Red Dead Redemption hasn't aged well at all. On a recent play through, these things stood out to the point that I might even call it a bad game:
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Glitches, glitches, glitches forever.
- 95% of play time is riding from one location to another, 4% is tedious collect-a-thons and the remaining 1% is the actual missions.
- All of the horses control and feel the same. There's no variation and no other modes of transport, so 95% of the game is the same thing over and over.
- Your own horse literally runs from you.
Once upon a time, I would have listed RDR as one of the best games I've ever played, but now I see that I was blinded by the at-the-time great graphics and hype. It was a unique game and I enjoyed it when it came out, but this last play through has just highlighted how little there actually is to do. It's a sandbox game where you can't do anything fun, just shoot and hogtie people. That's it. No unique modes of transportation. No jumps. No explosions. No real chaos even at the highest wanted levels. What's even the point?