GTA Online vs GTA IV Multiplayer

[StormerBoy]

I think most would say they like GTA Online most, but which one have they actually had more fun with?

[Coin]

I have about 10x more time spent playing GTA Online than I did playing GTA IV Multiplayer, so online on both accounts and it isn't even close.

[Ninja_Gear]

GTA IV online was much more fun and better. Loved the fun i had in the Friendly fire off lobbies and the races back then.

[JON22]

GTA 4 easily. Friendly fire off lobbies with rocket launchers at the airport was feckin hilarious. Also the random hackers spawning cars and lineing <<<(spelling?) them all up for ppl to use on crazy ramps. Flying saucers, bed cars, falling from the sky because of hackers, being able to pick up weapons without stupid ranks or cash cows. Those were good days.

[HirsuteDave]

I have about 10x more time spent playing GTA Online than I did playing GTA IV Multiplayer, so online on both accounts and it isn't even close.

Ditto.

 

I started MP in IV late so I found nothing but hackkers and griefing and that may be clouding my judgement.

[GTA-Freak-Vi]

IV will always be the superior in terms of FM and I always say, AIRPORT MADNESS WAS DA BEST but overall, Online blows IV out of the water

[Mr. Rocko]

GTA: Online sh*ts on GTA IV Online.

[BigBiff]

GTA IV multiplayer was madness and outside of DM type games, was limited other than 2 modes. GTAO offers far more variety with contact missions, races of all sorts, apartments, cars, etc.

 

People talk about driving mechanics being too simple in V, without realizing that GTA IV MP was incredibly simple compared to GTAO.

[StormerBoy]

GTA IV multiplayer was madness and outside of DM type games, was limited other than 2 modes. GTAO offers far more variety with contact missions, races of all sorts, apartments, cars, etc.

 

People talk about driving mechanics being too simple in V, without realizing that GTA IV MP was incredibly simple compared to GTAO.

All true. But simplicity doesn't necessarily equal boredom.

 

Which one did you have most fun with? Minesweeper or Solitaire are very simplistic, but they can still entertain you more than some of the more complex games out there.

Edited March 31, 2014 by StormerBoy

[Vooodu]

GTA free roam was mostly a trolling ground for buzzards. Pretty much all i remember about free roam. Free roam sucked in GTA 4.

 

GTA 4 racing was great tho.. So was the pvp since most players did no use AA.

 

 

 

 

But i prefer GTA O, it just has alot more to offer.

[ExtremeTorque]

I love GTAO.But it misses 1 thing huge to me.

Free Mode.

Free mode on GTAO is nothing but an online story mode.

We need customisable Free Modes that will be accessed from the phone like deathmatches and races.

[BigBiff]

 

GTA IV multiplayer was madness and outside of DM type games, was limited other than 2 modes. GTAO offers far more variety with contact missions, races of all sorts, apartments, cars, etc.

 

People talk about driving mechanics being too simple in V, without realizing that GTA IV MP was incredibly simple compared to GTAO.

All true. But simplicity doesn't necessarily equal boredom.

 

Which one did you have most fun with? Minesweeper or Solitaire are very simplistic, but they can still entertain you more than some of the more complex games out there.

 

It's a fine line, I get that. However, Minesweeper and Solitaire are vastly different experiences and expectations than GTA. GTA IV to GTAO is more of a like to like comparison than windows 3.1 games, but I understand where you're coming from.

 

To me, it seems some expected GTA IV 2.0 when GTA Online was announced. When some of the basics were changed, they got nostalgic for nostalgia sake. Old things people liked tend to carry more weight because they're older and came first. I often use this analogy...Babe Ruth is often claimed to be the best baseball player ever, but could he have hit a 88 MPH slider that many hitters today face? Older doesn't always mean better.

Edited March 31, 2014 by BigBiff

[StormerBoy]

I love GTAO.But it misses 1 thing huge to me.

Free Mode.

Free mode on GTAO is nothing but an online story mode.

We need customisable Free Modes that will be accessed from the phone like deathmatches and races.

 

Yes, so why aren't we able to customise our own free modes ?

[Misanthrope Z]

GTAO

 

cuz the driving in 4 stinks and if i want a nice car i dont have one conveniently placed in a garage

[Biohazard Abyss]

There's no way I'm ever reaching the amount of time I have put into IV. IV's free roam in itself is better than GTAO as a whole.

[Coin]

There's no way I'm ever reaching the amount of time I have put into IV. IV's free roam in itself is better than GTAO as a whole.

 

[ExtremeTorque]

 

 

I love GTAO.But it misses 1 thing huge to me.

Free Mode.

Free mode on GTAO is nothing but an online story mode.

We need customisable Free Modes that will be accessed from the phone like deathmatches and races.

Yes, so why aren't we able to customise our own free modes ?

Because R* makes the choices,not us

[Biohazard Abyss]

 

There's no way I'm ever reaching the amount of time I have put into IV. IV's free roam in itself is better than GTAO as a whole.

 

 

 

 

TLAD multiplayer was the best. Loved the biker clothing.

[Coin]

It's like saying Dr Mario is better than Tetris and I'm not having it.

[ExtremeTorque]

Free Mode on GTAO has lost its essence.

When you care about losing money,ammo,cops impounding your car all the time,you have limited freedom.

Bring back customisable Free Modes that will be accessed from the phone like the other modes and whatever you do there doesnt affect your career.No stats,no money,no houses,no guns( guns pick ups were fun in IV),no cops,friendly fire on,off.Everything customised.

Keep the online story mode as a starting point and then add a classic Free Mode as a game type from the phone.Then the fun will come

[ArcadeWilliamz]

GTA 4 Multiplayer was hack friendly and Rockstar didn't care about it. Once I was on a modded lobby and everyone was at the airport driving modded cars but anyway every time when I joined a free roam lobby everyone was mainly blowing each other away with RPGs at the airport or hopping into annihilators and flicking each other away or driving to the other side of the city to get the Sultan RS.

[ExtremeTorque]

 

 

 

 

There's no way I'm ever reaching the amount of time I have put into IV. IV's free roam in itself is better than GTAO as a whole.

 

 

TLAD multiplayer was the best. Loved the biker clothing.

The katanas,the Moto -X glasses and the spiked helmets

[B Dawg]

GTA IV had a lot of customization, and really good game modes. Hell it even had the option to turn off police completely, which IV singleplayer lacked. I found racing more fun and balanced than in dedicated racing games. You could cause chaos all over the city without getting chased by the police, fight pedestrians or other players while taunting them (YEEEAA! Whoop some ass! f*ck yourself with a machete!), you could disable traffic if you wanted to drive fast all the time around the city, had a really good pickup system. It didn't have any rank-locked weapons like so many stupid modern games do to give an advantage to the high ranking pussies. Overall it was original, simple, and really really good. All it needed was a content creator (although seperated from the normal deathmatches/races).

[livejoker]

This isn't a fair topic. If you remove personal vehicles, apartments, pegasus vehicles, money, clothes (leaving only the option to buy outfits) and weapon customization, then it would be fair. The idea of not owning in GTA IV is what might of made it fun. Your car blew up? No problem, steal a new one. Someone going for the Sultan was like someone having the High Priority Vehicle. Someone in a Buzzard or Annihilator was a jet. In Gay Tony, someone had a tank was a tank but actually killable with rockets. GTA IV is and always be my favorite gaming experience. I grew up playing that game (as stupid and young that may make me sound). It really brought me into gaming online as before that for years I only played SP stuff or went co-op couch style with a friend.

GTA IV for most people is pure nostalgia at this point, though, so if we were to release GTA IV now (Gay Tony version) next to GTA V and have GTA IV graphics up to GTA V's but keeping the same mechanics, it would come down to GTA IV having sh*ttier driving and a smaller city (which isn't bad) while GTA V would have better driving and a bigger city. I honestly prefer Liberty City (not based on nostalgia). How it's created, the airport, the boroughs, the unpopular Alderney, Burger Shot safey zone from helicopters, the boats that could jump out the water with each wave. But then again I love GTA V's Sandking, how it suspension works, I love the amount of detail, the big map, the different zones...and that's about all I can think.

I will say if the airport had ramps and jumps (not those stupid one-tire sh*t), it would be way more popular and friendly of a place and possibly the center of attention for all lobbies as GTA IV had everyone at the airport. If you were not at the airport you were:

-getting the Sultan, tank or a chopper that wasn't looked at by other players in choppers
-screwing around with a buddy far away from the action
-picking up weapons to attack the airport

Then GTA IV died when you would light up on fire by modders. If GTA V goes down that route when modders can kill everyone in the lobby with a stupid mod menu, I'll be going back to GTA IV. It's an amazing game (original + 2 DLC), I love the 3 of them and I'll always be a GTA IV fanboy. GTA V has yet to prove itself, to be honest. I've gotten more pissed at the game than the players and it should be the other way around.

[sportbikepilot369]

GTAO when I had the gifted billions.

[Tali vas Normandy]

GTA online obviously.

I think out of the 100 hours i played in GTA 4 online, only 9 of them was fun

[NorthwindJME]

Well putting my opinion out there. 4 has its good points but the online is garbage compared to 5's.

[I3AZZAI2]

GTA:IV online never really interested me as there were no real "personal" aspects and it seamed like a big mess of people killing eachother, not really doing anything. I never really gave it much time though and would just occasionally play IV with friends offline when we wanted a carnage fix. When GTA:O came along I was surprised by how much they changed that system, as I was instantly drawn into the RPG aspects of the game, but it was still good ol' GTA. The only thing that bugs me is how grind'y it can get, but there are workarounds for that, so I'm happy for now.

edit:and OP, this is gonna be one crazy biased poll

Edited April 1, 2014 by I3AZZAI2

[Biohazard Abyss]

The katanas,the Moto -X glasses and the spiked helmets

 

 

My favorite was the black-on-black motocross outfit with the spiked helmet and skull face banana.

 

Oh, I looked so badass!

[Punisher.]

Without taking into account, 'created content', here's a summary of the base game modes available in both GTAO and GTA IV.

 

GTAO: Freemode (no customisable options) Deathmatches (normal & team, but limited to two teams) Races (normal, GTA and Rally) Last Team Standing, Missions (co-op & VS), Capture (bag games) and Survivals.

 

GTA IV: Freemode (fully customisable) Deathmatches (fully customisable, can play with many teams, set weapons, make it cover huge areas) Races (Normal & GTA), Mafiya Work (Missions as individuals or teams, across the city, non stop gameplay involving teams), Turf War (territory based game mode) Car Jack City (similar to Mafiya Work, but only stealing cars) Cops N Crooks (tactical and popular game mode, involving two teams) Co-op missions (3, NOOSE, Bomb da Base and Deal Breaker).

 

 

GTAO is great. It looks better and the features such as crew emblems, car modding and snapmatic are good additions, but the modes are repetitive, nothing is random. The car handling also has become much easier for casual players. Less Skill is needed in it, it's been designed to appeal to the masses. GTAO is a lot of shine, quite literally with the chrome painted super cars, but I'd take IV's gritty, and more random modes any day over this sparkly game. Even the gameplay /shooting mechanics still allow players to corner shoot and sh*t like that.

 

Rockstar have made this game to get $, and failed to listen to any of the players who loved IV, instead they listened to the children and noobs who quit GTA IV, as soon as they got ass raped by a heli-whore in the airport on freemode. Sadly, these players probably never got around to exploring the joys of the other modes, which took skill, teamwork, map knowledge and effort.