Going to try and keep my thoughts concise for once. RDR is the best Rockstar game I have ever played, and prior to playing this, I would have said that's like being the tallest person at the fucking North Pole but honestly the gap between this and all of the other Rockstar games I have played has left me speechless.

The game prods at many themes such as honor, duty, loyalty, patriotism, fatherhood, and a man's worth. These conversations are usually explored on all sides and develop the picture of John Marston as a man who stands somewhere in the middle of them all in such a natural way. I think this game choosing to follow Marston after he hung up the hat with the Van der Linde gang is such a brilliant choice, and the ending was absolutely devastating, despite me having some idea of what was coming.

I have heard that RDR2 stands head and shoulders above this game, and if that's true I am in for an absolute blast with the second game.