I was 20 when this game came out, no job, no future plans, no idea what to do with my life and now I am 29, I got a job that I love, I have two sons and a wonderful wife that loves me. There are happy endings in real life too. All it takes is faith in God and his commandments, self discipline and determination
I love you. And here I thought I was being a little wussy when I'd cry listening to this thinking of the universe in gta how amazing the story is, not knowing I can make my own right here in real life. One Love my brother from another father
OMG same. i remember when i was like 7 or 6 i use to play this game SO MUCH. I love It so much TwT. I would back to those times when i had the game. Now i play GTA V. It's godd but not as good as GTA IV. T.T
Time passes too quickly, things change too much. I miss being a kid without any worries or responsibilities. This theme will always hit especially hard
@@hewhobringsthenight9907 My man, the restraints of being a child just get replaced when you're an adult by the restraints of the world. At least when you're a child, those restraints have a face. I wish I could go back to when I was a kid and my parents were still alive to provide restraints, like being told to turn this music off and not stay up too much later.
@@totallyjon I was 12 yo, I remember also gta iv online. My mom bought the game for me, but I had to convince her, the game was adult only and she kwen. Now I study at university... time flies 🥲
we wont get back the past but we can still buy the game for either ps3 xbox or steam it may get harder to find as the years go by but its sure as hell worth it to go find
@@imnotatroll247 yeah we can buy the game again but it’s not gonna feel the same as before. It’s all about how this made u feel not the game itself yk what I mean.
A time were Modders hadn't even a chance to set foot, where online was online and a gray filtered city was default where speed wasn't important just your sidestreets when GTA was just GTA and not a Capitalism simulator, where Gaming was Gaming and not a competition. Greetings from Germany man and i hope you had a chance to relive that moments in those 2 years 🤙
My friend know that today is also one of the best times of our lives one day we will be wishing to go back to the good old days which is now. Enjoy lives as it goes live with one rule Regret nothing.
@@nickthamayne627 ofc bro. DLCs these days be like: A few side missions that are not as focused as the main story or imaginative afterlife in assassin's creed. Like u said, GTA 4 dlc is much better.
Crazy to think how we all pressed the pause button at some point in our life’s while playing this game, either to go get a snack or whatever and come back to this master piece playing in the background. Mannn i miss those days.
So nostalgic man. I just wanna be a kid again. Back in primary school, no worries, playing on my Xbox 360 on GTA 4 or RDR1 or minecraft or COD etc… watching my favourite RU-vidrs, old pewdiepie, darkmythhunter, Tobuscus, skydoesminecraft etc…I miss those days so much
@@indrajitroy1570 No matter what, it will never be the same. We lived when these games were innovative and new. Why would a kid play GTA IV when they can ride jets, submarines, faster cars, etc... in V. They won't get to experience the same thing we did. Like playing Halo CE for the first time in 2023 won't feel anything like playing it early 2000s. Games now *should* be better, more content, more game mechanics, free movements, new technology leading to previously impossible gameplay. But it doesn't feel as great for us, because we've already seen it in our own way. But, I guess that's just part of getting old.
The final days of the Xbox 360.. That’s what this reminds me of... The best summers 2010-2012 window open with the pause menu on the sun setting late in the sky with my pals over chilling with food and not a worry in the world.
Your parents gave you some money to order some food to share with people you no longer keep in contact with. You all enjoy the moment without a care for what’s to come, and at the end of it all there is only this pause music. Life is bittersweet
The year is 2011, I just feel asleep after pausing this game, felt like I was in heaven, floating on a cloud in my dream, only to wake up now and see how fast time has fly by, God thank you for the memories and Being able to breathe in and say, thank you for life, and all the greatness in it.. this touches home.. in 10 years oh how times have changed..
My thoughts exactly. I was a brand new police officer and had recently moved out on my own. I would play this game after I got off work at 4am and pause it just to hear this song to help me sleep after difficult times. Like floating in a dream... It is incredibly nostalgic. It's been 10 years and it still has the same effect only slightly sadder...Almost haunting.
5:02 When you allow your eyes be close forever, here starts to play. Your family know you had good and happy life and they wont forget you. You lived in peace and you did everything what you wanted. That's why when you died, you didn't close your eyes in sadness but you closed your eyes in happiness and peace because you did everything what you wanted. Your family upset for you little but they knew you did all your dreams and that's why you died in peace.
We're entering a new era guys. Enjoy it to the fullest. Someday in the future it will be a nostalgia too, we will meet in the comments of GTA 6 pause menu song after 10 years of it's release and remember how it was. But for now, it's all ahead, so just fall back and take it in.
I was in high school falling asleep to this song every night. I would play TBOGT all evening and then pause the game and keep the music on all night as I fell asleep thinking about my high school crush. This was a special time in my life and I only wish I could revisit even just a little to feel how it felt. Nostalgia is truly my greatest weakness.
Lol just had this stuck in my head. I was 16 i think when i played this. I would sneak liquor from my parents cabinet, play this game while i drank a concoction of mixed alcohols in a water bottle. Pass out for a couple hours to wake up to this song. Usually i had dip in that had been sitting there while i was unconcious. Thanks for these memories lol.
I have never played TbogT, I actually never even played GTA IV, but this soundtrack is something very special to me. It's one of the very few that can transport me into another dimension and affects my brain in an undescribeable way.. That's also one of the reason why I am listening to it at 3:22 AM now.. Many weird things are going through my head, such a deep stuff.. Shame there's no one I can talk about it.. But not just now, it's for years that nobody understands me..
I used to purposely pause and fall asleep on my couch with this playing in the background. So calm and soothing. So many hours I lived and loved. Would give anything just to go back 15 years and do it all again... Peace and love to everyone on this nostalgia trip rn ❤️
Never played Ballad of Gay Tony, but GTA IV's base game (with Niko). And I can relate to the nostalgia. I played the game when I was like 14 or 15 damn it. Now, being 20 and stuck in life full of ups and downs, one wishes to go back to easier times at least for a day. How old are you now, bro?
I remember the good old days back when I didn't even have a mic but still made a lot of friends countless hours of driving to and from the air port and always seeing modders spawn in ramps, strippers, flying cars and npc followers but like every one else in my life they all moved on. Thank you to all the modders who blew my mind as a child. I'll never forget back when modders made the lobby fun for everyone nowadays you get banned hell, I'm pretty sure were never going to see online modding anymore. The xbox but mainly ps3 due to free online will forever be my favorites consoles I played dead island for ps4 and saw how trash and boring it got without modded weapons. #bringbackmoddedmultiplayer
Modders were fun back then. Wouldn't mess with you too much. You asked for a pink ambulance? They would do it, If you were sassy to them they would just teleport you to jail and set you on fire. Other than that they didn't spend their entire time making the game miserable for you. Can't say the same with GTA V
I was in 9th grade when this game came out. The pause music makes me nostalgic but sad. I was younger and had friends and my dog was still alive good times…
This song brings back memories. 2012 in my sisters room watching her play, she would leave the game paused, take a nap, while I was still in her room listening to the music on the pause menu slowly falling asleep too. Good times :(
Idk why I get sad when I hear this its probably because my days of growing up are over and I'm a adult with problems now bit it makes me happy to hear stuff like this time goes fast live your life!
Man, this took me to a trip down memory lane. So many hours, spent with so much fun, one of the best ever GTA’s I’ve ever played. Thinking that I was 11 there when I first played it, and considering that half my life passed since then.. crazy. Closing my eyes and listening to this makes me instantly tranquil, and all my fears and sorrows are gone. Good shit bro.
i grew up to this game man. brings back all the times i'd watch my brother play and the time i got my dad to get it for me so we could play together. definitely a favotite, thank you for posting it.
I haven't heard this song ever since I last played this game on Xbox 360 when I was 19. It reminds me of a polish lady I had a crush on when I was 15 years old 2012. Her smile was beautiful. This song reminds me of more old memories: some romantic and some happy, but also some heartbreaking unfortunately. I miss you bro
Lol I'm surprised someone watched this 10 hours ago. Im getting drunk in my barracks room alone sadly and this popped in my head. Used to get drunk while playing this game at age 16. Im 24 now. Every time i would wake up this song would be playing and i would never remember pausing the game lol. Good times!
Im working from home, and while i write complicated contracts for foreign clients and translate/adapt docs from 2 different languages, this video plays in the background during the whole time. It sets a awesome work vibe
Early 2010s on the PS3 hit differently and now we're all here in the future and survived a pandemic and just realising how we took the past for granted.
Были времена, когда Америка не просто дружила с Россией, но даже посвящала России самую массовую игру в мире на тот момент, где было русское радио Russian hero и так далее.
I loved this game!! Still do… I miss these days. When I hear this music it reminds me of a simpler time. I had no worries. Parents were still together and I was in elementary living my best life. Man I’m crying writing this… because hearing this music just brings back a wave of memories I had on this game. From being at the airport with friends, throwing people down a staircase at the airport, hitting people off that ledge with my car by where brucie stayed at, to spending 10-15 mins trying to find the right color to have sprayed on my car and the paint shop, shoot outs with the cops, trying to find all the pigeons across the entire map, blocking the door with a car at the clock’n bell and shooting it up, to finally one of my favorite memories just completing the game in general. It sucks the last time I didn’t know it would be my last time for years to come. I wish there was a way to know your in the good ole days when your actually in them.
Even now in 2023 I will always love this pause menu song, it brings me back to the lates nights in 2010 to 2012 playing this game, nostalgia really hits when u see how many people around the world share the same experience 😄 Best times that i will miss 😢 but will always cherish 😊😀
Thank you for this, it has me in tears. Along with most of the rest of you here, this was part of your childhood. The good times. No bills, no worries, just throw in EFLC and let it’s magic take over. I never thought the day would come where I’d shed a tear over a pause menu song. It’s so much deeper than just a pause menu song though.
2024 an it still brings me to tears. Driving around at night in gta IV as a kid, laughing when doing the swing glitch and doing drag racing on the long straights. The online. Boss for its time Tbogt story. Boss, but with this pause menu song. Unreal. Stay blessed people. "Keep on walking" even if it is with tears in your eyes.
I Miss those Carefree Summer Days when sun was Out Blind's/Curtains Back All Caffine wanted alongside all snacks No Worries Just Mind free of Worry or Anxiety-Free.
Summer 2010 back in college 20 years old, staying all night playing with my first bongo... Sometimes its good to stop, pause and enter the memory lane for a bit, then press play and continue with your life
I remember being 9 playing this game during the summer of ‘11... 5 am would roll Around and I’d pause the game to look out the window as the sun rose. This song would play as I watched the sun come up. 10 years later and I’d trade anything to go back.
The main theme itself along with this one is a time capsule, in that the style of which it’s composed are made up of the best tropes for music in the late 2000s.
Maybe im late but hear me out Me and my brother played this all day until 2015. My brother said that we should play gta 5 instead but i didn't have money and so my brother we agreed that we will sell this on ebay and got the money fast but like 7 months later i said i kinda miss gta tbogt. My brother said he missed it too
I remember when I first bought this game it recently came out and I was at the mall asking ppl if they can purchase it for me since I had the money but no i.d LoL. Luckily a guy decided to and I was excited as hell. I played this game during winter when it was very cold and gray and raining. I would spend hours playing this. I grew up with this. I was 15 at the time , I'm now 26
One of the best games I played growing up I miss playing with such a friendly and great community, when anyone gets in your car you send him a friend request and take him to the end of the city just to get sultan rs or the police stinger in Tbogt after that becomes your friend and you go back to the airport and do a drag race with everyone until that player who has the helicopter start chasing everyone, I will never forget having fun with everyone till 2AM and making friends then go back to single player and start listening to the pause menu while in bed till I sleep, I used to play with many people from the USA and sometimes I talk in the mic but my English was bad as a European from Poland. I wonder where they are in life now. Those were the best times. omg, I just wanna cry now.
There's an odd existential vibe to this. With how 'I keep on walking' is repeated and echoed, it could be indicative - to me at least - of the long search for contentment and meaning during the daily grind of life. I'm not claiming that's what the composer, producers, or developers of the game were intending; especially when I can absolutely see the more romantic side to it. It's just what I personally get out of this version of the song.
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