I love how yall act like you had a lot of shyt to do in GTAIV...Yall must be thinking of the OG GTA's that actually had shyt to do...All they gave us to do in IV was man dates in a dead NY city...
If it wasn't for PC mods I would never touch IV...
That said...
I was a huge fan of Mafia LH...To this day it is still my favorite open world game...I know the console version was straight trash but that game on PC was a certified classic...The story, city, characters, gameplay and atmosphere were all on point...
I waited patiently for 8 years for Mafia 2 and was severely disappointed...2K games completely butchered that game...Instead of building upon the gem that was Mafia they removed features the og even had like real car damage, shooting from your vehicle and melee weapons...Empire Bay felt like it was half the size of Lost Heaven...
The biggest disappointment was the story though...It was complete trash compared to the og and I'm mad my man Tommy made an appearance in that bullshyt...I knew it was going to be bad when the original writer bounced before the game was finished and shyt on THQ for their design decisions...It was supposed to have multiple paths with different endings and side missions (which we later found out they removed to sell to us later in the form of Jimmy's DLC) but instead we got some boring man love trash...
Bottom line both games were disappointing as fukk but if I had to choose I'd roll with Luis and TBOGT...