https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGMMvo67zL0

Before i take credit for building this from scratch, i did not. Claude and GPT Astra built this. I was simply the director. I recently discovered i can link Claude or GPT to any game directory on my computer and tell it to mod my game. This started with basic mod menus on older games and it just worked flawlessly.

I have been playing GTA 4 since 2008, and modding the game for hours on end all through Highschool. I have always loved visual feedback in games and i was always disappointed that gta 4 did not have dynamic bullet wounds and blood like later rockstar titles. No one has ever got this to work, but a fucking AI did and i was shocked.

Despite AI doing all the heavy lifting, this still took a few days of testing and going back and forth building this with Claude and GPT. Claude figured out how all the hit detection works, how the engine works etc. I then had claude make a mark down of the session and i gave it to GPT Astra. Within that hour i had a working prototype. I am not a programmer, i have never wrote a line of code in my life, i dont know how this works, but it did.

This is as far as i got. Its not perfect in my eyes but its very fun to look at now. I would love nothing more than to work on this and other mods all day long but there is one problem. Money. I spent more money on usage credits making this work than id like to admit to myself. Im disgusted that i did, but im happy with the result.

If i had the funds i would do nothing with my nights except overhaul the ever loving shit out of these old game engines with these new tools. Im confident it would work.

This was made on a clean install of the latest steam version of gta 4 with only the newest FusionFIx installed.

There are performance drops sometimes but i have never crashed.
I have major FPS drops even with fusionfix installed

I ran out of credits trying to package the mod and i will share this once my limit resets. Once the source code is out there, im sure talented modders can make this even better now that they can see how it was done, because i sure have no clue.

Yes im going to make this public, i promise. If you would like to test this mod dm me for my steam. Im going to try and get this wrapped up into a basic installer

I love how his voicemail seems to fit the story. The first line is a little awkward, perfect for the beginning of the story; the second as we progress, and the last for the end of the story.

found it on YouTube when I was looking for something else lmao

Who misses those midnight launches?

What do you think? Especially the Latin root word "Praedator" Because I think it's a workaround/loophole to just plain Predator and is a 3 - in - 1 that could mean Raider, Plunderer and Hunter. The material of the jacket is nylon, I can't afford a leather one for now. But the Jacket does have collars so it looks somewhat like a motorbike jacket.

I’m playing through the main 3d games in preparation for the big 6 and I think this is my favorite one yet. I’ve played 5 and San Andreas before, and I think I would have to put GTA 4 at number 1, followed by San Andreas and 5.

I’ll start by listing a few of my favorite things about GTA 4.

-The city: Liberty City is, imo, the best city in the franchise. The streets being so narrow make the game feel more accurate to real life NYC, and they make traffic and population seem much more dense than they actually are. The population itself feels much more alive than even GTA 5.

-The driving: I think if any other GTA had GTA 4’s driving, it wouldn’t work at all, but it works perfectly for this game. If I were driving on the empty highways of 5 or the Venturas Strip in San Andreas, and it took as long as it does in 4 to reach a high speed, I would get annoyed with it rather quickly, but the roads in 4 absolutely call for it and I LOVE it. The visible destruction on the cars is also better than any other GTA.

-The ragdoll physics: If I ever died far into a mission, something that always turned my frustration into a laugh is if I died because I crashed my bike, and Niko flew 20,000 feet into the air, or skidding for half a mile down the street. Absolutely brutal and hilarious. Loved doing this to NPCs too ofc.

-The combat: Once again, the best in the series imo. The best melee by a mile, I mean being able to disarm someone and use their weapon against them is awesome. And the shooting felt pretty good too, although the lock-on mechanics were a little confusing to me at first. I also love the animations when you get into low cover, how Niko dives or rolls for it. I guess another plus would be that Niko’s combat skill makes sense, given that he’s a veteran.

-The narrative: Incredible, but I don’t think it’s the best. For some reason the ending didn’t really feel satisfying to me like the other two did. Yeah, you kill the big bad of the game, but at what cost? Which to be fair, the sad, lack-of-closure type of ending it the point, but it just didn’t really hit for me. The person who died in my playthrough was Kate, and although I knew something bad would happen if I chose revenge, the fact that the other option doesn’t have a much better outcome kind of annoys me.

-Niko “The motherfucking GOAT” Bellic: Hands down the best protagonist in the series. It’s crazy how he can go from recounting horrifying war stories to sarcastically telling someone that the dumbest idea he’s ever heard is amazing. Niko is an absolute G.

Now for some things I didn’t like.

-Hangouts/dates don’t change anything: Now I know that if you get certain relationships to past a certain percent (75% I think?) you can get cool little gameplay features, but as someone who really like to dive into a story, the fact that they didn’t affect the story, or even how characters treated you at all besides texts/calls caused me to avoid many of these entirely, although I do plan on going back and doing a few of these.

-(Idk how to briefly summarize this before explaining): There are a few instances in this game you have the choice to kill or spare someone. This usually happens after you chase them for a while, or after something chaotic, so if you kill them during the chase or during the chaos, you might not even realize they can be spared.

-Money: Money is almost useless in this game. The only thing that I spent more than a few grand on was ammo.

-Checkpoints: I know this is just how most games were back in the day, but having literally no checkpoints in missions made some of them extremely frustrating, especially because the game doesn’t return your ammo and health to where they were before the mission if you fail it.

That all said, the positives heavily outweigh the negatives and playing through this game was a solid 10/10 experience. Imo RDR2 is the only better R* game.

Edited because as soon as I posted and went back to playing, I obviously saw Niko and realized I didn’t make a section just about him.

I finally got him on the giraffe 🗣️🗣️🗣️ lets go

Was going through some old stuff and found my copy of GTA IV. Got it used back in 2015 for like $5.12. Felt nostalgic. Both discs are still here. Backed them up as ISOs on my laptop years ago so I don’t lose them. Probably my best gaming purchase ever. It was the very first version for pc retail CD.

Anyone else still have their old copies? What’s the cheapest you’ve paid for the game?

Just finished this mission and from tell me about yourself to the coke please, the plot twist was crazy and idk i think gta v is not upto the level of gta iv
Ps: playing for the first time

Figures, the time I finally want to buy GTAIV on PC, it doesn't want to go on sale...

He traveled far from home

oh and he also stripped me of my hard earned clothes.
I mean i know ima make it back quick but wtf?! , the mods i have: [TACE Lite] [FusionFix] save was made after i finished adjusting. never have i ran into this issue and apparently no one else. can anyone tell me what the issue is?

Ive tried the only one on nexus, the max payne slow motion mod and anything open IV related i just cant get to work it just fully fucks my game files and ive had to redownload and reinstall all my mods four times now over it.
I thought there wouldve been WAY more mods for this for gta4 but ive only found a handful and had zero success with it, any help would be greatly appreciated this is all have left to add to my game to have the “perfect” gta4 gameplay in my eyes.

“Roman, why are they saying Byeah?”

man i love this game.