GTA San Andreas The Definitive Edition - Flying Over The Map

GTA San Andreas The Definitive Edition - Flying over the map
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[@lukesfather5443]

I find the lack of fog in this game disturbing.

[@Homophobic_racist_sexist]

It's over Anakin, I have the high draw distance

[@herciliofrancelino7809]

Me too I missed cloud at higher altitudes

[@DigitalLobstershow]

true the game feel so small.

[@connelly6375]

it's weird but it is actually disturbing, not sure why it is upsetting me so much. it's like it is breaking my brain

[@mrwoodcat]

applying maximum draw distance mod in SA is the worst decision I ever made. can't believe they make it official

[@TheBeLuvdTRex]

The fog really gave the illusion of great distance. I swear this map used to feel the size of GTAV map.

[@blackhole7668]

Or bigger...

[@ste9497]

Yeah I remember going through the foggy countryside and feeling like it went on forever

[@juxtaposedlime2734]

It actually felt bigger

[@biggore8338]

I completed the original game for the first time moth ago, it really felt big. GTA 5 will look small as well, if you completely delete fog

[@jaypeee97]

@@blackhole7668 so true bigger !

[@Mariqnski]

It feels almost illegal being able to see the other end of the map from one end..

[@LukaszKopeiro]

Freakin' true :DDDD

[@albertysf7228]

For the first time yeah, it feels weird

[@WZN_S3V3N]

fr that shit felt like it took forever to reach one end to another

[@VonDutchNL]

I think it actually IS a felony in some states.

[@deantirmizi]

Its called the draw distance. Makes you realise how small the map is. Seemed massive when i was 13

[@Jtanims]

I think the map itself isn't that small, but it's the fact that there are lots of different settings (a forest setting, a canyon setting, three different cities). The size of the map, again saying not small, wasn't big enough for their ambitions back then to contain so many different settings, so to fit every setting in they had to make each individual setting small, and I think that's what makes the map smaller than it is. If it was one large city with some forested areas, it would look much bigger and realistic than 5 different settings crammed together with jarring transitions between them.

[@mihailcirlig8187]

This isn't draw distance, its complete madness from the developers to completely remove the fog. It looks like absolute trash now, waiting for a patch or a mod to reintroduce it

[@Luis-jm2cc]

@@Jtanims the map is very compact compared to gta 5 and maps now are much bigger, i mean we have the entire earth in a game now

[@mojoofftherobo]

@@mihailcirlig8187 ugh no hated the shitty fog

[@mihailcirlig8187]

@@mojoofftherobo You don't understand the basic premise of this game the. San Andreas is a state, and rockstar to make it feel like it is added fog to cover map parts and to make it feel more big and as an actual state with diverse weather and fog intensity depending on where were you. The coutryside has more, Las Venturas has less of it etc. Tell how the hell could I see an entire state flying and to see it cristal clear, NO FOG AT ALL and to even see homeless from 20 kilometers, because this is what this edition does, just draw distance but noting to mitigate it, its just a super poor choice of desing. In a state like california and cities like los angeles you naturally have fog so removing it its totally bullshit

[@Jtanims]

Damn the map wasn't intended to be seen all at once like this. It's unbelievable how much better Vice City's map looks with higher draw distance.

[@davidlima9461]

Because its one city

[@ElectableDane]

They shouldve kept some fog in, you can tell how small the map is when it used to feel huge back in the day. also the plane model is literally glitched with the rudder

[@Lyoko42o]

But that was due to the limitations of the hardware, now we have longer draw distances..isn't that..better?

[@ElectableDane]

@@Lyoko42o draw distance increased when in the cities make sense but if you’re standing on top of maze bank, you can tell how small the map really is. Just because they can make the draw distance as far as possible doesn’t mean that have to. A lot of people have pointed out how the increased draw distance makes the world feel so much smaller than what they remembered.

[@francescolucia6268]

I’d add that with this increased draw distance there’re basically no shadows in the landscape. Makes the whole thing unnatural imo

[@JW-YT]

Yeah the draw distance means theres no fade. Looks kinda off.

[@nothingineternityterms]

@@Lyoko42o The aesthetic of the game is more important.

[@Rude_Boi]

I've been playing since 2005 on the PS2 and this doesn't sit right with me... The draw distance set to max, that horrible looking rain that follows the player, and that terrible skybox makes the definitive edition look ugly... whereas the graphical limitations on the OG version gave it it's own atmosphere from the lower draw distance, the fog, the better looking rain, the orange hue and sun glare, and the visible heat from the desert, all made GTA SA what it was, and now that's it's gone, it's like they removed the soul from the game.

[@mihailcirlig8187]

Yes the fog and the orange tint are necessary for this game, without its just a soulless game

[@evzenvarga9707]

It's a soulless, shitty, ugly cashgrab, nothing else, I'll stick to the OG version.

[@yourlocalchloesimp]

Couldn't have described it better myself.

[@freebatman4everyone]

I remember reaching the northwest corner of the world back in the day and feeling accomplished but exhausted because of how huge the world felt. Times have really changed, lol.

[@CBsnapshot33]

Finally, time to find Bigfoot.

[@aviczie]

You could probably find and see him across the map with this no fog

[@duskgolem3793]

it is the same feeling When you have seen your friend with hair for years and now you see him bald :D

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Or glasses

[@The242511]

Listening to anything besides K-DST while flying should be a crime

[@DissTrackTed]

🧢 K rose.

[@mellochello921]

@@DissTrackTed nah k rose only for dirt bikes! 🚲

[@biggore8338]

Radio X is awesome, man

[@nonameguy3665]

For me Drive bobcat and truck = k rose Drive all sedans car = bounce fm Drive sport car = k-dst Drive lowrider = playback fm Drive while dating with all girlfriends = csr 103.9 Drive with homie while police chase = Radio los santos,sf ur and radio x Playing gta san after smoke weed = k jah west and master sounds 98.3

[@BigSmoke20061989]

@@nonameguy3665 exactly in my opinion😍

[@jcplays3842]

Removes the fog and allows us to see almost the entire map but couldn’t be bothered about the texture pop-in. These guys just can’t do anything right anymore edit 1- the trailer music for this trilogy was actually really good; so there rockstar your one point

[@buincqv67]

Trailer music was good

[@Rude_Boi]

Rockstar didn't even make this. They outsourced it.

[@psykonarg9174]

Apart from the fog, San Andreas used to have low floating clouds that you could fly through (above maze bank building and around mt chilliad), they also helped obscure the horizon and other cities from view.

[@jdx4527]

Jesus this looks terrible! I hope they have a patch where they give us the option to turn the fog on!

[@alfredohumberto2222]

It's rockstar, you are asking too much to them

[@flipsidelimited6560]

Just remember the SA has the second biggest map of all the 3D GTAs. SA is even bigger then GTA 4, yet GTA 4 doesn’t seem to have this problem when using an Draw Distance mod. GTA 4 is still more immersive when compared to full view of this map.

[@VintageSlide]

Gta4 is one city. It doesn’t need to seem big. One thing that made SA so special was the ability to go from city to city. It didn’t matter if you flew or if you drove, the distance from a city to another seemed like a real long journey. In the definitive edition all of that is gone.

[@DonnieDisasters]

Because gta IV still use some atmospheric distance effect, like bluring and fading the background, fog effect, light distortion etc... This remaster use NOTHING. What a shame

[@mattwaldren]

Some of the best and most influential video games of all time, butchered, defaced and totally destroyed forever. There are no words

[@peabody573]

Honestly, yeah. I hate this

[@BigSmoke20061989]

exactly!

[@staringcorgi6475]

This is why you pirate the originals

[@dcaseng]

This is like peeking behind the curtain and seeing what everything is really made from, and losing that elusion of grandeur. It's amazing how effective adding some fog and clouds can do for this game.

[@drinclock8095]

Feel like seeing the contrast between the biomes makes the map look small and cartoonish. With the fog on it feels bigger than the gta 5 map.

[@arkhamy7]

It lacks fog in the distance, everything looks very clear

[@tenbaskamil]

Yeah, it feels very unnatural, the distance that supposed to be in game is literally too clear. They should've kept the volumetric fog at high distances

[@hemiacetal1331]

I wonder if the map was actually scaled down for the mobile version and the same was used in this edition as well.

[@ronaldbenz_]

@@hemiacetal1331 It wasn't man, the map itself isn't that big when you take in mind it's an entire state

[@SpartanQwop]

They could have replaced the fog with clouds - this would have made the map seem bigger than it was.

[@sidbrun_]

or just replaced the fog with....fog.

[@harambeskawk9000]

When you see the whole map from the air it’s kind of like miniland at Legoland. A bunch of very different environments mashed together in one place that don’t really belong that close together.

[@Metsfan1986]

All the people saying the map is too small forgets that this game was made in 2004. At the time it was substantially larger than 3 and Vice city. There's only so much you can put on a standard DVD disc too. I don't even think PS2 games were using the 8.5 GB dual layers discs either. It's stupid to compare it to newer 3D open world games to the ones back then. It was a concept that was relatively new.

[@lordvonsteiner2452]

Games are about creating the illusion of an expansive interactable world. Stuff like the fog and limited draw distance helped create the illusion that the san andreas map felt bigger than it actually was. The definitive edition completely breaks that illusion. That's not a good thing.

[@AFT_05G]

Yeah and even some of today’s open world games use this trick such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.Their maps are smaller than GTA 5’s but when playing they don’t feel small at all because of distance fog that covers everything farther than 500m.

[@staringcorgi6475]

It looked big though in the original since there was fog

[@armin38822]

Before it felt like a world,now it feels like a room.

[@therealamias2697]

There’s noooo way the map was this small before. It legit used to feel like it took 20 mins to get to another area 😂

[@riotac432]

Thats cause of the fog

[@riotac432]

It made it look large now its gone

[@PlayWaves1]

Also the vehicle top speeds were a lot slower in SA than GTA 5.

[@ethang.4350]

All of y’all are critiquing the draw distance, I’m over here like: “4 stars in that plane? Definitely screwed.” 🤣 went out like a champ.💀

[@kaalihernes123]

Rockstar made the biggest mistake when they fired the 3 main employees... This looks fucking terrible

[@W00JDA]

because there's no fog? oh my god, what a disaster

[@ZZ-rc1yw]

@@W00JDA u can't tell me with a straight face and say this looks amazing that u can see the whole "square" outline of the map GTA V has clouds and that map is small too but this game no?

[@bleach4347]

@@ZZ-rc1yw yeah but fog is written into the story when you hear weather broadcasts on the raido it will still say that it will be foggy ect ect

[@lapotato5978]

this wasnt developed by rockstar, it was outsourced to a third party studio called grove street games (previously wardrum studios)

[@jarrygarry5316]

This game is not remastered by Rockstar North.Groove Street Games that develop this games,the same developer that remastered terrible Gta San Andreas for phone.They should hired other team

[@mannyramirez232]

Makes me wanna say “where we landing boyz?”

[@whitewizard1914]

Why did you had the need to do that?

[@stormdesertstrike]

This meme aged like fine wine.

[@theninethrees8044]

This feels like getting catfished

[@The242511]

Jesus, this looks like a game you would get for free after buying Froot Loops

[@MacBookAir-cu4fb]

This made me laugh more than I should have😂

[@j4mbi_]

Lmao underrated comment.

[@The_Comedy_Hub]

Man, I used to feel like I got lost in this map. Like I was exploring an entire country. Blane county felt like RDR2! And now this....take that childhood haha

[@AFT_05G]

To be fair RDR2 map is massively downscaled too,yeah sure it’s bigger than San Andreas especially with New Austin which is alone almost as wide as San Andreas in west-east corner but it’s nowhere near as big as some people say it is.

[@kamicloudss]

@@AFT_05Gquality > quantity. I’d rather a smaller map with more intricate detail than a huge map with a bunch of empty space

[@sjjapp]

I'm not one of the people complaining about this remaster (aside from the price and a few things that didnt make my wish list), but this right here is a disaster. People made this right? Like people with eyes and such. Effort has gone into removing something that helped give the world a false sense of scale, but it's important that it was there.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

The price is awful. I could buy a car with that

[@mrwoodcat]

bruh the three city have different feel, terrain and weather.. maximizing the draw distance is terrible design decision

[@bbrandumbb]

Everyone wanted this and now that we have it everyone is dissing it smh 🤦

[@buincqv67]

@@bbrandumbb but even by modders a maxed draw distance still looks better than DE.

[@mihailcirlig8187]

@@buincqv67 because there is fog, here there is no fucking fog, no sign of it and it looks fucking awful. Sorry but I'm fucking mad. Project 2DFX for è example is similar but it looks 10 times better, it's just done way better.

[@evzenvarga9707]

@@bbrandumbb no one wanted this, anyone who saw any draw distance mods for SA knows how horrible it looks.

[@greengarden7557]

Yup I miss the feel in san fierro

[@sekarmaltum1695]

GTA SA (definitive edition) looks like *vanilla* saints row 1 or 2

[@toiletcleaner9552]

But saint rows map look bigger than gta san andreas definitive edition

[@MirGreatah]

@@toiletcleaner9552 which one

[@toiletcleaner9552]

@@MirGreatah all of them

[@vodkashot3969]

Lack of fog makes it look more like a map instead of a world.

[@ObamaGaming710]

Gta san Andreas has a small map in definitive edition it's proven. But in 2004 it was huge bcs there was fog.

[@AFT_05G]

It’s the exact same map just without fog dude.It was small but felt huge,now it feels small too.

[@tenbaskamil]

@@AFT_05G and they should have kept some of the fog at high distances, irl you can't see that far (i mean that the distances in game scale are far away) lack of this fog makes it look kind of unnatural, no volumetric clouds/fog, it just doesn't have depth, like it's a miniature model made of clay

[@1dev2]

They screwed up with the draw distance on this one. The map seemed so much larger and unexplored with the fog

[@saulitix]

Rockstar made this remaster in 2 weeks. There is no other explanation, this is ridiculous.

[@eastsiderage5532]

It was two years

[@thearbiter2701]

@@eastsiderage5532 No, it was two weeks

[@eastsiderage5532]

@@thearbiter2701 No it wasn't

[@staringcorgi6475]

It wasn’t rockstar it was a studio that was inexperienced.

[@razzer64bits]

It feels so weird seeing Mount Chilliad and all the tall towers from each city, from any point of the map. I don't know what was their reason for removing the fog.

[@OokileyGMR]

They could've so easily just expanded the map, make the distance between cities larger and add mountain ranges like in GTA V which separate each region. Make Mt. Chilliad bigger and the forests denser and the desert more isolated, with the current engine that would be achievable and also easy to do with less detail than GTA V for instance. But no, they just did this instead.

[@rascallygoose4926]

This is a remaster, a remake would involve the stuff you listed

[@OokileyGMR]

@@rascallygoose4926 Exactly, but one simple remake at that, like I mentioned. The studio took the easiest possible route for the maximum income. It's just plain lazy.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Exactly

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

@@rascallygoose4926 definitive means how they would have made it back in 2004 but with 2021 technology, this is hardly that.

[@staringcorgi6475]

I’d would be preferable to just port the game to modern systems and make framerate vigilante into an official feature

[@mharrtj6350]

Damn you can see mount Chiliad all across the map. Nothing can beat the OG.

[@lordbaldski9455]

The fog makes a huge difference i remember the map used to feel massive af, remember the feeling of being in las venturas and thinking i was playing a different game, being at the dessert or the forest and feeling lonely, the map its so small lol

[@callumsullyfitness]

At least San Fierro is somewhat over in the small distance, but It is very unsettling how close Los Santos and Las Venturas actually are to each other

[@chocolatemonster07]

A few years ago I did a timed run from the Las venturas main freeway to Los Santos in a cabbie and it took 55 seconds 🤯

[@AllouhaX]

they removed mouse looking while flying why . .. ? who knows

[@ojivlogs]

the map looks like a battle royal game haha

[@j4mbi_]

It looks like an Apex Legends map lmao

[@demogaming8895]

I can't believe that people are complaining about this too. Like what kind of improvements did they expect? New charater models? Bad! Good draw distance? Bad! Good lighting? Bad! What the fuck do you want then??? Face it, the map is small, so what?

[@nothingineternityterms]

People are complaining about new character models that look shitty. The added draw distance? It looks shitty. We want it to not look shitty. If making the draw distance that high looks this bad, bring the fog back.

[@ZZ-rc1yw]

It's trash Get over it

[@thrillhausen8858]

A ' Definitive Edition ' that has missing gameplay features, music, so many bugs and strange graphical choices specifically around the game characters.

[@user-nr3nq3ns8j]

After i saw that there is no fog, i immediately quit the game and never came back, that was at the release day.

[@5VHIB5VHIBE5VHgb3tp]

3:09 hesoyam hesoyam hesoyam hesoyam

[@TheThink5op]

Childhood destroyed !

[@ramirob8202]

I truly found the map smaller than it used to be owing to the lack of fog

[@bensmithkent22]

The bay area like where the container ship was and the smaller one felt so huge down at sea level and will miss those hydras coming out the fog at you. On the plus side dogfighting them will be a piece of cake

[@JR7noir]

And we thought the map was massive... how time flies

[@XDCslayer07]

The map is massive. Definitive editions map is not the same.

[@dayvorants427]

@@XDCslayer07 it is the same

[@TheNivk1994]

Would there be liberty city anywhere or is it only loaded once in that specific mission?

[@krxvg7431]

Now I have seen everything

[@jimspeed1610]

The map is still massive

[@eastsiderage5532]

No it's not

[@AFT_05G]

Well it is if you’re comparing it with 3 and Vice City.

[@hitnammlg]

They should add a mirage effect for the distance.

[@JordanTheRabbitMonkey]

1:05 this shot makes me feel how small gta sa is, like what, i thought it was huge

[@alexc.8482]

Someone has to create a mod to bring back the short draw distance.

[@rocker1236]

Am i the only one who actually likes the draw distance. It just looks so much better.

[@jackg2633]

Didnt know Mt chilliad was so close to los santos

[@samtemdo8]

Still feels big when your on foot

[@varietyboughthome2982]

i feel like there is no sunny weather in defintive of san andreas

[@TeMeZuGaming]

you can finally see the map? wow

[@rayvee2837]

There should of been an option to adjust the fog by yourself

[@NinjaskKing]

Removing the fog in San Andreas is like removing the fog in Skyrim it’s just wrong

[@AFT_05G]

Yeah,also Skyrim and GTA SA maps are actually very similar in size.

[@NinjaskKing]

@@AFT_05G also both are content rich games which explains the compromise for size they decided to make a diverse fair sized map with loads of content instead of making a ridiculously large empty map far better IMO

[@PlayWaves1]

@@NinjaskKing But you could also have a large map that's feature rich. Would take a long time to develop though.

[@renascence239]

Did anyone in Rockstar development office test this game before they decided to release it? Who was the guy who said “I see nothing wrong with it, release it”?

[@mrmeg8044]

They had multiple cities in this game!!! GTA 5 only had los santos

[@Owen1776_]

It also had 10 small towns and gta 5 only had 3

[@checkout5017]

I thought this was some kind of mod with a weird mini map or something. Took me a while to figure out this is the normal map with no fog, I'm sure it used to take like 10-15 minutes to fly across even in a slightly faster plane

[@Microwave6984]

The draw distance makes the map look really small when In reality on ground the map is huge and it felt like it would take an eternity to get from the las venturas airport to las venturas casino I think its the fog

[@dcghoul101]

The amount of LOD pop-in is distracting. Why the hell didn't they adjust this?

[@OFFtheCHIZANE]

Cessna requires about 8 air to air missile hits to bring down 😂

[@johngibsonmusic]

Bring back the fog!!

[@DylanoRevs]

Dude, it looked like you were flying so slow

[@gimmeurshibaquik7]

It looks like a sim 3 map.

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

Flying over the map???? What a bizarre title.

[@komyetaone1171]

May i steal this footage?

[@Fbs_23]

Die Karte kam einem damals so riesig vor 🥺stundenlang die Landschaften und Städte erkundet . Beste Zeit

[@yogairawanto6095]

Well... I think Rockstar is super busy because they' remaster 3 games ... I repeat .. 3 GAMES...and because of deadline too, if they focus and remaster only 1 game (GTA: SA). I'm sure the result would not like this

[@alvzcizzler]

It looks so weird and feels miniature, they should've kept some fog or something

[@runforestrunfpv4354]

Wiggle the whole map and watch it grow in size.

[@Pietje900]

Omg what is up with the rudder on that plane? Rockstar! Get your shit together!

[@xlinkkaisaintsrow2365]

It is damaged.

[@Nameless_1408]

Was the map really that small? I remember her very big.

[@AFT_05G]

Map was always the same size but visually original didn’t look that small even with draw distance mods.

[@TaylorTrace90]

Unpopular opinion, I know, but this game is beautiful. The San Fierro Bridge in the distance, seeing Los Santos in its entirety. If anything, I underestimated the size of Los Santos and everywhere else before taking it all in.

[@AFT_05G]

Yeah to be fair these are huge cities for a game came out in 2004.Back in the day nothing came close.

[@jackie4life862]

The map seemed massive back then on the PS2, now... now... 😂🤣 it look's like its from Roblox 😂

[@orionxs2213]

Why did this map feel so massive when I used to play it

[@hongkong8907]

This looks like one of those old Mincraft Pocket Edition worlds

[@antonydandrea]

So how did it work when you were driving, it would take ages to go across county

[@AFT_05G]

Nope,driving from Los Santos to Las Venturas takes like a minute at most lol.

[@haiderr]

this definitive edition, take two, rockstar & grove street games (formely known as war drum studios) made, have literally the most lack of care when remastering.

[@95r35]

When i was a kid .. it felt like i was going to another country zhen i had to visit san fierro or venturas..

[@stefanbratanov1324]

so disappointed from the draw distance and no fog, no idea how this seems more realistic or better, they should have hired old GTA fans as QA people, would be better, this looks like mini game map from the Zero mission (New Model Army)

[@P.Trick93]

It looks like a toy or something

[@rickybrown5817]

The propeller cone backward!

[@DajournoTF]

Always enjoyed this map but it hurts my soul to see hardly any fog. I don't like being able to see the whole map I actually enjoyed the draw distance back then. It made me think the map was massive and I already enjoyed this map more than GTA v map with hardly anything to offer outside of Los Santos

[@vinicius100470]

While the draw distance in the original version of the game is abysmal, this really wasn't the best solution. I don't know why they couldn't have replicated the fog used in GTA V.

[@judebryanco966]

When i was driving on Gta San andreas i feel it is more bigger than V but yeah i realized this Video Gta SA was much smaller than V but Gta SA map has a good layout which has 3 cities and a lot of small town province also have a desert

[@huydeptraicuto]

i'm playing "Learning to Fly" mission and i still got ragequit, difference in here is ragequit in HD mode

[@PLZENg]

Bro that literally looks like a toyboard

[@paraje3d]

Nobody says that Cockstar remove the penetrable clouds at high altitude?

[@GiorgioChiellini723]

someone def gonna make a mod that adds fog

[@d.petrov4423]

Can someone tell me is that map smaller than the original gta sa? Cuz I remember gta sa map to be larger..

[@kawaiiwaste]

they dont even have the clouds you can fly through oh nooo its a disaster

[@OneLove-vd2mj]

Looks more like a Island in the middle of nowhere lol