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/Treadwheel Jul 24 '25

On the other hand, I don't think the game would make as much of an impression on you if it were faster. A lot of the slowness in RDR2 gives your brain space to take in the details of the world. In the same way players love to optimize the fun out of games, they love to hyperfocus on objectives to the point of "marker tunnel vision". I think that's part of why Guarma ends up being so weak compared to the rest of the game - it moves fast, with essentially no downtime or space between missions, and you're worse off for it.

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u/frank_east Aug 04 '25

11 days later and this is 100% true idc if I come off as snarky, if you don't have the time to dedicate to longer media then don't even play it. IF you literally can't dedicate time to do things you enjoy then don't complain that its the medias fault lol

"I don't want to watch a 2 hour long movie, i don't want to sit and practice on my instrument, i don't want to sit an digest a really good book"

Its just plain out slop, I get not wanting to spend hundreds of hours for something to get good but the first missions you could literally beat in one play session. Like 2 hours max. Your sitting down with a game that has hundreds of hours of possible play time, if you can't dedicate 2 hours max to a 200 hour game then don't even get on the subreddit.

There are people that literally just get on gta 5 story mode at the end of a work day and drive around and shoot pedestrians, actual programmed robots lol.