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I paid for the original masterpieces, San Andreas is still the best GTA, V is good but SA is still king. I was playing GTA SA when I found out about this and the visual improvement made me go for it. Also more reason I can properly review the game, I was just playing the original, I had it fresh to compare.
Now to my review.
First of all, this is not worth the insane price they are charging, even if it's a 3 game bundle, they already sold those games, pay the price of a mainstream release for the recycling that took them a week and a couple programmers to put together is a huge stretch. This is bulsh at it's best
Still I bought it and wont get refund, like I said SA is the best GTA and the ever so lazy graphic improvements kinda help. They did improve the visuals, no doubt, but they kept the old models, it's like they improved from a PS2 game to PS3/Xbox standard, and it really feel like they just changed the engine and had no work at all, like the engine did most of the improvements. The characters have fingers but only visually as their hand still moves like a block... Anyways...
They did add a few "features" but mostly in a very lazy and sloppy way. They added the weapon/radio wheel, which is helpful no doubt, unfortunately since I was playing the original I'm already accustomed to scrolling, but that was undoubtedly the best thing they added in DE.
The supposedly "modern aim" isn't what I expected, you still cant shoot forward from cars and the aiming is very bad on vehicles. Also they managed to make the camera control surprisingly worse, even at max sensibility the y axis is stuck af while driving, there is no camera control AT ALL while flying, you can't even fly with the mouse it seems, what is the point of having a much better looking city (most due to the increased draw distance) if you cant fking look down from the air to enjoy? Like, WTF RS?
Moving on, the controls were crazy in the original game and it took me many minutes to make the game playable controlwise and the DE is no different, if the Control key is set to C immediately suspect the key mapping is BAAAAAD. I had to remap almost everything, and I'm not sure wich keys were from the original wich were from DE, but I had to fix shift for sprint, space for jump, control for freaking crouch, like, those are obvious they are always those keys, and always will be, why mess those up? What is the fetish to try to move crouch to C? I't is not happening!
Moving on, the GPS. It was done by an intern in a smoke break, the routes are pretty bad, there is no toggle off, they aften do more harm than good, they mislead, they don't help at all. I get that new players like the QoL from a GPS and it is more noob-friendly, but seriously, nope, at very least there should be an option to turn the fk off that "feature".
What's next? Oh yeah, the missing content... Where TF are the songs? like, my radio X only plays about half of the songs it used to, how bad was the contract that allowed to put those songs into the original game that cant carry over to a remastered version? It is supposedly the same game, you bought the rights for it, as long as it's not a new game they should still be valid? isn't there a single educated lawyer in RS?
The achievements are a GREAT addition to the game, sadly Steam is missing quite a few, I hope they get it fixed eventually, like they have the taxi and ambulance, but not the cop one, feels pretty sloppy and random, not sure if that's on RS or Steam... and this brings us to the very worse issue here, cause the missing achievements are there.
Rock Star Social Motherf.ing Club. Why the hell do I need to log in to play? It is a single player game, all tree of them. If my internet is off will I be able to play? I should, but quite sure that sh.tty piece of software requirement will make sure I won't. I havent had this issue as of yet, but if I do, I'll be extremely pissed. Those are OFFLINE GAMES. FK Social Club.
There is one major thing they did right, even if out of laziness. They kept every mechanic, from exploitable stuff to annoying ones, including suicidal pedestrians AI, the weapons/collectibles locations, everything is the same and we love it that way. Even if that's probably because this is the work of 2 or 3 interns that they manage to capitalize with the minimum workload possible.
A single experienced Senior Dev could've done those in a weekend, so, charging that much is obscene.
Summarizing , get the old one, it is probably much more affordable and well worth every cent, get some graphic mods for free and you will enjoy it more.
This money-grabbing package? Don't do it to yourself, that's what it is, a sc.mbag move from RS, if they don't at least provide some updates giving back the removed songs, options to toggle the new "features" off, fixing the camera controls while driving and most importantly flying....
Anyways, not worth it, I'm just crazy for those games, don't be like me
edit: How could I've forgotten, the main reason for buying this, the screen mapping, like you can feel every square trying to aim in the classic game, this one has a pretty solid mapping, the aim is fluid as it should in any modern game.
Still not worth the obnoxious price, but... A huge positive point of DE in comparison to OG
Other new thing I just remembered, they added stuff to the garages, it is kinda good for immersion but they have hitboxes, so , some 2-car garages can't fit 2 cars due to random trash bins and stuff there... Nothing that makes much of a difference anyways, we have plenty of garage space still
Aaand another one, the completely mulled the dancing minigame, fk rithim, fk song, fk "challenge" it is just smashing keys annoyingly desynced with the song/dancing that's happening in the back...
Pedallyng got easier but you can't not pedal as if you're life is on the line, the first mission got really sucky due to this, had to wait for the normal peddlers... You can't chill pedal bikes anymore.
Another big issue they could've fixed but didn't add a damn key to lay down on bikes, having to tap "lean forward" to keep it in between is such a pain...