John Mullins
Banned
Hard to tell which one was worse TBH, in IV cars had jellies instead of springs and drove like shit, V had better physics per se, but the driving model where the cars rotate around their own axis wasn't enjoyable either... And another bad thing I find with the cars is that R* doesn't have the licences to use real cars, but so desperately tries to mimic them anyway the cars end up looking absolutely disgusting for an automotive fan, you can easily tell this is an Audi, this is a Lambo etc. but treated with an axe or a machete...
Yeah I remember the jelly suspension thing lol but worse is I think IV had a weird thing that you couldn't just hold down the gas or else it would hit a rev limiter and you'd need to feather it order to move up the gears and actually get the power down and go anywhere. That took away the fun for casual players, but at least they handled well steering wise. As you say the cars rotating around their axis in V, to me that is the absolute worst enjoyment killer. They done it so you can weave in and out of traffic but feels so bad in all other situations, just driving around normally.
The bikes handled amazing in San Andreas, IV and V dumbed down the physics on them from a PS2 game, sad. Now we have an invisible sticky gravity thing that makes it near impossible to crash. When the stakes get removed, so does the thrill of getting it right. You are playing with stabilisers on, on auto pilot, and it feels awful.
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