This was coming, wasn’t it? Once we reported on unrest among fans relating to the restricted GTA Trilogy media obtainable previous to launch, we at all times bought the sense a sh*tstorm was brewing – and, effectively, right here it’s. Yesterday we shared some scruffy screenshots from the PlayStation 5 and PS4 remasters, and now we’ve got a glitch compilation to hammer dwelling the purpose. Sadly, the framerate isn’t faring much better, both.
It is price remembering that the Grand Theft Auto video games have been already very janky on the PS2, so it’s not unusual to see helicopters crashing within the background of cutscenes – that’s only a consequence of the difficult sandbox methods Rockstar created. Nonetheless, a few of these bugs do teeter on amusing, like Cesar’s hotdog fingers and a bikini-clad native’s exaggerated posterior animations. This video compares the compilation to Cyberpunk 2077, however we wouldn’t go fairly that far.
Nonetheless, it’s clear that Rockstar – and, certainly, Grove Avenue Video games – has its work reduce out getting this venture again on observe. A number of the points which can be cropping up, just like the unstable framerate, are unforgivable – particularly when you think about that one of many main functions of those ports is to get them working cleaner on extra trendy {hardware}. It’s additionally price remembering that Rockstar threatened to sue numerous modders working with the unique code, and delivered this as an alternative.
