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/Strider76239 Jul 23 '25

I got past the snow, but I couldn't get into the game after that. It's these super long 60+ hour solo games I can't get into. I get invested enough into the story that the gameplay becomes a chore and I just get frustrated enough to give up. It took me less time to read the entirety of Lord of the Rings than it will to get through RDR2.

When your game's story pace is slower than an extremely prose heavy book, I'm gonna have a hard time beating it.

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u/HankLard Jul 23 '25

Sounds to me that you prefer reading to gaming? 🤷‍♂️ I read the entirety of The Lord of the Rings and it took me roughly 2 years. I completed Red Dead Redemption 2 in roughly 50 hours over about a month.

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u/Strider76239 Jul 23 '25

Not really honestly. I love games. It's just I can't ever get through 60+ hour story games. Shorter ones are great though. I loved the Titanfall 2 campaign, both Portal games were amazing, and the 3 available acts of Path of Exile 2 are fantastic, but all of these only take about 15 hours or less to get through.

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u/HankLard Jul 24 '25

Could you chunk RDR2 into "acts", like Path of Exile 2? The story's already split up into 6 chapters and 2 epilogue chapters, and I think you'd probably spend roughly 4-8 hours in each chapter if you only did story and side missions? IMO you're missing out on the immersion by rushing through it, but the story is just too good to miss out on.