Listening to what happened to Roman's mother always gives me goosebumps. Niko probably wanted to save what's left of Roman's innocence by lying to him about what happened to her. He doesn't want Roman's heart to be filled with revenge just like his
This is the Kosovo war. The war in Yugoslavia, when Belgrade was bombed by NATO. Only America is to blame for this, and no one else. After we finish with Ukraine, we will definitely help Serbia to return its territories that NATO took from them by force. We intervened in the war not with Ukraine, but with NATO, and we can no longer stop!
I will never forget the disbelief in Niko's voice when he said "You killed my friends for one thousand dollars...", and what Darko replied to him with.
@@Resident4Island As an outsider, he wouldn't give much thought about them. He would think its just another street gang (SR 1-2), like the Bohan gangs or he might find them hilarious how they turned into soft celebrities (SR 3-4) :DD And if he would somehow work for them, he would be something like Wolverine in the X-Men. An outsider amongst the outsiders. I mean, I just can't see Niko as a gangbanger or a gangbanger celebrity. Not to mention that The Boss and Johnny Gat's personality are not really "compatible" with Niko. He could never be their friend. He also would think Shaundi is just a b*tch. The only one I can see Niko getting along is Oleg, but who knows...
I really wish Bernie(florian) would have been a friend that Niko can hang out with. He and Roman are the only two characters who *truly* know Niko and know about his life pre liberty city. It would have made for some really interesting dialogue where we learn more about their backstory and learn more about their life in the war. Shame we never got that
@@ram_n_music why would it be "awkward"? Gay people can have platonic relationships with non-gay friends too. A lot of Eastern Europeans kiss on the cheek as a greeting and I'm guessing that Bernie, as a Serb, is used to that culture. Niko, on the other hand, doesn't even seem like a hugger. So, I'm sure they would've expressed their mutual friendship in a different way.
Niko is a war veteran and what has he got to show for it? PTSD, depression, emotional detachment, cynical worldviews and distances himself from others closeness... But he still has a good heart and morals... War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
The darkest and most mature GTA game. Didn't like it that much as a kid but it eventually grew on me. Too bad we didn't get to see more of Niko later on.
Its best not to have him in the sequel, this man deserves to live at peace with his new family Remember what happen to Johnny when he randomly shows up at GTA V ?
@@AnthroGearhead That was such a bad attempt to shock value. Johnny had no reason to keep the Lost going when the DLC concluded, it was dead and buried with Billy. I'm also not sure why he traveled across the nation to setup a new chapter for the lost in pseudo Los Angeles. Would make more sense to move to the rust belt or Vice City.
@@ORLY911 actually theres nothing wrong with Johhny keeping the crew alive, the only problem was that piece of crap Ashley, who should have been dead a long time ago
The line "It ruined me" is such a raw and precise way to sum up intense trauma. Its truly one of the worst things that can happen to someone. You just aren’t the same person afterwards.
@@prostreetfairladyz8402 I think it doesn't matter if it's WW2 or whatever war, it's still a tragedy. I come from Croatia and my family moved into the countryside where i grew up. The particular village has had a massacre during the War, and there's a mass grave here. A lot of people, including my first neighbor, are veterans, defenders. You can really tell in my neighbor that he has been through a lot, and some of those things just never leave a person. My generation missed the war but the scars of war still lingers in the way many were raised. There was this old lady who lived In between my village and a town where i went to school, and she's lost her mind because of what she's experienced. She had members of her family killed, and she was raped. It's horrifying. She'd throw sticks and stones at passing cars. I always remember her because my young self couldn't fully understand what that meant. But having seen it, i went on to learn about the war and to make sure i understand why it happened. I went on to become quite a military history and firearms enthusiast, but I will never let myself get fooled by someone into going to war. My dad did, and so did many other people. The dead now rest in peace but i pray for peace above ground, too.
@@dankovac1609 I remember stories about vukovar even years after the war it's still a place where Serbian license plates are liable to get their tires slashed. A lot of ugliness came out of the Yugoslav wars. I can only imagine how people in Ukraine are feeling at this current moment.
Rockstar made a great job with developing Niko's character. They perfectly described what a war does to a person and how it can change people's mentality. The idea that many civilians are forced to help soldiers for their own country and do bad things that they never wanted to do, or die for something that doesn't resolve nothing is just sad. No matter if it's Russia or Ukraine, both have innocents people who are forced to fight for good or bad reasons and some of them died... People like us... Niko describe himself exactly like most part of those innocents will describe themself after this situation: soulless. They will find no differences from die or living, the remorse for killing other people (that were probably innocents like them) will hit their heart very hard every single day of their life... All this for just one person who only care about money or personal glory...
Niko even kidnapping women and sold them to sexual slavery which he regrets doing but he never said anything about it but the tone when talking with Mrs. Faustin you can tell he was not proud
His voice is iconic and his impression of a slav is spot on, but his pronounciation of serbian words is what kills the mood for me. For example you have him talking to Darko about all of this dark stuff and yet, his pronounciation is so bad that i cant resist but to smirk,tho he is forgiven, i dont expect him to pronounce every word in the serbian language after he reads the script.
It sounds really unnatural to us Serbs lol His voice actor is American and doesn't speak Serbian In fact none of the voice actors speak Serbian.. So they just had them read the lines in Serbian the way they think they should sound But still, I like that he at least tried his best, it's really cool hearing him scream at people in traffic in my language My favourite line is when you crash into someone and he yells "Konju!" Wich is an insult and it means "you horse"
@@CD-BVL it probbably sounds more like Russian to you. It seems to me like the actor was trying to pronounce everything in a Russian accent because he probs has never heard Serbian being spoken But he did better than most of my American friends who tried speaking my language lol
Nobody is a bad person from birth. It is the community and environment which decides hero and villen. Niko is a living proof for this. (Of cource he is a living proof coz legends never die)
@average city 17 resident He said no one is bad person from birth and unless you're a racist pos which I assume you are for trying to deflect. Last I heard, racism is bad for me and my people because they want to kill us. And according to so called morality murder is wrong. So, how is what I said invalid?
I hope we get a story like this in gta 6. I would love for it to take place in Vice city but have a dark story. In my opinion gta IV will always be the best gta game. The story is great. The time of year is great. I think it takes place in like the beginning on November I think. But yeah gta 6 should definitely have a story such as this.
Wouldn't work, the setting is as important to the story as the story itself, NYC and Jersey City worked well for GTA 4 since both are very cold cities, specially during the wwinter, but Miami ins't, it's a waste to have a beach city and make the game take place during autumn/winter.
IV was the first GTA game that I played all the way through, but I definitely wasn't old or mature enough to really understand this aspect of Niko's character. Back them I thought nothing of just killing time by killing some pedestrians and cops out of sheer fun. And while it's excusable since it's a video game and not real life, it definitely was antithetical to Niko's story and views. He did bad things because he had no choice. I did "bad things" in that world because I was bored. Makes you think.
Gta sa was the first game i played i loved it but ever since i played gta 4 its the best open world game story telling gta 5 was 2nd place 3rd gta sa 4th vice ciy
He's talking sense. Humanity must be above everything. I'm from Ukraine and I'm praying for every soldier who lost his life on this idiotic war not matter for which side he's fought
Russian here. War is the worst outcome of any conflict. We the common folk never wanted it to come to this. I hope it ends soon and we all will go back home to our families.
Well same sorts of politicians. While people were dying and murdering each other in WW 1 like conditions , politicians from all side dined and partied together.
While the stories that he tells might be made up from Rockstar i do remember hearing a story where children were lined up and asked to bless themselfs with a hand like make a cross and if they did it the wrong way they would be shot on the spot. Yugoslav wars in ww2 and in the 90s were one of the most darkest moments in Europe and beyond all very very brutal
I just realized that you missed one quote literally from the intro before the game's logo. Where Niko talks about how he couldn't get a job after a war and was involved with some idiots doing dumb things
"No one has the dreams that I do" that is so fucking real. It hurts when someone close is trying to comfort you, saying you can get better, but of course they can't see the things you see, feel what you feel. They can only see the result of the trauma. It hurts because you know they care and you want to belive them, to be better for the people who are rooting for you, but sometimesthe past just doesn'tlet go.Rockstar went really deep into Niko's character. They made someone feel extremely real. Niko is one of my favourite protagonists in media, let alone a game like GTA.
I never completed GTA IV completely when it came to dates and hanging out with certain people so hearing the dialogue for Kate and Niko talking about Roman’s mother was really sad
The Grand Theft Auto V characters never had near the amount of development Niko has had. Even today, in the dawn of a new war, Niko talking vividly about what he experienced still hits very hard. I sure hope to god this new war can be ended soon, and that Russia will pull back from Ukraine. They do not deserve what is happening to them right now.
Honestly i can't get enough from this game, i never get tired of playing it. The story is awesoem, and reflects in some way what is happening right now on the world, let's hope this war ends soon, sending love to everyone that needs it!
Niko is undoubtedly one of the best characters I have ever encountered in games. The silence after "How much do you charge to kill someone?" speaks volumes about his inner turmoil.
thank you for doing this! This is why I love GTA 4 so much. (apart from the details and controls compared to GTA5) i like how they tried to humanize Niko, that he ain't a gangster/mob like in VC or SA, giving it a unique perspective, just doing things becuse he does not know better/is dragged into this. Victor from VCS was similar, having a humanized trait dispite what he does. (Sigh) realy wish GTA4 would be released for PS4. And we all should pay our respect to veterans like Niko, who came out traumatized. This humanity and lack of gang focus of Niko inspired me to do a crossover story of GTA 4 once...sorry, rambling
The Brevic cutscene is one of the most emotionally gripping in video game history, but at the same time I cant stop thinking about the stunt jump ramp in the background of the scene and how I spent a good half an hour trying to complete it with a forklift.
Hope this war ends soon. This game kinda shows what war does to people even if they survive and don't get killed. As we see Niko still suffered even after so many years.
2:40 such a perfect & simple line. At the core of it, every immigrant leaves behind their homeland just for that one hope “Things will be different” and isn’t that also what we look for our entire lives? To escape our faults, the things we keep doing wrong? And that “maybe…” holds so much in it too. As fallen people living in a fallen world, Niko knows he may not deserve a new life… but we keep on hoping anyways.
Now everyone's gonna go rampant because of real world events. Anyway, I never really dated Kate. It's terrifying what happened to Roman's mother. I absolutely respect Niko for keeping it a secret.
Thinking about that, Roman's panic attack when he saw the apartment burn makes sense, as he thinks his mother died in a house fire. Such a little but tragic detail only a few players notice
“War is when the young & stupid are tricked, by the old & bitter into killing each other.” I pray for all Ukrainian souls & young Russian minds that have been corrupted. War really never does change.😔
It amazes me with how much depth Nico had as a character having to have a reliance on credible inference and not just cramming down flashbacks to force emotion down your throats
Hey man, I really appreciate all the work you put into your videos. I’ve been watching every GTA4 video you have and it really helps pass the time while working. Keep it up man, much love
Having grown up in a Yugoslav neighbourhood in the 90s when people were fleeing from the wars there, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians etc who worked with my dad on freighters trying to escape from back home. I relate to this. They shouted at another, cried with eachother, and hugged another, its like all the pain and anger at eachother of everything they were dealing with washed away once they moved from that place. Not everyone though, certainly though those who were mad at another, still are. I like to think they are mad because opportunists used their national pride to fight and kill what were once brothers and sisters, under the guise of national pride. Though I miss that place though, it was as close to a real neighborhood as any other. Generally good people who always had plentiful food, good stories and plenty of laughs.
"There are very few people in Liberty City, who met me before the war" This line gives me chills, with how he talks about the war. Rape, murders, children being tied up and killed. Scary to think what Niko did during those times, when he was young and stupid like those around him. What he said to Packie was right, we only know this Niko, the one in Liberty City. I'm sure we all would've had a different perspective on him if we knew him before
That comment really made me shiver too. He doesn't really mention in full depth on the things he's done. Only named them. And that...that is exactly how you keep a character interesting. Even after all this time.... He deserves peace. Not suffering.
My parents came to America from Yugoslavia in the late 80s and I still have family on both sides in Serbia. My dad had two brothers that fought in the war and one didn't survive...the other did but still to this day he struggles mentally with everything. I asked him when I was younger what was the war like? He looked at me and said that in war your ordered to do things that will stay with you for the rest of your life by someone who is sitting behind and desk watching the war through a television screen. They don't live with their choices and the deaths they caused cause they was there to pull the trigger...we was. My uncle died by his own hands a few years ago. He was never at peace since the war but now he finally has it.
I love when GTA gives a tragic but dark backstory for a character that isn't for once a butt of a joke or a sexual innuendo It really shows that Rockstar does a perfect job in writing dark and tragic stories, the red dead redemption games were prime examples of that but when they add it into their GTA Titles, it really feels like a breath of fresh air and makes the characters actually feel human
2:00 He's probably talking about true event in Kravice village, where Naser Oric's forces buchered ethnic Serbian villagers. One of the real-life snipers Dejan Beric (fighting in Donbas today) once said he witnessed it as first responding unit going to that village.
Glad to have been recommended this video. GTA IV is definitely one game that's more fun & enjoyable to play once you're older & more mature, only then can you really appreciate the amount of work that's been put into the character & storyline development, plot of the game etc. Interesting channel too BTW: Subscribed! 👍
This is very true how Rockstar can be like genius of creating characters like Niko and had some deep character development over the course of the IV's story and lore as a whole
The problem with all these great dialogues is that most players will not have experienced them by the end - most players will just breeze through the main missions and will look upon going out with all friends as "filler" and a waste of time when in reality, it's in these dialogues that most character info is revealed :(
Niko has always been my favorite protagonist in the GTA series. He's the human of all the characters. One full of sympathy and remorse for the things he done and continues to do.
The story in this GTA is so deep and powerful. I honestly felt bad for what Niko had to go through. If they made this game into a movie, it would be a hit with the proper actors and screenplay.
Something to try in the first mission, "If the player somehow manages to save before this mission ends (such as enabling movement with mods after the second cutscene ends) then the save game file will be called "In The Beginning", similarly to that of 3D Universe GTA games." From the gta wiki. After you save try loading the In The Beginning save file.
Niko Bellic remains one of Rockstar's best shaped characters. One can say Niko was Arthur Morgan's early prototype since he was also conditioned by a crime-driven environment, he killed people,but one can see he still has a sense of morality in certain points of the game.
The sister superior scene and the scene where Niko speaks to Mikhail's wife are very similar. Both are broken men talking to a women about the pasts that broke them and made them who they are, to be reassured that their lives matter and that they can help people, and that even in the darkness there is light, and a reason to believe in kindness and love.
I've never gotten far enough into GTA IV, so I never even knew how the guy who betrayed Niko's squad loomed like. The most shocking thing definitely was that the paycheck for betrayal that the mf got was just... A thousand dollars?? For 13 lives? GTA IV is just a game, but it tells such a strong and emotional story that it feels like more than a game.
Listening to what happened to Roman's mother always gives me goosebumps. Niko probably wanted to save what's left of Roman's innocence by lying to him about what happened to her. He doesn't want Roman's heart to be filled with revenge just like his
And that alluded to Roman's panicked reaction when the apartment burned in a mission. Poor Roman, it's better he doesn't know
Gentleman!!!
Sometimes angels lie to keep the peace.
@@DJ_Thanos Holy shit that makes sense
I wasn't know this, damn! From now on, everytime I see Roman, I will get upset. :(
Love how Niko's military background isn't just the fallback reason to give him superhero attributes -- its actually part of his conflict
This is the Kosovo war. The war in Yugoslavia, when Belgrade was bombed by NATO. Only America is to blame for this, and no one else. After we finish with Ukraine, we will definitely help Serbia to return its territories that NATO took from them by force.
We intervened in the war not with Ukraine, but with NATO, and we can no longer stop!
@@alexshepherd1741 🤡
@@riploljustforfu9929 Agreed, they're really talking in clown and not English.
@@riploljustforfu9929 best ratio I have ever seen
@@riploljustforfu9929 he's gotta a point :)
I will never forget the disbelief in Niko's voice when he said "You killed my friends for one thousand dollars...", and what Darko replied to him with.
Yeah
Always gives me chills
Rdr2 and gta 4 are the only 2 rockstar games where i enjoyed story more than gameplay
@@rahulverma8774 Not even VCS and Red Dead Redemption 1?
@@gabrielmartines3510 ew vcs sucked
@@madhunter6420 VCS was just behind San Andreas on the PS2 GTA's.
It was heartbreaking for me to play "That Special Someome" for the first time.
"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and the bitter into killing each other"
- Niko Bellic 2008
I wonder how Niko Bellic would react if he meet the 3rd Street Saint's .
@@Resident4Island *Which 3rd Street Saints?* *the real ones from Saints Row 1 and 2?*
*or the pathetic Clown ones in Saints Row 3 and 4!?*
That hits different now.
True
@@Resident4Island As an outsider, he wouldn't give much thought about them.
He would think its just another street gang (SR 1-2), like the Bohan gangs or he might find them hilarious how they turned into soft celebrities (SR 3-4) :DD
And if he would somehow work for them, he would be something like Wolverine in the X-Men. An outsider amongst the outsiders. I mean, I just can't see Niko as a gangbanger or a gangbanger celebrity. Not to mention that The Boss and Johnny Gat's personality are not really "compatible" with Niko. He could never be their friend. He also would think Shaundi is just a b*tch. The only one I can see Niko getting along is Oleg, but who knows...
That awkward moment when an open world crime game taught us more about war than any First Person Shooter
@Hamit Yep , an underrated game
GTA 4 >>>>> All Of The Cod game's.
@@Resident4Island cod waw did a pretty good job
I never thinked about that.. but true!
Medal of Honor?
I really wish Bernie(florian) would have been a friend that Niko can hang out with. He and Roman are the only two characters who *truly* know Niko and know about his life pre liberty city. It would have made for some really interesting dialogue where we learn more about their backstory and learn more about their life in the war. Shame we never got that
Bernie was supposed to be a friend you could hang out with in the beta version, but they cut that option
I've always thought that the boating friend activity should've been used for Bernie.
@@riel4553 yea, that would've been cool, replacing maybe the strip club since Bernie will probably not enjoy it
@@ram_n_music why would it be "awkward"? Gay people can have platonic relationships with non-gay friends too.
A lot of Eastern Europeans kiss on the cheek as a greeting and I'm guessing that Bernie, as a Serb, is used to that culture. Niko, on the other hand, doesn't even seem like a hugger.
So, I'm sure they would've expressed their mutual friendship in a different way.
@@mikeberkshire8579 F* OFF, HANGING OUT WITH A F,G WOULD OF BEEN GROSS
Niko is a war veteran and what has he got to show for it? PTSD, depression, emotional detachment, cynical worldviews and distances himself from others closeness... But he still has a good heart and morals...
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
that's what my childhood did to me.
The Civil War in Serbia was brutal even in Yugoslavia all those dead
The original quote is “War does not determine who is right or who is wrong, only who is left” but yours fits as well.
Damn that was a cold bar
Might makes right, so I guess it does.
The darkest and most mature GTA game. Didn't like it that much as a kid but it eventually grew on me. Too bad we didn't get to see more of Niko later on.
Its best not to have him in the sequel, this man deserves to live at peace with his new family
Remember what happen to Johnny when he randomly shows up at GTA V ?
@@AnthroGearhead That was such a bad attempt to shock value. Johnny had no reason to keep the Lost going when the DLC concluded, it was dead and buried with Billy. I'm also not sure why he traveled across the nation to setup a new chapter for the lost in pseudo Los Angeles. Would make more sense to move to the rust belt or Vice City.
@@ORLY911 actually theres nothing wrong with Johhny keeping the crew alive, the only problem was that piece of crap Ashley, who should have been dead a long time ago
lmao I finished this game when I was 12 years old, then GTA 5 was already released and I liked it more than the fifth part, although I like all GTAs
The line "It ruined me" is such a raw and precise way to sum up intense trauma. Its truly one of the worst things that can happen to someone. You just aren’t the same person afterwards.
Scenes like that are why I have high standards for writing in videogame stories and movies.
Roman's mother's story is heartbreaking
yeah, i literally couldnt even contempt when he said that, i know its not as bad as WW2 but one is bad enough
@@prostreetfairladyz8402 here's the thing, bad things are bad and there shouldn't be a comparison of how bad things are... it's not a contest...
@@prostreetfairladyz8402 I think it doesn't matter if it's WW2 or whatever war, it's still a tragedy.
I come from Croatia and my family moved into the countryside where i grew up. The particular village has had a massacre during the War, and there's a mass grave here.
A lot of people, including my first neighbor, are veterans, defenders. You can really tell in my neighbor that he has been through a lot, and some of those things just never leave a person. My generation missed the war but the scars of war still lingers in the way many were raised.
There was this old lady who lived In between my village and a town where i went to school, and she's lost her mind because of what she's experienced.
She had members of her family killed, and she was raped. It's horrifying. She'd throw sticks and stones at passing cars. I always remember her because my young self couldn't fully understand what that meant. But having seen it, i went on to learn about the war and to make sure i understand why it happened.
I went on to become quite a military history and firearms enthusiast, but I will never let myself get fooled by someone into going to war. My dad did, and so did many other people. The dead now rest in peace but i pray for peace above ground, too.
@@dankovac1609 I remember stories about vukovar even years after the war it's still a place where Serbian license plates are liable to get their tires slashed. A lot of ugliness came out of the Yugoslav wars. I can only imagine how people in Ukraine are feeling at this current moment.
@@MrJack1992 the rich ones are feeling good here in switzerland unlessssss
Rockstar made a great job with developing Niko's character.
They perfectly described what a war does to a person and how it can change people's mentality.
The idea that many civilians are forced to help soldiers for their own country and do bad things that they never wanted to do, or die for something that doesn't resolve nothing is just sad.
No matter if it's Russia or Ukraine, both have innocents people who are forced to fight for good or bad reasons and some of them died... People like us...
Niko describe himself exactly like most part of those innocents will describe themself after this situation: soulless.
They will find no differences from die or living, the remorse for killing other people (that were probably innocents like them) will hit their heart very hard every single day of their life... All this for just one person who only care about money or personal glory...
Thing is he probably did a decent amount of war crimes himself come to think about it
In war, there are no heroes.
Ur just like my English teacher, except gta4 has an interesting plot
Niko even kidnapping women and sold them to sexual slavery which he regrets doing but he never said anything about it but the tone when talking with Mrs. Faustin you can tell he was not proud
The eastern European guy who was making moves in liberty city
The Yugoslav wars were by far one of the most heartbreaking wars. We were all brothers, but in the end split up because of lies.
Not lies, just politics and history.
@@tincaktas2745 Politics are made up of lies
Thanks NATO
@@kurvitaschthedictator more like thanks to milosovic
@@mr.anderson2241 both are/were bad in this time
Michael Hollick KILLED IT playing as Niko
Wished that guy got more roles on video game characters
Too bad they gink'd his paycheck
I expect other game companies would hire him
@@doomguyslowresolutionmodel407 Literally handed him the lowest six-figure check possible... Out of a game that banked millions
His voice is iconic and his impression of a slav is spot on, but his pronounciation of serbian words is what kills the mood for me. For example you have him talking to Darko about all of this dark stuff and yet, his pronounciation is so bad that i cant resist but to smirk,tho he is forgiven, i dont expect him to pronounce every word in the serbian language after he reads the script.
Niko's home language always caught my attention whenever he spoke. I only wish there more instances where he spoke in native tongue.
It sounds really unnatural to us Serbs lol
His voice actor is American and doesn't speak Serbian
In fact none of the voice actors speak Serbian..
So they just had them read the lines in Serbian the way they think they should sound
But still, I like that he at least tried his best, it's really cool hearing him scream at people in traffic in my language
My favourite line is when you crash into someone and he yells "Konju!" Wich is an insult and it means "you horse"
@@dusannestorovic5699 oh shit i thought it sounded good
@@dusannestorovic5699 As a Bulgarian i can confirm everything you said. Even to me it didnt sound natural
@@CD-BVL it probbably sounds more like Russian to you. It seems to me like the actor was trying to pronounce everything in a Russian accent because he probs has never heard Serbian being spoken
But he did better than most of my American friends who tried speaking my language lol
@@dusannestorovic5699 Upravu si.
Nobody is a bad person from birth. It is the community and environment which decides hero and villen. Niko is a living proof for this. (Of cource he is a living proof coz legends never die)
If no one is a bad person from birth how do you explain the first ever racist?
@average city 17 resident He said no one is bad person from birth and unless you're a racist pos which I assume you are for trying to deflect. Last I heard, racism is bad for me and my people because they want to kill us. And according to so called morality murder is wrong. So, how is what I said invalid?
wow psychopaths don't exist.
@@trevorclinton5692 not all psychopaths are evil murderers dude
I disagree, evil is within us all. It’s just that the bad people have an easier time embracing it. While the good ignore it.
I know niko is a fictional character but writing this still tears me up. I really hope niko's found his peace.
You can check his lifeinvader page in GTAV
Yeah and the next thing he does bring a rocket launcher in the middle of the street blowing up innocent people.
I hope we get a story like this in gta 6. I would love for it to take place in Vice city but have a dark story. In my opinion gta IV will always be the best gta game. The story is great. The time of year is great. I think it takes place in like the beginning on November I think. But yeah gta 6 should definitely have a story such as this.
It won't sell much
New gta fans like heists, heists and heists
One of the reasons gta iv is ignored upon and hated by some
Wouldn't work, the setting is as important to the story as the story itself, NYC and Jersey City worked well for GTA 4 since both are very cold cities, specially during the wwinter, but Miami ins't, it's a waste to have a beach city and make the game take place during autumn/winter.
@@7stiano123 gta 4 sold well and is still considered a masterpiece, fk the 5's story
@@gabrielmartines3510 how do u know its vice city? Nobody knows
and gta 4 multiplayer was better
IV was the first GTA game that I played all the way through, but I definitely wasn't old or mature enough to really understand this aspect of Niko's character. Back them I thought nothing of just killing time by killing some pedestrians and cops out of sheer fun. And while it's excusable since it's a video game and not real life, it definitely was antithetical to Niko's story and views. He did bad things because he had no choice. I did "bad things" in that world because I was bored. Makes you think.
Yeah, he is a dark gentleman💔
Gta sa was the first game i played i loved it but ever since i played gta 4 its the best open world game story telling gta 5 was 2nd place 3rd gta sa 4th vice ciy
@Paulo Hernanndizz niko is one of those gta characters who has humanity within him
and then we had Trevor
He's talking sense. Humanity must be above everything. I'm from Ukraine and I'm praying for every soldier who lost his life on this idiotic war not matter for which side he's fought
This is a good approach.
Take care
Adequate
Yeah, supporting Ukraine with lethal help even before war was a bad idea
You can pray how you want, it won't change anything.
Niko is the one with the darkest backstory in whole gta series
That thumbnail where Roman is literally having an awkward face as he hears stories about the war from Niko
This is why I love GTA 4. The storyline is soo interesting.
Ikr
@@madgun5098. Yh.
Russian here. War is the worst outcome of any conflict. We the common folk never wanted it to come to this. I hope it ends soon and we all will go back home to our families.
We know brother. The only real a-hole in all of these is your leader.
@卐 far right azov battalion 🇺🇦 卐 but war is common for all us.
@卐 far right azov battalion 🇺🇦 卐 yoo what the hell . Are you a neonazi or just a troll
80%+ russians support the war. Aren't they also common folk?
Brother I hate to ask but is it as fucked up as Niko describes it to be the Russian war
With what's happening in the world right now, this is scarily accurate... Depressing too...
I can totally see some idiots on the comment section going to say:
"Rockstar predicted the Russian-Ukraine war of 2022" and some other BS.
@@automation7295 lmao
Friends fought friends
Well same sorts of politicians. While people were dying and murdering each other in WW 1 like conditions , politicians from all side dined and partied together.
Then be depressed.
2:00 The moment you realized just how much shit Niko went through, and why he’s such a stone cold killer.
While the stories that he tells might be made up from Rockstar i do remember hearing a story where children were lined up and asked to bless themselfs with a hand like make a cross and if they did it the wrong way they would be shot on the spot. Yugoslav wars in ww2 and in the 90s were one of the most darkest moments in Europe and beyond all very very brutal
I just realized that you missed one quote literally from the intro before the game's logo. Where Niko talks about how he couldn't get a job after a war and was involved with some idiots doing dumb things
"Ah, we all do dumb things... That's what makes us human."
- Hossan
@@muftiahmad3418 "...could be"
@@deadchanneldontwatch7347 *GTA IV*
Those words still spring some tears nowadays... 😢
I've replayed this game 10 times last year and it truly does have an amazing way of building Niko into a very real fleshed out character.
This video reminds us that Niko is the most emotional character of all GTAs
"No one has the dreams that I do" that is so fucking real. It hurts when someone close is trying to comfort you, saying you can get better, but of course they can't see the things you see, feel what you feel. They can only see the result of the trauma. It hurts because you know they care and you want to belive them, to be better for the people who are rooting for you, but sometimesthe past just doesn'tlet go.Rockstar went really deep into Niko's character. They made someone feel extremely real. Niko is one of my favourite protagonists in media, let alone a game like GTA.
This is the reason I fell in love with GTA IV's story and Niko. It really felt like it came from something so real and Niko was so genuine.
I never completed GTA IV completely when it came to dates and hanging out with certain people so hearing the dialogue for Kate and Niko talking about Roman’s mother was really sad
It really does feel very depressing
Remember kids: war sucks.
I approve this message.
So many emotional war moments in one video
Niko's quotes about war will remain timeless. What a great character, beautifully developed
His whole character and the way he carries himself. I am always intrigued by Niko, like as if i was watching a movie
Excellent timing.
Truly a masterpiece of a story
Watch niko being bad ass
ruclips.net/video/2JvomBFShfs/видео.html
The Grand Theft Auto V characters never had near the amount of development Niko has had. Even today, in the dawn of a new war, Niko talking vividly about what he experienced still hits very hard. I sure hope to god this new war can be ended soon, and that Russia will pull back from Ukraine. They do not deserve what is happening to them right now.
Yeah man
Now watch Watch niko being bad ass
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They do not deserve this i agree, only NATO hypocrite deserved this.
@@abgmuhdfarmeezulterminator8865 Nobody deserves this.
They shelled their own people for 8 years. Ukraine deserves this, don't be mistaken.
@@rustyshackleford1508 Russian bot
Honestly i can't get enough from this game, i never get tired of playing it. The story is awesoem, and reflects in some way what is happening right now on the world, let's hope this war ends soon, sending love to everyone that needs it!
Niko is undoubtedly one of the best characters I have ever encountered in games. The silence after "How much do you charge to kill someone?" speaks volumes about his inner turmoil.
thank you for doing this! This is why I love GTA 4 so much. (apart from the details and controls compared to GTA5) i like how they tried to humanize Niko, that he ain't a gangster/mob like in VC or SA, giving it a unique perspective, just doing things becuse he does not know better/is dragged into this. Victor from VCS was similar, having a humanized trait dispite what he does. (Sigh) realy wish GTA4 would be released for PS4. And we all should pay our respect to veterans like Niko, who came out traumatized.
This humanity and lack of gang focus of Niko inspired me to do a crossover story of GTA 4 once...sorry, rambling
as one who love good stories and an avid book reader, I love the writing and character development in GTA 4
@@whatever57010 indeed, its great work
The Brevic cutscene is one of the most emotionally gripping in video game history, but at the same time I cant stop thinking about the stunt jump ramp in the background of the scene and how I spent a good half an hour trying to complete it with a forklift.
I always think “how can Roman fall asleep to a good speech like that” but then I remember
He’s still a touch drunk
thanks for putting together this compilation
wow I had no idea about Roman's mother...
most people don't, you need to date Kate 5-8 times before you get this dialogue
@@whatever57010 I have 280h Played on gta 4 and I still find new stuff out, crazy how this Game from 2008 is better than Most Games in 2021/22
Me neither but i heard it on internet wiki so yea
@@patrickkloiber741 i agree with you the new games start to be bad the old are masterpieces
@@patrickkloiber741 facts. Iv is better than any of the current gen games
Hope this war ends soon. This game kinda shows what war does to people even if they survive and don't get killed. As we see Niko still suffered even after so many years.
When niko says " you ruined me"
I felt that.
This is especially true and hits home especially with all the Ukraine and Russian World War 3 stuff happening
so much needless pain and suffering 😔😔
hope this stupid shit ends soon
isnt an invasion?
Niko Bellic as character design,voice and personality is awesome all of his outfit's are iconic
Lets just be happy its not ww3 yet, only 2 countries are fighting, one wrong move and you can call it a ww3 then
@@tomas1726 it is an invasion that is quickly turning into a war
"There he is - Nikoooo Belllic!" - Packie McReary
2:40 such a perfect & simple line. At the core of it, every immigrant leaves behind their homeland just for that one hope “Things will be different” and isn’t that also what we look for our entire lives? To escape our faults, the things we keep doing wrong?
And that “maybe…” holds so much in it too. As fallen people living in a fallen world, Niko knows he may not deserve a new life… but we keep on hoping anyways.
Now everyone's gonna go rampant because of real world events.
Anyway, I never really dated Kate. It's terrifying what happened to Roman's mother. I absolutely respect Niko for keeping it a secret.
Thinking about that, Roman's panic attack when he saw the apartment burn makes sense, as he thinks his mother died in a house fire. Such a little but tragic detail only a few players notice
The war Niko was talking about is also real. Kosovo war 1991 - 1999. When NATO attacked Yugoslavia.
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The voice acting and delivery here is still absolutely phenomenal.
Yep damn shame rockstar lowballed the voice actor
Niko Bellic is such an amazing underrated character.
Niko is one of the best protagonists in the gaming industry, why is he underrated?
Because a lot of these V fanboys hate him for being too depressing and they prefer a high school drama story. *cough GTA V cough*@@колин13
“War is when the young & stupid are tricked, by the old & bitter into killing each other.”
I pray for all Ukrainian souls & young Russian minds that have been corrupted.
War really never does change.😔
So sad, so pointless 😔😔😔😔
Young people from Russia hate this war. I'm telling you that as one of them.
I understand. I hope no harm comes to your brave hearts. Just Vlads.
@@ViktorKozh I believe you.
most unnecessary wars:
Ukraine crisis
Cold war
The winter war
Probably the most brutal GTA 4 video I've seen on this channel. Especially since I've never seen that cutscene with Darko until now
It amazes me with how much depth Nico had as a character having to have a reliance on credible inference and not just cramming down flashbacks to force emotion down your throats
there will never be a gta with the depth that this storyline and Niko's character had, just an incredible game throughout
That part when Niko talks to Darko in Serbian always got me goosebumps. Guess it is time to finish this game again for the third time.
GTA IV is the best GTA of all time, this game deserves a remaster THATS NOT OUTSOURCED
Hey man, I really appreciate all the work you put into your videos. I’ve been watching every GTA4 video you have and it really helps pass the time while working. Keep it up man, much love
Glad too see you keep uploading Gta 4 relevant content. Keep it up💯💯💯
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I've been waiting for a video like this
At least one game teaches us some things
Having grown up in a Yugoslav neighbourhood in the 90s when people were fleeing from the wars there, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians etc who worked with my dad on freighters trying to escape from back home. I relate to this. They shouted at another, cried with eachother, and hugged another, its like all the pain and anger at eachother of everything they were dealing with washed away once they moved from that place. Not everyone though, certainly though those who were mad at another, still are. I like to think they are mad because opportunists used their national pride to fight and kill what were once brothers and sisters, under the guise of national pride. Though I miss that place though, it was as close to a real neighborhood as any other. Generally good people who always had plentiful food, good stories and plenty of laughs.
Why do we, Slavs, always have to fight each other? And why are the nations that talk about Panslavism hurting the other lavs most?
"There are very few people in Liberty City, who met me before the war"
This line gives me chills, with how he talks about the war. Rape, murders, children being tied up and killed. Scary to think what Niko did during those times, when he was young and stupid like those around him. What he said to Packie was right, we only know this Niko, the one in Liberty City. I'm sure we all would've had a different perspective on him if we knew him before
That comment really made me shiver too. He doesn't really mention in full depth on the things he's done. Only named them.
And that...that is exactly how you keep a character interesting. Even after all this time....
He deserves peace. Not suffering.
Eh i wouldn't look at him much different lol hes who he is now regardless of what happened then
Likkle Jacob was an amazing character him and Niko really got to be close friends. GTA 4 was such a great gta.
My parents came to America from Yugoslavia in the late 80s and I still have family on both sides in Serbia. My dad had two brothers that fought in the war and one didn't survive...the other did but still to this day he struggles mentally with everything. I asked him when I was younger what was the war like? He looked at me and said that in war your ordered to do things that will stay with you for the rest of your life by someone who is sitting behind and desk watching the war through a television screen. They don't live with their choices and the deaths they caused cause they was there to pull the trigger...we was. My uncle died by his own hands a few years ago. He was never at peace since the war but now he finally has it.
I love when GTA gives a tragic but dark backstory for a character that isn't for once a butt of a joke or a sexual innuendo
It really shows that Rockstar does a perfect job in writing dark and tragic stories, the red dead redemption games were prime examples of that but when they add it into their GTA Titles, it really feels like a breath of fresh air and makes the characters actually feel human
He was trying to do the best not knowing it was all useless
What a great time to upload this.
It's very haunting how Darko resembles Niko, like a shadow self. He is the embodiment of Niko's trauma and his dark side.
2:00 He's probably talking about true event in Kravice village, where Naser Oric's forces buchered ethnic Serbian villagers.
One of the real-life snipers Dejan Beric (fighting in Donbas today) once said he witnessed it as first responding unit going to that village.
Glad to have been recommended this video. GTA IV is definitely one game that's more fun & enjoyable to play once you're older & more mature, only then can you really appreciate the amount of work that's been put into the character & storyline development, plot of the game etc. Interesting channel too BTW: Subscribed! 👍
I love GTA 4. The story is so fascinating and inspiring!
I’m so happy you’re still doing GTA 4 videos
This is very true how Rockstar can be like genius of creating characters like Niko and had some deep character development over the course of the IV's story and lore as a whole
The fact he doesn't say Yugoslav Wars in specific and just says war makes it seem in general sense, making his words even more sensible.
“How do you think it was? Seeing your friends die, seeing men have their legs blown off? It was… it was… it ruined me.”
That is so fucking sad my god.
The problem with all these great dialogues is that most players will not have experienced them by the end - most players will just breeze through the main missions and will look upon going out with all friends as "filler" and a waste of time when in reality, it's in these dialogues that most character info is revealed :(
Niko has always been my favorite protagonist in the GTA series.
He's the human of all the characters. One full of sympathy and remorse for the things he done and continues to do.
Thanks for this compilation
The story in this GTA is so deep and powerful. I honestly felt bad for what Niko had to go through. If they made this game into a movie, it would be a hit with the proper actors and screenplay.
They did a lot to develop Niko's character. Good video
Something to try in the first mission,
"If the player somehow manages to save before this mission ends (such as enabling movement with mods after the second cutscene ends) then the save game file will be called "In The Beginning", similarly to that of 3D Universe GTA games." From the gta wiki. After you save try loading the In The Beginning save file.
Thanks for uploading. Was waiting for this.
Niko Bellic remains one of Rockstar's best shaped characters. One can say Niko was Arthur Morgan's early prototype since he was also conditioned by a crime-driven environment, he killed people,but one can see he still has a sense of morality in certain points of the game.
The sister superior scene and the scene where Niko speaks to Mikhail's wife are very similar. Both are broken men talking to a women about the pasts that broke them and made them who they are, to be reassured that their lives matter and that they can help people, and that even in the darkness there is light, and a reason to believe in kindness and love.
2008: This feels over the top
2022: Fuck damn...
This game will always be in my heart. A master piece.
"roman u fat fk u sleeping"
"Do u always get sentimental after u kill people?"
Lmfao one of my fav dialogue in gta
the first one u fucked up lol
It was roman who slept not niko lmao
@@Sryloth even Rockstar made fun of gays in SA so lmao
Niko is more interesting than GTA V protagonists combined.
Those main characters in GTA 5 dont even like each other which is even messed up especially when then ran into each other during free roam 😑
Awesome video, really nice!
Makes me wanna play GTA 4 again
Wish we saw flashbacks of niko in the war
Him describing his time in the Yugoslav Wars always gave me chills and added more depth into his character when I was playing it
3:41 man hearing that while playing for the first time totally shocked me, man... poor Roman and poor Niko too
I've never gotten far enough into GTA IV, so I never even knew how the guy who betrayed Niko's squad loomed like. The most shocking thing definitely was that the paycheck for betrayal that the mf got was just... A thousand dollars?? For 13 lives?
GTA IV is just a game, but it tells such a strong and emotional story that it feels like more than a game.
These bad experiences... That's why war is bad, people must understand it.
Man, if the easter eggs of gta 5 are canon it warms my heart to know Niko is seemingly living a happy life with Roman and friends