Jeff loved GTA IV to death and couldn't care less about RDR. 

 Brad never finished (?) GTA IV and has complained about the issues it has and said how he will never play a GTA game ever again unless they completely gut it and overhaul it for the next one, but he absolutely adores RDR. He even placed it in his #1 spot for top 10 games of the year, while I (And I'm sure many of you) would have bet their pinky that the first spot would go to Starcraft.
 
I thought GTA IV was a steaming pile of horseshit, and I'm absolutely loving RDR so far (I'm like...10 hours in?) 
 
Anyone else loving one of those and hating the other?

I dislike both. :(
 
I tried really hard to play GTA4, and played RDR at a friend's place, however neither impresses me for one reason or another.

Nope, loved both :)

Nope, love them both. But i always love Rockstar open-world games. The Gta Games, Bully and Red Dead are some of my favorite games of all time.

Yes, I like Jeff and Brad...

I liked both also, considering they were made by the same people, im not really surprised

I loved both although im having a hard time going back to GTA4 after being used to the improved Red Dead Redemption controls.

I never really understood the following behind GTAIV. Just wasn't a game for me I guess. I liked RDR a lot more, but I still don't understand the massive following it got.

" Nope, loved both :) "

I'm a jeff. I really want to get into RDR but I hate all of the characters... In the summer I'll give it another Gand.

GTA4 is the first GTA I've completed with cheats, and Loved it, but when I first started I didn't like it ala RDR.

Have been burned too many times on GTA / Rockstar games. 
I just don't like these type of games and therefore haven't even tried RDR. 
It could be great but I couldn't care less. 
 
I also like Jeff and Brad but like Vinnie best (who doesn't?)

I still haven't played GTA4, it just doesn't interest me the way GTA used to. I much prefer the Crackdown, Infamous, Prototype approach to a sandbox game.  I finished RDR, it was fun but the sandbox just felt very empty.

I couldn't stand GTA IV ultimately but ended up enjoying Red Dead a lot.

I'm kind of like Brad, not that I didn't get any fun out of GTA I just found the missions quite repetitive and the character's a bit unappealing. That being said I probably enjoyed playing the multiplayer of GTA more than RDR since the vehicles and weapons in that game allowed you to do more silly stuff when just messing around in the city (at least from my experience with it) than in Red Dead.

I love both of the games.

I'm with Jeff on this one. Played GTA IV to death, and I only got to Mexico in RDR, before I stopped playing it. 

They are both great games.

I completely fell in love with GTA4, however I finished RDR and just wasnt impressed (didnt even break my top 10 of 2010). The gameplay and story just wasnt up to normal R* standards in my opinion.

for me, it was the other way around. Couldnt stand GTAIV, but loved RDR to death (got 100% in the main game and Undead nightmare).

I liked both, but the scale tips in favor of Red Dead. They're essentially the same game if you strip them down, but I loved the story and setting of RDR.
 
GTA IV was also the first GTA game that I finished to completion.

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                    Have been burned too many times on GTA / Rockstar games. I just don't like these type of games and therefore haven't even tried RDR. It could be great but I couldn't care less.  I also like Jeff and Brad but like Vinnie best (who doesn't?)

                   

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" @JayDubya said:

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                    Have been burned too many times on GTA / Rockstar games. I just don't like these type of games and therefore haven't even tried RDR. It could be great but I couldn't care less.  I also like Jeff and Brad but like Vinnie best (who doesn't?)

                   

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Might want to fix the "couldn't".    

I love both games. :)

Well, I could never enjoy any of the PS2 Rockstar games (with the exception of Bully) but I absolutely loved GTA IV and RDR.

I fucking love GTAIV, but I couldn't finish RDR because I just found it kind of boring. 
 
Maybe if it had more hookers and blow.

Yeah they are both good guys.

" for me, it was the other way around. Couldnt stand GTAIV, but loved RDR to death (got 100% in the main game and Undead nightmare). "

" Yes, I like Jeff and Brad... "

I'm not too keen on either, they're both pretty ok games. I finished GTA IV and it's alright, not as good as previous GTAs. I still haven't finished RDR but from what I've played it seems alright.

I like both also, I mean, they're both cool dudes...oh wait. 
 
For some reason I just never got that far into GTA. I loved it, but some missions were really held up by the controls and jerkyness of the character. Sometimes I would find myself struggling to find cover, or pressing a button and not seeing a response, and that turned me off to the point I stopped playing about half way through the story. 
 
RDR on the other hand I just finished, and I think the main reason was because the combat is a  HUGE, IMMENSE improvement. Both games have killer stories, great characters, and are awesome, awesome games. The basic mechanics in RDR just made it more enjoyable for me. 
 
The fact that they have worked out great story using GTA AND great mechanics using RDR at this point makes me ridiculously excited for LA Noire. Personally, most anticipated game of 2011 just because they seem to have nailed the formula to the wall and are applying it to their "perfect" game. Fingers crossed!

I loved GTA IV. 
 
I also found RDR super fun, but the story couldn't keep me interested for the whole game.

i really enjoyed GTA IV (although i still haven't finished the single player) but Red Dead didn't really catch me. i played it for like 2 hours and haven't touched it since.  
 
i always think about going back to it. i want to see what everyone likes about it. 

I didn't really like either.
 
I gave up on GTA IV because the stiff controls made it impossible to enjoy.
 
RDD started out well but the story was almost completely pointless about %90 of the time, it didn't really get rolling until the end of the game and by then I was ready to give up on it.

Thank god you said "couldn't care less".

I love both equally, though RDR was easier to play through (not difficulty wise but caring-about-finishing-it wise)

I'm with Brad.

Tried both, but didn't really like either. I'd still go for GTA 4, though, if I really had to choose.

Team Brad on this one, though I did enjoy both of the GTA 4 expansions.  I thought the gameplay was fine in GTA (loved the feel of the driving), but hated everything about the story, the characters, the structure, the pacing, the schizophrenic tone, the ending....
 
I don't rate RDR quite as highly as a lot of people did, but yeah, much better than GTA 4 imo.

I really don't like GTAIV, but enjoyed RDR when I played through it once but don't want to play it ever again. I liked the setting a lot.  I also was a massive fan of the very first GTA.

RDR took me a while to get into, but by the end I loved everything about it.
GTA IV was another story. I had to force myself to finish that game. It just wasn't for me.

I love Jeff and Brad and Both GTA IV and RDR. Epic games and people.

GTAIV was fun for about 3 hours, then it just got tedious I thought. RDR could've been a little shorter, too many missions you had to do before the story progressed, I felt like.

Love both. Rockstar is king. All hail.

Misleading title, just saying...

The biggest gripe I had with GTA IV was that compared to San Andreas it felt in many ways as a step back, and I didn't really think the story was that much more serious in tone than previous GTA titles.

RDR on the other hand felt fresh, hamdled nicely, looked good and had a compelling story to boot. My vote is RDR easily, even if I did have some fun with GTA IV.

They're both alright since they are so similar, Jeff seemed like a troll when he was talking about RDR though.

I wouldn't say I hated either of them, but find them to be very overrated and not much fun from an actual gameplay perspective.