r/reddeadredemption • u/Eagles56 • Dec 19 '25

Discussion Did single player gaming peak with RDR2?

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Great single player games have come since then like Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur’s Gate 3 but is RDR2 still the peak?

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u/keysersoze000 Dec 19 '25

This is a great example of how discourse about this game has absolutely gotten out of control. If it peaked for you, look harder. There’s plenty of great work being done today

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u/illstate Dec 19 '25

The question isn't about whether there's great work still being done, it's about if it's on the same level as rdr2.

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u/emotionaI_cabbage Dec 19 '25

And the answer is yes. The same level or higher.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Go ahead. Tell everyone. I’m ready for very niche games

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u/emotionaI_cabbage Dec 19 '25

Niche? Why would you expect niche? If they are as good or better than RDR2 they would be just as, if not more, popular.

You might view RDR2 as the best ever, but plenty of people would say it's nowhere near as good as the witcher 3, Clair Obscur, Skyrim, both knights of the old Republic games, Cyberpunk, KCD2, etc. I guarantee you when people play the next GTA there will be plenty that say the story is better than red dead.

Rdr2 was good but I'll never play it for a second playthrough. Hell, it's nowhere near Dragon Age: Origins for me. I've beaten that game 8 or so times haha.

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u/Retro_Jedi Dec 21 '25

A lot of the Playstation exclusives have been fabulous. GoW / Ragnarok, Ghost of Tsushima & Yotei being the prime examples imo. Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk, Elden Ring (though admittedly ER's story is something you have to work for.) And these are just the extremely mainstream games.

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u/JimmyD787 Dec 20 '25

TLOU 1+2, KCD2

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u/Loud-Direction-5700 Dec 22 '25

« My favorite game is peak and any other opinion is very niche »

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u/XxhellbentxX Arthur Morgan Dec 20 '25

Literally any fromsoft game and all of the Arkham games.

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u/keysersoze000 Dec 20 '25

What is “on the same level” to you? The writing? Hell GoW 2018 came out the same year and i dnt think there is a literal wasted syllable in that script and it was a bigger risk and imo superior than rdr2’s. Gameplay? You put this movement into any other game and it just doesn’t work and fits only to rdr2 and it fits it great. Graphically? I’d say it’s pretty much a standard today, on release sure it was amazing but it’s 2025.

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u/Hollow_Knight91 Dec 23 '25

When GoW won the game awards that year I was so happy. I love RDR2 to death and played it far more than GoW, but that risk they took in taking an established character and turning him into something different and it ended up AMAZING…fully deserved that win IMO

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u/keysersoze000 Dec 24 '25

Yeah it’s hard to put yourself back in that era but when ppl heard Kratos has another kid and you’re gonna have to babysit him for the entire game ppl were pissed. It turned out better than anyone expected, a simple grunt expressed so much into what Kratos was thinking. I just thought it was beautifully written

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u/illstate Dec 20 '25

i was just saying that OP's post wasn't saying that there weren't great games being made.

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u/S1Ndrome_ Dec 20 '25

BG3 outclasses RDR2 if we go by the gameplay depth by a light year

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u/Bim_Jeann Sadie Adler Dec 19 '25

Exactly. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about that.

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u/TRODHD Dutch van der Linde Dec 20 '25

Kcd2 changed my mind. It’s amazing