User blog comment:Istalo/GTA V Game of the Year/@comment-1612856-20131208012246/@comment-1612856-20131208172453

Get out of here Boomer. GTA V does have a lot of flaws.

1. The health is the stupidest thing ever. You can die in less than 5 shots. Sometimes you accidentally get in a firefight and you die before you can even pull out your gun. If a person beats you up, he can kill you in like four hits. I thought this health was a joke but it's the worst feature in any game I've played. If you crash off a motorbike you're going to die. If a cougar attacks you, you instantly die, while in Far Cry 3 you can defend yourself against crocodiles, tigers and even bears if they attack you. I'd rather be a bullet sponge than a realistic, life-like person that dies from the slightest few shots.

2. The cops are way too aggressive. They make free-roam so aggravating and annoying to me! You can get the cops for something as simple as pulling out a gun and aiming at someone. Yet when you get them it is a living hell to escape them. One, they always spawn outta nowhere when you are trying to escape, sometimes they appear in every direction so you have no choice but to bump into em. It is impossible to hide from them cause after a while of waiting, they drive right into your spot and see you! It is also impossible to cause chaos from the top of a building because the cops, like in GTA IV and episodes, now climb ladders and will shoot you dead before you even spot em. Also, the Police Mavericks will deploy NOOSE agents onto the rooftop you're on. You can't even go up mountains to escape cops cause of those damn helicopters with their spotlights! Also, I cannot stand the three star wanted level you get for attacking a cop (though it was also in GTA IV and episodes, which I hated as well in those games). Some cops deserve to be shot because of the things they do and say to you. Plus the cops make escape so difficult since they use Spike Strips, PIT Manuevers and even driving in front of you to slow you down. The fact that Pedestrians can now call the cops makes this game even more annoying and boring.

3. Now, after finishing the game's storyline, you now see the lack of things you can do or buy. The lack of having only one safehouse (except Trevor who has two) and one garage for a map this big is really disappointing. I hate knowing I have to drive several in-game hours to store a cool car like a Baller/FIB Granger etc in a garage. Plus GTA V has a lotta cool cars such as Ballers, Monroes, even Entity XFs (that car is so beautiful). So the fact that having one garage per character is quite disappointing. I thought the 10 car garages in GTA Online would be in the single-player but I was wrong and otherwise disappointed. Plus the properties you can buy give you money every in-game week. The money is usually useless since causing chaos in GTA V punishes you with a $5000 hospital bill. And the golf course? I'd like to know who bought that already!

The activities now are also useless and boring. I miss the vehicle activities. In GTA IV, I'd take a FIB Buffalo and hunt down criminals till I die. Fast way to earn money in that game. What happened to all the activities you could do in Vice City and San Andreas?? I also miss the girlfriends' thing. Yea it's fun to take Amanda for a good tennis game, I enjoy that. But I used to like getting Niko dressed in a suit before I go pick up a girlfriend and take her somewhere fun. Quite disappointing the only vehicle mission available in the game is Taxi Driver. Plus idk where Rockstar get the idea that playing some activities like Yoga and Darts would be awesome cause they aren't. Those activities shoulda been deleted. Like come on San Andreas players. We all know you'd enjoy if we could go into Vinewood Hills/Rockford Hills and do a Burglar mission with a Black Boxville right? That's what I mean.

4. Though this isn't much of a big deal anyway, for a map as big as GTA V's, I expected to go into more interiors and cause chaos. I may seem to be a huge SR2 fan, but that's cause not one game has surpassed the amount of enterable buildings in that game. Like I used to go everywhere (i.e. the airport, night-clubs, strip clubs, bars, fish factory, meat factory, lighthouse, casinos, university etc besides the stores that played a point in the game like the clothing stores). In GTA V, you can't enter almost any building unless it's a safehouse, clothing store, or store to rob. Yes you can cause chaos in barber shops and the Vanilla Unicorn, but with a secret way. You have to push open the door from outside and shoot. Then you can enter the place with weapons and cause chaos. I found this quite disappointing for a map this big.

5. As mentioned above, I believe making money in GTA V is a bit more challenging than GTA IV. I mean in IV, you didn't have Heists to make you go up to millions in a few days, but still. The hard-earned money in GTA V is easily lost because of that damn $5000 bill from hospitals. I feel what Rockstar should've done is if you die so easily, then have the bill like $2000 or less or if the bill is expensive, make it hard to die. But it is so easy to die in the game, even with Armor! Bullets (especially by cops) drain your health so fast you'd be surprised! To me, it's easier to lose money than earn money. I'm also sad we can't do anymore Heists after the story. Even if we had to rob the same banks and get money it'd be cool. Heists mostly made GTA V's story come to life in my opinion.

6. Nobody sees this flaw but me. However, I think GTA V has a really bad car-spawning system. One would think the game has less cars than GTA IV and episodes and even GTA San Andreas cause of the way cars spawn in the game. Ppl always argue with me saying the game is realistic when it comes to super cars spawning. This is a lie because every super car in GTA IV and episodes had a particular spawning location and WILL spawn on the streets, even if it takes numerous driving around in Algonquin. In GTA V, no super cars (except Infernuses, Comets and Bullet GTs or should I say Bullets) spawn on the streets at all and can only be bought online. I was upset to have to spend over a million dollars to buy a new Monroe and Entity XF. It'd be better to have them spawn on the streets than having to buy them. I don't care who throws the "it's supposed to be realistic" thing because that's a dumb phrase. Realism does NOT make a game. In some aspects, realism ruins a game. No one would like a game so realistic that we get wanted by cops for running red lights, can't fly planes without licenses, and obviously die in one shot or stab right? Okay then. Cross out the "it's supposed to be realistic" thing. Plus the cars in GTA V spawn in the same places. I've driven as far out as Paleto Bay only to find Beejays and Ballers on the road like what? This is the country! One would expect to find many BF Injections, Campers, Journeys and even Rebels and Dashounds in places like the Grand Senora Desert and higher above in the map, but sometimes modern cars like Beejays and Ballers take over the streets. What happened to the Sadlers and Bisons carrying trailers? I loved those! But those are so rare (possibly also cause of the car spawning system). To me, if R* could add a specific spawn point for FIB Buffalos and Grangers (where in GTA IV, the easiest way to obtain the FIB Buffalo is by cheating) they could've added specific spawning points for the super cars. Like I used to love going to the Old Mansion in Alderney to find a Sultan RS.

7. Idk man, but Rockstar really messed up in the size of the map compared to the amount of stuff to do, buildings to enter, etc. The game needs better activities. I'm not a video game designer, though that is my future, and I can imagine what GTA V would be like with a mixture of San Andreas activities and Vice City's activities. No one really wants to play darts and Yoga. Rockstar should've noticed this ever since. GTA V also has too much country as Sasquatch101 below me has mentioned. The country is very pointless. There's little to nothing to do round here. Like oh let's go cause chaos in the prison...OOPs sorry pal but there's snipers that will waste you in seconds! Or how about taking a Dumper from Davis Quartz and crushing cars with its tires...again OOPs the Dumper will blow up along with the car you crushed. Let's go Hunting in Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness! Oops! If a cougar spies and catches me, I will not survive even with armor. See what I mean? But it's worth a try going into the Yellow Jack Inn to play darts??? I really enjoy Los Santos and one of the best things I enjoy doing is going to Vespucci Beach and causing a shoot-out, the chase and watch the Pedestrians flee without ever stopping and screaming! I also like the detail of Los Santos. However, even in Los Santos, there's nothing much to do. Go in Premium Deluxe Motorsport and kill Simeon, then come back and see if he reappears. Nope, can't go in there after Franklin is fired. Go on a shooting rampage and kill everyone. Nope, can't do that either because 1. the cops are too hostile and respond to anything you do. and 2. It's obvious that when the cops show up you won't survive, even with Armor. Basically, the game makes single-player free roam unfair and rather boring. I enjoy cruising like a Pedestrian in cars, but come on that's not the point of sandbox games. Everyone enjoys going mad and shooting everyone. Everyone also likes running around while engaged in a "Cop War". In GTA V, it is nearly impossible to do these things due to the low health you have, the cops' aggressive behavior and let's not forget the $5000 hospital bill you lose each death you get.

Now to Boomer8 and all the other reviewers here "I AM NOT A GTA V HATER". I enjoyed GTA V's story and reccommend the game to anyone. And at Boomer8 stop saying I'm a Saints Row guy. Everyone has their game preferences. I still feel some aspects in SR2 have not been surpassed in any sandbox style game yet. That's why I still play that game. You don't have to agree with me but that doesn't mean you can go around calling me a SR2 lover and that SR2 sucks. Everyone has their game preferences. GTA is a good series but it is not the king of sandbox games. Every game has a competitor. I even plan on when I grow up to make something that can challenge SR2 and GTA. I don't care how long it takes. So those games don't deserve the "GTA Clone" name. Again this is my opinion in this long review. Dont agree with me? Oh well that's you and you don't have to pay it any mind. Leave it at that. I don't want no arguement here for I'm just a common editor here.

By Smashbro8.