Thread 719900524

This game is a perfect time capsule of 2007-2008. It's physically painful to play because I'm reminded of how much better everything was back then.

>>719900524 (OP)
2008 was the beginning of the end thoughbeit

>>719900524 (OP)
i dunno man.
idk how accurate this game is but if it is, then it seems like shit was just as bad back then as it is today. only difference is we didn't have smartphones and chatgpt

>>719900524 (OP)
Indeed.

>>719900605
It was the beginning of the end of America's golden age because of the recession, but it was still the old world. December 21st 2012 was the end. Just as the Mayans said it would be.

>>719900524 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAz3rnLGthg

I might buy it again. I remember it wasn't a good sandbox compared to SA and V.

>>719900767
we will never have lines like this again

I was gonna play it again but i forgot

thx for reminding me anon

>>719900524 (OP)
4 hits just the right balance between fun and realism, every single Rock$hart game after (minus Midnight Club LA) just became a boring slog. 4 just sucks you into its game world, it's hypnotic

>>719900779
they didn't. when the mayan calendar ends it just starts over.

>>719900524 (OP)
Everything is still fine for me. Keep seething and malding.

https://youtu.be/TJrhmLxduus?si=Wq5TtQIKl3XuowY5
So much fucking sovl man

>>719901683
Yes, it's a new cycle. I liked the first one better.

>>719900835
Such a good album.

>>719900524 (OP)
you
can't
normalize

>>719900524 (OP)
Something about the driving in that game felt so natural and realistic to me, I hate that modern games end up feeling so arcadey and weightless.

>>719904258
>Something about the driving in that game felt so natural and realistic to me
Cause the cars had weight. Then they made it arcade shit for all the zoomers in V so they wouldn't get filtered by realism

>>719904258
>>719904473
this is the main thing I'll always defend about 4, next to all the other realistic features like better cop AI, better AI in general. I had so much fun just driving around in that game, and in GTA driving is most of the play-time any way. just the driving alone should be engaging gameplay, otherwise you're doing a mindless CHORE inbetween gun fights. GTA 4 driving was so engaging, I would willingly just drive around in all the different cars, master their handling, figure out which ones were good for drifting, sometimes I would drive realistically as in obeying some traffic laws and then of course many, many cheat-fueled rampages throwing grenades out of the window, leaving disaster all over town.

none of that shit is fun in GTA 5 except maybe drifting. I've seen some videos of really good drifting in GTA 5 but they were probably using mods that improve vehicle physics.

>>719900524 (OP)
Let me guess, you were 13 years old with no obligations in 2008.

>>719905238
>MUH CRASH MUH RECESSION
oh stfu

>>719905238
I was 32 in 2008

>>719905119
Yea IV was peak they dumbed down
V cause fortnite kiddies have shit taste in vidya. They don't care about cool technology they're just graphics fags. It can be static and lifeless as fuck just as long as it looks pretty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWVtZJo-HqI

>>719905238
I was in college and the crash caused tutition to skyrocket. I was lucky and had a family college fund but it couldn't afford it anymore cause it literally tripled. Job hiring was on a cold freeze so everyone went to college which cause the demand to make tutition soar. I had to drop out. I lived on that family college fund for 6 years living like a poor until I got lucky with a real paying job.
Thank god video games were ass from that period. I spent the whole time playing old classics I never did as a teenager.

>>719905720
>V cause fortnite kiddies have shit taste in vidya.
I don't think fortnite was even a battle royale when GTA 5 came out. and I really disagree that they care much about graphics. fortnite and minecraft are their emblematic games and they both look kinda shit. graphicsfags?? that's 100% on Rockstar and the audience they cultivated with RDR, then GTA 5, then RDR 2.

>>719900605

>thoughbeit

Stop this shit, faggot.

>>719900524 (OP)
>It's physically painful to play
because it runs like shit lol

that was literally the worst generation of gaming
gta 4 sucks ass

>>719905119
with GTA4 they were still testing out their mix of RAGE and euphoria, which meant pretty much every object on the map was part of a simulation and they all behaved consistently under the same set of rules. this gave the game a sense of believability nothing else really tries to emulate (cuz its fucking hard) and rockstar themselves gave up in service of the players. I think RDR2 is about the only and last time they tried doing anything similar and it fell under the weight of their modern railroaded design.
it's also put to good use in MCLA and max payne 3 but that's about it. complete death after that in the name of casuals and a bombastic cinematic experience (instead of feeling you're in a world)

>>719900524 (OP)
Essential mods to make this playable?

>>719906204
>and rockstar themselves gave up in service of the players.
nah, in service of nothing but graphicsfaggotry. aka in service of marketing. GTA 5 looks more appealing to players in a trailer only, due to graphics improvements. GTA 4 is more fun to actually play.

>>719906202
pos 4 and 5 eras exist, zoomer

>>719900524 (OP)
2008 was a terrible time and the start of all the shitty trends that ruined gaming. Fucking zoomer cunt.

>>719905961
>I don't think fortnite was even a battle royale when GTA 5
I'm taking about a general trend of games moving away from complex cool realistic physics for a more user friendly good looking non interactive type of game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_pVMaSCvdM

Fortnite has pretty cartoon graphics. Do they even have ragdoll in the game?

Minecraft is it's own animal and a cool game with some cool physics. It's also from 2009-2010? before the shitty slop took over videogames

RDR 2 actually has great attention to detail, physics and gore.

What sucks is they made it so fucking tedious to play. It was fun first playtrhough but I couldn't force myself to replay it cause it's such a slog to play.

>You have to do the missions like the games tells you to. Attack from the right flank if you go the other way cause you think a flank from the left would be more effective you fail the mission
>Your loadout get reset to just your pistol whenever you get off your horse. Everytime you get of you have to pic up your rifles from the horse
>looting is a full animation of you opening drawers

>>719906746
It was a much better time.

>>719906812
>floaty slip bros
nah

>>719901220
the question is will the remaster censor them? lines like this and the Jews being behind the diamonds

>>719901270
>EINS ZWEI DREI
>SCHICKI SCHICKI SCHWEINE

R* need to go back to making condensed cities instead of doing
>lets add a huge amount of empty uninteresting countryside to the middle of the map

>>719906812
really though what's with developers just outright killing physics in their games around this time? it can't just be graphics, they were emulating newtonian behavior on fucking super nintendos and genesis
with games like gta5 and brawl you began to see this trend where developers outright gutted their physics engines. was it casual appeal? is consistent gravity and momentum really that much of a filter for new players during playtesting? I don't get it
they gave up on making consistent worlds for games too. compare re4 with re5

>>719907203
instead 4 is
>super dense city with 4 islands, all of which look exactly the same and only 1% of buildings are enterable

>>719907258
>compare re4 with re5
re5 just feels like the island level but made as a whole ass game with puzzles sprinkled around

>>719905238
Yes, I was 13 years old in 2008.

>>719906209
DODI Repack and not a toaster. Microwave maybe.

>>719907350
>focused design is le bad

>>719905238
19. Crashed out after my first serious relationship fell apart.

Gta4 was and still is dogshit

>>719907919
Playable in the sense to make the game and graphics not shitty

>>719908128
A sense of taste is a good one

>>719907258
>with games like gta5 and brawl you began to see this trend where developers outright gutted their physics engines. was it casual appeal? is consistent gravity and momentum really that much of a filter for new players during playtesting?
no, anon, it really is just about graphics. graphics also need CPU and RAM. 7th gen consoles didn't have any RAM to spare in particular but really they had nothing to spare in general if you wanted to do shit like cascaded shadowmaps and stream high poly assets while driving through an open world.

it never had anything to do with players. it was about maximizing sales by making games look good in trailers and screenshots.

>2025
>The nutcases that run everything are mad that Obama became president and are taking it out on everyone else. Any new problem is due to "The Democrats"
Thanks Obama.

my favorite thing to do in gta 4 is every time i see a jew i have to brutally murder him