RDR2 is just a boring horse-simulator.

[Tighty-Whitey]

I am so tired of playing this game. I have it in Rockstar’s Game Launcher and I played it and just didn’t enjoy it at all. It’s really just all about graphics and it wasn’t fun.

So the graphics in this game look pretty alright, great actually even compared to many other modern games. The amount of detail, the visual fidelity in itself is something that can keep you there in the game for hours. But then when we look at gameplay, well… It’s just not a good gameplay. It’s very sluggish, you constantly fall off a horse and there really isn’t much to do apart from robbing someone or brushing your horse. All you do the whole game is watch cutscenes and they are also very boring and I don’t like the character and don’t want to listen to them talk, yet the game constantly just shoves them in front of you. So in the story you just shoot stuff and then there are those dialogues everywhere, then you ride a horse and heists in the story fail and you go on to another heist, rinse and repeat. Then the main character just dies under sad music which is really not sad and just boring and honestly it is cheesy that he at some point dies. I really didn’t care cause I didn’t like the character to begin with.

So gameplay is like super slow and it’s all the same. You press a button, you see this slow animation and it just grows on you, the lack of content gets boring fast. Same random events where you save a guy from something, then you find him in a town and he gives you a free item thing. It happens over and over. Next thing is that when you kill some named NPC they don’t die forever, they come back and the game doesn’t remember that you killed them. I was shooting everyone in the game and same guys just kept spawning over and over and it’s just lame. A really lame approach to game development. So the story is not good, the gameplay is not good, everything is just bad. Then the game sends bounty hunters that never give up and they are infinite. Don’t devs at Rockstar know that spawning enemies infinitely is bad game design?

Another thing, that snowy area where it’s just all snow. It’s a cool area because of snow tessellation and there is atmosphere and stuff but it just was so tiny, such a beautiful area and too small. Really wanted that section of the map be much bigger. In the game it’s mostly just either forests or deserts and it gets old in contrast to snowy area.

The story is just super cheesy, it’s about some gang of homeless guys trying to rob banks and they just constantly fail and split eventually. It was just done to set up events for the first game. Then there really isn’t much in gameplay, it’s basically more of an interactive movie with gameplay elements. Just press buttons, ride a horse by holding W + Shift and shoot some enemies occasionally. Obviously no cars, no planes, nothing like that because places the game in and time it’s set in is just boring. Weapons are also old and not very good. Can’t dive underwater like in GTA 5 and overall the game just pales in comparison to Grand Theft Auto. There are just forests everywhere, some shacks and houses and really not much to explore. Even if you want to just run around the game pulls you into dialogues constantly and you don’t really want to hear them. Gameplay is just lacking in this game and so is everything. It’s really just overhyped and I didn’t enjoy it. Playing GTA 5 is more fun and gameplay there is miles better.

This game is not worth it.

[GhostyOsty]

Well yeah, that's the point. It's an interactive film that's based in a scarce time period.

[Bwoah]

Looks like this masterpiece is not for you and that is fine go play whatever you like.

[Txmvs]

Why did u force urself to play the game u don't like in the first place?

[Tighty-Whitey]

Wanted to check the game out. Didn't like it.

[Silhouette]

Quite the detailed write up for a game you didn't like. o_o

[Rivfader]

I just use cinematic views and alt tab do other things

[Tighty-Whitey]

Yeah, judging from the comments, people are in it for the cinematic aspect of the game and just the graphics. Clearly the gameplay is lackling.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The game feels alive and open if you take the time to explore and do other stuff and NOT jump through the story mission hoops game. RDO is even more laid back and relaxed. Heck many times, RDO was more fun sometimes.

[eli_GO]

It is perfect that you do not like the game, in the end the taste and enjoyment for a game is never defined by whether it is good or bad but the feelings for it are the ones that will give you pleasure either for its freneticism, soundtrack, lore, exploration, etc.
For me the game is not pure cinematics and cavalcades, of all the time I have dedicated to the game on both PC and PS4 5% will have been cinematic because its gameplay hooks me demonically thanks to its unique and immersive experience that another game does not offer me.

[Hawk_UK]

You sound like a raving "Narcissist" buddy..... just because you don't like something doesn't mean that the majority of others would agree with you.....

Before you post such nonsense next time, why don't you use your head and simply look at the sales figures together with many many reports from people telling you that the game has it's faults, especially when using multiplayer, but generally people like the game very much, especially the main single player story line game.

Hope you have learned something today, but I doubt it. Lol.

[✪ showmie^^]

Originally posted by <|MLG|> Tighty-Whitey_pro90:

Yeah, judging from the comments, people are in it for the cinematic aspect of the game and just the graphics. Clearly the gameplay is lackling.

the thing it, rdr2 is meant to be a cinematic masterpiece that leaves you speechless after you finish it, and will still have a huge world to explore after you finish the main story.
it's meant to be the game that you savor, the game that unravels itself the more you play it.
it may be a little repetitive at times, but if you don't focus on it and just explore everything around you and appreciate how detailed this game is and how many hidden interactions and mechanics it includes, you will definitely spend more time enjoying it.
I personally loved the story and the characters, and after playing Dota2 for 10 years, and after struggling to find a game that would have a pleasant gameplay, I found the game where gameplay just doesn't matter, simply because you're not gonna be playing it for thousands of hours, killing the same NPCs that act the same way isn't gonna be exciting no matter how cool the gameplay is

[Kyznikov]

i ain't reading all that. i'm happy for you or sorry that happened.

[Mítia]

Nemly, nemlerei,

[Drothen]

hey hey hey whats wrong about brushing our sweet little horsey

[Wolfsun]

Copy paste your post into the review section. You'll get more traction there if you set allow comments to ON.