Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- The main theme, but especially the incredibly soothing, beautiful and haunting pause music, which is a slower remix of the main theme.
- No Security which plays during the final mission.
- And unavoidably GTA Radio itself
Base-Breaking Character:
- Gay Tony himself. People either find him to be a whiny, drug-addled drama queen, or generally love him due to his hammy but likable personality.
- Fans' opinions on Ray Bulgarin are divided. Some think that his new lighter portrayal is enjoyable and adds more depth to him than other antagonists (e.g. Dmitri), and some other fans argue that the game killed off his mystique and made him a joke as an antagonist.
Best Level Ever:
- The last story mission is extremely awesome because it takes you from fighting on foot to riding a motorcycle to hijacking a plane to kill the last bad guy. In short, it is basically everything cool about the game in one mission.
- Boulevard Baby is a well liked mission in that you actually get to see the inside of Bahama Mamas during the mission. The club playing TBOGT version of Radio Vladivostok and the flashing lights and background makes it very fun to watch. Too bad this is the only time you'll ever see the inside of Bahama Mamas.
Catharsis Factor: Brucie punching Mori in the face after all the abuse he took from his own brother is pure pleasure.
Demonic Spiders: The Molotov Cocktail wielding gangsters during the Drug Wars. Because the gangs in these missions start off neutral, you will not likely notice them until they land a hit on you while you are distracted by gun wielding enemies. If you get hit by one, you will lose about a third your health and will cause you to be stunned for a few seconds, leading to other enemies to land shots on you. God help you if another molotov cocktail enemy lands a hit...
Ensemble Dark Horse: Yusuf, the Arab sheikh. He becomes a loyal friend to Luis and a big help in the final mission.
Fridge Brilliance: In the mission, “Dropping In”, Luis has to assassinate a man named, Marki Ashvilli, a Russian businessman who owns a hockey team that Ray Bulgarian wants to obtain. At the beginning of the mission, Luis is uncomfortable with the idea of assassinating somebody, however, he’s forced to go on the mission anyway; when the player finally gets to Marki, he thinks this is over an incident involving an underaged Latin girl. The game reveals that as a child, Luis (who is of Dominican descent) had shot a teacher for molesting his sister at school. Marki unknowably gave Luis a reason to kill him.
Game-Breaker: The automatic shotgun (with explosive shells) mentioned below. All the hitting power of a shotgun, with none of the range limitations, combined with Incendiary Exponent. It can blow up a car or a helicopter in two shots.
Genius Bonus: When Mori beats Brucie in the chess game it is a recreation of famous Karpov-Kasparov 1985 World Championship Match.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- Just one year after the expansion was released, The Expendables featured the exact same model of automatic shotgun also loaded with explosive rounds to very memorable effect.
- The AA-12 is depicted as a slow firing weapon, despite the real thing being able to shoot at 300 RPM. Fast forward to 2016, and a semi-auto variant has been revealed, and is expected to be available on the civilian market in late 2018.
Jerkass Woobie: Brucie Kibbutz. He's been picked on by his older brother for years. Not to mention Luis genuinely feels sympathetic and sad for Brucie.
Love to Hate: Ray Bulgarin, again. Sure, no one can deny that he is unpleasant and committed several horrendous crimes because he enjoyed it. But, curiously, he has some fans, for his voice and some of his lines which are considered entertaining or even funny.
Magnificent Bastard: Luis Fernando Lopez is the personal bodyguard and business partner of “Gay” Tony Price, who uses his collected attitude and craftiness to get him and his friends out of trouble. Working for Mori Kibbutz and Rocco Pelosi to pay off Tony’s debts, Luis also works with Yusuf Amir to pull off grand heists, with Luis successfully stealing helicopters and a train cart. Deciding to fully get Tony out of debt, Luis works to obtain two million dollars worth of diamonds, personally going to get it back from Niko Bellic and Johnny Klebitz when they stole it from him, before he manages to trade them back to save Gracie. When betrayed by Ray Bulgarin for the diamonds, Luis refuses to betray and kill Gay Tony, deciding to risk his life to help him and personally destroys Ray’s operation all on his own. Confronting and killing Bulgarin on a private jet, Luis jumps out of the blown up jet and reunites with Tony, with the two mending their friendship and deciding to restart their successful businesses.
Memetic Mutation: "STOP TOUCHING THE LITTLE ONES!"^note
Moment of Awesome: Seeing Brucie finally punch Mori in the face at the end of Mori's last mission was completely satisfying, as Brucie finally fights back against his brother.
Moral Event Horizon: See here.
One-Scene Wonder: Bahama Mamas nightclub is only enterable during one mission, but many players admit to really digging its atmosphere.
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Those who didn't like Brucie and found him annoyingly hyperactive in the original GTA 4 began feeling sorry for him in this DLC after finding out Mori is his big brother.
The Scrappy: Some people see Luis's mother as an ungrateful bitch who does nothing but try to guilt trip him and makes it very clear that he's The Unfavorite in the family.
Scrappy Mechanic: Relatively minor, but many players wish Bahama Mamas was open in free roam. At least the story gives it some justification (It's Luis's boss's club's direct competitor, after all), but still.
That One Achievement: "Bear Fight" is pretty damn hard to get, considering that the game's melee system isn't so great. Even if you take breaks between fights (which has you betting against two fighters in the ring) to restore your health, the last round is really hard with those fast knife fighters. To make it worse, you cannot, use weapons, use your phone to use health cheats, or even save the game between fights.
That One Level: See here.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- After being introduced to the fight clubs in order to pay off Luis' mom's debt, Luis tells her to stay away from the local loan shark. The player can later get a call from Luis' mother where she talks about how nice and well-behaved the loan shark is, so you may expect a mission where Luis has to save his mother again from the loan shark, permanently this time. But no, this never happens. Of course, you do have the option of winning the fight and killing the loan shark to complete the mission.
- The back of the box also makes it seem like a tale of a man deciding to stay with the rich and glamorous, or helping out his family and friends in his old neighborhood. This little plot is quickly abandoned in favor of getting out of debt and wrecking Bulgarin's shit.
- Luis vows to murder Rocco later during the game, yet this never happens and he doesn't even appear as a random stranger. Was later rectified in GTAV where he gets killed by Michael de Santa.
- It has been implied through supplementary sources that Gay Tony is a minority owner of Bahama Mamas and the detail they gave it from having its own show on Radio Vladivostok to being as detailed as the other two clubs would have been a good unlockable third club for Luis to hang out but after Boulevard Baby, the club is closed for the rest of the game.
Tear Jerker: Seeing Brucie utterly bullied by Mori, bringing to light why Brucie is the way he was, espically if he was one of your favorite characters. Seeing a man who was so full of life and always so happy in the original Niko story, be brought to tears over a simple chess game, it can be a gut punch.

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