How are you supposed to enjoy playing this grimdark no fun allowed piece of shit?

How are you supposed to enjoy playing this grimdark no fun allowed piece of shit?

By not being retarded. I guess this game is not for you.

you don't. game was shit back then and it's shit now.

>inb4 TECHNOLOGY praisers

*looks at u with bewildered look*
*quips epic joke*
heh

ikr. GTA IV was a let down for me too, specially after playing SA.

Being stuck in a grey city with no countryside, shit controls and no airplanes to pilot seemed like a downgrade.

If GTA VI ends up being Liberty City or Los Santos, I'll be disappointed.

>inb4 TECHNOLOGY praisers
Every fucking TECHNOLOGY bit in GTA 4 was fucking great and it really impressed me back when i played it for the first time a year ago

Literally my favorite GTA and i don't understand the hate it got during it's release and gets to this day, it's just excellent in every possible way.

You aren't. Only babbies who had it as their first GTA try to claim it wasn't a complete letdown in almost every way.

Are we solely talking about 4 or the Liberty City trilogy as a whole

Because Ballad of Gay Tony was fun.

>i don't understand the hate it got during it's release
SA exists

GTA6 should be set in the year 2090 and go full cyberpunk.

It went so well for CoD

Nah, it should be set in the 50's

I'll agree it was hugely depressing but it's still a very good game even now. The only thing holding it back in modern gaming times is the shooting mechanics being a little loose.

>call of duty and grand theft auto are the same type of game

>CoD
>cyberpunk

This, although after V I've gone back to IV and can appreciate it now. It's aged very well.

It was such a letdown from a gameplay prospective. I remember shutting off my PS3 after playing it for the first 30 minutes.
The production, technology, and atmosphere is amazing though

so dramatic user! what happened next?

V gave me a new appreciation of IV.

As much as I find the tone to be dull and depressing, at least it had characters with believable relationships and motivations. It also had some great twists that made the first playthrough quite a ride.

As much as I missed all of the crazy side content, it still had plenty of challenging missions with actual gameplay.

As much as I missed the feeling of a whole state to play around in, Liberty City was chocked full of an impressive amount of detail and had plenty of neat TECHNOLOGY moments.

V brought back the style and the scope, but it was too dumbed down. You get a mission where you have to steal a secret government project with a stolen submarine, COOL! But nothing actually happens with the submarine, you just pilot it to a target and you're done. You can get away from high wanted levels way too easily, all the firefights are too easy, and the cars handle "better" so every car chase is way too easy. I should not be able to evade 5 stars in a piece of shit beat up 90s sedan.

Am I the only one that didn't like the heist missions in GTAV? They didn't interest me as much as the personal missions.

they had the right idea with the jewelry store heist, it was relatively simple and had a reasonable payout that gave you some cash to play around with, but you still craved more. the later heists were basically michael bay movie scenes with obscene payouts that made me lose the desire to keep progressing the story.

This famalam.

Also, IV had actual good DLC. V mostly got multiplayer shit, though GTA:O sucks dicks anyway.

Most of them were letdowns. The one I liked the most was probably the one where you rob the bank out in the sticks and have to fight off the army in armour suits, and IIRC the only control you had over that was choosing one (1) gunman to take with you.
Still vastly prefer GTAV though.

>How are you supposed to enjoy playing this grimdark no fun allowed piece of shit?

By not being an underage faggot. GTAIV is a perfect 12yo filter

Still better than V

it really sucks because most of them were moved to the multiplayer.

The single player heist had so much potential but in the end, only 2 of them had significant big outcome payouts. Literally the best three people to hire were Packie, Taliana and shitty hacker. Such a let down mechanic.

but people only call it the best one because they were 12 when they played it

vice city or san andreas are the ones for 12 year olds, if either if those are someone's favourite it shows they are surface level and memey and dont care about subtle humor or FUN

>Removes vehicle customization, vehicle purchasing, planes, jetpacks and more
>Missions are repetitive as fuck
>You can take barely any fucking damage, and when you die, you have to go through a loading screen, and spend 10 minutes going back to the mission area. Though, some areas require you come at a certain time, so even more of your life is wasted
>Shitty physics engine can literally result in you being killed, as a small glitch can cause your character to do a ragdoll animation, leaving you incredibly exposed to gunfire
>Missions are overly demanding, often have very strict requirements for success
>Very little reward for the level of difficulty
>Vehicles handle like shit
>Runs like dog shit across all platforms
>Roman constantly asks to fucking go bowling

actually gta iv has the biggest health bar out of any of the games. you must be pretty terrible.

>not installing realistic driving and car damage mod
>not installing realistic weapon damage mod

kids are not even trying these days

If a game needs mods to make it good it's a shitty game.

why don't you just go play saints row if you want a bunch of sophomoric bullshit like jetpacks

>go here
>kill the red marked target
>???
You have to agree that the story/missions are by far the worse of any GTA

>Removes vehicle customization, vehicle purchasing, planes, jetpacks and more
>the game isn't Saints Row!!!!!!!
Are you 11?

>Missions are repetitive as fuck
All GTA missions are repetitive. There's only a few different types: race, escort, shootout. Don't act like any earlier games were paragons of variety.

>You can take barely any fucking damage
Biggest health bar, as BTFO you by saying.
>loading screen
Takes a matter of seconds for me on a mid-end PC.
>spend 10 minutes going back to the mission area
When you fail you get sent a text and the option to restart at the mission area without travelling there. This point is entirely incorrect.
>Though, some areas require you come at a certain time, so even more of your life is wasted
See above, lmao.

>Shitty physics engine can literally result in you being killed, as a small glitch can cause your character to do a ragdoll animation, leaving you incredibly exposed to gunfire
Never encountered this in 100+ hours and multiple playthroughs. Fault of the player, not the game.

>Missions are overly demanding, often have very strict requirements for success
>missions are too hard :'(
Get fucked, pleb.

>Very little reward for the level of difficulty
Same as all the others. You unlock new areas, weapons and safe-houses.

>Vehicles handle like shit
True, but it's easy to adapt.

>Runs like dog shit across all platforms
Ran just fine on PS3 at launch, at runs at a steady 60 on max. on my current, mid-end PC.

>Roman constantly asks to fucking go bowling
le arrow to the knee xD

BTFO

Vice City and San Andreas are better for their time, but I think 4 was a great game.

The serious tone was a nice change of pace, and the scale was a lot smaller than San Andreas because they were getting a feel for the new engine. I figured 5 would be more like the older GTAs so I just enjoyed it for what it was.

I don't know but it's my favorite gta of all because of the physics

Have you never played 5?

>If I meme it makes me right!
Whatever nigger if you want to defend shit go right ahead. Doesn't change that fact that it's still shit.

I liked San Andreas but I couldn't finish IV.

>>If I meme it makes me right!
>literally includes the COUSIN LET'S GO BOWLING meme as a criticism
Kill yourself at any time, my man.

>Host Free-roam.
>Set pvp damage off
>All weapons = RPGs

Profit

ITT: nostalgiafags whose first GTA was San Andreas and any GTA that isn't San Andreas is dogshit

>dude jet packs lmao
>dude drive-thru scene lmao
>dude niggers lmao

GTA IV is pretty good, for me it's V>SA=IV>rest.

GTA IV is so fucking EDGY. I booted it up and everywhere there are so many streetlights and shit. Such a fucking grimdark edgelord game

Are you going to pretend that there wasn't a dramatic change in the GTA games from GTAIV and on? This is not nostalgia, GTA genuinely isn't what it once was anymore and some people prefer what it once was.

Besides, the nostalgia fags are the ones that think Vice City, easily the worst of the 3D GTA games, is the best one.

yes, GTA IV was better than San Andreas lol, that was the dramatic change.

t. someone who's first GTA was IV

>git gud

>lol

I liked how depressing and grimdark it was. It had the feeling of some gritty 70s crime movie. These games are best to me when the atmosphere is strong. The actual grounded hood shit in San Andreas was more appealing to me than the "fun" stuff like stealing jetpacks from area 51 for example.

>>Missions are overly demanding, often have very strict requirements for success
I'm sorry, what? Did you mistakenly describe GTAV?
I remember I failed a mission in V once by entering a clothes shop. So please, kys my good man

>t. someone's whose first GTA was II
Ftfy

There was a shift. That shift went from CUHRAYZEE whacky fun to a more serious, darker, relatable setting. Then V turned it back around with
>dude tanks and fighter jets lmso
and
>dude satirical commentary lmao

Why can't I into modding/coding?!

Fuck! I have an idea for a GTAV singleplayer expansion/DLC but I have literally no means do to it.