GTA 4 is 17 years old today, and it is still more advanced & detailed than some games releasing today. Rockstar was so far ahead of its time its insane.

Here are 10 Easter Eggs & Small details from GTA 4 to celebrate it's anniversary. A Thread 🧵


1) Shady Websites

You can visit a website for “child beauty pageants” which instantly gives you a 5-star wanted level as it is a sting operation by the feds.

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion is one of the most iconic and influential games ever and the remaster has done a remarkable job at enhancing all its secrets & easter eggs.

Here are 10 hidden & strange Easter eggs from Oblivion Remastered that you might have missed. A Thread 🧵


1) Todd Howard

If you write the console command "coc toddtest" on PC, you will be teleported to this random house with an NPC, if you interact with this npc, you'll find out that he is voiced by Todd Howard himself!

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the greatest games of all time but it had some of the biggest content cuts during development ever including an entire SECOND open world.

Here are 10 giant pieces of cut content from RDR2 that are enough to fill an entire new game. A Thread 🧵


1) Mexico

Nuevo Paraiso was originally entirely explorable at some point in RDR2's development but was ultimately cut due to time constraints.

Nuevo Paraiso has all its roads and landscapes mostly developed if you head out of bounds, towns and more were also worked on at some point with unique banners and wanted level code all existing.

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty is one of the best expansions ever made, if not THE best. and if you haven't played it, what are you waiting for?

To celebrate this incredible expansion, Here are 10 mindblowing details & secrets from PL that you might have missed. A Thread 🧵


1) Blade

You can find the Cyberpunk take on the marvel character Blade himself in Dogtown at the Anatomicon.

Upon arriving, you will find a bunch of dead bodies and their killer dancing.

This triggers a secret boss fight against Blade, upon killing him you can scan his body to reveal his name is "Wesley Hunt" —a reference to Wesley Snipes, Blade's actor.

Assassin's Creed Shadows has had 4 years of development, the longest in AC's history. While it doesn’t look like a complete overhaul of the franchise, there are a ton of new mechanics to look forward to.

Here are 10 details from Shadows' gameplay that have me hyped. A Thread 🧵


1) Parkour

Parkour has had its biggest change since AC Origins, the dodge button now has a use in parkour, it allows Naoe to vault over ledges, and do flips off any rooftop edges.

This results in much more dynamic faster parkour that allows for far more variation of movement, plus the introduction of the grapple hook which we will cover later in this thread.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is the most detailed game ever made period. It's crazy to think it will be 7 years old this year.

Here are 10 insane details from RDR2 that prove this is the most detailed open world ever that you probably missed. A Thread 🧵


1) Punching with Molotovs

You can punch people with basically any weapon in RDR2 including Molotovs and Dynamite

Punching people with molotovs is STRONGLY not recommended as this will happen:

GTA 4 is still ahead of most open world titles in terms of details, physics, and atmosphere with Liberty City, and this is a game that's nearly 17 years old.

Here are 10 hidden & small details from GTA 4 that prove it was ahead of its time. A Thread 🧵


1) Shady Websites

Visiting a website for “child beauty pageants” will net you an instant 5-star wanted level, as it is a sting website set up by the police to catch predators.

The Witcher 3 is one of the most detailed open world games ever made, even almost 10 years later, it really set a standard for all RPGs after it.

Here are 10 hidden & terrifying Easter eggs from TW3 that you probably missed. A Thread 🧵


1) Ghost Ship

Around midnight in this location in Skellige, you can come across an extremely rare Ghost Ship that hasn't been seen by most players, it is a bit bigger than Geralt's own boat and is definitely paying homage to the Flying Dutchman.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is easily still the most detailed open world game ever made, even 6 years later, nothing has come close.

Here are 10 amazing details from RDR2 that will literally blow your mind that you probably missed. A Thread 🧵


1) You can move turbines

If you shoot turbines in the right spots with an arrow, you can see the turbine realistically being pushed towards where you shot it at.

STALKER 2 has been anticipated for a long time, I finally got around to play it and I can confirm it lives up to the hype. It's also filled with wild Easter eggs & references.

These are 8 Secrets & Easter eggs from STALKER 2 that you might have missed. A Thread 🧵


1) Dark Souls Bonfire

Not far from the burnt forest, you can find a bonfire taken straight from Dark Souls, complete with a sword sticking out of it and everything.

You can also rest by the fire and play your guitar. I adore when games reference the bonfires. Isn't it crazy how the Souls games basically re-invented the concept of checkpoints for a ton of games using the bonfire system?

Red Dead Redemption 2 is known for being a realistic game, but from Bigfoot to Whispering Forests, it’s actually packed with horror and completely supernatural events.

Here are 10 secrets and haunting easter eggs from RDR2 that will keep you up at night. A Thread 🧵


1) Whispering Forest

In the forest around Roanoke Valley, you can sometimes hear ghostly whispers, their source appears to be a deceased couple named Eugene Hutton and Ethel Boshared who were killed for witchcraft. you can actually see their entire story at the theatre in a movie called "The Ghastly Serenade"

Here are some of the things that can be heard:

"Must be a sick calf looking for its momma, they've been known to bawl like that"

"You should be ashamed of yourself, Eugene Hutton."

"I need to get back home! I need to get back home!"

GTA 4 is widely considered the darkest & most realistic GTA but despite that, most people don't know that it has a ton of secrets and Easter eggs that you probably missed.

These are GTA 4's most wild and genuinely terrifying secrets & easter eggs, A Thread🧵


1) Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton is in GTA 4, sort of.

The Statue of Liberty called (The Statue of Happiness) in-game is actually depicting Hillary Clinton holding a coffee cup (Hot Coffee reference) and a tablet in the other hand.

This was most likely placed as a jab towards Clinton as she was one of the biggest critics against GTA San Andreas and it's "Hot Coffee" mod (explains why she is holding that) and went on record many times demanding more regulation for video games because of San Andreas.

The tablet says:
"“Send us your brightest, your smartest, your most intelligent,
Yearning to breathe free and submit to our authority,
Watch us trick them into wiping rich people's asses,
While we convince them it's a land of opportunity.”
— JULY IV
MDCCLXXVI"

GTA Trilogy Definitive Editions are FINALLY fixed.

After 3 years of waiting, GTA:DE finally recieved a massive patch that has changed these remasters' visuals from the ground up and fixed a ton of issues.

Here are 10 of the biggest changes with the new patch. A Thread 🧵


1) Classic Lighting

All three titles of the Trilogy have received a "Classic Lighting" setting that completely transforms each game's visuals to resemble the originals more faithfully.

San Andreas's Los Santos has that orange haze back now, The Desert got it's purple sky look back as well. Vice City is far more colorful and GTA 3 looks much more gritty. Finally respecting the original artists intent with these games.

BEFORE VS AFTER

GTA 4 is one of the most cutting edge games ever. 16 years later It’s incredible how Rockstar managed to create a level of detail that surpasses even GTA V.

Here are 10 mind-blowing small & hidden details from GTA IV that prove it was way ahead of its time. A Thread 🧵


1) Water Physics

GTA 4 straight up has one of the best implementations of water physics I have ever seen in an open world game.

Water reacts to the exact size of a vehicle dropped into it with proper ripple effects that last beyond the initial impact.

This is on top of the fact that water reacts realistically to helicopters being flown near it, and also the player himself crashing into it plus explosions and bullets.

GTA 5 is over 11 years old which is crazy considering all these years later it continues to beat most open world games in attention to detail and polish.

These are 10 small & hidden details that prove GTA 5 is more detailed than most games releasing today. A Thread 🧵


1) Fruits fall from trees if hit with a vehicle

This is one of those tiny details that I actually only found out about while doing research for this thread, one of those tiny details that you'll only ever see from a Rockstar Games title.

GTA San Andreas is a gigantic game and despite being over 20 years old, it has a ton of secrets and Easter eggs hidden away that you may not have known about.

These are San Andreas's best and genuinely terrifying secrets & easter eggs, A Thread🧵


1) Rockstar is King.

There are various references to Rockstar's competition with a grave proclaiming "RIP Opposition 1997 - 2004" which is referencing all the GTA clones that released between the release of GTA 1 and GTA SA

True Crime series of games is also referenced in a sign with "True Grime: Street Cleaners" complete with an image of a garbage dump. A clear case of Rockstar poking fun at their competition back in the day

GTA 5 was originally going to have 5 major Story Expansions

They are:
- Agent Trevor aka "Clifford Episode"
- Zombies aka "Norman Episode"
- Alien Invasion
- LibertyV "Liberty City"
- Prologue (North Yankton)

Here are all the details on these cancelled expansions: A Thread 🧵


1) Expansion 1: Agent Trevor "Clifford Episode"

Before we get started, it's important to clarify that much of this info was dug up through data mining and source code leaks and some ex-developer interviews. Nothing here was ever set fully in stone or finished fully. However here is what was planned:

Agent Trevor was the expansion that got the furthest into development, reportedly being half-way done before being cancelled. and even Steven Ogg (Trevor Actor) confirmed he did performance work for it before it suddenly disappeared.

Much of this content actually made it into GTA Online in a different form as The Doomsday Heist.

It was going to involve 38 story mission with Trevor being recruited by the IAA in some form to become a secret special agent and track down the rogue AI: Clifford, the Jet Pack would've made an appearance here as it did in the doomsday heist. Ron, Wade and Paperman would've all made apperances, as well as Agent 14 who was supposed to be a story character.

14 Stranger and Freaks missions were all planned for 4 new characters as well as 12 Assassination contracts that were originally separate DLC that got merged into this one and here's an even more interesting tidbit:

The Casino was supposed to be opened alongside the release of this DLC in Single-player GTA 5, and one heist in this expansion would've involved robbing the Casino. This general idea laid the groundwork for the Diamond Casino and its heist later down the line in GTA Online.

It would've introduced two new weapons: The Crossbow and The Harpoon Gun which would've been GTA 5's first underwater weapon and horses were suupposed to be added as well.

Red Dead Redemption 1 is 14 years old and is one of those games that simply hasn't aged. In honor of the game finally releasing on PC:

Here are 10 hidden & tiny details from Red Dead Redemption that prove it has aged like fine wine. A Thread 🧵


1) Horse Animations

The Horses in RDR1 are more than ahead of their time, they look better than most horses do in games coming out TODAY. Just compare recent Assassin's Creed titles horses vs RDR1 horses for a good idea on how far ahead RDR1 is of the curve.

Their muscles contort and move realistically as well which you can see visibly in the clip below. the only game that has managed to surpass RDR1's horses has been RDR2.

GTA San Andreas is 20 years old and it is still more detailed than games releasing TODAY. It's still insane what Rockstar managed to pull off on the PS2 hardware.

Here are 10 insane small & hidden details from San Andreas that prove it was ahead of its time. A Thread 🧵


1) You can go into debt and get hunted down by the triads

If you gamble too much at the casino and lose all your money, you can actually get into the negative amounts of cash and be in debt to the casino. If you ignore your debts long enough, the triad will send its members after you to "collect"

Betting quite literally 99.9% of people who played GTA:SA never knew about this!

Red Dead Redemption 2 turns 6 years old today is one of the most detailed games ever and it is more detailed than most modern games releasing today!

Here are 10 of my favorite small and hidden details in RDR2 that you might have missed. A Thread 🧵


1) Clouds are real and fully 3D

While games like Horizon Forbidden West are flexing that they can finally render 3D Clouds on the PS5, RDR2 managed to do it years before on the PS4 without any actual gameplay reason as you never get high enough to fly through them aside from one mission.

Most likely this was done so GTA 6 can carry it over (as seen in the trailer!) but it's insanely gorgeous.

Cyberpunk 2077 was released in a broken state and rightfully got criticized a ton by everyone, including myself.

However, over the years, CDPR has completely turned around CP2077 into one of the best games ever.

Here are 10 reasons you should play Cyberpunk NOW. A Thread 🧵


1) The game is fixed

Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 is fixed. Sure there are still bugs here and there but it's about the same level as most polished games.

CDPR has worked tirelessly to fix the buggy nature of Cyberpunk 2077 and it really shows especially when comparing 1.0 to today