On the Jeff Gerstmann page there's a "Things Jeff Gerstmann Hates" section and one of the things listed is Red Dead Redemption. I'd like to know why. And I'm not asking because of my feeling toward the game (we got married last summer, but now I'm having an affair with L.A. Noire (don't tell anyone)), but just out of sheer curiosity. And also because Jeff probably proposed to GTA IV, and the two games shared many of the same criticisms from a lot of people.

If I remember correctly he didn't really like the gunplay and he isn't a big fan of westerns in general.

I didn't click with him, different people like different games.

He's the last descendant of a long lost Native American tribe and all of the cowboy glorification just rubs him the wrong way. Goddamn pale-faces.

Didn't click with me neither. Never finished it.

The beginning was paced weirdly and it was full of mundane tasks. He mentions this on a few bombcasts.

I thought it was because he couldn't figure out how the horses worked.

Fuck... after reading that list. How can someone hate Futurama?

Everyone can't like everything, Jeff is the same.

How can you not be a fan of westerns? :(

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

jeff has been getting extremely ridiculous over the last couple years.. he hates on things that are great for no reason other than to sound like a critic.

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

He's also said a few times he just hates old guns and prefers modern firearms in games.

He might have mentioned his reasons in Bombcasts 05-25-2010 and 06-01-2010.

I fail to see how "didn't care for" = hate.

He's barely even played it. He played the beginning and went I DON'T LIKE THIS! and never played it.

i can tell you why i don't like RDR:

@HandsomeDevil said:

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

It means you didn't enjoy something for the reasons that many other people did.

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

@TheSeductiveMoose: yeah, the whole list seems to be fan made and questionable. 

Fuck... after reading that list. How can someone hate Futurama?

I don't know why people can't accept that he doesn't like the game. Get the fuck over it.

@HandsomeDevil said:

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

It means it might be a good game underneath it all but I'm too busy not liking it, not connecting with it and not getting immersed in it so I don't care and I'm not going to call it a good game.  Which is basically how I felt about Redemption verbatim, honestly.

Lol his hate list is so fucking funny.  BTW who the fuck makes hate list anyway.

@iAmJohn said:

@HandsomeDevil said:

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

It means it might be a good game underneath it all but I'm too busy not liking it, not connecting with it and not getting immersed in it so I don't care and I'm not going to call it a good game.  Which is basically how I felt about Redemption verbatim, honestly.

I'm just sick of hearing it from the GB crew. Ryan said inFamous didn't "click" which makes no sense to me. How could you not understand a game so simple? Just come out and say you don't like it. 

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

@monte said:

Fuck... after reading that list. How can someone hate Futurama?

He doesn't. Most of that list is jokey bullshit.

@CL60 said:

He's barely even played it. He played the beginning and went I DON'T LIKE THIS! and never played it.

Well, yeah, that opening hour or so really turns people off. Why should he finish that game when he can play something else? Who dictates what people can and can't play/enjoy?

@iAmJohn said:

@HandsomeDevil said:

I hate the excuse of "I didn't "click" with me." What does that even mean?

It means it might be a good game underneath it all but I'm too busy not liking it, not connecting with it and not getting immersed in it so I don't care and I'm not going to call it a good game.  Which is basically how I felt about Redemption verbatim, honestly.

I'm just sick of hearing it from the GB crew. Ryan said inFamous didn't "click" which makes no sense to me. How could you not understand a game so simple? Just come out and say you don't like it. 

   Jeff has an opinion like everyone else , the problem is that when you are part of the staff it leads to bigger reactions on the forum.
But they can be somewhat close-minded at times, I think Brad is the best of them looking at things from different angles.

He decided he wouldn't see Avatar purely because it was highly anticipated, and then when it exploded he refused to see it on the grounds that "it was too late" or something to that effect.

Fuck... after reading that list. How can someone hate Futurama?

Futurama never really clicked with me.

Jeff's reasons for hating Red Dead are questionable. Everything he complained about in that game could also be applied to GTAIV, which for a while, he would shamelessly fellate at every given opportunity. 

why play through a game if your initial impressions are not great. He played it, didn't like it and didn't want to play it any more. Nothing wrong with that

People have different tastes. I can't recall any reasons from him on why he didn't care for the game.

Jeff's reasons for hating Red Dead are questionable. Everything he complained about in that game could also be applied to GTAIV, which for a while, he would shamelessly fellate at every given opportunity. 

I also agree with the people that think that the phrase "it didn't click with me" is utter nonsense. It's just a way for someone to dismiss a game when they don't have any valid criticisms. 

jeff has been getting extremely ridiculous over the last couple years.. he hates on things that are great for no reason other than to sound like a critic.

Jeff's reasons for hating Red Dead are questionable. Everything he complained about in that game could also be applied to GTAIV, which for a while, he would shamelessly fellate at every given opportunity. 

I also agree with the people that think that the phrase "it didn't click with me" is utter nonsense. It's just a way for someone to dismiss a game when they don't have any valid criticisms. 

It never ceases to amaze me when people get mad at other people for their opinions. 

@Tarsier said:

jeff has been getting extremely ridiculous over the last couple years.. he hates on things that are great for no reason other than to sound like a critic.

Exactly this.

i can tell you why i don't like RDR:

the character development of Marshal does not fit the actions he does in missions (killing countless unnamed men, who probably have pixel families too) 

that he is might to be a intelligent and self determined character yet he follows the order of people that both you and he must know will never actually help him- that irish guy, that medicine guy

Marshal is meant to be a "rouge who is trying to redeem himself"- his actions don't live up to this reputation

also fucking Mexico

Jeff's reasons for hating Red Dead are questionable. Everything he complained about in that game could also be applied to GTAIV, which for a while, he would shamelessly fellate at every given opportunity. 
I also agree with the people that think that the phrase "it didn't click with me" is utter nonsense. It's just a way for someone to dismiss a game when they don't have any valid criticisms.