[stevew]

Originally Posted by cthomer5000

Yeah, i may have misspoke slightly. What i'm saying is, the medium should be embarrassed if RDR is held up as an example of "brilliant" writing. People described it as subtle, adult, etc. It is nowhere near either of those things.

Also, i think the sort of false 'open-world' of the game didn't do it any favors. You're more or less railroaded into doing things in a certain order, and at times that would lead to weird junctures when a character you had just dealt with 5 minutes earlier responds to you (in a detailed cinema scene) as if they haven't seen you in months.

Plus I just found a few of the main characters so annoying that I wouldn't have continued dealing with them if i wasn't forced to in order to keep playing the game.

Red Dead Redemption, and again with Undead Nightmare (which i just played recently, at least 6 months after finishing RDR) were both decent gaming experiences.... but by the end of both I actually was happy to have finished the game. In both cases there was just diminishing returns as you neared the finish line. And in both cases I sold the games as soon as I was done, knowing full well I'd never feel like picking them up again.

I totally agree with you.