10 Video Game Announcements NO ONE Wanted To Believe

A good remaster can mean the rejuvenation of a fan-favourite classic that updates the graphics and irons out any kinks while allowing a whole new generation of gamers access to it. But a bad one can be a shameless cash grab by developers – or worse. Whatever the reason, one of the most sinful things developers can do is delist the old game, removing it from purchase and forcing you into buying the new game – whether good, bad, or pretty much the same.

This is precisely what happened when Rockstar brought forth their remastered set of three classic Grand Theft Auto titles - GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas – which they packaged as The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. With the 2021 announcement of The Definitive Edition for PS5, PS4, Xbox X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and the Rockstar Games Launcher, previous versions of all three titles in the bundle were removed from console and PC digital retailers.

Nobody could believe it, as no matter what quality or condition the remastered games were in, it meant new gamers, or old gamers wishing to revisit the games in their original form were blocked out and locked into buying the trilogy. Such was the backlash and outrage (including review bombing to a score of 0.4/10 on Metacritic) that Rockstar actually partially rolled back on its decision and reinstated the old games on its PC store.