Rumor: GTA IV and Max Payne 3 Remasters Likely in Development

He doesn't need to wait to play. Treating Max Payne 1-3 like they are NES games is nonsensical.

This obsession with graphics is so exhausting.
NES games have aged WAY better than Max Payne 1-2 graphically though and play beautifully even today. I can't stand early 3D games, gross. Unplayable.
 
4 was such a mess in a technical sense. If they outsource it to some cheap studio like the trilogy remaster then it's doomed. It would have to be a full port into the 5/6 engine for it to be worth playing.
This is being done by Double Eleven, a renowned UK support studio and developer that has also made the PS4, Switch and PC versions of Red Dead Redemption, all of which were impeccable ports.
 
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Max Payne 3 was fantastic. Replayed it recently with Xbox bc - awful resolution and rubbish frame rate, but still held my interest to the end. Would be all over a remaster/remake!
 
GTA IV is my favorite in the series. This is day 1 for me if it's true.

Yeah, GTA IV is my 2nd favorite GTA title after Vice-City and I can absolutely see them butchering the hell out of it.

Also, as with Vice-City remaster, you just know music is going to get cut :(.
IV has already had a lot of music cut unfortunately at least on PC. You can mod the original music back in but I feel like the mods never worked for me.

It's not GTA 4 if you're not listening to Vladivostok FM exclusively.
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Max Payne 3 is a great time. It's a very satisfying yet straightforward shooter. And it still looks fairly good today.
I replayed the PC version very recently, bloody great. I don't know what the console versions looks like, but the pc version holds up well.
I'd still buy a remaster though.
 
GTA4 is my favorite one, and the pc version is STILL dogshit so hopefully this is true so we can get a version that's actually decent.
There are ways to make the game run smoothly and look great. I know because i did it myself. Smooth 60 fps with no microstutters and very good IQ.

But yeah, by default it's terrible.
 
GTA IV is my favorite in the series. This is day 1 for me if it's true.


IV has already had a lot of music cut unfortunately at least on PC. You can mod the original music back in but I feel like the mods never worked for me.


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Last time I played through on PC I did use music mods, but it's been a while since.
 
There are ways to make the game run smoothly and look great. I know because i did it myself. Smooth 60 fps with no microstutters and very good IQ.

But yeah, by default it's terrible.
I'll need to look those up. Only way I've gotten it to be relatively smooth has been to drop everything as low as it would go (except resolution), which seems really extreme on a 7000 series Ryzen and a 2080 Super.
 
I'll need to look those up. Only way I've gotten it to be relatively smooth has been to drop everything as low as it would go (except resolution), which seems really extreme on a 7000 series Ryzen and a 2080 Super.
PC Wiki has all the information you need. DXVK and Fusion Fix are the most important mods but you can improve it further.


The game was perfect for me at 60fps/1080p, full details and some extra stuff from mods on an i5 4670 and 1060 6GB.
 
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How many here killed Dwayne instead of Playboy?

Dwayne is a downer but Playboy is such an over the top asshole I doubt many people chose to kill Dwayne over Playboy. Doesn't help that you get his penthouse after you kill him which is an insane incentive.

Even Rockstar was like "c'mon buddy, this shouldn't be a hard choice".
 
Could never deal with MP3's cutscene to gameplay ratio. I've had that game for ages and always nope out by the second stage because I'm so tired of the endless cockblocking. I just wanna fucking TPS my balls off not be interrupted nonstop.

Aka I'm here to beg for a skip cutscene button.
 
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I can already see the Polygon/PC Gamer/The Gaymer headlines: "Rockstar rumored to remaster violently racist Max Payne 3: remember the game from 2012 where you live out the white man's fantasy of mowing down hordes of economically disadvantaged Brown people?"
 
Fix up the on foot controls, especially the gunplay.

Add checkpoints and an easy restart checkpoint button.

60fps at 4K.

That's all I want. Anything more would be a bonus.
 
PC Wiki has all the information you need. DXVK and Fusion Fix are the most important mods but you can improve it further.


The game was perfect for me at 60fps/1080p, full details and some extra stuff from mods on an i5 4670 and 1060 6GB.

The his fixed basically all my issues! Had a really nasty texture loading bug, but figured out the game was only detecting like 128MB of vram. Adding a launch augment in stream fixed that right up!

Further bonus the mod lets you remove the piss filter R* put on the game lol
 
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GTAIV was alright but the expansions The Lost and The Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony were infinitely better (especially the latter). Hopefully they're included in the package.
 
GTA IV really needs a remaster/remake. The DLC stories were worth the purchase alone but playing it through BC on xbox it looks terrible. I loved bumping into people on the stairs and watching the physics take over when they'd fall lol.
 
If they are going to do a bare bones port then at the very least they need to match the work by the fusion fix team for the pc port since they've just showed this off
 
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This is fake, put it in the dumpster beside the fake FF9 remaster rumour.

Remember when people thought that was a thing years ago?

Pepperidge farm remembers.
 
Would love a remastered of GTA IV by far my favourite HD GTA.... Those physics were fucking amazing lolol


Max Payne was probably the game I least played of all Max Paynes games.....but I remember the gameplay being so good ....
 
This is fake, put it in the dumpster beside the fake FF9 remaster rumour.

Remember when people thought that was a thing years ago?

Pepperidge farm remembers.
I don't know about Max Payne, but GTA 4 seems quite convenient for them; probably will be something a la RDR1 but it's practically free cost for them with potential revenues.
 
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