- No gore
- No crumbling brick walls as advertized
- No grabbing people or repelling as advertized, only on-mission when instructed to
- little bushes everywhere that stop you dead in your tracks/wreck your cars
- No crouching - cover is only allowed on predesignated objects - no help from geography or objects you aren't standing against.
- No roll button, can't roll without a weapon equipped
- No punching or kicking with a weapon equipped = sh*tty transition to close-quarters combat
- No "retry" or "cancel" option until you die or fail a mission.
- terrible car/plane/bike handling
- No control over what kind of punches or kicks you throw
- 1-3 good crashes on a bicycle and you're dead, but you can roll convertibles [with their tops down] around on their backs like turtles without scratching the car or player.
- No camping like in RDR.
- No RDR-style hunting/trade. Takes any sense of purpose out of the hunting.
- the text for button prompts and in parts of the pause menus is too small to read - on the biggest tv I've ever owned even.
- Forces a boring-ass stock market "experience" on you and the most important stocks [lester missions, tinkle, betapharm, etc] aren't available if you're not playing online/connected to the social network.
- Forces the cell phone on you, but the camera won't even save pictures if you're not playing online. Horsesh*t.
- the prostitute 'experience' is offensively bad. They don't just hop in your car and get to it, it's a whole awkward, cringey, grunty cutscene presentation that you can't cancel out of and it's just bad.
- The 'random' missions aren't random at all, they're just lesser missions.
- They force realism on you in every aspect, but the cars twist/slide on an axis that's floating above the pavement and the 'crash damage' is ridiculous.
- Trucks and SUVs handle like crap in the mountains, while sports cars fly right up them.
- Police spawning/despawning horribly, and only existing when you're wanted.
- Cars dissapearing
- No NPCs on the cable cars or fair rides, and you have to pay to "ride" them, but it's really just initiating a sequence in which you're just watching the ride, unable to shoot/do anything.
- You die or get badly injured by slipping/stumbling on a slope, but flip your convertible with it's top down and you can roll around on the back of the car/your head like a turtle, and there's no visible damage.
- The cars handle more like bikes in the air than bicycles do.
- The explosions are all the same, an ugly effervescent black/yellow, and they transfer/spread from car to car like a ghost for no reason.
- Compare EVERYTHING about this game to Just Cause 2, which came out 5 years ago... It's amazing how much worse gta is in many basic aspects.
- people catch fire like magic
- Usually can't get out of a flying/tumbling/slowly sliding car until it comes to a complete stop, and when you do, you fall/tumble and it's incredibly slow.
- Can't bail out of a vehicle, even at low speeds, without injury
- Near-invisible reticle
- Super-sensitive wanted meter, but you can't even aim a gun out a window without it firing automatically nonstop.
- No binoculars/telescope and the camera doesn't work offline
- Constantly pushing the ifruit crap and other online services even though there's no internet connection.