Is it just me or is GTAIII actually the best looking of the PS2 trilogy...

Is it just me or is GTAIII actually the best looking of the PS2 trilogy? When I play VC and SA (with similar widescreen mods etc) I notice they dont look as good because the lighting seems more simplistic and doesnt really cover up the weaker textures. III's visual style definitely looks the freshest of the 3 to this day

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>GTAIII actually the best looking of the PS2 trilogy
>upscaled PC version

Fuck off

I might be misremembering, but I'm sure I saw something about how the original versions of SA and maybe VC were swapped out for a port of the mobile versions, which had some features stripped out. Maybe that's what it is? Obviously not if you're not playing a legit copy.

I played the trilogy backwards from SA, still amazed I got so much mileage out of III. Great game.

Fuck, meant for

For what it's worth my brother always preferred the gameplay from 3.

??? I said even when compared to SA and VC with the same mods. III looks better than upscaled SA and VC

Went back to 3 and 100%ed in January.
Definitely not as difficult as zooms zooms make it out to be and there was a surprising amount of things I never learned like dodo flying and megajumping that turned out to be great fun.

I'M HOT TONIGHT

The "weaker textures" are covered up by CRT fuzz and low resolution. Playing old games in HD looks like fucking garbage. I don't know why anyone would do that. Talk about soulless.

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of course it does, GTAIII and vice city had same textures in both ps2 and pc versions, but San Andreas had its own hd textures for pc version

I miss this "spacey" aesthetic that so many games and songs had in the early 2000s

The early 2000s mog the 80s and 90s.

I think Vice City has simpler graphics because 3 ran a lot worse on my PC at the time.

Yup. I wish there was a specific term for this trend, because it's there, no matter the genre.

Always thought that too, maybe it's less contrasting colors I dunno

They toned down the soul in exchange for scale like they did with GTAIV vs GTAV.
First GTA of the gen = most soul but small scale
Last GTA of the gen = least soul but large scale

I disagree but I can absolutely see why you'd say that, I don't think it's the 'best looking' but it's definitely got some differences to the other two that make it look good for its own reasons. The best word I can think of is just 'aesthetic' but it's a buzzword, so.

Nothing looks better than the beachfront hotels lit up with neon light at night in Vice City.

>First GTA of the gen = most soul but small scale
>Last GTA of the gen = least soul but large scale
But GTA VCS drowns the player in soul.

>made for psp
>soul
cringe

wasnt expecting this to go so hard

>she doesn't know it got ported to PS2

Ive found myself playing VC on my PS4 occasionally throughout the last few years. The shit people complain about with the remote controlled helicopter or some boat races is exaggerated. I don’t think the shooting mechanics necessarily aged poorly but instead may be a design of the time. The one mission where you pull up on a mansion from a boat is a true pain in the ass from then to today. It’s best to crouch and try to pick off people in first person in that situation. If you didn’t know better it’s one of those missions that might get a fucker to ragequit.

this music's as gray as the weather in that video. probably why i never liked this stuff back then

>putting a mobile game on ps2 gives it soul
double cringe

yeah, that's a ps2 port of a game made for psp
it's different from a game designed for ps2

Xbox version looks best

>double cringe
Sorry you missed out on the best game set in Vice City and one of the best games in the series by being gay user.

>you missed out on the best game set in Vice City
That would be VC. Mobilefags and their shit taste doesn't change that.

>That would be VC
Not with gameplay that terrible. Plus we actually make an empire instead of just buying business across town and calling it a day.

>we waste time with pointless management mechanics instead of actual gameplay
Sounds pretty gay bro

is this the same user posting it every time? I have to listen to it each time fuck

I'm doing my every couple of years playthrough of San Andreas, fun as always.

>tfw getting all golds in both the driving and flying school in less than 30 minutes.

>Sounds pretty gay bro
Nah, it's the gang wars mechanic mixed with drug dealing from Chinatown Wars, another peak in the series. It's the shit and keeps the game alive. Meanwhile, VC has jackshit to keep it going, after all, is said and done. Literally obsolete after VCS.

Comfy

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3, vc, and sa, all look great. i lost my screens of 3, gotta reinstall that and play it again.

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Nostalgia for the early-to-mid 00s time

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>GTA 3
>difficult
People really thought this? The only thing that was difficult for me as a 7 year old was the Bomb Da Base mission. I had sex with so many hookers just to beat that fucking part.

That mission where you have to toss grenades into an apartment window was tedious thanks to the lack of aim. Then there's the mission where you drive the snitch to the airport while getting raped by the FBI and their M16s.

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Why do fags say GTA IV's radio suck again?

theyre music plebs, i remember playing it back in 2008 and loving radio broker and electro choc, and the occassional LCHC, hell it even had the second best classic rock station behind San Andreas

only thing wrong with em is they're kinda short. electrochoc and the parody talk stations were good, otherwise i used independence fm 98% of the time.
>music will set you free, especially if you can get it without paying for it. that's america: take what you want and ride an suv into the sunset!

i loved the independence fm stuff

they just knew everyone would pirate

They were too short, especially the talk shows. I think Lazlow peaked on Integrity 2.0. Loved it.

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best shit rite here

Nice, was listening to Omni Trio already. Haunted Science.

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Because it's only good if you're a semen-chugging homo who likes dance music

Radio Broker and Vladivostok were ok but it was mostly 00s trash music

Vice City always looked really strange to me with the unusually dark textures on the buildings

now I see why mike pondsmith called gta 3 cyberpunk without the tech

>Because it's only good if you're a semen-chugging homo who likes dance music
In that case, VC and SA are the most homosexual games on account of the music.

VC and SA have good rock radios on top of the dance shit, SA has country and even good rap music from the 90s
4 has fuck all

certainly looks more cyberpunk than trannypunk 2077

seethe, goty 2020

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>4 has fuck all
Rock, Metal, euro-dance, Russian, Indie, RnB/Hip Hop, old school hip hop, underground, ambient/chill, jazz fusion, GTA IV's radios were the tits. Meanwhile, SA and VC are just the regular hits you can pull off any compilation album.

gta3's atmosphere is literally 2 without the futurism