The boat mission with Gracie as well. I hate the boat physics in IV.
alot of faggots praise GTAIV for the physics which is incredibly retarded, it seems contrarian until you notice that the race missions are so fucking painful until you remember that to make a minimally decent damn curve you need to stop accelerating and press the handbrake rather than just good ol'braking like in the 3D era or even GTAV
(inb4 skill issue a faggot might say even though it's true, unmodded GTA4's physics is utter fucking shit to a point they reworked it two times on the xpacs), other than that the open world aspect of it is nice considering you are in a better version of GTA3 city, i did feel that the narrative tries too hard to go for gloomy shit considering you literally come after madd dogg got a gold record in SA to jump into a old woes be me that niko pulls which isn't that central considering he only sounds PSTDish on a few missions and downright bloodthirsty when it's about his cousin or packie's sister, the whole thing with playboy's mentor is just so stupidly damn railroaded, you can't get to the guy, see him like shit then do a 180 to kill playboy instead or something similar with playboy only to be stabbed in the back by that snake, it's like niko keeps himself to a rep of a "good job done" he doesn't even have and isn't even trying to build.
mutie boy handles it better on GTA3 which is implied that as long as you are paying and doesn't double cross him he does not give a single flying fuck, if he can get revenge it's a bonus, they do go for something similar in TBoGT but focus on the relationship of luis and tony (while also making it about luis unfucking whatever tony is fucking up, getting deals/paid in the process) with a upbeat nightlife setting, in GTA5 the characters know they have things that make them inconsistent and it's something they blurt out loud in some missions to give background and explain why the writers couldn't be assed to offer other choices for the sake of storytelling.
and that's where chinatown wars get in because huang has a rep within the triads to keep if he wishes to keep his head where it is, i don't think cipriani applies though because he's already known as the guy you call when the mafia dons want to unfuck things.
also F for definitive tony, his appearance is more like the LCS even though that comes way after GTA3 which tries to be similar to GTA3 but for SA engine.
notice the eye spacing, eyebrow shape and ear shape differences as well as different colors on his blazer
even claude got a SA-styled makeup.
not forgetting TLaD btw which is okayish if you notice that the whole xpac is built around the bikers systems rather than the story about the biker dude, the betrayal of his biker gang and the curb his addict girl keeps going to, that's why every mission marker there takes forever to reach and the bike physics is reworked to be less shit but the bikes still handle like their tyres are made of fucking soap, beats the bouncy bikes in OG GTA4 by a mile though until you notice it's only the bikes that had a physics rework, the cars still drive like ass, then the retarded driving physics get a second rework on TBoGT again but you can only polish a turd so much that you can say it's a polished turd and that's it, it's still a turd.
vic is another character that is funny from a narrative perspective because lance does his best to take his ass for granted while fucking up royally, i shit you not it's a nice brothers story even though he feels the need to be a bigger man for his lil bro as well as how he was raised considering he takes pity on that girl and his daughter, predictably turning into a sort of romance to give him a rage moment once she dies since he's used to vance's antics and they couldn't use a rage moment in vance's case, revisiting VC but with new systems in place is one of the reasons i recommend Vice City Stories as well as being able to finally fucking swim without mods.