16x the details!
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Czech video game website Games.cz gives the Definitive Edition a well deserved 3/10. *chef´s kiss 
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It’s baffling how some “journalists” could give these games such high score, the Switch version especially
Do they have no shame?!
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They all do it to stay on the publishers good side, they won’t risk getting blacklisted by them, they wouldn’t get the games early anymore or wont get invited to parties and events by the publishers or devs.
Most of them are fakes anyway. Look at the previews of cyberpunk or mass effect Andromeda. They all praise the games until the come out and then when the fans are pissed they’ll change their minds and say the games are shit.
I honestly don’t understand why the Publishers work like this anyways: they hype up a game, release it in a broken state to make the Shareholders “happy”, then apologize to the fans and then throwing more money and manpower on to make them playable, while getting lawsuits and suffer heavily on their reputation.
I simply can’t believe that this approach is cheaper than to make sure that the game is working properly before releasing it.
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I only know that this is true for some indie devs, but the contracts between publishers and developers can often be VERY much in favor of the publisher. Here is a thread of someone’s experience:
https://twitter.com/jakefriend_dev/status/1426227560057298952
I guess big studios have it better, especially in-house ones. Likely it is often a very unique situation for every case. But it is an interesting aspect that could be present everywhere at least to a small degree.
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Funny because I think every single one of those out lets except the last one is some sort of blog and they all mention the technical difficulties but liked the game anyway most likely due to nostalgia. Plus I don’t think the last one is the genuine JeuxVideo outlet.
These outlets aren’t the ones that get invited to the parties, the 4 seen here are the ONLY positive reviews. There are two 70 scores most likely for nostalgia, IGN and Destructoid seem to be the only major outlets that reviewed the game they gave it bad scores. Two reviewers aren’t even gaming outlets, one is NME which is a music magazine and the other is The Guardian, which is a newspaper and both gave it a low score.
But they didn’t on both accounts. When Cyberpunk was released CDPR sent out the PC versions only for review to astroturf it when the actual release where outlets also reviewed the console version and both now at around 50-60 between both console versions. It was the fans that puffed up the company and the game as too big to fail and too long to wait (also the reason CDPR expedited the launch)
ME: Andromeda didn’t make critics change their minds, the game has a 71 on Metacritic with most major outlets giving it a seventy some gave it an 80 which is the highest score for a major outlet (Gameinformer). Fan reaction has been the opposite, I have seen people say Andromeda isn’t that bad in hindsight and it got the short end of the stick because a team of new people had to follow up the Mass Effect trilogy.
In this case they didn’t, they had barely anything about this game aside from a trailer. They sat back and let nostalgic idiots hype the game up on its own then when it sucks the people that make their living online will hate buy the fame to talk about it.
TakeTwo will suffer no reputation loss since nobody thinks highly of them and they won’t be sued because they have no grounds to be sued on so far. They profited and all they had to do was release one trailer and a broken game then let the internet crowd do the rest
There is no evil conspiracy here, it is just idiots and their money being parted. A developer made a bad game and the people that spent money on it are looking to blame someone. All I can say is Caveat Empor.
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Review Copies/Free Copies are a hell of a drug.
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I find it ironic how we always ignore that one of gaming’s largest review scandals was over an IO game. (I would like to state that IO as a company had nothing to do with that, that was all on Eidos)
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Jeff if pretty chill with the devs behind K&L 
For those that don’t know the whole story should check the video from 10:37
Ah it was Giant Bomb they formed after K&L. I kept thinking Destructoid came from it. Funny because Giant Bomb had the lowest Metacritic rating for Andromeda a 45 which I felt was a little unfair for a game as average as Andromeda.
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You mean Gamespot 
Giant Bomb was formed by Jeff after he left.
Ah shit I accidentally deleted the first pat. Hold up a little.
EDIT: There we go I fixed it up so it is less ambiguous.
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I was “generally speaking” there, not actually about the Outlets shown on the picture.
Still I felt it was a record that needed to be straightened. Generalisation is the mother of all misinformation as I like to say.
Chinatown Wars
Liberty City Stories
Vice City Stories
Believe it or not but I am still planning on buying the Switch version of the trilogy and I’ll get to it eventually, but not until after it’s less of a dead horse. I’ll revive it just to insult it again in a few months.
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I’ve personally been enjoying the GTA definitive trilogy, played through 3, now nearly finished Vice City, i would say it’s been about 14 years since i played these games properly, i had the ps2 versions on ps4 but never really played them. I’m not a fan of modern Rockstar games GTA5/Red Dead Etc, so i’m not a shill or whatever 
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Some early Rockstar Games logos digged up from the archive. Had to put a spoiler tag and hide details cause Swang doesn’t want trouble.
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Always loved how he sang the last part of I just died jn your arms tonight! I have so many fond memories of VC!
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Do hope that R* / Take2 pay more attention to these videos instead of searching the internet for mods to take down and lawsuits to send.
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