Why do people say that GTA IV had an unmemorable soundtrack/radio?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcNI4D0K-zM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEBv-m0NVg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDdD4jS1v4I
It really didnt
You re right pal, The Grand Theft Auto 4 soundtrack was overall a 10/10
>>334538338
GTA IV might have the best soundtrack because of Vladivostock FM. It's justifiably overhated, but there's something unique and distinct about that station that makes IV's soundtrack a bit more memorable.
Besides that, the only songs I can recall from IV are Flashing Lights, Highway Star, and No Security. And I'm pretty sure the latter two were only featured in the respective DLCs unless I'm mistaken.
>>334538338
GTA4, period, is unmemorable besides it's overrated scores it got from critics.
>>334538971
I can't remember more than 10 missions or pedestrian quotes from GTA V, and I have 350+ hours in both games.
>>334538338
Why did IV have such a shitty selection for hip-hop? Best shit on that station was Ye and Ghostface.
IV & V have a shitty soundtrack especially V, i know people are gonna say "b-but modern music sucks!!!" but even the stations that played older music were pretty lame
>>334539237
>hip hop radio station in liberty city which is based off of new york
>no dmx, big l, big pun, rakim, biggie
i didnt get it either
>>334538338
IV and V both have so much of this.
Dadrock and dadrap.
>>334538338
Looking back, IV had a strange soundtrack because it seems more like the kind of thing for niche appeal, and not a massivly popular franchise. It had a fair amount of "ethnic" and cultural stations, like the jamaican dancehall, IF99, Tuff Gong, Fusion. It didn't seem to have a simple pop station which I think a lot of people missed. It even had that ambient station the Journey (which I loved, it was very cool).
It's a pretty good soundtrack and it definitely has a vibe of its own. But I can see why some people would say it's "boring" in the sense that a lot of it is more textural and not too melodic or upbeat. Also, I remember the Latin station being very unmemorable.
The DLC games had more spicier selections. Gay Tony in particular had the awesome electronic station, and the latin station was amazingly well chosen for catchy, memorable songs. It was also cool in The Lost and Damned, how they played legit heavy metal for the hardcore station. A cool diversion from the norm that worked wonders.
>>334538823
Dont forget emminence front! I know it sounds gay, but as a Ukrainian, Vladivostok FM really reminded me of living at home listening to the shit music my parents blasted in the living room on Sundays.
>>334540386
>dardrock
>dadrap
Found the 12 year old.
>>334538338
>gt iv had a great soundtrack
>proceeds to post garbage
i think you just proved the opposite of what you were trying to do op
Taken together, Episodes from Liberty City probably has the best soundtrack of the whole series. It even has Vice City FM. The hip hop station in Gay Tony was a little too poppy though, they could have used some more raw tracks.
posting objectively the best track in IV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSC5BbmJ0HI
>>334539605
>V had a shitty soundtrack
Radio Mirror Park, Non-Stop Pop, Radio Los Santos, and the rock station make your post invalid.
favorite tracks from gta iv:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-sCc_On0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpQcce469vg
Also, I always say "Top Down" as sort of the theme song of the game, for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8cvDGEDDU
>>334540832
Fuck, I haven't played GTA IV since before V dropped, and I immediately recognized this song.
>>334538823
>It's justifiably overhated
It is? It's always been my favourite.
The only things I can remember from the GTA IV songs are the hooks.
>>334541124
only good radio station you listed was radio mirror park
who /sanjuansounds/ here?
>>334541174
Vagabond - Greenskeepers is the theme song of GTA IV.
>>334541418
>He doesn't like
>Applause
>Moves Like Jagger
>Cooler Than Me
>Meet Me Halfway
>Glamorous
>WHAM!
>Hall and Oates
Shit taste, friend.
>>334538338
>not The Beat
>>334538338
All the good music is hidden on the stations no one listens to, like the alt rock and IDM ones. I bet a lot of people don't even know those stations exist.
the freestyle they had on the hip hop station was dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmAXKNIUW-8
>>334541124
1.5 points, RMP was good and NSP was sometimes good
>>334540435
Sucks that Vladivostok turns into a dance music station in gay tony
>I'll never be 11 years old, playing GTA IV for the first time ever again.
>before you call me underage b&, 2008 was 8 years ago....
>>334541928
You're still only 19 you faggot
>>334540832
This song is cool, but I swear that the stations in GTA IV were poorly programmed: it always felt like the same songs played on the stations every time they came on. This song ALWAYS seemed to be playing on Massive B, while War is Necessary always seemed to be playing on the Beat. Did I just get really unlucky with the times these stations came on?
>>334541124
>Radio Mirror Park, Non-Stop Pop, Radio Los Santos, and the rock station make your post invalid.
this nigga knows what's up
>>334541568
>he likes moves like jagger
right back atcha
>>334541928
>being 11 years old in 2008
Holy shit these underage kids I swear. I feel sorry for your life if your childhood consists of the late 2000s.
>>334542246
>I feel sorry for your life if your childhood consists of the late 2000s.
It doesn't. My small Indiana town was coming off the late 90's.
I started playing games young.
>>334541928
>tfw same but with GTA 3
The Journey was the coolest shit ever, I don't know why that station doesn't get more attention. Having it hosted by a robot was just the icing on the cake.
>>334541625
i think the problem is that gta 4 had way too many radio stations, im pretty sure san andreas had like 10 while 4 had 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSewvEmHWnE
feel like this song was always on whatever station it was on (I think it was Radio Broker) I recognize it by the hook.
>>334542504
I never bothered listening to that station. I tuned in once, heard some tangerine dream bullshit, and avoided it from then on since I didn't want to hear mellow music while I was running down pedestrians and shooting at cops.
>GTA IV: Radio Broker and Chatterbox.
>GTA IV EFLC: Radio Vladivostok, Radio Broker and Chatterbox.
>GTA V: Fly Lo FM, Radio Mirror Park and Worldwide FM
Prove me wrong.
>>334542387
holy fuck, 19 and in Indiana?
are you literally me?
>>334543159
I lived in Indiana until I was 16. I live in Miami, FL now.
>>334543153
I agree with all of this
The real question iswhich San Andreas station?
>>334543346
k roseALLL MY EXES
>>334543319
holy fuck, 19 and in Florida?
are you literally me?
>>334543153
>Fly Lo FM
No.
>>334543447
Correct! I would also have accepted every other station.
>>334543346
Anything but SF-UR. That was a dissappointing selection of early house.
>>334543153
>no west coast classics
>>334543451
I don't know, are you a virgin, socially withdrawn, and joining the Marine Corps?
>>334543713
nope
>>334543346
That anon here, Radio X, WCTR and KDST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eukAfV8H7X8
this fucking song is so catchy
>>334539132
>>Eeeyss Happening
>>BAAAAALLAHS
>>Yoouu fuccking aaaaaayshole
>>FFFUUCKING LIBERAL
>>Smeells like sheeeyt coming outta you mouth
>>334543856
I fucking knew what song it would be before I even clicked play.
Seemed like that song was playing on a loop on that station.
I can recognize GTA IV songs only by their hooks
>>334538338
GTA Radio is awesome until you realize about 75% of the rock songs are from Miami Vice
I'm not saying this is a bad thing btw
>>334542036
Go to bed grandpa
>>334543637
>Anything but SF-UR. That was a dissappointing selection of early house.
>CAN YOU FEEEEEELLL IITTTTTTTTTTTT
https://youtu.be/N04mX-Zyr1U?t=23m56s
Best part about Liberty Rock Radio was the DJ. Iggy Pop really did an amazing job, he was funny, interesting and memorable.
>>334544285
>I'll be right back gotta do a quick yoga excercise it's called FUCKING LIKE A BANDIT
Lazlow was fucking on his game in IV. Sure it wasn't as good as III, but I'd rank it above his shows in SA and LCS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXOzb0krq7g
>>334544285
>>334544329
>DJ. Iggy Pop really did an amazing job, he was funny, interesting and memorable.
this
>>334540509
Eminence Front was in SA comrade.
GTA IV's radio wasn't as good as VC or SA but was infinitely better than V's.
>>334544285
The DJ for LCHC always cracked me up.
"alright you dicks...pay your fucking rent!"
>no love for Jazz Nation Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIoquPMcG_E
comfiest song in the game.
>>334544965
It might have been in both, but it was definitely in IV. just googled it, friendo.
>playing GTA IV races
>host makes a bike race, max laps, max players, max pedestrians, max traffic, rain, midnight on Star in Your Eyes
>this song starts playing
https://youtu.be/wxTBcxontOA?t=39m41s
>>334545404
JNR is great for when you're doing shit in Alderny. Comfy as fuck.
>>334540832
Eh..
>>334542063
This. Every time I'd switch over the stations and happen to stop on Massive B it was always the intro to the station.
You know the one that goes.....
gogogogogogogogogo MASSIVE B blahblah...
>>334543346
All but CSR.
>>334544198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWg97D3QLE
>>334544285
Agree. Although I liked a lot of the host in GTA IV.
>Hearing Iggy Pop rant about shit.
>Hearing Roy Ayers act kind of goofy.
>Hearing Roy Haynes reminiscence about playing Jazz with the legends, and airport security.
>Karl Lagerfeld being Karl Lagerfeld.
But I really did like hearing Jesco White ramble on about shit, and Keith Morris talk about his punk days.
They kind of dropped the ball with Los Santos Rock Radio and having Kenny Loggins on it. I would've liked it if it was a bit more LA centrist in the playlist, and if they got someone like Ray Manzarek (before he died), or Roger McGuinn to do the station.
Anyway, I found it funny that VWBR had a ton of bands from the SF area and not the LA area.
>>334545250
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rnqXsH102s
>>334546202
Which song, dickweed? You posted the whole station.
>>334546856
You new, senpai? It says 39m41s in the link.
Pound for pound this is better than IV in every way. The soundtrack is actually fun to listen to.
>>334546979
I just felt like saying dickweed because I don't use it enough.
The song is actually pretty funky.
How about the Radio and TV ads
>Pisswasser this is beer, drive drunk off a pier
fucking golden
Fusion FM was a damn cool station, the songs were really different from what was in GTA before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pG_3jZxzlo
Having songs that were sampled by hip hop songs later was a cool touch. It felt so epic driving around to this while going around Algonquin, it just has that really great, jazzy New York vibe.
who here /autisticcommunist/????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0sQfnwrgVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VtBu-jBx_M
This was my favorite song on the Beat, its somehow both hard and beautiful. Makes me really nostalgic when hearing it
>>334538338
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
THIS IS NOOOOOOOOOOOT A TEST OF FAITH
>>334538823
People don't like Vladivostok?
>>334548817
>ONE HORSE
>ONE HORSETHIS IS A ONE HORRRSE RAYYCE
I DON'T NEED,
A WHOLE LOTTA MONEY
Gay Tony had the best Main Theme in the series besides 3
>>334549668
best song in the game is the pause menu music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atha8XPhkuQ
Seriously, this shit is incredible.
>>334549668
Nah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIw-_JM90EY
>>334549668
>not the Liberty City Stories theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIw-_JM90EY
>>334550734
>>334550771
LCS hivemind.
What the fuck was the point of The Journey?
>>334551457
>not enjoying going to TW@T with this playing in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOEDsZbR6jE
>>334538338
They just want to criticize.
4 and 5 had the best radio stations, they're called independence fm and self radio respectively
>>334551764
>GTA V self radio
I sure love those FPS drops!
GTA IV was great because it had a lot of oddball indie shit. Especially the Slav shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Es1nPWzJ-0
>>334543153
>GTAV
>not Channel X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADxR_aFPa4
>>334549668
>>334549830
>replaying tbogt
>on the pause screen with the music playing
>think to myself that tbogt came out 6 years ago
>people hating on the Journey
lads. wew.
STUPID MALAKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsPREql5S4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9F0uT25Th8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZLNNob0zg
>>334543153
lazlow hasn't been funny since gta 3.
I can't remember any of those songs even after listening to them. But I guess I didn't listen to that station back then
>>334543153
Flylo seems like a weird choice for a radio station, like it's mostly just one guy's songs. Never listened to Flying Lotus before but I guess I like his music then, nice for driving around. But it's pretty annoying how most of the stations just seem like a mishmash of everything, you'll get one good song and after that you're looking for another station to listen to, they play one okay song and then it totally changes again. There's I guess West Coast FM, Channel X and the rock station, everything else keeps changing all the time
Is it just me or was the IV radio strange in how they were cut? It felt like the songs always came on from the exact same spot. There was that punk station and 50 percent of the time when I switched to it, it would be that guy doing a short speech before playing their song, starting from the exact same word
>>334546529
>>334542063
Oh I see you noticed that too
T. >>334557614
>>334538338
>No planes.
>Can't swim underwater.
>driving was horrible, especially motorcycles.
>Radio Stations were all shit.
>Couldn't change hair.
>Barley any variety of clothing.
>Unrememberable story.
The irony is that GTASA, released three years before on second gen consoles, had these and GTAIV didn't. Whoever sais that GTAIV was the best GTA needs to kill themselves.
>>334557614
Yeah, it bugged me too. I especially wanted to enjoy Choco Electro too without the same fucking song and intro starting each time
THIS IS FRANCOISE K
>>334558290
Don't know about the rest but I always find myself flying a helicopter instead of an airplane in V. They're more versatile and not really any slower
>>334558290
>driving was horrible, especially motorcycles.
lol
>>334538338
Cause they have bad taste.
GTA4 had LCD Soundsystem.
>>334558290
>No planes.
Why would you need them? It's Jew York.
>Can't swim underwater.
Fuck is there to do underwater? This is trivial as fuck at best.
>driving was horrible, especially motorcycles.
my sides
>Radio Stations were all shit.
I can see why someone really wouldn't like the radio.
>Couldn't change hair.
>Barley any variety of clothing.
The Sims seems right up your alley desslar baklar.
>Unrememberable story.
Objectively wrong.
>The irony
>/lit/ reject wants to sound like he's making a point or something
It's like, the more and more you write, the dumber and dumber you reveal yourself to be.
What you said after irony isn't irony.
also
>needing to play dress up for a GTA game to be good
Are you a womb?
>>334543713
>be 19
>socially withdrawn
>joined the Marine Corps a few months ago
Woah
>>334558290
Less content is not inherently bad. GTA IV was Rockstar's attempt to streamline the series into something more compelling and realistic. There was clearly a bigger focus on relationships in the game.
Also: does Niko really seem like the kind of person that would get a freaky hairstyle?
GTA V objectively had better singleplayer
GTA IV objectively had better multiplayer
Prove me wrong.
>>334558417
The bikes were super wobbly. Didn't mind the cars really, even if the suspension and everything was really exaggerated
funniest part of the game was the las venturas poker challenge on the TV. it was hilarious how the hosts were treating it as so exciting.
Also some of the websites are straight up funny as hell, especially the ones that advertise food (sprunk, fly high pizza pie)
ALRIGHT /V/
VIP LUXURY R I N G T O N E S
"Lesbians" is the only cool choice. :^)
>not posting the best song
Shame shamalama famfam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ila-hAUXR5U
The problem I have with GTA IV is that it takes the physics ups its own ass because "Woah... the power of... next gen". It should've been a bit more like GTA V since GTA IV is so realistic to a point where it isn't fun anymore. Plus I felt as if the story just ended with no closure. It was too short.
>>334560424
I like IV's singleplayer more. The missions in V are too involved and cinematic for my tastes. They all tried so hard to be epic that a lot of them just fell kind of flat. Also, switching characters was not a mechanic I was a big fan of.
I like IV's more simplistic mission setup, where it usually takes place in a location, and you just go and shoot the shit out of the place. The missions have a cool Gears of War style progression where you progress through an area. I like the shootouts in the Construction site, in the museum, in the warehouse, etc.
Also, for all the shit the game gets for being too "samey" there is actually a remarkable variety in the missions. Like the one where you chase the train, or the scooter chase in Middle Park, or when you had to free the prisoner from inside the tunnel. A lot of the missions are based around a single interesting concept which made them very immersive for me.
Also: I like the driving more, way more, in IV. It's sort of a love it or hate it thing I guess.
>>334561308
It wasn't too short - there were a shitload of missions - it's just that most of the missions didn't focus on the main story, i.e., Niko is looking for someone in Liberty City. The story is just all over the place. Though I suppose a big part of the story is that Niko works for whoever pays, which gets him involved with all types of folks.
My real problem with the story was the ending. No matter which option you choose its a huge anti-climax.
The vanilla games LCHC was very memorable for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOy_pRoWjw
>>334560582
i used to think the bikes were bad, but after awhile controlling them became second nature. some of them, like the zombie and freeway, control as stable as cars, while the ones like the Sanchez and NRG 900 took some time getting used to, but once you did they were a lot of fun to ride.
IV's radio stations sucked ass, I just spent the entire game using custom music
>>334544580
Shame he's not really on point in V, although I will say it was cool for him to get an in-game model and be part of the story, even as a joke.
>>334538338
It was shit. Deal with it.
>>334562993
What a compelling argument.
>>334561931
Channel X was the better punk station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiKnaJT6XDg
>>334539132
GTA V has you robbing banks, jobbing out of planes, using a sub to steal a nuke, crashing 2 trains together, pretending to be a janitor so you can bomb a goverrnment building, killing a stand-in for zuckerberg, etc.
IV is just boring miserable forgettable missions in a gray city.
the only thing good about IV are the expansions with better protagonists and missions.
why is it always GTAIV vs GTAV? they're both great games.
why is san andreas of vice city never brought up in these threads? is /v/ too young to have played them when they were new?
>>334564395
>san andreas
it was mentioned, autismo
>>334564395
>san andreas or vice city
I don't know where the fuck you have been, but that has been argued to death. Majority seems to favor Vice City for some reason.
>>334564469
oh my bad i didn't read the thread, i'm just drunk and wanted to shitpost
>>334564505
i like san andreas more than vice city, but if SA is 10/10 then vice city is a 9.999999/10
like they're both amazing but i like san andreas just the tiniest smidgen more. probably because of the airstrip missions. those were nuts
>>334564551
>haha im le drunk xDDD
Fuck off outta here reddit.
>>334564192
Channel X needed more songs considering the short length of most of them
The Mouth Don't Stop, My War and I Don't Need Society are great though
>>334566343
>>334539237
They had Papoose,Jadakiss,Nas, and Maino
WAR IS NECESSARY
The only thing I remember from GTA IV radio was some nigga screaming a bunch of hip hop nonsense (don't even know the genre) with very low quality sound. I think it also played in that bar with the pool. Fucking annoying.
>>334543153
I'd replace Fly Lo FM (it's good but not like the other two) with The Lab.
However the objectively best track on GTA V is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9PUHCt444 even more when you're coming off of hectic non-stop action.
Post your GTA V characters
>>334540435
also Liberty Rock recieved completely new set of songs, it made it immediately my favourite station.
From what I heard of, they got actual DJs, and good ones, to compose tracklists for them in EFLC.
>>334538338
the only memorable GTA IV song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eJicbJAa6Y
How do people get screenshots/snapmatics like this?
>>334569632
played the game for hundreds of hours. Don't remember ever hearing that song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9p4B6s0j4U
>>334539237
AHHH MAN
THIS IS HIP HOP
>>334539237
GTA V has pretty GOAT hip-hop. New shit on Los Santos, old shit with MC Eiht, and then you still have Fly-Lo and The Lab.
>>334569787
Heard it right at start, thought it's cheesy and fun.
Turned out it was the only cheesy and fun thing about GTA IV, everything else was brown on grey seriousness.
Did Rockstar have plans of having comedy shows in 5. Kat and Ricky Gervais were great fun in IV. They should have gotten Burr in, as he worked with them in IV (or maybe Lost and Damned can't remember).
>>334571905
forgot to include the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eILUM1mgsU
>>334538823
>It's justifiably overhated
Really? I liked it.
Eins zwei drei, shiggy diggy schweine...
>>334543447
My brother always played K-Rose when I was watching him play. I can still remember those songs.
"All my exes live five feet underneath the ground!"
God I love that game.
>>334561552
>They all tried so hard to be epic that a lot of them just fell kind of flat
I thought the exact same thing.
After a while you just become numb to the whole thing. Oh, now I'm jumping out of an exploding plane. Neat. It reminds me of how movies these days keep throwing in TOTALLY EPIC moments that you just know were made to be turned into gifs.
>>334541568
GTA IV radio is classy, the best, I could actually listen to any of the songs from IV over V any day.
>>334573530
>not listening to The Low Down, Blue Ark, Worldwide, and Space exclusively
>>334546163
Eminence Front was never in IV, guy. It was in San Andreas and Sleeping Dogs though.
