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The GTA Remastered Trilogy Appears To Be Real, And Coming To Switch (kotaku.com) 36

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
After months of rumors and speculation, Kotaku has learned from sources that Rockstar Games may be remastering three classic Grand Theft Auto games. Currently, it appears these games will be released later this fall for a multitude of platforms, including the portable Nintendo Switch. From a report: For the past year, rumors have swirled on Twitter, Reddit, and various message boards that Rockstar is working on remakes or remasters of classic, PS2-era Grand Theft Auto titles. These rumors only grew in popularity as Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, used DMCA takedowns to remove classic GTA mods from the internet while announcing that the publisher had three remastered games in development. While Kotaku can't confirm what all of those teased remastered titles specifically are, we can confirm via corroborating details from three sources that GTA remasters are currently in the final stages of development.
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  • I'll be buying this on my Switch, on my Xbox, and on my PC... I will wait for it to go on sale on one or more of those platforms, but I have a feeling Switch will be a day 1 purchase...

    I do most of my gaming in bed right before I fall asleep, or if I'm stuck in an airplane or waiting room.

  • They keep making them and some of you keep buying them. But why?

    What's next, Bethesda will make a Skyrim: Remastered that brings back some of the mechanics broken by Special Edition? But still no co-op/online mode.

    • They keep getting bought because people are idiots. They either have sold their console to Gamestop to buy the newest yearly overpriced sports game, or are too lazy to reconnect the old consoles.


      On a different note, Skyrim will forever be best as a single player game. I don't see how adding a friend to it will make it any better. Look at Fallout 76.
      • Last year when I paid 60 dollars and re-played resident evil 2 with its beautiful updated graphics in HDR/4K on my 65 inch tv on my Sonos surround system and instant load times I was thinking this is an amazing experience, but damn I’m sure an idiot. I really wish I could of connected those yellow red and white rca cables from a ps1 to the back of my tv and played the game of the original CD-rom with a wired controller in complete stereo sound. It’s 2021 my man, if 60 dollars is a big deal to
    • We mustn't,

    • Maybe because technology keeps upgrading. *cough* RTX.

    • There's no "must" to it. People buy what they want. I wouldn't go for a remastered Skyrim (yet anyway) but I'd absolutely pay for a remastered Morrowind.

      • Games are purely entertainment. You don't have to buy them. We also don't have to watch the next Star Trek or Star Wars show and movie, We don't have to listen to Rap, Country. Pop, Rock, Classical.... Music. Even if an artist you like released a new album, you don't have to get that either.

        If you want to get it, all power to you. But you don't have to get it if you really don't want to. You can still get your PS1 plugged into your old TV and you can enjoy the game as long as you like.

    • Because, and I know this is hard to imagine as a slashdot poster, but there are these sort of new human beings that people call children, and because they're like totally new human beings they haven't played all the old video games.

      I hear they come out of these things called "girls". I know it's weird.

      • I tried to get nieces and nephews to play some old NES and Genesis games, some challenging platformers and shmups. They thought most of the games were way too difficult. I think Balloon Fight ended up being the only thing easy enough for a modern gamer.

        Memorizing jumps like in Mega Man. Clunky UIs. Morrowind-style RPGs with no quest compass. and a lot of other features of old games are considered bugs today.

        I get that you believe that old games can be new games to the next generation. But I think in practic

    • I'm not much of a gamer at all - my Switch and PS4 are literally dust collectors.

      But I will buy this.

      Why? Nostalgia and the fact that Vice City and San Andreas were games that I played a ton.

      I hated GTA IV and didn't finish it. GTA V was "meh." I played both on the PS3.

      I don't know if I outgrew games or just became disinterested in newer titles. There were a handful of games for the PS3 that I played the hell out of - like Fallout 3, the Arkham games and the first The Last of Us. But there were virtually no

      • GTA:VC was probably the most played game in my household during its era, with some random jRPG we got into being a close second. That they licensed all those songs for the soundtrack was pretty amazing and really added a lot to the feel of the game. It's like nostalgia layered on top of nostalgia.

        But I've played VC again and again over the years and it doesn't have the same draw to me as it initially did. Partially because I've already played through it three times. But also because there are other games wh

        • Monetary incentives? It seems to me that this approach is gradually killing interest in new games online. Pay for this, pay for that .. I chose to give up these games altogether and use sports betting to get my share of the thrill. Something like that - https://1xbet.com.gh/ [1xbet.com.gh] Yes, this is a different kind of hobby. Yes, maybe I regret a little about the old days. But I definitely don't want to pay them when there is an option where they pay me.

    • I can see reporting it to new platforms, so we can enjoy the game, however I am not a big fan of remastering it.

      Now reporting a game to a new modern platform may be more work than what you might expect.

      A lot of Old Games from the 1980's and early 1990's were meant to be played on CRT TV's with composite display, and really low DPI. So the game makers take advantage of color bleeding, and the jagged prospers in Color TV for the pixels, where a simple port we would have a dithered blocky mess, where the game

    • They keep making them and some of you keep buying them. But why?

      I love those guys and would to casually play them on a portable system. One of the reasons I enjoy Virtual Console games, for example, is they provide save states that the original games didn't have, making them more portable-friendly. Now I dont know if this port will have that or not but it would affect my interest in purchasing it. Just being able to 'pause' the game for days at a time would be a big win, those games come from an era where you were really anchored to your spot in front of the TV.

      On a

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      by lazarus ( 2879 )

      They keep making them and some of you keep buying them. But why?

      Because good gameplay is hard. There are plenty of games who's gameplay is so good I would buy a remastered edition of it every year until I died of old age. And it would appear that will be a while...

  • Is Nintendo going to be okay with the very adult themes of GTA on their platform? They've been historically pretty uptight about that kind of stuff.
    • No Hot Coffee mod!
    • Nintendo has not given a shit in decades. No More Heroes on Wii. Other M rated games on WiiU. Questionable RPG content on 3DS. On switch there is partial nudity with Bayonetta games. Thereâ(TM)s also games like Payday 2 and every other sexualized and violent anime based games on the Switch. This isnâ(TM)t early 1990s Nintendo of America anymore. Thereâ(TM)s also that Super Mario Bros game where in World 69, Luigi gives anal to Peach while taking anal from Toad.
    • They are fine with it. As long as it stays M for violence. I mean DOOM 2016 is on the Switch.
      Nothing sexy is allowed on Nintendo products. Boobs no. Violently beating hookers, yes. .
    • They released doom on switch and The Witcher, I'm pretty sure it'll be just fine with GTA. Heck, there are borderline hentai games on their Estore.

    • Is Nintendo going to be okay with the very adult themes of GTA on their platform? They've been historically pretty uptight about that kind of stuff.

      Everyone remembers Nintendo censoring Mortal Kombat, noone remembers them bringing it back for Mortal Kombat II because they listened to their customers.

  • It is so fast that in front of my it grew and now is already in the "remake" phase.

  • I wish they would give the original game and its seqel some love. We have enough 1st and 3rd person sandbox games now to keep anyone looking for content busy basically forever.

    What would be fun is the original overhead-platformer games redone for modern hardware - so you have like 1/2 meter satellite photo real graphics. Maybe they could add some "bullet time" effect were you can instant-replay fatal scenes or mission completion events in first person.

    • Same,

      I really wish I could easily share the experience of the original GTA with my daughter, meaning readily available and runs well on a console already plugged into the TV. I don't care that much about graphics updates, just fix the jerky camera and we're good.

  • It's all just remakes now.
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