Events in GTA IV are now as old as Vice City events were on it's release date.

[Bloodless]

I just wanted to post this for serious reasons. Thoughts.

[daltontigerboy]

Wrong

 

2008 was 16 years ago

 

1986 was 22 years before 2008

 

Edit: nvm I see what you mean now. That’s insane and scary as hell.

Edited January 13, 2024 by daltontigerboy

[lol232]

3 hours ago, daltontigerboy said:

Wrong

 

2008 was 16 years ago

 

1986 was 22 years before 2008

GTA Vice City released in 2002. OP is trying to say that the events taking place in GTA IV, are now as far back as events taking place in Vice City when Vice City launched.

Edited January 13, 2024 by lol232

[daltontigerboy]

26 minutes ago, lol232 said:

GTA Vice City released in 2002. OP is trying to say that the events taking place in GTA IV, are now as far back as events taking place in Vice City when Vice City launched.

Ohhhh. Yeah. That’s a pretty random “mindblown” fact.

 

Actually you know what? That’s insane.

 

In 2002 they released a game about “the 80s, man”, which felt like foreverrrr ago at that point. The difference between the mid 80s and the early 2000s was ridiculous on so many levels.

 

Yet here we are in 2024 and it’s been the same exact amount of time since GTAIV released…yet I can still remember 2008 like it wasn’t that long ago. Damn, Father Time is such a relentless asshole.

Edited January 13, 2024 by daltontigerboy

[lol232]

2 hours ago, daltontigerboy said:

Ohhhh. Yeah. That’s a pretty random “mindblown” fact.

 

Actually you know what? That’s insane.

 

In 2002 they released a game about “the 80s, man”, which felt like foreverrrr ago at that point. The difference between the mid 80s and the early 2000s was ridiculous on so many levels.

 

Yet here we are in 2024 and it’s been the same exact amount of time since GTAIV released…yet I can still remember 2008 like it wasn’t that long ago. Damn, Father Time is such a relentless asshole.

I think technology plays a major role. There's obviously been major advancements since 2008, but really not nearly as big as compared to 1986 to 2002. Or even 2002 to 2008.

The thing is, it's not even whether I'm factually correct but how it feels to us.

Edited January 13, 2024 by lol232

[Blue carpet]

1 hour ago, lol232 said:

I think technology plays a major role. There's obviously been major advancements since 2008, but really not nearly as big as compared to 1986 to 2002. Or even 2002 to 2008.

The thing is, it's not even whether I'm factually correct but how it feels to us.

That's so true especially 1986 to 2002 not only tech but culture as a whole from music to fashion from pre-9/11 world to post 9/11 world.

[.Ryan.]

This is actually one of the reasons why I love the fact that GTA IV was a “modern” game for the time because it naturally just carves its own period piece.

 

A lot has happened in the last 16 years. Between 1986 to 2002 I was too young to remember what it was really like except the mid/late 90s.

 

In the context of GTA IV Niko would be 46 and he would’ve seen the world change from the post-911 hysteria, the recovery of the economy after the financial crisis, Covid 19 and a bunch more world changing events throughout the 2010s.

 

It’s strange because 2008 doesn’t feel like it was that long ago even though it technically is. At least to me.

[Silver]

And here I am, doing yet another playthrough for the nth time like I've been doing for more than a decade now. I truly am stuck in the past.

[Yinepi]

Yes the game has aged. No denying that. But, GTAIV has held up well in my opinion.

[Pashaforever]

Nice one guys. 2008 was just five years ago. GTA V is coming!!!!!

[Thejeffster]

Weird to think about for sure. Although seems like much more had changed between 1986 and 2002 compared to 2008 and 2024. The jump in technology and the like seemed much huger from the 80s to the early 00s.

[cant remember]

That just made me realise that in Vice City they made the tech sometimes to be a little more outdated than it actually was for comedy.

For example they have radio ads mocking the Atari 2600 like "haha this game is just red squares and green blocks" but by 1986 the NES had just come out, and the Atari is a console from the 70's.

 

What I also find an interesting thought is that in 2002, videogames from 1986 were already mostly considered outdated abandonware/retro stuff, but I don't feel as though GTA4 is quite "retro" yet. It still holds up fairly well technically and graphically and it's a little bit like going into a time capsule exploring the in-game world with the keypad cell phones, gray CRT screen computers and even the "new" cars in the game being old models.

[MaveriX]

"What I also find an interesting thought is that in 2002, videogames from 1986 were already mostly considered outdated abandonware/retro stuff"

 

>when a retro game from 2008 holds up better than most AAA that release nowadays

[TaylorSwiftDies2038]

On 1/13/2024 at 4:13 AM, Harwood Butch3r said:

This is actually one of the reasons why I love the fact that GTA IV was a “modern” game for the time because it naturally just carves its own period piece.

 

A lot has happened in the last 16 years. Between 1986 to 2002 I was too young to remember what it was really like except the mid/late 90s.

 

In the context of GTA IV Niko would be 46 and he would’ve seen the world change from the post-911 hysteria, the recovery of the economy after the financial crisis, Covid 19 and a bunch more world changing events throughout the 2010s.

 

It’s strange because 2008 doesn’t feel like it was that long ago even though it technically is. At least to me.

 

Yeah.

 

Unironically, I have a bunch of 2008 Top 100 Pop songs on my custom Independence FM playlist for this reason. It just hits. Songs like Rihanna's "Disturbia", Kanye West's "Stronger", and Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent" just hit hard when I'm driving Roman around to go bowling in Algonquin or something around sunset. Said custom radio meshes well with GTA IV's default radio stations, the Weazel News outtakes and dialogue in the game. At this point GTA IV has beautifully aged into a period piece and feels like a time capsule of the 2000s in general.

 

I feel the same way. I was 11 years old when Grand Theft Auto IV came out and I remember everything around that era feeling "new" and "modern" to me. Windows Vista, the 2008 Olympics, Obama vs McCain, the recession, Kanye West's music releases, the rise of Facebook and Twitter around that time, the first iPhone, etc. I kinda had that "this is as good as it gets" feel too. Even weirder, if you were born in 2008, you'd be 16 years about to graduate high school now. It was that long ago.

 

Father Time is a motherf*cker that's for sure.

Edited March 8, 2024 by TaylorSwiftDies2038