As we speak, after some leaks and rumors, Rockstar Video games launched Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Version on Steam. The excellent news: It’s on sale, which means you may seize all three traditional video games for affordable. The dangerous information: It’s the identical infamously messy remaster that hasn’t obtained a considerable replace since practically a yr in the past. As you would possibly count on, people ain’t too pleased in regards to the state of affairs.
Let’s rewind a bit to November 2021. A number of months after we first reported that Rockstar was planning to remaster Grand Theft Auto III, Vice Metropolis, and San Andreas, the video games launched throughout PlayStation, Xbox, Swap, and PC through Rockstar’s personal retailer. And whereas they may look good—particularly in a number of the city areas at night time—they have been bug-riddled disasters stuffed with all types of strange visible glitches and errors. The group tried to repair a few of this, however many modders determined to not assist after Rockstar spent the previous few months earlier than launch going after PC mods and fan ports of previous GTA video games.
Rockstar finally needed to apologize to the group as a result of the remasters have been so terrible. Ultimately, Rockstar and Grove Road Video games did repair some of the issues gamers had cataloged on-line. However the final main replace for the sport was in February 2022. Since then, the remastered trilogy has remained in a reasonably tough state. So it doesn’t look like the most effective time to launch it on a brand new platform and but, right here we’re.
Launched earlier in the present day, the remastered GTA Trilogy is now out on Steam. You is likely to be pondering that, after such a protracted wait between the preliminary launch on PC through the Rockstar Launcher and in the present day’s Steam launch, Rockstar has put out a brand new, huge patch to additional enhance the gathering. However whereas that’s a wise thought to have, that’s not really the case. As an alternative, these are the identical damaged and buggy games that haven’t obtained any form of replace in any respect since the tiny efficiency replace in October 2022 that didn’t repair something.
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To be truthful, GTA: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition is at present on sale on Steam as half of a bigger Rockstar Video games deal, so that you’re solely paying $30 for 3 video games. However it nonetheless appears fairly audacious to ask individuals to purchase one thing that has been so constantly reported as damaged, buggy, and dangerous for the final two years and never even supply any form of small patch to enhance issues in any respect.
Kotaku has reached out to Rockstar about any future updates to the remastered GTA trilogy.
Naturally, gamers aren’t pleased about this. On Twitter, in response to Rockstar’s tweet announcing the Steam ports, you will discover a variety of offended and confused gamers, uncertain why this took so lengthy, why it’s nonetheless damaged, and why Rockstar thinks that is okay. There aren’t many evaluations up for any of the traditional GTA video games within the assortment, however early evaluations are stuffed with individuals complaining about bugs or that the video games don’t run properly in any respect on the Steam Deck.
Whereas some maintain out hope that Rockstar will nonetheless swoop in, patch these video games up and repair all of the visible bugs and different issues, that appears extra unlikely after in the present day. As an alternative, it appears that is pretty much as good as issues are going to get. To not point out that Rockstar has plans to launch these video games on the Epic Retailer later this month, too. It does appear as if the time to repair GTA III, Vice Metropolis, and San Andreas has run out and Rockstar is able to transfer on. What a disgrace.