Key Takeaways
- The GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition is one of the most notorious remasters of all time due to its many, many issues.
- Earlier this week, Rockstar updated the remasters to fix some of the problems, while also scrubbing Grove Street Games from the intro.
- Grove Street Games CEO Thomas Williamson has called the removal a “d**k move” from Rockstar.
The CEO of Grove Street Games, Thomas Williamson, has reacted to the news that Rockstar Games removed the developer from the introductory splash screens of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition.
Considering the fact that GTA is without a doubt the biggest series in gaming, you’d think that a remaster of the classic games that started it all would be a surefire slam dunk. That’s what we all thought when the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition was first announced, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth.
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Weird plastic graphics, bugs, glitches, text ruined by AI upscaling, and the strange removal of fog are just a few of the many problems that the GTA Trilogy faced when it released three years ago, and it seemed like it might never be fixed. That thankfully isn’t the case, though, as Rockstar updated it earlier this week and patched up a lot of those issues, while also adding in new features.
GTA Trilogy Lead Reacts To Rockstar Scrubbing Grove Street Games From The Intro
Patching up the GTA Trilogy wasn’t the only thing that Rockstar did, however, as it also removed the Definitive Edition’s developer, Grove Street Games, from the introductory screen of the remasters. The team still remains in the credits for each of the games, but they’re no longer front and centre for the previously bungled trilogy, which some say is due to an update in the terms of service.
The removal of Grove Street Games from the intro scenes of the GTA Trilogy make it pretty clear how Rockstar feels about the developer’s attempts to remaster the classic trilogy, and it seems that negative opinion is shared by the studio itself. As pointed out by Twitter user SynthPotato, Grove Street Games CEO Thomas Williamson tweeted in response to the removal.
Williamson started by saying they were speaking “entirely hypothetically” before going on to say that it’s a “d**k move” from Rockstar to remove the primary developers from the credits, especially since some of the fixes in the update were provided by Grove Street Games and kept out of players’ hands “for years”.
Speaking entire hypothetically: It’s a dick move to remove primary developers from credits in an update, especially when an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed out of players’ hands for years. – Thomas Williamson
Although Williamson seems to be unaware that Grove Street Games remains in the main credits for the GTA Trilogy and has only been removed from the intro splash screen, it does suggest that the relationship between Rockstar and Grove Street isn’t exactly a positive one. That’s not so surprising considering how the remasters launched, but it is a surprise to see it aired like this.
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