GTA Original Trilogy Remake

They should have focused on enhancing one of these games, rather than all 3. At least that way they'd have more time for refinement. And then they could use that work to build on the others and we'd all have something to look forward to.

I just wanted a playable GTA on Switch. Would have accepted a straight port running at 720p, and a locked 30 if they really didn't want to put the effort in.

PC owners getting the originals as an apology....


Hi everyone,

We want to provide an update regarding the unexpected technical issues that came to light as part of the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.

Firstly, we want to sincerely apologize to everyone who has encountered issues playing these games.

The Grand Theft Auto series — and the games that make up this iconic trilogy — are as special to us as we know they are to fans around the world. The updated versions of these classic games did not launch in a state that meets our own standards of quality, or the standards our fans have come to expect.

We have ongoing plans to address the technical issues and to improve each game going forward. With each planned update, the games will reach the level of quality that they deserve to be.

A new Title Update is on the way in the coming days for all versions of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition that will address a number of issues. We will update everyone as soon as it is live.

In the meantime, it pains us to mention that we are hearing reports of members of the development teams being harassed on social media. We would kindly ask our community to please maintain a respectful and civil discourse around this release as we work through these issues.

While one of the goals of the Definitive Editions was to allow players to enjoy these games on modern platforms for many years to come, we also understand that some of you would still like to have the previous classic versions available for purchase.

We will be adding the classic PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas back to the Rockstar Store shortly as a bundle. Additionally, everyone who has purchased Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition for PC from the Rockstar Store through June 30, 2022, will receive these classic versions in their Rockstar Games Launcher library at no additional cost. We will update everyone as soon as these are back in the Rockstar Store.

Once again, we'd like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding while we work through these updates to ensure these games meet everyone's justifiably high standards.

Sincerely,
Rockstar Games

The controls don't work properly for the RC missions. It says you can use the bumpers to rotate/steer but they don't actually do anything, so they are even less fun than usual.

I wonder if there are issues with EA who now own Renderware via acquiring Criterion that roadblock updating the original engine. Surely the 'authentic' GTA experience would be to update Renderware, on the PC side I've read that it was software rendering only but I'm sure they could do something that gets it working cross platform well enough to run old GTA games well.

Unreal 4 is clearly quite versatile but I don't think it was the right tool for this job.

It's more likely that they needed to port it from scratch because the original version can't run at 60fps without bugs (GTA3 is okay, the other games get progressively worse).

Maybe EA said "Renderware is dead, but we can offer Frostbite at a discount" and Rockstar said "lolno we'll make do."

The cycle begins again. We have a patch coming, reportedly 18GB, I'm not sure if that's massive or about what you'd expect these days especially when addressing issues spread across three games.

I expect DF will give us a heads up on what it does or doesn't do.

It's almost as if they could have spent the time they're using on fixing all these bugs and improving parts into actually making a proper definitive edition. But obviously that would have been too much work and they can't spare that time because they're very poor.

Saw a screenshot of the PC version, where I guess modders found touchscreen controls

Its not going to matter to rockstar as people will buy GTA6 (even its got a 6 hour SP mode with shitty grind MTX ridden MP where you can spend £1k a week to skip the grind) Sure people will buy GTA5 port for new consoles

Also there is majority of gamers that will angrily defend broken and mtx ridden games. look at all the dimwits on EG going full gammon face over criticism over battlefield

The physical release has been pushed back to mid December.

So either they managed to get ahead of the problem, delaying the print because they knew this was going to blow up in their faces...

Or what I think is more likely, they're sitting on the release until further patches roll out, then it's down to the customer to download a day one patch to hopefully deliver the games in a slightly less embarrassing state.

I think the fixes so far have been too tentative, it's like they're trying to hit the mid-point between old and new versions when they should be going all in on effects like fog. San Andreas is supposed to feel like a smoggy urban area bathed in warm hued haze.

Saw that the other day and thought I might finally give Vice City a go on PS Now...

Gone from the service already. Fuckers!

Was the PlayStation version of this ever fixed, in terms of the game-breaking bugs getting squashed?

It's down to £16 now, so I'm wondering whether to give it a try.

Oof!

Thanks, dogbot - not what I was hoping to hear, perhaps, but your honesty is appreciated