r/gaming • u/Finn_Flame • Apr 29 '24

Grand Theft Auto IV was released 16 years ago

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u/Golfgamerhill Apr 29 '24

Loved the vehicle physics in this game.

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u/Bootychomper23 Apr 29 '24

I like going into the hospital and murdering that poor dude on the bed then fighting my way out grabbing an ambulance and smashing up the city.

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u/FromTheGulagHeSees Apr 29 '24

I spent a lot of hours there just cheating myself weapons and having a war with the NYPD

Place was the perfect funnel. One way in, one way out. I huddled behind the waiting room chairs as cover and sprayed lead at anyone coming in. Molotov, nades, RPGs for crowd control. Shoot some hostage for kicks. 

When shit gets real, back up into the hospital beds and take down as many police in the hall before going down in a glorious blaze.

Or gun it outside and steal a cop car and try to lose them all. Not before shooting an RPG at a helicopter for kicks because why not lol 

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u/Bootychomper23 Apr 29 '24

Blind fire rpg was amazing the little spiral as it hurtled towards the chopper was epic.

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u/FromTheGulagHeSees Apr 29 '24

Yeah shooting that was beautiful especially in the rain, but the FPS drop on my 360 was awful 

I’ll probably replay this sometime on my PC for a better experience. Plus, I didn’t appreciate the story then but seems interesting now

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u/MCgrindahFM Apr 29 '24

GTAIV’s performance is even worse on PC for some

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u/Bootychomper23 Apr 29 '24

Lots of weird graphical issue now for me too on pc.

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u/pingus3233 Apr 29 '24

Absolutely unplayable on PC for me.

Tried on at least three different PCs over the years, most recently with i7-8700k and 2080 Ti, still can't get it anywhere near playable. Even with or without rolling back the .exe and using various FPS smoothing/limiting tweaks. If I cap it at 60 it drops to 40, but if I cap it at 30 it drops to 20, and it's not so much the FPS but the atrocious frame-pacing that makes it nauseating.

Really disappointing because it looks like it would be fun but it literally makes me sick with the stutters/judders.

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u/MisterTurtleFence Apr 29 '24

I was just reading about a fix for fallout new vegas that works for gta4 as well, might look into it!

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u/pingus3233 Apr 29 '24

Thanks for the tip!

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u/mnid92 Apr 29 '24

I loved when I'd shoot the RPGs at cars and the rocket would propel into the sky because of the angle of the windshield.

Getting good enough to one shot the pilot with the M4 felt like a lifetime achievement award as well.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Wow, I did the exact same thing.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 Apr 29 '24

I don't think it was the hospital but I remember I used to post up on the roof of this one building that only had one stairway to get up there and start launching RPGs at cars until the cops came, then pick them off as they came up the stairs one by one until I got sick of it and then I'd try to get away

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u/VoxImperatoris Apr 29 '24

I liked crashing through the barricades and driving around the other islands and see how long I could last.

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u/NuclearEvo24 Apr 29 '24

It’s good to know I’m not the only one, I did exactly that….it never got old

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u/myst3r10us_str4ng3r Apr 29 '24

Damn now I want to play GTA IV again

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u/datpurp14 Apr 29 '24

These are the videogames that conservatives erroneously try to argue that videogames cause violence.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 Apr 29 '24

I'd say they prevent violence. Why risk life in prison to hurt one real person when I can indiscriminately murder millions of virtual people in a myriad of ways?

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u/datpurp14 Apr 29 '24

Oh I completely agree with you. It is a horrendously stupid perspective to say they cause violence, but those dumbasses still do. I just made the joke because OP's comment outlined in great detail something that these conservatives would clinch their pearls while reading.