GTA San Andreas: The Definitive Edition Physics & Details Comparison

It's ironic but the extremely low draw distance in the original game added sense of 'remoteness'. Now you can clearly see how SMALL the whole map is just by looking at it lol it looks kinda weird honestly.

The fog made the game. Made driving around the map feel like an entire road trip. They should give us an option to bring it back!

The fog is the main reason why I crashed my plane in one of San Fierro's tallest sky scrapers. It's how I discovered the city too on my first playthrough

The original one will always be in my heart

the old rainy weather version has a soft spot in my heart, it has that lofi feel to it that I truly fond of

Man the fog in the original made the map look a lot bigger than it really was.

I used to run a sa-mp server years ago. There was a trick with weather, I forgot what weather, after which you were able to see entire San Andreas map without the fog. You could see Las Venturas from top of that skyscraper in Los Santos.

This was a great video best part definitely has to be you turning the steering wheel, just your hands moving 😆 Wish they would come our with a gta based solely in Las Venturas

The high draw distance makes the entire map look like a diorama or like the model of a landscape. I think the GTA 5 solution with some fog would have been a great compromise.

Man that draw distance really kills it for me. I remember as a kid exploring the world for what felt like MILES. Getting lost around Chiliad in the woods, and exploring the expansive desert. Hunting for bigfoot and the serial killer in the shack. SO many cool legends that were made believable by how big and varied the map felt. Now it feels tiny and weird. Really kills the magic of the originals.

New subscriber here. Just want to say great video and thank you might have helped me make my mind up on getting the game haha

On what platform(s) is this? How about the cruise control on pc? Holding down X to just keep your speed?? What about these rumors of placing SA, VC and LC on one big map and being able to travel around a bit? Busta

The Definitive version looks like a Unreal Engine 4 fan made game.

This proves how u can't improve on perfection. Removing the fog actually makes the world feel smaller. While on the OG version less is more.

I played GTA SA for more than 50+ times and still would say the original is still best than the D.E. in terms of gameplay, texture, the surrounding vibes with weather changes, specially during sandstorm which defined the real world, like you barely see anything in sandstorm in real, it isn't difficult but challenging which I always like, glad I saved my bucks investing in the original earlier rather than the new..... NOTHING BEATS THE ORIGINAL, THE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES 😌

The fog has come back in an update not as much as the original but hides that really far draw distance a little bit and doesn't make it seem so much like the map just ends.

I kinda like the fog in the classic GTA. it doesnt look realistic seeing 2 whole cities just staying on a building

The fog gave it such 90’s feeling. Remastered version feels so empty , like a void. They can in fact update it, it’s crazy how all that gta 5 milk doesn’t let them do better

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It’s not really fog that you need to solve the draw distance issue, it’s atmospheric perspective/saturation. The further away the light is the more of it has scattered before reaching your eye, so it tends towards blue. The distant objects in SAD have (almost) no atmospheric effects at all, it’s rendered as if it were right in front of you. It feels like you’re just looking at the other end of a table and CJ is a miniature. You can actually get away with small issues if overall atmosphere is done well and this version of the game just doesn’t capture atmosphere at all.