[kingbirdy]

My main problem with the game was how willing it was to fail you on whatever your current objective was. For example, I passed a woman on the side of the road with a broken leg who needed help. Easy enough, I stopped and offered her a ride. She couldn't get on though because I had pelts on my horse. In the time it took me to walk back to my horse and drop the pelts, she'd yelled at me "Fine, I'll get home myself" and walked off, and wouldn't speak to me anymore. I've had similar experiences with several other side-encounters, and even main story missions where I had to replay 10 minutes of riding somewhere because I got off my horse midway to shoot a deer and failed out of the mission because of it.

Also, the controls are quite bad - it suffers from the "Rockstar Claw" just like all their other releases. Overall, I want to enjoy this game, and I love the characters and the immersiveness of the world they've crafted, but the game containing the world is hard to play.

[w0rd-driven]

Rockstar Claw is fixed via the ‘Standard FPS’ setting with toggle to run. You click the left thumbstick once to jog and twice to sprint just like FPS games like COD. Pulling fully in a direction sprints and just barely touching it walks. I liked the change but it felt weird and I worried that I would just run off every cliff I came to.

[kingbirdy]

That only works for on foot though, not on horseback.

[onlyfortoday2]

Rockstar have not innovated on their open world format

[mercer]

Why is it called 'Rockstar Claw'?

[earenndil]

You have to hold down 'x' to run, and if you don't you go maddeningly slowly.

[kingbirdy]

You need to mash A to run, but also need to keep a finger on the stick and the trigger, meaning you end up with your thumb on the stick, index on the A button, and middle on the trigger, creating an uncomfortable claw shape with your hand.