GTA 4 has aged horribly

I love it and its one of my favorite games of all time. But I am currently playing through the episodes and man, its aged very badly. The graphics are ugly and it plays clunky. Still love it and enjoying it, but I remembered it much better. When it came out, it was modern and exciting, now it bores me to sleep.

It really blew my mind what age does to a great game.

Pc.

Spoiler alert:

It always played like clunky garbage.

Yeah it was an impressive technical achievement at the time, but shit like that will always age. The gameplay sucked since day 1, people just aren't apologizing for it anymore.

It was always a shit game. It just took you almost 10 years to realize that.

A horrible game from day one.

inb4 metascores

I'll just leave this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWVtZJo-HqI -crowbat vid.

I was never really a fan of it... easily the weakest GTA in my eyes.

And somehow it was given a 10/10. Someone should have been fired for that review.

Would say SA personally. At least GTA4 trimmed it down to something sensible.

GTA4 was never a good game to begin with.

SA went way too far in one direction and GTA4 went too far in the other. Vice City is the pinnacle of the franchise.

Graphics wise ? Sure

But the car handling in that game is still a lot better than what we got in GTA V.

Especially the balad of gay tony is a lot of fun with a ton of whacky characters and fun missions.

There is also so much that made GTA IV great and was removed without reason in GTA V:

Eventhough I had a lot of fun with it in online, I think GTA V was the biggest disappointment and I'm kinda done with the GTA series as a whole.

Ye. Like GTA3 as well, it's tightly paced. Before the days of adding shit simply for the sake of it.

For me games don't age. They are the same as when i first played them and i have just as much fun. I don't understand this aging standard considering games are actually worse nowadays lol.

The game sucks. Always have.

It was alright.

@uninspiredcup: Give me SA anyday... more interesting story/characters & much more varied and interesting environments.

It was overrated shit to begin with, much like R* themselves, and your next overrated shit from them is RDR2.

strange i enjoyed 4 way more than 5

I loved it. It's my favourite one in the series.

I still very much enjoy it. I still enjoy Kenseiden, Zillion, GTA3, VC, SA. I like seeing the age.

When it came out it was a legit 10/10. Now its not so good, but I am still enjoying it even if the rocker style atmosphere of TLAD is not my cup of tea.

@samfisher56: it's defenitely a way better experience on the pc, the x360 and especially ps3 had performance issues. Not to mention the much lower quality.

I do miss the street brawls.

It was ridiculously overrated when it came out to begin with.

Driving mechanics and physics is much more realistic than GTA V.

Like people were giving 10/10 for resident evil 4 and numerous AAA scores to many other weak games ala diablo 3 etc

But i bet if you ask the same people here that bashing GTA4 hard about other weak titles that got praised to death and scored AAA everywhere .. theyll mention sales and scores to prove you otherwise , if they beg to differ that is.

System wars is a beautiful place afterall.

LOL this thread.

Meta: 98
sales: 25mill.

I've never personally been a huge fan of the Grand Theft Auto series, but I have a lot friends that are, and they all say the same thing: San Andreas is the best, Grand Theft Auto V is a close second, Grand Theft Auto IV is the worst, they're indifferent towards Vice City, and none of them have played Grand Theft Auto III.

I thought GTA 4 wasn't a good game, even when i first played it.

Each to there own. I found it too much and couldn't relate to the characters, probably partly due to not really understanding that side of American culture. All the pushup's and learning swimming and shit just pissed me off and I found the city, particularly the large country sections fairly bland.

Vice City I loved, it added more, expanded, but still kept it focused with a stronkingly good rendition of 1980's pop culture, namely Miami Vice, it's practically an unofficial game, or "rip off" if you will. Which is fine.

because metacritic is the source of game bieng good?

make any boring mediocre open world game. it will recieve 7/10. put rockstar tag on it. it get 11/10.

Bingo.

These people are paid professionals who went to universities against kids on forums who think flaw = dismiss

@samfisher56:

I'm not a huge GTA fan but I remember buying this because of all the talk and the gameplay was so frustrating I got rid of it.

I didn't even attempt part 5 because part 4 was terrible to me.

Good video but...

4:20 - GTA V is much more true to American life, they shot the guy dead before asking questions.

@i_p_daily:

RDR2 doesn't have enough horsepower?

:p

GTAIV was the worst example of hype blindness.

Gamers being entitled whiny bitches about everything isn't great but it's better than eating poo and claiming it's chocolate ice cream.

It took Red Dead Redemption for me to forgive Rockstar the bitter disappointment of IV. And V of course was just insane.

Pretty much this.

@1080pOnly: lol xD

Gta6 will release and then gta5 will be the greatest GTA game ever.

Sounds like ZELDA.... The best one is never the new release.

@lrdfancypants: Even 1 horsepower is too much for the cars in it, they all handle like a shopping trolley with only one wheel.

Lighting effects let GTA IV down it had like a warm effect and blur over it. ENB mods showed what the game could look like.

Took you this long to figure that out. Most older games don't age well. GTA 4 was Rocksteady's start into 3d open world and it was the best looking at the time. Now the game play was just...yeah it was just.

@360ru13r: "GTA 4 was Rocksteady's start into 3d open world" -> You mashed my brain...

There are elements of GTA IV that I really like. The simulation of the world, the taxis, NPCs and environments all interact in a really believable manner. Any game that has a dedicated jazz radio with tracks from Coltrane, Ellington and Miles Davis is a big bonus for me too. My favorite parts of GTA IV were spent walking or driving through the city and just drinking in this world that (at the time) I never got to experience having never been to a big city myself.

I think where it loses me (and the same goes for GTA V) is the gun-play mechanics and the mission design. The mission design really doesn't use much of the sandbox toolkit. It ends up either being a driving section followed by gun-play in a sequential order rather than letting me experiment and take on missions in a manner in which I'd like. Boats, cars, bikes and a variety of guns and yet the missions feel very restricting. The gun-play itself doesn't really perform very well. The aiming recital moves in a very clunky manner which is why the game has auto-aim to compensate for the lack of mechanical execution. This auto-aim steals the challenge from the game though. It's so easy to line up head shots. The cover system and movement is also really rigid and clunky which I feel doesn't lend itself to the fluency of action. You're often just encouraged to sit behind cover shooting-gallery style.

I still think it meet the expectations of its target audience though (as sales and reviews suggest too!). It has a story that takes itself very seriously, an abundance of activities and vehicles to drive, plenty of guns to mess around with and cause a riot in the city and crazy/memorable characters. The gun-play gives the player a neat power trip as they soldier through waves of enemies with ease. It's less about having a deep or challenging experience and more about making the player feel strong, cause chaos and get the cut-scenes as a reward.

Sure

Pretty much like some random bias on a random forum is

@lrdfancypants: "I didn't even attempt part 5 because part 4 was terrible to me."

lol, that was my mind set too. And still haven't played it yet. I'm still on board to get 5 though.

But yeah I agree with people in here. GTA 4 sucked. I had a few laughs online though.

And yet it was highly praised and received a perfect score. I am waiting for the rest of the gaming community to see the other perfect rated games for what they are, hype with mediocre gameplay.

It's a great looking game in scope of what it does for open world, plus a major upgrade visually where things were with GTA3 and Vice City and San Andreas. However, it came out too early in last gen before conventions of proper dual analog controlled games really caught on well. GTA games have always had complex control schemes and I always forget little things.

Anyhow, it was a great game for its time, though easily in just a few years became somewhat frustrating to play compared to more modern games a relatively short time after. Anyhow, I played it on the Xbox 360 (now Xbox One), plays fine there. If you played on PS3 then yeah, it was probably a shit experience, those SIXAXIS/DS3 triggers suck donkey balls and from what I remember playing on my friend's PS3 the game is littered with framerate issues that would always pop up the moment I got a 3 star wanted level. Ha! And I remember in the day everybody tried passing that bullshit the PS3 version was the definitive console experience. Goes to show how many drink that Sony Kool-Aid.

My only big problem for it was lack of a radio station function that allows user music to play based on what they rip onto their Xbox 360 hard-drives. The original Xbox had that for the GTA games. I feel they yanked that feature out because the PS3 probably couldn't handle it with the minimal amount of memory allocated to the OS, I mean, that's why we couldn't have party chat and shit. I'm guessing to make the Sony fanboys feel better they gimped the game for everyone.