GTA 4 "should be remastered" says veteran Rockstar dev as modern port rumors surface: "It's a great game"

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While we're all waiting on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the most recent delay – with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new trailer only making things harder for us – rumours of 2008's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 4 returning to modern platforms have appeared. Ex-澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rockstar Games tech𒁏nical director Obbe Vermeij is among the group of people who want Niko Bellic to return.

Vermeij worked at DMA Design-turned-Rockstar North from 1995 until 2009; during that time he worked on the likes of Space Station Silicon Valley, Manhunt, and some oꦓf those GTA games that people seem to like. When asked by a fan how he feels about the rumours of the port of what was one of the last games he worked on at Rockstar, he was keen to see it.

"I hadn't heard those rumours. I think GTA 4 should be remastered. It's a great game and there have been a number of successful remastꦛers recent💎ly," he responds.

Rockstar is one of the companies which hasn't really gone to the remaster well all that much, with the initially disastrous Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition being the only real attempt. However, when talking about a GTA 4 remaster in the past, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Vermeij mentioned the quality oܫf the triღlogy, saying:🌃 "It would be better if Rockstar did quality remasters of their classic games."

The company typically goes for straight rereleases over updated games, as seen with the previous LA Noire and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption ports (the latter of which 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:did get a 60fps patch, to be fair). So if and when a ওGTA 4 re-release does come to pass, I'd put my money on it being a port with minimal improvements over a full remaster situation.

Hopefully 🌃⛦it does happen, and we get to go bowling with our cousin again to pass the time until GTA 6 releases next May.

An ex Rockstar dev has suggested that GTA 6 production really started in 2018 despite the 12-year wait.

Scott McCrae
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