Red Dead 2 is not fun - it's not an enjoyable experience

I've not played it yet (held off because I was on Assassin's Creed Odyssey during release with Hitman 2 just a couple of weeks off) but I'm sad to hear this - it was a concern during the build up, the ultra realism like needing to eat, bathe etc can be fun as an optional survival mode but can be a massive, tedious slog. It's not that bad is it?

Games are all subjective - many people may love a game whereas many may hate it; that’s kind of the beauty of the gaming industry, even if loads of people like a game you have your own opinion and that’s fine. I’m sure there are other people who feel the same as you.

Unfortunately there does seem to be a tendency for people to go “the reviews say it’s good therefore it’s good”.

I had a similar experience with Mario Odyssey: I liked it, but didn’t think it was as amazing as all the reviewers said it was.

I don't know how you can come to that conclusion, really, but fair enough. I loved it. I literally played nothing else for 3 weeks, I was never off it. It is only as slow as some of the old Westerns, and I love all the old Westerns, so maybe that's the difference. It's not balls-to-the-wall, it's more of an immersive cinematic experience and I love it because of that.

youre wrong

Biggest let down of the generation easily. Why is no one calling out how excrutiatingly painful this game is to play?

To say this game is slow is an understanement. The movement speed on and off the horse is painful.

I've played 8 hours so far, of which there has been around 30-40 minutes of truely fantastic gameplay and enjoyable set pieces. One moment had me cheering outloud.

The rest of my time has been slowly, so very slowly, plodding around the map whilst not actually even holding my controller in my hand waiting to get from A to B. The missions are massively padded in the wrong way and I feel like I'm spending hours of excrutiating boredom to get to the next enjoyable bit.

I know plenty of other people that feel the same, but none of the reviews talk about the exessive padding or sloooooooooooow pace of the game.

What are your thoughts TSR?

I've never watched a movie, western or otherwise, that regularly has the main character riding a horse for 20 minutes with no conversation, events or interactions. Yes the game looks nice, but to lable laboriously long and regular horse rides where you put down the controller and wait an eternity to get from A to B is not a cinematic experience and is not my idea of fun.

I get it's each to their own, but I'm surprised more people aren't voally speaking out about the pace of this 'game'.

I don't think I ever rode a horse in RDR2 for 20 minutes without some sort of interaction (really).

I did. Towards the beginning I killed the legendary bear and thern slowly galloped back to the nearest town - took ages. Once I finally arrived there - horse on auto pilot (cinematic mode) - the horse bumped into a pedestrian and I got arrested! My character is now locked in jail and I'm treated to a seemingly endless loop of him laying in bed in jail and then looking out the window over and over again.


I do agree with others that the story is excellent and the action sequences are amazing, however they're so few and far between that they're not worth the excruciating wait.

I'm really sad to say I'm disappointed with this game. Red Dead Redemption was in my top 5 of all time.

I never autopilot apart from the bits where it is compulsory, so maybe that's got something to do with it! Do ambushes etc stop if you are on auto? For a large chunk of the game it seemed like I couldn't go 200 yards without some ******* shooting at me.

Ok I'll give that a try! The world has felt pretty unpopulated and empty to me, so maybe this is where I'm going wrong. I really want to enjoy this game so maybe this will help...