Essays about graphical fidelity and art styles.
Bethesda games have always been behind the curve when it comes to graphics, though they’ve always had a good excuse. Their games are set in huge open worlds, dense with NPCs, physics objects, and cheese wheels. What they have lacked in raw graphical fidelity, they compensated with aesthetic style.
Grand Theft Auto: The Definitive Edition came out over a year ago. Tragically, many people bought it. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people weren’t happy.
Grove Street Games responded by updating the game over the following year. Since the first anniversary, however, updates have slowed. The most glaring issues have been fixed or at least made less bad.
There is still much left to fix, but Grove Street Games apparently doesn’t think it is worth the effort.
Neither do I.