It’s hard to believe that Rockstar is yet to officially acknowledge the existence of its remastered GTA Trilogy when you consider just how much has leaked already. In addition to the original round of rumours, there have been ratings listed all over the world, and now we even have access to the Trophy artwork, which was posted on the popular GTA Forums.
Here’s a quick look at the icons being used for GTA: San Andreas, for example:
Before you get too excited, it’s worth noting that these are incredibly similar to the symbols used for the PS2 ports of the GTA games already available on the PS4, although there are some new ones. In the case of GTA: San Andreas, for example, both the basketball and Big Foot are new, suggesting there may be some new tasks for you to complete in this compilation.
In other related news, Rockstar has updated its PC-based launcher, and the source code includes various references to these titles. It seems to suggest they’re running in the Unreal Engine, which has prompted some to speculate they may be remakes rather than ports. That seems unlikely to us, although we remain hopeful that all three titles have been cleaned up and modernised in key areas.
After all, some better checkpointing and a smoother difficulty curve wouldn’t go amiss in these classics, would it?
[source gtaforums.com, via twitter.com, twitter.com, resetera.com]
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If all they do is make the games look better I think people are going to be disappointed. I don't think they have aged well.
I'm okay with them looking largely the same as the PS2 versions (obviously will need to be a higher resolution) but what I'm interested in, like I said in the article, is whether they can modernise them a bit.
Obviously I don't expect them to play like a 2021 game, but they've got to add in some checkpoints, autosave, make the difficulty curve a bit more manageable.
They're still very fun games, but you need to have a lot of patience to play them now without any modern conveniences.
(I'd also suggest they should improve the controls but it's not like even GTA 5 feels that great.)
Maintaining an old engine sounds like a pain. It's unreal to see everything move to Unreal Engine, but everyone from the professors at my university to the student-run indie game groups all know what a joke Unity is aside from better VR support (more Unreal VR support being bad than Unity being good). At this point CryEngine is like Source 2, it went from mainstream to an in house engine a couple other devs are using. Frostbite, Decima, id Tech, Anvil, and the rest are in the same boat.
N.i.c.e. all those 3 games is legendary.i still got gta 3 on my ps4 pro.still fun to play.word up son
@playstation1995 The PS2 trilogy of GTA games have aged well in some regards, and horribly in others. The cities themselves are excellent, and hold up to this day. The gameplay however is atrocious. If they can pull a RE2 or FF7 remake it could be magic, but to do that to an entire trilogy is difficult. The games would need that level of reinvention on a Mass Effect Legendary Edition scale. Maybe Rockstar or whoever is supporting this will do it, or maybe it will look like the GTA V PS5 edition. I sure hope it's the former.
@get2sammyb haha true. We're so used to checkpoints I even gave up on my 2nd run of San Andreas on PS4, you fail a mission and you're starting all over. Made me wonder how I wasn't complaining back in the day on PS2, guess we're spoiled now haha.
I don't have that much faith in this release. I think it will be a graphical update, maybe a few glitch/AI fixes but nothing more. Archaic feeling gameplay is just something I think players will need to get used to if they want to return to these old gems.
@get2sammyb I'm just hoping for revamped visuals! If it's a resolution only remaster, why bother?
@AFCC Money! 🤣
I wish Vice and Liberty City Stories would be included. I'd consider getting this if those were included but if it's just the PS2 games alone then I'll pass.
I hope this turns out well. I'd love to give Vice City and San Andreas another go.
Seems like a missed opportunity to not do them, in RAGE
Yeah some quality of life improvements would be great- especially in terms of difficulty! Who remembers those God awful Vice City radio control plane missions ?? Ggrrr I almost killed the cat in a rage playing those ha ha ( not really)
If they're not full on remakes I won't be touching them. Played them the first time they released, so would need a good reason to play them again. It'll also show how much of a joke rockstar have become.
@get2sammyb for them...but what's the point for me? XD
@get2sammyb Literally just a restart mission button would be great.
@Vincent294. I play gta 3 still play well enough.word up son
Not interested at all.
I just want VI.
F**k yeh that’s awesome. I say they never release another game ever again just constantly recycle games we’ve already played. Who cares that gaming has moved on. It’s cheaper and it makes them more money. Excuse me while I go f**k myself now
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I can imagine the Big foot spotters punching the air & saying "See,I told you!!"😋 Missed an opportunity by not having something in those creepy woods in GTA SA with the abandoned hut or wheelchair or even that creepy car that rolls downhill!👻😂
All this hush hush…. I want them to just shadow drop 6 on the planet. That would truly be greatness.
We can already play these games on PS5 and they look decent enough, if they aren't doing something like EA did with the Mass Effect games then they are wasting everyone's time including themselves.
This is yet another distraction to feed the sheep, instead of them making GTA 6. For the love of god, don't buy into this.
Another boring Remaster? this making old games we've already played look a bit better needs to end. People didn't ask for this people want GTA 6 for God sake 😠
Hope there's a reference to hot coffee
All I am worried about is the original soundtrack. I hope they are retained
I’m not sure if related but they finally deleted ‘Agent’ from their catalogue of games so maybe they are in the process of adding stuff.
Update the controls and I’ll be happy. Anything else is a bonus.
Not that it matters, I’ll buy them again regardless. Haha.
*throws boxers at Rockstar
Can't wait to see which jokes have been censored.
For me to be happy with these remasters, all they need to do is:
1. Camera control on the right stick
2. Map drive to R2 rather than X
3. Make it look nice.
I’ve been trying to platinum San Andreas recently and the thing that keeps stopping me from playing the is the driving school. I know I don’t need to get golds on everything but I want to and the need to get 100% on each one is driving me crazy.
I actually went back to it a few days ago but quickly realised that the multi month break eroded my muscle memory enough to make it that much harder to get back….
That’s the main change I’d want to see to San Andreas at least. Make the schools a bit easier. Revamped controls and mission checkpoints would be nice too.
I'll tell you what wouldnt go amiss, an actual new game from them.
Honestly I just can’t wait and hope it will be good enough to play al three games like in the good ol’days
Wouldn't be surprised if this releases Oct. 22th, since thats the 20 year anniversary of GTA III.
I want more...GTA5...again and again and again into PS8 Gen... All those 3 games are AMAZING tho But not sure if I would re-buy and re-play them again. I can't see the point for me to do that even just for Trophies. Oh well.
Just freaking announce them already so we can get over being disappointed by them being lackluster remasters with some new content thrown in...
@KidBoruto You're right about everything except the new content part, I doubt we will even get that. I do refuse to believe Rockstar would be lazy enough to just put the same games that are already in the store with a tiny resolution bump.
@Glassneedles I can't do the BMX & NRG challenges & on bully I'm missing one trophy for getting the high score on all the arcade machines
@Would_you_kindly noooooooo. Bully is on my list to do after San Andreas it’s just I’ve been stuck on that and Jak 2 trophies for a good few months.
@Splat yup. Played about 15 minutes of gta3 when it came to ps4. More than enough haha
@Juanalf Sadly Rockstar has a history of doing just that with their remasters....I'd love to be proven wrong though of course.
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