Red Dead Redemption 2 Current-Gen (+GTAIV, but unlikely) - Possible current gen ports?

[TheOriginalGunslinger]

16 hours ago, Lexiture said:

For me TBOGT is the best piece of SP GTA content. Pure cinema. I've been thinking about it. Remembering stuff. I need this remaster now

That trailer song is so good!

 

 

[daltontigerboy]

Best case scenario at this point is that they’re doing a 4k60 port of the Xbox 360 version of the game with FSR2 and high quality shadows just like they did with the RDR1 port. Literally just repeating what they did for RDR1.

 

That would mean we get the best version of the game, along with great image quality and all the graphical effects - with none of the downsides of the janky PC port.

 

That would easily make this the best way to play GTAIV outside of the PC version w/ a f*ck-ton of mod fixes.

 

Hopefully the studio doing this port (D11?) has done their homework and knows how bad the PC version is…but I’m not holding my breath.

Edited May 15 by daltontigerboy

[Whippin]

5 hours ago, TheOriginalGunslinger said:

That trailer song is so good!

 

 

 

This trailer captured in its perfection, the essence of TBOGT, a great DLC. I understand the approach they wanted to give to GTA IV but a lot of things fell by the wayside. Once you finished the game, the possibilities were almost nil in gameplay. Even so, the physics engine was spectacular, although sometimes the handling of the vehicles was a bit exaggerated. I remember the improvement they made with the bikes in the both DLC's. Nostalgic times.

Edited May 15 by Whippin

[Jimbatron]

On 5/13/2025 at 5:20 PM, Silver said:

Yeah no way they're bringing multiplayer back, if they didn't with RDR1 then there's no reason to believe they will with IV.

This for me is the real tragedy.

 

IV’s modes were superb (one especially but they were all great). They deserve to be preserved and available for people to experience, not just consigned to the memories of those of us around at the time.

 

People may point to V’s Online having far more player numbers, but V’s sales success were fuelled by IV’s fan base indirectly promoting it in my view. And the reason it’s lasted so long is that it’s been constantly updated with DLCs. IV had none of that, but the modes were so good that it kept high player numbers for 5 years.

Edited May 15 by Jimbatron

[TheTelevisionworldguy99]

If GTA 4 remastered happens I wish it's would include dlc/Chinatown wars as a bundle 

[VictorVance56]

4 hours ago, daltontigerboy said:

Best case scenario at this point is that they’re doing a 4k60 port of the Xbox 360 version of the game with FSR2 and high quality shadows just like they did with the RDR1 port. Literally just repeating what they did for RDR1.

 

That would mean we get the best version of the game, along with great image quality and all the graphical effects - with none of the downsides of the janky PC port.

 

That would easily make this the best way to play GTAIV outside of the PC version w/ a f*ck-ton of mod fixes.

 

Hopefully the studio doing this port (D11?) has done their homework and knows how bad the PC version is…but I’m not holding my breath.

I think you're right with saying that it'll be a 4k60 port etc.

 

If it's the same crowd that did RDR, Double Eleven, then I imagine they'll be well able to manage it, regardless of how sh*tty it was ported to PC. I think it was said years ago that the original code for Red Dead Redemption was an absolute sh*t show which is why it didn't get a PC port for so long. 

I have faith in the port.... if it's Double Eleven, and to be honest, after the 'DE Trilogy', I don't think R* want to make much more f*ck ups.

[jonnhy_xv]

16 hours ago, Malolaat said:

yea i mean
even if we will get 

4k60

enhanced antyaliasing

language upgrade for some people

 

then we are good

and even maybe we will get some vegetation update like trees and grass you know, maybe some texture update but idk

 

if its releasing this year my bet is august or october

yeh I'm guessing release around fall and

rdr1 / l.a noire type port is probably what we get .

Really hoping it's really cuz God my ps3 slim is 13 years old and i don't wanna clean that old hag ! 

Edited May 15 by jonnhy_xv

[videotechuk_]

Didn't RDR1 port take up to a year to develop? As long they're not changing any assets and just merely porting it with some quality of life improvements, I'm guessing release is surely targeted for this year? It will be interesting to see if Take-Two is expecting any financial jumps later this year during the earnings call today, but might be hard to tell due to Borderlands and Mafia coming out. 

[Malolaat]

2 minutes ago, videotechuk_ said:

Didn't RDR1 port take up to a year to develop? As long they're not changing any assets and just merely porting it with some quality of life improvements, I'm guessing release is surely targeted for this year? It will be interesting to see if Take-Two is expecting any financial jumps later this year during the earnings call today, but might be hard to tell due to Borderlands and Mafia coming out. 

Maybe there will be some hints about remasters from Take Two, during the conference of course, but I doubt it honestly

 

I think this port will release around the conference in August or November of this year
Like Red Dead Redemption in 2023 on PS4 which was announced just before the conference, and came out in August

[NightmanCometh96]

Just as talk of a potential IV rerelease ramps up, of course the latest NVIDIA drivers have borked 32-bit DXVK on 50-series cards. I literally can't launch the game unless I remove DXVK and settle for the native, unoptimized DX9 renderer. 

 

The subpar performance alone should be reason enough for R*/D11 not to skip PC, despite IV already being available on the platform (just rebrand the 2008 port as "GTA IV Legacy" if need be). Surely, the positive reception to and success of D11's work on RDR1 has convinced R*/T2 to do more than the bare minimum of just releasing the new versions on Switch and PS4. The game is in dire need of native DX12/Vulkan and modern anti-aliasing techniques.

Edited May 15 by NightmanCometh96

[daltontigerboy]

One thing I hope they include that’s still in the files but was deactivated for the final game is the dramatic & thematic death music:

 

Probably wishful thinking though since this wasn’t apart of the original game, but a man can dream.

 

[Lemoyne outlaw]

8 hours ago, Jimbatron said:

This for me is the real tragedy.

 

IV’s modes were superb (one especially but they were all great). They deserve to be preserved and available for people to experience, not just consigned to the memories of those of us around at the time.

 

People may point to V’s Online having far more player numbers, but V’s sales success were fuelled by IV’s fan base indirectly promoting it in my view. And the reason it’s lasted so long is that it’s been constantly updated with DLCs. IV had none of that, but the modes were so good that it kept high player numbers for 5 years.

yes very true. i would much rather play gta 4s free mode than deal with the toxic sweaty oppressor mk 2 filled trash they call a multiplayer mode any day.

[Bizz913]

1 hour ago, NightmanCometh96 said:

Just as talk of a potential IV rerelease ramps up, of course the latest NVIDIA drivers have borked 32-bit DXVK on 50-series cards. I literally can't launch the game unless I remove DXVK and settle for the native, unoptimized DX9 renderer. 

 

The subpar performance alone should be reason enough for R*/D11 not to skip PC, despite IV already being available on the platform (just rebrand the 2008 port as "GTA IV Legacy" if need be). Surely, the positive reception to and success of D11's work on RDR1 has convinced R*/T2 to do more than the bare minimum of just releasing the new versions on Switch and PS4. The game is in dire need of native DX12/Vulkan and modern anti-aliasing techniques.

Now we need all Rockstar Games 64 bit ports everywhere even including Midnight Club 2 (It has fictional cars), MP 1, 2, 3 and Manhunt series and GTA IV obviously. I was going to set this up but now I am screwed, Nvidia Quadro P2000, wanted to use DXVK with it.
Linus Torvalds is right, f*ck You Ngreedia.

8 minutes ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

yes very true. i would much rather play gta 4s free mode than deal with the toxic sweaty oppressor mk 2 filled trash they call a multiplayer mode any day.

Or rather I fly that flying stuff with trainers in single player, I do. GTA online can go to outer space or near the sun.

[SnocDaHoodge]

I wouldn't mind a simple yet effective port like this, certainly sold me with RDR1 PC port despite the pricing. I'm surprised it took this long for this to even happen. One thing I hope they'll do is upscale the UI like they did with RDR1's PC port.

[Agent Edward]

While I don't think I'll buy this immediately, I would definitely buy both GTA4 and RDR1 together when they were on sale, just like I did with the PS4 versions of GTA5 and RDR2 two months ago (easy trophies).

 

Right now I only care about GTA6, nothing else.

[daltontigerboy]

All I’ve heard from today’s earnings call to support this is “we will release 4 new iterations of previously released titles”.

 

Not sure if a port of GTA IV fits into that statement, sounds more like they’re talking about sequels as opposed to ports/remasters.

 

Hope Tez is right about this and I’m not getting my hopes up for absolutely nothing. 

Edited May 15 by daltontigerboy

[HoveBeachHitman]

Where did you see that? I haven't seen anyone talk about these 4 iterations. If that's the case, that means GTA IV will be one of them because they definitely means a remaster/port.

[DMMacdonald]

1 hour ago, daltontigerboy said:

All I’ve heard from today’s earnings call to support this is “we will release 4 new iterations of previously released titles”.

 

Not sure if a port of GTA IV fits into that statement, sounds more like they’re talking about sequels as opposed to ports/remasters.

 

Hope Tez is right about this and I’m not getting my hopes up for absolutely nothing. 

When they say “4 new iterations of previously released titles”, I wonder if they’re including Lost And Dammed and The Ballad of Gay Tony in there? Or will they be counting it as one as part of GTA IV along with Max Payne 3?

[videotechuk_]

Can confirm this is the case. There’s an unannounced title 

[Lexiture]

I suppose they'll announce this soon. I hope it releases this Summer. Assuming they'll want to space it from the VI preorders which I assume will go live before christmas season.

 

It would be a good gesture to include it in the GTA+ catalogue on day one, considering last year's price increase.

[Spider-Vice]

Yeah, there is one title that is unaccounted for in Fiscal Year 26 - between FY2026 and 28 they have 8 new iterations of previously released titles in the pipeline. 3 are in that list and for FY26 (based on the dates), so maths say 5 remain unannounced. According to the text, 4 are for Fiscal 27 and 28, meaning there's one left, presumably for FY26.

[mp412rex]

i wanna play it again so f*cking bad, i dont like niko's potato face (everyone in that game has bulbous noses) but the whole game is really good, i miss liberty city

[propanecocaine71]

18 hours ago, TheTelevisionworldguy99 said:

If GTA 4 remastered happens I wish it's would include dlc/Chinatown wars as a bundle 

That would be cool because I never played Chinatown Wars. 

[alex3]

2 hours ago, mp412rex said:

i wanna play it again so f*cking bad, i dont like niko's potato face (everyone in that game has bulbous noses) but the whole game is really good, i miss liberty city

I can already hear the iconic theme song.

[I 4M TRASH]

If this port happens and I hope it does as I cant play it on playstation right now, then do you think they will add in a small Lucia easter egg? Nothing big, just a mail box with " Caminos " or something like that? Would also be a good opportunity for them to remove the " Florida " reference from the game. 

6 hours ago, DMMacdonald said:

When they say “4 new iterations of previously released titles”, I wonder if they’re including Lost And Dammed and The Ballad of Gay Tony in there? Or will they be counting it as one as part of GTA IV along with Max Payne 3?

The GTA 4 full port will likely include all DLC all rolled into one, I doubt they would get greedy and charge us for each DLC. Inclusion may affect the overall price of the game though. 

[Spider-Vice]

5 hours ago, I 4M TRASH said:

If this port happens and I hope it does as I cant play it on playstation right now, then do you think they will add in a small Lucia easter egg? Nothing big, just a mail box with " Caminos " or something like that? Would also be a good opportunity for them to remove the " Florida " reference from the game. 

No, no reason to. This would be untouched, or at the very most improved classic GTA IV.

[DUNK512]

20 hours ago, daltontigerboy said:

One thing I hope they include that’s still in the files but was deactivated for the final game is the dramatic & thematic death music:

 

Probably wishful thinking though since this wasn’t apart of the original game, but a man can dream.

 

sh*t is cheesy as hell, there's a reason why it remained on the cutting room floor.

 

10 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

Yeah, there is one title that is unaccounted for in Fiscal Year 26 - between FY2026 and 28 they have 8 new iterations of previously released titles in the pipeline. 3 are in that list and for FY26 (based on the dates), so maths say 5 remain unannounced. According to the text, 4 are for Fiscal 27 and 28, meaning there's one left, presumably for FY26.

RDR2 for Switch 2 and next gen consoles has to be on that list alongside GTA IV.

[Spider-Vice]

Just now, DUNK512 said:

RDR2 for Switch 2 and next gen consoles has to be on that list alongside GTA IV.

Yeah the rumour/supposed leak that just dropped makes that list be even weirder. If both are releasing this fiscal year that would be 2 unaccounted for titles, math is not mathing.

[HoveBeachHitman]

12 hours ago, videotechuk_ said:

Je peux confirmer que c'est bien le cas. Il y a un titre non annoncé. 

Thanks Ben for sharing. Yes, it seems more than likely now... We'll have to keep an eye on the Korean classification this summer!

[GTAOJA]

On 5/14/2025 at 2:41 PM, Tez2 said:

Not a remaster, and I don't know anything beyond its development being a thing.

Hello, when we say not a remaster, does that rule out any lighting or graphics improvements whatsoever (besides a resolution and fps bump), including the kinds of small upgrades that RDR1 got? Or are those kinds of small upgrades still possible?