GTA Remastered Trilogy (GTA3/San Andreas/Vice City) - ah sh*t, here we go again

[Fry Crayola]

There's a lot about IV which felt like Rockstar constantly getting in the way of what you wanted to do - rigid adherence to the way they want a mission to play out, strategically parked vehicles disappearing, Roman constantly badgering you to play minigames - but by fuck it was a tremendously fun game to play with friends passing the controller around.

[Vimster]

1 minute ago, Fry Crayola said:

There's a lot about IV which felt like Rockstar constantly getting in the way of what you wanted to do - rigid adherence to the way they want a mission to play out, strategically parked vehicles disappearing, Roman constantly badgering you to play minigames - but by fuck it was a tremendously fun game to play with friends passing the controller around.

Right, it felt like I was being punished for trying interesting ways of completing a mission, the antithesis of emergent open-world fun.

[moosegrinder]

 

13 minutes ago, Doctor Shark said:

What didn’t you like about IV? The story? The gameplay? The controls? I’d argue the gameplay and controls haven’t really changed since 3. 

 

 

Precisely. That and it was boring as hell, and the usual narrative dissonance of being an ex soldier who was done with all the killing except when he's running people over and shooting people just because as that's what the framework allows. Funnily enough I didn't bump up against that in Red Dead Redemption. But then Marston was a much more likeable psychopath than Niko.

 

I played and loved III, Vice City and San Andreas but I've tried to go back and you can't. IV was probably where I started to see Dan Houser can't write for shit and I got bored of the lazy tropes, jokes and obvious real world parallels played for laughs. I played through V even though all those things were still present so more fool me. I don't think I'll bother with 6

 

[Isaac]

 

If 3 doesn't have this in it then what's the point.

[Mr Do 71]

23 minutes ago, Fry Crayola said:

There's a lot about IV which felt like Rockstar constantly getting in the way of what you wanted to do - rigid adherence to the way they want a mission to play out, strategically parked vehicles disappearing, Roman constantly badgering you to play minigames - but by fuck it was a tremendously fun game to play with friends passing the controller around.

IV was brilliant, and even better online with free mode and ranked racing.

[FishyFish]

Yeah. RLLMUK GTA IV race nights were amongst the most fun gaming experiences I’ve ever had. The time I blew almost everyone’s ice cream van up at the airport from a single grenade drop will stay with me forever. 😆

[Dudley]

4 is the only one I never finished, and I remember it being at least partly the fact it was a open world game that tried to prevent that at all opportunities.

[SeanR]

4’s the only one I did finish. And that was accidental, and a damp squib, an anticlimax that petered out.

 

to this day I can’t be sure I didn’t finish it, maybe it’s a just a bug that means there are no mission icons anywhere on the map?

[JohnC]

4 is also the one I didn't finish. I remember completing a mission where I owned some fancy penthouse or something and there was a big assault on it where I had to try to defend it and then escape. That was the last mission I did for some reason.

[Dudley]

I've forgotten I think literally everything about it except for "Cousin! Come do something pointless!".

 

Which does mean I could possibly give it another punt, maybe on PC, although like all the older GTAs they've changed all the music for cheaper stuff now.

[Fused gamer]

The cars were off centre in 4 and always bugged the crap out of me.

[Mr Do 71]

2 minutes ago, Fused gamer said:

The cars were off centre in 4 and always bugged the crap out of me.

I preferred that viewpoint.

[Fused gamer]

Just now, Mr Do 71 said:

I preferred that viewpoint.

I can understand why some people might, but I think my ocd couldn’t take it.

[SeanR]

4 hours ago, JohnC said:

4 is also the one I didn't finish. I remember completing a mission where I owned some fancy penthouse or something and there was a big assault on it where I had to try to defend it and then escape. That was the last mission I did for some reason.

I think that IS the last mission, other than the old man on the bench.

 

at least that’s how I remember it

[The Disco]

1 hour ago, Fused gamer said:

The cars were off centre in 4 and always bugged the crap out of me.

 

That didn't bug me at all - I don't even remember it being a thing for me.  What did bug me was that for 99.9% of the cars, they all handled like the titanic.  After it had hit the iceberg.

 

I can't see me playing any of these remasters at all.  I've bought them all once, played them all at least twice, and for Vice City put well over 300 hours in it just dicking about listening to the soundtrack.

A shamelss cash grab with, I strongly suspect, very little in the way of upgrades to any part of the games.

[Mr. Gerbik]

9 minutes ago, The Disco said:

What did bug me was that for 99.9% of the cars, they all handled like the titanic.  After it had hit the iceberg

Just like the main character

[Fry Crayola]

I maintain the driving in GTA IV (and V) was excellent and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a crap driver.

 

I'm allowed to maintain this because I can't drive.

[mushashi]

4 hours ago, Dudley said:

Which does mean I could possibly give it another punt, maybe on PC, although like all the older GTAs they've changed all the music for cheaper stuff now.

 

The benefit of a system not locked down to fuck and back, you can ignore the legal requirements of the music copyright holders and mod back in the original soundtracks on the games:

 

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV#Restore_removed_music

 

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas

 

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City

 

[moosegrinder]

Pinch of salt required as they're probably placeholder

 

 

Maybe 

 

[Mr. Gerbik]

Lol

[SMD]

Jfc if these aren't ground up remakes they should be £30 maximum as a whole package.

[Mr. Gerbik]

Yeah. These are simply remasters. Of ancient PS2 games. And I don't expect them to add a lot of QOL features or improvements, if any, but rather take stuff out - like the music. Asking full price for a collection of upscaled PS2 games seems ridiculous to me.

 

It will probably sell like crazy though.

 

 

[Serious Posting]

I played like the first two thirds of Vice City again earlier in the year and really enjoyed it. Plenty of mods out there to tighten things up and restore removed effects, songs, etc. Pretty sure this was the guide / mod pack I used.

 

I'm very sceptical about these. R* have really mis-treated the games over the years. Just stop fucking with them!

[Dudley]

2 hours ago, mushashi said:

 

The benefit of a system not locked down to fuck and back, you can ignore the legal requirements of the music copyright holders and mod back in the original soundtracks on the games:

 

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV#Restore_removed_music

 

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas

 

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Vice_City

 

 

Yeah that thought had occurred. I bet full no effort patches will be very common almost instantly for the remaster too.

 

Assuming that's coming to PC anyway.

[robotattack]

54 minutes ago, moosegrinder said:

Pinch of salt required as they're probably placeholder

 

 

Maybe 

 

 

They've got the release date down as 31st December 2021, so I'd say it's definitely a placeholder. They've gone in high to try and cover themselves. 

[p1nseeker]

£70 😂😂😂

 

You need to have a word with yourself if you're paying that. 

[TehStu]

I mean it's $30 on Steam and I assume you can mod them to death to whip them into something that isn't awful to play.

[Corrogate]

If they've used a different engine then surely that's a heavy remaster? Bar voice acting; and they'll add RTX for PS5/XBox1 versions?

[Chindie]

£70, lol.

 

This is one of those things where no good can come of remastering them. No-one is going to be that bothered by whatever little work they actually do to them, and then to basically use that as an excuse to, at least, double the price, can't fail to leave a sour taste.

[Boozy The Clown]

Greedy Thieving Arseholes