Hey dudes, this is my first real attempt at a "video essay" type of content and it took me a ton of research and effort. I hope u like and if u do smash like so I'll do more interesting ones about Russia or something EDIT: A bunch of comments here are saying “Niko is Serbian though, not Russian”. I’ve never said Niko was Russian lmao, I thought him being Serbian isn’t even worth mentioning because everybody knows it. Still, I said that he’s a Bosnian War veteran, which I think makes it pretty obvious that he isn’t Russian. I talked about the 90s in Russia to bring context to the movies, not to imply that it has something to do with Niko
As a Turkish, I learned the Brat series from my Kazakh friend who was exchange military student in Turkish Naval Academy. After we watched the movies, I’m still listening Brat soundtracks. Especially, Bi 2 songs. Too emotional, intense and atmospheric songs dude.
I'm russian and I have a turkish friend who told me that turkish movies are also very creative when it comes to dramatic movies. We somehow have similar plots and someone always die in the end. Turkish and russian old movies have the abilites to make mature men cry
@@beyondthestars4299 Потому что главного героя ГТА 4 взяли с РУССКОГО АКТЕРА, который тоже сыграл серба в одном фильме. Лицо, одежда, характер, все это скопировали с него. А судя по всему по началу главный герой должен был быть русским, ибо тому актеру предлагали поучаствовать в записи голоса, просили использовать внешность и т.д. Но актер отказал, и Rockstar games пришлось выкручиваться.
I moved from Russia to US in early 2000s and when I first played GTA4 it really reminded me of Russia's 90-2000s... that radio station was really cool. The game definitely has a lot of similarities with БРАТ movies. For Russian people reading this comment "Мы русские не обманываем друг друга!" PS. Most Russian people who live in US are sort of stuck in time - they still listen to old russian music and celebrate russian holidays etc. i find it interesting.
Vietnamese people are the same in the US from my experience. They celebrate all the old holidays, speak more old fashioned Vietnamese, and listen to a lot of old fashioned music and make it here even though they fell out of style back home. Though, we fit better here in America since South Vietnam fell and their ideals of a nation fit much better with the US.
Niko grew up in Yugoslavia (SERBIA) , where he fought in the Yugoslav Wars. He later worked for organized crime syndicates as a hired-gun in Liberty City. Ever since the Yugoslav Wars ended, Niko's main goal in life was to find and kill one of two men: Florian Cravic or Darko Brevic, for one of them betrayed and nearly killed him during the Wars. Niko is the younger cousin of Roman Bellic and the son of Milica Bellic.
Garbanzo Bean th-cam.com/video/w0Wmc8C0Eq0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/JhXKlYnSWjA/w-d-xo.html - Russian documentary series about Great Patriotic war with english dub. th-cam.com/channels/uSx-lf2ft7hPceGVNHybOw.htmlplaylists - very interesting channel with documentaries about Russian history with English dub or sub. You can also find playlists with Russian and Soviet films with English subtitles on my channel (for example, "Brother" and "Brother 2" movies ). In addition there are songs of the band "Kino", one of which, the most famous ("Группа крови" or "Blood type", plays on the radio Vladivostok FM). Viktor Tsoi and the band "Kino" are considered legendary in Russia and in all former Soviet republics. th-cam.com/play/PLz2tbJ1zNiwDjc6LaNbXYq7D1pyCWvbXR.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi Here are translations of songs in many languages: lyricstranslate.com/en/viktor-tsoi-lyrics.html
I fuckin knew it, I told every I knew who played GTA4 that Niko looked exactly like the Russian freelancer from Behind Enemy Lines, I fuckin knew it! Get up get out!
@@Darko_CC in the film Behind Enemy Lines, Vladimir Mashkov plays a Serb, what do you say to this?A Serbian mercenary who works as a sniper for the Serbian army during the Bosnian War.
GTA IV has a more grounded story that immerses you into feeling like you are part of the dark criminal underbelly of Liberty City, where as in GTA V it's a more of a really good action movie with over the top scenes that work really well in a video game format.
I remember playing GTA IV before I graduated high school (which was around the time the game came out) and well into my first half of college. It was also that time I discovered Russian movies (the first I watched was my library's copy of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin). Брат and Брат 2 came up on my radar but I could never find it. As I played more GTA IV, my obsession to find the movies grew stronger and stronger. I finally found the first one three or four years later (well after I stopped playing GTA IV) and the second one a year after that. Great movies to watch (though not my favorite films from Russia) but it was obvious there were homages paid to the Брат movies. Also, 4 will always be my favorite GTA! Спасибо NFKRZ!!!
@@alfredbanuelos7312 There were no real plans for a third movie anyway. First, Balabanov said that Danila's story was finished. Second, Bodrov became a director himself and wanted to film his own movies, not just resycle 1 role. Well, who knows. Maybe eventually they would change their mind and we would see 3rd part. But both Bodrov and Balabanov are now dead so no chance of that happening, yeah. P.S. Originally Brat 2 was supposed to be 2 separate movies. But director thought the script was too long and boring so he joined them into one.
@@alfredbanuelos7312 a group of independent people is about to film '3rd' movie which they want to make intentionally bad, with a bunch of freaks as actors. Sad shit.
It's not impossible. Just a few day ago i reinstalled GTA 4 on my PC (Steam Version) and i'm having absolutely zero problems playing it, i'm even playing on the v1.0.7.0 , the one before the murder of Vladivostok FM. You just need some simple tweaking and elbow grease. I'm playing it btw on my Pentium G4400 paired with 8Gb of RAM and a GTX660 on medium settings, reaching pretty good almost stable 60FPS
Having a trip to NYC for the first time and walking in Brighton beach for me was like "Hey, I've already been here", thanks to the game:) especially I was very astounded by seeing those railways up above and taking a look inside the " Saint Petersburg" store that was present in "Brat 2", childhood dream came true
I'm Serbian and Niko definitely speaks with Russian accent. Even the stuff he says in Serbian sound very Russian. The voice actor should've been a Serbian but whatever it is still a great game.
The thing about Rockstar Games castings is that they keep it extremely sectretive and don't even tell the actor WHAT they're working on,game or movie,only the script is shown. The Russian guy probably didnt' even know it was GTA 4
While Michael Hollick was working on GTA 4, Vladimir Mashkov played the main role in TV series called "Liquidation". This role is one of his best roles, and the movie itself is one of the best in post-soviet countries. So, he didnt lose much
He is serbian from Yugoslavia! Why do U always trying to accent that he is from Serbia?Not U personally,but many of ppl! Yes,that country is not exist anymore but the STORY NEVER TOLD us from what part of Yugoslavia he was....
As a german with russian root, I totaly agree on this. Spasibo schto ti takoi clip sdelol!. Nun werde ich GTA IV erneut durchspielen können! And both of the films were briliant. RIP Bodrov.
Ich bin Russer, der in Deutschland wohnt, und es ist immer so interessant, zu sehen, wie Russisch-Deutsche russisch reden! Es gibt manche Besonderheiten, die sehr oft erscheinen.
What a coincidence! I was looking up some stuff about Russia and remembered GTA IV due to the Russian influence despite the fact that Niko is most likely Serbian.
Hey NFKRZ, found your channel through Bald and Bankrupt. Since you did a GTA IV video I figured I would give you some more behind the scenes info as to how R* works. I was a former employee between 2014-2016 on the cutscene animation team. (Sorry I'm late, went through your older videos) Essentially, the Houser Bros have their hands in everything relating to game production. They play the games, change the gameplay, and Dan Houser and a few other writers write the game script. They have an entire team of researchers dedicated to making each game feel authentic to the time period and culture they are trying to portray. These researchers have libraries and libraries of content that they use to find as much information about something as they can. I have seen the researchers use History channel and hundreds of reference books to get information. There is a high chance that the researchers, writing team, and Dan himself most likely watched the movies or the movies were recommended to them when doing their research. These guys go incredibly deep and detail when gathering background info which is why Red Dead Redemption feels authentic to the time period. Since they were covering a character from Eastern Europe, R* pooled all their resources to get as much authentic information as they possibly could. But not everything carries over in translation, like when the girl said she removed most of the songs they had selected. Sorry I'm late with the reply but I hope that helps shed some interesting information for you.
this voice acting add climat to story, i remember damn train, helicopter mision, big smoke. If game is good you remember many things after years and what you remember from 4?. Niko go bowling? And gta4 is too contemporary and grey like a real life. And sa graphic style and characters give more fun imo. SA is a fun as video game nigga and gta 4 is tryhard real life of poor russian gangster
@@MikeleKonstantyFiedorowiczIV Chill man. I remember a lot of misions from gta4 and know the story very good. I'm curious why are you soo ofended because someone likes gta4 more than gtasa?
I dont care i dont even like gta series gta so much, its your opinion what version you like but 4 wasn"t best. Btw the shitest was liberty city stories
Это уровень, чувак, это прям уровень. Шикарный видос. Шикарное пояснение, видеоряд, повествование, всё шикарно. Только коммунизм был целью ссср, а существовавший режим был социализмом. Я конечно понимаю, ты это возможно специально сказал, ведь капиталистические братья не шарят в этом, но всё же можно было и пожертвовать 10 секундами, чтобы сказать правильнее. А так десяточка
А ещё автор говорит "Брат Два", что показалось забавный, так как слово "два" следовало бы перевести. Но так конечно большой респект, классно получилось!!
Roman, have you ever seen the Bosnian film No Man’s Land? It’s a very interesting film that is similar to what you talk about and I think you should give it a look
Sorry for being normie but its seems like I am missing something. Why in every comment section I see guys with original deus ex avatars? Like wtf is happening?
Roman, the effort u put in this video payed off, this is the best gta iv video i have ever seen, i have never seen something that interesting and informative about ma fav gta. I wish u’ll upload more stuff like this.
@@Gajiggles I don't think it was ever confirmed and was left up to the individual. And from what I heard, he can speak Serbian but speaking a certain language doesn't mean you are from that country.
A Socially Inept Bean i Can see where you are coming from and for the most part I agree, but there was a part where he was speaking with Brucy, and Nico says to him “I ain’t Russian.”, which is about all we really know lmao
3:45 he didnt take the L, wouldve loved to see him in a future game abt Niko Bellic but the voice actor of Niko only got 100k for his role even tho gta 4 was a massive success..
seen/watched dozens of facts and trivias vids of GTA4. and THIS is the 1st vid in years ( that I watched ) that tells me the existince of Brat and Brat2 and the game inspirations. I honestly did not know. Amazing how literally no one mention this for years. anyway good video and I am entertained. thank you and you got a sub
It was really cool to see how humble that actor was. He wasn't upset at all that he missed out on the success of the game, and he didn't reject the offer because he hates video games or thinks he's above them, he just plain wasn't interested which is perfectly respectable
To be fair to the actor that turned down the Niko role - they probably didn't tell him what game he'd be working on - Rockstar do that to avoid leaks etc. For instance, the actor for Arthur for RDR2 wasn't told what game he was doing the motion capture + voice acting of until a few weeks of shooting.
You're not insane man. Definitely inspired by those films. And Rockstar has entire teams to research things exactly like these, so anything else would have to be like the biggest coincidence of the century
Same, I was absolutely jaw dropped when I first saw my brother playing it. The resemblance of realism, the car physics, the euphoria physics and so on. It was truly a next generation game. I couldn't care less if it had less features than SanAndreas. But I find it sad that some people don't see it that way. GTA IV is more a sequel to GTA III when it comes to technological gameplay advancements.
@@jimmyperkins97 Wtf Serbia is a country in southern europe in the balkans. Russia is in northeastern europe and asia. Russians are slavic. Serbians are Dinaric with slavic types. They speak different languages everything is different culture, history .. Only same point is orthodox religion
San Andreas has by far the most forgettable story along with III.The map was made so big and the story tried to cover all of it and it became all over the place.GTA IV has by far the best story in the GTA series followed by Vice City.
GTA 4 is my favorite game, the story is just perfect for me and Niko as a character. +I loved the Serbian language in there, it sometimes sounded really off but I found it funny; because It's my native language.
Never knew that there was such a "genre" as russian gangster movie. Gotta give it a go, I'm getting tired of movies about italian and british gangsters.
It's sadly not as developed as those genres are. There are really only 4 standouts I can pick, 2 of those being the Brat movies. Everything else is kinda unknown
Movie "Bumer" is pretty nice movie about russian criminal - but unfortunately I guess only russians can understand it - and also the soundtrack of this movie was in vladivostok FM - "Leningrand - nikogo ne zhalko" Also russian criminal comedy movie "Zhmurki" - russian criminal movie which reminds movies of Guy Ritchie "cards, money 2 smoking barels" . Reminds exactly by the plot. But i guess you won't enjoy this, so better watch movie Brat, Brat 2 - they are really better and were filmed like an american one
Russian gangster movies deserve to get recognition and distributed by Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox Pictures and major budget/high box office ratings.
Roman i love this kind of content. Honestly id love to see some more stuff like this maybe even your thoughts of the portrayal of russians or eastern (i know as u said niko was serbian) in other games like Cod waw, battlefield maybe and stuff like Metro.
Whatever Rockstar does, they always add songs in the soundtrack from their inspiration. That's why every single GTA game since Vice City (with the exception of Liberty City Stories) has songs which featured in the TV series "MIami Vice". Because Miami Vice and Michael Mann are one of the major inspirations in their games. I think the same applies with GTA IV with the Brat movies, because that was major inspiration in the story, they decided to include a few songs in the soundtrack. But Ruslana said she suggested one of the songs, so perhaps she's a fan of the movies too. Using music from the inspiration helps setting the mood and immersion with the games. Rockstar knows how powerful a soundtrack can be, and that's what sets their games apart from the competition. The Houser's are big fans of crime movies and TV shows, so it wouldn't surprise me if they watch those in foreign languages too. I fully expect GTA 6 to be inspired by Narcos.
No he's not. They never confirmed his nationality. In fact, they wanted to make it really obscure and let the player project themself on to the character so they make it really unclear on purpose.
@@BlueHawkPictures17 That's like saying a Spaniard should be able to pronounce Italian names cause they both use the Latin script and are part of the same language family. Additionally, the letter 'ћ' in Белић does not exist in Russian, and his name is Anglicised and pronounced as such throughout GTA 4.
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Hey dudes, this is my first real attempt at a "video essay" type of content and it took me a ton of research and effort. I hope u like and if u do smash like so I'll do more interesting ones about Russia or something
EDIT: A bunch of comments here are saying “Niko is Serbian though, not Russian”. I’ve never said Niko was Russian lmao, I thought him being Serbian isn’t even worth mentioning because everybody knows it. Still, I said that he’s a Bosnian War veteran, which I think makes it pretty obvious that he isn’t Russian. I talked about the 90s in Russia to bring context to the movies, not to imply that it has something to do with Niko
Blyatiful
make more of these
'smash like'
Ok
I really like this whole information stuff. But to be fair you completely copied Pyrocynical
GTA Vice City = Scarface
GTA San Andreas = Menace II Society
GTA IV = Brat
GTA V = Heat
legit
Gta san Andreas = Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice
Also miami vice for vice city
GTA Vice City = also Miami Vice
GTA IV = also 15 Minutes (2001)
GTA V = also Breaking Bad
🤒💯
GTA V: Come on, just load already.
GTA IV: No, keep loading, I wanna hear more of this music.
FACTSSSS!!!
SCREW GTA 5... I NEED GTA 4
Facts!!!!!!
Fax
I honestly don't get why is GTA V so overrated. You get old while the Online mode loads...
"Are you gangsters?"
"No. We are Russians."
Who Said that?
@@milicija406 Russian movie Brother 2
Неси водочки, мы домой летим
Niko wasn’t Russian you asshole
@@linclokatz Claude wasnt speak you asshole
How NFKRZ was inspired by Roman Bellic
Yes he was
I bet.
How Roman Bellic was inspired by NFKRZ*
How ninja ripped off NFKRZ
Both are called Roman. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
*Soviet Connection* is the best loading screen song along with San Andreas.
@Jimmy S most boring music
@@tasherxx_ this one? th-cam.com/video/9_YJnor4XH4/w-d-xo.html
@Jimmy S th-cam.com/video/9_YJnor4XH4/w-d-xo.html ?
@Jimmy S think it's just music that plays in the elevators
@Jimmy S you might need to get your ears cleaned no offence
why do you have the old NFKRZ accent from 2016 in this video haha
old mic
It feels like he made this video back in 2016 and then completely forgot about it, only to accidentally discover it now
Well, I mean... a no facecam, gameplay-based, 2016-like video, obviously requires a 2016 accent for the whole experience.
He's reading off a script.
@@nob2243 "nfkrz bangers" + fat voice = old video
As a Turkish, I learned the Brat series from my Kazakh friend who was exchange military student in Turkish Naval Academy. After we watched the movies, I’m still listening Brat soundtracks. Especially, Bi 2 songs. Too emotional, intense and atmospheric songs dude.
Selam aleykum , from Kara Harp Okulu 2021 graduate !
Hahah, I watched the Brat movies last week and I'm going through that phase as well. Really enjoy listening to Bi-2 & DDT
I'm russian and I have a turkish friend who told me that turkish movies are also very creative when it comes to dramatic movies. We somehow have similar plots and someone always die in the end. Turkish and russian old movies have the abilites to make mature men cry
You saying "bad american businessman" with such a sarcasm
Let me count bad russian guys in american films
Still counting?
@@deptusmechanikus7362 yes, because they're innumerous
Nick Khrapov Well, that’s the thing... American movies - Russian Villains; Russian movies - American Villains. “Cold War” is still going.
@@Yaltadvij кто о чём, а вшивый про баню.
Иди подмойся, поехавший
@@VladimirLarin4815 CYKA TRUE
The writers at Rockstar Games are like Quentin Tarantino of video games they pay homage to classics
Fuck Quentin Tarantino!
The guy is serbian not russian
@@beyondthestars4299 Потому что главного героя ГТА 4 взяли с РУССКОГО АКТЕРА, который тоже сыграл серба в одном фильме. Лицо, одежда, характер, все это скопировали с него. А судя по всему по началу главный герой должен был быть русским, ибо тому актеру предлагали поучаствовать в записи голоса, просили использовать внешность и т.д. Но актер отказал, и Rockstar games пришлось выкручиваться.
GTA 5 WAS NOT THAT GREAT
@@liammiddleton3064 Waahhh gta 5 bad waaahhh
More videos like this please. Much better than “this person is cringe” or “look at this TH-cam drama.”
Esskeetit
why not both ?
Mental too bad this content will never get the same amount as drama
Agreed
Love how he used "Gruppa Krovi" as background music, best Russian song i ever heard 👍
this band have large cult following here in Russia.. like Nirvana in USA or Joy Division in UK
@Sunlightshadow yes he is
@@anis1796 nfkrz needs to make a video on Tsoi
@@lucien4071 of course that would be amazing
Personally I prefer zakroy za mnoy dvyer ya ukhazhu also by Kino
I moved from Russia to US in early 2000s and when I first played GTA4 it really reminded me of Russia's 90-2000s... that radio station was really cool. The game definitely has a lot of similarities with БРАТ movies. For Russian people reading this comment "Мы русские не обманываем друг друга!" PS. Most Russian people who live in US are sort of stuck in time - they still listen to old russian music and celebrate russian holidays etc. i find it interesting.
@Джон Снейк загнивают
Vietnamese people are the same in the US from my experience. They celebrate all the old holidays, speak more old fashioned Vietnamese, and listen to a lot of old fashioned music and make it here even though they fell out of style back home. Though, we fit better here in America since South Vietnam fell and their ideals of a nation fit much better with the US.
When you are too familiar to what you grew up with when the new thing came, it´s probably very hard to break away from.
like italians
В гермашке та жа хрень. Всегда кто- то застревает, кому-то в прошлом было лучше.
"Володя, Ты проебался!!!"
Самый лучший момент в ролике!)
@@MrLucasOFF Я здесь впервые так что это был нежданчик, учитывая неплохой акцент автора.
@@josephbouche7804 он русский держу в курсе
@@josephbouche7804 Ну.. Такой себе акцент
я про его английский держу в курсе@@goldenpie5945
Niko grew up in Yugoslavia (SERBIA) , where he fought in the Yugoslav Wars. He later worked for organized crime syndicates as a hired-gun in Liberty City. Ever since the Yugoslav Wars ended, Niko's main goal in life was to find and kill one of two men: Florian Cravic or Darko Brevic, for one of them betrayed and nearly killed him during the Wars. Niko is the younger cousin of Roman Bellic and the son of Milica Bellic.
Danilo832 younger than roman???? wtf
FINALY
@@sekira331 jea
Jea
This is all true. Niko was made clear that he was not Russian but was connected to them.
Niko! It’s your cousin. _Lets go bowling._
I am sorry cousin. Maybe another time.
Sure cousin, pick me up on the other side of the city.
Sure cousin, pick me up the next hour.
another justin y with really funny jokes
shut fuck up, you're everywhere
Can you make a second channel that just teaches us westerners Russian history.
Lol, no
Garbanzo Bean
th-cam.com/video/w0Wmc8C0Eq0/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/JhXKlYnSWjA/w-d-xo.html
- Russian documentary series about Great Patriotic war with english dub.
th-cam.com/channels/uSx-lf2ft7hPceGVNHybOw.htmlplaylists
- very interesting channel with documentaries about Russian history with English dub or sub.
You can also find playlists with Russian and Soviet films with English subtitles on my channel (for example, "Brother" and "Brother 2" movies ).
In addition there are songs of the band "Kino", one of which, the most famous ("Группа крови" or "Blood type", plays on the radio Vladivostok FM). Viktor Tsoi and the band "Kino" are considered legendary in Russia and in all former Soviet republics.
th-cam.com/play/PLz2tbJ1zNiwDjc6LaNbXYq7D1pyCWvbXR.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Tsoi
Here are translations of songs in many languages:
lyricstranslate.com/en/viktor-tsoi-lyrics.html
da
@@Unicate789 pizda
Brate mogu da ti to ja resim slavaaboo jedan jadni
I fuckin knew it, I told every I knew who played GTA4 that Niko looked exactly like the Russian freelancer from Behind Enemy Lines, I fuckin knew it! Get up get out!
The Russian freelancer was a Serb wasn’t he?
@@Darko_CC in the film Behind Enemy Lines, Vladimir Mashkov plays a Serb, what do you say to this?A Serbian mercenary who works as a sniper for the Serbian army during the Bosnian War.
GTA IV has a more grounded story that immerses you into feeling like you are part of the dark criminal underbelly of Liberty City, where as in GTA V it's a more of a really good action movie with over the top scenes that work really well in a video game format.
Ein, Zwei, Drei Schicki Schicki schweine
Glukoza - Schweine
UH OH!
S T O P
I really miss that song playing in the beginning.
italy
I remember playing GTA IV before I graduated high school (which was around the time the game came out) and well into my first half of college. It was also that time I discovered Russian movies (the first I watched was my library's copy of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin). Брат and Брат 2 came up on my radar but I could never find it. As I played more GTA IV, my obsession to find the movies grew stronger and stronger. I finally found the first one three or four years later (well after I stopped playing GTA IV) and the second one a year after that. Great movies to watch (though not my favorite films from Russia) but it was obvious there were homages paid to the Брат movies. Also, 4 will always be my favorite GTA! Спасибо NFKRZ!!!
Brat is actually a fantastic movie to watch
Too bad he died so no third movie
@@alfredbanuelos7312 There were no real plans for a third movie anyway. First, Balabanov said that Danila's story was finished. Second, Bodrov became a director himself and wanted to film his own movies, not just resycle 1 role. Well, who knows. Maybe eventually they would change their mind and we would see 3rd part. But both Bodrov and Balabanov are now dead so no chance of that happening, yeah.
P.S. Originally Brat 2 was supposed to be 2 separate movies. But director thought the script was too long and boring so he joined them into one.
@@Kaidan87 Maybe 3rd movie would have been about busting his bro from cops with that hooker storyline, dunno.
В чем сила, американец? Вот я думаю, что сила в правде. Кто прав, тот и сильней
@@alfredbanuelos7312 a group of independent people is about to film '3rd' movie which they want to make intentionally bad, with a bunch of freaks as actors. Sad shit.
Respect for this man for putting Viktor Tsoi's Gruppa Grovi in the background.
Gruppa Krovi
It makes sense because the song was featured in GTA 4's Vladivostok FM
One of your first vids I have seen in a WHILE
absolute masterpiece
GraymanandTheLegend oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah
This video indeed does seem like he put effort into
Oh yeah yeah
Him and pyro are getting serious
Ролик очень качественный, уважение за проделанную работу. Кстати "круглый" в английских субтитрах распознался как "krug lee")
I agree, very well said...
I NO SPEAK COMMUNIST RRRRRREEEEE
@@elysiumsmoke8883 Drop the mic XD
@@elysiumsmoke8883 That was higly Bueno.
Doesn't krugliy mean like circular or am I tripping?
*niko bellic drop out serbia to save the gta game*
XD
*niko bellic alive in serbia and make fast rap for srbija*
@@AlfaRomeoQ XDDDDDDDD
@@AlfaRomeoQ serbians be like
Imagine in some beautiful world where Vlad accepted to play Niko Bellic in a sequel. What a beautiful world...
Grand Theft Russia
E
Grand theft Blyato*
Grand Cyko Blyato
Serbia*
@@nomanja6816 Tako je 😭
Make Vladivostok FM great again
So apparently such radio really exists
@@ПавелПросянников-н3п It was made a few months after GTA IV's release, so I think it was deliberate.
The soundtrack was fantastic but it didn't have any Lil Vodka smh
Smh
@@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz your name gives me pain
AMJ Soz to hear that
such words of wisdom
lil slav
8:00 another direct parallel is Niko only went after Vlad because it’s pretty much A parent/confirmed he was messing around with Malorie
GTA IV Was actually created when two gopniks went to a Saint Petersburg bowling alley
Their names were Niko and Roman Bellic
@@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz *Boris and Anatoli
This game has only 1 negative aspect about its spot:
*it finishes*
And you literally cannot play it on PC and when you buy it, it is a waste of money.
It's not impossible.
Just a few day ago i reinstalled GTA 4 on my PC (Steam Version) and i'm having absolutely zero problems playing it, i'm even playing on the v1.0.7.0 , the one before the murder of Vladivostok FM.
You just need some simple tweaking and elbow grease.
I'm playing it btw on my Pentium G4400 paired with 8Gb of RAM and a GTX660 on medium settings, reaching pretty good almost stable 60FPS
@@itsdokko2990 when im starting it it says it wants the key, and when i type it in, it Just doesnt works. Didnt find any solutions online.
never bumped into that :/
probably because i always disable GFWL before even starting the game.
Try disabling GFWL and Rockstar Social Club
@@MK040 i fucking bought a cd once but i never ended up playing it because neither i nor my dad was able to install that fucking piece of shit.
Having a trip to NYC for the first time and walking in Brighton beach for me was like "Hey, I've already been here", thanks to the game:) especially I was very astounded by seeing those railways up above and taking a look inside the " Saint Petersburg" store that was present in "Brat 2", childhood dream came true
Same here, visited Brooklyn in March. Loved it, just like the movie.
based and epicpilled
But Niko is Serbian, and speaks Serbian, with Russian accent for some reason
Bongo The Gipsy how's a Serbian accent sopose to sound like?
@@tikalthewhimsicott2736 Uhmm... Not like this
@@tikalthewhimsicott2736 niko speaks Serbian with an Italian accent
I'm Serbian and Niko definitely speaks with Russian accent. Even the stuff he says in Serbian sound very Russian. The voice actor should've been a Serbian but whatever it is still a great game.
@Isak Slavinat i know, like I already said I'm a Serbian myself.
The thing about Rockstar Games castings is that they keep it extremely sectretive and don't even tell the actor WHAT they're working on,game or movie,only the script is shown. The Russian guy probably didnt' even know it was GTA 4
Он вообще не знал в чем суть современных видеоигр. И что там нужны какие то актеры)
I'm a Serb my slavic cousin.
Roman Bellic vote stalin 4 prez nigga
Kosovo je Srbija
@@AmarilloMusicAB da
Да
Roman my cousin is here!
Rated M, for Masterpiece.
M.for murica?
While Michael Hollick was working on GTA 4, Vladimir Mashkov played the main role in TV series called "Liquidation". This role is one of his best roles, and the movie itself is one of the best in post-soviet countries. So, he didnt lose much
Niko is Serbian right ??
He is serbian from Yugoslavia! Why do U always trying to accent that he is from Serbia?Not U personally,but many of ppl! Yes,that country is not exist anymore but the STORY NEVER TOLD us from what part of Yugoslavia he was....
@@Katapozzy U can see on rockstar wiki that he is serb
@@Katapozzy Well He's basicall a slav. End of the story..
His name enda with ić, so he could be Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian.... Yugoslavia...
@@billy_boi watch the story line closly, Niko asks Roman at the beginning if he forgot Serbian
As a german with russian root, I totaly agree on this. Spasibo schto ti takoi clip sdelol!. Nun werde ich GTA IV erneut durchspielen können! And both of the films were briliant. RIP Bodrov.
Maybe russian with german root?
Ich bin Russer, der in Deutschland wohnt, und es ist immer so interessant, zu sehen, wie Russisch-Deutsche russisch reden! Es gibt manche Besonderheiten, die sehr oft erscheinen.
@@yaroslavmaltsev497 эмиграция еще жива?
@@Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский и развивается!
@@yaroslavmaltsev497 когда приехал и по какой линии?
I always thought Niko looked like that dude from Behind Enemy Lines...
doomer boomer coomer pee pee poomer
Funny cause they have that similar jacket in one of the clothing shops.
What a coincidence! I was looking up some stuff about Russia and remembered GTA IV due to the Russian influence despite the fact that Niko is most likely Serbian.
without USSR there would not be gta4
80's USSR open world sandbox game when
Yugoslavia*
Nfkrz is really good at video game essays
Indeed
Nfkrz didnt just die... HE WAS MURDERED
@@efwefweffrwfef9145 fucking cleanprincegaming holy shit that guy
he should make more
Could you please do why Gta San Andreas was inspired by the bible?
What?
I can see it
I have to wait 90 days to change my name San Andreas took place during the east vs west coast beef and Tupac and Biggie were killed because of it
Like it says in the book, we are blessed and cursed. Same things make us laugh, make us cry.
@@jay-zdenton6094
What fucking book?
Hey NFKRZ, found your channel through Bald and Bankrupt. Since you did a GTA IV video I figured I would give you some more behind the scenes info as to how R* works. I was a former employee between 2014-2016 on the cutscene animation team. (Sorry I'm late, went through your older videos)
Essentially, the Houser Bros have their hands in everything relating to game production. They play the games, change the gameplay, and Dan Houser and a few other writers write the game script. They have an entire team of researchers dedicated to making each game feel authentic to the time period and culture they are trying to portray. These researchers have libraries and libraries of content that they use to find as much information about something as they can.
I have seen the researchers use History channel and hundreds of reference books to get information. There is a high chance that the researchers, writing team, and Dan himself most likely watched the movies or the movies were recommended to them when doing their research. These guys go incredibly deep and detail when gathering background info which is why Red Dead Redemption feels authentic to the time period.
Since they were covering a character from Eastern Europe, R* pooled all their resources to get as much authentic information as they possibly could. But not everything carries over in translation, like when the girl said she removed most of the songs they had selected. Sorry I'm late with the reply but I hope that helps shed some interesting information for you.
You were an employee, you are a former employee. Other than that: cool story, bro!
That's very incredible, sir. Thank you for enlightening us.
13:10 She selected Ranetki as a piece of the soundtrack...
Зачем нужно жрать капусту? Если есть картошка!!
Тут обитает Евгений капуста это жаргон к слову бабло ! = деньги
Оподалевнлвлпалрсншыевнлвлнарбчднапвоевоеснл
Дядюшка Тралл ты не знал?
english pls
abolfazl heydari deez Nuts
I ONLY listened to Vladivostok, WTF Rockstar
The dude who Niko is inspired by is so humble
Yes, he's a great kind man. Russia's folk favourite
He's not humble, he's an asshole who considers video games as something that's much-much lower than him.
GTA 4 is the best GTA. You can't change my mind.
san andreas was best, only one good thing about 4 was engine
GTA 4 had the best story line
this voice acting add climat to story, i remember damn train, helicopter mision, big smoke. If game is good you remember many things after years and what you remember from 4?. Niko go bowling? And gta4 is too contemporary and grey like a real life. And sa graphic style and characters give more fun imo. SA is a fun as video game nigga and gta 4 is tryhard real life of poor russian gangster
@@MikeleKonstantyFiedorowiczIV Chill man. I remember a lot of misions from gta4 and know the story very good. I'm curious why are you soo ofended because someone likes gta4 more than gtasa?
I dont care i dont even like gta series gta so much, its your opinion what version you like but 4 wasn"t best. Btw the shitest was liberty city stories
Это уровень, чувак, это прям уровень. Шикарный видос. Шикарное пояснение, видеоряд, повествование, всё шикарно. Только коммунизм был целью ссср, а существовавший режим был социализмом. Я конечно понимаю, ты это возможно специально сказал, ведь капиталистические братья не шарят в этом, но всё же можно было и пожертвовать 10 секундами, чтобы сказать правильнее. А так десяточка
А ещё автор говорит "Брат Два", что показалось забавный, так как слово "два" следовало бы перевести. Но так конечно большой респект, классно получилось!!
@@hohladych сорян,бес попутал))
Я согласен вы ребята
Cyka blyat
и социализма не было. Trotsky was right
This is by far the best video you’ve made, I’m blown away by it. Kickass job dude!
Still playing in 2019. GTA IV is the best GTA ever made. The story is beyond a movie. The details are stunning. One of the best games ever made.
Roman, have you ever seen the Bosnian film No Man’s Land?
It’s a very interesting film that is similar to what you talk about and I think you should give it a look
Da jbt
Sorry for being normie but its seems like I am missing something. Why in every comment section I see guys with original deus ex avatars? Like wtf is happening?
@@decoy033x new people
ThaShitposta 8'zs th-cam.com/video/Oiiaa3btFss/w-d-xo.html
Čavoglave ZDS
Roman, the effort u put in this video payed off, this is the best gta iv video i have ever seen, i have never seen something that interesting and informative about ma fav gta.
I wish u’ll upload more stuff like this.
@CanBiteIt CanLikeIt As if anyone's gonna read those
OMG, The Brother 1 is amazing russian version of Max Payne!
id say rambo first blood
@@GriboedovAnton That's more than correct. Brat was partially inpired by Rambo.
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He is more similar to taxi driver
Brother is a Taxi Driver for Russia
BRAT
And his I agree
This must be one of your most interesting videos. So great! Please do more.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Niko Belić was a Serb
He was a Serb but storyline is inspired by Russian movies
Svaki srbin bukvl to govori
Well yeah but dont distract you from that, gta iv is more linked with falloff of yugoslavia and OUR cold bloody wars
@@nomanja6816 успокойся че такой жесткий
Bog je Srbjin i on ce nas cuvati- Radovan Karadzic
Wasn’t Niko Serbian?
Yes. But he is trying to drag in russia in this
Nemanja Tomić no I can see where the connection from russian film comes from, but I was just curious
@@Gajiggles I don't think it was ever confirmed and was left up to the individual. And from what I heard, he can speak Serbian but speaking a certain language doesn't mean you are from that country.
A Socially Inept Bean i Can see where you are coming from and for the most part I agree, but there was a part where he was speaking with Brucy, and Nico says to him “I ain’t Russian.”, which is about all we really know lmao
@@ineptsoybean In Slavic countries if someone speaks a certain Slavic language then sure as hell they are from that country lol
3:45 he didnt take the L, wouldve loved to see him in a future game abt Niko Bellic but the voice actor of Niko only got 100k for his role even tho gta 4 was a massive success..
seen/watched dozens of facts and trivias vids of GTA4. and THIS is the 1st vid in years ( that I watched ) that tells me the existince of Brat and Brat2 and the game inspirations. I honestly did not know. Amazing how literally no one mention this for years. anyway good video and I am entertained. thank you and you got a sub
It was really cool to see how humble that actor was. He wasn't upset at all that he missed out on the success of the game, and he didn't reject the offer because he hates video games or thinks he's above them, he just plain wasn't interested which is perfectly respectable
Огромное спасибо за данное видео, я как счастлив что ты рассказал об этом западным зрителям об этом
Половину нихуя не понял, но посмотрел фулл.
@@fnquell в общих чертах, сравнил сюжет российских фильмов с игрой, и немного про обстановку в РФ в 90е
суть то видео понял, некоторые детали не понял. с английским хуево)
+
That black guy that was fucked over by the WHITE MAN on the PSP was way better and so accurate
To be fair to the actor that turned down the Niko role - they probably didn't tell him what game he'd be working on - Rockstar do that to avoid leaks etc. For instance, the actor for Arthur for RDR2 wasn't told what game he was doing the motion capture + voice acting of until a few weeks of shooting.
You're not insane man. Definitely inspired by those films. And Rockstar has entire teams to research things exactly like these, so anything else would have to be like the biggest coincidence of the century
GTA 4 is the best. The story, character and time is great. Damn I wish I could go back to 2008.
Same, I was absolutely jaw dropped when I first saw my brother playing it. The resemblance of realism, the car physics, the euphoria physics and so on. It was truly a next generation game. I couldn't care less if it had less features than SanAndreas.
But I find it sad that some people don't see it that way. GTA IV is more a sequel to GTA III when it comes to technological gameplay advancements.
That's when the stock market crashed
@@julianwright6927 is there gta 3 characters in gta 4?
I love Russian culture/community
:3
This is serbian not russian
@Patko serbian
fasil o what’s the difference?
@@jimmyperkins97 Wtf Serbia is a country in southern europe in the balkans. Russia is in northeastern europe and asia. Russians are slavic. Serbians are Dinaric with slavic types. They speak different languages everything is different culture, history ..
Only same point is orthodox religion
NFKRZ's American accent didn't just die, it was murdered.
Oh yeah yeah
Can someone explain to me whats goin on with this profile pic
@@andrealeo8580 maximilianus sex
@somedude 69 because in reality it's all just one person! It's a conspiracy!
The iluminati are coming for us! AAARRGH!
@@psychoaiko666 oh yeah yeah
Ah yes, best GTA.
@Katti Kebar finish it twice and played both sa:mp and mta:sa.
Katti Kebar best story not best gameplay. People just say it‘s the best cause it‘s iconic and everybody else says it‘s the best
San Andreas has by far the most forgettable story along with III.The map was made so big and the story tried to cover all of it and it became all over the place.GTA IV has by far the best story in the GTA series followed by Vice City.
@Katti Kebar *watches GTA IV video*
Pasha the Slav his and why is it best. Vice city, San Andreas and gta 5 are better what’s wrong with people 😂
I’m genuinely impressed you know who Big L is. One of my favorite MC’s. Rest In Peace.
*in the next video* The Russian influence in Petscop 2
*heavy breathing*
GTA IV is my second favorite GTA game, only behind San Andreas. I still have GTA IV on Xbox 360.
a word 'evil' and 'american businessman' is a synonym
Careful, you don't want to cut yourself with all that edge.
@PUTEN VOR no because that's a VERY original quote /S
Cześć towarzyszu.
Yes and businessmen in other countries are very moral and humanitarian
@Vladimir makarov ohh like the Russian oligarchs?
Gta v = for babies
Rdr2 = for men
Gta iv = for legends
Gta sa = for legends who are men and not babies
@@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz dude I understand you played it as a kid but the story wasnt as good as gta iv but still sa was amazing
GTA SA = for old school Niggaz
r/gatekeeping
@@itsdokko2990 exactly
GTA 4 is my favorite game, the story is just perfect for me and Niko as a character.
+I loved the Serbian language in there, it sometimes sounded really off but I found it funny; because It's my native language.
3:43 Когда встретил знакомую речь в чужой стране!
Согласен
Даааа
Лол
Нас уже больше, приятно
Niko belic was a Serb not a Russian
You could have said that Niko was a Serbian.
Brat (1997) Russian Movie Explained
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Brat 2 Movie explained
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4:10 Blood Type, Grupa Krovi, Viktor Coj was a gift to this world
А если по честному,очень крутое видео,душевное прям. Продолжай
GTA 4 was also inspired by some Russian gangster who lived in NY and worked briefly as a cabdriver. He became a hitman and career criminal
His name was the Iceman and he was of Polish origins not Russian.
Чё они шифруются? Чё-то про Россию говорят, так пускай прямо скажут.
what was his name?
So that’s why everyone is thinking our Serbian brother Niko is a Russian 🙃
4:18 Gotta love that song playing in the background. Группа крови by Виктор Цой (КИНО) Good music my guy
Very good, this is a legend russian music
Never knew that there was such a "genre" as russian gangster movie. Gotta give it a go, I'm getting tired of movies about italian and british gangsters.
It's sadly not as developed as those genres are. There are really only 4 standouts I can pick, 2 of those being the Brat movies. Everything else is kinda unknown
@@olzhas1one755 ...and shit.
Movie "Bumer" is pretty nice movie about russian criminal - but unfortunately I guess only russians can understand it - and also the soundtrack of this movie was in vladivostok FM - "Leningrand - nikogo ne zhalko"
Also russian criminal comedy movie "Zhmurki" - russian criminal movie which reminds movies of Guy Ritchie "cards, money 2 smoking barels" . Reminds exactly by the plot.
But i guess you won't enjoy this, so better watch movie Brat, Brat 2 - they are really better and were filmed like an american one
Best russian gangster movies are - Bumer 1 and 2, Antikiller , Reketir (trough last is kazakh)
Russian gangster movies deserve to get recognition and distributed by Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox Pictures and major budget/high box office ratings.
Roman i love this kind of content. Honestly id love to see some more stuff like this maybe even your thoughts of the portrayal of russians or eastern (i know as u said niko was serbian) in other games like Cod waw, battlefield maybe and stuff like Metro.
and i always thought niko was modelled after jason statham...
DAmn, the car (in that first mission) is even based on that movie, great video ! GTA IV is best GTA
Whatever Rockstar does, they always add songs in the soundtrack from their inspiration. That's why every single GTA game since Vice City (with the exception of Liberty City Stories) has songs which featured in the TV series "MIami Vice". Because Miami Vice and Michael Mann are one of the major inspirations in their games.
I think the same applies with GTA IV with the Brat movies, because that was major inspiration in the story, they decided to include a few songs in the soundtrack. But Ruslana said she suggested one of the songs, so perhaps she's a fan of the movies too.
Using music from the inspiration helps setting the mood and immersion with the games. Rockstar knows how powerful a soundtrack can be, and that's what sets their games apart from the competition.
The Houser's are big fans of crime movies and TV shows, so it wouldn't surprise me if they watch those in foreign languages too. I fully expect GTA 6 to be inspired by Narcos.
Niko Belic's name is supposed to be pronounced Нико Белић (put that in serbian google translate to hear how it sounds) smh....
Ustvari Rockstar je namerno napravio da se Niko preziva Belic a ne Belić
Nije
Нико Белых. Или Белый. У нас было бы как-то так
У нас тут разговоры за славян, ты зашёл не в тот двор со своим клятым английским)
@@F-22_Raptor i know beli means white bruh.
Niko Belić is Serbian tho
SonOfA_Blank_ *Balkan
+Dakin Lee -ić are Serbian surnames
No he's not. They never confirmed his nationality. In fact, they wanted to make it really obscure and let the player project themself on to the character so they make it really unclear on purpose.
@@oi4751 i think he is Bosnian Serb
Petar Veselinovic yes he is like me
I've been trying to find Брат and Брат 2 for a while now, and now I just want to watch them more
I actually watched брат last year :D lmao, kick ass movie
Vladivostok FM was slaughtered in the Episodes, not the updates to GTA: IV xD
Great video anyway, thanks for all those descriptions of "Brat" :)
Very disappointed that my fellow slav pronounced his name as Niko "Belik" instead of Niko "Belich" the way it's meant to be
To be fair, it's something the game got wrong too.
@Glebinator what do you mean by that?
@@BlueHawkPictures17 Why would a Russian know how to say a Serbian surname.
@@commentcontrol7187 because serbian uses cyrillic script and every russian knows lots of yugoslavs
@@BlueHawkPictures17 That's like saying a Spaniard should be able to pronounce Italian names cause they both use the Latin script and are part of the same language family. Additionally, the letter 'ћ' in Белић does not exist in Russian, and his name is Anglicised and pronounced as such throughout GTA 4.
12:38 the biggest detail in this police seen is how the cops have M16's
1:58 Both looks like Victor Zakhaev from call of duty
Eduard Khill not much about the face but pretty much everything about the body and outfit
Lev are you alive?
Music in movies Brat and Brat 2 is AMAZING. I HIGHLY recommend to linvestigate. Particularly BRAT 2 music. GO AND FIND IT!
Чё говоришь? Музыка норм? Это да.