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I played both of them last year for the first time, back to back, starting with 2.

Red Dead 2 is an amazingly immersive game with an open world that has sooooo much shit to do in it that I never got bored with it. It's easily the best open world in any video game I've ever played. The story really resonated with me too, and I ended up hooked and putting in hundreds of hours.

The first game is weird to come back to after that because it feels closer to its GTA roots than the second game does. A lot of the writing and mission setups feel like they were taken straight out of that and just given a different setting, and the tone tends to be a lot more tongue in cheek and silly in a lot of places. The shooting was really really good, maybe even better than the second game, but the movement and especially horse controls I found to be a lot rougher.

Overall I think 2 is way more unmissable than 1 if for whatever reason you only want to play one of them. 1 is "gta with cowboys" and 2 is just straight up "cowboy simulator" and I found that way more interesting. but they are both absolutely worth experiencing if you have the time.