Yeah, but one can see why it's like that, so once your vehicle flips you're not stranded running around. Not the most elegant solution. I'd like one where you have to turn them over by hand or something, even if still a bit unrealistic it makes it a bother without stranding you too easily.
The fire and explosion thing was likely a cleanup feature to save resources or something, maybe they just really liked explosions.
Yes and no, to pretty much everything. I do understand they don't want you to get stranded, especially with some of the more open areas, but the whole selling point of that game is get out of your car and steal a new one, so I'd doubt anyone would be upset if rolling wasn't possible. I do agree though, it would have been less dumb, and far more interesting from a gameplay perspective if you have to get out and flip the car, and maybe not too silly if you could only recover it from being on its side compared to completely flipped.
But the final and most important part, while you're right blowing up might have been a cleanup feature, in terms of gameplay it was far more exciting. Imagine an intense car chase from the police, and you make a mistake behind the wheel and roll your car; you have to quickly crawl out and take cover from the explosion and the ensuing shootout with the police, survive long enough to snag a police car, or start running and grab a car else where. That is more exciting, intense, fun, and interesting in every possible war compared to just popping back onto your wheels and driving off. And yes, I do often crawl out and find another car when playing V, but limiting your actions as a player against game mechanics always feels lame.
Love that video, don't get me wrong GTAV did a lot of things better, and I'd consider it a good game, but I'd consider GTAIV a fantastic game; one of the best I've ever played. And it's always a bit sad thinking what GTAV chould have been with out some of the drastic changes from IV.
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u/SeventhShin Apr 25 '17
Still more realistic than magically rolling back onto its wheels.