Thread 718870909

This is a creepy ass game. The music, the pedestrians, the setting, just about everything feels STRANGE.

Can someone put this into words?

>>718870909 (OP)
Yes. You're one of those zoomers who are afraid of everything. Nobody found GTA3 creepy back in the day outside of a few urban legends about "Darkel" and the tunnels.

simply liminal

>>718870909 (OP)

Stark, hostile, the concrete waste eating it's denizens.

Desperationkino.

>>718870909 (OP)
it has a dark and unsettling aura

>>718870909 (OP)
el señor de la noche

>>718870909 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y227D1u0o8

it has that RENDERWARE feel. multiple games had it at the time. a sandbox that wasn't quite right.

>>718870909 (OP)
yes it's called surreal

>>718870909 (OP)
Zoomer brain damage

>>718871846
There he is

>>718870909 (OP)
Zoomer Retardation

>>718872049
>>718872164
>appreciating dark and gritty atmosphere is le... le zoomer
why are boomers like this. shouldnt you be mowing your lawn

>>718870909 (OP)
zoombot zoombrain zoombie zoom zoom zizzlezoom zazzaboom skibidizoom zoom yes yes rizzoom

>>718870909 (OP)
Zoomers are scared of old games now?

>>718872457
zaddam zussein zonald zoom zoomercore zamboozzled zoomladen zadolfoom zotller zelon zoomsk

>>718870909 (OP)
Did some faggot make a video about this or something?

>>718870909 (OP)
LOL

YOU FAGGOTS

HAVE NEVER BEEN TO NEW YORK?

OR HONG KONG?

>>718872883
Those are both shitholes so no.

>>718870909 (OP)
the game almost feels like the langoliers, it's just not enough to feel truly immersive and not empty. vice city vastly improved on this.

>>718870909 (OP)
ancient ahh game

>>718872092
Our hero.

>>718872527
>now
Always have been, hence the huge demand for remakes.

Let me guess, you need more?

>>718874431
A fridge.

MY MOTHERS MY SISTER

>>718870909 (OP)
its....le uncanny valley!?!?!?!?!?!?!

>>718874431
why don't more people just live in storage units, are they stupid?

>>718874674
Why don't you?

>>718870909 (OP)
it's dogshitgame weirdly loved by slavs

>>718874674
Hae you seen the rent on those things!?

>>718872349
Zoomers when they see an empty mowed lawn. No cap liminal I am going to piss myself in fear.

>>718870909 (OP)
it's soul

it repels zoomers

>>718874431
Is that a combination washer dryer? Luxury, hubris, madness!

>>718877091
I bet that TV even has colour, truly a decadent lifestyle.

>>718870909 (OP)
Zoomer nonsense aside, does this game need any unnoficial patches or something to be playable these days? No definitive edition. I played SA and VC but never this one and I was thinking about pirating it.

You should try some Spectrum or C64 games if you want to experience real horror. Many games sucked even back then.

>>718870909 (OP)
Yeah, I know the feeling.
I get it from super mario 64.
Every time I tried discussing it here I get a boiler plate zoomer vroomer peepeepoomer thrown at me.

>>718877321
Bunch of It including model fixes. Even re3 is outdated.

>>718877321
There a bunch of compilation mods for the pc version that restore the missing ps2 content. Or just emu the ps2 version and throw a widescreen patch at it.

>>718870909 (OP)
>creepy
Good god you're such a pussy. What the hell is wrong with zoomers?

>>718877607
>>718877728
Thanks, I knew there would be something.

>>718877321
>>718877607
>>718878715
Anyway, grab this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jKyuIPwqZqgl3yXyTrcJfL3heiqREH16/view?usp=drive_link, unpack and play. It's an original PC Grand Theft Auto III with fixes:
- Widescreen Fix
- DXVK for better performance
- Silent Patch
- vbdec + PS2 Radio and Missions Audio quality
- model fixes
- PS2 vehicles models
- PS2 VFX (via ParticleEX and SkyGFX)
- Improved Draw Distance (lod lights, but It configured to affect only building and etc, no light, since IMO It messes up with game atmosphere too much, you can also delete "IIILodLights.*" files from "scripts" entirely If you don't want it at all)
-Various 60 FPS fixes
-Free cam (Control + B) and Debug Menu (Control + M) like in re3.

>>718874674
the storage jannies lock you in there if they catch you

>>718878934
And since changed draw distance doesn't affects distant fog settings, It looks like vanilla game, just some far details are improved.

>>718878934
>pc HUD
I sleep

>>718872349
>appreciating dark and gritty atmosphere
Being afraid of every videogame that isn't full of clutter or doesn't have mo-cap'd character animations isn't the same as "appreciating atmosphere", idiot. This is legitimately just zoomer brainrot.

>>718879575
Just drop hud.txd from something like this https://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=3645 to modloader folder, or this https://gtaforums.com/topic/997766-iiivcsade-hud-icons/ if you like HD textures. Here's radar the https://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=5860

>>718879045
You talk about them like they're some cryptid in the backrooms.

>>718870909 (OP)
Being in a place not comprised of mud huts and periodic lion attacks is scary, yes.

>>718878934
>PS2 Radio and Missions Audio quality
>PS2 audio quality
Why the hell would you want that? is it somehow better than the PC version? or do people like it sounding like shit?

>>718878934
Does this actually add in the tonemapping the ps2 version has? The ps2 version is noticeably more blue and i've yet to see any p[roof skygfx actually restores this.

Well I fucked up.

>>718880081
PC Audio Is compressed af, especially mission dialogues, radio Is less noticeable. Also PS2 radio has few more songs In it.
>>718880134
It should, there was comparison somewhere there https://gtaforums.com/topic/750681-skygfx-ps2-xbox-and-mobile-graphics-for-pc/ but I can't find It.

>>718878934
Also it seems like you're giving people shit advice if this doesn't emulate the superior looking Xbox version. Why would you want to replicate the PS2 version?

>>718880356
>if a car gets turned upside down it just catches on fire and blows up
soul

>>718870909 (OP)
>Stayin’ up forever, with Riseee!

Be sure to check out my 6 hour video essay: The Existential Loneliness of GTA III

>>718880356
Is this re3
>>718880405
>superior looking Xbox version
It Isn't superior and It changes atmosphere, also It has no gore with Its new ped models.
>>718880356
Nice re3, I remember sharing It for the first time. Too bad t2 killed the development.

>>718880641
It is a heavily modified version of Re3 I yoinked off here ages ago.

>>718880743
Yeah, It looks like I shared It then. Not so heavily though, just few tweaks and changed models + audio afair.

>>718870909 (OP)
You're a zoomer who thinks everything should be ironic or subversive so when you see how life used to be you're afraid of your own future

>>718874674
They can't be locked from the inside

>>718871846
based MSX poster.

>>718880558
drop a link m8te.

>>718880641
Better cube map car reflections, Fully modelled fingers, 3D wheels, Better Environment meshes, better textures, improved lighting, 3D car underbodies, 3D wheels. This is why I can't stand some PS2 nostalgia tards. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about and you think downgrading the game is a good thing if it fits with your nostalgia.

>>718870909 (OP)
No cap. It's so heckin liminal, it makes my broccoli hair stand on end.

>>718870909 (OP)
It feels like you're playing a grotesque version of the simulation you yourself are trapped inside of.
A Plato's cave videogame, if you will.
>>718871024
He's perceptive. You're the blind man laughing at someone that can see.

>>718881383
>keeping the vanilla look and improving everything else is le downgrade
You don't know what downgrading Is, retard.

>>718881583
It's not even a vanilla look because Rockstar just had to settle on it looking like shit on PS2. The Xbox version is objectively superior in most regards.

>>718881704
>Widely released PS2 and PC versions are not vanilla
>While "outsourced" to R* Vienna Xbox port Is how It was Intended from the beginning
You're embarrassing yourself

Post glitches/stunts or something.

>>718882171
How'd you do that? That's funny as shit

I remember driving through Staunton island during rainy weather listening to some custom track like early Moby music and Leftfield and it was top sovl overdose

>>718870909 (OP)
Sure sure, Vice City and San Andreas, I know. But this one was always my fav back then. The "primitive-ness" it had while being the first one to go 3d, and the atmosphere, it just hit different.

>>718882375
IDK why I suddenly went flying into the air, could have something to do with the 60fps code I had running. But this video explains how to drive the RC Bandit. It's kind of a pain in the ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-VEa9PX2Q

A lot of old games probably seem creepy to zoomers. Their imagination isn't as good (bombarded with constant stimulation), so the technical limitations are jarring to them.

>>718870909 (OP)
Liminal kino

>>718883407
Seems like a high framerate quirk.

>>718874674
lots of homeless people live in storage units

>>718884424
They get rousted a lot, though.

>>718878934
This safe?

>>718870909 (OP)
Unique game, unique atmosphere. I love it.

Kino

This and manhunt have a cool atmosphere. I wouldn't call it creepy, but it's just very unique. Wish more games could capture that feel.

>>718886174
GTA III, Manhunt, Max Payne, Silent Hill 2, Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines etc.

>>718886086
And not a single purple jacket was seen after that fateful day.

>>718872457
There's a middle age man in his late 30's saying this.

>>718886374
Max Payne as well. I love the cold, grey look of those games.

>>718886496
>middle age
>30's

>>718888420
A 30 year old has been a boomer for 29.5 years.

>>718887338
Agreed

I am an 03 zoomer and I sense exactly 0% eeriness from this game. Unironically grow a pair

>>718880081
many, many, many ports from the era (95-2006 or so) had very lossy compressed audio, so that's why so many pc ports have mods to port the console audio

>>718888420
yes, middle age. most people don't live to 100, You'll probably die by your mid 70s

is there a updated 60 FPS thing ?

>>718888792
With advances in medicine I think we’ll see people living much longer than that. 30 is only middle aged in countries where people die in the 60’s.

>>718888792
>>718890829
>t. doesn't understand how life expectancy works

>>718889956
I was emulating the PS2 version with a pnach file that makes it run at 60fps, I'm sure on PC you can make it run at 300+fps but the game/physics shits itself at fps higher than intended.

>>718888761
spooky shit

>>718891486
is there a way to make the game run in DX 11? then smooth motion interpolation might help a bit

>>718886086
>this random webm I made is still getting posted
Warms my heart

>>718891941
good job my man, good job

>>718892127
>>718892263
>>718892323
>>718892383

git gut: the game.

>>718871024
FPBP

>>718870909 (OP)
Fixed for you zoom zooom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfysqdgxS2Y&ab_channel=GameInYourLanguage

>>718893058
lmao what third world country is responsible for this?

This and mercenaries I used to play the hell out of

>>718893352
Take a guess :-)

>>718893058
Damn Sonic got transported to GTA?
>>718893948
No kidding? I would expect someone autistic but after hearing them deadpan I figured as much.

anyone know best way to increase LOD distances for vehicles? trying the gta3 pack anon posted above but seeing cars switching to cardboard boxes as I drive is distracting

google gives me pages of posts from like 2008 about editing ide files and shit, and majority are about map LOD instead of vehicles, there any easier way now?

>>718882036
I'm embarrassing myself because you like a worse looking version of the game when it fits into your nostalgia? fuck off retard. Just don't present it as the definitive version. Stop using your ps2 memberberries to defend being wrong. This is actually the case of you using the crutch of nostalgia blindness and making us look stupid when you criticise games like the definitive edition.

I played the PC version of this recently a couple of weeks ago.
Used a mod to give it PS2 controls on joypad (but switched to keyboard/mouse for shooty bits on foot).
I haven't played it for over 20 years, forgotten how funly it is. Or how hard some of the missions are. The one where you have to 'guard' the securitruck from colombian gangsters is a cunt.

>>718872349
Boomers are like 70+
Why do you dip shit zoomies think everyone is a "boomer"?

>>718896780
Probably the same reason anyone with a remotely left-of-centre view gets called a troon on 4chan. It's funny and gets a reaction.

>dude isn't this non-horror game...le scary?
this is gaylord behavior

>>718870909 (OP)
https://youtu.be/IaPyplYrnPQ

>>718898970
That is a sovlful pepe.

the atmosphere in the ps2 gta games was great.

>>718899196
A small comparision

>Can someone put this into words?
It has a grunge aesthetic. Everything is dark, it's dirty. Every character is sinister. It's a stark contrast to the playdoh aesthetic that's popular currently.

>>718900358
I think 'urban decay' is really the descriptor here. It's fallen out of favor, but it was one of *the* buzzwords of the turn of the century.

All these years later I'm still laffin'

>>718900484
>'urban decay'
That's a good term for it, in the 90's it was called grunge thoughbeit. Nirvana has that aesthetic, weezer does it. VTMB does it. It's like the 90's aesthetic but if you were from a rough neighborhood and couldn't afford anything brand new. Driving around clunkers from the 70's and 80s, hand-me-down jeans, you and your buddies getting together in your plaids and home haircuts behind the 7'11 to pose for an album cover beside the graffiti. I remember for a while after that look became popular people would buy already worn out jeans, completely missing the point. Brand new 200 dollar jeans that look like they've been worn for 20 years lmao.
t. boomer

>>718870909 (OP)
>Can someone put this into words?
Liminal.
It's liminal.

>>718901141
No games look like this anymore. Cry of Fear, Manhunt, Condemned Criminal Origins,Swat 4 Kingpin Life of Crime and The Warriors all had it aside from just VTMB. Well aside from one of David szymansk's indie games called Butcher's Creek and the remake of the Half Life2 mod grey called Remorse the List. But you can find maps like it on Garrys Mod and probably no shortage of them. Probably harder to replicate again outside older game engines without resorting to using older lighting techniques of those very engines.

>>718903587
>Half Life2
That's peak urban decay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IVhYjuj-L0
>>718903587
>harder to replicate
It's of it's time. I think if you tried to emulate it you'd just end up being phony because part of the aesthetic is the authenticity behind it. If you were to make an urban decay game now, unless you were from brazil or mexico it's going to come across as hollow as pic related.

>>718898970
I straight-up admit I wasn't old enough to appreciate the GTA3 soundtrack when it came out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbsmbd-0tE

Dunno but it feels a bit empty and the environment is repetitive

>>718903901
I actually miss when they used to make songs exclusively for GTA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPACVl2x9k

>>718870909 (OP)
I'M REAL SCARED, GRINGO

>>718870909 (OP)
silent protagonist projection

>>718874573
Now this is what OP meant, there is something unusual about this kind of atmosphere combined with the primitive polygonal nature of every seemingly living thing. And yes I played this as a kid on release.

>>718905213
...

>>718870909 (OP)
People ITT like to sperg about ""zoomers"" but you'll see people leaving comments 10+ years ago saying the game had a "weird" and "gray" feeling about it on old videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nuz_w3xLKM

>>718905687
if kubrick was alive, he would use this exact track and this exact motif to make a really weird movie

The cars instantly exploding isn't fun

>>718870909 (OP)
>>718881565
I get this same sort of feeling. I got it strongest with bully. They're "open world" but the play area is so small, and the world feels especially dead and fake.