I know that this is probably nitpicky as hell, but the thing bugging me most about GTA V is that your ONLY option is to be as ignorant and as criminal as HELL. I'm walking around as Franklin, and the three things that are really fucking with my enjoyment are:
1. Why is my ONLY option (other than ignoring people) to fight when I'm walking past NPCs? There have been a few times when I'm walking and people say, "What's up, Franklin!". I hit every button looking for something other than RUN and FIGHT. What if i just want to give somebody the fist bump, or just say hey! Seriously. Can't there be a button - especially when somebody starts fighting you for no reason - that lets you throw up your hands like, "Be cool, man. it's all good. My bad" or some shit. The minute you bump into somebody it's either they're scared as hell of you, or everybody's ready to fight. I really don't like that. I wish they'd give a few 'props' points or something when you go out of your way to be cool. Maybe respect points or something. If the fight is unavoidable, bring it, but Rockstar goes out of it's way to make the world so 'realistic', only to have everyone be so damned crazy. It just bugs me.
2. The world is detailed and gorgeous as hell, but sometimes I just want to sit at the bus stop bench and just look at stuff. Look at the A.I. routines and just kick back for as second before I go do whatever mission the game wants me to do. That's totally impossible in this game. There really is no actual sit button in the world unless i'm at the house. Sometimes in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, I'd just sit at the bench and soak in the world, and that had FAR less going on.
3. I know that it's GTA, but I really don't feel like stealing cars ALL the time. I don't play GTA like, perhaps, most people do. I don't enjoy just running down the street causing mayhem. Yeah, I steal cars when i have to, but if I'm able to just go back to my garage and use my car most of the time, I will unless it's VERY inconvenient. I wish that with the cash you accumulate, if you feel like it, you could actually BUY a car at a dealership sometimes. Just an option.
4. Responding to my text messages with Taneisha, and the game implies that you have options about what you can respond. I haven't seen ANY other options other than the one sentence provided. Perhaps I'm looking for a LITTLE more rpg in this, but even if i have to come to the same outcome, I don't want to always say what they're asking me to say HOW they want me to say it. A little more Walking Dead/Mass Effect in this would've helped greatly with the immersion.
I think what's bugging me is that as open-world as this game is, they want me to BEHAVE in a very specific way, which is really unfortunate. I don't want Franklin, for example, to be COMPLETE THUG when i don't have to. Just me.
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