The years and years of them bleeding GTA 5 dry have sucked all the joy out of this. I'm glad they're releasing it, but I don't even know if I want to play it -- their quality has taken a noticeable nosedive.
I think the quality of the world has increased, but the mission design has only get worse and more strict. In older GTA you could easily get off the rails and still complete the missions, but RDR2 was unforgiving, they had a metaphorical dotted line, and you have walk it, or otherwise you would fail, because it wouldn't match the cutscene.
> but the mission design has only get worse and more strict.
The whole thing is way more strict, boring, and tedious. You can't spend 15 minutes in GTAO without some scripted phone call from some NPC you don't care about ("hello, this is Agatha") trying to get you to spend millions on overpriced junk.
Of course, this is combined with a very overinflated currency where cars cost millions (and them removing the old cars for non-GTA+ subscribers). The whole thing ultimately boils down to a grindy, buggy mess.
> but RDR2 was unforgiving, they had a metaphorical dotted line, and you have walk it, or otherwise you would fail, because it wouldn't match the cutscene.
I'd like to play RDR2 one day, but this puts me off a bit -- one of the main aspects of a game should be the fun it yields, not how its cutscenes look.
