An ex-Rockstar North worker has eliminated a number of blogs detailing the event of video games comparable to Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and the cancelled spy sport Agent after the studio itself submitted a written grievance through electronic mail (thanks, Time Extension).
In a sequence 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, nevertheless, that Rockstar North has taken concern with the extent of element included, with Vermeij stating that it may probably break the “Rockstar mystique”.
Here’s what he needed to say on the matter in a current publish:
“Today (22 Nov 2023) I acquired an electronic mail from R*North. Apparently among the OG’s there are upset by my weblog. I genuinely did not suppose anybody would thoughts me speaking about 20 yr outdated video games however I used to be incorrect. Something 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’m winding it down. I’ll possibly simply go away 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, however it does not appear to be that is going to occur anytime quickly.
“Maybe I’ll attempt 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, however it’s a disgrace that the studio is not prepared to permit some perception into tasks that at the moment are many years outdated.
GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas at the moment are playable on the Switch through Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. We weren’t too sizzling on the discharge when it launched again in 2021, nevertheless, calling it “a poor port, a shoddy, stuttery, low-resolution mess filled with bugs, glitches, audio issues and extra apart from”, finally awarding it a rating of 4/10.
We revisited the compilation earlier this yr and said that the video games are “higher than they have been, however nonetheless not nice”.
