought that would get addressed.
I like seeing bad ports/remasters be updated to a better estate instead of being abandoned, now, *it shouldn't have been like this in the first place* but there are other examples too.
At least this shows a modicum of care coming from Rockstar as they could've just ignored the issue because the upcoming GTA 6 will sell like crazy and make them a ton of money anyways.
Good voice my man, deep and great to listen to. 👍
Now gimme the two Stories games
The Stories games and Chinatown Wars were genuinely fantastic. That Phil Collins mission in VCS is too good.
My only real remaining niggle is the lack of litter and newspapers blowing around the city in gta3... IT'S TOO CLEAN!! And with these improved visuals and lighting/shadow rendering, it looks even cleaner
And the litter wasn't a negligible detail. Even as a kid i remember thinking that was such an important, immersion increasing detail
Getting Red Dead, GTA Trilogy, the Battlefront games, etc on Switch has been nice as a lifelong Nintendo gamer. I can finally play these games I missed out on growing up
I have one of two minds on GSG being removed from the credits
On one hand, their output for GTA has been consistently poor; they were responsible for all of the mobile versions of these games back in the early 2010’s as well as the PS3, Xbox 360, and forcibly updating the Steam version in 2014 (used to be the original PC version). And yet Take Two continued to contract work to them 🤷♂️
On the other hand, I do think a large amount of blame should fall on Rockstar/Take Two for continuing to ask a small, inexperienced team to meet unrealistic deadlines. Seems like they’re just throwing GSG under the bus when it isn’t necessarily 100% their fault
There’s Sonic music now!? 11/10
You should totally read audiobooks.
Wow I never thought they would fix this.
One really obscure improvement is one of the steet NPCs in Las Venturas. A rich lady wears a mink coat, and in all versions before the DE, the coat was a nice natural brown. But in the DE up to now, it was... dark with neon yellow green highlights. Even for dyed furs it was bad. Now the coat is slate gray, which again is a nice natural color. 😁
But a less obscure fix is that some of the textures on CJ's jeans were way off (not a shock since the ai upscaling seemed to be as sloppy as llm images), and that's now fixed.
So they never added gyro to the PlayStation versions? That’s weird, especially considering that the gyroscope on the DualSense is actually better than the Switch’s.
For what the gyroscope is used for nowadays, they're mostly on par.
I hope it gets a cartridge revision, it got one for 1.04 so it's... possible?
Yep, this is our life now. Not only are new games released as a broken, unfinished mess (mostly, there are exceptions of course), but now we have to wait for 3 years to get OLD-ASS PS2-ERA GAMES to be playable on modern tech. From fucking Rockstar, no less. Boy, the video game crash can’t come soon enough.
Flying controls aren't the same as the original in SA and the LOD still sometimes looks off, but hopefully those will get fixed in the future
So they pulled an ARK and totally redid the game via a patch and rerelease??
They didnt.
Team that made LA Noire VR did.
Rockstar doesnt care for trilogy.
VGD worked on this.
Nothing quite like watching a video about Grand Theft Auto to Animal Crossing music.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy: The Definitive Edition: The Definitive Edition
So many bad reviews when it came out I passed actually picked it up on the reviews on the patch can't wait for a trip down memory lane nice one Rockstar for stepping in ,loved your review nice one
Would be nice if they issue a new physical version with the updates on the cart
Rockstar gets credit for continuing to work on the game. Due to its original reception, and that it’s a few years old not many new buyers will jump on board.
This is more to say hey we messed up bad and we made it right.
Zero chance anyone on the GVG payroll can afford Hello Fresh.
Since this patch came out, i checked on my switch and realize it seems car window/glass are entirely missing since day one 😮😮😮
Still hoping for a manhunt remaster one day
Changing the textures for models could make them match art style better
SA is still a little blurry, especially when playing in docked. But its hard to complain now when they were so bad at release. And the Super Switch should hopefully auto upscale in the future.
This is really good news! Glad to see the trilogy getting major improvements! Maybe one day sega could do the same thing and fix up sonic colours ultimate. I'm well aware of the re rainbow mod I'm just thinking for those who don't play on pc. Maybe give it the same treatment they gave generations.
They didn't fix the safe door glitch in the mafia casino, where its suppose to explode.
I bought this game at launch on Switch and couldn't believe glitches that would regularly take place. It is great for comedic value but was irritating to play. I remember trying to drive my moped between buildings on Vice City when my ride suddenly started spinning around in circles uncontrollably within buildings at a rate of inertia that would have killed any real human being until I finally got stuck inside a building and feel to my death.
No, this is the time of year I stuff my face with more unhealthy food than the rest of the year. Shove it Hello Fresh imma die young 😅
😢
Did you do voice acting on Final Fantasy XV?
Is that one spot fixed where there was supposed to be a bridge to the boat but it wasn’t there?
That was fixed rather early on yeah
It’s better but I wouldn’t say it’s good. It’s acceptable now. Stick with the original versions if you can.
It's wild just how massive of a difference the classic lighting makes. The character models are still horrendous, but the definitive edition *actually* looks like a somewhat proper remaster of the PS2 trilogy now, which is kind of pathetic that it took then 3 years to figure out such a basic feature.
Aw **** here we go again.
Nice! Good changes! Glorious voice, my dude! 😅😎👍🏻
Not bad now but still some work is needed and i wish they renew the music licenses
yeah, i wanna hear ''Killing in The Name of" while driving up hills with that motorbike lol
@@BlastKetchupTHERE IS NO OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'M RAGING AGAINST YOU RIGHT NOW!!!! 🤬
4:55 Claude must've cold that day, that's why he's shaking
It's wild that Grove Street Games used AI to generate textures in the game, but then didn't bother checking them and fixing the ones that came out wrong. Rockstar don't want us playing these old games so much I think, or they just don't care.
Don't reward Rockstar's horrendous porting job by giving them your money. Just pirate the games.
I think I’ll stick with the original versions for now. Glad they are working on fixing the game but hearing the switch version still has issues kinda sucks. I’m just gonna stick with my og versions
I'd still probably wait for a sale but it's nice to know the games seem at least decent now.
I think the PS5 has Gyro Controls also
For San Andreas, it's slightly better but still broken. Apparently no one plays the game further than Los Santos.
What you talking about? I have a 100 percent save file?
@@SuperJayain Just to name one issue... did you enjoy the wires in Angel Pine?
San andreas has a major bug with the wiring around the map on the poles.
now I can imagine to rebuy the games. Do the old Cheats work?
the only problem i still have with these remasters are the car physics. when you get into a car, it feels like it’s slightly hovering above the ground. i wish that they would add in car physics similar to gta 5
I’ve heard they haven’t added option to change the axis of gyro. From my memory it only used yaw, why is not a great option axis for handheld mode as it results in turning the console like a steering wheel.
I would test to see if gyro was improved from previous versions, but I have a sd card detection problem with my switch which makes that a bit difficult. Also I wished it was an included feature on playstation.
It's blowing my mind that this released in 2021 it just does not feel like that long ago
This pisses me off because this how the game should've been. We shouldn't have to reward Rockstar for doing the bare minimum three years later just like with the PS5 60 FPS patch for Red Dead Redemption 1 port. That and I will never forgive them for canceling the Red Dead Redemption 2 next-gen ports.
4:23 Dang, yet another game removing flashing effects with no option to restore them. Feels real bad. Thunder doesn't look nearly as good on 1.80.
Otherwise, every other change is a big improvement.
Some games have a big enough name (such as with Cyberpunk and also Rockstar's GTA) to have them patched to be _at least_ decent.
Also, I think it's pretty cool to buy a game (perhaps at a discount) and still receive updates for it like 3+ years later, letting the improvements drip in;
I bought Cyberpunk in 2020 and put it on the backlog and as far as I know; now in 2024 it's good. 🙂
Is the soundtrack the same as the originals in these versions?
Fun fact that Rockstar originally planned to release GTA3 and GTA Vice City on the GameCube but got cancelled for some unknown reason.
pretty sure it was because of the mini discs which caused many limitations to the GameCube
@@El_cuatrotrue
Probably not enough buttons to work with.
But did they fix the bug where you drink one million cans of Sprunk and corrupt your save file?
Did they ever fix the awful signs?
They still didn't fix the San Andreas gym glitch 😕
whats the glitch?
Bought this game last year, didn't bother to unpack and play it, now is the perfect time 😂
It's nice that Rockstar finally rectified this all these years later, but let's not forget that they are at least partially to blame for how the orignal release turned out and still decided to put it on market despite knowing the poor state of the product.
I'll still just stick with the original releases I have on Steam, at least they can be easily modded to improve the visuals and most importantly, keep the full soundtrack in taxt.
Arnt some of the music tracks missing?
Yes
Is it really three years already since GTA trilogy The definitive edition? I got the switch port at the beginning of this year and I thought it ran okay what it was but yeah, I did notice some frame drops but nothing that affected the gameplay for me but any improvements that will make the gameplay and the overall experience is welcome in my book. In regards to Grove Street games not being credited in the title screens, I don’t think they deserve any credit for the mess up that they did they did such a bad job.
Rockstar really took their sweet ass time with this update. Not really a GTA guy at all but its really bizarre how businesses like this is normalized, especially when its taking years to update what didn't need to be a busted set of remasters. Really feel bad for people looking forward to these games.
Always wait for a sale nowadays
we need GTA 4 and Chinatown Wars on Swithc 2
So is this any better lol? Im bouts to find out i guess so me and my son have something to play when hes with me 😂
The lighting may be better but the horrible character models and flat roblox textures in some places haven’t been touched. It’s like comparing a turd in different lighting. Sure the lighting may be a little better, but it’s still fundamentally a turd
Oh shit, here we go again.
I hope they update it further.
Glad to hear
I don’t get it, what’s the point of a release date if the game isn’t complete on release.
Day 1 I was playing the open source versions of the trilogy on my Steamdeck at 800p90fps
Hope the new physical copies of the game come with the new patch installed.
Physical games can get update my man.
@@S.J.C._Entertainment Yes but only as long as the servers are available, hence the desire for updated physical copies.
@@Jalex0021 True.
I'm sold. I'll get it before the end of the year. I've been HANKERING to play Vice City again and this is the perfect excuse.
Sounds like you’ve been Out of Touch
But, does it still soft lock after drinking too much Sprunk?
Now I’ll take a remake/re-release of the original top-down GTA and Chinatown Wars, please and thank you.