It was talked about in a separate article already. 

 I do happen to generate a lot of friction, now that you say it out loud.

There’s a lot of to-do about the rain, but why is no one talking about how dark the game is? I booted up San Andreas from the trilogy, and the lighting was absolutely terrible. The sky was way brighter than the environment; in the opening cutscene I couldn’t even make out any of the characters. The environment is…

You can (could) play the original PS2 version emulated on PS4/PS5, on a modern TV, at 1080p. The rain looked fine there. This is just shoddiness.

Don’t be too hard on the US team, most of the rest of the world did exactly the same. It was one giant exercise in finding new excuses to continue business as usual while making out they were delivering our salvation.

I have no hope for the future but I do hope that one day we collectively call out Democrats and American politics on their bullshit. Like can we at least stop lying to ourselves

Im over 20 i have no idea what this shit means

The first rule of any remake is to include a Classic mode toggle. Doublefine understands that. 343 understands that. Even Skunkape added the original games to their Sam and Max remaster.  If the ‘improvements’ to the game are causing them to glitch out, at least give the player the option to go back to the original…

Fall damage coded as absolute value of distance fallen (rather than scaled to size) and then as percentage of health lol. I’m kind of surprised the bosses are even coded to take fall damage unless they fall off the map TBQH. 

Yeah I was pretty disappointed when I realized during my first playthrough (I avoided everything online) that Los Santos was the only metropolitan area in GTA V. It is indeed a cool map - a massive map - but huuuuuuuge chunks of it are just desert.

That shot of the lake being hit by no rain, in spite of being surrounded by rain, was enough to kill my interest in this. I don’t give a shit about lack of fog, but this is just beyond lazy.

Don’t you love that it doesn’t work over water materials? So there are huge cutouts where you can actually still see around water areas.

Even if it weren’t so obtrusive, that is just such a cheap prepackaged screen space effect. Real Unity Asset Store vibes.

Exactly. What gave each city its distinct feel (mostly because of color and atmospheric effects) is completely missing. I still remember the first time I took a plane I wasn’t allowed to yet in LS early in my original playthrough and flew it up out of the city. It genuinely felt I was getting higher and higher with…

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

Well put.  The best part is, if they eventually make a Type R version of the new Integra, we’ll all get to be performatively outraged all over again when they reveal it!

“But what inspired possessed you...”

I love that all the examples are purple. I know overall the car is a bit trash but I always thought the convertible ones looked the best. something about actually removing the top makes them seem better proportioned.

Article of the year. 

Fun article. But what inspired you to search for purple PT Losers?