0. No Microtransactions

I’ll agree that RDR is different in a many ways, it’s still Rockstar so some of the gameplay is similar but a lot more fun with the western vibe over the city. And while I enjoyed some of the GTA games, none of them come close to RDR1 in my opinion. I just brought GTA up because I saw the same life sim crap creeping in there around GTA4 like I did RDR2

I’ll chime in! This is absolutely true in my experience. I loved RDR1 (still one of my favorite games) but with RDR2, I felt exactly the same as you. Too much fishing, hunting, and other distracting elements. RDR1 has some of that but it’s on a much smaller and easier to complete scale. I never finished the second one, about halfway through, I went back and replayed the first.

That’s basically been Rockstar’s MO since GTA4. I enjoyed GTA3 through San Andreas but GTA4 felt like bowling with cousin Roman more than a GTA game.

I personally prefer the first Red Dead Redemption. RDR2 was good and has a great story but the game itself felt sluggish and bogged down by side quest nonsense. Granted they’re side quests so they only slow the game down as much as you let them.

It is a new South Park game, and it’s a cash grab, like all South Park games. I’ve enjoyed the show and their games from the beginning and still do but they came out with a crappy FPS cash grab in 1998 when the show was only a year old.