I hate how GTA 4's community died the second GTA 5 was in the shelves. I didn't had Internet up until 2015 so I could never experience any of this myself, but I started playing GTA 4 for the first time this year and it became instantly my favorite game of all time.
I know most people here didn't live in a poor shithole as a child and were there when gta 4 was still popular. For these people I'd like to ask how exactly the community was. Was gta 4 seen as the biggest revolution in gaming or just a San Andreas rip-off? Was it overshadowed by other games in 2008 and how was the general perception of the game? I'd love it if some gaming-veterans would share their experiences.
I couldn't stand to play 5 for whatever reasons despite loving III, SA, and IV
Carter Torres
One love.
Isaac Bailey
Bombaclot!
Julian Smith
Hey, my youth. Some boy dem, dey pon de corner an' ting, an... de boy dem sell some tings and ting, an... I gwa'an, an' I say... oh, dem nah wan' gimme my money an ting. An'... every corner my corner an... I want my money an' ting, ya know? Ah no see dat! Go, go, ya know, me wan' deal with de case proper. Ya nah see it.
5 was the only gta i played partly as a kid, yet i feel not a single ounce of nostalgia now. I guess that's a sign that it really wasn't so good.
Jose Cruz
>I didn't had Internet up until 2015 Lucky you.
Evan Bell
critics were blown away across the board (or bought depending on who you ask) calling it one of the best games of all time but players were more split. lots of people didn't like the more realistic physics, serious tone and complained about removed san andreas features. and then after gta 5 came out and they had adressed those complaints everyone unanimously loved gta 4 all of a sudden. will be interesting to see what people think of 5 in the future if 6 is ever coming out
Mason Green
For some reason it’s the only GTA game I’ve played more than twice (I think I’ve done it five times now), I just love playing as an Eastern European hit man for some reason.
Logan Taylor
I wish Rockstar didn’t kill the multiplayer on PC
Christian Peterson
GTA V>SA>IV>rest community in terms of size
Brandon Evans
What about VC? I think i see a lot of VC fans out there, though they could just as well be only 80s fanboys in general, not gta fans.
Chase Rogers
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Zachary Cooper
> first multiplayer game ive gotten deep into > prob around 500 people on xbox live at a time, so u'd always see the same dudes. comfiest multiplayer exp. ever beating turbo niggers (literal niggers btw) using my trigger finger which coincidentally also takes care of your moms needs if you know what i mean :)
>I didn't had Internet up until 2015 either you're still a kid or live in a remote shithole, and I mean very remote
Hunter Evans
I adored 4 and it's DLC pieces but the community was weird. 1st it was bitching about all the lost RPG fluff from San Andreas, then it was bitching about the main story, then it was bitching about the character interactions / scenario design, then presumably after all those guys left it was trick montages for MONTHS, then it was breaking the online all sorts of ways (which was sick) for WEEKS, then it was gimmick matches and grinding with the community for DAYS, then nothing for the remaining months till 5 and now it's basically just die-hards who really like the engine or scenario. So it was good when it was going but there was so much friction from people who didn't like the game for this or that, that it was honestly hard to have any kind of community.
Samuel Cooper
I loved GTA4 online racing. It was pretty rewarding since driving the cars in GTA4 had a higher skill ceiling. Also each class of cars handled sufficiently differently so driving anything else than supercars was a fun change too. Another fun thing were ice cream truck races on the small timesquare track on a full server which often became such a mess that the server crashed.
Zachary Garcia
This plus Cops n Crooks and those Petrovic co-op missions were a lot of fun
Nathaniel Wilson
They're 80s fanboys, nobody actually likes VC. I remember playing it as a kid and being bored out of my skull. Unironically the worst game rockstar has ever released.
Adam Foster
I prefer Vice City over San Andreas. IV is my favorite but VC is great.
Evan Lee
you have to be 18+ to post on this website
Zachary White
CHEAP? CHEAP MY YOUTH? YA WORRY BOUT CHEAP? WE NA WORRY BOUT CHEAP YA KNOW!
Cooper Anderson
>5 was the only gta i played partly as a kid >GTA V is 7 years old
It didn't really have a dedicated community, at least not like SA and V which all had huge modding communities and fan sites. Some of the mythbuster people from SA picked up on a few things but that didn't really go anywhere. A big chunk of the playerbase played it online but nowhere near as many as GTA V, then about a year in Call of Duty came out and massively overshadowed it. A lot of people also shit on IV for stripping away a lot of what everyone liked in SA (guess they figured they would just add more and not scale things back), but there was major praise for the graphics, physics, story and gameplay in general.
Robert Wood
I picked up SA for free when rockstar released their launcher. I found it underwhelming and pretty boring, it suffered from all the same problems and clunkiness as the earlier GTAs. I honestly don't understand the appeal of GTA games released before IV other than nostalgia, they're a chore to play.
Kayden Williams
You must be over 18 to post here.
Chase Foster
Why do you need a community for a single player game? Just play it and form your own opinion
Asher Ward
The older games were a lot more fluid in how they controlled, but with no physics engine I guess they could have felt rigid in some ways. The clunkiness is one of the things that gets brought up about IV since it made everything feel really heavy and all of the animations were immensely detailed compared to SA.
Justin Torres
Cops n Crooks was some of the most fun I've ever had in an online game. That and GTA Race, or whatever it was called where you all start on foot and have to steal cars and find weapons while rushing to checkpoints.
But hey, GTA V gives me exciting games modes like "Pointless Eternal Mapwide Deathmatch Where You Will Be Instantly Killed By People Who Spent Thousands of Dollars on Shark Cards."
Joseph Rogers
I had GTA IV on PC, but it ran like ass and I couldn't get the multiplayer to work because of the windows live servers. The entire game ran in bullet time no matter how I changed the graphics
Jaxon Allen
Impressive, it's like I'm listening to his cut-scene.
IV had one of the worst PC ports in history. It took years for them to make it playable.
Landon Hall
youtu.be/afaGCFKvx-c >he is subhuman GTA IV regardless of platform was peak fun. I play FiveM pretty much every 2 days and it's still not as good as IV.
Connor James
You can't just say this guy is wrong just because he doesn't like clunky controls and objectively worse gameplay
