GTA Trilogy Remaster: GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas

Personally I think it looks a bit meh.

I'd like to see some actual gameplay,like a run through of a mission or something. Seems a bit weird to me that the game releases 11th of next month and the footage that's out there is mostly cut scenes. Granted those are in game but still,id like to see it in proper motion.

Something along the lines of SR3 remastered, Spyro, Crash, etc. Actually modernising them is what I wanted. As I've said a few times, although people only want to pick the parts that offend them most, is that Rockstar could have put far more effort into doing something better imo. They have the money, resources and experience, and I think this is a half hearted attempt and a cash grab. As I said, I don't know the full work gone into it, but it feels half hearted to me, when the opportunity to make them better was wide open.

And as I previously said, if they released this at the start of the PS4/One gen, it would have been far more impressive. But having seen what other companies have done with their games from the 90's, I think Rockstar dropped the ball on this. It's not bad, it's just meh, and doesn't make me want to play through them again. I also don't get the cartooney references, GTA tried to be as real as the tech allowed them at the time. All those mods they forcefully took down did a better job, visually, imo. I don't think what they did is worth the asking price, just looks like a slightly improved version, and I was hoping for a remaster I suppose.

Re: Resident Evil remakes, so because they were remade from the ground up, we're supposed to ignore the actual effort put into them compared to these? Rockstar could have made these from the ground up again, but they took (imo) the lazy and cheaper option. Because they knew fans would buy it because they're as bad as Apple fans these days.

All my opinion. I apparantly have to keep saying that.

You wanted a remake, basically. That's what the crux of your complaint is.

They remastered it but you wanted a remake.

The things you wanted are akin to what was done in remakes.

No game from the 90s got Remastered in the last few years. They all got remade (Lads, we won't talk about Night Trap).

MediEvil, Oddworld, Crash and Spyro, as such, were recreated from nothing, and were remade.

Mafia was also remade. If it was a remaster then it would had to have been made using the original game's assets. But it wasn't, so they remade it from scratch. That's why it looks so good and so on par with any other big budget current-gen title, because it is a current-gen title.

The GTA trilogy was remastered. They took existing assets and worked around them, improving them but still keeping true to the style they originally had, hence the Sims-lookalike character models. That's what they wanted to make. I don't think they wanted to do anything more than that. It was clearly deliberate.

The only way they could've improved any further was if they recreated those models entirely, but then you're getting into remake territory which is not what the devs set out to do.

Another series that got a similar treatment to GTA in some way or another was Mass Effect. They took the existing games and worked around them to improve on them visually and mechanically.

Saints Row 3 also had a similar treatment, but the difference between that game (as well as Mass Effect) and GTA is, GTA is 20 years old. There's only so much you can do with 20-year-old assets. Saints Row 3 was remastered for one generation forward, as was ME, ergo they look ridiculously better.

Nobody's saying you're "wrong" but your expectations were in line for a remake. What the devs did with this trilogy was deliberate. They didn't make mishaps or mistakes - this is what they wanted to make. Everything is up for debate whether people will like it but the devs aren't coming up with any excuses. They aren't saying they ran into technical limitations or problems. It's obvious they're happy with this. The trailer suggested as much.

I will say though; slightly off-topic, your bumming up of Saints Row 3's remaster treatment has me intrigued to go check it out lol I've only ever seen screenshots of the improvements.

You're entitled to your opinion.

Speaking of fanboys.

I made a shitposty-meme and posted it on the GTA subreddit a couple of days ago (slagging off the haters) and it blew right up 😂 I'm in hiding, that's why I've came here

That's fair enough, but is opposite to my thinking. They could have done so much better, but didn't. And I don't buy keeping with the original look, to me that's just something they're saying to avoid having to do it from the ground up. Just the way they did it doesn't sit right with me either, deliberately having mods removed so theirs would look better. It's good that 3 will be on Now, but I'll be waiting for a serious price drop or inclusion in Plus/Now at some point. And even if they did do it from the ground up, I'd be far more likely to drop 40 on each game, compared to 60 for all 3. Each to their own. To slightly go back on earlier words, yeah, the team behind it have done a good job of what they did, but it's not enough for me. They're 3 old, played to death games with a new coat of paint imo, which isn't enough to justify the price for me.

And still waiting for info on the soundtracks, especially for VC.

I'm playing Vice City at the moment and the tunes on the radio stations are cracking!

It ain't ruining anything for me. If anything it's making me look forward to the remaster a lot more.

Hope you choke-a-doodle-do

Whisht up, we don't talk about that one existing 😁

My fiancée played it years ago and she ran into a game-breaking bug in San Fierro. That was enough to put me off it. Apparently I've played a good chunk of it according to my achievements but I've almost no recollection of playing the game lol I must've blocked it from my memory 😂 It's so.... mobile-ey, if that makes sense. The UI is so BIG and CHUNKY I hate it.