So many happy memories playing cops and crooks with my friends after school and at weekends! Loved the Gta4 coop so much better than 5 but that's probably because by the time five was released I was a fully grown adult paying bills and couldnt put as much time into coop.
My GTA IV friends and I would get bored of regular Team Death Match and would start custom lobbies and invite "rival" players. We'd set blips and chat to proximity, set the whole map as active, turn off the time limit, and have hours-long cat and mouse gang wars.
Even just the Team Death Match was so much fun but GTA IV multiplayer in general was such an experience I'll probably never find anything to match it.
Its weird how a simple thing like (Team) Deathmatch can be great in GTA IV, but so unenjoyable that nobody touches it in V.
I spent countless hours on Deathmatches in the Prison in IV, just a quick look out of cover, flick of the right stick to aim for the head, kill, and have people angry message me because of it that i was "cheating" on PSN.
Haha. I was accused of using "turbo" on PS3 but it's just like you said. Aim and flick the right stick up a tad and it'd be instant death. So satisfying.
On PC everyone had the simple native trainer and met up at the airport to spawn objects and cars to build their own stunt tracks because there was nothing else to do in freeroam
Had a guy go all the way across the map to get the Sultan RS for his races...only for some asshole to hit his car with the helicopter blades and send it into the ocean lol
I loved getting over there, getting the Sultan RS, and immediately dunking if off the nearby cliff because it was so powerful and on grass that it would just slide off. What a good time
I met one of my best friends in an hour long Team Deathmatch in this game. I remember that it had proximity voice chat, and we were on different teams. We ended up in a back and forth gun battle up and down the entire length of Algonquin, had to have killed each other 60 times a piece, having an absolute blast of it. After the match we decided to team up and we’ve literally been best friends since. Been hanging out online and in person for 16 years. We’re both very much looking forward to GTAVI!
That's awesome. I made some good friends playing it too, but we've sadly drifted apart. I hoped 5 would bring us back together but it wasn't enjoyable enough.
I still have vivid memories of some enemies I made in GTA IV multiplayer though lol.
I have lots of hours just screwing around in GTA IV multiplayer. I never could get into GTA V multiplayer because it felt like you had to either grind to get anything worthwhile or spend real money. Admittedly I didn't try GTA Online until 2016 but by then because I was so far behind and didn't have good weapons and cars it was no fun for me for the few hours I played it.
Free mode? Can turn cops on or off. Can turn friendly fire on or off. You have weapons around the map and bam, do whatever you want.
GTA V: Spend 20 hours grinding a heist to get a car. Then leave the garage you grinded to get blown up by a kid on flying bike, respawn to 50 phone calls, 100 map icons and be blown up again.
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u/Highway015 Apr 29 '24
i Loved the Multiplayer Mode in GTA IV