This! While the limitations weren't welcome they designed the have around them. So many decisions had these limitations on mind. The original game might have been much better without them, but removing them from the completed game isn't the same as designing the game from the ground up without these limitations

This reminds me way too much of the debate over “remastering” SNES soundtracks after the original sound sources were found.

The thing is, San Andreas is made up of Los Santos (LA), San Fierro (San Francisco) and Las Venturas (Vegas) plus loads of outlying areas: the remote desert airport you eventually buy, the Back o’ Beyond rural area where you go into hiding early in the story, and a small community North of San Fierro. Plus, there’s…

yeah and the color grading they’ve done with this is so much flatter than it was back then, despite the character models being cartoony. just a series of baffling decisions.

the point they are trying to make is they look WORSE now. Doesn’t matter if the originals looks “crap” or not in your opinion

I saved myself a whole lot of rage then. I got the originals on Steam. I don’t need no definitive bullshit edition.

I believe the general notion is that this is a port of the 360 version that is, essentially, bifurcated and duct taped to Unreal Engine. Which would explain the glitches that appear from that version but not previous versions and some of the general graphics wonkiness and odd implementations of “improvements”.

Corporative wokeness is not the snake that bites it’s own tail. It GORGES on it. As long we keep asking that from consumer products, we will keep getting that kind of insult and demeanor. Let products be products, we need our action in a lot of other places of our society.

Google “youtube vanced” that app is amazing, same regular Youtube app but zero ads, and it even has an option that marks sections of videos where they are promoting Surfshark or whatever else is sponsoring the video, and there’s a little button that shows on screen that will allow you to jump to the end of the…

and now he’s dead, and you’re full of petty spite. clearly the man was quite emotionally tortured. he founded the website—even your absolutism can’t deny him credit for doing so.

Get Youtube Vanced, don’t have to worry about ads on mobile and it’s generally just better than the youtube app.

Ads are terrible on mobile.

im sure it was entirely to protect people and not at all influenced by large corporations getting indignant over people disliking their videos.

They’ve also added extra commercials. It just gets better and better.

Given the absolutely spectacular work done by the modding community these remasters aren’t really worth it. 

I’ve been thinking about this since the ports were announced, and I’ve been dreading the possibility that it’s gonna be like this all over again. Definitely not pre-ordering, definitely not day-one purchasing, definitely waiting for videos and reviews. I still own the originals, so if they can’t improve on those…

There were supposedly some minor quality of life improvements, but overall it just looks like a high-res texture mod. The polygons are still out of 2004. I dislike that these even qualify as a “remaster”. In my opinion a remaster should be a term used for a true remake, not just texture upgrades. Skyrim has done the…

Anyone who thinks blowing that post up all over twitter was an act of kindness to Anna Faris is a fucking moron.

I’m a game design teacher and one of the assignments I do is making a magazine ad for whatever game they’re creating. This is one of the examples I show them. I love it’s simplicity, yet it does such a great job of drawing your attention while capturing the dread of the game. 

This just in: Tim Sweeney now more hated than Bobby Kotick in the gaming industry.