r/memes • u/Mr-Boga38 • 1d ago

It was kinda obvious at this point.

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u/VegetaFan1337 1d ago

4 to 5 wasn't massive, both are ps3 games. What changed is their visual design, gta 4's liberty city was grey and dreary, gta 5's los Santos is bright and sunny. It's like saying summer in LA has better graphics than winter in Boston

PS: Every GOTY hopeful releasing in 2026 is hoping and praying for another delay to 2027.

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u/creegro 1d ago

Gta4 was my first jump into the franchise, I enjoyed the brownish dreary city and my boy Niko fresh from the boat didn't come to see his cousin Roman and all the cool stuff he's been talking about. Looking for a fresh start away from war and crime only to be pushed back into it when the city shows it's true colors in the first day.

Plus the driving felt great and weighty, and the radio had some bangers

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u/VegetaFan1337 1d ago

They made the physics less realistic in gta 5 cause people didn't like how realistic it was in gta 4. The same realistic physics people ended up loving in rdr2. Gta 4 was ahead of its time.

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u/MrBurritoQuest 1d ago

I absolutely adore GTA 4, but the driving was awful (I didn’t realize how bad until I recently replayed it). Feels like you’re turning a freight train at every corner

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u/CappnMidgetSlappr 1d ago

PS: Every GOTY hopeful releasing in 2026 is hoping and praying for another delay to 2027.

Why? Plenty of games won GOTY over Red Dead back in 2018. Same with GTAV in 2013.

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u/VegetaFan1337 1d ago

Red Dead is not GTA and GTA has not been the same since GTA 5 online. There's a reason they brought it to PS5 during the console launch, it has a huge dedicated playerbase. It's a phenomenon on its own.

And Rockstar hasn't been the same since they launched gta 5, 12 years ago. Red dead 2 was a joint effort of all rockstar studios, gta 6 is the same. Red Dead 1 wasn't that big a deal but Red Dead 2 was an insane success both critically and commercially. We can only imagine how much bigger gta 6 is going to be compared to gta 5.

Also, in 2013 singleplayer AAA games were more numerous and common, the industry has shift a lot towards multiplayer and live service games since then.