The most controversial video game franchise in the world is back – and it’s stealing the hearts of critics all over again.
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.
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Too bad it's attracted plenty of people thinking it's smart and cool to hate on a mainstream game by making a sweeping generalisation that popularity is inversely proportional to quality.
They'd be challenging that the game doesn't deserve the high 90s average it gets because "they could have added this and that, could have improved this and that, etc".
Makes you kind of think how any game could ever score in the high 90s in the first place, considering anyone can think of ways to improve any game, basically.
A 10/10 doesn't reflect perfection.
These cool guys hate on it because they can't stand a massively popular game rating a few percentage points higher than their favourites.
I rate TLOU and GTA V 10/10s myself, but I don't get butthurt because TLOU is 2% off on average.
Give me GTA2 anyday...