An ex-Rockstar North worker has eliminated a number of blogs detailing the event of video games similar to Grand Theft Auto III, Vice Metropolis, and the cancelled spy sport Agent after the studio itself submitted a written grievance by way of electronic mail (thanks, Time Extension).
In a collection of posts dubbed ‘Inside Rockstar North’, Obbe Vermeij, who beforehand labored on the studio as a technical director, extensively detailed his expertise engaged on a number of tasks throughout his tenure from 1995 to 2009. It appears, nonetheless, that Rockstar North has taken concern with the extent of element included, with Vermeij stating that it might probably damage the “Rockstar mystique”.
This is what he needed to say on the matter in a latest submit:
“Immediately (22 Nov 2023) I received an electronic mail from R*North. Apparently a number of the OG’s there are upset by my weblog. I genuinely did not suppose anybody would thoughts me speaking about 20 12 months previous video games however I used to be fallacious. One thing about ruining the Rockstar mystique or one thing.
“Anyway, this weblog is not necessary sufficient to me to p*** off my former colleagues in Edinburgh so I am winding it down. I am going to perhaps simply depart a couple of articles with anecdotes that do not have an effect on anybody however me.
“I’d love for Rockstar to open up about growth of the trilogy themselves, nevertheless it would not appear to be that is going to occur anytime quickly.
“Possibly I am going to strive once more in a decade or two.”
It should not actually come as an enormous shock given Rockstar’s ironclad insurance policies round conserving its tasks and inside workings secret, nevertheless it’s a disgrace that the studio is not keen to permit some perception into tasks that are actually many years previous.
GTA III, Vice Metropolis, and San Andreas are actually playable on the Swap by way of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Version. We weren’t too sizzling on the discharge when it launched again in 2021, nonetheless, calling it “a poor port, a shoddy, stuttery, low-resolution mess filled with bugs, glitches, audio issues and extra in addition to”, in the end awarding it a rating of 4/10.
We revisited the compilation earlier this 12 months and acknowledged that the video games are “higher than they have been, however nonetheless not nice”.
