I am looking through the Gamespot game of the year awards right now and pretty much every category (best story, atmosphere, writing, etc.) is all going to Red Dead Redemption. I will be very surprised if it doesn't get game of the year from gamspot as well. Did you guys think it was really this good? I thought it was a decent game. I personally liked GT4 better(I know Im probably the only one who thinks so). It certainly did not excel in all of these categories do you think?

Yes !!! It deserves all the awards it's recieving.

Was it good?

Yes!

Would i play it again?

No!

This year was (only) decent for me so decent game wins.

RdR is definitely my personal GOTY.

I'd even say this might be my favourite game this gen (PC included) since the original Bioshock.

This sums it up nicely for me :)

Yes it is my game of the year always had been! And that says a lot considering that I loved mass effect 2.

Wasn't my GoTY. Yeah it is enjoyable once in a while to perch myself on top of a house and pick off the law enforcers and townsfolk, but overall the game has been pretty boring.

I had more fun with Dante's Inferno and GoW3 kicks it's ass all over the place.

RDR I believe is this year's GTA IV.

I beat RDR a few weeks ago. Quite honestly, I didn't care for it.

I wouldn't even consider it for GOTY.

I really liked RDR, but it wasn't my game of the year by a long shot, however I recognize it's quality and it's craft. I don't find it surprising it's winning as many awards as it is, it is a fantastically crafted game, just not my cup of tea. I enjoyed Bayonetta, Final Fantasy XIII, Super Mario Galaxy 2, No More Heroes 2, and Assassin's Creed brotherhood more this year, but my tastes aren't the mainstream gaming media's tastes. I'm happy for RDR, but I do wish the above mentioned games got a little more attention. They really were fantastic.

I only played it for 8 hours before sending it back to GameFly, and I didn't enjoy it one bit. The first few hours are just a ranch simulator, and the few gunfights were nothing special. The optional stuff didn't do for me either. I found hunting animals boring, poker was too slow for my liking, and finger filler or whatever it's called was awful. So was duel.

Bounty hunting was cool, but the sad part is that you have to rid your horse through the dull land to capture the guy. Seriously, RDR's world is just a dull, flatland. There's no interesting places to explore, and nothing interesting happens while you're riding your horse. Yeah, sometimes you'll meet civilians, but the tasks they ask you to do quickly get repeated. And I didn't find it worth doing those tasks since all you got was like 5 fame and a few dollars.