The gameplay on the game is very soft, even on the hardest difficult I like died once every 3h or so (mostly when doing careless exploration, as the map is so big sometimes you would be like 5min without doing nothing, so I put in cinematic mode and was watching a little the screen and sometimes looking the phone - you know we shouldn't use phone while driving... then I would be ambushed, jaguar would hunt me and the like). But during real gameplay setting I had I think a single death in the whole game.

On the horse itself there were a case where a very funny event occurred with a couch driver being shot to death outside the screen and I got run over by the cart out of nowhere. The when I gone to inspect the driver was full of arrows like a porcupine (didn't saw the killers though).

The horse was stubborn in some areas, like when you try to do some mountain exploration, take some time to change direction, terrible to go in the middle of the woods (AI will auto aim trees sometimes, and with the dumper on the control response it's quite hard to manually deviate from then while running).

So when the game have two gameplay elements, which is shooting and walking around (foot or horse) and shooting is very very very easy, then the game turns into a walk around to enjoy the story (which I did dearly until the end portion). I have played it full in like 1 or 2 weeks. That is why I "classified" as walking simulator.

Without giving spoilers, but since this game is set not much before RDR1, the end of RDR2 will lead to RDR1 events. So some things that could have been done a lot better (in my opinion) were like targeted to keep coherence.

Well I really like United. I believe it was the one after Black Flag.. but yes I couldn't play AC every year.

Ah ok I definitely agree about the difficulty, it's a bit too easy. I haven't died a single time during missions, but at least there are challenges to go for. Those jaguars are death if they get a jump on you though..

Still find a bit funny to call it a walking simulator while you actually have to do gunplay on top of a ton of side missions, objectives, hunting, fishing, exploring, robberies, crafting and bounty hunting. For example, Assassins Creed games are easy too and you basically walk around and then fight or sneak..

Anyway, you got me worried about the end portion of story now. Actually one of my friends finished it a while ago and he wasn't happy about it either. I figured it was because he never played RDR1 but we'll see.. I hope I won't be disappointed.

I didn't play RDR1 but I knew about the story of it. I can say it was out of prejudice against open world and R* that I didn't play RDR1 (even if I loved Warriors and liked Bully somewhat, but I hated GTA San Andreas and never toched GTA again).

Yes, I was being hyperbolic on the walking simulator =p. The game is plenty enjoyable, the scenery is lovable and I got pretty immersed as John Wayne as immortal as I was.

I actually prefer assassins creed odyssey over rdr2

I bought ASO on steam for 50% off(still is I think) started playing yesterday.. 4 hours in and I'm just now about to leave the first Island :)
RDR2? naa Ive seen enough of it in Twitch enought to know I won't like that gameplay.

Open world games should have more options in how to get to the end of a mission. It isn't going to hurt the story if I have a few options on how I go about doing things. Not every mission in the game even contributes heavily to the story.

Another issue I had with the game was the horse riding. So much of my play time particularly in the late game was holding down x while on my horse and watching my phone while I wait to get to the next marker. That alone is a massive issue and completely shatters immersion in the game. I have never played a game where I can look away from the screen for large periods of time with little consequence.

For that I used to mark the map, double press x, hold x, enter cinematic mode and then just use the phone or talk while waiting (sometimes over 5 min).

That's exactly what I did. I know quite a few other people who did the same.

Good.. because it took me several hours on the game to figure out that as long as it was map marked or story related I could stop pressing X when into the cinematic mode. I thought only direction control was enabled at first.