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title: How Not To Do A Remaster
subtitle: Grand Theft Auto Trilogy ain't all that gangsta
date: 2021-11-14T09:50:00+01:00
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- retro
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What's more iconic than riding an eighties car in the sunset near the beaches while listening to _Flash FM_---_music for the me generation_? The trouble is, Rockstar (or Grove Street Games, the company behind the remaster) decided to remove songs from the much-loved radio stations. There goes my playlist. To be honest, I couldn't care less whether or not it's because of licensing issues: the point is that the "Definitive Edition" is no longer _definitive_.
What else, let's see here. Just pull up a random recent GTA Trilogy article on any news site and you'll be flooded with [reports of refund requests](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/11/gta-trilogy-could-be-this-years-cyberpunk-2077-as-rockstar-is-flooded-with-refund-requests). The game is apparently released in a very buggy and incomplete state. Players simply exiting a building are killed for unknown reasons. Cars suddenly explode on intersections after a short drive. Due to the strange decision to remove the fog system, that cleverly hid the early noughties' shortcomings such as a very limited drawing distance, the popping effect of cars appearing and disappearing is laughable. In case you'd like to to laugh (or cry) along:
What else, let's see here. Just pull up a random recent GTA Trilogy article on any news site and you'll be flooded with [reports of refund requests](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/11/gta-trilogy-could-be-this-years-cyberpunk-2077-as-rockstar-is-flooded-with-refund-requests). The game is apparently released in a very buggy and incomplete state. Players simply exiting a building are killed for unknown reasons. Cars suddenly explode or disappear on intersections after a short drive. Helicopter models are duplicated in an endless loop. It rains inside. NPCs are killed by cars in cut-scenes. Due to the strange decision to remove the fog system, that cleverly hid the early noughties' shortcomings such as a very limited drawing distance, the popping effect of cars appearing and disappearing is laughable. In case you'd like to to laugh (or cry) along:
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I wish big companies would stop abusing patches and required internet downloads as an excuse to touch up vital parts of the game after the release date. Even Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons is guilty. One and a half years after the release of the game, they finally decided to reintroduce _The Roost_, the museum café. In the (3)DS version, it was shipped on cart.
Nintendo Life's [review conclusion](https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition), awarding it a staggering 4 out of 10:
> Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition on Switch delivers three of gaming's true greats in a shockingly rough package that manages to suck pretty much all of the fun out of Rockstar's stellar crime epics. This is a poor port, a shoddy, stuttery, low resolution mess full of bugs, glitches, audio problems and more besides. If can grab this one on any other platform, we'd advise you do so or, at the very least, hold off until it's been patched and hopefully improved in the future. As things stand, this is a very, very long way from 'definitive' — this isn't the way we want to remember these games.
Oh hey, it's me, your retro guy, scoring another point in favor of physical releases!