I was just replaying the PC version of San Andreas (the original release), and I saw so much charm, detail and quality that is missing from these "definitive editions". The NPCs were actually interacting with eachother. You would see Grove Street Gang members walk up to random NPC females and start flirting with them. They would comment about them from across the street and then go talk to them, get rejected and go back to their boys across the street. When CJ's car would be parked to go handle some business, you would come back to the car and there'd be a random gang member leaned up on the side of CJ's car smoking a blunt. The little things! Aside from the missing fog that created an actual SA atmosphere, and made the world feel huge, there are visible heatwaves throughout the environment in the OG version. There was that watery effect when you would be swimming underwater. In this new version, those are gone. In this new version, NPC cars just randomly crash into everything, everywhere for no reason. NPCs will just walk into the middle of the street and get hit by cars, all the time. The dialog audio was actually crisp and pretty much uncompressed in the OG. These new versions have literally the worst, tinny, highly compressed versions of the audio I have ever heard. Grove Street Games can't give the excuse of not having the audio, because there is literally better audio RIGHT THERE in the PC version. The only problem with the original PC version is that there are no controller button prompts (it will say JOY4 instead of Y, or triangle, and that is unfortunate), and this won't be fixed since Rockstar Game Launcher does not allow mods because Rockstar don't give a fuck about their consumers any more, or updating/fixing broken and easily fixable things. Why they would allow a "definitive edition remaster" on their 20 year anniversary of GTA3 of all things to be based off of a shitty mobile port, badly redesigned pool and workout minigames, incongruent menu sounds, glitches, way too fast exploding cars, uninspired font types on all of the in-game advertisements and logos, typos, rain that it is impossible to see the fucking game through, unstable framerates, and on top of that not pay for the song licensing of these classic soundtracks when they are a FOUR BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY is inexcusable. I'm not just saying this to complain or be divisive. It is literally the bare minimum just to port the ORIGINAL version of the game, and they didn't even do that. They started from the much maligned mobile port, that after constant complaints from gamers FOR YEARS was NEVER FIXED. I don't have hope this game will ever get fixed to the way it should be. They just don't care. I would love for them to prove me wrong.
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