Do you agree that Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best game of all time?
Lately, my news feed has been full of articles from different gaming websites talking about a recent Game Rant readers’ poll that put Red Dead Redemption 2 at number one. From what I saw, the poll first made waves at around 80,000 votes, and later coverage said it had passed 270,000 votes while RDR2 was still on top.
To be honest, seeing that result left me with mixed feelings.
I can fully respect what the game achieved. The attention to detail is incredible, the world feels alive, and the amount of craft behind it is obvious. The storyline is also really well developed throughout the game. In that sense, I completely understand why so many people admire it.
At the same time, I never managed to truly love it, because I have never been interested in that kind of setting. Cowboys, the Wild West, and that whole period of history just do nothing for me. So even though I can appreciate the quality of the game, I never felt deeply connected to the world it recreates.
That is why I wanted to ask this.
Do you really see RDR2 as the greatest game ever made, or do you think there are better choices? Or is calling any game “the best of all time” just too subjective to take seriously?