The fact they actually researched uses car dealerships for the traffic cars .. amazing. The car roster is so good in gta4. Gta 5 as well but i liked all the old 70s, 80s and 90s cars in gta 4.
GTA IV set the foundation of future big Rockstar projects that would make billions (GTA V RDR2) and even till this day ragdoll physics and AI interaction is some of the best in open world game. It's still hard to believe what Rockstar had achieved in 2008 it's a true miracle in gaming industry.
I view GTA IV as the turning point to Rockstar's modern era. From the storytelling, ragdoll physics, use of RAGE engine, the choice of activities and customization in the world in relation to the story.
I wouldn't say "some of the best" when it comes to the ragdoll physics, I'd say they are still unmatched by any other developer. Everyone else is still using pre-canned animations that transition into lifeless & sometimes boneless ragdolls. Euphoria is insane.
Having the map be smaller but more dense with detail was definetaly the right call. Same reason why I don't mind Leonida not being THAT huge if it means we get more enterable interiors and stuff to do!!!
I get you. That said, i do wish Westchester County (Yonkers, Ossining etc) was included. Or at the very least, Rockstar wouldn't have abbreviated the Bronx. Because of all the locales, the Bronx was rendered the least believable.
"I kinda have to remind myself that we're not in 2012 anymore and that 2008 was not 4 years ago" damn this is one of the most personally relatable lines in the opening of a video I've ever heard.
It was my plan to have it as a first game too, but i didn't had the money, so i spend first on a cheaper game just to have something to play on my Xbox 360. I still have my 360 and the game.
I think GTA was the game you got with the new console lol. The GameStop guys suggested GTA with the PS3, but my parents got MW1 because we where still a bit young. We managed to convince grandma the next year xD Ofc we where like "Yeah it's mostly a driving game". Didn't think twice to hijack someone at gun point to show them the driving part.
When the game was released it completely changed everything with physics and so much more and the animations from the beta version are actually from Liberty City Stories they probably mixed up the beta with other games and 2D and 3D universe as well to make it more HD
@@jytvreal well yes but Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories we're kind of the exact same engine like Vice City except the features were different and the noises for some guns and vehicles can sound the same
This is true some of the female peds use the manhunt's reporter running animation in retail gta iv as well as the stories sprint animation on some male peds
I remember playing GTA 4 for the first time and walking into a clothing store to find out there is no loading screen, just walking straight through the door. My mind was blown
I feel like the real reason they removed airplanes was 9/11. rockstar may be really edgy but it would be really controversial to have a lot of people recording WTC crashes in GTA IV.
IV released on my mothers 32 birthday. I was so hyped to get the game when she got off work that I forget it was her day. I’m 32 now. I’m praying Gta VI makes me neglect my wife & kids 🙏🏻
Jesus Christ 16 years. This game is gonna be 20 soon. Feels like the whole game industry slowed down so much, back in the early to mid 2000s. I remember people thought the wait for gta 4 was agonizingly long after San Andres. Now it seems like games like Elder Scrolls and GTA are becoming a once ever 10+ years thing, Elder Scrolls 6 probably won’t release until 2028 which is insane because they’ve been re-releasing Skyrim since 2011. GTA 6 will be 2012 -> 2025 (if we’re lucky).
A lot of people criticize Rockstar for not releasing games more frequently as they used to, and the problem kind of stems of them abandoning many of their IPs to focus on their most successful ones, that being Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. They scrapped the development of Bully 2 as they supposedly have cancelled another title called The Agent which was going to be a new original IP under Rockstar Games that ended up being cancelled.
When the game was coming out there was an article in a gaming magazine that said nikos hair could actually grow over the course of the game, like in RDR2. Obviously that feature was cut but i dont believe the hairstyle is in only for the benefit of wearing hats, it was probably just handy that they had already created the hairstyle and could use it for hats too @AshPuppy
@@randyandy2809 Gaming magazines say things all the time. They will take a little information about something they hear from the devs in an interview, speculate on what it COULD become without any evidence, and then post it in an article as fact. No dev has ever said that feature was going to happen. As well, the hairstyle for hats is given ID 0, which is literally the base model. It was always and forever going to be a hat model and nothing more.
My actual name is Nico and I was on the bowling team in high school, I joined the bowling team simply because there was no chess team, and yes I love it when people make the GTA IV bowling memes with me.
Such a comforting yet bittersweet look back at one of my favorite games of all time. Echoing everyone else: I can't believe it's been sixteen years. GTA IV came out at the perfect time for me. I was 14, where it seems nostalgia hits strongest. Seriously what a year to be a 14 year old boy; The Dark Knight, GTA IV, Iron Man, Metal Gear Solid 4, Left 4 Dead, and so many other great movies and games came out. I'm curious what 14 year olds nowadays will look back on as fondly.
@@cj16423 no, but its san andreas so it'd be easy to mod in, and it might already be on the todolist. its pretty good map wise, entire usa in gta sa quality
GTA IV was revolutionary for it's time. Most of the kids who grew up playing GTAO will never understand the hype. It annoys me that even Rockstar doesn't give GTA IV the love and attention it deserves.
What's with these cliques saying "they will never understand this"? Dude, it's a video game-they don't need to understand anything other than enjoying it.
GTA IV official online is dead. A lot of old DRM locked games becomes unplayable. You had to be there when it came out for most of the experiences which do sucks but is a real thing / problem
GTAIV was the biggest disappointment. The PC release was worse than 2077's console release but only 2077 got majorly fcked while Rockstar just gets a pass every time they deliberately screw the consumer.
it's really crazy that this game is already 16 years old. When you think of it, the change between games from 1992 and 2008 were extremely drastic and over time it wasn't as signifcant since then, especailly when we compare GTA San Andreas with GTA IV and GTA IV with GTA V.
Rockstar has always been secretive, and it worked. The difference is you have the internet full of entitled little dumbass kids with main character syndrome that think everything needs to be given to them.
13:25 as someone who followed IGN back in the day it's weird hearing Hilary being referred to as a woman. Much like the getaway driver in Vice City he's very much a guy
I feel that at least the Dodo should've been kept in GTA IV. I think it'd be a small and slow enough plane to actually navigate through Liberty City with, and also a cool nod to GTA III with it's Dodo.
Same. In both GTA III an IV I wish they kept the Dodo as a functional flying vehicle that's something different from a helicopter but still slow enough, as you said, to fly around in an almost entirely urban map.
Wktt radio station basically being the fans just calling and saying the wildest things they could think of instead of hiring actors to do the job was an insane and awesome idea. That's why I freaking love Rockstar; they do the most unhinged and absurd things just to entertain us, and they don't care about the opinions of their critics.
I just started playing this game again and I had the same thought that this is basically a time capsule of the mid 2000s. Seeing the style, giant computers, and early cell phones was hilarious
Basing on both Hollick's and Liotta's experience with Rockstar's tendency of not paying their voice actors well enough, I think Vladimir would probably regret working with them more than not. So I say he dodged a bullet.
I remember the excitement while waiting for GTA IV to install on my brand new laptop back in christmas 2008. It seemed to take forever... Then I jumped into the game after the messy activation and boy that nvidia 8600M nearly shat itself lol... Still, even at such low details and resolution I couldn't believe how realistic everything looked and felt. I was so used on the 3D games physics that I couldn't even control Niko correctly for a few hours lol. Then a few months later I managed to get together some money and bought a used PC with a Phenom x4 9850 and Radeon HD 3870 and enjoyed the game in all it's glory. I also have a hard time realising it's been 16 years and that consoles like PS3 are nearing retro status lol. To me when I think of PS3, 360, Windows Vista or games like GTA IV, they are still new in my brain. Like they are hardcoded like that forever : P
Idk why but I get A LOT, and I really mean A LOOOT of video recomandations including GTA 4 in my youtube. I have seen so much content that I decided to play it for the third time. The physics are still impressive. And omg this game is from 2008 wtf. Rockstar should really remaster this game, it's just too amazing
Interesting note about the cars is that basically all of them are based around 90s - 00 models and not 2008. Even the Supercars. Maybe cars were finished years before the game was out.
When I was really young playing this game to bone, I would never think about how much immense trouble they would have to go through just to make everything possible. And man do I appreciate them.
When this game came out I couldn’t afford it, so I would watch my neighbor play, recently bought and played it for the first time on my own and its amazing!
Gta co op would be amazing. Like i remember discovering the co op in san andreas and it blew my child mind, it was so cool and having that be like a saints row 2 co op experience would be awesome. Im not gonna say i havent enjoyed gta online because ive had lots of fun with it, but it still doesnt fill the same hole that saints row 2 co op does, i dont wanna do a lot of the stuff again or grind for millions of dollars just to buy maybe 1 car. I remember grinding roof top rumble over and over again on the 360 because it was the only good way to get money, theres no point a to b story that you can win at, you just grind for ever. When you can play the ENTIRE saints row 2 and 3 champaign co op, and it works great. its great fun and i havent seen many games hit that same mark in a long time, i dont get why companies are so focused on MMO. Like i even think co op fallout could be something that does well, like fallout 76 is cool but it suffers the same issues gta online does in comparison to saints row 2. Uou could even say it similar to how Wo Long fallen Dynasty is compared to say the way the dark souls games does co op. Wo long is better because you can almost seamlessly play through the game co op.
I'm still hoping they revisit it one day. While a big part of me wishes they'd move to a new city/region of the states after GTA VI, I'd be very interested in a northeast coast map adaptation with two-three big cities as the focus rather than just LC.
@@LuxTheWizard San Fierro & Las Venturas in the HD universe slipped my mind. I wonder if we'll get those if we get the speculated GTA VI city expansions or we'd have to wait until a future entry. I think they could return in the form of an ambitious west coast GTA that spans both Northern & Southern Cali as well as maybe part of northern Mexico/Beja California.
I remember getting an Xbox 360 and a copy of GTA IV for Christmas when I was 12 years old. I plugged it up in the living room and started it up, to the opening cutscene…. “DADDIES BACK YOU BITCHES!!!” Needless to say my dad had me move out of the living room immediately 😂😢😢
1) Quality over quantity was so right! At the end, they didn't do the rest of that map and the 3 whole states, but they evolved and polished their capabilities in an urban environment; and with RDR they did the same with a rural environment, so in GTA V they could do both. 2) I would really love to play GTA VI in co-op. Why isn't that the same as playing it in GTA Online? Because the main story usually is pretty good and designed to guide you through the city/map in a more immersive way. The GTA Online stories are just... more gamey and usually bizarre. Another thing is that GTA missions are very linear. They have an amazing amount of guns and vehicles, and an immense map, but in the missions they just become Call of Duty. Having 2 players doing the missions, as they choose to, would probably make more use of all those tools. I think. Maybe i'm wrong.
I just realized. Only New Yorkers that grew up with this game have a real connection to it. Me growing up in the early 2000's while this game happens to be developed makes me feel our time is special. I still have this game installed on my XBSX and still play online to this day.
I live in Pennsylvania and my best friend had lived in NYC a couple years before. When I let him play it, he'd point out the places he's actually walked around and stuff. I thought it was pretty cool to get that perspective lol
2012 specifically seems to be such a mark, a break in a way - coming up over and over again in my life, so I totally get your feeling there. It's very weird how that seems so universally experienced, I realized...
@@headshotmaster138 Yeah, I remember the (apparently misinterpreted) Mayan calendar - and while there wasn't a meteor impact or something grand/obvious like that; it really feels like the world ended in a much more subtle way. (or might be in a constant state of 'ending' further and further, in my experience)
I never thought about this, but GTA VI being Co-op is actually a really great idea. Saddly, due to leaks, we know is not going to be. Not at lauch, at least...
@@dudemp4 I would agree in some parts, disagree in others. GTA 5 is also admittedly leagues ahead of alot of other games, imo it's really one of the gold standards for open world modern sandboxes. Only thing that came close to even touching it imo is Watch Dogs 2 in terms of creating a believable and interesting world.
Just finished GTA 4‘s Main Story a Month ago for the first time! What a great game. It was the last GTA I had to play to have played every main GTA game. Unfortunately the DLC TLATD won’t work on my PC at a Certain mission so I won’t be able to finish it. Great Video Badger!
Wow, I wish I could play it again for the first time. I would chirp like a bird. You should pick up a PS3 for cheap and play The ballad of gay tony and The lost & the damned!
@@lesterbronson2385 I have a PS3 with GTA 4 but my Controller broke and neither my PS4 nor my PS5 Controller will work with it. 😂 That’s why I bought it for PC for like 5 Bucks or something (which was worth it), i will definitely try playing the DLC’s in the next couple of days. But I think I have to skip TLATD since it won’t work for me :(
I reckon there a possibility GTAVI will have co-op, or they’ve at least played with the idea once again. Some of the leaks suggested co-op functionality and R* tend to revisit ideas, like what if Lucia is the one and only character and Jason is basically just a character that can act as a second player. It would be a colossal feat to have a game of that scope to work with both 1-2 players, from a narrative and gameplay perspective but I feel like R* could pull it off. Given the story theme I can’t help but think of ‘it takes two’. Like I could see two campaigns that have lots of intertwined missions, naturally the character swap ability would allow you to experience both campaigns simultaneously, but should a second player join you can play with one another; most missions involve both characters however there could be occasional solo ones. Sort of like heist prep in GTAV where you receive texts about tasks that must be completed in order to play the heist, I could see a similar situation for big missions in 6, or before certain story beats. *Lucia must find and hide a getaway vehicle* *Jason must complete a job for Ryan in order for this mission to be started*
at 1:53 when you said it was the first rockstar game with ragdoll physics i just wanna say i believe it was max payne 2 but u might say that is made by remedy
I know I am late but I do want to mention something. Rockstar did a similar map thing they did in GTA 4 with GTA 5. For example, rather than having three cities across like San Andreas had, Rockstar decided to cancel that and focus on Los Santos as the only city as the reason why Rockstar chose Los Santos is because they wanted to capture Los Angeles' culture. And to make Los Santos in higher and larger detail than San Andreas.
Los Santos was the prime focus, but they still had other areas like Blaine County which was comprised of towns and areas such as Sandy Shores, Paleto Bay, and Mount Chiliad. Los Santos wasn't just a city, Rockstar made an entire county for the city to center around in.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of your GTA IV videos, idk what it is about them but they're just so interesting, anyways, I wonder what GTA IV would've been like, had they went for the larger map design. Also, I actually kinda want co-op for GTA VI now.. I feel like it could actually work really well and be really fun, although at the end of the day I doubt it would happen unfortunately, cause of GTAO and maybe other reasons.
There are the hosts and several crew members from the old Opie & Anthony radio show that are on various stations and voice a few peds and cops and a few select mission characters, this is all most likely as the whole show and several comics were really good friends with Lazlow, the same goes for Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, GTA 5 & RDR 1&2
A year or two ago I re-downloaded and played GTA 4 again, however I was dismayed to find the final mission was still glitched at the moment Niko has to pull himself into the chopper, requiring some background fiddling with my CPU to bypass this bug and allow me to complete the mission.
The multiplayer part is interesting - while I don't think it would work to build the entire game around it, i think it would actually be possible to have a splitscreen mode by combining it with character hangouts, with (potentially exclusive) missions and encounters designed around it. That way you and a friend could have experiences where maybe what's happening doesn't matter as much but could still be in character and play into the actual activities they've already made for single player. There's probably no place for something like that these days. Online Multiplayer has changed things so much.
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its so fucked up that we are closer to the 20th anniversary of GTA 4 than the 10th. where did the time go.
Ask Rockstar, we should be expecting GTA 7 next year but they wanted to milk 5 for 12 years before releasing 6
It‘s also fucked up we still haven’t got a GTA IV + Episodes Remaster for current/last gen and instead got the same game for 3 console generations
AYO hahaha well thats quite the realization
It seems like yesterday that Rockstar removed all the songs of Vladvostok FM
@@Lucas66393 dissapointing day that was...even for dlc Vladivostok.
The fact they actually researched uses car dealerships for the traffic cars .. amazing. The car roster is so good in gta4. Gta 5 as well but i liked all the old 70s, 80s and 90s cars in gta 4.
I felt the lack of "love" for GTA V... i wonder if they will make such effort for GTA VI again.
@@SuperGeronimo999 las santos was boring asf
@@andrewgarfield9898 It wasn't in 2013 when it came out.
LOL jalopydrivingmachado
You people only complain about everything of GTA V.
GTA IV set the foundation of future big Rockstar projects that would make billions (GTA V RDR2) and even till this day ragdoll physics and AI interaction is some of the best in open world game.
It's still hard to believe what Rockstar had achieved in 2008 it's a true miracle in gaming industry.
I view GTA IV as the turning point to Rockstar's modern era. From the storytelling, ragdoll physics, use of RAGE engine, the choice of activities and customization in the world in relation to the story.
By sacrificing all cool shit from 3D Era for some "pHySIcS"
A game ahead of its time
@@a6pukoc113 I love SA and GTA IV, I think they're both amongst the best games of all time for different reasons.
I wouldn't say "some of the best" when it comes to the ragdoll physics, I'd say they are still unmatched by any other developer. Everyone else is still using pre-canned animations that transition into lifeless & sometimes boneless ragdolls. Euphoria is insane.
Having the map be smaller but more dense with detail was definetaly the right call. Same reason why I don't mind Leonida not being THAT huge if it means we get more enterable interiors and stuff to do!!!
I get you. That said, i do wish Westchester County (Yonkers, Ossining etc) was included. Or at the very least, Rockstar wouldn't have abbreviated the Bronx. Because of all the locales, the Bronx was rendered the least believable.
Not adding a whole other map section was not a good idea. Wtf
@@AkeoT9 It absolutely _was_ the right choice, otherwise it would've basically just been San Andreas Part 2.
I just hope Leonida has another mayor city given the amount of hardware they are given and space probably.
@@AkeoT9you must love GTA V lol massive with no life to it and most of it being mountains and grass
"I kinda have to remind myself that we're not in 2012 anymore and that 2008 was not 4 years ago" damn this is one of the most personally relatable lines in the opening of a video I've ever heard.
Time flies man time flies fast
And there's still full servers on ps3 16 years later
You don't have to remind yourself..... you just have to observe. The world moves differently. Cringe comment and commentary
@@roamintheslums4851This guy thinks he's some intellectual 🤡
Heck we're not even in 2016 anymore. Even that blows my mind.
GTA IV was my first Xbox 360 game back in 2008.
Mine too. What a game to start I was blown away!
same, i was 9 lol
Damn I was born that year, man I'm like a baby in this comment section lol
It was my plan to have it as a first game too, but i didn't had the money, so i spend first on a cheaper game just to have something to play on my Xbox 360. I still have my 360 and the game.
I think GTA was the game you got with the new console lol.
The GameStop guys suggested GTA with the PS3, but my parents got MW1 because we where still a bit young. We managed to convince grandma the next year xD
Ofc we where like "Yeah it's mostly a driving game". Didn't think twice to hijack someone at gun point to show them the driving part.
When the game was released it completely changed everything with physics and so much more and the animations from the beta version are actually from Liberty City Stories they probably mixed up the beta with other games and 2D and 3D universe as well to make it more HD
*San andreas
LCS was developed by Leeds, and the animations are almost identical to san andreas
@@jytvreal well yes but Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories we're kind of the exact same engine like Vice City except the features were different and the noises for some guns and vehicles can sound the same
This is true some of the female peds use the manhunt's reporter running animation in retail gta iv as well as the stories sprint animation on some male peds
I remember playing GTA 4 for the first time and walking into a clothing store to find out there is no loading screen, just walking straight through the door. My mind was blown
Theres still never been a game with better physics
What good timing, earlier I was watching gta 4's TV and I noticed some beta footage in them, and even san andreas footage
Still have my original 360 save from April 29th, 2008. Over 270 hours with like 20k people wasted.
That's awesome
Kd ratio still aint comin near g.bush
I feel like the real reason they removed airplanes was 9/11. rockstar may be really edgy but it would be really controversial to have a lot of people recording WTC crashes in GTA IV.
Gta 3 was released a month after 9/11 and had planes.
@@Chromed39it had the one plane with clipped wings. So the Dodo is barely a plane and just a car with wings that barely work.
They didn’t include planes because of the map size.
@@Chromed39they had more before the attack, they literally delayed the game to adjust some things and cut some missions
Just bs that's not true
This makes sense 0:54, theres alot of 3D Era animations in game if you look closely at certain NPCs and running animations
IV released on my mothers 32 birthday. I was so hyped to get the game when she got off work that I forget it was her day.
I’m 32 now. I’m praying Gta VI makes me neglect my wife & kids 🙏🏻
lmao
😂😂
LOL
Damn ur mom had you at 16?
I can see why you forgot about your mom's birthday. You're simply not a white person
Jesus Christ 16 years. This game is gonna be 20 soon. Feels like the whole game industry slowed down so much, back in the early to mid 2000s. I remember people thought the wait for gta 4 was agonizingly long after San Andres.
Now it seems like games like Elder Scrolls and GTA are becoming a once ever 10+ years thing, Elder Scrolls 6 probably won’t release until 2028 which is insane because they’ve been re-releasing Skyrim since 2011. GTA 6 will be 2012 -> 2025 (if we’re lucky).
gta 6 is more like 2019 to 2025
@@dudemp4 I'm guessing they're talking about the years since GTA V (which would be 2013), not VI's development period.
A lot of people criticize Rockstar for not releasing games more frequently as they used to, and the problem kind of stems of them abandoning many of their IPs to focus on their most successful ones, that being Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. They scrapped the development of Bully 2 as they supposedly have cancelled another title called The Agent which was going to be a new original IP under Rockstar Games that ended up being cancelled.
4 years in the future is not "soon" unless you're immortal
@@StarEximus exactly this, I was so excited for Agent. The whole Warriors / Bully / Manhunt side of Rockstar is very missed!
The flat hair style isnt a "cut" hairstyle. Its used when you wear a hat to prevent your hair clipping through it.
It's a cut hairstyle, it can be seen in the trailers...
@@MeadeJ67 It was a bug when seen in the trailer. It 1000000% is for use when wearing a hat. You can see that in the code.
When the game was coming out there was an article in a gaming magazine that said nikos hair could actually grow over the course of the game, like in RDR2. Obviously that feature was cut but i dont believe the hairstyle is in only for the benefit of wearing hats, it was probably just handy that they had already created the hairstyle and could use it for hats too @AshPuppy
@@randyandy2809 Gaming magazines say things all the time. They will take a little information about something they hear from the devs in an interview, speculate on what it COULD become without any evidence, and then post it in an article as fact. No dev has ever said that feature was going to happen. As well, the hairstyle for hats is given ID 0, which is literally the base model. It was always and forever going to be a hat model and nothing more.
It would’ve been a neat hairstyle choice nevertheless.
I had the same mindset since 2012 at ages 11-12, when 2008 was only 4 years ago. It's hard to think time passes by that quickly.
3:57 took me 16 years to realize you could drive between the booths without getting wanted
Me neither altough considering i rarely use bikes more of preference than of how driving a bike handles xD
BADGER I FUCKING LOVE YOU AND UR PASSION FOR THIS AMAZING TIMELESS TITLE
That little path at 7:10, I spent soo many hours of my life wrecking cars, assassinating people, drifting, etc etc there. 😢
Imagine how many lives this man could save if he worked for a suicide hot line
what do you mean? His soothing voice?
if badger read me a bed time story i would be conked out within 5 minutes
It sounds so good I thought it was AI. But most AI doesn't sound this natural yet
I agree I love his voice. It’s always so soothing to listen to. It makes me feel safe and comforted in a weird way.
@@MuhluriNah, Badger just has that suave
My actual name is Nico and I was on the bowling team in high school, I joined the bowling team simply because there was no chess team, and yes I love it when people make the GTA IV bowling memes with me.
Do you have any cousins? Cousins that also like to bowl? 😂 “Nico my cousin let’s go bowling”
@@itwontcomeout5678 Nowhere living near me.
I used to know someone called Roman in my english class during a period of time where we especially studied stuff about New York
7:57 mid/late 2000’s, NYC, and planes? Ya I’m not surprised they scrapped that idea quick lol. 🤔
Very late here, shall watch in the morning. Hope you're doing well, Mr Badger.
My god give this man an award for having the greatest voice ever. The way you talk it’s just so smooth like butter and makes you feel safe
It's been 16 years and still there's no other game company that brought the quality level of GTA IV
Shame the physics engine bugs never got fixed like the swing
@@ronburgundy3172The swing was a feature and is definitely the last thing that shoud have been patched
Such a comforting yet bittersweet look back at one of my favorite games of all time. Echoing everyone else: I can't believe it's been sixteen years. GTA IV came out at the perfect time for me. I was 14, where it seems nostalgia hits strongest. Seriously what a year to be a 14 year old boy; The Dark Knight, GTA IV, Iron Man, Metal Gear Solid 4, Left 4 Dead, and so many other great movies and games came out. I'm curious what 14 year olds nowadays will look back on as fondly.
Just finished my play through of GTA IV and EOLC last night. I always knew it was a great game but it really floored me how well it holds up
Hope you played The ballad of gay tony and The lost & the damned
@@lesterbronson2385That's what EOLC is: Episodes of Liberty City
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GTA 6 better have multiple cities again, SA is still the best GTA in terms of giving sense of scale and exploration, it still feels huge
GTA SA was miles better than GTA 4. I couldn’t believe how disappointing IV was when I got it. SA was miles better and felt bigger too.
@@ShamelessSmith Bigger map = more town and cities as well as more law enforcement agencies which has more diversity
@@cj16423 well your going to love stars and stripes mod
@@circleinforthecube5170 Does it have custom agencies? Like police cars and such.
@@cj16423 no, but its san andreas so it'd be easy to mod in, and it might already be on the todolist. its pretty good map wise, entire usa in gta sa quality
GTA IV was revolutionary for it's time. Most of the kids who grew up playing GTAO will never understand the hype. It annoys me that even Rockstar doesn't give GTA IV the love and attention it deserves.
GTA IV was indeed the ultimate hybrid between modern/oldschool game, like niko still lived without smartphone
And I cant believe that kids are younger than GTA 4 aswell
What's with these cliques saying "they will never understand this"? Dude, it's a video game-they don't need to understand anything other than enjoying it.
GTA IV official online is dead. A lot of old DRM locked games becomes unplayable.
You had to be there when it came out for most of the experiences which do sucks but is a real thing / problem
GTAIV was the biggest disappointment. The PC release was worse than 2077's console release but only 2077 got majorly fcked while Rockstar just gets a pass every time they deliberately screw the consumer.
Soothing Badger voice 😇
really i always thought his voice was cold,considering how coldly he treated on streams lol.
it's really crazy that this game is already 16 years old. When you think of it, the change between games from 1992 and 2008 were extremely drastic and over time it wasn't as signifcant since then, especailly when we compare GTA San Andreas with GTA IV and GTA IV with GTA V.
It's funny how R* is being so serective on their project, which only cause opposite effect and made everyone hope their project could be leak.
Rockstar has always been secretive, and it worked. The difference is you have the internet full of entitled little dumbass kids with main character syndrome that think everything needs to be given to them.
13:25 as someone who followed IGN back in the day it's weird hearing Hilary being referred to as a woman. Much like the getaway driver in Vice City he's very much a guy
I feel that at least the Dodo should've been kept in GTA IV. I think it'd be a small and slow enough plane to actually navigate through Liberty City with, and also a cool nod to GTA III with it's Dodo.
Same. In both GTA III an IV I wish they kept the Dodo as a functional flying vehicle that's something different from a helicopter but still slow enough, as you said, to fly around in an almost entirely urban map.
I guess, at least they have a in game reason for why Niko and Luis can fly helicopters.
Every year i do a playthrough of this game, i havent this year but im gonna play it later. Game never ever gets old
Im playing it rn long ass story
GTA4 came out 16 years ago... the same as VIce City for its release date and game era (2002-1986).... Im getting crazy.
Man...
I've been gta 4 on xbox 360 a lot lately. First time I've REALLY gotten into it. It's really fantastic and it's a blast to hang out in Liberty City 🎉
Wktt radio station basically being the fans just calling and saying the wildest things they could think of instead of hiring actors to do the job was an insane and awesome idea. That's why I freaking love Rockstar; they do the most unhinged and absurd things just to entertain us, and they don't care about the opinions of their critics.
Internal codename for GTA 6 is still ProjectAmericas, but i think they use different one for casting calls.
We will go to some sort of Caribbean island during the story I guarantee it, in a similar way to guarma in rdr2.
the tech was honestly insane at the time
I just started playing this game again and I had the same thought that this is basically a time capsule of the mid 2000s. Seeing the style, giant computers, and early cell phones was hilarious
Basing on both Hollick's and Liotta's experience with Rockstar's tendency of not paying their voice actors well enough, I think Vladimir would probably regret working with them more than not. So I say he dodged a bullet.
They pay them well, those VAs just wanted more money consideriñg the scale of the games
I remember the excitement while waiting for GTA IV to install on my brand new laptop back in christmas 2008. It seemed to take forever... Then I jumped into the game after the messy activation and boy that nvidia 8600M nearly shat itself lol... Still, even at such low details and resolution I couldn't believe how realistic everything looked and felt. I was so used on the 3D games physics that I couldn't even control Niko correctly for a few hours lol. Then a few months later I managed to get together some money and bought a used PC with a Phenom x4 9850 and Radeon HD 3870 and enjoyed the game in all it's glory. I also have a hard time realising it's been 16 years and that consoles like PS3 are nearing retro status lol. To me when I think of PS3, 360, Windows Vista or games like GTA IV, they are still new in my brain. Like they are hardcoded like that forever : P
You're one of my favorite youtuber Badger Goodger since a couple of years. Your content is just *chief kiss*. Keep it up and thank you ;) !!
Love how this came out while I'm replaying through GTA IV and it's Episodes.
I remember me and some buddies took off when in 9th grade the day this came out.
Idk why but I get A LOT, and I really mean A LOOOT of video recomandations including GTA 4 in my youtube.
I have seen so much content that I decided to play it for the third time. The physics are still impressive.
And omg this game is from 2008 wtf.
Rockstar should really remaster this game, it's just too amazing
Interesting note about the cars is that basically all of them are based around 90s - 00 models and not 2008. Even the Supercars. Maybe cars were finished years before the game was out.
do you remember the special bass boosted cavalcade that had special gold rims? that was my favorite
It most likely wasn't feasible to add cars that came out in 2008 since the game came out pretty early that year.
@@kirby1225wouldn't there also be legal issues with new cars?
@@gamecubeplayer No? The cars are pretty modern
@@TheSultan1470i didn't know, also can you answer my original question?
Dang, I love your voice. Very therapeutic.
When I was really young playing this game to bone, I would never think about how much immense trouble they would have to go through just to make everything possible. And man do I appreciate them.
nice - loved learning all those interesting facts - if you have more - please do share
When this game came out I couldn’t afford it, so I would watch my neighbor play, recently bought and played it for the first time on my own and its amazing!
I just hope they bring back the physics and car suspension models and destruction from 4 and implement it in 6
Gta co op would be amazing. Like i remember discovering the co op in san andreas and it blew my child mind, it was so cool and having that be like a saints row 2 co op experience would be awesome. Im not gonna say i havent enjoyed gta online because ive had lots of fun with it, but it still doesnt fill the same hole that saints row 2 co op does, i dont wanna do a lot of the stuff again or grind for millions of dollars just to buy maybe 1 car. I remember grinding roof top rumble over and over again on the 360 because it was the only good way to get money, theres no point a to b story that you can win at, you just grind for ever. When you can play the ENTIRE saints row 2 and 3 champaign co op, and it works great. its great fun and i havent seen many games hit that same mark in a long time, i dont get why companies are so focused on MMO. Like i even think co op fallout could be something that does well, like fallout 76 is cool but it suffers the same issues gta online does in comparison to saints row 2. Uou could even say it similar to how Wo Long fallen Dynasty is compared to say the way the dark souls games does co op. Wo long is better because you can almost seamlessly play through the game co op.
after san andreas this was my favorite gta
5:55 i think Rockstar games would design that scrapped large New York state map with countryside & multiple cities probably in GTA 7
I'm still hoping they revisit it one day. While a big part of me wishes they'd move to a new city/region of the states after GTA VI, I'd be very interested in a northeast coast map adaptation with two-three big cities as the focus rather than just LC.
@@themadtitan7603 I suspect that 7, if it ever gets made, will return to LC but I'd really love to see San Fierro and Las Venturas in the HD Universe!
@@LuxTheWizard San Fierro & Las Venturas in the HD universe slipped my mind. I wonder if we'll get those if we get the speculated GTA VI city expansions or we'd have to wait until a future entry. I think they could return in the form of an ambitious west coast GTA that spans both Northern & Southern Cali as well as maybe part of northern Mexico/Beja California.
@@themadtitan7603gta 7 should be in Chicago(carcer city)
I was 17, turning 18, the year GTA 4 came out. The day before the game's release, I was so excited I couldn't sleep that night.
it was one of the last GTA games released before the death of Elizabeth II
gta 5 e&e
This is the only GTA I've replayed many times. Unlike GTA V I got quickly with that game I don't know why
I remember getting an Xbox 360 and a copy of GTA IV for Christmas when I was 12 years old. I plugged it up in the living room and started it up, to the opening cutscene…. “DADDIES BACK YOU BITCHES!!!” Needless to say my dad had me move out of the living room immediately 😂😢😢
I have finished GTA IV many many times, i still play this game to this day. There are things in life that can't be replaced.
1) Quality over quantity was so right! At the end, they didn't do the rest of that map and the 3 whole states, but they evolved and polished their capabilities in an urban environment; and with RDR they did the same with a rural environment, so in GTA V they could do both.
2) I would really love to play GTA VI in co-op.
Why isn't that the same as playing it in GTA Online? Because the main story usually is pretty good and designed to guide you through the city/map in a more immersive way.
The GTA Online stories are just... more gamey and usually bizarre.
Another thing is that GTA missions are very linear. They have an amazing amount of guns and vehicles, and an immense map, but in the missions they just become Call of Duty. Having 2 players doing the missions, as they choose to, would probably make more use of all those tools. I think. Maybe i'm wrong.
This is crazy, i was just starting a new save on GTA 4 and planning to play EFLC too. It's always a good day when Badger uploads.
I just wished they didn’t cut out Snow.
It would be a true New York experience to have Snow.
9:25
Lmao, Marc Anthony! "Tell me baby girl, cause I need to know"
Take me back to 1999 pls
This game is very amazing, it introduced me to the GTA series. I had fun with it along with it's DLCs. TLAD & TBOGT are the best.
Maybe we'll get 3 states in GTA7 in the year of 2050.
the narrator's voice is fucking wild
1:42 owned drake 😭😭😭
I just realized. Only New Yorkers that grew up with this game have a real connection to it. Me growing up in the early 2000's while this game happens to be developed makes me feel our time is special. I still have this game installed on my XBSX and still play online to this day.
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I live in Pennsylvania and my best friend had lived in NYC a couple years before. When I let him play it, he'd point out the places he's actually walked around and stuff. I thought it was pretty cool to get that perspective lol
Will you be making a “10 Facts about GTA San Andreas’ Development” video later this year for that games’ 20th anniversary?
Dawg this shit finna make me cry. The good old days starting this up on my ps3. Where did the time go 😪
2012 specifically seems to be such a mark, a break in a way - coming up over and over again in my life, so I totally get your feeling there.
It's very weird how that seems so universally experienced, I realized...
I feel like the world hasn't been the same since 2012. It just feels weird.
@@headshotmaster138 Yeah, I remember the (apparently misinterpreted) Mayan calendar - and while there wasn't a meteor impact or something grand/obvious like that; it really feels like the world ended in a much more subtle way.
(or might be in a constant state of 'ending' further and further, in my experience)
@@Rainquack I completely agree bro
I think 2006 is actually it, albeit more subtle
good times in my older teens playing with my buddies online just shooting the shit
I never thought about this, but GTA VI being Co-op is actually a really great idea. Saddly, due to leaks, we know is not going to be. Not at lauch, at least...
Just had a dream about replaying this game last night. Felt like I was in heaven. Best dream in recent years
I’ve been replaying GTAIV on PC, first time in a few years, been loving every moment! Loved the video!
I hope the modding community keeps growing so that we have more beta/cut content in the game
This game does so many things better than modern games.
even than its sequel
@@dudemp4 I would agree in some parts, disagree in others. GTA 5 is also admittedly leagues ahead of alot of other games, imo it's really one of the gold standards for open world modern sandboxes. Only thing that came close to even touching it imo is Watch Dogs 2 in terms of creating a believable and interesting world.
@@dudemp4 na
@@dudemp4 It's going to do things better than GTA 6
Take off those nostalgia glasses, please
Just got the pc version on sale on steam and im loving it. Havent played it in like 12 years. My 2nd fav behind S.A.
I'm glad the era has arrived in which GTA IV is being analysed to this extent.
I just started to play the game for real, for the first time and man! It is amazing I love the late 2000’s vibe and the autumn feel!
I was like 11 and I loved playing this game with my father. He loves it to this day im pretty sure.
It also means that the GTA IV 15th annvesirey video came out a year ago! Time flies.
Which radio station is that voice recording from @ 9:30? Absolutely hilarious 😂
Just finished GTA 4‘s Main Story a Month ago for the first time!
What a great game.
It was the last GTA I had to play to have played every main GTA game.
Unfortunately the DLC TLATD won’t work on my PC at a Certain mission so I won’t be able to finish it.
Great Video Badger!
Wow, I wish I could play it again for the first time. I would chirp like a bird. You should pick up a PS3 for cheap and play The ballad of gay tony and The lost & the damned!
@@lesterbronson2385 I have a PS3 with GTA 4 but my Controller broke and neither my PS4 nor my PS5 Controller will work with it. 😂
That’s why I bought it for PC for like 5 Bucks or something (which was worth it), i will definitely try playing the DLC’s in the next couple of days.
But I think I have to skip TLATD since it won’t work for me :(
For the last time Roman, I don't want to go fucking bowling!
Okay, cousin. Maybe another time!
OneyOG
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A classic :)
Roman 👎🏻
GTA 4 is probably my favorite GTA from the HD era, I was completely speechless as to how good the game looked at the time
theres only 2 bro it cant be that hard to pick
I reckon there a possibility GTAVI will have co-op, or they’ve at least played with the idea once again.
Some of the leaks suggested co-op functionality and R* tend to revisit ideas, like what if Lucia is the one and only character and Jason is basically just a character that can act as a second player.
It would be a colossal feat to have a game of that scope to work with both 1-2 players, from a narrative and gameplay perspective but I feel like R* could pull it off. Given the story theme I can’t help but think of ‘it takes two’.
Like I could see two campaigns that have lots of intertwined missions, naturally the character swap ability would allow you to experience both campaigns simultaneously, but should a second player join you can play with one another; most missions involve both characters however there could be occasional solo ones. Sort of like heist prep in GTAV where you receive texts about tasks that must be completed in order to play the heist, I could see a similar situation for big missions in 6, or before certain story beats.
*Lucia must find and hide a getaway vehicle*
*Jason must complete a job for Ryan in order for this mission to be started*
at 1:53 when you said it was the first rockstar game with ragdoll physics i just wanna say i believe it was max payne 2 but u might say that is made by remedy
Yeah rockstar only published that game.
5:54 I guess this drawing explains why the gta 4 maps looks the way it does
I know I am late but I do want to mention something. Rockstar did a similar map thing they did in GTA 4 with GTA 5. For example, rather than having three cities across like San Andreas had, Rockstar decided to cancel that and focus on Los Santos as the only city as the reason why Rockstar chose Los Santos is because they wanted to capture Los Angeles' culture. And to make Los Santos in higher and larger detail than San Andreas.
Los Santos was the prime focus, but they still had other areas like Blaine County which was comprised of towns and areas such as Sandy Shores, Paleto Bay, and Mount Chiliad. Los Santos wasn't just a city, Rockstar made an entire county for the city to center around in.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of your GTA IV videos, idk what it is about them but they're just so interesting, anyways, I wonder what GTA IV would've been like, had they went for the larger map design.
Also, I actually kinda want co-op for GTA VI now.. I feel like it could actually work really well and be really fun, although at the end of the day I doubt it would happen unfortunately, cause of GTAO and maybe other reasons.
Yes it was going to be a larger map but they went quality over quantity
GTA IV is great on so many levels even today. I hope that when we get a new GTA game set in Liberty city we'll get some countryside, too.
I wanted some insights about DLCs
Oh wow, so that original GTA4 map is the game we would’ve gotten if euphoria wasn’t used at all? Interesting.
There are the hosts and several crew members from the old Opie & Anthony radio show that are on various stations and voice a few peds and cops and a few select mission characters, this is all most likely as the whole show and several comics were really good friends with Lazlow, the same goes for Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, GTA 5 & RDR 1&2
A year or two ago I re-downloaded and played GTA 4 again, however I was dismayed to find the final mission was still glitched at the moment Niko has to pull himself into the chopper, requiring some background fiddling with my CPU to bypass this bug and allow me to complete the mission.
Really like videos like this one, it leaves the information covered in your past videos and information not fresh in my brain. It's a good refresher.
The multiplayer part is interesting - while I don't think it would work to build the entire game around it, i think it would actually be possible to have a splitscreen mode by combining it with character hangouts, with (potentially exclusive) missions and encounters designed around it. That way you and a friend could have experiences where maybe what's happening doesn't matter as much but could still be in character and play into the actual activities they've already made for single player.
There's probably no place for something like that these days. Online Multiplayer has changed things so much.
Listening on my 2nd monitor, not really paying attention exactly, but you sound just like Max Paynes voice actor, just younger.