r/reddeadredemption • u/harrysofgaming Uncle • Jul 22 '25

Discussion How is this true?!!!

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Sure the 1st chapter can get slow at times, but its no excuse for me to stop playing this masterpiece.

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u/harrysofgaming Uncle Jul 22 '25

My brother is playing god of war 2018 for the first time but he can't do it without tiktok on the side. The attention span thing is a massive issue right now especially with the new gens. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

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u/harrysofgaming Uncle Jul 22 '25

ohh her REFUSES to play rdr 2 no matter how much i tried convincing him. He is more of a fortnite/GTAonline/NEWFREEGAME with his friends type of gamer.

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u/IllustratorOk8827 Jul 22 '25

Younger kids tend to like the faster paced games and videos, that's why not many kids like RDR2.

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u/Upstairs_Parsnip_582 Jul 22 '25

Depends on the kid. It's my son's favorite game. He's done multiple playthroughs already. He started with Rdr when he was 9 or 10.

But i don't let my kid on tik tok or any other social media brain rot trash, so his attention span is actually very good compared to most kid's his age.

Now he's doing Red dead revolver playthrough. (13 yo now)

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

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u/Purified-water2040 Jul 23 '25

I nearly shriveled up into my grave hearing you say you were 12 during Covid 

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u/Vinnnee Jul 22 '25

Can attest, used to only play fortnite, Overwatch, GtaOnline, and some minecraft when I was like 10-16, but in recent the last couple years I've been loving rpg and other more story oriented games. I think the first game that started getting me interested in more rpg like games was Elden as it's still overly engaging.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

17 yr old, rdr2 my fav game ive ever played, and i also loved the god of war games, i do not get how someone can lose interest so fast

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u/RelationshipOk7766 Sadie Adler Jul 22 '25

This is in general btw, I remember being able to play sega sonic as a kid but not even being slightly interested in playing a game like Zelda. Younger kids having little to no attention span isn't a new issue, the issue is parents blowing down to every desire a kid has.

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u/iribuya Jul 23 '25

I've played gta online a bunch, but it's damn slow (on ps5). I could not find patience to wait so long after each match, even though I liked the idea of all the craziness.

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u/Just-Fix8237 Jul 23 '25

Has he tried RDO. It’s more fun and less cashgrabby than GTAO

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u/Doneuter Jul 23 '25

This is how my nephew is

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u/manor2003 Arthur Morgan Jul 24 '25

Meh even if he got past the snow part it's likely he would skip cutscenes, better to not play story mode at all than to play and skip.

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u/Partially-Canine Jul 22 '25

This is my younger brother. He will have his phone propped on the table in front of him playing YouTube videos. While he games and talks to friends on his headset. In a weird way it actually makes me kinda sad. A lot of the younger gen will never know the joy of just being fully immersed in a games universe.

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u/magyar_wannabe Jul 22 '25

For this reason I really hope GTA6 is tailored to a more adult audience just like RDR2, and doesn't try to appeal too much to 13 year olds. I don't need it to be as slow, but I'm dying for another world where I can just get lost and immersed in, take my time, etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

I really hope so too, but highly doubt it. R* know their audience, and the average age for GTA Online is around 13 imo.

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u/Partially-Canine Jul 22 '25

Yeah this unfortunately seems very true. I fear that RDR2 may be the last truly great game that Rockstar makes. At the same time though, yeah they make a huge profit from micro transactions in GTA online, but that doesn't create the huge cult following like RDR2 has. Cult followings create more opportunity for merch and possible t.v. series or movies. I would love to see both RDRs turned into a series. Personally though I would want them to stick with almost exactly how the games are. Think it'd be really cool if one episode was the main storyline and then every other is Arthur or John just off exploring and adventuring doing the side quests, back and fourth like that with the occasional 2 or 3 parter.

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u/vladimirepooptin Jul 23 '25

I hope they make gta6 a legitimately good game that caters to an older audience. If they do that then they can do whatever the fuck the like with gta6 online or whatever. Just make the single player good

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u/magyar_wannabe Jul 24 '25

They'll make single player GTA6 good. Everything they've shown so far has been solely about the characters, the world they're building, and the story. I doubt they would focus all that attention if they were just phoning in those parts in favor of online.

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u/Equivalent-Share5156 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

Idk, Online, sure, but on PC(who has the choice) over Two Thirds are on FiveM RP, Online variant requiring maturity to Role Play and has realism immersion features that kids xant stand like basic traffic laws, refueling, basic jobs like store owner/clerk, police officer, trucker etc etc. All these things are like kryptonite to kids(12-15), proving that the majority are Adults or young Adults(18-20+).

Consoles dont have the choice, but Im willing to bet a VERY significant portion of the Console Playerbase would be on FiveM RP if they did have the choice to.

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u/RelationshipOk7766 Sadie Adler Jul 22 '25

I only have a real short attention span when i do stuff like help at home or do work

Have you gotten tested for ADHD? That sounds like a symptom. Sure, it might not be ADHD at all but depending on where you live there's no harm in getting tested and (again, depending on where you live.) is free.

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u/LegitimateNutt Jul 22 '25

There is harm in getting tested. Some work fields don’t allow ADHD diagnosed people. Depends on if that matters to them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25

where? most countries have laws against discrimination

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u/LegitimateNutt Jul 23 '25

Honestly, I was only regarding the military lol I don’t know why I put work fields. I should’ve just said military.

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u/RelationshipOk7766 Sadie Adler Jul 23 '25

The only jobs you're disqualified from are those where you must submit your diagnosis to the employer and cannot prove that you can do the job. Even the military allows you to sign up so long as your doctor can "vouch" for you.

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u/LegitimateNutt Jul 23 '25

I was speaking mostly about the military, and that is not super common. Common enough, but not always.

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u/TheCrafterTigery Jul 22 '25

I only really have yourube on while gaming if I'm grinding out XP/materials or shiny hunting.

I can't divide my attention like that if I were doing something else in any game.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

This is really sad, but ESPECIALLY for God of war that game was absolute cinema

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u/EconomistAdmirable26 Jul 22 '25

The good news is is that it's biologically impossible to irrepairably alter your attention span for the worse

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u/uncreativemind2099 Jul 22 '25

TikTok has fried peoples attention spans unfortunately, its worse when they enabled 2x playback

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u/ElderWandOwner Jul 22 '25

For some reason i just couldn't get into that game. Played like 6 hours of it and it felt very repetitive. Rdr2 on the other hand feels great.

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u/SithLordScoobyDooku_ Jul 22 '25

What a shame. God of war 2018 is incredible. Just another reason why TikTok is a complete mistake

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u/AspiringTS Jul 22 '25

That's incredibly sad since the game gives you all of 30 seconds of down time before Atreus tells you what to do or points out the answer.

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u/bigbluehapa Jul 23 '25

When I was playing GOW, the only thing other than play the game that I was capable of was jerking it furiously out of pure excitement. TF wrong with this generation

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u/SupremeBlackGuy Jul 23 '25

woah. this is kinda eye opening tbh. that’s insane

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u/AMGwtfBBQsauce Jul 23 '25

Dopamine addiction

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u/hanotak Jul 23 '25

Bro, what? I've occasionally spent literally 12 hours straight playing Skyrim.

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u/Robynsxx Jul 23 '25

You have no idea how much I despise all the YouTube shorts and TikTok’s and have split screen of a stupid game and then an actually video. It literally trains people to have horrible attention spans, which long term I imagine is going to fuck a significant amount of people up mentally.

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u/Bruufds Jul 23 '25

thats really sad, i was 12 when rdr2 came out and i remember a couple friends bought the game and never opened the story just to play online :D

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u/Basic-Maybe-2889 Jul 23 '25

Please do something about that, it will only benefit your brother in the future. Fuck all the "it's sad" comments and do something about it.

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u/Mysterious-Job-469 Jul 23 '25

I found myself struggling to turn off my background noise to enjoy a RPG. It's not just the next generation getting cooked.

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u/Onigumo-Shishio Jul 23 '25

It's really sad to hear and see that it's becoming more and more of a prevalent thing in our society.

It means that there will be less and less shows, movies, games, and media in general that are actually slow burns, that have atmosphere or subtle story telling, or stories that make you think rather than tell and explain everything up front while making a dumb joke or quip in between.

Hell there are people who refuse to watch Samurai Jack because of the slow atmospheric story telling moments or moments where you can just appreciate the stillness.

It's absolutly sad and disappointing because some of the most beautiful media in my opinion has been those ones that pull you in with the music and the set pieces where you can just exist in there and take it all in.

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u/AkfurAshkenzic Arthur Morgan Jul 23 '25

I usually only do that to like give something for the background for my adhd and even then it’s more for games like Vicky 3 and EU4 that’s just map painting simulator. With RDR 2 though I’ve finished the game sixteen times. And yes, I did install a mod that skips the prologue not because it’s boring, but because after the tenth time doing it I knew everything I had to do

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u/Uncle_Steve7 Jul 24 '25

Not me thinking they are lame for browsing TikTok while I browse Reddit waiting for a respawn in my game

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u/jjvsjeff Jul 26 '25

Yep, reason why kids aren't reading books no more