the best looking grand theft auto | gta 4 world tour

[@ben_the_potato]

You didnt seem to mention it, but i loved the hotdogs right across the street from nikos first apartment. Probably the only npc i specifically made a point of not hurting him.

[@FlymanMS]

I always preferred to dine in more refined establishment right around the corner🧐

[@synthrunner4244]

Niko's breakfast was that hotdog, every morning hahahaha

[@blinxishere8412]

​@@FlymanMS" take a bite out of my hot chuaua meat " 😂

[@GTAHeavyImpact]

pat dat dog in your mout 🌭 ©

[@thatoneunemployedmf]

yea his name is frank. Never hurt him

[@SQUIZZLER24]

I feel like GTAIV does a great job of capturing a late-autumn kind of timeframe. The days are getting shorter, the sun hangs more dimly in a pale blue sky casting this weak blue-green light over everything, all the natural colours are small patches of muted oranges and greens, contrasted against an overwhelming concrete grey and rust brown of the city towering and sprawling over everything… This also gives this whole feeling that the game is all about the city. Your story is just another series of events among the millions of everyday events happening within it. It’s the kind of oppressive and grim aesthetic that not many games have succeeded in pulling off without appearing boring or unimaginative, but it only adds to the narrative of this game.

[@HalfLifer81]

GTA IV is the perfect Mid 2000's time capsule, the instant you enter its world you get transported to that era

[@ssssssssssssssssss50]

Would say late 2000. San Andreas is mid

[@gaedzable]

@@ssssssssssssssssss50 San Andreas is set in the early nineteens. IV is set in the year 2004

[@fccthe3813]

@@gaedzable GTA 4 takes place in 2008

[@publichearing8536]

I get the vibes of the ending of the 2000s and the financial crisis era where everything seemed to be 50% worse than it actually ended up being

[@Vasily_dont_be_silly]

In the same way GTA 3 and Liberty City Stories are a great time capsule of early 00's, the music on the radio is just spot on

[@Coolcoolcoolcoo]

Bully would be a perfect game for this series. That game is bursting with strange areas and eerie hidden places. That game's atmosphere makes all of the hidden nooks and crannies feel particularly strange and fascinating.

[@BernardoWLopes]

Yes. I love the charm of that world and it feels really peculiar, almost anachronistic sometimes

[@wizzy_00]

Bully, gta san andreas ,gta 3 and gta 4 all of these games had their own special themes i really enjoyed the atmosphere these games presented us with it made the story even more appealing

[@linkthastink]

I just commented that on another video!!!

[@Liberates]

What about manhunt?

[@publichearing8536]

​@@Liberates Everybody gangsta until Piggsy enters the building

[@starkclarke883]

overworked, underpaid rockstar environmental artist responsible for accidentally placing one prop too close to a wall at the end of his 27 hour-long break-less shift: *makes one mistake* Pretzel: *"your war crimes will not go unpunished"*

[@billrootes-composersongwri5552]

8:42 also this is the 1st safehouse location in GTA Chinatown Wars so good spotting with the safehouse vibes ^^

[@BigBoss_1989]

I knew it‼️

[@memeconsumer773]

You also get ambushed there in jacobs side mission

[@cyanokhaar]

GTA 4 gets forgotten due to how successful GTA 5 was. If you were there in 2008, it was the biggest thing ever at the time and was incredibly impressive. It's a shame it's been overshadowed. Glad to see some appreciation for it coming back.

[@joklit]

I'll never forget booting this game for the first time in '08, spending a few hours in, getting a glock and a bike, then desperately trying to reach the other islands ahead of time.

[@krabgrass]

​@@joklit killing the yoga guy is the icing on cake in GTA 4

[@michaelpacinus242]

@@krabgrassyou can actually unlock a way to have sex with him 😅

[@GTAHeavyImpact]

Many people love GTA 4 to this day 🗽, even new fans appear among young gamers and modders.

[@cyanokhaar]

@@joklitGood times man 😎

[@oneloveSURFISTA]

I always felt like the unsaturated colors of GTA IV matched perfectly with how the character perceived the world. Niko was a dark man, and his story is traumatic and depressing. Maybe the grayish vibe of the game was just how Niko saw the world around him...

[@Shluggaroonie]

I always thought the aesthetic resembled the last two seasons of The Sopranos. Same basic setting, same basic color palette.

[@real_vardan]

considering that you get different filters for each protagonists (niko, johnny, luis) i guess that makes sense

[@Bruh-uo8ku]

✍🏻🔥

[@Sollblu]

yup and gay tony was vibrant and lost and damned had an entire gray/vintage filter over it! 🤣

[@mohamedfatahi6813]

That is a beautiful way to look at it. And I believe it's true

[@TheRageLivesOn]

ah yes, i've found my premiere "youtube in bed" video for tonight

[@michaelpacinus242]

Can I watch?

[@TheRageLivesOn]

@@michaelpacinus242 you want to watch me watch youtube in bed?

[@SSR6464]

Lmfao glad I’m not the only one that does this

[@TheRageLivesOn]

@@SSR6464 i literally add so many videos to my watch later just to watch at night in bed 😂

[@SSR6464]

⁠@@TheRageLivesOnthat nostalgia to put you to bed lol

[@LED_Lightbulb]

As an avid GTA IV fan whos been playing since 2009 and can confidently get to pretty much any location on the map without a radar/blip this is the first time, to my knowledge at least, that I've ever that I've seen the little pond area in bohan and the ladders to climb those tower things in the park (pretty sure it's those from the end of Men in Black 1!)! Thank you for the video on this game because i too have spent countless hours exploring alleys and unique areas that just... exist in this game and its wonderful seeing such detail in that regard, it definitely beats any other GTA game for the uniqueness

[@michaelpacinus242]

You, sir, are an absolute boss with now. My man likes to get sick nasty with it! *_hell yeah_*

[@mightythistle]

@@LED_Lightbulb such a great perspective. I’m the same, been playing since it’s been out. My only singular gripe about the game is they didn’t include a fully fleshed out GWB, but every other bridge is detailed and accurate. I wrote rockstar and they said they would address why they made the bridge like that in their following newsletter but I don’t know if they did I didn’t see it.

[@Sangre_Odyssey]

bro the fucking swing set... so many hours wasted there, so many videos of people playuing with it, trully a memory i forgot in all these years

[@michaelpacinus242]

Let me watch

[@jubeaumont6305]

That was never time wasted. It was glorious.

[@abluecar5375]

My take on GTA IV's art style is that it feels like a painting Which makes sense, since they often showcase the artwork for the game in loading screens and I think it fits quite well

[@ThatGuy1797]

Always a good day when you get a Pretzel video

[@MrScoffins]

Agreed. Such an underrated channel.

[@postupislilrodneysson9986]

Born and raised in queens and you imagining how these neighborhoods are in real life makes me laugh because I’ve been to many if not all of these locations you’ve visited and you’re mostly spot on with how these areas’ vibes are in real life and how it would seem in real life.

[@PretzelYT]

It does feel really weird sometimes exploring and analyzing worlds that are so heavily based on real life hahaha. I start talking about a spot that feels really weird and has a spooky aura and that just happens to be some viewer's apartment building 💀 Good to know I was mostly on the right track at least.

[@grant07792]

I think this game makes people happy because of the era it was set in, it’s pre social media and iPhones,The cars are still blocky and cool, people wasn’t as anxious back then so it’s like a Time Machine going back and just knowing the world was once like this.

[@michaelpacinus242]

I think this game makes people happy because of the era it was set it. It’s Chinese as hell with it and no black people get to play

[@Maronator]

​@@michaelpacinus242lmao

[@grant07792]

@@michaelpacinus242 I don’t get it 😂

[@benitofettuccine]

people weren't as anxious back then? brother this game came out in the early post 9/11 era (directly referenced in game with the closure of bridges due to fears of terrorism) and in the middle of a financial crisis

[@grant07792]

@@benitofettuccine I’m talking about my time of life back then, but good point no. The less.

[@linkthastink]

7:14 my theory is one of those cars is the cause of the broken railing and the other car must have fallen afterwards so they out the cones down.

[@mclovin6829]

Beautiful graphics, awesome physics, and a loving cousin that wants nothing more than to spend a little time with you. GTA4 has always been my favorite.

[@ThatGuy1797]

11:35 Thanks for the brief Snake Eater reference

[@michaelpacinus242]

Let me see you spit out the poison 🎉

[@sierra_112]

Yas! I was rooting for it to come up :D

[@theconradmcCormick]

Bro wished someone got fired for a small technical gaff & later says he felt bad for a door 💀

[@AForceGaming]

9:00 this is one of the allies that you stop at at the end of the drug war missions in GTA TBoGT and that metal structure is a platform for parking cars

[@ERISISBETTERTHANPLUTO2763]

and the full game is JUST 33 GB, while the gigantic inefficient world of GTA V is 120GB. This must be how people in 2001 felt when GTA III released.

[@leodccaps]

9:00 this is the safehouse for the characters in GTA Chinatown Wars, and also where Luiz Lopes has to delivery cars for the Drug Wars

[@dymoslaw]

9:25 It's stacked parking lot/spot/machine. There was mission in gta tbogt that involved lowering those platforms to get some exotic cars.

[@iancooper1466]

and Roman’s hiding near there (I think one alley over) after the whole Faustian/dmitri thing

[@Manucrack2010.]

I know that the swing is iconic, but im surprised that you didnt even talk about THE hospital... You know the one...

[@thebodywabble]

8:45 your first safe house in Chinatown wars is located here

[@michaelpacinus242]

Sloppy ropes

[@Letter_J]

It's also the broker drug delivery location in drug wars missions in TBOGT

[@thebodywabble]

@@michaelpacinus242 what?

[@thebodywabble]

@@Letter_J those weee such a slog to me. I did them all at once and it was all a blur. I miss that era of Grand Theft Auto.

[@mr1dul460]

00:40 I agree and kind of disagree. Empty liminal spots are littered throughout the map in GTA IV, they're just blended in so good that they're hard to find. Just one from the top of my head is if you walk from the apartment where you find Lyle Rivas towards the Fire Station of that district (further upwards is Michelle's house) you'd find just before (i think) the intersection from the Fire Station and a sort of park/ promenade on the left side (which is also interesting on its own) a small alleyway which leads to a totally empty square lot with nothing but a garage door. Also the space on the left side of the bridge to Alderney from Algonquin is a big parking lot with lots of alleys and a really bleak playground. There are several more spots like the tightly packed houses behind the bar in Dukes in the northeastern side (i just woke up so im having trouble remembering the names of places 😭) but yeah the alleyway down the row of houses is a really cool place. Another cool place is the apartment in Broker too i think where the ULP guy sends you on a mission to break into a house and log onto a laptop and check the emails of rhis certain person. That house is super cozy and is such a vibe. Even places in the DLCs such as in TLAD : the angels of death clubhouse or the apartment where you rescue Ashley from the first time has a lot of detailing and honestly is such a vibe. Sometimes liminal sometimes just atmospheric. Good video nevertheless man. Btw those texture glitches you see only happen on the pc port afaik because the port is broken. But if you're playing on console then i stand corrected. If its pc, turn on console gamma from display menu if using fusionfix and get a mod called "VariousFixes" which fixes most of the texture issues with the game.

[@STARSVeteran]

Ah GTAIV. I forget sometimes that GTA used to exist without Take-Two prioritizing selling Shark Cards to little kids. And GTAIV is back from the when all the OG Kings were at Rockstar. 😢 I wonder what kind of parallel world exists, when GTAV was Rockstar’s priority, instead of GTA:O. I wonder if that parallel world got the GTA game with the map of every GTA map combined into one giant map.

[@HunterAtheist]

The relief I felt when I knew you were going to talk about the swingset. ❤

[@Imufur]

I thought I was crazy for just walking around in games to take in the scenery and atmosphere, tbh a lot of open world games I buy just to explore and take in the vibe

[@michaelpacinus242]

I thought I was crazy for appetizing my semen

[@linkthastink]

16:05 i used to play the multiplayer at the height of this games popularity. And yes there were always people by those swings. GtaIV multiplayer was better than gta online. (Maybe nostalgia idk) Ahhh how i miss those days…

[@GoobsNYC]

I'm glad your channel is slowly gaining more attention. You're almost at 70k Great vid

[@Flipdodge392]

10:40 The goto spot for online demolition derbies back in the day!

[@madridista6862]

Yes! I was waiting for you to talk about Liberty City in GTA IV! By far my favourite Rockstar maps in terms of realism and giving you that 'feeling' of being in the world. Great video, as always!

[@astrobstrd]

Figured the last spot was going to be the "heart" of Liberty City but I actually got really excited when I realized it was the swingset. Great vid as always

[@_mickmccarthy]

A few seconds before it kicked in, I had "What a thrill..." start going off in my head, I appreciate that little touch!

[@michaelpacinus242]

Let me fucking spit on it

[@terrynixon2758]

I remember when GTA4 dropped and being blown away at how realistic it felt. I never got that from 5, despite technically being better. Probably because the difference in realism between SA and 4 was far more extreme than the changes 5 had over 4. I hope 6 blows me away the way 4 did. Theyve had three times longer to develop it so I have hope

[@SolidIncMedia]

I remember being overjoyed at the fact that you could fly through the city, hit a low brick wall, and watch Nico go flying out the window, across the road, colliding with tons of cars on his way along, before skidding to a stop, usually dead, in some gutter. When I finally got a PC fast enough to play it properly, I got a trainer that had a ragdoll mode, so no matter where you were or what you were doing, you could just ragdoll and have a nice seat on a bench, even if Nico did look like you'd removed all the bones from his body and he was just flapping around on a seat.

[@JoshQ-mc4bb]

Same gta 4 still looks and feels very realistic to me Gta 5 looks very cartoonish and blah

[@TheBreadPirate]

Your playground experience is just awesome. I love that story!

[@rexnihilum7822]

you should do mafia 2 next, and maybe mafia definitive edition after ?

[@robertpaulson117]

mafia 2 would be great, there's all sorts of interesting spots in that game

[@kinkykane0607]

Mafia 2 is one of my all time favourite games. :)

[@bangchittybang]

Yooo great idea

[@dalehadley3283]

As soon as you started climbing that really long ladder I just went "What a thrill..." and then ten seconds later it shows up in the video, awesome dude

[@Vasily_dont_be_silly]

That Skyrim music you put in melts my heart immediately.... The Donkey Kong one you put in another video had a similar effect. You have a really good taste in music

[@maxhoe]

11:15 what a thrill..

[@lazyinari3410]

as someone who lives an an apartment complex, I can tell you we had one of those booth things close to the gate, i think theyre security for the parking spaces or something, i was kinda too young and they took that booth house thing out atound when i was 9ish. the one i remember was primarily red with a security sign by it.

[@lucasgraeff5391]

I love your videos and your channel, you narration is crazy good and chill!

[@allanperson2995]

I remember Driver Parallel Lines being full of small nooks and alleyways like GTA 4. Love these types of videos, keep up the great work!

[@thenorseguy2495]

I love GTA 4. But I diden’t actually knew about that long ladder. It made me think of Metal Geat Solid. I love that you put in a little from the theme song from it

[@talibong9518]

Don't ya think he sounds like Otacon

[@thenorseguy2495]

@@talibong9518Maybe 🤔

[@PhantomFly_Br2]

@@talibong9518 True!!!!!!

[@squeak5213]

pretzel looking at a game i have nothing but praise for, love to see it

[@dpcquak]

I love the vibe on these videos so much ❤ please keep em coming

[@tyevalentinoVQ]

@6:12 idk if your from New York or even the U.S. but this park area is a depiction of Coney Island Amusement park at the southern tip of Brooklyn, New York, and at the time the events of GTA 4 take place I would say it’s the middle of fall due to the visible breaths coming from peoples mouths cuz it’s so cold, or the car exhaust being visible where it wouldn’t be when it’s warm. And by the end of October (if my memory serves me right) the city closes Coney Island cuz it’s only really a seasonal amusement park. Once it gets cold it’s closed. Guess that’s what rockstar was going for. Would’ve been cool to see the map in game change thru seasons but the game only cycles thru the same season

[@tyevalentinoVQ]

If I waited a couple more seconds before commenting I would’ve heard you touch on this a lil more🤣 my bad

[@RobertWWD]

When people realize GTA 4 is better than GTA 6 it’s going to be a party.

[@joklit]

My God, couldn't begin to recall just how many times me and my friends spent three whole hours launching ourselves from the swings, laughing our lungs out. Another spot I obscenely spent my time in is the one hospital you can enter into, with the lobby and a few other rooms - I'd go there with whatever weapons I had and slowly accumulate stars to see how many waves of cops I could survive, for hours on end. Glad to see you're a man of culture who recognizes the mastery of this tile and how much they dropped the ball with GTAV, comparatively.

[@MrRXY11]

the timing of this video is impeccable! I just finished GTA IV's story like a week or two ago and really enjoyed the atmosphere of the game :D

[@jakethreesixty]

I was in a lobby with a few randoms doing the swingset glitch a couple months ago on Xbox, the nostalgia feels were heavy 🥹

[@untitledtorch1919]

Gta 4 has always been my favorite, the vibes, gunplay, music, everything is just next level, and with mods you can make your own sopranos or the wire scenes

[@nipsynuggets4930]

This is the best channel on youtube

[@SaimizZ]

I'm a bit dissapointed that GTA VI looks just like GTA V stylistically

[@Jacorywoohoo]

In GTA 3 the concrete portion north of Portland in game is used to prevent water from spilling into the tunnels since most of that roads decline into it is below sea level, but developement wise I've always head cannoned it to sheer laziness because they didn't know what to put there, one thing to support my theory is that back when the game was in early development there was supposed to be a power plant there and I am almost certain when it was there, the concrete barriers didn't exist.

[@Xegethra]

I wish GTA 3 Liberty City had less of those empty spaces. At least Hepburn Heights and Harwood could have had more in them if they didn't waste any time with Shoreside Vale, a inferior Portland knock off.

[@Jacorywoohoo]

@@Xegethra Agreed, what's kind of insane is just how many Portland assets are reused in Shoreside Vale, especially in those industrial areas, it's such a shame. And Hepburn Heights barely had a projects as it's just 3 or 4 buildings with like zero communication with each other whatsoever, and Harwood just has a car shop, fire station, gas station and car crusher and that sums it up basically, I love GTA 3's map, I'd honestly go as far as to say I enjoy it more than SA and VC but I would be lying to you if I said it was technologically or geographically better than those two maps, less so on VC's map, I think it's decent but Liberty City feels better than Vice City imo.

[@Xegethra]

@@Jacorywoohoo Yeah I feel the same way. I love the map overall. It just has that style and feel to it that the others don't give even if the geography and structure of it makes no sense whatsoever. I love Vice City, I like the cities in SA but GTA 3's rendition of Liberty City is just my favourite. I do like GTA 4 Liberty City too, it also has that gloomy thing going on for it but done in a different way. But no matter what, GTA 3 Liberty is still the best of the 3D era I think.

[@pangtundure]

5:00 Ray-Ban Classic G-15

[@vinniciusrosa8284]

The game has an art style that are present into all elements. All textures are color-balanced to fit with art direction. The coffee colores and the cinematic nights... I love how they prefered to use texture art instead of shaders over shaders over pre-passing shading...

[@RushBasherPro]

i actually was waiting for a video on gta 4, and her you are !!! Thank you

[@marten6578]

10:42 I played gta 4 and dlcs since they were released and i never knew this spot can be accessed, i am mind blown right now.

[@BobGeanis]

GTAV needed the pisscolor filter.

[@HotQahwe]

I'm glad you made this, and recently, too. Niko is my favorite of the GTA protagonists, and the world is basically gta III with better graphics. I love Nikos story, I can relate to it and all the colorful characters. I agree, it's more beautiful and I'm glad you see the artistic value of a game like this. Great video

[@Sqk.]

9:05 this area is detailed and has that rack thing as it is where you get the orange infernus when you finish the bernie missions. there's even a button to lower the car when you get it

[@shiroryuo-8600]

I can't believe we're back in Liberty City, again. As always, thanks Pretzel for your world tours. Looking foward for the next videos.

[@tempsitch5632]

Museum Of Ice Skating. You’d be surprised about the true history of ice skating. Chilling stuff.

[@TommyLikeTom]

I love discovering a random door I can walk through.

[@kyliandc9276]

This definitely needs a part 2 with the other islands. Sooo much cool spots in GTA4

[@captainsamA320]

U know I’ve never actually seen another person do boring reviews made intresting u read my mind wondering what things where like thank you keep up the videos

[@serpenticide_555]

I got gta iv over summer break, around 7 or 8th grade. Beat it in three days, no cheats. For whatever reason, I started a new game. This was like maybe only ten minutes after I completed the game... I saved over my completed game file.

[@MaxariSouls]

8:45 Fun fact: That alley is also the safe house that Huang is gifted by his uncle in Chinatown Wars

[@magnoliy08]

The 4 video is here! The best map, honestly. Also, you should check out the industrial area on the first island.

[@SunstriderGames-cx7vr]

At first, i thought this was a mobile game "GTA 4 World Tour". Then i remembered, GTA 4 was just an awesome map.

[@trosenthal3711]

8:52 this was actually where the first safehouse in Chinatown Wars was :)

[@synthrunner4244]

I was waiting for the snake eater as soon as you started going up the ladder, nice one hahahaha

[@AMV12S]

Some places are places there and detailed because of discarded missions and some of them were used on the DLCs, the carnival in Broker for example is used in the last mission of The Ballad of Gay Tony.

[@noahpafford5145]

About your comment on the floating grass. GTA 4 automatically generates grass, and then despawns it when it is outside of your view. There is a full video about it by TJGM talking about it.

[@iRemainNameless]

FINALLY! A slow walking tour of GTA IV

[@JellothePallascat]

11:37 I was singing that as he climbed and you then did it your self. 10?10 video Amazing work boss

[@robertpaulson117]

as soon as i saw the ladder at 11:32 i knew what was coming lmao... ...what a thrill...

[@robertpaulson117]

i've never even played the mgs games but i've seen a thousand references to it

[@TommyLikeTom]

You can operate the parking lifts sometimes in TBOGT

[@fretzil]

I think you'd really enjoy bully for the world tour. its a great fame packed with nice detail

[@apc9681]

8:56 funnily enough that is Huang’s apartment from Chinatown Wars

[@grog_speed]

at 8:46 that alley is the alley that the first safe house is in, in chinatown wars which is set in the same liberty city as gta 4. A cool idea for a video could be comparing certain spots in chinatown wars and in gta 4, there are some interesting differences.

[@ljbutchill7997]

im pretty sure the alley at 8:56 is also used as the first safehouse in the ds game gta chinatown wars

[@greenhowie]

I'm a big fan of how the swing set vibrates angrily against the universe.

[@tmg176]

I was watching your vid about gta 3 and 5 and wondered why there's no video on 4, yet here we are

[@petros-v4w]

great video of an amazing game. You analyze map and this is the wonderful thing about this game. How beautifully chaotic the map seems, it all integrates to a real, normal NY it's like you are walking there. And if you have the PC to run it, and a 4K tv, connecting those two and putting this gem on, at 60fps, 4K, aren't you a lucky one??

[@diesegeties8918]

Thank you, I know that my comment from the gta san probably didn't help you to add GTA IV watch dogs 1 or GTA V or watch dogs 2 to your list of games that you browse through, so good video 😅😊😊😊

[@Seals_jason]

11:31 What a thrill With darkness and silence through the night

[@LHGaming25]

8:50 thats just not a normal alley its the place of Huang Lees Safehouse in GTA China Town wars It also feels like III Portland safehouse and Rockstar chose that place for exact reason

[@AdamAwesombrero]

11:22 Metal Gear Solid 3 theme starts playing

[@d0wnbappe]

In almost all games prior to GTA 5, there was an aesthetic line to follow. GTA 5 itself has an aesthetic line, but it is so subtle that it seems simple "photorealism" without more. And in my opinion it makes it look like he has less of an identity.

[@SunsetRadi0]

So the reason why GTA IV feels so real is because they basically did try to make it feel that way, the city itself is the real protagonist in these games. I feel like the map is so densely packed with little details and those are basically absent in V because of all the assets from other Rockstar games that game reuses

[@vdpt9911]

so weird seeing Liberty City in full third person 3D when I got so used to seeing it top-down in Chinatown Wars on the DS. I'm not sure but I think those train tracks are right outside the very first home base in CTW. good video!

[@woodlandcollective]

wake up babe new Pretzel just dropped

[@EdJClarke]

Loved the nod to MGS3 ladder section 😂

[@ggspooks7915]

I've always noticed how GTA 4 has almost half life 2 like graphics but on bigger and much more realised scale

[@bs_blackscout]

Great stuff as always❤

[@niceleverace]

Gta 4 online was always a cool experience in free mode.

[@vinniciusrosa8284]

14:15 Maybe this place was planned to be the spot for Nico arrival.