Why I HATE Red Dead Redemption 2

Hello and welcome to my new review of the

video game Red Dead Redemption 2. So I

know this is an old game, but I haven't

really noticed it much until recently,

and I decided to purchase it for myself on

my gaming computer. And there's just a few

things about the game that I don't really

like, and I thought I'd make a video

explaining why I don't like this game. So

first of all, I have to say,

unfortunately, this game just kind of

sucks. It really is lacking in luster,

and when I say that, I don't say it

lightly. If I had to briefly describe this

game, it would be— it's kind of like a GTA

5 ripoff, but if you went back a couple

hundred years in time. It's pretty much

the same as GTA, so you've got this open

world, but instead of having a sprawling

city and cars, you've got the sprawling

American wilderness and then a few

outposts and colonial era, colonial era

time towns and small villages. And instead

of cars, you've got horses and wagons and

those steam trains. And you've just got

this massive expanse— expansive

countryside in the American Wild West.

Even though the graphics look pretty good,

they still aren't quite up to my

standards. Still, when I look out the

window, I still think to myself, wow,

real life just looks so much better. And

even though the mountains and the trees

and the rivers look kind of pretty at

first, it does start to get a little bit

repetitive when you're just staring at

constant nature all of the time. At least

in GTA, you had a cool-looking city and

different buildings and highways and

shops. In this game, it's mostly 90% just

mountains and trees. If I wanted to look

at mountains and trees, I would just look

outside of my window. Now for the

gameplay, it is kind of like a

Frankenstein's monster mishmash of all of

Rockstar's other games. So Rockstar has

quite a lot of very well-known, popular,

well-received games: GTA, Max Payne,

and that Bully game. And this Red Dead

Redemption 2 game kind of mixes all of

them into one game. So you've got the

open-world gameplay of GTA, and then the

shooting also has Max Payne elements where

you can slow down time and you can do all

these fancy-looking execution moves,

but you don't have the cool jumping around

and slow-motion Matrix-style gunplay that

is in Max Payne, and the gameplay is just

not quite up to my standards. When it

comes to the weapons, you have very

old-fashioned versions of all of the

well-known weapons of today. So you've got

a lot of revolvers which are kind of the

same to use. They all kind of function in

the same way, and they're all kind of

annoying because, you know, revolvers only

have a maximum capacity of about 5 or 6

bullets before you have to do the tedious

reloading animation. Those old-fashioned

revolver guns were just so inefficient.

Why did they not just make a bigger

revolving chamber which could fit in more

bullets, and then you wouldn't have to

reload it so often? You only get about 6

shots before you have to reload, and that

is just a limit of the technology of the

time. You also get sawn-off shotguns,

rifles, and sticks of dynamite, which is

fine, I guess, for the weapons. Nothing

really that fancy or interesting or

unique. There's also melee fighting,

which is also kind of disappointing. Even

though the melee fighting looks cool and

the animations look realistic and it looks

like they're really having a proper

fistfight, the gameplay mechanics of the

fistfighting is just kind of boring.

Basically, you'll just be hammering one

button over and over again. There's not

really a complex melee fighting system.

There's no grappling or complex

counterattack and blocking. There's no

combos that you can chain together, and

it's just pretty boring to play but cool

to look at. It's no Tekken or Mortal

Kombat, let's say it— let's put it that

way— when it comes to the fighting

mechanics. I am a bit disappointed there's

no melee weapons. It would have been cool

if you could pick up planks of wood or a

hammer or a bat or an axe. Well, there are

thrown axes. Okay, there are a few melee

weapons like the thrown axes and the

knives, but it would have been even better

if you could pick up any object in the

world and use that as a melee weapon.

I don't see why that shouldn't be

possible. It was possible in Dead Rising,

which was a really, really old game. It's

one of the launch games of the Xbox or

Xbox 360, and that was ages ago. Red Dead

Redemption was released in 2018, so it's

no excuse. There's just no excuse that

this game wouldn't be able to do the same

thing. It would have been so amazing if

you could just pick up any random object

that's lying around, like a beer bottle or

a box or a crate or a plank of wood that

has a nail sticking out of it. It just

would have made the melee fighting system

so much more interesting if you could have

picked could have picked up any random

objects in the game world and used that as

a weapon. That would have been pretty fun.

Now as for the story, it is a pretty bland

and boring lackluster story with dull

characters and boring animations.

The story is basically kind of like a

cheesy Wild West cowboy movie, and you can

tell it's really trying hard to be this

cool Tarantino kind of Wild West action

epic story, but it just kind of falls flat

on its face and it seems more like one of

those budget movies that university

students try and make for their university

class. And it just seems kind of lame.

And the story is just really boring and

not captivating at all. I really don't

care about the characters or what their

goals are or how they're going to achieve

it or whether they're going to make it or

not. You end up getting really bored of

the story and you end up not even

bothering with the main missions because

it's more entertaining to just run around

like a lunatic murdering people and riding

the horse up and down and then just doing

strange stuff like fighting people for no

reason and then enjoying the ragdoll

physics. One good thing about the game is

the ragdoll physics are very entertaining.

You can have a melee fight, a fistfight,

and then knock someone over a crate and

they trip and stumble and they fall off an

edge and they land in a really funny,

awkward position. That is really

entertaining and can entertain me for

hours and hours and hours. Unlike the

story. The story just bored me within the

first 10 minutes and I couldn't care less.

So even though this game is a very

impressive looking game, amazing amounts

of detail, some pretty fun gameplay,

and a massive expansive world to explore

in, I have to say unfortunately this game

just falls flat on its face and I will

have to give it a very low score of 2.6

out of 10.