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GTA IV Remaster Hopes

Surprise that Rockstar hasn't re-released GTA IV with community-discovered performance improvements, noting they're too busy with GTA V revenue

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While the community expresses surprise that Rockstar Games has yet to re-release *Grand Theft Auto IV*, many fans believe the studio is simply too distracted by the massive ongoing revenue from *GTA V*. Some argue that an official remaster would likely be inferior to existing community-made patches, such as FusionFix, which already solve the game's notorious performance issues and restore cut music that Rockstar might struggle to re-license. Beyond the hope for a *GTA IV* update, nostalgic players remain skeptical of the developer’s priorities, with some calling for modern ports of older titles like *GTA II* or *Midnight Club Los Angeles* instead.

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I need GTA II on modern consoles. I've begged Rockstar for years but I'm just a single person in their contact form.
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For the benefit of anyone else trying to read along, it ?seems? there are 2 separate re-releases being referred to. The first was the Rockstar Classics, which were slightly more modern repackagings of GTA and GTA 2 in the early 2000s https://www.ebay.com/itm/168127378760 which came out around the time gp also got their discs for San Andreas and Vice City The second was The Trilogy, a much more current and deeper remaster of GTA III as well as those latter two OG games gp had (Vice City and San Andreas) which is actively distributed https://store.steampowered.com/sub/817628/ Speaking of all of these re-releases, I'm surprised Rockstar hasn't re-released GTA 4 recently. There are community made ways to make it run miraculously better on modern PCs as noted in https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV but I'm sure many would pay for something prepackaged (and maybe one or two other improvements). I guess they are too busy printing money with GTA V and hoping the next one will be the same :).
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> hasn't re-released GTA 4 recently I did start trying to replay GTA4 recently, and although I loved playing it the first time, this time I couldn't stop noticing that each mission's Niko/NPC dialog feels very forcefully-timed to match almost to the second how long it takes to drive to the first objective. I found it really immersion-breaking. PCGW sez “Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties” but IMO if one wants to reinstall, use FusionFix and Radio Restoration mods and no need for anything else. No packaged GTA4 re-release from Rockstar would be good enough to re-license all the removed songs anyway if the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is any indication: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/333629-grand-theft-auto... If they really wanted to get my money they would re-release Midnight Club Los Angeles on PC instead :)