User blog comment:AndreEagle17/Top 10 protagonists/@comment-1037580-20141212114415/@comment-558050-20141212185456

I like Franklin's bakground, the idea of a gangbanger who wants to get out of this life, but keep getting pulled back by everyone around him is interesting, and there's a lot of things that could be explored in this scenario.

The problem however, is that there's little time in the campaign devoted to explore Franklin's life, we see something in the beginning of the game, but Michael appears righ after two missions, and after this the narrative already starts to focus on him and his family.

You hit the nail on this one DonVecta, the problem is not that Franklin is a bad character, is that when compared with the amount of time that both Michael and Trevor had on the campaign and the amount of character development that they both also had, it just overshadows Franklin. The player ends the game, with this felling that Franklin is just not as interresting as Michael or Trevor, when in fact he is, he just did not have the same opportunities to be in the spotlight as the other two.