Rockstar and other game devs (mostly the western kind) tend to do this really fucking stupid thing where they make things as realistic as possible only for it to backfire and not only look stupid but also slow everything down for no reason. The whole "games are becoming more like movies" thing is becoming more real over the years for sure and i don't really care since my favourite game series' will likely remain unaffected. For example arthur morgan presses triangle to get on his horse and he's standing at the wrong angle for the animation to occur, so he awkwardly autonomously shifts into the exact position to "seamlessly" shift into the animation for getting on the horse. The whole exchange takes like 6 seconds and looks jarring and stupid as fuck. Why? What's the need to make this game feel like real life when other shit, like taking ten bullets and waiting the pain out behind a rock in about ten seconds is totally in the game too. Metal Gear Solid V and Ghost of Tsushima both have horses and are both also photorealistic and look great but neither of them have this stupid transition animation that happens so often for every little thing in red dead 2. The running in this game also feels super slow and weird to control cause arthur MUST make a full turn just as he would had he been a real person even though he's not. This makes the game incredibly hard to control with a keyboard and while i didn't play it this way i know people who have and it annoyed them. These little things add up and make doing anything that isn't SPECIFICALLY INTENDED by the devs either literally impossible or extremely jarring and sluggish cause everything has a stupid 3 second long animation. Aside from that, i think this game was probably the best written game i've played. The best voice acting too. This story is seriously something to experience for yourself if you haven't been spoiled yet. probably my favourite rockstar game, even though it's close with GTAIV.