This and.....
After GTA IV I gave up with R*. Superb looking game for 2008 on PC but the tedious missions, boring cutscenes & rubbish ingame music are terrible.
Compared to GTA VC + SA GTA IV was a really low quality game.
SA was perfect. GTA IV had decent driving, but like you said, terrible missions which bored the living daylights out of me.
I bought GTAV for PS3, played it for a couple days then literally gave it away to my brother.
It was awful. The only way to fix GTA V would be to mod the hell out of the driving, and that can only happen on PC.
If it doesn't get a PC release with some decent physics mods I don't ever want to see it again. Yes, the driving was that bad. Tied with Sleeping Dogs for crappiness.
People say that there is no place for realistic handling in GTA games - I say GTFO. Where's the fun in driving if the cars stick to the road like glue, and you can't even write your car off in a crash?
Sorry R*, you went full retard with V. I honestly don't care how good the story was (didn't play much of it). The car handling + sandbox is why I play. If that's not right, I'll play something else.
TL;DR - GTA V's vehicle handling ruins the game.