GTA Original Trilogy Remake

This hasn't turned out well at all really.

Has anyone played the Mafia trilogy? How'd that turn out as I'm interested in playing the first game.

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of it not being a typical open world game. I've actually played the original versions of Mafia 2 and 3 so not as bothered about those but did like them at the time.

I played a few hours of San Andreas on PS5 last night and I have to say for the most part it actually isn't close to being as bad as some of the highlights suggest to be honest. On a street level it actually looks quite decent for a remaster of a PS2 game.

There are some pretty bad frame drops that are totally unforgivable for what this is, however. Sound seems to be completely untouched so all out of cutscene dialogue sounds like it's been recorded with someone talking through a traffic cone. The biggest buzzkill though is the total lack of atmospheric effects. Gone is the orange hue in Los Santos and the infinite draw distance means I can see Mount Chiliad plain as day from Grove Street like it's the 5 minute drive away it actually is in reality, rather than the artificial sense of it being a cross state journey you got in the original.

It's no Cyberpunk by a long stretch though. Unless there are some total game-breakers later on if you're just looking to replay the story for the first time in ages like I am you'll probably have an alright time with it.

I only played the first mission or two on GTA3 so I haven't seen the horrors that produces. To be honest the handling model of the cars on that one is so much worse than I remember that I will probably struggle to get through all of that one anyway.

I'm just quite enjoying playing through San Andreas again on Game Pass (Series X). Most of the music is in there (I think the initial lists that went out were just wrong) although a few heavy hitters are missing. At times it looks good when you consider the base game is basically still running as it did on PS2. The QoL improvements are good enough.

It doesn't look fantastic by any means though, and there are a fair few glitches and weird stuff going on. I guess YMMV but it's all I wanted from it tbh.

Yes it's crazy, a well done remake of Vice City alone would have been a cash cow for years. (And because I always have a GTA Online angle to any GTA news - I also can't believe they haven't tried to do a Vice City style area, or radio station, or retro car set etc in the online)

mothercruncher Because they are cheap fucks mate and don't care.

Played Mafia remaster and really enjoyed and completed this time!... I played original on Xbox all those years ago and gave up, as much as I enjoyed it.

I have also played, enjoyed and completed the definitive Mafia3 (all dlc) which I think is the same as in the trilogy. Special shout to the music in Mafia 3, it is excellent.

As for 2 looking around the net, it gets a lot of hate as a remaster, Mafia 2 itself is a great game and I would recommend.

Yeah it's in no way worth 50 notes. £10-15 each with the option to buy seperately would have been the fair shout here.

So a clusterfuck all round then.

I'll have to see if I can find my original PS2 copies over the weekend, I know I've got at least two copies of the NTSC original printing somewhere, one NTSC first print of Vice City and an NTSC Sunday Driver edition of San Andreas, so that should be all the original content present and correct.

Maybe the originals are good enough, but who knows until you boot them up and see how they play after all these years. Somebody mentioned missing camera angles for GTA 3 in the remake which would be a shame, I rather liked the alternate angles, they weren't an optimal way to play but were fun nonetheless.

They could have even done remakes of the original 2D ones, do them as isometric 3D things if they wanted. They’ve have made truckloads off them too.

GTA London was also brilliant.

I still amazed they allowed drug dealing in a Nintendo game.