Paul David Nuñez November 15th, 2024 - 12:04 PM
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, a remastered collection of Rockstar’s first three GTA games, GTA III, GTA: Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas, released back in 2021. However, it wasn’t the launch many were looking for with many criticizing the game for various graphical issues, bugs, and progression crashes. Eventually, the game came to mobile in a much better state with many praising the port for fixing the issues that were found in the original launch. Now, Rockstar has released a new update for the PC and console versions of the game adding the visual features that were exclusive to the mobile version.
The #GTA Definitive Editions just got an update which added the classic lighting option.
Not gonna lie, it actually looks nice on a screen bigger than a phone.
I’ll test now to see if the same problems still exist with it though like they did on mobile a year ago… pic.twitter.com/Qv5J68hYos
— TJGM (@TJGM_) November 12, 2024
The big thing that came with the update is a classic lighting mode option which was added to the mobile versions was they were released last year. However, it isn’t the only thing that players have noticed that Rockstar doesn’t mention in the patch notes. One user on X/Twitter says that they’ve discovered things like new fire, rain, fog, and glass-breaking effects, new and fixed animations, extra bloom and lighting effects, and more.
GTA SA Defintive Edition after the New Patch
Left old Right New pic.twitter.com/kxBij35K4z— Besk (@BeskInfinity) November 12, 2024
I can’t believe I’m saying this but with the new Classic Lightning and the GTA Trilogy DE Patch
I’m on Vice City and it looks absolutely gorgeous. pic.twitter.com/EjI4YRqE07
— Besk (@BeskInfinity) November 12, 2024
Players can also now run while aiming certain weapons, pause cutscenes, see date/time information on game saves, view their correct position on the world map, and more.
GTA DE New Patch has FINALLY fixed the aiming running animations across all guns in GTA 3 and VC DE which used to be extremely broken. This is by far the best fix for me.
Left Old Right New pic.twitter.com/PnG6LJX7m8
— Besk (@BeskInfinity) November 12, 2024
These weren’t the only things players noticed. Grove Street Games was the main developer behind The Definitive Edition. You would see their name along with Rockstar as the game launches on a splash screen. Now, with the update, their name has been removed.
Looks like mentions of Grove Street Games and their logos have been removed from the splash screen and main menu of the #GTA Definitive Editions as well. pic.twitter.com/ZmXpccyiyS
— TJGM (@TJGM_) November 12, 2024
Many were quick to point out that they haven’t been removed entirely from the game, just the splash screen. Both Grove Street Games and Video Games Deluxe who worked on the mobile port are in the final credits.
PSA: Rumours being circulated by the community and even some news websites about Grove Street Games (GSG) having been removed from the #GTATrilogy entirely are unfounded.
Both GSG and Video Games Deluxe are in the final credits, only the initial splash screen was removed. pic.twitter.com/MUkvgi2uZX— GTANet (@GTANet) November 14, 2024
Regardless of this, Grove Street Games Studio Head Thomas Williamson didn’t take kindly to the new update even though many have noted that Grove Street Games is still in the credits.
Speaking entire hypothetically: It’s a dick move to remove primary developers from credits in an update, especially when an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed out of players’ hands for years.
— Thomas Williamson (@TSWilliamson) November 14, 2024
