One of my favorite quirks in GTA IV is the speaker static sound you get before you receive a call, that's the kind of attention to detail that makes it.
One of my favorite details, if you held the exit button down while in a car, you can actually turn the car off instead of leaving it idle. I also remember you could dial a number on your phone and it would give you the song name and artist of the song you are listening to in game.
@@videowatcher551 yes! Loved this feature, I loved being able to leave a car running with the lights on when getting out at night. Sucked they didnt carry this over to GTAV… iirc the cars all just turn off when you get out in V regardless if you press or hold exit.
I remember getting an xbox 360 with this game, getting home and being blown away with the graphics and the physics, it was too much to process for me at that time. Absolutely loved this GTA, hope they keep the good work.
Wish it have a remaster version cause after boot up xbox360 to replay this. omg the frame rate are horrible, thought it was the console but no other game play great, i can't believe i play gta4 with this fps.😂
In gta 4, the NPC cars also often set the blinker before turning, they never do that in gta 5 and it's extremely annoying because you never know where they're going.
Not only do they not do that in GTA V, some dirtbag programmer actually designed traffic to grief the player. Whatever motherless sociopath in the meeting room was like, “Hey, I have an idea… why don’t we design traffic to violently swerve into the players direction of travel for no reason!” needs to be put down or banned from the industry. I’ve literally seen NPC vehicles glitch and break the physics just to cut me off in GTA V - essentially warp in front of me. That alone illustrates what an inferior piece of shit GTA V is to GTA IV.
@@FSousA7X That only occurs on the bridge as NPC traffic thinks the subway is coming at them. So it’s just a bug, not an intentionally programmed script to annoy and grief the player like in V. So not analogous at all. GTA V will literally spawn a stopped car ahead of you for the sole purpose of having it pull out in front of you. GTA IV does nothing like that. NPC’s are just a bit dumb in IV given its PS3 era AI.
GTA 4 is honestly my favourite game in the series, and one of my favourite games in general. I’d love a remaster with all the DLC included (just keep Grove Street Games as far away as possible).
Honestly if it weren't for the characters and the storyline in GTA V I would have returned the game the next day. There isn't a single game mechanic that they didn't make worse. With the exception of constantly being bothered by your whiny in-game friends every 10 minutes suppose.
The amount of small details in this game is outstanding. I still remember being shocked by the pedestrian who was talking in polish, the level of immersion was huge (especially that she appeared in the district known for polish immigrants). Anyway you’ll find plenty more languages which is outstanding if you focus on this.
And how Niko proficiency with the English language got better the more you got far into the story too. Niko broken english and use of his natal language through the story is impressive. Niko start pronouncing words more correctly and also using less and less his natal language. He even start picking an accent
The first time I took the subway in GTA IV and a guy was playing the sax on the station, I felt really immerse in the NY atmosphere, with the dim lights and the mist. Rockstar really nailed the realism here
I like the fact GTA4 was dark and gritty. I quite liked the fact it was toned down and it wasn’t over the top with jets and tanks and crazy weapons. It felt more real, the guns sounded cool! I liked the boat motion of the cars, it felt more dramatic.
GTA V has far too many flyiing missions, parachuting, scuba drivin, etc, if you wasn't for those mid-mission checkpoints I would far too frustrated to finish them.
The guns in GTA 5 are one door away from having the Hollywood pew pew noises... The sniper rifles with suppressors DO have the pew pew. I really hope we get... An eargasm from much more realistic guns in GTA 6!
I’m so glad that there’s other people that agree about this. Gta4’s story is just underrated, it doesn’t glamorize the life of crime like most stories do.
Online one gta iv was so much fun because it was so simple. I remember when me and friends would spend hours just in the airport jumping the ramps and driving the helicopter and planes. I miss those days.
GTA 4 for me was the best one, Great story, Memorable characters, Actual combat etc. The songs on the radio actually matched the vibe of the world, The in-game internet was the first of its kind. The dating system was pretty accurate as well.
I didn't really like GTA 4 back in the day because it removed so many things from San Andreas like tuning your cars but I replayed it last year and loved it. It's so immersive, detailed and well written. Probably my favorite GTA after all. It's also a great time capsule of 2008.
The multiplayer (imo) was just more fun than 5. The way we were able to just spawn in the game and collect weapons from around the map compared to the world of GTA V was just kinda neater overall. A simpler time
The subway system in GTA IV actually taught me how to take the train irl. I always found the train system to be confusing as a kid until I started going from Northwood to Easton Station and then transferring to another train to go to Hove Beach.
Another car physic detail: any time your car catches enough air for the suspension to fully decompress, you can see that the tires travel in arcs that are realistic to the type of suspension whatever you are driving has. Meaning that rear tires of trucks equipped with live axles will hang straight down (parallel to the body), while tires of cars with McPherson struts move in a realistic arc.
Speaking of GTA and being (potentially) true to life: 5 months after GTA 4's release, a young girl named Audrey Plique saved her family's lives after their Jeep Cherokee hit a guard rail and flipped four times, landing on its roof, upside-down. She knew from playing GTA that a flipped car could explode. From a Kotaku article about the story: "With her mother hanging upside down and her father pinned against the steering wheel, 11-year-old Audrey Plique climbed out of the back window and helped her parents and two younger siblings escape the car."
GTA IV had one of the best stories and Liberty City was just really well done in general - the atmosphere of the game was dark and the city was almost a character in of itself. Niko Belic was also a great character who developed as a person as the game went on.
The atmosphere was a lot more enjoyable to just experience than Los Santos in GTA V. I used to pick a point on one side of the GTA IV map and walk to the other side, seeing what would happen. Through no fault of my own I'd always end up in fist fights in random places. You can do that in GTA V, but since most of the map is relatively empty and the city itself is pretty dull, it just isn't as fun (one exception being when you take Trevor down to Franklin's hood and hurl taunts at gang members and other pedestrians - always ends in violence).
I went there for my birthday and man I just feel like it’s so easy for me to go to NYC but the people who live there may probably never get the chance to come to my city :(
The driving and damage mechanics were my favorite because of how realistic they were. When they first announced gta 5 I was hoping they would put those physics in the game
Fun fact, the only reason they reduced the physics was so they could get better graphics to run on 360 and PS3, the cpu and gpu wouldn’t hold up to the combination
@@C20F It ruins just about every game as soon as there's mentions of multi-platform. Even Final Fantasy 14 to this day is heavily limited on PC because they want players on console to have an equal experience to pc players
The Subway system is my favorite part of GTA 4. It's one of the things that really grounds a game for me, as someone that takes public transportation often it's nice to see, especially in such incredible detail, a fantastic subway system. Combine waiting for the train with the amazing NPC interactions and it's really a great time
Honestly GTA IV is my favourite GTA ever. Niko himself, his character development through the game, our beloved brother Roman, a serious and at times kinda grim looking game world, radio stations (Vladivostok FM
One detail I honestly love about gta 4 is that you can find random ai driving with dents in there car as if they gotten into a fender bender previously. Or the traffic jams
What always amazed me about this game were all the unique pedestrians, with their own interactions and reactions to what you did to them. Incredible attention to detail throughout in this gem of a game that will have you playing it over and over.
4 is my favorite in the series. The story is incredible and the physics were hilarious. The driving is fantastic also. The cars had weight and handled really nice
GTA 4 is one of the few games that i like to just walk around.. is a total inmersive experience. The sounds of the city, the people talking, the noise its so amazing.. feels like walking thru real NYC. I always done it on sunset.
The driving physics were my favorite part. They felt much more realistic and rewarding. In GTA V the cars stick to the road and turn on a dime. So it doesn't have that bad ass feel when driving a car and using the weight of the vehicle to turn and drift through traffic as in GTA IV.
The driving is especially great when you take a corner at high speed, knowing you're right on the edge of grip and one bump could send you flying off the road. Making a turn like that without crashing/spinning is so damn satisfying
I loved the hand to hand combat and how you could lay someone out with one punch and they wouldn't die. They'd just be hurt on the ground and eventually limp off. And how many secret combos there were vs. GTA5 which only had 2 very robotic dodge moves. But I also love the Fight Club in TBOGT. You could just keep betting on yourself and just farm money lmao 🤣 such a great game Edit: OH also if someone had a Bat/Knife an you dodged, you'd take the weapon from them with a quick combo and then you have the said Bat/Knife. Can't do do that in GTA5
I never played GTA4 and you're making me miss those things...why the hell wouldn't they carry those things over to 5? Maybe to emphasize on stealing cars more as opposed to physical combat?
EXACTLY. That was one of the finer details that I immediately noticed when I first played GTA 5. The hand to hand combat in GTA 5 is such trash... 1 or 2 punching an NPC only for them to die and bleed out? Like wtf 😂 Knocking people out in GTA 4 was amazing or hitting them with a bat only for them to either get KO'd or die and bleed out 😂 the first time I saw my friend hit an NPC with a bat in GTA 4 and crack them in the head I was blown away 🤯 the game felt so realistic at the time and still holds up extremely well today.
@@ChronicKush one of the difference is that Niko grew up in the army, as far as gta 5 goes, they were mostly street thugs, but the mechanics were off non the less. Gta 4 will always be king.
Niko Bellic uses Bas Rutten as his combat model so that's why the moves are so cool in gta4, there are some videos about it which are good to watch. It's a shame it wasn't implemented in gta5.
The subway in GTA IV is amazing! I was actually disappointed at the subway in GTA V, but then it does kind of reflect what a city with much lower population density would have. There are no missions in GTA V that use the subway either. My only real criticism of GTA IV is that the missions have no checkpoints, which means failure means you start at the beginning again. I'm so glad they fixed that in GTA V. And you lose what ammunition you used when you failed! So fail a mission a few times and suddenly you have no working weapons! Oops...
This was sort of fixed with tbogt, I guess. A lot more check points any way. Still used ammo up, which I think is kinda fair. Yeah was annoying in the main game to drive a real 10 mins to the mission, get wasted and then restart to drive again 10 mins.
There was a mission in the subway, in the diamond heist. Not that I like to compliment gta 5 after it was released 4 fucking times, but still. Also the no checkpoint problem was in gta sa and vice city from what I remember(in gta sa if you failed the last missions it did let you start from a later checkpoint tho). So I gusse they remembered to fix in only in 5.
My favorite little detail about GTA 4 is that the cops actually try to arrest you and not just shoot you if you have 1 star. Plus watching them try to arrest random NPCs that break the law. A lot a little details in that game that made it lots of fun where GTA 5 really dropped the ball.
i think reason they removed it in gta 5 is because they wanted to give military peds same behavior as cops but couldn't they just...added a flag?? why did they remove arresting for that?
I actually liked GTA 4 more than 5. The physics and interactions felt more real. You could shoot someone in the leg and they would start limping. You could actually hold up somebody in their car so they would get out with their hands up and you could steal it. (Instead of the npcs in GTA5 that just slam on the gas and run you over). Mini games, relationships, it just sucks almost none of that was brought over to gta 5
gta 5 doesn't even have a good story in my opinion. It was soooooooo boring it ended up feeling like a chore especially adding the stock market in it. common i don't want that shit giving me headaches in games too.
Another mechanic I think is worthy Is the amount of apartments and buildings and rooms you can enter without a loading screen Or an animation, you just walk through the doors with nothing stopping you. After playing gtaV for so long and trying gta4 for the first time in years it’s so refreshing just walking into these bars and apartments without waiting 2 minutes to load.
I actually really enjoyed the driving physics in GTA 4. I got so used to it that I would just drift around NY in a Comet doing complete spins or half spins to drive backwards.
@@DakaONER94 How is it hard to drive in GTA4? To me, the cars in GTA4 at least feel like they have some weight, and a limited amount of grip. When driving in GTA5 it feels more like I'm playing some kind of Hot Wheels game, cars stick to the ground way more than they should, and when you slam the brakes the car slows down a lot quicker than is even possible. So yeah, GTA4 driving is harder than 5's, but more difficult than IRL? Nah man, I've done some spirited driving myself, and as hard is it is to compare between a game and IRL, I would say GTA4 is the closest to how a car feels to me IRL.
@@TheMisterpino 100 percent more difficult then real life like 10 fold over. Driving in real life is easy af. Ofc not at high speeds like gta v might suggest but not hard to drive at lower speeds like gta iv might suggest. I feel like you don’t drive
I remember the ragdoll physics being advertised before the game out, and so when I eventually played the game, throwing yourself around and at walls was pretty fun. And yeah, the subway system was a great way to get away from the cops.
Honestly Gta 4 is the most realistic in the whole franchise, and by realistic I mean the sandbox itself felt alive, you could completely ignor the campain or even the side missions and just walk the streets, go to a bar or something, or maybe go on a date with someone. And finally when got bored you could start shooting RPGs under your own footsteps and get flying.
I didn't "discover" the subway until I was almost done with TBoGT, and I wished I could go back and use it more. A few years later and I've started that second full playthrough. I'm still finding new things 15 years after release, and I think that's a testament to how ambitiously immersive a project this game was.
It is one of the beginning mission with Vlad, where you have to steal silver Blista. It will explain to you how the subway works. You couldn't miss it, maybe it just didn't feel like it is something you can do out of mission.
Over 10 years have pass and this game still holds as one of the most inmersive ever, it's even more impressive when you consider it came out in a time were consoles having more than 1 gb of ram was unthinkable.
@@gordonoboh833 yeah, the ps3 has 256 mb and the 360 has 512. It's really impressive when you think about it, specially at a time were the ps3's architecture was somewhat unknown to most dev teams with how complicated it was. It's a shame the pc version couldn't reach peak performance.
@@gordonoboh833 if the game ever gets a remaster or something, I do hope it's one worthy of it, the definitive trilogy was a big let down. Now they don't have a real excuse to say they don't have the hardware to make it justice
@@Darrkerkg tbh I would rather they move on to GTA 6 or anything else.....remaster after remaster....VR, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox 1....GTA Online.....it is just awkkkk
Honorable Mention: GTA4 had the best parkour and fighting mechanics you could climb certain buildings and scale them as well as a whole fight club that was actually challenging but very much possible. GTA5 was a complete step down from those mechanics it's so upsetting it's almost like that Rick and Morty meme where Morty experiences true leveledness for the first time.
I was in high school when this game actually came out i remember when i would return from school to play this masterpiece...14 years later still playing on pc this video makes me feel very nostalgic....
The Police mechanics was awesome too. At least they were a little merciful, and held back on violence a bit. Not like GTA 5 where cops will just pull out shotguns and blast you away with the least provocation. Even with one wanted level star, they will just mow you down regardless. Or know exactly where you are even when using silencers on your gun, or even a sniper. I hope GTA 6 fixes this, or at least uses the mechanics for GTA 4
One of my favorite things to do in this game is to just walk around and admire all the details of the map. It's insane how vibrant and detailed the city is and if you take the time to look, you come across a ton of cool stuff
@Only Play Game’s I Win At Still today, I love to enter the stormy weather cheat, traveling around by taxi while listening to either PLR, integrity 2.0 or WKTT.
I knew the subway system because the physical release had a plan for the subway. That was another thing back in the day. The physical releases had some goodies in it that helped you with the game. It was really cool.
I absolutely love and miss GTA IV. The attention to detail was extremely well done. I also loved Niko’s animations whilst getting into cover (rolling, sliding etc). One of the most successful yet underrated games
Thank you so much for making a video on this somewhat forgotten gem every once in a while. It really was a masterpiece. It had the best story out of the bunch in my opinion.
GTA IV is literally aging like high quality wine if you play it you'll realize it feels like a modern game, in a lot of ways better and more polished than modern games, specially if you consider A.I, Physics and Attention to Detail.
In 4, I've always loved getting a taxi, telling them to hurry and the driver goes nuts crashing and bashing along the way to get to the destination quickly, I've even had to abandon the taxi cos the driver flipped it.... oh and Im always in stitches watching the the taxi journey
@@MiniMagit I remember taking a firetruck and nudging it into the tattoo parlor shop and it would launch ya. Or the walk on air glitch where you aim into the ocean by the air landing sector in the city. Fun times
The euphoria engine is something I always wish more devs had access to. But even then, R* does a fantastic job making the worlds feel realistic with it and I really hope they give it their all in GTA 6 like they did RDR 2
@@kanpekiken2481 they didn't in 5 cause it was for the 360/3 gen and the world was much bigger than GTA 4. Euphoria requires the whole world and everything to run on it. But with RDR2, they updated the RAGE engine and the tech now can handle Euphoria easier than it used to
@@kanpekiken2481 They did use Euphoria in GTA V only diffirence is GTA IV's Euphoria is NaturalMotion's 2008 version. With GTA V they made some changes because they developed it by their own.
GTA IV felt like a natural progression of the series and is easily it’s peak. GTA was satirical of the American Dream and the crime world while also providing larger than life characters in a crime ridden world. That’s what all the GTA’s up to and including 4 provided. V felt almost like it belonged to a different series. It felt like GTA meets Saints Row meets Just Cause. It never felt serious or real.
I like how you could actually control the car. If you leave the vehicle the wheels will stay cranked, you could also hold the exit vehicle button to turn the engine off or just tap it to leave the engine running while exiting the vehicle.
I loved how you could lean forward on a motorcycle causing the back wheel to easily spin. It made turning around or doing cookies so awesome. I was so disappointed when I got GTA5 and it didn't have it.
if you played GTA San Andreas and then 3 years later you played GTA IV you know how crazy of an evolution this was, the game didn't evolve that much goin from IV to V.
Number 3 I spent an entire playthrough of hundreds of hours taking the subway whenever possible it was so great I loved it! You had to move to Bohan before it really became possible and friend dates were never patient enough to reach in time from Bohan but otherwise you could do most the missions taking your time using the subways. Took Roman bowling that way, took Kiki out on many dates that way, the soothing sound of the trains coming out my speakers...
Ah, unfortunate you didn't mention the guns actually feel way more powerful and the handling of the guns, as they're not 100% accurate when full autoing compared to 5.. And you can most definitely tell that the pack a punch when firing, I mean blast a shotfun in the face of an enemy is way more satisfying than In 5, the engine makes it beautiful
5 had a dot for a crosshair. idk which jackass thought that was a good idea but most of the time i didn't even know where i was shooting and it needlessly made me have to concentrate more or less every gun feels the same lol.
I played through most of gta 4 with the glock. It was so reliable. Even with bunch of enemies. The targeting system was so fine tuned to the controller. Lightly squeezing the trigger has you aiming down sight and squeezing full on fires the shot. That was a brilliant feature. Aiming once you know how to do it was seemless.
Just did a replay of this a few months ago, you guys always have been on point but this is definitely in my opinion the best GTA so far, 5 was too cartoony for me.
@Austin Batton - Boohoo.... Everyone who agrees with GameRanx over GTA4 is a bandwagoner.... *BY YOU.* 😉🤣 Chill out and accept other peoples opinions are gonna be different or you're gonna exist in a world where everything troubles you.
When I first played GTA4 I thought the physics engine was too real and the littlest clipping of something would send you blazing out of a car or onto a road to get gravel rash, but you slowly adapted and found the weight of things and which vehicles suited you. On playing GTA5 I whimpered at how bad the physics were and went back to playing GTA4 and the other DLC. This is why I keep GTA4 & the DLC around to act like a total git and enjoy it! 😊
@@mikeycrackson I played it on Xbox 360 (then girlfriends Xbox) & on PC and I agree the initial PC port was a bit crap but serviceable. You needed a complete beast of a PC to play it well and with mid/upper-mid range PCs, you had to juggle the settings to get something usable. The update we got, and way too late at that, ironed out a chunk of the issues but by then people had completed it and only went on to see the differences the update made. The update did make playing the DLC better and more enjoyable.
Possibly the best *and* funniest thing ive ever seen with the physics, is in one of Phil's missions (i think, dont remember which one) when you enter a ruined building to shoot a lot of guys; the first enemy trips and falls down the stairs, losing like 90% of his hp... i was mindblown over how realistic it felt.
Never stopped, come back to it once every couple of years, truly a masterpiece. Wouldn't ever call this or hope this game would ever be "forgotten." I actually enjoy the vehicle physics more so than GTA 5. Also cool fun fact about "Ballad of Gay Tony" is a lot of the missions/features were what inspired a lot of the mission design/ tone in GTA 5.
I miss this game so much. I played the hell out of it. I don't have a PS3 anymore but I still have my game and my save files. I also purchased both add-on games. This game was so well done for its time and I miss playing it. I wish they could port it over to the PS4 so we can play it on there.
The game doesn't overstay its welcome, and makes me appreciate living on the east coast just that little bit more. They really did an amazing job making liberty city look like New York I love how they added the statue of liberty and put that cool easter egg inside 😁 and even modeled the island the statues on after the real one. Honestly their attention to detail only goes to show how valueable their company exertions are for inspiration for their games ❤️ they made this game with so much love you can feel it every second you're playing. Im glad you gave this game the much needed attention! The swingset glitch was amazing and im so glad you mentioned it but honestly my favorites were the one where you walk underwater and get to be outside the map and the silly glitch where if you pushed a shopping cart into water it would create a whirlpool 😂
GTA IV is definitely one of my favorites (Vice City is my favorite but 4 is definitely second). I loved everything about it from the physics system to the story itself. The multiplayer was so much better than the grind of V. I miss the ability to just go around and have fun instead of worrying about buying things and grinding for them.
I was a middle schooler who bought a used copy of this game from a blockbusters, the guy didn’t ask for my ID and I rode my bike back home and I couldn’t believe the freedom you had in this game. Good times 🥲
Just like feeling the weight with the drunkenness, that's how the driving is it's like you can feel the weight of the car. It's definitely the most realistic driving out of all the GTA games.
The realism of GTA IV easily makes it my favorite GTA game of all time. Also the story is amazing, it's one of the few games I'd pick up again just to play through the story.
When GTA V launched it became my favorite GTA, but after some months playing it I noticed how GTA IV felt better and had a much more realistic and convincing physics, car driving, etc. and it became my favorite GTA once again.
I don't think gamers in todays day and age could handle the driving physics of GTA IV if it released today. I'd imagine a bunch of people complaining because it's not easy enough. It was definitely a strong learning curve but oh so satisfying when you nail drifting around a corner at high speeds. Would love to see a hybrid between GTA IV and GTA V's driving on their next release.
In my opinion, GTAIV wasn't surpassed by GTAV at all. IV is still the pinnacle of storytelling and offers the fullest single player experience in the series. V may have done better online, sure, but that's 100% due to the time it released and lack of alternative similar experience on the PS4. You also have to take into account that there are much more people playing games now than ever, it's gone mainstream during GTAV's lifespan and more people have access to consoles in countries which previously couldn't afford them. What appears to be overwhelming success in V compared to IV is more than likely just a product of the times
I thought GTA IV had way better online. V has way too much grind for my liking. I miss when we could load it up and go around and just have fun. V never felt that way to me. Now it’s about doing the same missions over and over or shark cards just to buy the fun. Other than that I agree with you, IV was never surpassed.
Even today , GTA 4 is my favorite GTA and video game in general. There's so much thing to do and it's so immersive. I think I have spent one year of my life playing it
This was probably the most special gaming experience i ever had I was living in Europe at the time for a year and missed home a lot and being from South Brooklyn this was exactly what i needed it felt like it was made for me.. They did the atmosphere and characters so well..
This is my personal favorite GTA. It was so cool when it came out when I was 10. I had to hide it from my mom and I didn’t think games would ever look better.
Bas Rutten’s TV show really was worth the price of GTA IV’s admission for me. The game really captured how funny that Bas Rutten actually is, especially when he parodies himself and his MMA skills. 😂
I loved the reactive Bullet Impact in this game and Gunplay and overall how people's body react to getting shot like it's so detailed that the power of your gun changes it as well if you shoot them in the leg they lose balance specially if it's a gun with a lot of fire power if you shoot them with a shotgun it throws them off, if you shoot them in the head their head snaps back and they hit the ground, it's just so realistic. you can even shoot them in the hand and their gun gets dropped, that's just insane to me. like if you shoot a SWAT member and they lose their sub-machine gun then they'll take out their Pistol and if you shoot their Pistol away they run away because they don't have any guns to fight you anymore. there's a lot of other examples like this that makes you realize how advanced the A.I is. like how the Cops will arrest other NPCs as well if they do anything violent.
And actually chase after them if they run, put them in the Car then jump in the back and then take them almost to Jail, they also search them and other stuff.
Thank you so much for shouting out the Ballad of Gay Tony DLC; I think I played it more than the lost and the damned and the original GTAIV story. The best part about it was the soundtrack because causing mayhem with Ven Bailalo as the backdrop just hit different for me as a fan of earlier reggaetón music.
i wouldnt call it lazy, more like publishers think that games can be made in the same amount of time that they used to be made but expect next gen graphics and systems. not knowing how much more it takes to make a game nowadays so they crunch the devs and systems have to be cut to meet deadlines
Yes, although my expectations of gta V was much much more advanced than what we got. Gta 5 fixes and still improves on the mechanics that gta 4 had, while also some more, though removing some as well. Gta 5 wasn’t a big leap that i thought it would be, but it’s still one of the genuinely very good games that are out there. Although gta 4 is underrated now, but it was a big leap in gaming when it came out. I still like gta 4 way more, and i like the online freemode. that it has. I wish gta 5 also had an online freemode.
I’ve beat vice city like 8 times San Andreas at least 4 times Gta 4 twice GTA V …1 time….I can barely get through the prologue. GTA v should have allows Franklin to enjoy gang activity like cj from San Andreas. Michael should have enjoyed buying up business and renovating, Trevor should have introduced us to all the wacky crazy shit gta is usually known for. The replayability could have been fleshed out for V a lot more but it’s just boring after u beat it.
Whenever I was starting to get overwhelmed by the police and NOOSE in GTA IV, I'd typically retreat to the nearest subway enterence. Lot's of cover to weave in and out of which would make good opportunities to pop out and take a few shots at the cops before continuing deeper. Eventually, I'd lose them in the tunnels and find the nearest enterence and come back up again. Amazing experience! GTA IV is still one of my favorites. Especially with all of the fun mods out there to play with.
Another thing I miss is GTA 4s free roam multiplayer. GTA 5s online at the time when It came about was amazing. There was so much more you can do, leveling your player, owning houses, weapons, and vehicles etc. As the time has gone on and how much it has evolved I find myself missing the fun and simplicity of GTA 4s online. You just went on messed around and had fun, I spent so many hours with friends doing that swing glitch. The airport was just an all out fun war zone with people fighting to get the helicopters or messing about. Weapons and health packs were laid out and scattered all around the map so everything was fair end even. No hours and hours of grinding or pay to win to keep your character up to the same standards as everyone else’s. I just miss it and miss those days.
Same, I used to play the heck out of IV multiplayer, I remember there was mods on Xbox for it, but it wasn't game ruining but rather people would spawn in invincible/undamagable cars with neon flashing lights that would have speed mods. Ahh the good times.
GTAIV will always have a special place in my heart. Me and my bro use to boot up the game and play it together from beginning to end and do all the storylines and get all the endings. We even use to either take the cab to a random place to watch the scenery or put on one of the fake tv programs during dinner so we'll have something to watch while we eat. Needless to say, fave in the series- storyline and characters and immersion😍
GTA IV is my favorite GTA game. The story and characters are truly amazing and the tone is phenomenal as well. I find myself playing this game more often than some of the other ones as the world is so immersive that I find more replay value than the other GTA games. Not that the other ones are bad, not at all, but IV is just unique and is truly amazing. Great video man, keep up the great work!
You forgot to mention the cinamatic camera!! Easily the best in all the gta series. Having the ability to use slow motion and being able to flip to the next angle whenever along side the euphoria engine is ridiculously fun. If y’all haven’t messed with it I seriously recommend you do💯
One of my favorite quirks in GTA IV is the speaker static sound you get before you receive a call, that's the kind of attention to detail that makes it.
Played this game since 2008 and just only realized that not too long ago, glad I found someone else who also finds this amazing!
So true man, everytime in a car.
One of my favorite details, if you held the exit button down while in a car, you can actually turn the car off instead of leaving it idle.
I also remember you could dial a number on your phone and it would give you the song name and artist of the song you are listening to in game.
@@videowatcher551 “Lazlow here with Zit!”
@@videowatcher551 yes! Loved this feature, I loved being able to leave a car running with the lights on when getting out at night. Sucked they didnt carry this over to GTAV… iirc the cars all just turn off when you get out in V regardless if you press or hold exit.
I remember getting an xbox 360 with this game, getting home and being blown away with the graphics and the physics, it was too much to process for me at that time. Absolutely loved this GTA, hope they keep the good work.
Especially coming from a playstation 2 and xbl at the time💯
Wish it have a remaster version cause after boot up xbox360 to replay this.
omg the frame rate are horrible, thought it was the console but no other game play great, i can't believe i play gta4 with this fps.😂
@@farihinhajimohdlisa9017 booting up an old xbox 360 or ps3 is pure pain now 🤣
I just bought a 360, graphics wise isnt that of a downgrade of the one
I have a nephew who’s 1 and I will be sure he plays this at some point because well it’s a classic and I’m that kind of uncle
In gta 4, the NPC cars also often set the blinker before turning, they never do that in gta 5 and it's extremely annoying because you never know where they're going.
It was perfect
Not only do they not do that in GTA V, some dirtbag programmer actually designed traffic to grief the player. Whatever motherless sociopath in the meeting room was like, “Hey, I have an idea… why don’t we design traffic to violently swerve into the players direction of travel for no reason!”
needs to be put down or banned from the industry. I’ve literally seen NPC vehicles glitch and break the physics just to cut me off in GTA V - essentially warp in front of me. That alone illustrates what an inferior piece of shit GTA V is to GTA IV.
@@Ward413Cars swerve for no reason (sometimes right onto you) in GTA4 aswell
@@FSousA7X That only occurs on the bridge as NPC traffic thinks the subway is coming at them. So it’s just a bug, not an intentionally programmed script to annoy and grief the player like in V. So not analogous at all. GTA V will literally spawn a stopped car ahead of you for the sole purpose of having it pull out in front of you. GTA IV does nothing like that. NPC’s are just a bit dumb in IV given its PS3 era AI.
@@Ward413 Oh, I didnt know that was the cause for the swerving. Yeah, I get it
GTA 4 is honestly my favourite game in the series, and one of my favourite games in general. I’d love a remaster with all the DLC included (just keep Grove Street Games as far away as possible).
Same it's my fav in the serie closely followed by sa classic
Honestly if it weren't for the characters and the storyline in GTA V I would have returned the game the next day. There isn't a single game mechanic that they didn't make worse. With the exception of constantly being bothered by your whiny in-game friends every 10 minutes suppose.
Hopefully they don’t royally fuck up that remaster too because I would love to play that game on my PS5
We'll see GTA 4 remaster before we see GTA 6
Same. I loved this game so much and never understood why it got so much hate.
Experiencing this game when it came out in 2008 and then having it rain ingame is a feeling of immersion I still remember 13 years on.
I can imagine, play Fallout 3 then play GTA 4. Probably two of the biggest games in that year with dark atmospheres.
The first person camera as a passenger is highly underrated. It looks, sounds and feels so immersive.
Forgotten? This game is a masterpiece, easily the best in the series.
Its forgotten because of the idiot kids who think this game sucks because theres no gTa OnLiNe
@@Danfrombackhome It had online, but at the time CoD4 and Halo 3 was around to get your fix. GTA was and will always be single player to many.
Remove some entries and I guess it could be the best in the series.
@@Danfrombackhome it had online used to play it all day where were you
@@Hidden_lvl nah
The amount of small details in this game is outstanding. I still remember being shocked by the pedestrian who was talking in polish, the level of immersion was huge (especially that she appeared in the district known for polish immigrants). Anyway you’ll find plenty more languages which is outstanding if you focus on this.
They got Cantonese AND Mandarin in Chinatown
And how Niko proficiency with the English language got better the more you got far into the story too. Niko broken english and use of his natal language through the story is impressive. Niko start pronouncing words more correctly and also using less and less his natal language. He even start picking an accent
The first time I took the subway in GTA IV and a guy was playing the sax on the station, I felt really immerse in the NY atmosphere, with the dim lights and the mist. Rockstar really nailed the realism here
A couple Jews speak Yiddish. I remember that and was so amazed
They also have people speaking Russian around Brighton Beach area (which is Russian community area in real NY)
I like the fact GTA4 was dark and gritty.
I quite liked the fact it was toned down and it wasn’t over the top with jets and tanks and crazy weapons.
It felt more real, the guns sounded cool! I liked the boat motion of the cars, it felt more dramatic.
It deserves a remake
It’s a very dramatic game and I love that about it
GTA V has far too many flyiing missions, parachuting, scuba drivin, etc, if you wasn't for those mid-mission checkpoints I would far too frustrated to finish them.
The guns in GTA 5 are one door away from having the Hollywood pew pew noises... The sniper rifles with suppressors DO have the pew pew.
I really hope we get... An eargasm from much more realistic guns in GTA 6!
@@adriansaenz4906with how rockstar is currently, it's better if they leave the game as is until they become a good company again
Unpopular opinion: gta4 is always be better than gta5. Not in terms of gameplay and online. It's better in terms of storyline and dark atmosphere.
These are facts and cannot denied.
I’m so glad that there’s other people that agree about this. Gta4’s story is just underrated, it doesn’t glamorize the life of crime like most stories do.
Nah it’s better gameplay too
Online one gta iv was so much fun because it was so simple. I remember when me and friends would spend hours just in the airport jumping the ramps and driving the helicopter and planes. I miss those days.
Ur so right bro
GTA 4 for me was the best one, Great story, Memorable characters, Actual combat etc. The songs on the radio actually matched the vibe of the world, The in-game internet was the first of its kind. The dating system was pretty accurate as well.
First thing I done when I got an Xbox was buy gta 4 and bully
I only found out recently on a UA-cam video that Kiki stalks you, Definitely not a creep.
The leap from SA to 4 was worlds different. The leap from 4 to 5 was meh
I didn't really like GTA 4 back in the day because it removed so many things from San Andreas like tuning your cars but I replayed it last year and loved it. It's so immersive, detailed and well written. Probably my favorite GTA after all. It's also a great time capsule of 2008.
The multiplayer (imo) was just more fun than 5. The way we were able to just spawn in the game and collect weapons from around the map compared to the world of GTA V was just kinda neater overall. A simpler time
I love the detail when you get a free ride from Roman’s cab driver and he just talks shit about you the whole ride
The subway system in GTA IV actually taught me how to take the train irl. I always found the train system to be confusing as a kid until I started going from Northwood to Easton Station and then transferring to another train to go to Hove Beach.
My mom: GTA could never be educational
GTA:
*”So, Games Can Teach Real Life Lessons Afterall.”*
-Parents (hopefully)
Underrated comment.
Lmfao you know your actually from NYC lol
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Another car physic detail: any time your car catches enough air for the suspension to fully decompress, you can see that the tires travel in arcs that are realistic to the type of suspension whatever you are driving has. Meaning that rear tires of trucks equipped with live axles will hang straight down (parallel to the body), while tires of cars with McPherson struts move in a realistic arc.
GTA 4 dev telling me why making a realistic driving mechanic it's important to the lore
Speaking of GTA and being (potentially) true to life: 5 months after GTA 4's release, a young girl named Audrey Plique saved her family's lives after their Jeep Cherokee hit a guard rail and flipped four times, landing on its roof, upside-down. She knew from playing GTA that a flipped car could explode. From a Kotaku article about the story: "With her mother hanging upside down and her father pinned against the steering wheel, 11-year-old Audrey Plique climbed out of the back window and helped her parents and two younger siblings escape the car."
@@ObeyCamp I'd be questioning the parents as to why she was playing a Mature rated game after they finished praising her.
@@julieb157 meh, I was playing M rated games at her age. I turned out fine.
@@alonelychocolatebar1954 Samage
GTA IV had one of the best stories and Liberty City was just really well done in general - the atmosphere of the game was dark and the city was almost a character in of itself.
Niko Belic was also a great character who developed as a person as the game went on.
What I loved the most about gta 4 is it literally feels like new York City. I mean the environment and details literally make a perfect nyc
Yeah they did so good with liberty city. It feels/looks exactly like New York.
Yup I 100% Agee I’m a nyc native and It felt so good to see them get my city almost to the T
They missed Staten Island
The atmosphere was a lot more enjoyable to just experience than Los Santos in GTA V. I used to pick a point on one side of the GTA IV map and walk to the other side, seeing what would happen. Through no fault of my own I'd always end up in fist fights in random places. You can do that in GTA V, but since most of the map is relatively empty and the city itself is pretty dull, it just isn't as fun (one exception being when you take Trevor down to Franklin's hood and hurl taunts at gang members and other pedestrians - always ends in violence).
I went there for my birthday and man I just feel like it’s so easy for me to go to NYC but the people who live there may probably never get the chance to come to my city :(
The driving and damage mechanics were my favorite because of how realistic they were. When they first announced gta 5 I was hoping they would put those physics in the game
Fun fact, the only reason they reduced the physics was so they could get better graphics to run on 360 and PS3, the cpu and gpu wouldn’t hold up to the combination
@@C20F It ruins just about every game as soon as there's mentions of multi-platform. Even Final Fantasy 14 to this day is heavily limited on PC because they want players on console to have an equal experience to pc players
@@C20F PC didn’t even get the game until like mid 2015 hahaha
The Subway system is my favorite part of GTA 4. It's one of the things that really grounds a game for me, as someone that takes public transportation often it's nice to see, especially in such incredible detail, a fantastic subway system. Combine waiting for the train with the amazing NPC interactions and it's really a great time
Honestly GTA IV is my favourite GTA ever. Niko himself, his character development through the game, our beloved brother Roman, a serious and at times kinda grim looking game world, radio stations (Vladivostok FM
I loved that radio station and I’m black lol
@@johndeal8826 I luv BBC
@@romella_karmey whats your Number Let’s link and play GTA IV
@@romella_karmey lol
@@johndeal8826 but I play on pirated version of the game I'm so poor
One detail I honestly love about gta 4 is that you can find random ai driving with dents in there car as if they gotten into a fender bender previously. Or the traffic jams
not to mention rusted cars with weird horns
@@sharkfartgaming5719 the way the old cars drove on there was realistic af
What always amazed me about this game were all the unique pedestrians, with their own interactions and reactions to what you did to them. Incredible attention to detail throughout in this gem of a game that will have you playing it over and over.
You could get people to fight against one another. Guess what? That's All thrown out the window in 5.
@@v.k.rt.m.6030nah lol 5 you could make people
Fight to if you make
Em punch or shoot one of the other folks on the street
4 is my favorite in the series. The story is incredible and the physics were hilarious. The driving is fantastic also. The cars had weight and handled really nice
I always will stand firm on gta 4 being the most well put together gta. Everything was crafted with love.
GTA 4 is one of the few games that i like to just walk around.. is a total inmersive experience. The sounds of the city, the people talking, the noise its so amazing.. feels like walking thru real NYC. I always done it on sunset.
The driving physics were my favorite part. They felt much more realistic and rewarding. In GTA V the cars stick to the road and turn on a dime. So it doesn't have that bad ass feel when driving a car and using the weight of the vehicle to turn and drift through traffic as in GTA IV.
it’s nearly impossible to drift in GTAIV unless you master it
The only pro V has over IV is the sense of speed. I remember being overwhelmed when I got my first fast car in V and I was almost breathless.
I went from grand turismo to gta4 back to back so I really liked the more realistic driving in gta4
The driving is especially great when you take a corner at high speed, knowing you're right on the edge of grip and one bump could send you flying off the road. Making a turn like that without crashing/spinning is so damn satisfying
@@Kemoclout r u noob ?
I loved the hand to hand combat and how you could lay someone out with one punch and they wouldn't die. They'd just be hurt on the ground and eventually limp off. And how many secret combos there were vs. GTA5 which only had 2 very robotic dodge moves. But I also love the Fight Club in TBOGT. You could just keep betting on yourself and just farm money lmao 🤣 such a great game
Edit: OH also if someone had a Bat/Knife an you dodged, you'd take the weapon from them with a quick combo and then you have the said Bat/Knife. Can't do do that in GTA5
I never played GTA4 and you're making me miss those things...why the hell wouldn't they carry those things over to 5? Maybe to emphasize on stealing cars more as opposed to physical combat?
Bro missed a gem not putting this on the list but added telephone interactions…what?
EXACTLY. That was one of the finer details that I immediately noticed when I first played GTA 5. The hand to hand combat in GTA 5 is such trash... 1 or 2 punching an NPC only for them to die and bleed out? Like wtf 😂 Knocking people out in GTA 4 was amazing or hitting them with a bat only for them to either get KO'd or die and bleed out 😂 the first time I saw my friend hit an NPC with a bat in GTA 4 and crack them in the head I was blown away 🤯 the game felt so realistic at the time and still holds up extremely well today.
@@ChronicKush one of the difference is that Niko grew up in the army, as far as gta 5 goes, they were mostly street thugs, but the mechanics were off non the less. Gta 4 will always be king.
Niko Bellic uses Bas Rutten as his combat model so that's why the moves are so cool in gta4, there are some videos about it which are good to watch. It's a shame it wasn't implemented in gta5.
The subway in GTA IV is amazing! I was actually disappointed at the subway in GTA V, but then it does kind of reflect what a city with much lower population density would have. There are no missions in GTA V that use the subway either.
My only real criticism of GTA IV is that the missions have no checkpoints, which means failure means you start at the beginning again. I'm so glad they fixed that in GTA V. And you lose what ammunition you used when you failed! So fail a mission a few times and suddenly you have no working weapons! Oops...
This was sort of fixed with tbogt, I guess. A lot more check points any way. Still used ammo up, which I think is kinda fair.
Yeah was annoying in the main game to drive a real 10 mins to the mission, get wasted and then restart to drive again 10 mins.
There was a mission in the subway, in the diamond heist. Not that I like to compliment gta 5 after it was released 4 fucking times, but still.
Also the no checkpoint problem was in gta sa and vice city from what I remember(in gta sa if you failed the last missions it did let you start from a later checkpoint tho). So I gusse they remembered to fix in only in 5.
@AhsanAnimatez3D and who in their right mind would play the mobile version and the defenetive edition?
My favorite little detail about GTA 4 is that the cops actually try to arrest you and not just shoot you if you have 1 star. Plus watching them try to arrest random NPCs that break the law. A lot a little details in that game that made it lots of fun where GTA 5 really dropped the ball.
i think reason they removed it in gta 5 is because they wanted to give military peds same behavior as cops but couldn't they just...added a flag?? why did they remove arresting for that?
It's even more crazy if you consider it's a 2008 game
@@zzxzz-666-thedevil9 why you are the devil?
They.. Do arrest you if you have 1 star
@@mymaingotbanned_not5816 no, they shoot you on all stars on 5, i have experience
I actually liked GTA 4 more than 5. The physics and interactions felt more real. You could shoot someone in the leg and they would start limping. You could actually hold up somebody in their car so they would get out with their hands up and you could steal it. (Instead of the npcs in GTA5 that just slam on the gas and run you over). Mini games, relationships, it just sucks almost none of that was brought over to gta 5
Gta 5 is so overrated though
@@shmet yup
gta 5 doesn't even have a good story in my opinion. It was soooooooo boring it ended up feeling like a chore especially adding the stock market in it. common i don't want that shit giving me headaches in games too.
@@FFn101 Only fun thing was Trevor in GTA5. And even his story was not that interessting.
Why do you want headaches in games, though?
GTA 5 was and is awesome. But 4 had a very strong character and it is sad to see it’s legacy was so… Underused.
I can't even begin to count the hundreds of hours I put into this game as a teenager and until GTA V came out. I love it. Such good memories.
Another mechanic I think is worthy Is the amount of apartments and buildings and rooms you can enter without a loading screen Or an animation, you just walk through the doors with nothing stopping you. After playing gtaV for so long and trying gta4 for the first time in years it’s so refreshing just walking into these bars and apartments without waiting 2 minutes to load.
GTA IV will always be my favourite Grand Theft Auto ever made - it's DLCs were also absolute masterpieces.
I actually really enjoyed the driving physics in GTA 4. I got so used to it that I would just drift around NY in a Comet doing complete spins or half spins to drive backwards.
Totally agree, and I was so disappointed when I saw GTA5's handling and damage models for the first time. Really felt like a step back to me.
@@TheMisterpino it’s actually not that hard to drive in real life the way it’s hard in gta 4.
@@DakaONER94 How is it hard to drive in GTA4? To me, the cars in GTA4 at least feel like they have some weight, and a limited amount of grip. When driving in GTA5 it feels more like I'm playing some kind of Hot Wheels game, cars stick to the ground way more than they should, and when you slam the brakes the car slows down a lot quicker than is even possible.
So yeah, GTA4 driving is harder than 5's, but more difficult than IRL? Nah man, I've done some spirited driving myself, and as hard is it is to compare between a game and IRL, I would say GTA4 is the closest to how a car feels to me IRL.
@@TheMisterpino 100 percent more difficult then real life like 10 fold over. Driving in real life is easy af. Ofc not at high speeds like gta v might suggest but not hard to drive at lower speeds like gta iv might suggest. I feel like you don’t drive
@@TheMisterpino cars literally be sliding when you’re going 20 mph 10 mph if your car does that in real life you need a new car
I remember the ragdoll physics being advertised before the game out, and so when I eventually played the game, throwing yourself around and at walls was pretty fun.
And yeah, the subway system was a great way to get away from the cops.
Yeah by entering it with a car LOL
I remember watching clips of people getting thrown across the city only to land in a shallow pool and live
@@infuryz.4306 Or the train, it would take you out of the circle
Honestly Gta 4 is the most realistic in the whole franchise, and by realistic I mean the sandbox itself felt alive, you could completely ignor the campain or even the side missions and just walk the streets, go to a bar or something, or maybe go on a date with someone. And finally when got bored you could start shooting RPGs under your own footsteps and get flying.
But it was the first GTA that really pushed you to do the main story
Shoot rpgs?
@@Marquis-Sade Not sure if I got it right, but by shooting RPGs I wanted to say that the ragdoll effects were unbelievably satisfying.
@@sina_sadeghi Ah, I see. Yeah it was very good at the time
I didn't "discover" the subway until I was almost done with TBoGT, and I wished I could go back and use it more. A few years later and I've started that second full playthrough. I'm still finding new things 15 years after release, and I think that's a testament to how ambitiously immersive a project this game was.
It is one of the beginning mission with Vlad, where you have to steal silver Blista. It will explain to you how the subway works. You couldn't miss it, maybe it just didn't feel like it is something you can do out of mission.
Over 10 years have pass and this game still holds as one of the most inmersive ever, it's even more impressive when you consider it came out in a time were consoles having more than 1 gb of ram was unthinkable.
What? I didn’t know this about GTA IV, but it’s kinda impressive.
But it’s still annoying that GTA IV on pc doesn’t pick up the dedicated GPU
@@gordonoboh833 yeah, the ps3 has 256 mb and the 360 has 512. It's really impressive when you think about it, specially at a time were the ps3's architecture was somewhat unknown to most dev teams with how complicated it was.
It's a shame the pc version couldn't reach peak performance.
@@Darrkerkg really a shame, cause PC has potential
@@gordonoboh833 if the game ever gets a remaster or something, I do hope it's one worthy of it, the definitive trilogy was a big let down. Now they don't have a real excuse to say they don't have the hardware to make it justice
@@Darrkerkg tbh I would rather they move on to GTA 6 or anything else.....remaster after remaster....VR, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox 1....GTA Online.....it is just awkkkk
My most replayed GTA by far, i really REALLY hope Rockstar don't mess this one up if the remaster rumors turn out to be true.
Feel so proud when ppl talk about specific places in a game i played A LOT, its like someone talking about my neighborhood.
GTA 4 was the golden age of single player DLC. "Lost and Damned" and "The Ballad of Gay Tony" were masterpieces.
I wouldn’t even call them dlcs in today’s gaming climate, they’re more like expansions because they add so much to the base game
Honorable Mention: GTA4 had the best parkour and fighting mechanics you could climb certain buildings and scale them as well as a whole fight club that was actually challenging but very much possible. GTA5 was a complete step down from those mechanics it's so upsetting it's almost like that Rick and Morty meme where Morty experiences true leveledness for the first time.
I was in high school when this game actually came out i remember when i would return from school to play this masterpiece...14 years later still playing on pc this video makes me feel very nostalgic....
The Police mechanics was awesome too. At least they were a little merciful, and held back on violence a bit.
Not like GTA 5 where cops will just pull out shotguns and blast you away with the least provocation. Even with one wanted level star, they will just mow you down regardless. Or know exactly where you are even when using silencers on your gun, or even a sniper.
I hope GTA 6 fixes this, or at least uses the mechanics for GTA 4
That sounds realisic looking at how many cops in America are in real life.
Gta 4 cops also said stuff like let my wife know I love her OK, When Can We Eat, I'm that fatass beating my wife warned you about
@@chidubem826..... Sigh
One of my favorite things to do in this game is to just walk around and admire all the details of the map. It's insane how vibrant and detailed the city is and if you take the time to look, you come across a ton of cool stuff
Bravo, so well said!
I agree, I liked finding the numerous humorous jokes throughout the city. I think GTA V lacked the amount of it that IV had
I find the same is true walking around my city as I try to use the car less
@Only Play Game’s I Win At Still today, I love to enter the stormy weather cheat, traveling around by taxi while listening to either PLR, integrity 2.0 or WKTT.
Even running across the road is risky business if your traffic density is set to over 80%
I knew the subway system because the physical release had a plan for the subway. That was another thing back in the day. The physical releases had some goodies in it that helped you with the game. It was really cool.
Gta 4 is the greatest game in the series. The gameplay, story, physics, and the atmosphere are still unmatched today.
I absolutely love and miss GTA IV. The attention to detail was extremely well done. I also loved Niko’s animations whilst getting into cover (rolling, sliding etc). One of the most successful yet underrated games
The swing set glitch really shows off how good the vehicle damage can look, like I've had cars still drive while looking like paper.
Thank you so much for making a video on this somewhat forgotten gem every once in a while. It really was a masterpiece. It had the best story out of the bunch in my opinion.
GTA IV is literally aging like high quality wine
if you play it you'll realize it feels like a modern game, in a lot of ways better and more polished than modern games, specially if you consider A.I, Physics and Attention to Detail.
In 4, I've always loved getting a taxi, telling them to hurry and the driver goes nuts crashing and bashing along the way to get to the destination quickly, I've even had to abandon the taxi cos the driver flipped it.... oh and Im always in stitches watching the the taxi journey
I’ve spent easily over 24 hours of my life messing with the swing set glitch. Still to this day it is hilarious and fun to do!
Should’ve had one as an Easter egg in GTA 5
@@clamcrewcarclub6017 yeah but Rockstar patches every fun glitch in online so the game can be less fun and more of a grind
@@MiniMagit I remember taking a firetruck and nudging it into the tattoo parlor shop and it would launch ya. Or the walk on air glitch where you aim into the ocean by the air landing sector in the city. Fun times
I am usually a person who ends a game once and deletes it. But played Gta 4 for like 3 times
The euphoria engine is something I always wish more devs had access to. But even then, R* does a fantastic job making the worlds feel realistic with it and I really hope they give it their all in GTA 6 like they did RDR 2
They didn’t use it in gta 5. Surprised they used it for RDR2
@@kanpekiken2481 they didn't in 5 cause it was for the 360/3 gen and the world was much bigger than GTA 4. Euphoria requires the whole world and everything to run on it. But with RDR2, they updated the RAGE engine and the tech now can handle Euphoria easier than it used to
@@theshadowfinnjake OH. I didn’t know this. Thanks for that. RAGE engine is pretty amazing. Can’t wait to see euphoria again
@@kanpekiken2481 They did use Euphoria in GTA V only diffirence is GTA IV's Euphoria is NaturalMotion's 2008 version. With GTA V they made some changes because they developed it by their own.
Gta 6 won't exist until 2060 because they're too busy releasing gta 5 on the next 10 console generations.
GTA IV felt like a natural progression of the series and is easily it’s peak. GTA was satirical of the American Dream and the crime world while also providing larger than life characters in a crime ridden world. That’s what all the GTA’s up to and including 4 provided.
V felt almost like it belonged to a different series. It felt like GTA meets Saints Row meets Just Cause. It never felt serious or real.
Interesting thought, I mean "GTA meets Saints Row"
Agree 💯
I like how you could actually control the car. If you leave the vehicle the wheels will stay cranked, you could also hold the exit vehicle button to turn the engine off or just tap it to leave the engine running while exiting the vehicle.
Blessed to been able to have played and lived through this golden era of games, gta v, halo 3, cod 4 damn what a time
I loved how you could lean forward on a motorcycle causing the back wheel to easily spin. It made turning around or doing cookies so awesome. I was so disappointed when I got GTA5 and it didn't have it.
if you played GTA San Andreas and then 3 years later you played GTA IV you know how crazy of an evolution this was, the game didn't evolve that much goin from IV to V.
It did I felt the big jump
Little Jacob, Packie, Elizabeta Tores, Vlad, Roman, Brucie, Gay Tony, etc. So many memorable characters
@@PhantomAgony
Loved his gold helicopter and guns
Number 3 I spent an entire playthrough of hundreds of hours taking the subway whenever possible it was so great I loved it! You had to move to Bohan before it really became possible and friend dates were never patient enough to reach in time from Bohan but otherwise you could do most the missions taking your time using the subways. Took Roman bowling that way, took Kiki out on many dates that way, the soothing sound of the trains coming out my speakers...
Ah, unfortunate you didn't mention the guns actually feel way more powerful and the handling of the guns, as they're not 100% accurate when full autoing compared to 5.. And you can most definitely tell that the pack a punch when firing, I mean blast a shotfun in the face of an enemy is way more satisfying than In 5, the engine makes it beautiful
5 had a dot for a crosshair. idk which jackass thought that was a good idea but most of the time i didn't even know where i was shooting and it needlessly made me have to concentrate more or less every gun feels the same lol.
I played through most of gta 4 with the glock. It was so reliable. Even with bunch of enemies. The targeting system was so fine tuned to the controller. Lightly squeezing the trigger has you aiming down sight and squeezing full on fires the shot. That was a brilliant feature. Aiming once you know how to do it was seemless.
Just did a replay of this a few months ago, you guys always have been on point but this is definitely in my opinion the best GTA so far, 5 was too cartoony for me.
IKR
3:24 when he said the other characters have nothing to do with niko’s story I realized he didn’t play the game💀💯
@Austin Batton - Boohoo.... Everyone who agrees with GameRanx over GTA4 is a bandwagoner.... *BY YOU.* 😉🤣
Chill out and accept other peoples opinions are gonna be different or you're gonna exist in a world where everything troubles you.
@Austin Batton i haven't played 4 but 5 is shit
I am currently playing GTA 4 for the first time and man is a great game so far.
When I first played GTA4 I thought the physics engine was too real and the littlest clipping of something would send you blazing out of a car or onto a road to get gravel rash, but you slowly adapted and found the weight of things and which vehicles suited you. On playing GTA5 I whimpered at how bad the physics were and went back to playing GTA4 and the other DLC. This is why I keep GTA4 & the DLC around to act like a total git and enjoy it! 😊
Yess agree, downloaded a mod for GTA 5 which made the driving like in GTA4, made the game 10x more enjoyable
Ahh yes, the vehicles that suited me: Taxis. I hated driving so much in GTA 4 I never thought possible in a video game.
@@mikeycrackson I played it on Xbox 360 (then girlfriends Xbox) & on PC and I agree the initial PC port was a bit crap but serviceable. You needed a complete beast of a PC to play it well and with mid/upper-mid range PCs, you had to juggle the settings to get something usable. The update we got, and way too late at that, ironed out a chunk of the issues but by then people had completed it and only went on to see the differences the update made. The update did make playing the DLC better and more enjoyable.
@@housr Hmmm.. You got the exact name of the mod? I've honestly not touched GTA5 in years for the limp, depressing driving.
@@reggiep75 look up ‘Drive V (Realistic Driving / Handling & Damage + Full DLC Support) ‘
I remember my mom's friend surprise me with PS3 w/ GTA 4 on my B-Day and I had my close friends with me and we were playing for hours. Good times
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Possibly the best *and* funniest thing ive ever seen with the physics, is in one of Phil's missions (i think, dont remember which one) when you enter a ruined building to shoot a lot of guys; the first enemy trips and falls down the stairs, losing like 90% of his hp... i was mindblown over how realistic it felt.
I loved the more realistic approach. The euphoria engine and the driving really made this game for me. Probably my favourite GTA.
It uses the RAGE engine ( Rockstar Advanced Game Engine ) euphoria is just a part of that engine. GTA 5 also uses this engine, along with RDR & RDR2.
@@JP94 Something about the implementation of euphoria seems more raw in GTA 4 and I like it.
@@JP94 *modified versions of RAGE
Never stopped, come back to it once every couple of years, truly a masterpiece. Wouldn't ever call this or hope this game would ever be "forgotten." I actually enjoy the vehicle physics more so than GTA 5. Also cool fun fact about "Ballad of Gay Tony" is a lot of the missions/features were what inspired a lot of the mission design/ tone in GTA 5.
I miss this game so much. I played the hell out of it. I don't have a PS3 anymore but I still have my game and my save files. I also purchased both add-on games. This game was so well done for its time and I miss playing it. I wish they could port it over to the PS4 so we can play it on there.
The game doesn't overstay its welcome, and makes me appreciate living on the east coast just that little bit more. They really did an amazing job making liberty city look like New York I love how they added the statue of liberty and put that cool easter egg inside 😁 and even modeled the island the statues on after the real one. Honestly their attention to detail only goes to show how valueable their company exertions are for inspiration for their games ❤️ they made this game with so much love you can feel it every second you're playing. Im glad you gave this game the much needed attention! The swingset glitch was amazing and im so glad you mentioned it but honestly my favorites were the one where you walk underwater and get to be outside the map and the silly glitch where if you pushed a shopping cart into water it would create a whirlpool 😂
GTA IV is definitely one of my favorites (Vice City is my favorite but 4 is definitely second). I loved everything about it from the physics system to the story itself. The multiplayer was so much better than the grind of V. I miss the ability to just go around and have fun instead of worrying about buying things and grinding for them.
Gameranx logo being the same as it’s always been makes me nostalgic. GTA IV still blows me away
I was a middle schooler who bought a used copy of this game from a blockbusters, the guy didn’t ask for my ID and I rode my bike back home and I couldn’t believe the freedom you had in this game. Good times 🥲
GTA IV was my first game in the series and I absolutely loved the story, lots of memories and nostalgia for me.
Great. Now I gotta buy and replay all these games and never see the light of day for 3 months.
Thanks Falcon!
Just like feeling the weight with the drunkenness, that's how the driving is it's like you can feel the weight of the car. It's definitely the most realistic driving out of all the GTA games.
The realism of GTA IV easily makes it my favorite GTA game of all time.
Also the story is amazing, it's one of the few games I'd pick up again just to play through the story.
When GTA V launched it became my favorite GTA, but after some months playing it I noticed how GTA IV felt better and had a much more realistic and convincing physics, car driving, etc. and it became my favorite GTA once again.
I don't think gamers in todays day and age could handle the driving physics of GTA IV if it released today. I'd imagine a bunch of people complaining because it's not easy enough.
It was definitely a strong learning curve but oh so satisfying when you nail drifting around a corner at high speeds.
Would love to see a hybrid between GTA IV and GTA V's driving on their next release.
and i wish they never release a new gta. sounds like a horrible idea.
In my opinion, GTAIV wasn't surpassed by GTAV at all. IV is still the pinnacle of storytelling and offers the fullest single player experience in the series.
V may have done better online, sure, but that's 100% due to the time it released and lack of alternative similar experience on the PS4. You also have to take into account that there are much more people playing games now than ever, it's gone mainstream during GTAV's lifespan and more people have access to consoles in countries which previously couldn't afford them. What appears to be overwhelming success in V compared to IV is more than likely just a product of the times
Gta V's online is absolute trash. I think I'd rather play russian roulette
Play Russian roulette with a full clip?
GTA IV online multiplayer was better. Mafia team work the best
gta 5 will forever but my fav, but I appreciate gta 4
I thought GTA IV had way better online. V has way too much grind for my liking. I miss when we could load it up and go around and just have fun. V never felt that way to me. Now it’s about doing the same missions over and over or shark cards just to buy the fun. Other than that I agree with you, IV was never surpassed.
Even today , GTA 4 is my favorite GTA and video game in general. There's so much thing to do and it's so immersive. I think I have spent one year of my life playing it
This was probably the most special gaming experience i ever had I was living in Europe at the time for a year and missed home a lot and being from South Brooklyn this was exactly what i needed it felt like it was made for me.. They did the atmosphere and characters so well..
Wtf you lived in Europe? Lucky man it's so much better than USA
Hi :) Nice story :) Me too, I had lived in Europe for 1 year but had not miss my home ;)
@@asnsk Normal, Europe is better than all of USA
This is my personal favorite GTA. It was so cool when it came out when I was 10. I had to hide it from my mom and I didn’t think games would ever look better.
Bas Rutten’s TV show really was worth the price of GTA IV’s admission for me. The game really captured how funny that Bas Rutten actually is, especially when he parodies himself and his MMA skills. 😂
I loved the reactive Bullet Impact in this game and Gunplay and overall how people's body react to getting shot
like it's so detailed that the power of your gun changes it as well
if you shoot them in the leg they lose balance specially if it's a gun with a lot of fire power
if you shoot them with a shotgun it throws them off, if you shoot them in the head their head snaps back and they hit the ground, it's just so realistic.
you can even shoot them in the hand and their gun gets dropped, that's just insane to me.
like if you shoot a SWAT member and they lose their sub-machine gun then they'll take out their Pistol and if you shoot their Pistol away they run away because they don't have any guns to fight you anymore.
there's a lot of other examples like this that makes you realize how advanced the A.I is.
like how the Cops will arrest other NPCs as well if they do anything violent.
And actually chase after them if they run, put them in the Car then jump in the back and then take them almost to Jail, they also search them and other stuff.
@@lorddarlo6194 I didn't know about the searching part, damn that's crazy.
@@Ar1AnX1x well it ay animated it's just like hmm what we have here Stolen Credit Cards oh your in real trouble now
Thank you so much for shouting out the Ballad of Gay Tony DLC; I think I played it more than the lost and the damned and the original GTAIV story. The best part about it was the soundtrack because causing mayhem with Ven Bailalo as the backdrop just hit different for me as a fan of earlier reggaetón music.
This game is the by far the best of the entire series and still has not been remastered… shows how ahead of time it really was
Lot of people hated it at release, heard a lot of gripe with the driving which I personally found revolutionary.
Classic gamer mentality. Hate anything new and idolize the past.
@@Ray-dl5mp interesting.
You've literally made us realise how GTA V was lazily made.. GTA IV miles ahead of GTA V on so many levels.
Yes
i wouldnt call it lazy, more like publishers think that games can be made in the same amount of time that they used to be made but expect next gen graphics and systems. not knowing how much more it takes to make a game nowadays so they crunch the devs and systems have to be cut to meet deadlines
Gta 5 is a better game overall
Yes, although my expectations of gta V was much much more advanced than what we got. Gta 5 fixes and still improves on the mechanics that gta 4 had, while also some more, though removing some as well. Gta 5 wasn’t a big leap that i thought it would be, but it’s still one of the genuinely very good games that are out there. Although gta 4 is underrated now, but it was a big leap in gaming when it came out. I still like gta 4 way more, and i like the online freemode. that it has. I wish gta 5 also had an online freemode.
I’ve beat vice city like 8 times San Andreas at least 4 times Gta 4 twice GTA V …1 time….I can barely get through the prologue. GTA v should have allows Franklin to enjoy gang activity like cj from San Andreas. Michael should have enjoyed buying up business and renovating, Trevor should have introduced us to all the wacky crazy shit gta is usually known for. The replayability could have been fleshed out for V a lot more but it’s just boring after u beat it.
Whenever I was starting to get overwhelmed by the police and NOOSE in GTA IV, I'd typically retreat to the nearest subway enterence. Lot's of cover to weave in and out of which would make good opportunities to pop out and take a few shots at the cops before continuing deeper. Eventually, I'd lose them in the tunnels and find the nearest enterence and come back up again.
Amazing experience! GTA IV is still one of my favorites. Especially with all of the fun mods out there to play with.
Another thing I miss is GTA 4s free roam multiplayer. GTA 5s online at the time when It came about was amazing. There was so much more you can do, leveling your player, owning houses, weapons, and vehicles etc. As the time has gone on and how much it has evolved I find myself missing the fun and simplicity of GTA 4s online. You just went on messed around and had fun, I spent so many hours with friends doing that swing glitch. The airport was just an all out fun war zone with people fighting to get the helicopters or messing about. Weapons and health packs were laid out and scattered all around the map so everything was fair end even. No hours and hours of grinding or pay to win to keep your character up to the same standards as everyone else’s. I just miss it and miss those days.
Same, I used to play the heck out of IV multiplayer, I remember there was mods on Xbox for it, but it wasn't game ruining but rather people would spawn in invincible/undamagable cars with neon flashing lights that would have speed mods. Ahh the good times.
GTAIV will always have a special place in my heart. Me and my bro use to boot up the game and play it together from beginning to end and do all the storylines and get all the endings. We even use to either take the cab to a random place to watch the scenery or put on one of the fake tv programs during dinner so we'll have something to watch while we eat. Needless to say, fave in the series- storyline and characters and immersion😍
never played gta 4 before gta v and just rercently started it. Im constantly catching myself liking it more and more now.
One of the best matches in history, ever made:
Euphoria engine
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The swing set in GTA IV
That alone is a reason for me to return to the game.
You referencing the glitch that would send you flying? 😂
I spent days trying different vehicles to determine how they'd respond. In the end it was 'Dear Mighty Swing Set, I love *EVERYTHING* you do!'
GTA IV is my favorite GTA game. The story and characters are truly amazing and the tone is phenomenal as well. I find myself playing this game more often than some of the other ones as the world is so immersive that I find more replay value than the other GTA games. Not that the other ones are bad, not at all, but IV is just unique and is truly amazing. Great video man, keep up the great work!
You forgot to mention the cinamatic camera!! Easily the best in all the gta series. Having the ability to use slow motion and being able to flip to the next angle whenever along side the euphoria engine is ridiculously fun. If y’all haven’t messed with it I seriously recommend you do💯
I got blown away by the driving mechanics and physics. Just out of the world.
I feel like this game is so serioous, when you do fun stuff it´s even more funny thanks to the contrast it makes
I wish this game had gotten more recognition than it did. I enjoyed it a lot more than V.