Poll: Did You Buy GTA Trilogy?

Nah, I didn’t buy it. Not the biggest GTA fan out there. I did play them back in the day but only messed around with them and didn’t really but in that effort. I did play GTA V and I actually beat that game. I was gonna give the trilogy a chance but all negative feedback put me away from it.

I won't buy lazy train wreck ports of near 20 year old games especially as I still have my PS2 copies.

Rockstar should be dead to anyone paying attention the last 7 years.

Nah, just went and downgraded SA and added mods to all three games to play soon, the remake is just a waste of money, maybe if all three games go down to $10 I'll buy it.

I was a mega GTA fan twenty years ago... I loved GTA 4+5 and RDR 1+2 too, but they were more slow + serious didn't have the same magic as the GTA trilogy. I'd buy budget price to see how my old favorites hold up, but otherwise I'd rather spend money + time enjoying newer titles.

I’m personally waiting for the physical Switch version to release, since there is no PS5 disc version announced as of yet.

I got it for purely nostalgia and haven't been playing anything else at the moment so I said why not. I feel that it would be the only reason for most who buy this game. It does have some issues but not to the point where its unplayable on PS5. Looks and runs pretty smooth for me. GTA III does have the most issues. Vice City looks great. SA has the most attention but has some hiccups as well. This is def unacceptable for Rockstar standards. I do recommend saving your money on other titles for most who are not in the same boat as me or wait till they patch it and/or goes on sale.

I very almost pre ordered. Glad I didn’t with all the issues. I’ll play GTA3 on PSNow in December and luckily my backlog is keeping me pretty busy so I might pick it up in the future when they go on sale.

@Telekill The last 7 years? Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing and that was 3 years ago.

Was considering the physical version but wont bother now. I still have my ps2 originals, and rockstar need to be sent a message that it isn't good enough. Sadly they will still sell enough copies not to care - but this clearly isnt the same company of 10 years ago. Such a shame

Have played San Andreas on the devils machine (X box), really not impressed in the slightest with how it runs, so will not spend any money on this…..

I bought it on Switch so I can play it at work and yes the performance isn't great and the looks are questionable but I've still had a blast playing Vice City again. Fundamentally these are still the same 3 games they always were with marginally better controls, which were never great in the first place, yet they were still amongst the best PS2 games

They obviously should have done a far better job but as I said, I'm still having fun

Nah I didn't buy it and I'm not planning to.
The only way I'd play old games, is if they remade with the effort of Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, Demon's Souls, RE2, RE3 or FF7, Shadow of the Colossus or Spyro Reignited Trilogy. These ports and remasters ain't doing it for me.

Pre-ordered and having a ball with them tbh.

99% of the issues i’ve been seeing in memes and videos just aren’t in my game. Which I guess is great for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

Never expected a Crash/Spyro/Demons Souls level job. Honestly got exactly what I expected so i’m happy

@get2sammyb basically my thoughts, they should have been much better but they're still good games underneath

I'll wait and see if they can pretty them up. Pretty sad how bad these ports ended up being.

I'll definitely buy once the price is right. The original games are brilliant, but these inconsistent remasters are not worth full price.

Not to mention they're strong candidates for PS Plus in a couple years.

not at all, not my cup of tea, to many good options to play something recycled

@Jacko11

But for how much they are charging they should been so much better , Ok not complete remake like demon souls but a lot better than this, but it's rockstar fault for hiring grove street who just don't have the skill , just seems they mostly do mobile games so this was probably too much for them.

Just think grove street where a cheap option and it's proves it you pay peanuts you get monkeys!

@JAMes-BroWWWn Exception to every rule. They went from two or three games released a year during the PS2 gen to one game released during the entire PS4 gen. Now they can't even be bothered to do ports correctly? They've become pathetic.

Nope.

Dump it in with rehashed Crysis and Pokemon and MassEffect and Zelda and Skyrim and Life is STrange and Advance Wars and Alan Wake... Not wasting money and time with rehash - make something new.

As a huge fan of all three games on PS2, I was extremely excited for this trilogy, but ultimately, I’m glad I held off of preordering.

However, GTA III, in particular, is a very important game to me as it came out during what was an incredibly difficult time in my life while I was in my mid-twenties, and it just helped me escape for so many hours on end.

So as long as the games various issues are remedied, I’ll still be picking the Trilogy up on PS5. I’m just hoping it does get fixed, so I can buy it!

I bought it pre order and i can say it was a big let down i wish they would of taken their time to remaster it. Because graphically the bugs are outrageous they should have done it the way Mafia did and improved the game all the way around. And they also should have made the controls more modernized they said they would have GTAV controls but they didnt do that all the way across the board. IE: you have to have a machine gun to shoot out of the car in GTAV you can shoot out of the car with a pistol.

@The_Pixel_King you have a while we still haven't got wind of an patch yet. But to me GTA III didn't have any major bugs it was San Andreas that had the most followed by Vice City.

@smbeats yes they do show up on ps app they just didn't show until 3pm on thursday.

It's going to need a lot of patches before I consider it.

Perhaps if it was as cheap in price as it was in the quality control...I might buy it in a fire sale

At least we can all look forward to the next rockstar release on ps5.
GTA5 - anyone heard of it?

Pre-ordered it. Only played GTA 3 so far. Apart from the absolute disaster of the rain, I really like it.

Just a shame Forza Horizon 5 is taking up all my time, and now Halo multiplayer is out, I’ll have to give that a go too.

Im on to vice city now and enjoying more than i ever have. Played the ps4 version last month and couldn't get into it. Not having that problem this time. I just wanted better graphics and smoother controls and i got that and more.

High expectations can be a bitch!

Nah I’m happy remembering the originals in all of their ugly glory.

No, but I'm very interested in the upcoming Oculus version of San Andreas.

Such an overrated trilogy in my opinion. The series began to get interesting starting GTA IV and was near perfect with GTA V. During the PS2 era, I rather played shenmue to get an idea what future open world games would be like, even if the game is by far not perfect.

I'm a massive GTA fan, but I don't want to be ensnared by nostalgia and return to the GTA 3D Trilogy. They were excellent games back then, especially my personal favourite GTA San Andreas. I'm more than happy to let sleeping dogs lie with the Definitive Trilogy.

If Rockstar can release a proper, well-polished remaster of GTA IV, which includes The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, I will purchase it ASAP!

I will buy it later next month. Either a physical PS5 edition, if there even will be one or just the digital version.

I never played the originals so I was looking forward to this release. After seeing everything… nah. I’ll just play the San Andreas port on my VITA or something for free if I get the itch to play an older GTA down the road since Rockstar removed the ability to buy the original versions.

Imagine how GTAV is going to turn out on the next gen console’s. I’m goin tell y’all this, the Sh#t will continue when GTAV drops on next gen

Will wait and see how the patches fare. I'm sure it's not as bad as it's made out to be, but the way the rain is would make me have to play as a prom queen candidate who has just had her hair done before her big night... But no one had an umbrella.

I bought it for my switch lite so I can play them handheld and apart from some input problems that the original games also had, I think it's great. Having said that I am huge fan, I have all three on PS2,3 and 4, I have the psp games and I have the mobile versions so I was always going to be happy with this trilogy

The digital foundry article is an excellent (and damning) read

Knowing the Devs were the clowns who messed the mobile ports, no proper gameplay trailer and no review copies send out before release it was clear this was going to be a shambles.

Duly proven right.

Surprised the review here wasn't more scathing as a 20 year old game with horrific frame rate and frame pacing issues, messed up models, geometry issues, rain that's completely broken and AI upscaled textures which are broken simply shouldnt happen.

This is a rush job so that it doesn't clash with the re release of GTA V next year.

This is up there with Cyberpunk and realistically is worse given CP was a new game and this is a re-release.

@BuGGy2DaB it shouldn't thankfully because it's Rockstar who are doing the next gen version... They've let a useless studio who messed up the mobile port 10 years ago port and "upgrade" this nonsense again. That's the problem.

I watched the Digital Foundry video on YouTube. The main takeaway point? The rain animation is horrendous lol

@Alpine021 and the frame rate is highly unstable.

I bought them all, but I do wish I had waited until they were reduced in price, £55 was too much for those games, they should have been at least £35 instead.

Haven't bought it, don't know if I will and that's disappointing because these are 3 classic games with Vice City and San Andreas in particular standing out as two of my all-time favorites. We'll see what the updates do, if there is significant improvement, I'll buy, if not, well, it is what it is.

@suikoden yeah maybe so.

Tbf I got it for £40 from PSN India so £13.33 each game for what i’ve been playing and what I was expecting is a pretty solid deal imo.

Honestly feel like its all an expectations deal. People get too carried away and only hurt themselves.

@carlos82 Pretty much the same as me... I bought it for portable play on my Switch Lite. The resolution is low and the framerate is not great, but I've still had fun with Vice City so far. Considering the closest to a handheld version previously (not counting phone versions) was Vice City Stories (which ran pretty bad), its fairly playable. There are weird glitches though, why are cars randomly driving about in the airport! Needs more work, the games feel unfinished.

The argument that "people complaining probably never even played the games!" Doesn't really ring true anymore.

lol no. I'm not the biggest GTA guy and the remake just look awful.

@Agramonte

I don’t think Advance Wars Remake counts. We haven’t had one since 2006’s Days of Ruin.

I’ll pick up the Remake for Advance Wars. I never played it on GBA; I had the two on DS. So for me they’ll be new games.

As for the trilogy, I’ll wait for a bargain bin price. The only one I’m really interested in is Vice City because I never played all the way through it. I beat 3 (PS2) once and I’ve played through San Andreas (PC DVD version with the really cool travel book style case) too many times to count.

I'll pass on these remasters for now. Maybe i will reconsider after i have tired of playing GTA6.

Honestly, I would have loved to experience them again, but with how they were handled I’ll probably never will.

@get2sammyb agree with this. I'm enjoying what I'm playing but there's a lot of room for improvement. And that that damn rain! I hope they have a disable weather effects option in the next patch. I completed GTA3 at the weekend but I'll wait for the first patch before starting on VC.

Was reading online they’re being absolutely flooded with refund requests and it’s the lowest rated game this year. Even lower than eFootball.
So clearly it’s real where people are not at all happy with the game hence the negative reviews are also mostly at least, all genuine. As supported by the evidence of people who are en masse submitting refund claims

@Telekill |Tell you what, stick those on and give them a go. I tried twice in the last two years and deleted them both times. So, so bad.

Will definitely buy them, but someways down the line when they are sub £20.

Haven't bought it.....

GTA3 was the first open world game I played many years ago. Blew my mind.

Recently purchased sleeping dogs for £3.50. Really good game! I get some crashes on PS5 but highly recommend for a cheaper alternative

Haven't bought it. Was wary with the slow-drip feed of info from Rockstar,to the only trailer clearly only showing cinematics,to their outright refusal to show any gameplay or confirm for a so-called "definitive edition remaster",if the full PS2 original soundtracks were returning until the internet started leaking it! 😕

Already owned the "ps2 classic" versions of Vice City & GTA SA,(& indeed on ps3 along with LCS/VCS too), which were functional ports rather than great. Felt a bit short-changed the "ps2 classic" PS4 versions lacked the full soundtracks but could grudgingly concede it was a lower end product being sold at a budget price point.

However,for a $100(in my region),full-price release its been obvious Take-two had taken that same limited budget effort & apart from some dodgy visual "upgrades",put near zero efforts into making it the definitive remaster they claimed it was & thought the GTA/Rockstar branding would allow them to get away with it.
A "definitive remaster,wouldn't feature dodgy remodelled textures which modders had put to shame with their own efforts only to be served with DCMA claims or worse!
A definitive remaster doesn't reuse the same soundtracks as its budget 2014 mobile/ps3/4 versions & hide the fact the full PS2 original tracklists wouldn't return until game footage started leaking.
A definitive remaster shouldn't have spelling mistakes,frame rate issues,invisible car glitches, removed fog walk glitches,menu sfx all from Gta SA,rain textures going thru the board walk...just so many things that show a lack of care,or a budget driven effort that stands apart from efforts like Bluepoint's ps3/ps4 efforts,,or EA of all people doing Burnout Paradise & Mass Effect to name a few!

No, I didn't. I used to love GTA but V has turned me off to the whole thing. I don't even feel excited about VI, assuming Rockstar is capable of actually completing a project.

People think they don't want or need to because of GTA Online but that's not how companies work. Success pushes production but Rockstar can't get anything going anymore, here's your proof. They couldn't even make this themselves or pay a top tier remaster studio to do it. They're the new Bioware in a lot of ways, except Bioware bounced back when the trilogy that put them on the map got a remaster. At least they did that right.

I’ve preordered the physicals on the switch. Not cancelled yet.

Hhhhheeeeellllll no!

I’ve tried a number of times to get into GTA, but for the life of me it’s just never clicked.

No way in hell was I about to throw down $60 for three games I’ve owned for well over a decade, no matter how “definitive” they were.

The fact that they turned out not to be definitive after all is just a hilarious punchline.

I bought it, but the Switch physical (preoreder but paid in full). Hope there's a decent patch by the time it releases.

Yes and enjoying playing it

@Jacko11 same here. Maybe cause it's on pc, I've not really run into any of the problems that have been reported. Even the rain is completely fine.

@Telekill I mean Red Dead 2 exists lol but ok…..

went to the land of seven seas to play the game on pc, charging almost £60 for ps2 games is daylight robbery and i'm not going to give in and pay that much with how broken the trilogy is anyways, smdh!

@tomassi that's a very long wait for that to happen! lol good luck 😂

Off topic, but related to the Grand Theft Auto series. Just picked up the original GTA 5 version 1.00. you know with the Crip walk song. This was the last great Rockstar Games game. It seems they lost their way after the PlayStation 3 era. Played Red Dead Redemption 2, but it was just so awkward controlling Arthur and the ridiculous amount of button presses to search corpses, dressers & tiny font.

After the DF breakdown video, I'm not touch this game. No way.

I'd rather put my PS2 disc into my PC and just play with an emulator.

@huyi nah, will be a year at most I reckon. Especially with the way these have been panned in the media. The PS2 ones recently withdrawn from the store were always about £15 for the trilogy in sales, so these will be eventually.

I never buy games, even the big AAA's, until they are under £20 as I can wait. I'm not that bothered getting stuff day one as there are millions of other games out there.

@JAMes-BroWWWn RDR2 is the pinnacle of open world games. The level of detail is staggering. The world feels lived in. Flora and fauna are mesmerizing. There is simply nothing like it. It's a cowboy simulator.