10 Video Game Remasters That Completely Failed on Day One

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From graphics that were improperly scaled to entirely new glitches that made the games nearly unplayable, we’re not sure what the games’ developers were thinking when they released a product that actually detracted from the original appeal of each title.

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Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing, and that’s what happened with these video game remasters.

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GRAND THEFT AUTO: THE TRILOGY REMASTER One of the latest in the line of remastered failures, we have GTA: The Trilogy remaster. When news came that this trilogy was to be remastered, a lot of the fans were partially excited and partially confused.

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What came of it was a devastatingly glitchy mess. The only improvement that we could all notice was the new art style and somewhat modernized graphics and lighting. And even then, there were still graphical issues, notably with the raindrops falling in an obvious pattern, non-existent draw distance, and unstable frame rates in GTA 3.

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SILENT HILL HD COLLECTION The first thing we think about when talking about Silent Hill is the game’s foggy abandoned ghost town. The atmospheric nature of the fog is what makes Silent Hill a creepy and mysterious place to visit. It gives you that claustrophobic feeling of being closed in and touched by the unknown.

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The cinematics was supposed to be enhanced through obvious upscaling of the original videos rather than a complete remake or by going through the original assets and fixing things from there. The videos were expanded sideways and stretched, basically to fit the 16:9 frame they were being forced to fit within.

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WARCRAFT 3: REFORGED Blizzard is crashing and burning currently, so let’s bring back a memory that will fuel your anger further! Warcraft 3: Reforged was dubbed the worst-rated game on Metacritic back in 2020, which it wholeheartedly deserves.

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The worst part is the state the game was launched in – it was filled with bugs and overall seemed like an unpolished product pushed out to meet its deadline. Plus, these bugs seemingly crawled over to the original Warcraft game itself and caused issues there so those who didn’t even bother to purchase the remaster had to suffer from it too.

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10 Video Game Remasters That Completely Failed on Day One

From graphics that were improperly scaled to entirely new glitches that made the games nearly unplayable, we’re not sure what the games’ developers were thinking when they released a product that actually detracted from the original appeal of each title.

Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing, and that’s what happened with these video game remasters.

GRAND THEFT AUTO: THE TRILOGY REMASTER One of the latest in the line of remastered failures, we have GTA: The Trilogy remaster. When news came that this trilogy was to be remastered, a lot of the fans were partially excited and partially confused.

WARCRAFT 3: REFORGED Blizzard is crashing and burning currently, so let’s bring back a memory that will fuel your anger further! Warcraft 3: Reforged was dubbed the worst-rated game on Metacritic back in 2020, which it wholeheartedly deserves.

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