What happens with GTA 1 and GTA 2 from Rockstar side?

[Ondr4H]

Im seriosly curious, becuase they used to give these games for free for long time, now rockstar act like these games doesnt exist at all.

 

I have all these games on my HDD, but why they are not selling them anywhere, or better port them on mobiles is pretty weird. They dont even have licensed soundtrack if I remember. All these song are rockstar made.

[NightmanCometh96]

1 hour ago, Ondr4H said:

Im seriosly curious, becuase they used to give these games for free for long time, now rockstar act like these games doesnt exist at all.

 

I have all these games on my HDD, but why they are not selling them anywhere, or better port them on mobiles is pretty weird. They dont even have licensed soundtrack if I remember. All these song are rockstar made.

It's probably a mix of:

1. The fact that the 2D games are so radically different from GTA III and beyond; even Chinatown Wars feels closer to the the modern GTA formula despite the top-down camera.
2. Compatibility issues with modern hardware (more so than even the unmodded OG Trilogy on PC). They could probably just put them on GOG and bundle them with something like DOSBox or dgVoodoo2 to address these problems, but read the next point:
3. Rockstar's vehement disdain towards revisiting old games (in-house) that aren't GTA V and their "all hands on deck, always on to the next thing" work ethic.

That said, I could see the PS1 versions being added to PS5 via Playstation Plus Premium. It doesn't seem like R*/T2 are entirely against rereleasing an old game if a worse, modern equivalent is not on the market (*COUGH* the Defective Editions *COUGH*). GTA 1 was included on the PS Classic, after all (although Sony used the 50hz PAL version, even on NTSC units, so it runs like complete garbage).

Edited January 24 by NightmanCometh96

[Nah nah nah Gta 6]

nothing lol

[Ondr4H]

9 hours ago, NightmanCometh96 said:

It's probably a mix of:

1. The fact that the 2D games are so radically different from GTA III and beyond; even Chinatown Wars feels closer to the the modern GTA formula despite the top-down camera.
2. Compatibility issues with modern hardware (more so than even the unmodded OG Trilogy on PC). They could probably just put them on GOG and bundle them with something like DOSBox or dgVoodoo2 to address these problems, but read the next point:
3. Rockstar's vehement disdain towards revisiting old games (in-house) that aren't GTA V and their "all hands on deck, always on to the next thing" work ethic.

That said, I could see the PS1 versions being added to PS5 via Playstation Plus Premium. It doesn't seem like R*/T2 are entirely against rereleasing an old game if a worse, modern equivalent is not on the market (*COUGH* the Defective Editions *COUGH*). GTA 1 was included on the PS Classic, after all (although Sony used the 50hz PAL version, even on NTSC units, so it runs like complete garbage).

I played GTA 2 and GTA London recently and I dont get any problem running it. If it was some patched version I dont know .

 

GTA 2 was my first gta on computer and gta 1 first gta ever played, so this makes me sad a lot.

[kobeni]

11 hours ago, Ondr4H said:

All these song are rockstar made.

Not all though. A number of tracks are from the Moving Shadow label.

[Ondr4H]

58 minutes ago, kobeni said:

Not all though. A number of tracks are from the Moving Shadow label.

Interesting, never heard of this. Thanks.