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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition
"Grand Theft Auto: The Inferior Edition" is an even worse set of remasters of the already shoddy and massively overrated "Grand Theft Auto III, "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Despite being terrible games with crappy graphics, out-of-date controls, and bad physics, the original trilogy has a cult following of nostalgic Millennials missing the days of being a a rebellious child shooting and driving over a bunch of poorly programmed AI. People actually went out of their time to make mods for these games to make them "look better," even though said games were as "realistic" as a 1960s superhero cartoon.
Then, Take Two Interactive began filing Mass Takedowns on trilogy mods. This caused loads of butthurt, but also made fans think that they would be getting legit "remasters." Rumors began to spread, and when the games were finally officially announced, fans were actually excited and for a brief moment actually quit sperging about Grand Theft Auto VI (nah, of course, that will never happen, dumbass).
Take-Two Interactive released a trailer for these "remasters" and despite the characters obviously being created in the Sims 4, and the trailer showing only one tiny snippet of game-play, people praised the trailer and were somehow still HYPED for these games. People really defended the soulless visuals by saying "it's ty1n t0 b3 l1k3 th3 a org1nl gaems" despite looking nothing like the original game's art style.
When the game finally came out, it was fucking atrocious, worse than the mobile app ports. The graphics were even shittier than the trailer, the games' frame rates dropped rapidly, and shitloads of bugs and glitches that were not in the original game sprouted out. Want to buy the original versions of the games? Too bad motherfucka, as The Rock✡ knew to delist them so people weren't able to play the superior original versions. The game couldn't even be downloaded on PCs due to Cockstar Games' absolute failure of a "Game Launcher," leading to it being removed. The game was quickly review-bombed by fans and destroyed any hope anyone had left in Rockstar Games.
The remaster vs. mods
Before the game came out, Take-Two Interactive (commonly mistaken for Cockstar Games) went on a massive Takedown spree on any mod for the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy, as they were better than the shit "Remasters" that Take-Two would quickly shit out by using AI. The remasters that one basement-dweller created are leagues better than official products made by Rockstar Games... oh wait, they didn't make the game, and neither did that shitty mobile game studio. It was a fucking shitty, poorly-programmed AI.
Basically here's what the mods have over the official games:
- They actually improve the horrendous graphics of the original instead of making them worse by remaking them to look like plastic crap.
- ALL the assets are remade by a human, and not some mentally retarded AI
- ALL the assets are original and not shitty stock graphics.
- It has actual lighting and has fog, unlike the remasters which have the lighting effects only to make the game look even shittier and just said fuck fog entirely.
- The signs are not remade in the overused generic fonts you see everywhere and do not contain typos that ruin the jokes of the original.
- The rain has DEPTH and doesn't clog up the fucking scream in this bright ass white color so you can actually see things, and isn't mapped to the fucking character, and isn't a buggy mess.
- The textures are mapped PROPERLY.
- The render distance isn't fucked, and doesn't make the game feel like a Sims 4 expansion pack in terms of how big it looks.
Bugs and glitches
No surprise because these games are based on the already horrible mobile ports of the games known for having a shitfest of bugs and glitches not in the original games that these games will retain all the same bugs because no human being is actually working on the games nobody is going fix them. All bugs from the mobiles ports are back, but somehow even worse than before. On top of that, there are even more bugs and glitches to fuck you around.
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Improvements
So then what did they do to improve the original GTA games you may ask?
Well, to answer this question - ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING. NOTHIN', ZIP, NADA.
Nothing was done to change the fact that the games are still the same pieces of dogshit. The environments are as already-dated when they came out. The controls are the same clunky garbage; The gun controls are still stiff, and a pain-in-the-ass to use. Other Remasterers have done much more to improve their respective games - but for GTA - nothing was improved. This makes sense, as shitty AI can only fuck things up, and cannot improve anything.
Other reasons why the originals are superior
- You can listen to all of the shitty songs on the radio station, while the Remaster removes songs from Vice City and San Andreas. No more driving to "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson while getting yourself in as much legal trouble as him, or driving to "I Don't Give a Fuck" by 2Pac so that you're more likely to get shot than he was.
- There are cheat codes that you could fuck around with that are gone in the "Remasters".
- San Andreas lacks the multiplayer component that no one played, so Cockstar can sit there by making underserved jew gold of wannabe gangster kids stealing their parent's credit cards to buy "Oppressor Mark II."
- The "Photo Gallery" in San Andreas is gone, so you won't be able to take pictures showing off how awful and lulzy the vidya's quality is.
- The original games aren't so poorly coded by the developers. Which of course has fewer bugs than the atrocious edition.
Reception
The games have been widely panned by everyone for having worse graphics than the original, framerates dropping to insanely low levels, and the shit tons of bugs and glitches. Rockstar knew this game sucked and had no faith in the AI, so they placed a review embargo on the game even past the release. The game was massively review bombed online for making their shitty games only liked because of nostalgic reasons and nothing else; even worse.
Rockstar Game Launcher
As it turns out, PC Gamers aren't even able to experience these atrocious remasters, as the games won't frickin' work!! This is all due to the Cockstar Game Launcher which was only designed to give Cockstar even more Jewgold, instead of them giving a tiny cut to Steam. The Game Launcher is behind all the other terrible and unnecessary game launchers that these companies shit out. When you try to boot the game up, it doesn't even fucking work. This led to the game being taken off the web store. And what if you'd already bought the game? TOO BAD! You see, you still won't be able to play the game, this is thanks to the Game Launcher's "always online" requirement which was added as to stop a bunch of l33t Hackers from modding these shitty games. People started raging about buying a game they aren't able to play (despite the game being known as a shit product,) until Rockstar Games actually let people refund their spent money.
Hackers attack
The hackers, after Take-Two tried to DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING so people were forced to buy their inferior remasters, decided to strike and do what Cockstar didn't do: have an actual human being check on the game and fix it. They were able to fix the bugs and glitches that Cockstar didn't and fix the graphics mapping. They also were able to make the games look not like complete and utter shit by putting time + and effort into making new character models, lighting, and effects, instead of getting an AI suffering from Assburgers.
Most lulzy, however, they were able to find the missing songs that Cockstar was too lazy to pay licenses for, and the "Hot Coffee Minigame." That's right - deep in the files, the Hot Coffee Minigame can be found for your dreams of seeing CJ having sex with his girlfriend. You won't be able to jack off though, as the graphics are even uglier than the original, and the animations are fucked up. Nah, just kidding, tbh you will probably wet your pants as you are a beta permavirgin who will get horny from anything...
Apology
Soon after, Rockstar Games desired less of the (deserved) massively negative attention to their company, so they released an "apology" designed only to make the company look good. Then, Rockstar Games tried to pull a Brianna Wu and falsely claim that they're being "harassed," when nobody is going to spend the time to look up who made the game.
— Sincerely, Rockstar Games | ||
Of course, nobody bought the apology, as they obviously knew the games were shit. They also made the superior versions free through 2022 If you already bought the game, so people won't have to be stuck with inferior versions.
Gallery
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In addition to having many of its original songs removed, the "Definitive Edition" is also censored. -
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"Hey, Rajesh, this blurry letter is an 'h,' right?" -
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Ray Machowski has experienced a number of emotions in this remaster.
See also
- Grand Theft Auto III – Superior version
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – Superior version
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Superior version
- Grand Theft Auto IV – A better game.
- Grand Theft Auto V – The reason why Rockstar doesn't make games anymore.
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| Article of the Now November 22 & 23, 2021 | ||
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