{"id":88626,"date":"2026-09-01T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88626"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:36:40","slug":"gta-6-removes-the-series-worst-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88626","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 Removes The Series\u2019 Worst Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve played a Grand Theft Auto game before, then you are probably familiar with the series&#8217; sprinting mechanic. Rather than clicking the left analog stick like in most other games, you have to either hold or mash a face button. It&#8217;s annoying, less intuitive, and feels like a relic of the past, and luckily, Rockstar apparently agrees: Grand Theft Auto 6 is doing away with it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As shared by the Italian YouTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eC_2w7rQfrQ\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eC_2w7rQfrQ\">MikeShowSha<\/a>, you will now click the analog stick in order to sprint. It&#8217;s a welcome change for muscle memory if nothing else, as anything other than clicking the analog stick feels odd in 2026. We&#8217;ve occasionally seen other game series, like Halo, adjust control schemes over time to fit more modern standards, though usually the option for the old-style controls is available in these cases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, this change is certainly the reason it took 13 years for Grand Theft Auto 6 to arrive. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-big-reveal-all-the-things-we-learned\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6s-big-reveal-all-the-things-we-learned\/\">Other, less-important changes<\/a> include a map that is three times bigger than Red Dead Redemption 2, a new Criminal Profile system, throwable dog poop, and a physical-fitness system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives November 19 for Xbox Series X|S and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve played a Grand Theft Auto game before, then you are probably familiar with the series&#8217; sprinting mechanic. Rather than clicking the left analog stick like in most other games, you have to either hold or mash a face button. It&#8217;s annoying, less intuitive, and feels like a relic of the past, and luckily,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":88628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88629,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88626\/revisions\/88629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}