20 Hours in and Red Dead is boring as shit.

'Slow and deliberate' is good for setting tone but its not a fun gameplay mechanic. I'm literally  just playing for the story now which is pretty interesting but barely a motivation to keep one with these story missions. I'm also not crazy about becoming public enemy number 1 because I accidentally stepped on someone's dog and have a 5 dollar bounty on my head.

The characters have interesting interactions but there are too damn many of them, I cant care about 15 people enough to keep hunting deer for them so they stop bitching. I'm also getting sick of returning to a town 4 times to shoot up the damn place because a story mission forced me to, and now the place is too hot with law for me to get a fucking haircut.

This game is a very pretty visual novel where for 70% of the game I'm staring at a horse's ass for too long with a pointlessly cumbersome 'pull the hammer back' shooting mechanic to break it up.

The train stuff is good, the brawling is good, and things involving animals tends to be good.

But, a piece of wood isn't going to sparkle no matter how much you polish it.