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		nightski on March 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Problem With Photorealism Except graphics have improved leaps and bounds in the last decade, even if they do not live up to the expectations of you or the OP.

jamesaguilar on March 18, 2014 [–]

What we had four years ago:

http://www.filewin.com/cdn/images/img-filewin--3-GTA-San-And...

What we have today, on eight year old hardware:

http://cdn.redmondpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/GTA-5-g...

qbrass on March 19, 2014 | | [–]

San Andreas came out almost 10 years ago and had to run on the PS2 with 32MB of ram.

GTA 4 came out 5 year ago. http://media.gtanet.com/images/4488-gta-iv-screenshot.jpg

jamesaguilar on March 19, 2014 | | | [–]

Ugh, I knew that. Have no idea why I typed four. I was going for a decade (2004).

JetSpiegel on March 18, 2014 | | [–]

GTA3: 5 cars and 5 people in one frame

GAT5: Static world and a single car

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