As much as I love parts of Red Dead I really have to agree I mean a lot of it was insanely boring I mean
5 minute cut scene; ride for 10 minutes, do 2 minutes of shooting *repeat over and over again*
The worst though was the things like herding which was just awful gameplay, the fact that the end of the game made me do that again really lowered the game in my eyes a lot, especially since it was also the point where the narrative took a running jump of a cliff
GTA IV also had problems too, the thing I like about sandbox games is being able to do the story and then work on side stuff afterwards but GTA IV refused to stop telling me to go play pool annoyed the hell out of me. Plus the fact that they removed half the stuff I loved about San Andreas
There's some great sandbox games but a lot of them just fall into the trap of just becoming insanely boring
