The GTA Definitive Edition is STILL a Scam... 

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I like to imagine when Netflix got the rights to port there was some guy on the team that did a little programming as a hobby, saw the definitive edition and said, “gross, lemme fix that,” and now we got this.

The fact the delisted the old version and then released trash on PC is why piracy is morally justified.

“Netflix edition” rockstar has become one of their satires

What is incredibly frustrating is that these are the only way to play these games on modern systems other then the FUCKING mobile port.

"If it's broken, then fix only some of the problems then re-release it with full price" -Rockstar execs probably

The GTA 5 source code just got leaked… bruh

I'm glad I still have all classic 3D GTAs in my Steam account. Playing modded San Andreas is a blast on Steam Deck. I feel no reason to ever touch these embarrassing remasters.

Growing up and seeing SoG go from creepypastas to basically a responsible adult is inspiring. Growing up and seeing Rockstar go from one of the best, to dropping the ball consistently, must be crushing. I tried to create a parallel, there isn't one.

I personaly still feel like these games would need an actual full remake and not a remaster. Everything just looks more shiny but with all the original assets and mechanics, it just takes the soul out of it and even if these remasters were perfect, i would still pick the original games to play if i had to choose every time.

Gaming is in a pretty sad state when companies get praise for fixing broken products a year later, and the products were a remake of an existing game anyway. I guess we should just be grateful they didn't include shark cards for the definitive edition games too, because god knows the slop enjoyers that make up the modern video game customer base would gobble them up

It really is a shame how music licensing prevents any remake from realistically ever getting the full soundtrack, let alone maintaining it for digital releases. Neither the artists or the record lose anything when we hear their songs in a nostalgic old game. If anything, hearing their song in game might motivate me to listen to their music on a monetized platform instead of forgetting they exist. They're having their free advertising taken down and everyone loses.

I checked out GTA 3 with my Netflix account just to see how it was, and what I found is that if you screen cast your phone to your smart tv and connect a Bluetooth controller to your phone that you can actually have a good experience with it

Bro- I bought this thing when I heard of it , soon as I played it I was like ”Oh No, I’ve just burned 60$ on garbage” and this was near Christmas time I was double screwed. And I’m here to say, coincidentally, a week ago, I tried to see if the Vice City was any good… no. It’s horrible. My silver ps2 slim runs it’s better. Absolutely shameful. Glad this video is here to confirm it.

It's way better than the PC version, which is hilarous, I guess they actually found real developers to work on it

Also, they should have done the same remaster treatment to GTAVC stories and GTALC stories and add them as DLC or something. Those games are just as good and add more story to the GTA universe.

I wish they brought back the sky colours from the other cities too not just Los Santos. Purple sky in Las Venturas was awesome

Thank you for keeping the horror of "Cuties" alive. Every single person involved in the casting of that abomination needs to be on the strictest of sex offender watch list

At this point, I'm just going to buy an old PS2 and start building up my collection.

Recently finished my playthrough of SA Definitive Edition. While it certainly is not optimized, having not played it in almost a decade, the experience is still satisfactory enough to provide a capsule of nostalgia. To anyone looking to play it: DO NOT pay full price. Wait until it goes on sale and you will not be disappointed.

Hopefully they roll-out an update for other platforms, because Mobile/Netflix shouldn't have better "definitive" editions, while consoles/pc are shafted.

I sent R* an email after the Definitive Edition was released. I offered to give them $50 more dollars of my money (again) and put the old games back on. No response. I then went to a local mom n pops hobby/video game store. I found Vice City, San Andreas, and 3 empty memory cards. $37.90 later, I'm playing my PS2 again. 🤷‍♂️

The Netflix version is actually SUPRISINGLY better, its a 1 for 1 clone of the console versions, controller support and all the old school cheats still work too!

GTA V source code leaked, early GTA V map, some GTA VI python scripts AND Bully 2 confirmed

Controller to phone, phone to tv. Living the high life.

The developers that developed this port were Video Game Deluxe [VGC]. In the past, they developed the LA Noire Remaster and LA noire VR.

As far as I can remember in 2 of 3 definitive editions the 'checkpoints' didn't worked well and were basically restarting the missions from the start.

Honestly GTA definitive addition is my main concern when it comes to GTA 6. Yes it wasn't made by Rockstar (it was made by Grove Street Games) but the fact that Rockstar green lit this garbage and removed the original games from stores says alot about how the higher ups views their own loyal fan-base.

Thank goodness I can find good copies of the trilogy from the ol consoles.

7:33 While I agree on all other points, I feel that leaving traffic systems the way they were- albeit old and outdated as you mentioned, makes the port feel more true. It'd certainly be very neat to see these systems refreshed, but there'd still be the risk of losing that original 'feel', no?

I agree. I once installed the Vice City definitive edition and I played it for a while and it soft-locked me after the mission “Cop Land” with some side quests. I couldn’t progress any further because of it.

Simply a christmas gift from Santa Muta bringing GTA content before Christmas 🎅

An Australian here, idk if you'll ever see this but just for future reference, Bondi is pronounced like "bond-eye", it's really cool tho to hear that a company based in Sydney has fixed these games up to a much better standard

Exclusivity for a fixes update.... Man we have really hit a new low

Merry Christmas everybody

Thanks for tipping me off to this Muta! I've had a newfound interest in playing the old GTA games, which I didn't play much when they released. Even bought an xbox 360 copy of SA just last week. So to see this come out, this is just another early Christmas gift! Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that you ignited my interest again after you did that one GTA PC mod, which I attempted and failed to mod on my own PC. Just couldn't figure out how to connect my xbox controller without it being all wonky and the PC controls felt weird. Anyways, thanks!

was jus watching an old video waiting for u to upload holy

We’re probably around the same age and I loved these games on PS2. I really wanted to get the GTA Difinitive Edition, but with your overview of these games make me want to just emulate these games.

By the time Rockstar fixes GTA Definitive Edition to be a playable game, GTA 6 would be released for PC.

I, for one, having barely played VC in my life, and having never played the definitive edition of that game prior to a few days ago, was actually surprised how fun and clean it was to play. The lighting was better, the 3D models were better and I barely noticed any bugs. The only one time I came across one was when I ran into an invisible wall near a building, but that was it. The controls needed a little tweaking in order to feel good to play. You can't put a button on top of another like you can on CoD Mobile and Terraria, unfortunately, and you have to move the buttons a bit far away from the others so you can resize them. Dumb, but ok. I really hope they keep improving these games, adding cut content, making the cities more lively like you said, and if god allows, Rockstar will relicense the games' original songs.

Those lighting and fog changes are literally just 2 sliders in unreal engine.

I can never get over the fact that mods make games better. For free. In their free time. When the actual developers get paid for producing a half-assed game. For a living.

honestly the biggest stab in the back with the definitive editions for me was that the original games cant be bought from steam anymore. I only bought SA off steam before they took it down, now it's the only one I can play unless I buy the remasters, which I don't want to.

Its 2023 we should be able to have spotify play when we get in a car in gta. Music licenses not required anymore

lamp posts still falls through the ground on mobile which is very distracting

I still have my old trilogy CDs for PC and its still great.

You can mod on mobile but it is a lot of hoops to jump through the best option is sideloading a pre modded version of the game but I’ve been able to change the character models and inject my own files in the game.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Mutahar.

The rolly flex while gently adjusting the mic

I bought the def edition on PC and immediately refunded. Feels weird playing games from the early 2000s looking like that

I just wanted to visit Marco's Bistro. I may have intended to do some horrible things, but I would love to be able to do that without falling through the f*cking map.

I haven't played this new version yet so I don't know if the checkpoint system has been improved because the checkpoint system of some versions made by "hard-working professional experts at Grove Street Games" can sometimes cause some bugs. December 25, 2023 11:31AM

the only reason i hate those games is that so many memorable soundtracks were removed! what made the games so nostalgic was the music, and when you get rid of that you get rid of the childhood memories you had.

Always stay on the edge gamers. You and many others depend on your excellent eyes and brains to call out the devs for being dishonest when they sell a different port of the game.

They HAVE to make this an update for the other versions

I own the three original releases of these games on Steam, but I wasn't aware about that mod site. Thanks for the info on that, Muta!

merry Christmas Muta

As a 22 yr old that grew up watching his brother play these games I have a crt a ps2 and all 3 original games no soundtrack deletion no updates just pop and play nice vid tho muta

It’s a shame that the best version is locked behind Netflix

I looked down when you showed the page for video games deluxe and it's the same director as team bondi, Brendan Mcnamara.

MERRY XMASS BRO! LOVE YOU CHAN MAN! STAY EPIC IT SEC JEDI MASTER!!!

So why cant these updates come to the PC and console versions of the definitive editions? Oh yeah it's probably because R* wants us to go and buy the mobile editions. Shameless.

A company fixing a game with a mobile port is such a GTA bit

I'm just gonna wait another 20 years for them to re-release these again and see if they get it right.

Hey man I like your content haha keep it up

i can't wait for another black mesa source situation with this. i already smell the dev team working on making a ACTUAL GTA Definitive Edition.

I Really like how the countryside areas look on gtasa definitive edition. If only the rest of the game had that same level of quality

With the game being ported using unreal engine 4 they can pretty easily bring back that orange haze in gta san andreas with a sky atmosphere and exponential height fog using the orange color and even volumetric fog that uses the sun to change the fog color

The original phone release of the games by grove street games were the ps2 port version ported back to pc then ported again to ios.. at that stage the code was already a mess being filled with 20 year old code. The definitive edition is then a ported version of this with just a coat of paint slapped on top with "improved graphics", its not surprising it turned out horrendously broken. Rockstar owe the community a true remake worthy of the trilogy that put them on the map

Muta:buys it all over again Its a scam🗣💀💀💀

I'd say the original versions on steam are a scam too, all of them need to be modded back to the 1.0 version or you'll get a black screen just installing and trying to play it vanilla.

The plane mission with Zero in San Andreas is still broken because the plane goes haywire on PlayStation 4

11:45 I personally think there might actual be a legit reason for not doing the expanded & enhanced features on PC. Remember they just bought FiveM, i think releasing E&E which runs on a newer version of the engine afaik and replacing the current gta client with that would be (temporarily) disastrous for FiveM as it would take quite some time for not just the FiveM devs (obviously they could work with their parent company to make the client work prior to its launch), but the server / plugin devs which *wouldnt* have access before it releases. Just a theory though, i def would prefer to have the newer features, but if it means a major disruption for a major part of the community, we can live w/o it

I noticed that they released it for free for netflix users and I tried it. I thought it was gonna be a buggy mess and look like the definitive edition for all other platforms, but I was surprised and I am happy that I finally have 3 fun games on my phone. Most mobile games are boring and filled with ads. Netflix also released Farming Simulator for mobile but that looked incredibly bad, at least on my 4 year old phone.

Wait, did they add the classic lighting to the console version too in a patch or something? Seems really strange if they don’t

When Mutahar Said “What are we, Some sort of SomeOrdinaryGamers?” I farted out tears of joy!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!!! AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Vice city on PS2 had steam/fog on intersections that would react to street lights, with that blurred vision when drifting, & bloom was so impressive on PS2. Day One playing D.E I noticed atmosphere was gone.

Is there any chance the classic lighting can be patched into the console version?

It's now officially confirmed that Rockstar has indeed been fucking with us.

10:05 TBF to Grove Street Games (War Drum), it was probably Take Two who cut costs by hiring/buying them to remake the games, and they literally only had a handful of staff initially, less than 10 people! They actually did an amazing job, considering - like 1 coder per city LOL. Take Two are why we don't have story DLCs for GTA and Read Dead any more, and won't pay for great music, for V (and no doubt VI) and renew the music licences for the "DE" trilogy. BC Xbox discs on the 360 is probably the closest to a true DE on consoles (SA is the only disc that works on XSX, but it DLs the mobile port, not the PS2 port that's actually on the Xbox disc - but it's possibly the best console version. You can play the disc's full PS2 port on 360, with all the music and the 2-player that's missing from the XSX's mobile port, but it looks much worse and has terrible pop-in, especially for driving - I actually prefer the disc's mobile DL port on XSX, which was a Microsoft store-removed 360/Xbox One "Anniversary Edition" mobile port, and the original Xbox SA disc is the only way to get it, but DLs it for free). FYI.

When the definitive edition of GTA 3 was released on PC, some minor errors could only be noticed by those who were lucky enough to spot them. Some players may have even encountered bugs or technical issues. As someone who played the game for the first time on the definitive edition, I can confidently say that it was completely playable and I had no issues. I moved on to play the other games in the series, and they were also playable. However, with the recent updates, even the minor issues that I didn't notice before have been completely fixed. A lot of RU-vidrs were more interested in creating drama for clicks and views rather than giving their honest opinion. I'm sure a very high percentage of people who actually played the game were quite happy with it.

All I care about is gta6 when it comes out

I know people will defend Rockstar by saying "grove street games made this, they never made a bad game!" But Rockstar should have had responsibility to watch over these. Just as much as Nintendo with Pokemon S/V

Merry Christmas, Mutahar.☺☻🎄

Merry Christmas, Muta!!

If you guys really think GTA Definitive Trilogy drstroyed your childhood, I have to ask... Why the fuck were you playing GTA during your childhood?

***HOT TAKE*** GTA is a scam.

I think video games deluxe was already working on san andreas vr based on the definitive editions which means they might have already fixed a lot of stuff for that and rockstar/netflix asked them to do the same for the pther two games. It givese hope what if they suddenly come out and say you not only get sam andreas vr but liberty city and vice city as well coming to vr soon..that would be mind blowing

2:15 If I'm not mistaken, only San Andreas has an actual checkpoint system, while 3 and VC only restart the mission from the beginning. And yeah. SA had different weather effects depending on what area of the map you were in, which doesn't stop at the main three cities, but in mobile DE every area of the game uses the los santos lighting

I actually pre-ordered it so I could download it asap cause I was like "They are Remastering 20+ year old games and so they can't mess this up". I was wrong. I got a refund

Mutahar looks like one of the Indian scammers in the call centers 😂😂

I've recently installed the original VC and SA, the community remaster mods, to make them run properly on a modern system, and I can't say that I really ever want to touch the official remasters at all

It’s on Netflix now too…. I haven’t even tried any of the Netflix games yet.. I don’t even get how they would work.

They should have included something for livery city stories and vice city stories. Oh and Chinatown wars. I've only recently found out that those games existed

listen man your videos bring some life to my life , i love you (no homo) thank you and have a nice day man.

LA Noire VR dancing in front of a mirror is amazing tho

I have a version of Vice City on Steam that's at least 9 years old that has never had any problems running since Windows 7. Should have gotten the original 3 too.

Merry christmas Muta

I also use this DEP Mod Pack, and it's the best version of the classic original trilogy with all the PS2 contents. ⭐

3:00 this was actually only a PS2 exclusive.