So how are these 3 games for someone who never played the originals, are they worth picking up?

[Vlakabaka]

Just looking for some feedback and on the fence over here of the Definitive Edition for these games.

Thnx in advance!

[ThotsBContagious]

Originally posted by Vlakabaka:

Just looking for some feedback and on the fence over here of the Definitive Edition for these games. :monstertrainhmm:

Thnx in advance!

They're very much ehh.. if you played the originals missing it, just buy on sale.
However the camera control sucks imo.
As do the character models, looks like someone took clay and molded them.

Seen a lot of visual glitches too like driving a boat and the water fills it up to the top.
Or driving in the stadium and the dirt eats your bike.. like clipping no joke.
NPC's car spawning into roads or they just clip into it.

Beat VC and mostly done with SA. I haven't crashed on a up note I suppose.

[Chicken Tender Gary]

People complaining about the game either never played the originals, or never noticed that the lack of visual clarity hid a lot of the janky animations and details in the original versions. Those are probably the biggest complaints, the character models/animations.

There's a lot of benefit to the camera controls for 3/VC as it was a fixed camera game with no ability to look around.

The character models are kind of crappy, but there's only so much they can do using the original motion captures, and like I mentioned, the higher fidelity kind of shows off how not great the original mo-caps were. You can't really go back and re-do those without a massive MASSIVE budget.

The glitches the other guy mentioned are there in the original game. Cars spawning in at random (especially cops if you look behind while driving) are absolutely in the original game. They were frustrating in the originals, and hilarious at other times when you played with friends passing the controller. (Nothing like cruise missile cop taking you out mid rampage by t-boning your car into the water)

These remakes are not "better versions of the old games" rather they are "the old games with a coat of paint". I think people had the idea they were going to somehow port these games to GTA V's engine, or they'd make all of the problems with the original magically disappear, or they'd spend more time fixing the actual engine itself. That's way too lofty when you think about it.

The only issue I have is the use of bland, boring, Comic Sans-esque text on the advertisements in business windows. But hey, if that's my biggest complaint, then the remakes are pretty solid.

Bottom line, if you're not ready or prepared for 2001-2005 PS2 era jankiness that comes with these games originally, then the game probably won't be for you.

Edit: These are the only versions of this game to play, unless you want to play in the original 480p. I have those versions on Steam, and they no longer work.

[AMAZING PAPERBOY DELIVERS!]

These just look cheap. The old games look aged, but they don't look tacky the way this does. As a whole, I find it a lot easier to look past issues if I'm playing something like the original GTA 3 from 2001. If I'm playing the 2021 remaster and it has all the same problems, it's a bit hard to deal with all the AIDS the game throws at you.

[Kapika96]

On sale? Maybe. GTA3 has aged poorly. Vice CIty and San Andreas have their moments. IMO San Andreas is still the 2nd best GTA (with only GTA5 being better), but it's entirely possible you won't feel the same about it without the nostalgia for it.

If you're interested in seeing where the series really got big, then they're worth it on sale, especially San Andreas. But definitely not at full price.

[Vlakabaka]

Yeah i think im gonna pass on these games for now.

[Dragon222]

skip gta 3 (uninstalled after 7 hrs)
have fun with VC (best title) and San Andreas.

[Bongoboy]

Originally posted by Patches O'Houlihan:

People complaining about the game either never played the originals, or never noticed that the lack of visual clarity hid a lot of the janky animations and details in the original versions.

Yeah, the originals where pretty janky. If you play GTA4 you see that one is pretty janky too, GTA4's driving is less Arcadey as those three here and 5 is.

I just tried out GTA III, I can set it to 1080p and even play it, but it is buggy. All the menus are all weird and blinking lol, I think you need some more work to play the originals.