Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[Jonah Hill poster]

The beautiful, though bittersweet, part about Grand Theft Auto IV is that back in 2008 I was largely impressed with how Liberty City back then looked more modern and slightly realistic. It even helped that I was (somewhat) able to recognize and see what they modeled after real life spots in New York City.

For someone that lives in the NY area, the bittersweet effect comes when most of the places that I recognized in the game are no longer existent in 2022. Besides playing as Niko Bellic giving a unique and complex point of view of what it’s like being an immigrant, foreigner and outsider to everything that goes on in America, GTA IV to me will go down as a video game that hits way too close to home. Video games like that in 2008 have never done that to me, prior to something as mainstream as this one.

Also, it should not have to be said, but:



The artwork for Episodes from Liberty City is fantastic. I still remember the days where I would just stare at the loading screen for Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned thinking that this was much better than the artwork for the original GTA IV. To this day, I still wish we had a GTA: Episodes from San Andreas/San Andreas stories.

Though, then again, we wouldn’t have been able to get GTA V.

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

tfw 7 years from GTA III got us GTA IV but 7 years from GTA V got us jack shit

GTA ended up being what made R* and what killed them.

 

[The Last Stand]

The artwork for Episodes from Liberty City is fantastic. I still remember the days where I would just stare at the loading screen for Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned thinking that this was much better than the artwork for the original GTA IV. To this day, I still wish we had a GTA: Episodes from San Andreas/San Andreas stories.

The Ballad of Gay Tony is certainly more colorful than IV or TLAD. I liked how that third act of the IV saga tied up loose ends in that arc.

I only wish it was longer; it ended too soon.

 

[Psyduck]

So im guessing theres no news today huh? Was kinda hoping R* would tease a GTA4 port or something

 

[Cod of War]

So im guessing theres no news today huh? Was kinda hoping R* would tease a GTA4 port or something

Can't make a jank mobile version of 4 to then port to consoles and PC.

 

[The Last Stand]

So im guessing theres no news today huh? Was kinda hoping R* would tease a GTA4 port or something

After the "Definitive Edition" along with "Expanded & Expanded," I'd rather them not bother. Damn shame. These games deserve better.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

While I still feel like GTA IV gets rather repetitive and could control a bit better, I do absolutely think it has much more style than GTA V. Each of the characters perspectives fundamentally change the feeling of Liberty City with their different themes and visual filters and such. (That's not even getting into how much personality Liberty City has on it's own. It feels grimey and real while Los Santos feels way too clean even in the ghettos and slums.)

GTA V doesn't pull this off nearly as well to me, and it's especially disappointing when you realize that there was cut content where each character would have their own mission complete jingles and stuff like that.

Like, there's something to be said about how each of the pause menu themes in GTA IV just give me a *feeling* that fits the character perfectly.

I don't know, maybe I'm just getting hit with nostalgia.

 

[The Last Stand]

While I still feel like GTA IV gets rather repetitive and could control a bit better,

I hear that complaint a lot with IV. You drive to an objective, then shoot somebody.

Each of the characters perspectives fundamentally change the feeling of Liberty City with their different themes and visual filters and such.

TBoGT pause song is my favorite. I've spend hours on that pause screen just for that.

 

[Vault Boy]

So im guessing theres no news today huh? Was kinda hoping R* would tease a GTA4 port or something

Maybe they'll "grace" us with a butchered Grove Street Games "remaster" for the game's 15th anniversary.

There was a time when a remaster of GTA IV would've excited me, but I know Rockstar & Take-Two would do it as cheaply as possible.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

GTA IV had the best shooting IMO. Something about being able to lock onto an enemy and fine tune your aim to line up headshots and the tiny parts of an enemy poking out from behind cover was so satisfying.

I also liked the plasticine cars and boat driving physics. Fite me.

 

[The Last Stand]

IV's Special Edition was bomb. You even get a duffle bug like the ones from Three Leaf Clover.

 

[I fucking love Cocaine]

I also liked the plasticine cars and boat driving physics. Fite me.

Fuck using motorbikes in IV though. Glad in EFLC Rockstar addressed this issue, making them not feel like you're riding a two-wheeled boulder.

 

[WULULULULU]

GTA IV had the best shooting IMO. Something about being able to lock onto an enemy and fine tune your aim to line up headshots and the tiny parts of an enemy poking out from behind cover was so satisfying.

I also liked the plasticine cars and boat driving physics. Fite me.

IV also had great AI. I always love adding AI partners to watch them fight against the others, NPC battles were a fun spectacle. All IV needs are vehicles that allow control of MG/cannons (like in V) and I'm all set.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

IV's Special Edition was bomb. You even get a duffle bug like the ones from Three Leaf Clover.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wpz8esXO3FU

I got this

The bag was cheap and small. The zipper broke within a year and I didn't even use it for anything other than holding the lock box, who's lock also broke within a year.

 

[Boom Boss]

I miss the music from GTA III.

 

[Dom Cruise]

tfw 7 years from GTA III got us GTA IV but 7 years from GTA V got us jack shit

There's no telling what it would be like if GTA had continued on it's trajectory, we are being robbed.

Western video games are absolutely going down in flames and it's very sad to see.

The beautiful, though bittersweet, part about Grand Theft Auto IV is that back in 2008 I was largely impressed with how Liberty City back then looked more modern and slightly realistic. It even helped that I was (somewhat) able to recognize and see what they modeled after real life spots in New York City.

For someone that lives in the NY area, the bittersweet effect comes when most of the places that I recognized in the game are no longer existent in 2022. Besides playing as Niko Bellic giving a unique and complex point of view of what it’s like being an immigrant, foreigner and outsider to everything that goes on in America, GTA IV to me will go down as a video game that hits way too close to home. Video games like that in 2008 have never done that to me, prior to something as mainstream as this one.

I haven't played GTAIV since around when it came out, but I imagine it's a pretty great snapshot of the late 2000s today.

When I last played GTAV in 2018 it already felt like a snapshot of a bygone era... and that was almost 4 years ago.

 

[The Last Stand]

I haven't played GTAIV since around when it came out, but I imagine it's a pretty great snapshot of the late 2000s today.

It certainly has themes of xenophobia, jingoism, paranoia, despair and loss. The economic crisis of '08 fits well with IV's theme.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

 

[Fuck Y'all]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=07adF-EZRPg

disregard this video, Project Americas was probably cancelled with Dan's removal and next GTA will be modern preaching politics filled, online centered trash being placed in LS; rest of leaks is obviously fake
>inb4 you can't throw in trash years of work
lmao just ask Amy Henning or remind yourself about Cops'n'Crooks

 

[CWCissey]

So when's Bully 2 being released?