I was really keen and interested in this game as I wanted a good one of it's genre. The setting sounded amazing. I just could not get into it at all. The characters bored me. I didn't care their origin or their stories. I just wanted to get the quests done and had no enjoyment from them.

Love the RDR game, do not care at all about the story or characters.

I guess we all see what we want to see.

" The whole story is a reflection on the old frontier with the law of men being overrun by the state and federal law. Not one side is fully good or bad, it's a duality, shades of grey. Marston is the frontier law and Agent Ross is the federal law. He makes Marston and the player believe there is a place for him in the new world, but it was just a lie to tie up loose ends. It's genius and thematically consistent.   Then there's the emergent narrative. Here you have a man who is forced to return to his old life to save his new one. The question is, will he revert to his old ways or will he redeem himself in the process. You make this decision, and it effects all the implications of the scripted interactions greatly. Then there's the end which is a rough realization of, no matter how saintly John's life may be nowadays, there is no redemption save for death for what he did in his old life.This realisation hits the player when it hits John, and is an amazingly strong conclusion. Taking the whole story arc's natural outcome, settling the player into relief and closure and then bam! They drive the point home.        

  Now if you don't see this, then a great story with literary depth is wasted on you. It's like how GTA IV bummed people out who just wanted goofy parodies of Scorsese flicks, Miami Vice and Gangsta Rap wars respectively (while it remains as the greatest GTA game to date).    

I actually like John Marston, Rockstar makes great games as of RDR.

Story was indeed weak, characters have too much "Rockstar-ness" to them AKA they're all psycho's or deranged in the utmost fashion. The fact is that this is GTA in the west. Nothing more. They could probably just do a reskin of the characters from any GTA game and have this exact game in many ways.

What I think is really sad is that too few people recognize it for what it is. I have to say that Rockstar did a good job with Max Payne 3, but they sure didn't do enough to see this game to the top. It's full of flaws when it comes to characters, story, missions et.c.

Come to think of it, one thing that just struck me as insanely odd is that whenever you run away from lawmen, you get a radius to escape, but during Bounty hunter-missions, the enemies always know exactly where I am, even though I killed everyone in the base and left before the others even showed up, or shot them before leaving. What, do they have a freakin' GPS on the guy I've got tied up on the back of my horse? They call him on his cellphone and check where he is? That's just really stupid. :P

I love those '' Am I the only one? ''

I just wasn't a fan of this game as a whole.