I’ve only played one western game in my life: Serious Sam. lol that took place in the country? Right? -Raw

And now that you mention it, I could’ve sworn that there were group hunts listed as a feature in multiplayer, which I assumed was– just as you said– something like Horde Mode. But nope, nothing like that at all. It’s just so obvious, like, “why the hell isn’t something like that in there?”

Why are there herbs to pick in multiplayer, anyway?

And my BIGGEST beef with multiplayer is the respawn system. In free-roam, with random people, you just *know* some higher-level asshole with a better weapon and impossibly precise accuracy is gonna come around and shoot you down no matter how inconspicuous you’re trying to be. And what does the game do? It respawns you a few yards away from where you died, doomed to be shot down again and again by the very same asshole. And Lord help you if you’re unfortunate enough to run into a posse of assholes. I find myself switching rooms too damned often when all I really need to do is have the option of respawning somewhere else on the map, away from the spawn-killing assholes.

There’s no lasso in mp. I can kind of see why as it’d be a real pain if someone else caught and dragged you around in humilation for half an hour, but there are ways to avoid that. E.g. give the caught player Dead Eye for a short moment after getting noosed. Something.

One tiny little thing in single player which has turned out to be a real annoying issue for me is the shifting of your character after looting, skinning an animal, or picking herbs. Because of how wide the horizons can be I often completely lose my bearings after Marston gets up, now facing a totally different direction after pressing Y.

… and no swimming! An instant death when you touch the water is ridiculous!

Can’t do everything, I understand. But there are certain things that open-world games really ought to be doing.

As for single player, well, it’s a good step. We’ve already discussed the unfortunate rigidness of the morality system. And the open-world aspect of the game is great, but I would like to see much more non-game-related stuff to do. How about HUGE cattle drive scenarios? Not a dozen cows, but hundreds! Not possible on today’s systems, I guess, but one can dream.

I must admit that I’m having a hard time recollecting what I must have been wishing for last time I mentioned a dream western game. But I do know that this game isn’t quite it.

I really wish that there were more consequences in Red Dead, i.e. Don’t want to do a mission – Take out the person offering it. Shoot someone in town – everyone turns hostile when you return.

In the meantime I guess you can just take your time going through the story missions and enjoy the free roaming evil stuff with/without the bandana on =) but indeed, it’s a shame the story doesn’t alter itself to reflect that.