Can you all explain why GTA 5 doesn't feel as outdated in 2026 yet like San Andreas felt in 2016-2017?
So here's something I am curious about. GTA 5 is a 2013 game we all know. It's an amazing game and was groundbreaking when it comes to graphics and it looked super realistic to me when I used to watch its gameplay videos on YouTube in 2014-2017 as a teenager whereas GTA San Andreas looked quite outdated and cartoonish in 2016-2017. San Andreas is a 2004 game(even though the game itself was set in 1992) so it was 12-13 years old in 2016-2017. Now GTA 5 is also 12-13 years old in 2026 but why GTA 5 still looks so modern and cool and very playable whereas San Andreas started looking so classic already in the mid 2010s?
Like yeah I wasn't even playing GTA 5 as my PC didn't have enough RAM and the sufficient graphic card so I was just watching YouTube videos but was already playing GTA 4 and only started playing GTA 5 for the first time in mid 2024 at 23 on my laptop as it finally had 8 GB RAM and AMD graphics card which is more than enough to run the game. It feels so cool and smooth. It doesn't feel dated at all. Yeah the enhanced PC version was released in 2015 but even that's over a decade old now. Even the vehicles look very modern even though they are over a decade old but San Andreas vehicles and graphics and everything looked so outdated in 2016 itself. I am 25 now and enjoy GTA 5 and it would be super super hard to go back to San Andreas now for real. I can still go back to GTA 4 tho but San Andreas feels even more outdated now. I enjoyed playing it for the first time in 2013 tho especially as the switch from Vice City to San Andreas felt massive but now after playing GTA 5 it's hard. Please explain why it's happening?
Like yeah I wasn't even playing GTA 5 as my PC didn't have enough RAM and the sufficient graphic card so I was just watching YouTube videos but was already playing GTA 4 and only started playing GTA 5 for the first time in mid 2024 at 23 on my laptop as it finally had 8 GB RAM and AMD graphics card which is more than enough to run the game. It feels so cool and smooth. It doesn't feel dated at all. Yeah the enhanced PC version was released in 2015 but even that's over a decade old now. Even the vehicles look very modern even though they are over a decade old but San Andreas vehicles and graphics and everything looked so outdated in 2016 itself. I am 25 now and enjoy GTA 5 and it would be super super hard to go back to San Andreas now for real. I can still go back to GTA 4 tho but San Andreas feels even more outdated now. I enjoyed playing it for the first time in 2013 tho especially as the switch from Vice City to San Andreas felt massive but now after playing GTA 5 it's hard. Please explain why it's happening?
22-25, M
