What annoyed or disappointed you most about GTA 4?

[Ant_On_Sugar]

1. Shot guns and sniper rifles or numerous rounds of machine gun didn't explode/blow heads off. The damage effects in general were fake. Mild stains instead of bullet holes. What's that about?

 

2. Too many police spawning everywhere, look behind you, nothing, then turn 360 degrees and there's a cop car there with 2 cops in it.

 

3. Cops react to every thing, even pushing a homeless man in the middle of nowhere with no witnesses. Psychic cops?

 

4. Police helicopters spawn in twos about 20 seconds after you gun them down. This is as irritating as having hornets buzzing around stinging your ears as you try to play. They should only spawn about once every 10 minutes - max! 10 real minutes, not in-game minutes.

 

5. There were no tanks. Why not? There's always been tanks. In fact there wasn't even an army at all!

 

6. There were no planes. Why not? There was in San Andreas.

 

7. There was no bicycles. Why not? There was in San Andreas.

 

8. You could not enter the airport? Why not? You could in Vice City.

 

9. You could not swim under water. Why not? You could in San Andreas.

 

10. You could not slice throats to perform a stealth kill. Why not? You could in San Andreas.

 

11. You could not mount, ride on top of any vehicle without falling off like a rag doll. Why not? You could in GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas. They down graded in this feature back as far as the very first GTA 2D game.

 

12. You could not run or stand on top of the train moving. Why not? You could in San Andreas.

 

13. You could not derail the train as you could in San Andreas.

 

14. When shot Niko puts his phone away - causing delay when topping up your health during wars with cops.

 

15. When standing over the bodies of cops and gang members, Niko can not take his phone out if standing within the glow of the gun the police/gang member dropped.

 

16. Niko apologised, reasons, negotiates and dwells over every crime he commits; "My bad. Sorry. What has become of me? What am I like? I really need to hate myself. Sorry man. Its an ugly world. Don't make me kill you. Don't make me do this. Do you want me to do this? You don't want this, trust me. I'm not having a good day. I warn you, stay down. I'm warning you, don't get up."

 

17. People, especially cops have too high a resistance to damage. I had to run over the same pedestrian several times before he would stay down and even then he wasn't dead. I've shot cops point blank range in the face and then watched them get out of their car and start shooting me. I've shotgun blasted knees and watched people get up and run away. The people in GTA IV were like undead zombies.

 

18. The helicopter didn't go high enough to sky dive and the parachute wasn't available until TBOGT which let's face it, is a different game with the same stage.

 

19. The sixaxis option never left your phone - very annoying when trying to select a cheat and then you're at the airport and have to take the long way back as you can't just cancel the tutorial. Sixaxis was a waste of time anyway - just makes driving more difficult.

 

20. The selection of weapons was pathetic. TBOGT was a little better. But what happened to the minigun, chainsaw, hammer, screw driver, katana sword, meat cleaver, flame thrower, sticky remote detonation bombs, silenced pistol, automatic shotgun?

 

21. Could no longer change hair style or get tattoos? Why not? You could in San Andreas. For PS3 I expected more - like created your own face and tattoo designs as in SVR games. But there was even less. You couldn't even change your body type via a gym, let alone being unable to morph it at the beginning to design your character.

 

22. Very limited choice in clothing. You can either appear like a romanian gypsy, a russian mafia, or an upper crust suit wearing snob. What happened to the army bags? Overalls? Jason hockey masks? Tank tops? Etc.

 

23. No Nitro boosts for any car.

 

24. Very little cheats. No jet packs, No high jumps, no super high bike jumps, no power punching (until TBOGT), no gimp suit (which was good cause it looked like Spawn or Batman).

 

25. You could not recruit gang members, no cheat for that either to recruit pedestrians.

 

26. The whole dating and going out with friends thing was pointless. This is not The Sims. Its GTA.

 

27. The option to ride the taxi was pointless, since everyone skips the ride anyway. Further waste of game data that could be used for the other things missing above.

 

28. Poor selection of vehicles. What happened to the Quad bikes? Hovercrafts? Monster trucks? (Already mentioned tanks and bicycles). Voodoos with suspensions? Golf cabbies etc.

 

29. Could not enter a police station like in Vice City. I wanted to do a Terminator on them in Liberty City but not possible.

 

30. There was more places to rob in San Andreas. We should have had banks, post offices and building societies to rob in GTA IV.

 

Let's hope they change all this for GTA V. I have my doubts.

[Algonquin Assassin]

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Thank you.