User blog comment:AndreEagle17/Top 10 protagonists/@comment-1037580-20141212114415/@comment-1037580-20141212134808

Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying Frank is a bad character, the thing is that the writers of GTA V didn't give him a deeper background and story development as Michael, Trevor, Niko or Victor, for example.

Why not explore more in why his aunt Denise hate him so much or to make his nemesis Stretch more hateful so there's a stronger reason to actually hate him so much to the point he could be counted as a main antagonist? Or something else from his past to dwell during the story? Granted, he's serving as a decision element to lead the plot (killing M or T or get rid of all the enemies), but he lacks the struggle between the glitter and the ghetto or the temptations that several bosses were giving to Luis to give up his mentor Tony.

Franklin needed to meet new people in the game to develop his present life... or get deeper into his past to get a resolution. Michael was facing his problems with his family, his own sanity, his involvement with the FIB, his new job as film producer and the tension with T. Trevor was busy fucking up bikers, building his meth and gun empire, dealing with an impossible love, his mother and with angry Chinese guys and hillbillies (and of course the tension with Michael). Franklin's small role was being sacked from his house and rescue Lamar from his fuck ups, but that's it. He needed something stronger to evolve him... being more tempted by Devin Weston, hate Stretch more, make new enemies with the Vagos after killing Esteban for his bike, or why not? Get an even more evolved plot with former boss Simeon who wants to fuck him over and not being just a pathetic random event.

That's why I think Franklin could have been developed better, but the story was more focused in the duality between Michael and Trevor and F was more a catalyst to find balance between this conflict, but himself didn't have enough story to flesh him up better.