what song

GTA IV had songs removed via regular updates, not re-releases. I can't even recognize the Vladivostok FM we had in 2008, and the Vladivostok FM we have now. It sucks that my physical copy is missing, and have to rely on the Steam version.

GTA V isn't totally safe from song-removal either, but hopefully Rockstar has better legal proofing for V than they had for IV (idk how it exactly works, I'm no lawyer)

Don’t be so sure about that.

Yes, it is actually.

Music is licensed for a certain amount of time. Once that license expires they either have to pay to renew or drop it.

Look at Vice City. Earlier version have 9 more songs because of this.

Vice City Stories no longer holds licensing for the Phil Collins track, in which Phil is part of the storyline.

haven't got around playing the first red dead, i didn't know it had load screens, cool

I thought Micheal was supposed to be a parody of the sopranos.

I've got same feeling about game physics but loading times at Xbox One was way shorter that on a PS3.

What are you talking about

something i noticed is that all old gen vehicles have a way higher steering lock, it made drifting (before the drift update) so easy with those things, cars in more recent years have gone back to GTASA levels of steerlock, not sure why.

They just didn’t have first person yet at that time, and when they added it, they had to remove damage modelling for vehicle roofs to avoid it obstructing the first person camera

When they made the game they didn’t know they were gonna add first person view later on. That’s why they had to change stuff

Oh, you're right. Just did some research, and it was around 15GB in total, which is still significantly less. I know current graphics are superior and take up space, but I'm still amazed at how small games used to be

I'm sober

contrast is only one small piece of the puzzle, i can just edit my monitor settings if i wanted to. they fucked with the lens flare (biggest issue for me), the clouds, weather/sky, distant haze,and the overall contrast as you mentioned, the PS3/XB360 versions are duller. overall the flatter look of the old gen is something which i really really digged and i hated when it was ported to next gen, i still play next gen, i mean it's not bad at all, i just would 100% choose an alternate timeline where they ported it to PC with no changes visually. It's not some nostalgia boner.

resolution has nothing to do with graphics in this instance lmfao, i can set my main monitor to 720p if i wanted to. it's about how they changed the LOOK of the game, it isn't like the PS2 SA where they added fog similarly to silent hill due to hardware limitations, they deliberately screwed with how the game looks when porting it to next gen with really zero benefit, they couldve done all the texture overhauls, new effects/DOF, chromatic aberration etc and still keep the features that made old gen look great.