GTA5 has (according to reports) more than three times as many side missions and random events than RDR.

Wha? There was nothing to do in RDR. It was a desolate, if pretty, wasteland with cardboard towns that felt utterly lifeless. Even the wildnerness was barren apart from the occasional wild puma attack.

Maybe the sequel will actually feature redemption!

Your metaphor is automatically flawed when you try to compare books with games. They couldn’t be further apart as mediums go. BF1 hopes that people are adults enough about games that they can take the campaign for the sombre reminder that it is, and also process the competitive fun of the multiplayer as a distinctly…

I sincerely doubt a random games blogger can even begin to decipher the intentions of a hundred person strong development team, especially one that is trying new things with a franchise nearly two decades old.