10 Video Games You Regretted Playing
3. GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition
Oh to revisit Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas in the Grand Teeft Auto universe. But with HD graphics, better UI, and improved controls and checkpointing! But things went very, very wrong.
Handed off to Grove Street Games, the whole package lacked the care and consideration players expected of a Rockstar game.
The new graphics were worse than the original in a lot of ways - things we've touched on numerous times since the so-called Definitive Edition released.
With graphics missing or poorly hitboxed, formerly passable terrain becoming indestructible, and many of the models just being stretched upscale models done by a janky AI program, it wasn't an improvement. And that was when the launcher issues were fixed and we could actually play it.
Worst of all - while we were wallowing in our regret, we couldn't even go back and play the originals because Rockstar had them all removed from the digital marketplaces a week before release. So for those who hadn't played them in their original run, they had extra tears to shed walking into the disaster that was the GTA Definitive Edition.