Surprise, surprise, GTA 5 is a smash hit. It broke day one sales records by a mile, raking in $800M in 24 hours, and critics are falling over themselves to praise the game, and it remains at a staggering 98 on Metacritic.
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.
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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.
i wont finish it, i only use it for a training simulator so i can kill people better when this game eventually convinces me that murder is the right thing to do.
@Ezz below: nice dude, you should have seen how bad i beat this one guy to death with a dildo after i was done playing San Andreas. we gotta go on killing sprees together soon im already starting to feel it a little. woah Now i know what the media is talking about...
Pffft you're all weak.I learned my killing from Barney.
Remember gotta kill them with kindness ;).
@Arch Of course they are i thought it was obvious??xD
OT:I still need to pick up GTA V
the game came out Tuesday...
I certainly will.
Just happy to hear it won't be a long wait on the PC version. Was very close to just grabbing it on console and then I saw the article on here.
I already flipped my game for Puppeteer. Want a real killing simulator?! Grab a copy of that game. Scissors are the real way to mass murder... everything!