I wouldn't worry. RDR2 has nothing on the game play design of BotW. The attention to detail is astounding in RDR2 yet the game play so far is the same old. Control wise BotW also works much better. They are two very different games.

You can better compare it to Horizon zero dawn. RDR2 might be better than that, except for now the clunky controls and not so good HDR use are holding it back a bit. For world design it easily beats HZD, of course weapons and enemies are kinda limited due to the setting.

I haven't played AC odyssey, that should be a better comparison. Both trying to be semi realistic 'limited' by accurately representing a time period.

Can't wait to play more. I need to head back to camp as apparently my weapons are on my horse there.

So far I havent seen the greatness in this game.

All are quite different indeed.

Botw: Smaller play area you get dumped in immediately with lot of fun things to find and do while learning the core mechanics. At first you don't even realize you're in a restricted area, then your mind gets blown when you get to the real world.
RDR2: 2 to 3 hour linear mission that fails when you leave the path. (you get to chose whether you want to do hunt or assault first)
HZD: Shorter linear mission to dump you in a restricted area. Takes 10 hours for the game to open up and get good.
Spiderman: Short linear mission with vertical learning curve, not the best idea. But damn those controls are polished to perfection.

Really. all 4 are amazing to play and if anything stands out as falling behind it would be Tomb raider. I don't feel like picking that up anymore at all after starting RDR2.

The world feels as immersive as the one from the witcher for me but without the magic and with better graphics. :p

I'm confused, what are you supposed to do with animal carcasses? I brought one to camp thinking I was supposed to do it like you did in one of the first missions but it wouldn't let me carry it to the chef ....

I forgot about the Witcher. It had some good writing but world detail was not as good.

Don't count out God of war with its excellent use of wide color and HDR and a real sense of progression, opening up more of the world and getting more powerful to take on the valkyries. Damn it's a good year for games!

Donate It to the camp at the butcher. 

This is a pretty good representation of how I feel so far. No offense to Red Dead,but in my limited time with it i'm not that impressed overall. Of course I expect that to change, it will probably impress me as I go on, but I think this generation just has too many good open world games already. I really don't see how people who put in the same amount of hours as me are already calling it the best game of the generation? I swear, with these open world games, it's always like "let's just move on to the next big thing!" I remember when The Witcher 3 was the best open world game ever, I remember when Horizon: Zero Dawn was, I remember when Breath of the Wild was, hell I even remember when there was a decent amount of people saying that Assassin's Creed: Origins had the best open world ever. No problem with that, it's amazing that the genre has seen so many worth games in this generation. But I wish it didn't come at the expense of other games. 

It most certainly does not make any of the games I've mentioned feel obsolete though (except maybe AssCreed, haven't played that yet). In particular BOTW has very different design and Horizon is much more combat-focused. 

It's also incredibly clunky so far. 

So do I still have to put the carcass on my horse to and get to the camp to do that, then?

I'm pretty sure I actually did that when I donated to the butcher, but I turned the game off then and didn't check on the carcass

It won't.  BotW is every bit as good.  Trying to compare the two just just silly as they are two different style game.