This is true. I remember how GTA San Andreas basically just killed the joy of the game for me after spending 20 minutes running to finally find a car to spend t

This is true. I remember how GTA San Andreas basically just killed the joy of the game for me after spending 20 minutes running to finally find a car to spend ten minutes driving back to an area where there was actually things to do (gee, imagine me wanting to do that while playing video games). In the first games for PS2 you'd just drown if you fell in this water, in this one you could be forced to swim seemingly endlessly to find a place you could actually get out of the water (only to have to run for 20 minutes to find a car). I put that one down and never looked back at the series again (although I hear they're really great games these days the concept was kind of played out for me by San Andreas and I barely play video games at all anymore anyways so it may have been a variety of factors besides the time spent running and swimming for no reason).