A lot of people really don't like the driving in GTA V and wish it was more like GTA IV. Craig Keeble thinks that the driving suits the game perfectly, but wishes that off-roading was a little more challenging.
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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 totally agree with this opinion, i'm glad i'm not the only one
I'm LOVING GTAV, but because I got so used to driving the cars in GTAIV (I played the GTA online races ALOT) I went into GTAV thinking the driving mechanics would be the same
The driving in GTA is so easy, the cars handle like the ones in Sleeping Dogs
You can proper wreck your car in GTAV but it takes alot longer, meaning you don't really have to drive carefully in worry of wrecking your car, the cars takes quite abit of damage
It looks as though i'm hating on the game, i'm not, it's AWESOME, doesn't mean I have to like all of it
Vehicle mechanics are the only downside for me, all else is fantastic so far.
I'm glad they didn't implement the driving of GTAIV, I thougt it sucked.
GTA IV cars felt more like boats
"A lot of people really don't like the driving in GTA V and wish it was more like GTA IV."
What? No. No way. General consensus on GTA IV's driving mechanics was that they handled terribly and felt like steering big ships. I'm pretty sure people who wanted IV's driving mechanics back are in minority.