“A retro game”: Fans react as YouTuber emulates GTA 5 at 60 FPS, fans left divided
In the decade since Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) was released, it has continued to claim many honors, and is also the second-most-selling video game in the world, behind Minecraft. That being said, the genre and the industry have seen many equally acclaimed releases along with several significant technological improvements, raising the question of how relevant the title is in today's world.
Mutahar, better known for his YouTube handle SomeOrdinaryGamers, recently sparked a discussion on the same when he used an emulator to run his GTA 5 disk on his PC and had a stable 60 FPS rate.
Read on to find out about the creator's experience and how fans reacted to the development.
Note: The article is subjective and reflects the author's views.
Readers should note that running a game on an emulator is far more tasking for a PC than simply running a PC version of the game. An emulator is a software that gets the user's PC to mimic a specific console, a PlayStation 3 in this case, which means to run the game via a disk on an emulator, the user's PC has to bear the load of running the emulator and game simultaneously.
Even on Mutahar's high-end system, running a year-old game like CyberPunk's disk on a PS4 emulator would make for a subpar experience, if it runs at all that is. This is what caused considerable shock and surprise among GTA fans who chanced upon the tweet.
GTA 5 was released in September 2013, just two months before the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were out. Hence, the game is considered to be more from the era of the PS3 and Xbox 360. The game is now two generations old, as the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox X are the latest consoles on the market.
This was a major talking point in the discussion about whether GTA 5 should be
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