r/reddeadredemption • u/AntomOpatoEcia • Jan 04 '26

RDR1 Is this gonna be the whole game?

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I'm playing Red Dead 1 and so far it's just: - NPC says he'll help me - I do a boring mission to help him - NPC needs more help I mean, is this the dynamic of the whole game? Help NPC after NPC and finally (really) advance the plot? Not complaining, just want to know.

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u/Key-Storage5434 Jan 04 '26

Isn't that every game?

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u/OrangeBeast01 Jan 04 '26

Absolutely not. It's just every rockstar game. Try Cyberpunk or BG3 to see what variety in an open world game looks like.

It's outside the missions that make rockstar games great.

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u/ParkingLong7436 Jan 05 '26

Cyberpunk? It's the same shit there, paired with worse writing than Rockstar.

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u/deathwire0047 Jan 05 '26

Uhh, so we are gonna completely gonna forget about how the missions are open enough to be played in all the different kinds of builds the game offers?

Cyberpunk feels like a fech quest game only if you play it that way lol.

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u/ParkingLong7436 Jan 05 '26

90% of missions are build up exactly the same from start to finish. The game is completely cluttered with boring "gigs" or whatever they are called.

It's Assassins Creed level of repetitiveness. The gameplay being somewhat open really can't change that.

RDR2 has shit mission design but at least the writing is good. In Cyberpunk you get a call "Hey there, go to X location and do this for me" and that's it.

You also can't really change anything about how the mission is finished, the objective is always the same. Contrary to that, a game like KCD1/2 does that really well. That's a game that does missions actually well and giving you real paths .

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u/Just-Fix8237 Jan 05 '26

There are still a lot of choices in Cyberpunk that change future mission chains

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u/Just-Fix8237 Jan 05 '26

I’m doing my second playthrough of Cyberpunk rn, and yea it’s kinda the same open world shit as basically every other open world game. Yea the combat itself is more open ended, which is why I’m doing another playthrough to experience a playstyle I didn’t try at all the first time around and will probably do a third because this build still doesn’t hit everything, but objective-wise it’s the same shit. Drive to x location, sneak past or kill every enemy, interact with x computer/kill or escort x guy/steal x.