"Today we’re going to tell you about why you need to pick Grand Theft Auto V over Saint’s Row IV if you can only pick up one of these games at launch." - David Wales
Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.
The freedom to explore large areas, approach objectives in multiple ways, and stumble across amusing distractions will always be an excellent format for video games, but some do it better than others. To celebrate the formula and parse the best from the best, have a look at the best open-world games of all time so far.
Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA 5 are both classics, but movement and general interaction sometimes feels like you're possessed by a fridge.
Rockstar need to learn that 12 years of work and 5000 employees doesn’t account for one persons opinion on the internet…
Oh and hundreds of millions of dollars in revanue to boot.
Lots of complaints about gta ever since the hd era started and yet it's bugger than its ever been with gta vi up to 180 million trailer views alone. The next game is shaping it be be another genre defining game
The controls of RDR2 felt a but cluncky indeed, but it’s not as bad as some make it out to be. At no point did I get the feeling my experience with the game was held back or ruined by the controls.
But it can never hurt to optimize them a bit, sure.
I did accidentally beat someone to death a couple times. An unfortunate mistake but besides that I didn't have any problems with the controlls
Red Dead Redemption felt clunky at first but I got used to it fairly quick. I thought 2 was easier to control but it could be my experience with the first game helped me out. Great games
I wouldn't call Rockstar games characters clunky instead they feel like they move with Weight they are not twitch controls press x to instantly snap onto cover the characters instead move like a actor would ducking behind cover they are exposed while they get there.
They are both different games. I'll be picking up both
saint's row can kiss my ____gta day one.
The reasons are just what we seen in the gameplay footage. Saints Row is cartoony and funny whereas GTA is realistic and beautiful
the only Saints Row thst caught my attention was the first one... just because it looked like another cool open world game with gangsters but i never got around to it.... then i saw saints row 2 and i started seeing some goofy shit in the game and from that point on i started not liking this game.. and now today saints row has super powers and wtf is going on in this game...
GTA all the way
None of these look like things I'd want out of a sandbox game...
Still not sure what people saw in GTA4. In San Andreas I spent most my time doing stuff like flying jets in between buildings, jetpacking into restricted areas, getting into high speed chases in a tank, or dropping 747s onto towns filled with civilians while I bail out with a parachute.
Then came GTA4, and all of a sudden the vehicles handle more realistically (i.e. like shit). There are no fun vehicles like tanks, the gunplay was tedious as all hell, I've got people constantly annoying me to hang out with them, and I get penalized for not paying tolls.
Even with all that, that biggest problem was it's story. It's practically impossible to take Niko's story of him being torn up over his past seriously when the second you get into gameplay you're murdering dozens of goons and running over pedestrians while hurling insults like a sociopath. Cutscene Niko and gameplay Niko are practically two different characters.
Saint's Row is dumb fun, and everything about the gameplay and story embraces that, pretty much like the PS2 GTA's did. GTA 4 wants to tell a serious story with a tortured protagonist, but does nothing to reconcile that with the gameplay that is still focused on facilitating player-driven anarchy.
You can add as many mini games and radio stations as you want, but I played GTA for the fun of creating absurd amounts of mayhem or just to act stupid for laughs. Unless GTA5 can impress me with that I can't see myself ever buying it.