
RDR2 has been getting a lot of forced hate lately, and honestly, we have ourselves to blame for it.
There are fans who compare every new game to RDR2 just to make other games look inferior. We all know RDR2 is legendary, but why does every new release need to be judged against it?
Not every game is trying to be hyper realistic. Some games focus more on gameplay, pacing, mechanics, or fun instead of real life levels of detail and immersion. Those games have their own fanbases for a reason.
The problem is that RDR2 fanboys keep posting these “attention to detail” comparisons against every new release. Eventually, fans of other games get annoyed and start hating on RDR2 as a form of retaliation.
It already happened before with GTA 4. Games took nearly a decade to match GTA 4’s attention to detail, and some still cannot fully replicate it. Even GTA 5 had fewer small details compared to GTA 4, which is why those infamous GTA 4 vs GTA 5 comparison videos divided the GTA fanbase till date.
Now RDR2 fans are doing the same thing with every new release. Instead of appreciating games for what they are trying to achieve, every discussion turns into “but RDR2 did this better.” And the result is that other gaming communities get fed up and start trashing RDR2 like it is some overrated game of the decade, even though the game itself did nothing wrong.
Just appreciate RDR2 without putting every other game down. Every game has its own strengths and weaknesses, and not all of them are trying to achieve the same thing.