At all??

Yes, I definitely still play it. My brother plays it the most nowadays (he just beat it again) but I will hop into it now and then.

I have heard your type of thoughts regarding the game but, honestly, I just don't get it. The world is alive and fresh, the story was engrossing and the action was visceral. I found so many reasons to love the game and it got my "Best Game of 2008" accolade. I have yet to play Prototype, but I have heard the beginning has you as a souped-up character who then has to get all his powers back through the rest of the game. So just a heads-up if you have yet to get there. Oh, and I guess that is a spoiler ;)

I go through periods of months where I don't even touch it and others where I play it all the time. Then again that could be bc I don't have much money for new games anymore...

i use to play it alot when the new dlc was out, but now i move on to other games.

I dislike anyone who doesn't like GTAIV

I have only played this game 3 times in the last 4 months.

My 360 is messed up, everytime I try to play GTA IV for longer then 40 minutes or so it freezes :(

And when I install it, the game suffers from massive pop-in issues, sometimes the city doesnt even load up and Im driving through nothing

Its strange that GTA IV is the only game that this happens on

I actually just played through it again. I agree that the other GTA games were probably more fun to just mess around in the open world, but GTA 4 is still a much better game overall. The story and characters in GTA 4 were awesome and I think that stuff is more important than probably anything else. I also have a theory that everyone just played those other GTA games so much that the open world chaos thing is kind of been there done that now.

Dude, if by the end of Prototype you prefer Prototype over GTIV there is something deeply wrong with you.

I still have it, but it was weird - once I beat it I literally never played it again.  I kept it though because all the other GTA's have been my too-bored-and-feel-like-raising-hell-again games.  This one though I just haven't gotten back into it.  Maybe I will though, I already know it's a fun game.

" @Snail said:

" Dude, if by the end of Prototype you prefer Prototype over GTIV there is something deeply wrong with you. "

Alright then, I'll boldly go where no man has gone before, I wholeheartedly preferred Prototype over GTAIV, I've finished both and I cant stress enough how much more fun Prototype is than GTAIV. "

" Dude, if by the end of Prototype you prefer Prototype over GTIV there is something deeply wrong with you. "

I totally still play it. It's been probably a month since the last time, but I'm still kind of swamped in new games to play. I still think GTAIV is the best game I've played this gen, by far.

Nope.  I beat the single player then I stopped.

I played through the single player and the dlc then I stopped playing it.

I bought it very recently, not played much of it yet - I have a terribly long backlog. Kinda glad I still have that one to enjoy.

I put a couple of minutes into it from time to time. Usually between finishing a game and buying a new one.

played gta4 back when it came out as a rental, and haven't played it again.  BUT, that isn't because the game was bad or boring, I loved it;  I'm just waiting for the game to hit the 29.99 mark.  Even as a used game its like 35 bucks down here in Tulsa, OK...heh.

BRING ON GAY TONY! YEAH!

" @Snail: I'd put the 'atmosphere' on par with IV, what is th atmosphere really? Th city itself with th pedestrian comments and th feeling of interacting with the environment? Id say the rise of the infected and military influences throughout th game create a compelling atmosphere that forces you to adapt and use your powers to defend against increasingly difficult foes, I'd say its perfectly executed, however with GTA, the headshot is king, you lock on, move th analogue stick up slightly, squeeze the trigger and move on, add infinitum. 

As for th constant reference to the graphics, theyre perfectly fine, and when th explosions and limbs are flying, it looks fine to me.

As for the inFamous reference, if you think theyre similar in any way other than the at th most basic 'superhero' level....then theres "something deeply wrong with you".

"

Nope, I beat it twice when I bought it and I've regretted the fact that I didn't rent it ever since.

I play it fairly often, I've gone back and replayed it a few times, then with the DLC content went back and played through that.

I actually haven't finished the story, but I played the mutliplayer quite a bit when it came out. So, I do play it little by little finishing the story.

I occasionaly play it online.I dont know....it just isnt GTA 3,its just...boring.

I'm picking this up next week along with some other 360 stuff.

I'm playing The Lost and the Damned. Best writing in video game history, IMO.

Lost and the damned is on my summer list for sure. Well see if I get to it. I'd love to play it, just no motivation right now. 

I have not played it yet.

I must be one of the few proud people, who really really enjoyed GTA IV. I still play it on occasion, not online though.

Nope, bought it on launch day,  completed the main story and have never touched the game since. While I did enjoy most of the game, I really dont get why a lot of people are so rabidly defensive about the game. GTA games, by and large, are amazing concepts with great content that dont deliver on gameplay at all. GTA4 drove me completely batshit with the driving controls and just how terrible practically every car in the game handled and while the shooting controls were vastly improved from previous entries, it still didnt feel right to me. Oh and dont get me started on the ending....dont know if this counts as spoilers anymore but to be safe ***SPOILER ALERT***....the fact that there was an ending where Kate died just absolutely fucking ruined the game for me. And not because I was so upset to lose her. In my playthrough I had seen Kate a couple times, tried dating her and couldn't get her to like me at all for some reason. So what happens? She dies and its supposed to be this huge fucking emotional scene but because of how my playthrough went, it fell absolutely flat and came across as just meaningless. Can't remember being more disappointed in a videogame ending.

Every now and then, I pick it up and either just cruise around, listening to the car radio, taking in the athmosphere or I go about doing some Crime in the most serious fashion possible. Low profile. Clean get away. Playing with some discipline. Like driving to the mission, respecting red lights and not driving 'pedal-to-the-metal' all the time. Behaving reasonably and giving the world some respect turns GTA IV into a so believable world, it's a truely groundbreaking gaming experience. My best effort was an about 12 hours long session. I didn't screw up once. I brought Nico Bellic and Liberty City to life. I wasn't a gamer. I was an actor. Great stuff. That's why games are so seldomly seen as art. Because we give the finishing touch.

Apart from the poor performance, I'm still really enjoying GTA IV. Although I haven't got the L&D DLC yet, I'll probably get it at some point. I can see why others find it less fun because of its more serious tone, but they couldn't go any further in the San Andreas direction after that game. I think it's just a different, more mature GTA.

I didn't even beat the game just lost interest right around the bank robbing mission. I've almost beaten prototype 4 missions to go.

I haven't played it since I beat Lost and Damned. Why? There's. One. Fucking. Pigeon. Left.

I wasn't a big fan of GTAIV.  It was excellent at transitioning between the different gameplay elements, but all of them had been done better individually elsewhere imo, so I didn't feel like I was really seeing anything new.

I got sick of the OC story too tbh:  "I'm looking for somebody!"  "Well, I don't know where he is, but I know somebody who might!!  Now, go do these random jobs for me until you're ready to repeat this whole process with the next character."

Having an ubercamp gay guy in your story is not edgy.  Having the guy you're looking for deus ex machina'd into the storyline at the last minute by extraordinary rendition isn't edgy or satisfying.  I didn't care about his girl getting killed because I'd talked to her about once in the entire game.  Niko's only other motivation was money, yet it was entirely pointless in the game and Niko showed no sign of actually wanting to use this money for anything.

I'm still happy to buy their DLC though, because Liberty City is excellent, the gameplay mechanics are solid and Lost & Damned had a far better storyline imo.  I really hope they shake things up a bit in the next full GTA installment, I'd love to play as a dirty cop or something for a change - basically I want GTA V - The Shield.

I dislike GTA IV. I've completed it twice and I regret having wasted my time.

I borrowed it from a friend, and I found it quite enjoyable. I don't really plan on buying it unless I see it in a store and I have spare cash, definately not a must-buy for me. There's just something about it, that really puts me off it, and I can't quite put my finger on it.

That's weird, because a lot of people I knew stopped playing it after 2 weeks, and now I find out some people still are? Awkward.

I stopped playing it because I've beaten the main story a number of times including the Lost And Damned. For some reason the last time I tried to play multiplayer literally nobody was playing. Everytime I searched for a match in different game modes it brought me into an empty lobby with me as the host.

I bought it like two weeks ago because it has trophies now
but I have yet to actually play it