Best VC Remaster Ever? - GTA Vice City Reviced

[@ornix5761]

Im surprise so many people liked the final result, i just started modifying and creating stuff for the game to my liking during over a year made a remaster never was the idea haha but im glad a lot of people take it like that :)

[@Ziscor_]

Are you the creator of the mod? Thank you so much for your work! I was just looking for a mod like this, and this is perfect for someone in 2024 revisiting their favourite game. Is there an official release that I can download from?

[@Skiman__]

Like Ben said, if this was the official definitive edition it’d be perfect. It’s kept the game as we all remember, but improved in all the right places. Downloading this mod as I write this comment, can’t wait to play it. Thanks for the mod!

[@alex-h3x1b]

Do you have any tips or tutorials I could follow to modify stuff? I've always wanted to modify this game, as well as 3 and SA to have all the PS2 features, while also keeping the PC improvements (if any). For example, I've seen mods for SA that make it like the PS2 version with adding all the console vehicle spawn locations, fix the signs around Woozie's casino etc. but those also remove the stuff that was added to the PC port (boxes around Grove Street, cranes and pipes in SF etc.), as well as add other improvements that weren't in either version or were cut. I'd just like to have the stuff that was removed or broken from the PS2 version to be added to PC without any other modifications. I know it's super random but I've asked around in many places including GTA Forums and nobody was able to help me with what I was looking for so I'm just kinda asking wherever I can haha

[@EnderGrad]

I think that's why your mod is so effective. It's not because you wanted to make a remaster, you just wanted to change things that catered to you, that's all.

[@ornix5761]

​​​@@Ziscor_The lastest version of Reviced is always on the KZbin vid uploaded in my channel, if you see it in another place is not mine!

[@DeanH92]

I just met Jenna Jameson last weekend at a con, and she has very fond memories of working on Vice City. The only other actor she saw while recording was Ray Liotta, who she really admired. She had just voiced Daisy in Tony Hawk 4, and when she got the call for Vice City, she was in as soon as she heard Ray was involved. All her lines were recorded in New York, and the game was rushed out as we all know. Got her to sign my PS2 booklet and an 8x10 of Candy Suxxx.

[@acezavala3816]

Awesome. Glad to hear she had a good time. Most of the cast did, most lol we all know who didnt have a good time. Gary Busey and Danny Trejo look like they had a blast in the BTS voice over recording.

[@Kwikii1]

​@@acezavala3816I'm totally out of the loop: who from the cast didn't have a good time while recording voices for Vice City?

[@viridian6812]

@@Kwikii1 as far as i know, ray liotta and burt reynolds

[@1thevm1]

Didn't Ray only get upset because they didn't tell him that it's going to be for a multimillion project so he felt scammed? Lol

[@acezavala3816]

@@1thevm1 I think so, Ray wasn't hip to video games so most likely. Yeh rockstar iffy on the pay. Young Maylay should have been floated a cool million for his iconic voice work. I think he only got 20k, I'm not sure tho.

[@BladeOpotato]

Can confirm, this is one of the best. Closest thing to RE:VC without being reversed engineered, and better.

[@Hamza20078]

Do you how to fix transparent or invisible buildings?

[@himalayo]

this is like what Vice city feels and looks like from your childhood memories. Amazing.

[@thedrbat9572]

I love that they used the Cutscene tommy model for this remaster and fixed the annoying collar issue, there are other mods that let you use the cutscene model but they are all bugged with this annoying thing where everytime tommy starts running, his neck clips into his shirt collar. They somehow fixed it in this one.

[@nitrosodium]

This mod project must've been done by someone who truly knows Vice City in its core. Props to the author for keeping it alive

[@jorjicostava6657]

Friendship with Extended Features ended, now Reviced is my best friend

[@YOSEMITE_Sami]

Fun fact : the map in the original GTA vice city is zoomed just to make you believe that it's big

[@golarac6433]

Maybe, but more likely explanation is that the original game runs at 640x480 resolution so you can't just show the whole map without it losing all the detail

[@LivingWithGames]

Well, now we know this is the definitive way to play Vice City, hands down, bar freaking none. I found the guide on Steam as well, good stuff, man.

[@andrybak]

Looks really good. Minor nitpick: 07:45 I don't remember how the cutscenes look originally, but I don't think Ken Rosenberg's head should be out of the frame so much.

[@Puxi]

The cutscenes are really that broken. Check some walkthroughs of the ps2 original. The borders are covering too much and some times tommys face animations are also broken.

[@andrybak]

@@Puxi oh, ok. Then we can say that it is faithful to the original :-)

[@AdamMGTF]

@09:40 the sentinel e30 thing is brilliant. Im a car nerd. The sentinel is basically based on the bmw 3 series. The sentinal classic in gta online and the 3 series of the 80s has the chassis code of E30. Tiny detail... Awesome little touch.

[@WhoIsTheremovie]

It's funny Sentinel E30 actually looks more like E28

[@laienmalowa4371]

I think when I saw the swimming and wanted level changes, it just felt like game design that was lost to the past. Where, if Rockstar were to come out with a trilogy remaster in 2006 on the PS3/Xbox 360 and didn't half-ass it, it would've looked really good. This is phenomenal and seemingly very simple for an upscale, an upscale I would've wanted as a kid growing up with the PS2 version.

[@Verchiel_]

I've no idea how feasible it would be but tightened vice merged on top of Reviced would be an absolute dream.

[@michaeltaylor815]

I like how the pick-ups are fixed in this version, I remember in the very fist version they werent that obvious (changed into GTA4 style?) and the constant crashes, can't wait to try this out

[@loredanatafuro7826]

9:52 thats an mk2 3 series bmw (e30). Calling it sentinel e30 is very cool bc sentinels in other gtas are supposed to be bmws. Its also time period correct. Nice addition.

[@HeatmanMKIII]

The first thing I do when playing VC is to get the extra health. in this mod you get +50 for the pizza boy missions and +50 for the paramedic one.

[@djn-zone3204]

6:48 Ben I be saying the EXACT same thing!!! Modders can make the game better than the actual developers. Rockstar might as well hire modders.

[@AdamMGTF]

Don't they do that? I mean if you employ a modder as a game programmer then they are a game programmer. Does that make sense? I know the developers of SIM settlements for fallout 4 were offered jobs at game companies

[@djn-zone3204]

Idk if they hired modders. Maybe they did maybe they didn’t. I highly doubt it because when Rockstar released the DE it looks bad and it glitches, and constantly crashes the game. There’s mods that’s in 4K that looks WAY better than DE even before DE was released. Modders even made Denise look better because they downgraded her in DE. So i don’t think Rockstar hire modders because if they did the game would look better than what it does.

[@djn-zone3204]

Plus when it comes to making a game or modding a game it’s all about testing it out. I see some modders when they mod gta games they test it out or let streamers test it out (beta) before they even release the final version. With the DE i don’t think it was anything happening: glitches, crashes, bugs, etc.

[@Val-1440]

9/10 experience from my watching experience, only thing I would consider changing is as you said lowering the chatter frequency. Other than that I would 10000% play this. Big props to the creator who I have to point out SINGLE HANDEDLY did all this.

[@BLOODVETTEL]

imagine if he used both hands...

[@BLOODVETTEL]

edit: i'm so sorry.

[@solidsnook8640]

@@BLOODVETTEL dont be, it was funny

[@BLOODVETTEL]

@@solidsnook8640 thanks. I earned my wings

[@jorjicostava6657]

I just installed it and the talkative NPC thing was actually an optionnal add-on (at least it was on the latest version of the modpack) so I can play with the normal amount of yapping

[@offlne5637]

I can't put into words how good this looks, plus all of the quality of life changes implemented. I wish DE could even dream of being this good.

[@makmakg242]

You should tune in to GTA Vice City NextGen edition. It's an ongoing port of GTA VC's entire assets and missions on GTA 4, which is better than Definitive Edition due to the Euphoria physics.

[@Xe4ro]

"You did what?" "Forget about Mario!" :D

[@asibit724]

As soon as I enter my saved game, I will only hear those voices

[@yttanel]

20:02 i wish the original had an ambulance in Little Havana, kinda weird that it didn't This mod is so cool man 😄

[@TheSCPStudio]

Lmao you people are so easily impressed. It doesn’t make sense cause not every medical building is a hospital. There are walk-in clinics or physicians offices and such that don’t have access to ambulances.

[@Silver_Warden]

​@@TheSCPStudioYeah, except that is a hospital - it is referred to specifically as such by Phil Cassidy.

[@Silver_Warden]

One more cool thing about this mod: all of the newly added outfits work in cutscenes. Wanna look like a proper biker for that set of missions? Dress up like one in leather jacket! Want to impress your new employees after buying an asset? Dress up like a businessman beforehand and enjoy the cutscenes.

[@davemegadeth4025]

I feel like there is a misunderstanding on who's actually behind this mod. It's not just one person that worked, multiple mods made by other people we're simply packed in together but the real work was made by others. TLDR: this is a modpack, not an entire mod made by one person

[@cosminnegreanu6044]

This.

[@ornix5761]

Completly understand why some people see it that way but the mods than i credited arent "simple packed together" in they majority are only partially used or modified for fix bugs the original author missed and that + all the optimazing, bug fixes about visuals, models, animations, manually upscaled hud and all the rebalancing in missions and game mechanics were made from my hand. It took a long time made all this come together so i dont want to the work put on it be degraded for use other authors work as foundation since never was the attention to be shared.

[@Holanduzo]

22:22 that call isnt cut in the original game, I remember it

[@andrybak]

29:35 maybe it's buggy only for characters with non-default health?

[@pricemactavish9089]

I don't know if you mentioned it in stream but Sonny has a new style to him

[@ghjklkop7868]

saw it in the cutscene, what the heck...

[@TheMpo1986]

He's supposed to look like the artwork

[@GoNoRAR-xv3qo]

Im gonna tell my children this is OG GTA VC

[@croozerdog]

I played the whole mod, it was good, some weird glitches and some textures are lower quality but felt new enough to enjoy the game once more

[@life-sf1oz]

Is there a mod that would expand on the vice city map

[@croozerdog]

@@life-sf1oz probably not, mapping in the 3d era games is veeeery time consuming afaik, plus making the new areas actually interesting is even harder you do have mods that expand the map with the maps of all the rockstar 3d era games, but they're hard to find because rockstar send hitmen to all of the developers houses

[@Ben-my5cl]

@@ornix5761 Are you ever going to reupload a link to the mod?

[@megabigdump]

I would love DLC for vice city that added a new island (or several) and crime related stuff to do post story (like drug deals, gang wars etc similar to the gta4 expansions). Unfortunately, I've always been a console player. If I bought a pc would I be able to play something similar to what is asking about? Sorry, I'm extremely ignorant when it comes to pc gaming

[@royb82]

Is Ben aware of the Russian Vice City remake in Gta 4 engine ?

[@AdamMGTF]

I dont support many mods financially. I would buy this. Even if just £5 or something. It would be a pleasure to support the person who put so much effort into this.

[@WeeGeeX]

I need this combined with tightened

[@kyle8952]

"this is the best looking vice city I've ever seen" - the only visible change on screen is the HUD and a higher quality tommy model.

[@Kenjish1in]

"this it legit impressive" - yo

[@test-rj2vl]

You could have used infinite health cheat at the end. This way you could have shown everything that 7 stars have to offer.

[@johnnymonsterrrr]

I need your wallpaper man 👁️👁️ Edit; nevermind you have link on Twitch thank you

[@chaserseven2886]

Jesus those cars are huge lol

[@lamlelamatsiliza8550]

Havent watched but already can tell it would be better than the demaster version

[@cydragon2.099]

to me besides the Definitive edition of SA being the best there's a mod that has converted files from the Android version so now If i am tired of DE I can load up my SA PC folder that'll play like my Android copy with instead with Zolika menu and Mixtape will actually work (currently mixtape only plays 1 song when I play on my Tablet)

[@CodiacMusic]

The annoying thing with mixtape, you have to let the song finish. You can also open your music app and control the playlist in tandem with playing the game

[@MCHD4]

Which version of vice city do I need to install this mod?

[@gustavoicaro4084]

Man, i just wanna play it on steam deck but is impossible is more easy just instal the mods by myself and make my own vice city mod

[@Commando_Chaos]

I want to keep this mod but ginput doesnt work so im unable to actually play the way i want to

[@_Featherstone]

Great video mate, this going up on the VOD's channel too?

[@englishben]

It's been on the VoDs channel for months lmao

[@_Featherstone]

@@englishben oh shit lmao illi back and find it my bad mate!

[@NoProHarrie]

Oehhh that is super-duper exciting!

[@we_played_Hob_Gobbies_together]

Great video as always Skinhead!

[@austinchittam2373]

Would like to see more on the mod that was bad ass ❤

[@DanteTheSimpSlayer]

are there extra missions?

[@muratthaqi6042]

i agree with you Ben

[@murilohumbertocmcb]

26:10 don't peds ever stop talking

[@goldbullet50]

The only thing it needs is PS2 trails :)

[@Dualthumbguy]

I really want to play this, drop the link

[@ThunderShot66]

this is cool but i dont like the health regen, i think extended features is better

[@cydragon2.099]

sadly the Mega drive download link is GONE

[@Ilikepiez1]

fun fact: rockstar did not make VC: DE grove street games did (they make mobile games and they're bad) but we can say that rockstar made it because they requested it

[@jetcoughlogo5752]

yes and no. R* were still the quality control, still paid for it, still accepted all the milestones GSG provided. They are responsible for how the final product looks and feels. Were GSG bad devs? Yes. Was R* doing fuck-all in terms of QC? Yes.

[@TheSCPStudio]

@@jetcoughlogo5752cope harder lmao. DE is objectively a better experience. Stop parroting terrible opinions. I’m a significantly better gamer than you or Ben and I just played through the OGs and the DEs consecutively and I was miserable while playing the OGs despite the nostalgia. DEs we’re infinitely better and did exactly what Rockstar wanted. A slightly modernized version of a 20 year old game with improved graphics that will keep people entertained on mobile unlike literally any other GTA. Why would they remake the entire game and put resources into rewriting terrible code and recreating everything when they have better GTA games that are exactly that? The DEs are great because they’re true to the originals but with a fresh lick of paint. Now, are the DE versions perfect? Well, no. But that’s not the DE’s fault. The OG game itself isn’t perfect or even anywhere close to it. I can’t even begin to tell you just how many glitches and bugs I ran into playing OG over DE. DE has some unique bugs but the fixes and modernization that it brings makes it worth dealing with a few bugs in DE vs the entire experience being miserable in OG. You’re more than welcome to your opinion btw, but it’s definitely another cope from a person who’s a long standing fan of a franchise that inevitably hates newer things. It’s not really a you thing, most humans aren’t mentally developed enough to understand that change =/= bad. Some of you instantly attribute the two together and it’s kind of sad tbh.

[@wilbo_baggins]

​ look at who's coping. De was just thrown into unreal ai to convert it and that's all they did. Minimal effort. No care put into it. They are definitely not the definitive versions.

[@The_Boomer_]

@@TheSCPStudio maybe condense your point, not many people have time to read a novel. I am one of those people. Have fun with your “Definitive Edition”.

[@kaiserruhsam]

@@TheSCPStudio imagine shilling that hard for free

[@AlessoGaylord]

we all know the only good vc is the ps2 one running on a crt tv

[@amp5275]

Why does Tommy runs like CJ?

[@Schmidddyyy]

Ayo lemme get that link Benny boi

[@-Tris-]

Link? Name? Anything? It looks really good.

[@Cenuzi]

3:28 as far as i can remember this was a thing in the ps2 version of vc And it got removed in the original pc version

[@tal2agamer498]

Lookin sharp

[@ДангуолеРасалайте-м4у]

was it reuploaded? i could swear ive seen this video

[@englishben]

Nope, the only place you might've seen it is on my VoDs channel (EBen Archive)

[@RealFooking]

The stars bother me, they are just too bright

[@cydragon2.099]

I'll go for the Android Trilogy or the DE Trilogy the originals versions to me (PS2) are obsolete

[@AdamMGTF]

I can see why you'd say that. But there is some lovely nostalgia about playing it on a PS2 like you did as a kid.... Tho I ended up buying it on pc because loading times get boring fast.

[@cydragon2.099]

@@AdamMGTF at the time my Dad couldn't get me a PS2 so I wouldn't have even known about it I only started knowing about GTA games in HS

[@AdamMGTF]

@@cydragon2.099 what's HS? ... They were good on PS2. No easy access guides and stuff. I remember getting gta3 and thinking it was the biggest game world that ever could exist. Mind you. I'd not long since been playing on a commodore Amiga 🤣

[@cydragon2.099]

@@AdamMGTF HS is High School when was either in my Sophomore or Junior year when I started hearing out GTA games

[@0ttoRex]

I still have my PS2 and my 100% complete save file, and as long as my PS2 runs, I will continue to play it. Love the og version

[@sarminder4357]

They even got rid of the nasty janky sprint animations! Those were worse than GTA 3's and that game was the first 3D one.

[@lenol0315]

i had that talk alot mod before and turned it off , annoying as fuck lmaooo

[@sixsixfiev]

tasteful

[@TorvickZeBerzerk]

Hate the pov and far camera when driving

[@Andrei2005s]

I can't find the mod on google, does anyone know what it's called?

[@YOSEMITE_Sami]

English Ben loyal fan here

[@nextlvlroy]

Anybody play this with their PS5 controller? The thumbsticks are so damn sensitive.

[@RadioParanormaliumPL]

Quality of some voice lines needs to be fixed. I wonder why no modder is trying to use AI to fix what wreckstar gays messed up.

[@randywatson8347]

Lol is this modded? Looks like the original to me.

[@krash1one]

Not sure how it looks "this good", to me it seems just like the original. Haven't seen much graphical changes.

[@jorjicostava6657]

60 FPS and PS2 motion blur makes for a lot of this modpack's appeal

[@madkvideo]

Was this built on reVC?

[@ArchiWorldRuS]

Again, Ben is overwhelmed with how cool the mod is, but I see no difference from the original 😂

[@englishben]

Then I'd recommend getting your eyes tested asap mate

[@Puxi]

I bet this guy even fixed the broken EAX feature. Also: Definitive Edition should have been a free update.

[@chaserseven2886]

Cap I think it should’ve been separate no one would take the update

[@_remblanc]

With how much effort was put into it and how much rebasing was done it would not be a free update in any universe. It could be a free update if it was something akin to reVC, but T2 blew that up for Definitive Edition, so there are their priorities.

[@Puxi]

@@chaserseven2886 If R* and TakeTwo are so thankful for their community the should have gave something back. But no, they sent out cease and desists and private detectives.

[@Puxi]

@@_remblanc I understand. I wonder... on which version is the original mobile port based on? Them mobile games from 2011-2014 have the xbox hands, the xbox vehicles etc. So it comes from the xbox version right? Or is it a modified PC version? The xbox version was the most recent version because it came out after the PC release. So they ported the game from xbox onto mobile and for the DE they took the mobile port, ported it on PC, Xbox, PS and Switch to port it back to mobile for the Netflix version!? :D PS2 original release, PC release, xbox release, mobile release, DE release, mobile DE release...

[@NyxSpirit]

Who tf says cap anymore? 😂

[@GD-Yurawalu4951]

The meat riding on this mod is crazy 💀

[@youcefsiouda]

Yeah it's literally average af

[@P1NGRecordings]

You meat ride Definitive Edition like hell.

[@brifkandr31]

I didn't like: 1. Voices in cutscenes out of sync 2. Renaming of the Ocean View Hotel to the name of the real life hotel Miami (not necessary) 3. Pedestrians talking too much 4. Clothes changed of certain key characters (also not necessary) 5. Locations (e.g. Vice City Docks) in the middle of screen in opening cutscene A lot of other things are nice, but it's still hard for me to not prefer the original.

[@kaiserruhsam]

turns out DE was a skill issue

[@jackal_sniperr]

man this game lags 😭

[@FordzyS]

GTA VC Beta Edition have much better textures.

[@humanharddrive1]

i think you're overplaying how good this looks, it's ok

[@philslaya]

GTA SAN ENGINE

[@revertfellpapyrusfandeunde4380]

What

[@andresfgp13]

honestly im not feeling it, it makes VC look like a cheap phone game.