Love this. Finally

I don't play GTA, I just want to say that I hate when games make you press L3 to run (which is in so, so many games). Always feels awful and awkward.

Will the game have first person view too does anyone know? I haven't looked at trailers or gameplay because I don't want to be spoiled.

NO x spamming no buying LOL
it was only one issue for me with the extended trailer, her (dont know his or hers names) bigger ass.... dont know why, but I dont like it. Its nothing which would be no buy for me, but she is better looking in real life, so why?
but I dont doubt its gonna be amazing as always. I have finished all gta games.

Press x to run is not a issue to me people make a big deal out of nothing word up son

Praise the Thumbs!

They are leaving the ‘press X to play’ for Insomniac games.

Good thing is, for those that don’t want it to be configured that way, no doubt Rockstar like most developers will enable button mapping to at least some basic degree.

This isn’t something that particularly bothers me, as CoD does the same, so anything other than X is a win in my book.

Good, in Crimson Desert all I have to do is gently hold X once and I'm off running. It's a very small feature that makes a huge difference, when you have claws. L3 is okay too but I always think 'how do big guys not break the stick doing that', especially if it's a fast-paced dodge or die kind of game.

@JustBusiness They said there won't, I'm hoping they patch it in later.

More context.

No full mode at launch: Reports from content creator previews at Rockstar North indicate the game is built primarily around a third-person perspective to highlight character animations.

Limited first-person view: Players can still switch to a first-person perspective while aiming certain weapons.

Thank Christ!
I'm sure this messed up the button on a couple controllers for me over the years!
Nearly as impressive as when they added a jump button to elden ring and not the Sprinting anolog click like previous

Hold on just a second while I double take. A Rockstar North game is going to maybe CONTROL WELL!!!!

That is honestly astounding. GTA games have always had bad controls. Even GTA 1 on the PS1 made you use the face buttons to move.

I once joked that there was more chance of Sony reversing their no disc policy than there would be in a Rockstar game ever controlling well. Dare I believe the impossible to be possible now?

@JustBusiness no it doesn't sadly.

L3 for run is the best way of kill controllers

Holy moly. This is what we have to look forward to for the next few months; entire articles about a button press. Next up: GTAVI technically let's you pause the game using the PS button as well as the options button.

How hard is mashing X. It was a way for GTAO players to direct their anger on a button after they respawn and sprint full speed to find the player that shot them 😂. What I'm not really a fan of in other games is tilting LS to walk and pushing all the way to run, makes for some awkward jerky movements sometimes.

This coupled with the apparent ditching of the shooting auto lock on nonsense might mean that GTA finally feels great to play

I hate L3 and R3. But I use an edge so the extra buttons are remapped to them. Stupidest buttons for me.

@TheArt my favourite system is tilt slightly to walk! Devs can't win when it comes to running

Red Dead Redemption 2's controls were awful so i'm glad they are addressing this.

@JustBusiness That's being saved for the PS6 version.
I'm only half joking. That's how Rockstar marketed the PS4 version of GTA5.

I hope this is optional. I love the fact that in Rocksar games walking is normal and you have to make the effort (tapping x) to run.

L3???
Your left joystick will be destroyed and will drift in 3. 2 1 second . I guess there is a connection between Rockstar and Sony: "make a lot of marketing for me and I'll anything for you in order to sell controllers !".

Doesn't matter to me, I will map run to a back paddle on my Dualsense Edge.

Always hated pressing L3 R3. Feels so unnatural and they never perform like regular buttons

Rubbish news. Hope you can put it back on X. God forbid people engage with controls, everyone’s far too lazy.

The only bad control scheme to me was rotating the RS to reel in fish in RDR2, it got really crazy with the legendary fish. It was great you could switch it to tapping Square.

Running with the left thumb stick only makes sense in first person games, just like using melee attacks with numbers and triggers.

I really dislike this push towards the homogenization of control systems, with studios copying each other without any rhyme or reason.

Black Flag Resynced might be the worst example of a game that falls victim to that homogenization and is worse for it.

Edit: also, GTA controls are in fact atrocious, but sprinting by holding X was never the problem.

L3 sprinting always causes my left stick to drift after a while. I loved X sprinting in GTA

While I didn't find the mash X that bad (aside for those pesky triathlons, that was hell) I mainly found it awkward because you have no control over your camera whilst doing so.

I have no issue tapping L3 to toggle sprint, I don't find that causes any problems for me.

Thought I was the crazy one who liked sprinting on X when I saw the headline. Glad to see I’m not alone lol.