Still better than GTA IV (vanilla) but not Lost and Damned/Ballad of Gay Tony IV DLC's.
Singleplayer wise I'd probably say...
1. Vice City
2. San Andreas
3. GTA IV: Ballad Of Gay Tony
4. GTA 3
5. Liberty City Stories
6. Vice City Stories
7. GTA IV: Lost And Damned
8. GTA V
9. GTA IV
10. GTA 2
11. GTA Chinatown Wars
12. GTA 1
13. GTA Advance
14. GTA Britfág games
But GTA V is still good overall. Just hope we get fkin casinos and able to work as police, paramedics, firefighters etc.. in Online.
Character-wise, yeah, I think it was better. But it really is painful to see that you are left with nothing to do on a gigantic map after a couple of hours. It's a real shame and waste of efforts.
It was also not as well-written as GTA IV. It had less memorable characters, main characters weren't fleshed out aswell as I would've liked (especially Franklin), the story line's composition was kinda off (perhaps in part because of the multiple protagonists), except for some parts of Michael's story line everything seemed less engaging and more superficial to me, and GTA IV just had more soul. Still a great game, of course.
I agree partially. I think they did fine with the character trio. You think Franklin wasn't fleshed out, which is kind of true, but that was the kind of character he was: A trustworthy black dude who found himself in the middle of petty crimes, but actually never wanted any part of it. So, although he kept leaping in and out of heists and stuff, he kept a reserved profile and tried to enjoy his life away from his accomplices.
Michael was quite stereotypical to be honest. He fit in nicely nevertheless.
Trevor? Well, he has been controversial. Still I liked him very much apart from some of the actions attributed to him, like implied cannibalism, his extremely cruel destruction of Floyd's life and that notorious torture scene. If they had done none of that, he would be an overall highly entertaining character with psyhotic tendencies. I mean his dialogues always managed to crack me up.