shut up and take my money moment.
although i have neither a console nor a pc.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 October 2021 22:07 (two years ago) link
Lol at this being the reason to get a ps 5
― calstars, Friday, 8 October 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
Anyone playing this?
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Was going to. Sounds like a real mess?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
I have not, but I've yet to see one positive word about these. More like Glitch City, from what I've read.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
I haven't and I won't but I've very much enjoyed the surreal, glitch-filled videos that have come out of this
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
it doesn't even sound salvageable
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
Please recommend some good glitch vids or casters…
― calstars, Thursday, 18 November 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
I have played VC and San Andreas so far and yeaaaaaah a bit glitchy is an understatement. Also badly optimised, running on fairly high end pc and it's still choppy in a lot of places (it doesn't matter what gfx setting you have it on either).
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 18 November 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
this. I just don't see a patch able to fix all these issues anytime soon.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 18 November 2021 09:42 (two years ago) link
I have however managed to spend enough time in San Andreas last night to spray 80 tags.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 18 November 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
Of all the shit that's wrong with these things, not putting actual mid-mission checkpoints into the stupidly demanding/glitchy 20 year old games is the thing that really tanks it as a project for me
Driving around Vice City doing the early missions (with the old music modded back in) has been quite fun tbh, though I keep getting bummed out at how old the game is and how old that makes me. 38yo man staring into the purple Florida sky as Crockett's Theme plays, just thinking bout things
I ran out of steam on GTA3 as soon as I got to one of the missions where you have to do a sequence of tedious stuff then loads of enemies spawn and someone rams you off the road and blows your vehicle up and you have to start again
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 18 November 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
One thing I've noticed is that with the new brand spanking new far-draw distance how small it makes the map feel particularly if flying a plane. Being able to see Mount Chilliad from my Grove Street home is weird. Would it have killed them to add some haze? It all looks a bit Fortnitey.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
Same checkpoints!? lol hadn't realized this. Going to stick to PS2 emulation with savestates. I was a couple hours into my first time playing San Andreas when I heard about the new version and figured I'd wait..... nope.If they want to fix this mess it sounds like they have to take the games they finished 20 years ago and start doing a proper update now. This would've been embarrassing as a $20 curiosity, it's wild they are charging full price.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 18 November 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, 18 November 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
There's a shot from a jet at 7:00 in here that does a good job of demonstrating it https://www.ign.com/videos/21-of-the-biggest-changes-in-grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-definitive-edition
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
Andrew's video may show this, but apparently, you can see both San Fiero and Las Venturas at the same time from one place.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
Here's where I said, ok, never mind.
The more I see of the GTA Trilogy the more I understand why Rockstar took down the fan remaster mods.Yikes..Even just playing the first 3 hours had some characters looking really bad. As I said, game ranges from like a 4 to 7 in quality, while the original is consistently a 6. pic.twitter.com/KUYj1EvMJe— DarkViperAU (@DarkViperAU) November 11, 2021
― pplains, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
pretty funny that a high end PC struggles with this
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
Same with the new consoles, I can understand having to choose between performance mode and graphics mode on like fkn demon's souls or spider-man but how the fuck do these graphics warrant that (and it still doesn't consistently hit 60 in performance mode)
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
Really funny especially since this was all supposedly sourced from the version you could play just fine on an iPhone 4.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
you mean i'm playing a fucking mobile phone port on my pc, of gta ?!
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
see third para herehttps://www.polygon.com/22783178/grand-theft-auto-trilogy-3-remaster-issues-digital-foundry-video
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
I'd be interested in understanding more about the financial decisions that drive these shitty, broken games to market. You know that these people know that the game is unfinished and is just gonna get torn to shreds. What makes this keep happening beyond all good judgment?
― Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Actually enjoyed a session on VC last night, even getting through Demolition Man with no probs. I think out of the three games this one visually benefits the most because of it's intense colour palette.
Tried the GTA3 version for the first time, just meh really. Still has frame rate issue unbelievably.
San Andreas is the most buggy from what I've seen, of course it's the bigger game with more scope for stuff to go wrong (a lot of polygon clipping in areas, ie car tyres clipping through roads) but I don't enjoy the enhanced cartoony experience for this one. There's also some annoying glitch when climbing over fences where your character gets a little stuck on the other side. On top of things I've already mentioned I'll stick to playing this on the ps2 thanks.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link
I did demolition man first time too this go round! Although the camera kept showing the floor above the chopper, completely obscuring it
I really wish I'd played all the way through GTA 3 properly when it came out when it still had that incredible novelty to it, it's too rudimentary to persevere with if you get stuck in an annoying mission in 2021
I'm not touching San Andreas, unless I get a sudden hankering to see a man with five joints in his arm ride a bike
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
hahaha yeah i rode a mountain bike for the first time last night and what the holy fuck at the animation ?!
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
They stuck an extra 30 seconds on Demolition Man iirc.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 November 2021 13:48 (two years ago) link
I'd be interested in understanding more about the financial decisions that drive these shitty, broken games to market. You know that these people know that the game is unfinished and is just gonna get torn to shreds. What makes this keep happening beyond all good judgment?hmmm what could it be
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 November 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
I read that the demolition man timer was changed to 7:30 from the 2nd ps2 pressing onwards, but when I did it this go round it just...wasn't that difficult anyway? Maybe the reps I got in aged 19 still count 💪
This GTA 5 "glitch"/legitimate speedrun technique youtube threw at me made me laugh more than most of the San Andreas stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbxlP6NXXs
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 19 November 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
It's really not a difficult mission, just a bit tedious which nobody ever looks forward to.
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
xxpost I just mean like...do the bean counters have a formula worked out wherein they know that X number of people will inevitably plop down cash for a new/refurbished entry in a popular franchise even if said entry winds up being the gaming equivalent of dancingbaby.gif, such that they can afford to alienate Y number of customers who will swear off said franchise forever (until they begrudgingly plop down cash for the next entry)
― Lou Christie's Mosh Pit (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 November 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
That was my theory as well, they'll have done some kind of cost analysis which justifies it on the basis that the amount of copies they'll shift purely off the back of nostalgia & brand recognition will be enough to outweigh the inevitable backlash and negative reviews. Multiply sales across every current available platform and it's bound to make enough of a profit (especially at the ludicrous AAA pricepoint of 60 bucks) that the shareholders will be satisfied regardless of the lack of quality of the end product.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 19 November 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
Interested to see how this plays out as it's a real test of that kind of math. What's more confusing is, no one at all was waiting on this. Why would they rush it out the door? It doesn't make any sense. Yeah maybe something about more profit for the current quarter.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 19 November 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
I'm watching a dude on Twitch play it (haven't heard him complain about bugs or glitches much) and the radio stations ("I wanna talk about taxes" - "the lone star state?" // "the name's Laszlo" - "so yeah, Leslie...") & the fake ads ("Do you want a kitten? (meow)" "we have manatees (sheep sound), white rhinos (sea lion sound) - petsovernight.com") are still 100% CLASSIC
― StanM, Friday, 19 November 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
I'm not sure anyone is swearing off GTA VI based on another studio doing a shitty job, tbf.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 November 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
Yes the stations are great across the board. I esp love the gta 3 stations. Some of those fake pop songs on head radio and Lips 106 are really good !
― calstars, Friday, 19 November 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
Rockstar comments finally
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
tldr=Big apologiesAdmission that games aren't up to scratch, patches will be made (one soon)Please stop abusing members of Rockstar Dev teams on social platformsClassic versions will be up on Launcher, free to people who buy the Definitive versions before June next year
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:28 (two years ago) link
the patch = everybody will be sent a refurbished PS2 and the original Grand Theft Auto 3
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
or a kitten in a box
― StanM, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
access to the original games a big hint that this is not gonna get super fixed
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 19 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
I mean the actual project was so fundamentally unambitious, it's hard to see what would've been £55/$60-worthy about it even if it had successfully cleared the low bar they set for it. It is a bummer given how many good remasters there have been in recent years
Astute observers will have noted that I am describing as very poor value for money a compendium I have also posted several firsthand gameplay experiences from. I quite simply woke up from a nap on Sunday and found that it was installed on my hard drive. It's crazy
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 19 November 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
I got 97 hidden pacakge!
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
but now i'm at the point where my mind is playing trickseez, "did i already get that one?" "did the game save properly after finding those ones?" and trying to remember all the locations and falling for the trap of false locations where there never was a package. Fucked if I know where these last 3 are. will continue tomorrow...
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Friday, 19 November 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
Console update out
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Saturday, 20 November 2021 08:15 (two years ago) link
Fixed an issue where the game would restart from the beginning when selecting to retry from the last checkpoint on the Mission High Stakes, Low Rider
I would have raged so hard...
― pplains, Saturday, 20 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/EhvCFsp.pngHonest mistake
― calstars, Saturday, 20 November 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rd2huQTNh0
― calstars, Sunday, 21 November 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
Yeah cannot 100% Vice City due to that Gun Runner mission being totally fucked
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 12:09 (two years ago) link