DO NOT BUY Red Dead Redemption 2 - boring game

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So I wanted to talk about Red Dead

Redemption 2 again because this time I

actually bought it and actually played it

for a couple of days. And just as my

initial review stated, it is a really

boring game. Now the reason why I decided

to buy the game is because I was watching

a lot of videos on YouTube, you know,

funny compilation videos of the game, and

the game looks really nice and it looks

really fun and it seemed like it was quite

a funny game to play, so that's why I

wanted to buy it for myself. But when I

played it for myself, I just wasn't really

that entertained as much as I was from

watching the videos on YouTube. Red Dead

Redemption 2 is a very nice looking game.

It's very pretty to look at, in the same

way that my ex-girlfriend was also very

pretty to look at, but then very

frustrating and annoying to interact with.

When I first started playing Red Dead

Redemption 2, I was just blown away at the

beauty of the game and how detailed this

massive open world is, and it's just very

interesting and cool to look at and run

around in. But then after a few hours, it

kind of gets repetitive, and all of these

cool little details that you can do in the

game and little mini games and stuff,

they kind of just become kind of tedious

and kind of boring, and you no longer want

to do them. For example, there's this

hunting mechanic in the game. There's lots

of wild animals in the game, and you can

hunt the animals, and you can pick them up

and skin them and cook them. And I

thought, wow, that's really cool. I've

never seen a game before where they had

interactive wildlife that you can actually

eat. But after a while, you start to

realize that it's just like a load of

quick-time mini events where you just walk

up to the corpse and then you press R to

pick up, and then you press E to skin,

and then you press B to put it in your

bag. After a while, this doesn't— this is

not fun or entertaining anymore. It just

becomes like a repetitive chore that you

need to do over and over again. I just

felt like most of the gameplay mechanics

in the game just felt like repetitive,

boring, tedious chores that you had to

keep doing in order to progress in the

game. Kind of like a relationship where

you have to keep reassuring the girl that

you do have feelings for her and you do

love her. You have to keep doing these

little things like buying her chocolates

and buying her cards and making sure

there's some kind of connection,

otherwise the relationship's going to go

down the toilet. In many ways, Red Dead

Redemption 2 is the same. Even though it's

a very nice-looking game, the actual

gameplay is just kind of rubbish. I mean,

the shooting gameplay, for example, is

just so boring and bog-standard. You aim

at your gun and you shoot at the enemies,

and there's like a slow-motion mechanic

called Dead Eye, which is in pretty much

almost every single third-person shooter

game. Has like this Max Payne-esque

slow-motion mode where it's just like

enabling easy mode, where you just slow

everything down and then you automatically

kill everyone around you, and then it

recharges. It's just really unoriginal,

and the guns in the game are so

frustrating to use. I know they're old

guns, you know, back from the olden ages

in the 1800s with revolvers and stuff.

The guns just don't feel satisfying to

use. They feel annoying to use. For

example, the revolver, you need to reload

it every 6 shots, and then in between each

shot you have to wait for bloody Arthur or

whatever his name— what kind of name is

Arthur? Reminds me of Arthur, you know,

that cartoon series The Aardvark. In

between each shot, you have to wait for

Arthur to cock back the little hammer

trigger thing on the top of the revolver.

Don't know if you know how revolvers work.

I do because I'm a professional gun

expert, but with a traditional revolver

Colt kind of revolver gun, you have the

revolving chamber. That's why it's called

a revolver. You have the revolving chamber

which houses about 6 bullets usually, and

then each time you fire the gun The

revolving chamber will revolve, so it

loads the next bullet in place. So after

each shot, you have to wait for him to do

a little animation where he pulls back the

trigger on the top, and then you fire,

and then you fire six times, and then you

got to reload. And it's not just the

revolvers which are like this. There's

this carbine rifle, which is also very

annoying to use. In between every shot,

he has to pull back some kind of lever.

So you have to press the shoot button

twice just to fire the next shot. So you

press it once; he fires it. You press it

again, you would expect him to fire it

again, but he doesn't. He does the little

action where he pulls back the mechanical

lever, and then you have to press it a

second time to fire the second shot. So

you're just constantly waiting for him to

operate these really outdated,

old-fashioned guns, and it's just

annoying, to be honest. It's just really

frustrating and unsatisfying as a gameplay

mechanic. As for the story, the story

is just kind of boring. I played the first

couple of missions and it didn't really

hook me. So there's a group of people and

they're escaping from some place they just

came from. They're led by a guy called

Dutch and you're this guy called Arthur,

and they're like a, a gang of bandits,

outlaws trying to make their way in life,

and they're trying to find a new place to

set up camp. And then you set up camp and

then you've got to go into town and try

and make money and try and finish

objectives. But the story was just sort

boring. I lost interest in the main story,

and I ended up not doing the main quests

or the missions because the main quests

and the missions are all kind of the same.

It's always just go there and talk to this

person and find some camp and then attack

the camp and take out someone's men and

then take the money and then go back to

the camp and then find some random objects

for some random character. It's just

really, really boring, and I didn't really

feel motivated to carry on doing the

missions at all. And I ended up just

running around randomly attacking

villagers and civilians. And then I got a

massive bounty on my head, which means

bounty hunters will come after you and the

police will try and track you down. And

then you couldn't go into any of the towns

or anywhere because you're just constantly

getting harassed by these bounty

hunters. I'm just trying to play the game

and then I've got 6 of these bounty

hunters chasing me down all the time. And

every time I take them out, another group

of bounty hunters just appears out of

nowhere, manages to track me down, and

then I've got to fight them off. And then

I kept dying, and then I kept having to

pay this bounty, but I've got no money.

So it just became really frustrating

because I had no interest in playing the

main story. Killing random strangers on

the trails and the roads and attacking

people in the town will just end up

getting you arrested, or you'll have

a massive bounty on your head, and then

you won't be able to do anything without a

gang of random NPCs trying to track you

down. And it just just kind of made me

feel like, what's the point of this

anymore? I don't care about the story,

the gameplay sucks, and the whole

beautiful world— although it is beautiful

and has loads of detail— just doesn't

really hook me in anymore.

It's also really annoying having to

control the character in the game. He just

feels really slow and clunky. When you

want to turn corners, he does like a full

180-degree curve instead of just turning

around, it just feels very slow, like

trying to maneuver a tank. It doesn't feel

snappy, it doesn't feel responsive.

There's like this 1-second delay after you

do any kind of movement. You put— you

press left, turn left, and then like half

a second later he does the action. It just

feels very unresponsive. Controlling the

horse is also really annoying. The horse

keeps getting stuck on fences and bushes

and trees and stuff. And yeah,

moving around in the game world does not

feel fun. It feels annoying. It feels very

slow and clunky, kind of like the same

problem I had with The Witcher 3. It's

just very annoying moving the character

around inside of the world. I don't know

why game developers make it like this. I

think they want to make it feel realistic,

but really they just make it feel

annoying. So yeah, those were my thoughts

on Red Dead Redemption 2. Boring story,

boring gameplay, annoying clunky moving

mechanics, just nothing really in the game

that really hooked me in. So I kind of

regret buying it. Luckily I got it on a

30% discount on Steam and I stopped

playing it now and I went back to Rainbow

Six Siege, which is a better game in every

single way.