Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition - GTA 3 trilogy remaster

[Venser]

The Michael Jackson estate is probably up their ass right now.

Remove the whole thing. Nuke it from the orbit.

 

[Broseph]

The rain effect in these remasters is the worst I’ve seen in any video game ever and that’s just the icing on the shit cake. Levels of incompetence that shouldn’t even be possible.

 

[Alphons]

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I trust they have strict "no refunds" -policy.

 

[lightbane]

I didn't like San Andreas much, but that's yet another thing from my childhood raped into oblivion. In more ways than one.
https://nichegamer.com/grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition-hot-coffee-discovered/

 

[Malamert]

 

[ferratilis]

https://screenrant.com/cyberpunk-2077-take-two-criticized-unpolished-bugs-glitches/amp/

Cyberpunk 2077's Unpolished Release Criticized By Take-Two Owner
Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch has led to Take-Two CEO and Rockstar Games owner Strauss Zelnick to respond, noting games shouldn't be rushed.

 

[JamesDixon]

You can still purchase keys for Vice City on Kinguin and have them work on the RockShit launcher. I picked up a copy of Vice City for $7 from there just to ensure I have access to it.

 

[ferratilis]

Why would you buy a Rockstar launcher key when you can get the Steam one cheaper, and avoid that shitty launcher altogether?
https://www.eneba.com/us/steam-grand-theft-auto-vice-city-steam-key-global

 

[fork]

Why would you buy a key at all? They don't want you to buy them.

 

[toughasnails]

Take-Two and Rockstar's attitude is p weird in all honesty. So much money and work is initially pumped into these games' development, they achieve such success and become p much bona fide pop-culture items, and yet they don't appear to give a fuck what is done with them once the development is done and they pass to the next thing. Every new port of these games was worse than the last, culminating in this. They don't seem to care what the team porting them does, what is cut and changed, as long as it runs and can be sold.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

I don't get how these companies operate to be honest. They just shit all over their biggest and most important franchises that hold their entire companies afloat. They're not struggling financially so just give them the time they need.

It's like with actiblizz, they gave all that love to dead properties like crash, spyro and even tony hawk for fucks sake. But let Diablo 3, Warcraft III (and now wow) get thrown out there to die?

My only guess is that there's some bizarre corporate backstabbing involved. A way for these bigwigs to poison the well between shareholders and these larger, semi independent developers as a way of gaining even more control. I mean look at blizzard now, they're completely subservient to Kotick and at his mercy.

Probably something similar here, didn't one of the Houser brothers leave a while back?

 

[Fedora Master]

It's a post-capital world where "intentions", "feelings" and agendas are more important than making money or pleasing the customer.

 

[Endemic]

Take-Two and Rockstar's attitude is p weird in all honesty. So much money and work is initially pumped into these games' development, they achieve such success and become p much bona fide pop-culture items, and yet they don't appear to give a fuck what is done with them once the development is done and they pass to the next thing. Every new port of these games was worse than the last, culminating in this. They don't seem to care what the team porting them does, what is cut and changed, as long as it runs and can be sold.

They make too much money from GTA Online/RDR/sports franchises to care, I guess.

 

[Butter]

They're too big to fail. Just call up your local representative and ask for a bailout if you're facing bankruptcy. You thought corporations have to provide services or products that people want in order to stay afloat?

 

[Ghulgothas]

There will never be another Grand Theft Auto release of note or quality as long as GTA Online keeps providing them all their revenue. RDR online doesn't even come close to the earnings GTA online rakes in.

 

[mogwaimon]

I don't get how these companies operate to be honest. They just shit all over their biggest and most important franchises that hold their entire companies afloat. They're not struggling financially so just give them the time they need.

It's like with actiblizz, they gave all that love to dead properties like crash, spyro and even tony hawk for fucks sake. But let Diablo 3, Warcraft III (and now wow) get thrown out there to die?

My only guess is that there's some bizarre corporate backstabbing involved. A way for these bigwigs to poison the well between shareholders and these larger, semi independent developers as a way of gaining even more control. I mean look at blizzard now, they're completely subservient to Kotick and at his mercy.

Probably something similar here, didn't one of the Houser brothers leave a while back?

yea it was Dan Houser, I think, that left to form his own company shortly after RDR2. Sam Houser is still one of the presidents at Rockstar though.

 

[JamesDixon]

Why would you buy a Rockstar launcher key when you can get the Steam one cheaper, and avoid that shitty launcher altogether?
https://www.eneba.com/us/steam-grand-theft-auto-vice-city-steam-key-global

I didn't know about Eneba. I'm just passing along where people can get the game.

 

[SharkClub]

Imagine the kind of remasters we could be getting if publishers put in the kind of effort that fucking EA of all things did with C&C Remastered. Instead we get billion dollar companies like Rockstar/Take2 shitting out this with little to no care put into the product.

Speaking of, what is the actual definitive way to play GTA3/VC/SA these days? The old versions on Steam? Any mods that add in cut content and cut music?

 

[Ghulgothas]

Imagine the kind of remasters we could be getting if publishers put in the kind of effort that fucking EA of all things did with C&C Remastered. Instead we get billion dollar companies like Rockstar/Take2 shitting out this with little to no care put into the product.

Speaking of, what is the actual definitive way to play GTA3/VC/SA these days? The old versions on Steam? Any mods that add in cut content and cut music?

Steam Version, with the corresponding true Definitive Edition Project patch. All of which are made and maintained by people who actually give a shit.
https://www.definitive-edition-project.com/

III , Vice City, San Andreas.

They've also got patches for the Stories games, as well as Chinatown Wars. By far the simplest way to fix-up all the old GTA games on PC.

 

[ADL]

This definitely isn't ready but something worth putting on your radar. Haven't touched it but I've heard good things about https://openrw.org/ for GTA3 if you're willing to compile it.

 

[Morenatsu.]

ps2 is the definitive accept no substitutes!

 

[SharkClub]

They've also got patches for the Stories games

That's another thing. What the hell is preventing an official port of the Stories games to PC? If they included something like that in this "Definitive Edition" then at least they'd be doing something new that is worth having outwith emulating the PSP/PS2 versions of them. To this day I've never played Vice City Stories, and I've played Liberty City Stories on my PS2 ages ago and that's it. I should probably emulate VCS with this fan patch thing you linked.

 

[Ravielsk]

That's another thing. What the hell is preventing an official port of the Stories games to PC?

Probably a mixture of laziness and IP bullshit. I read somewhere that rockstar/take two do not fully own the rights to the stories games due to how they were produced. So they would need to strike up a deal and accept ever so slightly lower profit margins which in this day and age is simply not an option.

 

[ferratilis]

When they stop earning 2.5 mil a day from GTA Online, they'll maybe think about bringing those games to PC. Maybe.

 

[Dexter]