npc drivers are insane in this spot | gta 4 world tour

[@PretzelYT]

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[@cool_bug_facts]

Glad you're finally getting that bag

[@eugeniaamariei8626]

I heard it's because of a train under the bridge. When the train comes, they swerve out of the way despite the train being below them.

[@MaxariSouls]

Right, it’s the coding that made it seem to where the subway is considered a vehicle and so when it passes right under the bridge, the cars above move out of its way programmed to think it’s a vehicle

[@meltered441]

iirc trains only run under the Algonquin Bridge which made for even more chaos than on the Broker Bridge from my experience

[@Jacorywoohoo]

That's untrue, there is no train tracks running under Broker Bridge, only for Algonquin is that the case. My hypothesis for the situation at Broker Bridge is that sometimes the cars spawn with incorrect information in regards to speed and so they drive faster than they should and that causes them to crash into the back of another vehicle, or another albeit unlikely reason is that the pedestrians walking above the road causes a similar situation as the underground train system causing them to swerve erradically.

[@HueyTheDoctor]

I heard Epstein didn't kill himself. But you didn't hear that from me. I am extremely happy with my life and harbour no suicidal ideation just btw.

[@Nobody-ue5qs]

@@HueyTheDoctornobody asked,not even me

[@mpg272727]

One thing about GTA4 I feel gets overlooked is it being set during Autumn. Everyone moans about the darker colours and grey tones and lack of colour.. Yet every tree is bright orange and yellow and it really adds a lovely splash to the game

[@CryptidBuddy]

4 is the only game that pulls off the grey aesthetic good, it doesn’t make the game boring or uglier, at least to me. It has a cold feeling to it and every place is relatively good looking and interesting. Though the repetitive nature of the map kind of subtracts from it. The opposite would be something like mw3 that’s so drab it makes the game unfun.

[@bwood282]

The autumn setting is perfect! Especially if you’re doing another play through like I am right now, in the autumn season.

[@Gremista_Raíz]

I would like if it had winter too. It matches the vibe of the game and the protagonist('cold')

[@Shoxic666]

People always used to complain about lack of colour back then. Until the next gen when we got games like Second Son or Sunset Overdrive that were colourful and wacky and comical instead of the gritty and grim style of the Ps3/360 era. And people still complained!

[@NewNormalWorldOrder]

I’ll add a lovely splash to ya motha

[@purposly]

Ballad of Gay Tony added a bunch of interior spaces to explore, it's honestly some of the most fun I had in free roam multiplayer. Just getting a wanted level, shooting it out with the police in one of the many buildings, tryin to break out and get free

[@mikelitorous5570]

I think I counted for myself other than the ones for the fast food restaurants etc there’s about 39 you can enter

[@travistreadway3180]

@@mikelitorous5570god the detail is so deep in game

[@256XYZ51]

I want to create a speedrun category where you're not allowed to take taxis but you're allowed to take trains, it would be an entirely different way of viewing the game

[@lucasgraeff5391]

thats great!

[@dyykkarifin2454]

Do it! I would watch it!

[@NorthamIncYT]

you're not gonna survive alderney

[@lucasgraeff5391]

@@NorthamIncYT this comment made me lol really hard

[@ContinuedOak]

No screw this, I want this BUT you can only use trains or be on foot to get to ur next destination so you are constantly running to catch trains and having to wait until the next one arrives

[@Eric-gk2yw]

A combination of voice narration and slow pace bring my heart rate down. It's peaceful, compared to other videos. Thank you for either putting me to sleep or extending my life.

[@TheSuckoShow]

Well put. So much of this site is screaming for your attention. It's nice to have this oasis of calm.

[@SECONDQUEST]

​@@TheSuckoShowone is for children, one is for adults.

[@ericschuster2680]

"It was made for me. This is my hole." Pretzel sanctioned Junji Ito reference

[@oxymoron02]

If anything, the inclusion of a construction site makes the city in 4 feel frozen in time; that site project is never getting finished. You'll never see foundations going in; youll never see any single part of a building being constructed there.

[@XGames-94]

You know which game did construction right? Driver Parallel Lines. There's a site that when you visit in the 2006 era, there is a finished building.

[@tacticalmattress]

GTA V has it too

[@MuscleCarLover]

I can completely remove the mystique of that bridge for you if you read further. The lane changing on that bridge is due to a bug in the code. There is a set of train lines underneath the road, so when there's a train travelling down there, the traffic above panic and switch to the right lane to avoid it. After the train passes, the cars that were originally in the left lane move back over. The damage may be related to those panic lane changes

[@MuscleCarLover]

Awww man, you didn't go down the centre of the staircase of death

[@SoAaron_]

I once did a full GTA IV playthrough using the subway as much as I could. Its actually quite useful, definitely the best public transit system in any GTA game, which makes sense based on where its set.

[@deedeewinchur]

The subway in Liberty City is very cool but it lacks a useful map. That's why I dont use it very much cos I cant find the right route to go where I want to. 😢

[@marioformicadae6637]

Can't wait to use the non existent public transport in gta 6 for the authentic american experience

[@SoAaron_]

@@marioformicadae6637 However good Miami's public transport is will determine how good it is in GTA 6. It will be there tho

[@usernameiphone3gkid]

@@marioformicadae6637they have the people mover. Tf?

[@marioformicadae6637]

@@usernameiphone3gkid Nigga you sound upset for some reason

[@EXMachina.]

3:13 Also Red Dead Redemption 2 has a nice touch that you will be able to see buildings and railroads around the Map being constructed that will keep changing its progress with time and in game chapters.

[@JAMESYQ24]

I still remember playing SA:MP for the first time in 2007, and found a server where you could get jobs, buy your own cars with working locks, working fuel and indicators, and most importantly; you could buy your own house in the server. Every house and almost every building in the entire SA map was enterable. I don’t know if it was an early form of procedural generated interiors or just randomised with by swapping around layouts and furniture from every enterable house in the game, but no two interiors were the same. One of my first ever all nighters, playing that server. The future looked so bright…

[@Karmy.]

I love the subway system and use it a lot when playing either when I'm bored or don't feel like driving to get elsewhere on the map

[@evankim2406]

6:00 Funny you say that considering Rockstar (or maybe it was Take2, I don't quite remember) patented a procedural building interior system which was patented in April of last year. Also, there are some leaks made by a friend of Aaron Garbut's son (or maybe it was his son, I don't quite recall) who claimed that 70% of buildings in GTA 6 would be enterable. The same person had also leaked some footage of downtown Vice City on TikTok.

[@swordsman1137]

I didn't quite like the idea tho. Because my assumption is it will make gameplay different for each player. Just imagine someone making a walkthrough or speedrun tutorial but can't get it consistent because each player get different interior.

[@e.9628]

@@swordsman1137 not necessarily. e.g. in minecraft if you use the same seed to create a world twice, you get the same world - so they could just do that

[@packardcaribien]

The Statue of Liberty plaza irl does look a lot like that. Though more crowded with more public spots (restaurant, gift shop etc) and a big canopy covering the line to walk up the statue.

[@mordekai_wilde]

I often hop on public transport in GTA 4 and 5, and just chill while I watch KZbin, or eat.

[@Karmy.]

Same

[@SoSikWitIt]

that must be a life worth living

[@ShihammeDarc]

I love the "nostalgia for places I never visited" vibe in your videos.

[@aribantala]

12:10 yeah people kind of forget that the Civilization Commitee Building is GTA 4's "Restricted Area" much like Military Bases in other GTA series. Feels weird too why the building doesn't have much inside or around it. You'd expect a NOOSE helicopter or something on it... Kinda like the Military equipments in Ft. Zancudo in GTA 5 or the San Fierro Naval Base in GTA SA

[@deathsquadrec]

as a native ny'er, yes I use the subways often in GTA IV. For me, it's all about immersion and that's how we get around in NYC.

[@travistreadway3180]

The amount of interiors they do have is surprising still cause it’s more than you’d think you gotta actually look shit one of the apartments was always held up by someone online free roam trying to kill you allllll the time

[@RepugnanciaDulzona]

06:09 it was on the gaming websites that rockstar registered a pattern to decorate interiors procedurally, who knows whether they'll use it

[@ParagonGorilla]

yeah i remember hearing that in a video.

[@moshersmusic]

Nobody ever talks about this, and I could be wrong, but I feel like the heart of the statue is actually a Morrowind reference to the Heart of Lorkhan. I've never seen anyone make that connection, and a google search doesn't provide any results, but it makes sense to me.

[@VivoCubino]

Huh

[@moshersmusic]

@@VivoCubino Spoilers ahead for Morrowind; the main quest of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind has you destroy a giant heart inside of a big structure at the end. The heart in Morrowind has a lot of resemblance to the heart in the statue of liberty in GTA4. I'm implying the heart in the statue could easily be a reference to Morrowind, which is a cult classic game that came out 6 years before GTA4.

[@niceleverace]

Its always so cool seeing another morrowind fan.

[@asdbanz316]

@@niceleverace I came here from the morrowind video about rivers (which are actually sloughs)

[@niceleverace]

@asdbanz316 you've watched that one too huh lol.

[@parryplaguedoc]

I actually did a recent playthough of GTA4 where I used the subway as much as possible, and I noticed something about the subway's layout which actually lends itself to the story (spoiler warning) Easton station in Algonquin, which is across the street from UL Paper, can directly go to Hove Beach station without any stops in between, which would hypothetically make it easier for Karen to go between the two. This on top of the fact you first see her exiting the station makes me think Rockstar may have done that intentionally. The only issue with this theory is that you cannot go to Algonquin via the subway when the bridges are closed, though maybe Karen gets a special CIA pass.

[@RahulkumarMak]

10:24 In my second play through of this game I only took public transport as much as possible. It was fun.

[@_Super_Hans_]

I love videos like this, just random subjects in GTA. Where is the building with the really tight gap?

[@kikichevy]

The graffiti in Dwayne's appartment has the name of every protag of the 3d era GTAs. You should do LCS and VCS too, they're both overlooked (though LCS doesnt bring anything to the table but VCS is great).

[@OrbitZombie]

Junji Ito (9:18) and Monument Mythos (19:42) references, Pretzel has good taste! And 18:44 I'm thinking a certain game with a man named J.C., perhaps? 😉

[@camma...]

18:44 Its GOTTA be Dues Ex, right? lol, that was the first thing i thought of when i saw the dock at least

[@TitaniumAnarchy]

I was gonna say the same

[@OrbitZombie]

I'm banking on Deus Ex too.

[@FemboyTrain]

I thought about Lego City Undercover lmao

[@thefongz2931]

Love the vibe of this video. GTA4 is probably my favourite game of all time, and this captures exactly why that is. And the choice of JRPG music (+DKC of course) is absolutely chef's kiss. Nobody had ever built a game world as rich and dense and atmospheric as GTA4 before. And if they have since, I don't care.

[@SonicChaocc]

The HD Universe is a different universe than the older games for some reason, so thats why you can find the "RIP Mural" easter egg. I do wish they did something else that'd explain what happened to them

[@timothyschollux]

9:18 - this is my 🕳

[@oxymoron02]

That reference in the video was 👌

[@trosenthal3711]

9:10 this reference eternally cemented you as the greatest video game explorer of all time

[@Slender_Man_186]

"RIP Claude" I guess explains how Playboy X got a hold of his outfit, although i'm curious about the specifics of that story, might explain the hostility between Dwayne and Playboy.

[@kkiil05]

A year or two ago rockstar literally patented the exact type of 'procedural generation' method for creating building interiors in games that you talked about. So yeah, that's pretty much guaranteed to be in gta 6

[@tailsprower9542]

3:38 to climb back up from the water without cheats 👍

[@1Baee]

Bro turned into an AI voice at 07:44 lol

[@santip777]

probably had to remove the music bc of copyright

[@ondraspendlik9759]

I just found the unique subway station in the south of Star Junction last weekend while playing TLAD. The first time I noticed it, despite finishing GTA IV like 5 times over the years, often to a 100%.

[@gatnom]

I love to wind down to your videos. They are just so super chill. I’ll let them play and then fall asleep after a few minutes. Perfect.

[@NewRodin]

16:45 there's also Victor written in there, maybe to reference Victor Vance, the main protagonist of GTA Vice City Stories

[@4815162342sbf]

This video/channel is great. Excited for pt. 3 of the GTA4 tour.

[@_mickmccarthy]

Congrats on the sponsor! Very much looking forward to video that may or may not revolve around the other game featuring a level around the Statue of Liberty! It's been too long since I've revisited that one

[@cool_bug_facts]

9:55 This is a bug sanctioned secret spot in a pretzel video

[@FreeAimDog]

the annihilator helicopter lights cars on fire so fast it has stronger bullets than the buzzard (if your on pc version)

[@mr1dul460]

The sugar factory on the first island also has a passageway of sorts underneath the structure. Which seemingly serves no purpose but exists. Its right underneath the concrete pier of the factory. Its dark and dimly lit, honestly creepy. Check it out. GTA IV has tons of these little spots

[@user-ywh1y]

Hold on sugar factory?I've never heard of that

[@Sqk.]

i love your videos, and im so glad youre making videos on my favourite video game map! i'm excited to see if you cover some of my favourite spots in alderney (like the only bit of actual natural-looking forest in the game at the northern tip, the broken power plant things you can enter by helicopter down in acter, the abandoned and decaying houses, or the highway going across it where barely anybody is, with the factories spewing fire to set a very interesting mood especially in TLAD) - and i'm sure the urban grayness and decay will offer so many little alleys and quaint areas for you to explore. looking forward to the next ones!

[@TheGamingCaveYT]

Missed the creepy washrooms in the central park but other then that good job with the video!

[@Novel_Poe]

I'd use the subway to basically get to a location I wanted when I couldn't be bothered to drive or was having a break

[@Roof5tone]

This bridge is the only reason why I am now really good at driving motorcycles in GTA lol

[@PretzelYT]

I love driving motorcycles around in 5 but I HATEEE them in 4. And I've come to appreciate 4's car handling, but motorcycles? No way.

[@Roof5tone]

@@PretzelYT I like it a lot more in the The Lost and The Damned expansion, since you generally drive choppers in that, and they are slower. Plus Johnny holds on to the bike a lot better than Niko. That being said, yeah it is a lot better in 5.

[@TheChronova]

5:46 shadows of doubt, the procedural city with interiors shadows of doubt does that its a noir detective sandbox game, you should look into it

[@Julien_22_]

So happy you finally visited GTA 4.

[@MaseraSteve]

I didn't expect to see a "new place" I hadn't visited before.. Missed the clean subway with nice wall art and didn't expect or recall the museum part at all especially it could be revisited. Wow I gotta re-play this game again! Time to upgrade my ssd first

[@cryx2950]

The talk of procedurally gener office buildings reminds me of the MMO City of Heroes. There were procedurally generated warehouse/office building/hotel dungeons for grinding and questing but they were this weird backrooms style linear maze of mishmashes lobbies, hallways and cubicles that were uncanilly large and random.

[@TiltedRose]

In case you didn't know. Rockstar has a patent for exactly what you were talking about. Procedurally generated interiors. Rumor is 60% plus of interiors will be enterable .

[@mikehawk11]

Bro I love your content. Honestly, I got recommended you and now I'm just binging. You're like the perfect in between of AnyAustin and The Librarian. Love your content, keep up the excellent work my friend. 🤘

[@emceemattyg5363]

It's a good day when pretzel uploads

[@cincobarrio1]

This was an ALL TIME breakdown. Masterclass in production from Mr. Jomboy.

[@TheSuckoShow]

Have you played Shadows of Doubt? It's a detective game with procedurally generated interiors like you mention.

[@Iwasherelol14]

I remember using the cabs and subs for missions that didn’t require driving but I would drive on free time

[@weirdsounds-f3616]

My fav part are the subway tunnels I can’t believe you didn’t explore them

[@slayblitzofficial]

glad to know im not the only one enjoying gta 4 in 2024 still . thank you for these vids 💪🏽💯

[@thenorseguy2495]

Awesome video as always Pretzel. In GTA 6 I hope we have construction sites where something actually happens during gameplay and end up as a building at the end of story mode.

[@jamesdulak3108]

I'm watching a guy play through this game where all the cars are set to speed 9,999 aka every car barrels down the road at a million miles an hour and will instantly kill you if you're walking around. That makes the subway system at times a necessity to get missions done, the less time you spend on the roads the better. So at least one person out there is really appreciating Rockstar adding the trains to this game!

[@RTheWalkerOfGreenB]

10:31 I like to ride the subways to my missions as if I was actually in NYC

[@oui2611]

5:45 maybe you could make seeds like minecraft world seeds and the specific seed numbers for interiors gets saved within your save file in gta

[@guirio9776]

The donkey kong music goes so well with your videos, keep up the good work !

[@brawss]

bro really used the aquatic ambience from donkey kong. never thought I'd see this music over a gta vid

[@hrnekbezucha]

Lmao, that Amigara Fault reference got me good nice video

[@sickTricks1]

best series on yt ngl

[@lorenzosyperreck8941]

6:09 maybe they could do something like that with AI, just setting up the parameters like "a bathroom must have 1 sink, 1 toilet and 1 bathtub ect". Same thing with filling up road signs and traffic lanes

[@РоманАндреев-в4з]

True Crime New York City does that thing where every building can be explored. The way they did that - they created several interiors, matching different types of establishments. You have your fast food places, fancy restaurants, clubs, gift shops, banks, etc. They all use the same interior, but slightly different, every place has random graffiti, posters, adds, and what not. Every residential type of building is just a public hall, with doors to apartments, which you obviously can't enter without a reason. It works OK for that game, but novelty wears out quickly. Although, it's slightly more realistic, instead of just knowing where you can eat, change clothing or get a haircut - you just drive around and look for a needed store. Instead of just two or three pharmacies around, there's hundreds, several per every block

[@MrBrewskiDrewski]

Is the other game where you can visit the “Statue of Liberty” LEGO City: Undercover? That might be an interesting Pretzel video.

[@personofpowera.b.c990]

Have you considered exploring the map of Wuhu island in Wii fit? I remember biking around for hours as a kid, finding all the miis I made of my family, casually walking around. That or biking up to the inside of the volcano, looking for some secret passage to get to the lava. I feel like I found one once…

[@squeak5213]

loving this channel so much

[@stephen3293]

Love this series, man

[@fatty_andy]

Which led me..... to the stairs hahaha youre humor is solid

[@InsanityPrevails]

I always took the stairs, as well In my case it's because I love urban environments, especially buildings And even though all the floors were pretty much similar aside from the roof access, it hit that spot you spoke about, wishing GTA was full of buildings that were entrable 🥰 Same goes for Dwayne's building and the ones next to it!

[@mybrickhead]

Vuntra City is a game in development from a solo dev about a city of procedurally generated interiors

[@poppysilver]

1:27 ive slept to many of your videos lol

[@azurekite6547]

Do you plan to do videos about liberty city stories and vice city stories ?

[@halley42]

I have to ask - is your intro and the image of your icon standing on that pillar based on/a reference to the Ozymandias poem? It just always brings it to mind for me. The desert stretching away, the stone pillar, the idea that all these iconic virtual spaces that are alive and bustling with hundreds of players will all eventually become abandoned and silent...

[@trevise684]

the problem with procedurally generated offices is that, are they synced between players? what happens if you leave and come back? does your save just get very big as it stores everything? i can see leveraging procedural generation to fill out the interiors during development that is then baked into the game. but even so having entire office interiors would be alot of building for not that much increase in fun

[@kabosustan2484]

why is the music missing from some parts of the video? why is the audio so weird there???

[@derkleineaffe]

4:18 its 16 years

[@e.9628]

wished rockstar modelled the interior of the train station but given there would not be any trains needing to go anywhere i undersand

[@Xegethra]

In True Crime New York City (A near 1:1 Manhattan) while you couldn't go in every building, you could go in a lot of them. However, many of them had copy paste interiors and the whole building wasn't represented. Like you go in a restaurant, but not the block of flats on top of it. "You can't just not include them" *Driver Parallel Lines and Driver 1* I get with Driver 1, but Parallel Lines could have.

[@guiss25]

7:18 actually everyone who beat ballad of gay tony went there lol

[@RMJ1984]

While every building can't have explorable interior. It's something that i wish they would work towards. Instead of having an ever growing map. I would rather have it a bit smaller and have more exploration in the vertical axis.

[@MASTERTEAMUSIC]

I’d love to see a video like this for the Maps of WATCH DOGS 2

[@Mr.M-jc5bc]

I know the game you are talking about when you were at the pier of the Statue of Liberty Island: it's "Lego Marvel Super Heroes" that game has such an amazing recreation of the place that I was able to recognize it from gameplay that you showed in your video.

[@realname2566]

Procedural interiors is a fire idea.

[@NikkiWrightVGM]

I rode the subways in GTA IV all the time. I'm one of those weird players that obeys traffic laws (most of the time) and if Niko gets stranded I typically head for the nearest subway instead of stealing a car. Sounds boring I know but it makes missions where you have to drive fast feel like a RUSH! The subway system in GTA IV is soooo much better than what V has, there are stations in key areas, you get PA announcements to where you are underground, and unlike GTA V the subway doesn't travel at 10mph...

[@theshenpartei]

My favorite GTa mod that makes the island of Algonquin better is the World Trade Center mod. Yes it’s real and it adds the old World Trade Center and makes it look like how it’s supposed to be.

[@josephnyy86]

13:25 they're not meant to be roads to drive on, it's a walking path lol

[@lusiwahyuningrum7979]

Who gives a shit? Path is road.

[@josephnyy86]

@@lusiwahyuningrum7979 ok

[@Carrera075]

I used to ride the trains all the time in GTA 4, though admittedly just for the fast-travel

[@chubbyGrimblr]

Sit down for lunch, new pretzel vg world tour, serotonin release

[@DropsOfMars]

Since you always show games in their original aspect ratio, it is super weird to me whenever you do GTA IV because it came out barely around the time that Xbox 360 (the platform i played it on) got updated for Widescreen support -- a lot of us were still playing in 4:3 at launch

[@nobodyblues]

I used to ride the train a lot, mainly while rolling up lol

[@kobja2248]

Statue of happiness is Hilary Clinton so the liberty burger would "off itself" before the fight

[@x2Mizu]

The chrono trigger music is a great touch ❤

[@stevebob240]

I love the GTA4 videos, please make more!