However, this claim was undermined when codes were released on web forums for the PlayStation 2 Gameshark and AR Max cheating devices that demonstrated that the controversial content was, indeed, built into the console versions. In December , U. This bill did not become law and expired at the end of the th Congress without further action. On January 27, , the city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive , the game's publisher, accusing the company of failing to disclose the game's sexual content.
They are required to "clearly and prominently disclose on product packaging and in any promotion or advertisement for electronic games, content relevant to the rating, unless that content had been disclosed sufficiently in prior submissions to the rating authority.
In attorneys brought several class actions alleging Take-Two committed consumer fraud. In December , a settlement of the litigation was reached. A court hearing was already scheduled on June 25, Frank previously told GamePolitics that the lawsuits were meritless and extortionate. In December , Take Two Interactive approved a class action settlement with an exchange or refund for the original game copies.
According to the final report [2] , only 2, people were reported to have returned the game, compared to over twelve-million sales, for which the plaintiff's attorneys expressed disappointment.
Frank expressed that this was further proof that the case had no merit. Rockstar halted production of all versions of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and planned to release a censored version of the game, which intended to conform to the initial "M" rating, later that year. As of July 23, , the PEGI rating for the game remained unchanged, although it was likely that the PEGI sexual content label was going to be added to the game cover.
Nicknamed the "Cold Coffee Patch" by some, the patch fixed many performance issues and bugs. However, the most notable addition was that the patch disabled the controversial "Hot Coffee" scenes, even if the "Hot Coffee" mod was reinstalled. Actor James Woods who voiced Mike Toreno in GTA San Andreas and is the only voice actor to have spoken out publicly on the subject stated that he was not aware of the Hot Coffee mini-game's existence during development and was vocally upset in having participated in the game as a result, implying that he would not have done so had he known about it.
Rockstar vowed legal action against any sources that revealed how to access the Hot Coffee mini-game but it appears that they no longer enforce this policy. The 2. The 3. GTA Wiki Explore. The Games. The Vehicles. Community Noticeboard About Staff Promotion. Media Trivia Talk page rules Blocking. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Register Don't have an account? Hot Coffee Modification. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? The re-released versions are completely shit when compared to the originals. It's not a difficult leap to make: if you want consistently good reviews for your game, make a good game. Regardless of a company's reputation or history, the new shiny object generally distracts the masses with ease. So, reviews tend to be exaggerated.
Sometimes I've seen an old movie or album I liked that got bad reviews and I was glad I didn't have such easy access to reviews. It boggled the mind that companies keep doing this. The bulk of sales and profit come in the first few weeks after launch, so getting the launch right is critical.
Instead they push out buggy crapware and end up issuing refunds. Indeed the Switch version looks worse than the first Cyberpunk Playstation release which got pulled by Sony for how incredibly bad it was. It deserves it 0. And before someone says "underpowered hardware", the Switch is perfectly fine playing The Witcher 3, so not being able to play a game that came out a decade before is inexcusable bad optimisation. It's back up now. And the version my son has been playing on Switch is pretty great, except maybe for the fact that they removed too much fog in San Andreas, and now you can see one city from the others, making the world feel smaller.
I've been thoroughly enjoying San Andreas on the Switch. Only had three issues so far: 1 Cesar's hands were messed up. I'm sure that will get patched soon, it is a well-known issue.
How this made it past testing is bizarre, but it's not exactly a big deal. They definitely should ha. Also have seen an invisible bridge somewhere in the sticks in San Andreas. Considering what they've done here and the great improvements in graphics and control, I have no trouble paying for these games for a third time 1st on disc, 2nd on Steam. They are some of the best games ever made, made better, with with acceptable loss of some songs and mods for now.
Obviously not just a new lipstick on a pig. Then it would not have missing features from the original. They tried to rewrite it, and it turns out, the original coders were more talented.
No, they rewrote the engine, and then used automation likely some shitty script which they then market as "AI" to translate the original game into the new engine.
Honestly never played GTA2, but I loved the first game. Is it worth playing? I thought it was a very good sequel. It's been some time since I played either but I remember enjoying them both.
They used to have them available as free downloads on the Rock Star Game website but I don't see them up there any more. The tests they are required to pass are things like "does not crash completely" and "doesn't corrupt your save games". They don't test that the game actually plays well, or looks good, or isn't full of micro transactions and pay-to-win. Even back in the day when games came on cartridges that was true.
Sonic 3D is one of the most well known examples - it passed QA because they put in an exception handler that displayed a "secret" level select menu, so when the game crashed instead of locking up or resetting y. Is this the same ScreenRant which is running stories which amount to nothing more than a list of memes about how much worse the new version looks than previously [screenrant.
I suspect the whole thing was done by some interns. I purchased the Bioshock remaster for Switch when it came out and was pleased with the quality of it. Nicer graphics and the gameplay was smooth. However I learned years ago never to buy a Rockstar release for PC. I bought GTA3 for the PC when it was originally released and was unable to play it for 6 months until a patch was released for Radeon. If the game is as bad as the reviews are making it out to be, I'll just wait until it's heavily discounted and try to grab it then.
It's clearly not worth what. There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead. Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool and take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach. However, for folks who bought the game on PC, they've been unable to play the game since just shortly after it was released.
Now three days later, [PC] fans are still unable to access the game they bought days ago with no update from Rockstar on when the GTA Trilogy will become playable again. The remastered Grand Theft Auto trilogy has had a very, very rocky launch , with players across all platforms reporting various graphical bugs, gameplay glitches , and other annoying changes and tweaks to the classic PS2-era games.
But while players on Xbox One or PS5 or Switch are dealing with annoying bugs and odd visual problems, players on PC are left unable to play any of the games included in the collection. In a review Screen Rant writes that all three games "look better here than they ever have before.
The visual improvements don't discount the fact that there are a lot of things missing in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition , including basic functions like the series' iconic cinematic camera mode which premiered in GTA 3. Both of these camera angles were also missing in previous re-releases of GTA 3 , but not including them in what is called the Definitive Edition feels like a mistake.
The ability to instantly restart missions after being killed, busted, or otherwise failing is also much appreciated. Of the reviews recorded by PC users on Metacritic, the combined score is a miserable 0.
It peaks at 1. This is the end of Rockstar, this is just too much," opines one particularly unhappy Xbox One customer, who has the highest number of "helpful" points They were the top. They were the best there ever was. They showed other developers what can be done. I just can't believe that the end of Rockstar would be like this Oh, and one more thing. IGN reports that the game also appears to contain files for the infamous deleted sex mini-game "Hot Coffee.
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Re: Score: 2. The thing you dont understand is that game logic and such is all handled by middleware and scripting, not only agnostic to the rendering technology, but also literally agnotic to the contents of the programs binary.
It also makes loading slow
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