The vehicle handling is just god awful
They went from 1 extreme with IV being boats on shopping carts to this which feels like I'm playing Saints Row... I could get used to the handling alone even though they've gone too far in the sticky direction *it's nice with big heavy cars as michael and prolly trevor*
Driving up gutters just push the saints row side, it's like there's a magnet under a table pulling a car along, you don't bounce one bit which is just.. it hurt me inside..
Bike physics *only rode one as franklin granted* is IV's terrible bike handling but you're glued to the road.
Getting air feels like saints row too, I don't know how they managed to go from fantastic bike controls in VC/SA *different for stunting but overall were quite similar* to painfully jagged in IV to both jagged and slot car-ey in V
The absolute worst was getting in a BF injection and driving on a mountain.. it just stays wheels down no matter what. I saw a clip of it online before playing it but it just hurt inside actually having GTA become saints row..
Something else they've done is dumb down damage waaaay too much. The damage now feels again like Saints Row, you can slam head first into walls *no more flying out the windshield..* and the front of the car looks the same with some ripples, it takes some INSANE damage to actually get anything noticeable and it doesn't fit the crash.. IV was too easy to destroy a car but now I'm playing Saints Row which I could never get used to the driving and hated the damage..
Kicking a car as any character damages it more than a full speed collision. 2 kicks and there's a large dent, big crash and there are some slight ripples.
In saying all that, I'll still be playing the game because I'm a bitch, the story seems great so far and the ragdoll is extremely fun to muck around with but I'm extremely disappointed.
I was also hoping they'd expand on interacting with objects like in IV but so you could pick up trash cans and other small/medium objects but nope, as far as I know you can't even pick up bricks any more, so there's little to no interactivity with the world except with pre scripted things no doubt.. I'm devistated.. sure we'll still be able to stunt but the GTA charm is entirely gone.. seriously, go get a BF injection and drive down a mountain only to be stuck on your wheels no matter what. Fucking hell R* it's been years and I don't really even want to play the game..
