Yeah, the stories can be really great, some of the best in gaming, especially GTA4 and the RDR games, and this is more targeted towards GTA5. But oh man, these games feel so fucking sloppy control wise. I push my controller in one direction for a moment and my character takes like 2 steps in that direction. Aiming feels clunky and you basically have to rely on auto aim. GTA5 is also piss easy. Like, the only reason I have ever died in GTA5 is accidently driving into an explosive or off a ledge.
Everything takes fucking foreverrr to do, especially in RDR2. Like, I get that its impressive how the animations interact with each other and how everything in the fame world is affectes by you, but I dont want to manually pick up every item.
I’ve only played gta4 and 5, but I agree that the mechanics are just pretty blah in general. Every single thing it does (driving, shooting, fighting, etc) is much worse than a game dedicated to those mechanics, so the whole time I was playing I just wished I was instead playing a [racing, 3ps, beat em up] game. It didn’t take me long to quit both of those games.
That said I did play all the way through saints row 3, which had similar issues.