It appears that new versions/editions of Mafia 2, Mafia 3 and Saints Row The Third are currently under way. The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has rated has rated Mafia 2 Definitive Edition and Mafia 3 Definitive Edition. On the other hand, ESRB has rated Saints Row The Third Remastered.
Unfortunately, we don’t have enough information about these new releases. My guess is that Mafia 3 will not feature major visual or performance improvements on the PC. On the other hand, we may see some graphical improvements in Mafia 2. However, it will be interesting to see whether the game will still have its NVIDIA-exclusive PhysX effects.
The ESRB has not revealed any major details about Saints Row The Third Remastered too. Since this game originally old-gen platforms, we may see some graphical changes and improvements. However, you should not expect any major overhauls. My guess is that we’ll get better lighting effects and higher quality textures.
Koch Media and 2K Games have not made any official comment yet about these new Definitive Editions/Remasters. Naturally, we’ll be sure to keep you posted so stay tuned for more!
UPDATE:
Deep Silver has announced that Saints Row The Third Remastered will come out on May 22nd. The publisher has also detailed the game’s new graphical features.
“Every weapon has been remodelled, every car has been redesigned and a vast proportion of the city has been retextured; Saints Row® The Third™ has received a full makeover. With around 4,000 assets reworked, the complete update has been expertly handled by Sperasoft. It has transformed environments, character models and visual effects, enhanced graphics and incorporated a new lighting engine.
In addition, the team has remastered all three expansion mission packs and more than 30 pieces of DLC from the original version. The remastered edition will inspire new gamers and original fans to revisit the reworked city of Steelport and revel in the glorious world of the Saints.”
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How many damn versions do these SR games need it’s bad enough at launch without all these further additions.
And yet the only re-release we actually need, a fixed version of Saint’s Row 2, hasn’t happened over a decade later. Though that’s supposedly changing sometime in the near future according to Volition.
its developed by 2 dudes in their spare time, corona chan wise, its not happening any time soon.
honestly you are not missing anything.
All they are gonna do is put on a filter, turn up boom and take it features. Then call it a remaster. If they really wanted to do work, they’d REMASTER Mafia 1.
Now that I would actually be interested in and buy minus all the tediously boring driving segments mind.
as someone who grew up with mafia 1, never found 2 enjoyable. i gave it try multiple times, never liked it. you guys the same too?
I loved the hell out of 2, Maybe it’s because I never played Mafia 1, so Mafia 2 is my first, hence my adoration. But I heard Mafia 1 was way better. Mafia 3 was a joke, could’ve been way better if they knew anything about the source material they were working with.
You WAT?
Mafia 1 on 2’s engine and graphics would be enough.
Played thru Mafia 2 twice. Can’t see playing thru a 3rd time even with a remaster. Mafia 3 desperately needs a remaster, unfortunately the game’s problem is that it is boring af and a remaster won’t fix that.
then why do you say it needs a remaster? I am confused
My point was that graphically Mafia 3 is last gen so the graphics could definitely use a remaster. Unfortunately the game as a whole sucks so bad that who cares if they remaster it or not.
Mafia 3 need fast travel feature to make it decent
and 2 isnt?
SR TT confirmed for Epic Store. Because FVCK the original owners that bought the game will all their DLC’s. Fvcking yellow f@gg0ts.
New “remaster” is s**t without original vibe. You don’t need it anyway. It’s for new PS4/XOne kids.
You’re right, i don’t need it. But i wanted it, because i love Saints Row. I will still play it cracked, even after it comes 2 steam. I don’t buy the same product twice.
If you don’t buy the same product twice, why do you ask to buy the same product? It is the same game, just with an orange filter added in!!!! You can do the same with Reshade!!!
My bad, i wanted to say that i won’t buy the game twice, at the full price. Here’s my bad. It’s not an orange filter, you’re blind as schit. Overall, stfu, and stop with the nonsense comments.
“mafia 3 definitive edition”
wut?
Gamers need it ok….. well, maybe not many….maybe just one gamer wants it…. he’s blind, but still…. that is not the point, ok? What were we talking about?
They want to milk people with a re-release when PS5/Xbox3 comes. They will probably charge full price for it too.
Also when is the saints row 2 patch coming?
asking the real question here
it seems they’ve forgotten about it
They only have a two person team working on that at the moment, in their spare time. It might take a while. The current ETA is “It will be out when it’s ready.”
Rumor is August
Mafia SUCKS
Yakuza SUCKS
Just Cause SUCKS
Sleeping Dogs SUCKS
Saints Row is the KING
King of sucking is not a good thing mate.
FPS Fan SUCKS
You forgot that in your list.
And you might be brain damaged, see a doctor. You listed Sleeping Dogs saying it sucks but think SR is good, SD puts SR to sleep on all levels, clearly you didn’t play it and think you’re a good troll, you’re not.
You’re a piece of shiit. I DID play that trash called Sleeping Dogshiit. Literally ALL the missions are 2 types of the same shiit:
Go there, beat that gangster.
Go there, beat that gangster.
Go there, beat that gangster.
Ram that vehicle.
Ram that vehicle.
Ram that vehicle.
Rinse and repeat, there you go, now you have Sleeping Dogshiit. F uck off, troll.
As much as this hurts me, i fvcking agree with you. I’m a huge fan, but this schit is not acceptable.
So you’ll get the game from uTorrent instead of Steam. Big deal.
It is a big deal because i want to buy the game, and support Volition. Not Deep Throat. My bad, Deep Silver.
I don’t understand since the existing Steam version is already very good visually. It is the same game!!!
It doesn’t look the same, at all. lol. 3 is really dated. And has aliasing problems. I have to play at 4k in order to completly get rid of them. And most textures are low res.
First time I see someone complaining about running a game in 4k lol.
If you want to have an orange tint added to the game, just use Reshade lol.
Dude. The game has a BS optimization. It’s hard to run it at 4k with a solid 60, and mods. You’re blind? It’s not an orange tint, they overhauled the cars, the characters, the textures, the lighting. lmao. I played this game for 450 hours on Steam and 1000 on 360. I can make the difference between what i play on a daily basis with reshade, and something the remaster, that is improved.
Original Deep Silver is long gone. And those who did The Third and even 4 are gone too.
I know… Volition didn’t even made the remaster. Its really BS.
So why do you still wanna support them?
I wanna give Volition the benefit of the doubt, as most of the developers don’t have a say in the exclusivity deal. It’s the publisher’s call. As for the remaster, i don’t know what to say. They maybe didn’t had a say in the whole situation. Maybe Volition works on SR5, while the others devs worked on the remaster.
F**K NO
Mafia 2 still looks great, even default one, no need for a SJW remake that will cut Playboys and other “offensive bigoted content”.
Same for Saints Row 3 – half of the game will be cut.
Mafia 2 overall looks fine. It’s the character models that look significantly outdated
No it shouldn’t die only because it’s on different store. It’s even better – it’s gonna be free legally right away.
What was wrong with Mafia 2 Director’s Cut (aka Complete), Saints Row The Third – The Full Package and Mafia 3 Digital Deluxe (Complete)?
Just making money from exclusive releases.
You do know the developer has no say in the matter, and that it is the publisher who makes the decision right? And that Volition belongs to THQ so it is not like they could change publisher, right? And that the game with all DLCs is already available on Steam?
They did not put this “remastered” version on Steam since it is the exact same game as before, only with some Reshade effects added to it!
Do you really want to pay full price for the exact same game with just some lighting effects added to it? It is like the Telltale Batman games – they just add a color shading and sell the game as a new version, and some people just buy the new version.
Did you read the article? It sounds like you didn’t read the article, since it has way more than just some “Reshade effects added to it”.
Freedom of speech as long as you agree with what we say.
Oh, for f*ck sake! Epic Games crap!
Couldn’t and wouldn’t fix the damn Mafia 3 after its release and this company expects us to pay again for that definitive edition
Been a fan since very long of saints row, I even enjoyed saints row 4 and gat out of hell, but this is garbage, if they dont give a f@@k I wont I rather see it die then buy it on epic games store that I tried and omg its like school project launcher like hahahahah I played for free world war Z for like 3 days with friends and unistalled that garbage hahah
Mafia II needs a remaster, the draw distance is terrible in that game given it’s an x360 era game
unfortunately i can’t enjoy these days because of online class bullshet.
Mafia 2 will probably get rid of everything nvidia related, and the game will.look worse than original. I bet, thia has been the trend with batmans and other remasters of famous games that had nvidia gimmicks on pc.
I like to pretend that Mafia 3 doesn’t exist. The studio decided to double down on their nonsense even after the game failed.
I like to pretend that Mafia 3 doesn’t exist. The studio decided to double down on their nonsense even after the game failed.
2008 called.
They want their sepia filter back
Look at the trailer. Remaster looks like s**t. It doesn’t even enhance graphics noticeably, only brings new dull orange lighting instead of purplish original.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/saints-row-the-third-remastered/home
Look at the trailer above. Remaster looks like s**t. It doesn’t even enhance graphics noticeably, only brings new dull orange lighting instead of purplish original.
So Steam gets SR2 Steam edition (the Best Saint Row game)
While Epic gets SR3 REMASTERED, the game that took the series in the wrong direction…. WHAT A DEAL
No.
B*tch, B*tch … Epic Store … B*tch, B*tch.
That’s what we say about your mum! Ironic, isn’t it?
Be respectful to your mom if you wants her to keep blowing your micropenis!
Oh, for f*k sake! Epic Games crap!
How good is Mafia 3 even? I never tried it. 1 and 2 were great tho.
Don’t bother if you loved Mafia 1 and 2, specially 1
Its a good action games,but not good mafia games.
Another free game since Epic has already paid for you.
Epic, make piracy great again.
Mafia 2 dont need a remaster on pc it still look good and the physx implementation is among the best one
ENB Mods but damns looks cool. I only paled SR 4 and always wanted to play other games. looks like this is my chance
Mafia 3 doesn’t require remastered,it needs complete code fixes to fix the glitches first.
only thing that really needs Remake is mafia 1. That i would pay money for. Not a Remaster. But that is probably too much work for them to cash and grab.
If it is not a Remake it is just the same game at least for PCs. For consoles you will get higher res shadows and resolution overall. Basically this is a waste of money for PC gamers because we already have all those higher settings which will be on consoles. On PCs usually Remaster means different color tone .
For a 6 gig game, Mafia 2 doesn’t look half bad.
https://i.imgur.com/LhHkRSQ.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/LhHkRSQ.jpg
LMAO Mafia has got to have one of the ugliest character models of the PS3/X360 era where you can even see their polygons.
Vanquish is only 2.5GB if we don’t count the CGI cutscenes and it looks far superior.
What about the first Mafia ???????
i think mafia 1 was the best, i would pay for a remaster or something
Look, I don’t even hate Volition, I just think Saints Row and Persona are too good for the current state of the industry. I said my reasons why SR5 should be canceled, and I want Persona 6 to never come out because of the Persona fanbase (they’re one of the worst) and Atlus genuinely being cancer with boomer practices, and not in a good way.
Or at least if Persona 6 must come, release it only in Japan and then have fans translate it years later.
@ 31 seconds you see the original and then the remaster transitions in from right to left and by magic somehow removes a ton of details/objects (building foundations, shadows, texture details etc) and nerfs the viewing distance, that’s some special fing remastering they got going on, not to mention the HL Orange box tint they thought was a nice addition. Who is in charge of the team remastering these games, a clown from SR?
If it’s not gonna restore the cut content while leaving the original content alone (save for maybe adding some actual free roam this time), then yes stay the hell away from it.