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Finished game. Man it was a long grind. Graphics was superb, soundtrack (really really loved the 3 songs they had playing at the end & all the other close to finale cut scenes) was awesome and overall just a super solid game.

Few issues:

-it would hang during a mission causing me to reboot. So pissed. Happened to me twice.
-a lot of weird compute glitches.. most memorable was a) a random case of beer would be floating on a road. b) during a dramatic romantic scene on a boat, a revolver would appear instead of his hand.
-ONE big thing about GTA versus Red Dead 2 is the ability to REVERSE. like WTFFFFF sometimes the carriage won't allow me to back up. So I can't do ANYTHING a) one time I had to just kill myself b) other time I had to just wait and 2 minutes later the game realized the horse carriage was stuck and says I'm dead and start again.
-GTA.. when you need a ride you call a cab or you just steal a car... in Red Dead... you literally can't just find a car to drive, you have to wait forever to steal a horse. I was so pissed.
-random acts of kindness did pay off at the end for me; dude told me to go pick anything at a gun store. Pump action shotgun was the BEST as it was super hard to come by. Everything else was eventually found but semi-automatic pump action shotgun was hard to find.
-GTA, you drive a car and you hit a bump / rock etc and you do a crazy flip and meh... you get thrown out of a car... in Red Dead... your horse just dies... leaving you stranded at butt fuck no where. Epic gay as fuck. ahahha
-looting was "fun" at the beginning but at the end it was useless cause you tend to have too much money from jobs to use it on anything.
-crafting was literally useless. I didn't use any potions that I crafted and each time I needed to craft shit, i needed like 2 more items as it was hard to find unique items.
-like any open world game; there is a fine line when it's the same mission / "one last job to save the day/earn a pay / make right" and it seems to be beaten to death.
-the last bit of the game was great, I didn't think they needed an epilogue to be honest. Then again, they needed a different ending compared to Red Dead 1.
-characters were great, you really got the feel for them until the same shit / scheme / deal always turns sideways.
-voice acting was MUCH MUCH better in this.
-there are chinese people and they will yell out chinese if you bump into you ahahaha
-strong presence with a female role in this which was pretty cool.

all in all, i only play call of duty type shooting games but GTA 5 was the 1st open world I played and it was legit, then Red Dead 1, then The last of us and now Red Dead 2. Truly a solid game.