Who else thinks GTA IV >> RDR?

[Trippy Turtle]

I only played RDR for a little bit but quit before I really done anything because it took so long to even get into the game.
GTA 4 was pretty good but it has nothing on GTA 3.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

April Fool's came twice this year!

RDR was less repetitive and had more depth to it than GTA IV. Fact.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Yeah. I prefered GTA IV too. I like RDR but i think it's bit too big for it's own good. You have a huge world and only a horse to travel it... add a lot of missions where you have to travel really far and you get a lot of long and rather boring parts. It's still a fantastic game but the annoying stuff was really annoying. GTAIV on the other hand is probably an all time favourite of mine. It's not perfect but it's pretty close.

 

[Rawne1980]

I loved RDR and can remember characters and the story and played through it several times.

GTAIV..... All I can remember about it is that I played it and I drove cars.

 

[Easton Dark]

Both games are good. Red Dead Redemption is better because it's the same as GTA4 with a better story, better characters, better setting, and better gunplay.

I much prefer an overgrown land with a river running through it, sun glinting off the water, to concrete sidewalks.

It's not hard to understand.



Edit: btw, RDR online appears pretty barren right now. I'm just gonna ask if anyone here wants to saddle up and play with me sometimes :<

 

[laggyteabag]

I played GTA4 and I got really bored, really fast, the story in that game was just too slow, and it didn't engage me at all, and that was the only Rockstar game I had ever played. I decided to borrow RDR a few months later, and I loved every second of it, especially the "Undead Nightmare" expansion/DLC. I never really cared about the MP, because MP really isn't R*s strong point.

 

[AgentLampshade]

There weren't any characters in RDR that I actually liked (save John Marston.) GTAIV had it's fair share of annoying characters, but it balanced it out with providing likeable ones too. And it was way more diverse than RDR. There was a badass group of Irish gangsters, a bunch of Albanian loansharks and a Sons-of-Anarchy style biker gang. In RDR there was a necrophiliac, some conman or something and some Mexican revolutionary. They're pretty much the stand-out characters, and I hated them.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

I prefer GTA4 but RDR is an amazing game as well.

 

[Amaror]

For me, GTA 4 wins, because i can actually play that game.
(I don't play on consoles)

 

[Vault101]

I think its silly to compare them, they are very different games

 

[TheDuckbunny]

They're both really good games, it's just a matter of preference. I think a lot of people are put off by Niko Bellic and the grayish Liberty City in GTA4 where others are put off by the slow pacing and perceived emptyness of Red Dead Redemption. It's different strokes.

 

[Casual Shinji]

RDR is basically GTA4 without cars or buildings. And no sir, I don't like that very much.

Now I know the game settings are incomparable, but that doesn't change the fact that both gameworlds are structured practically the same. So you have two sandbox games: One where you have loads of cars and streetlife to smash into while ramping off of various stuctures, firing your gun out the window, and listening to awesome tunes on the radio. And another game where you ride your monotonous horse through an endless uneventful wasteland sporadically encountering some random event.

Plus, John Marston is also apparrantly everyone's ***** in this game, for the fact that he never takes any initiative to find clues on his own despite being this rugged outdoorsman. And playing a character who get talked down to by necrophiliacs and raping warlords and just takes it is not my idea of a badass outlaw.

The only good thing about RDR was Undead Nightmare.

 

[baddude1337]

I loved GTA4 when it first arrived for a while, then I realised how shit it was. Dull, depressing, chuggy graphics and nowhere near as good as its predecessors. RDR is simply the better game. It runs better, has a better setting and story, awesome gameplay and is just generally way more awesome.

 

[Bvenged]

Opinions. I loved the original RD games, and I loved GTA. I loved GTA IV and I loved the whole western-free roam feel of RDR in combination with the great storytelling and immersion, coupled with the R* physics and the nostalgia of original RD mechanics.

I don't know why, for the life of me, people like Diablo. All you do is click to walk, click to hit, click to loot, click to use, click click click. It's ssooOOOOO BORING! Why does anyone like it? I just find it BORING AS HELL

There. My ignorant opinion on an immensely popular game. We all have an opinion like that on something, but normally we just hold them back for the mutual respect of those who do enjoy such things.

 

[GundamSentinel]

GTAIV seemed like a final rehearsal for RDR. In essence very similar games, but RDR did a lot of things better (not having cellphones helps a lot). That, and I loved the setting.

 

[wooty]

RDR had a lot more to it in terms of a story and setting, but GTA4 just had a greater overall fun factor to it.

 

[Vkmies]

Some people call it "slow", other "atmospheric". I personally belong to the latter group.

 

[RustlessPotato]

I played GTA IV and got bored of it very quickly.It just didn't engage me.

With RDR, I knew I was going to like the game from the intro. It set the tone very well in my opinion. The only critique I have is that those "random" events do get repetitive and after a while I lost interest in doing them. Stranger missions were great and I did like the overal story.