10 Painfully Slow Openings That Nearly Ruined Great Video Games

Rockstar really did a great job at making you feel like a cowboy, by which I mean herding cattle.

Yes, Red Dead Redemption is a game about an ex-outlaw, John Marston, hunting down the last members of his former gang. Sounds exciting. Sounds dangerous. Sounds violent. Seemingly too violent and dangerous for John, who would prefer to sit around the ranch, work the night watch, and wrangle cows, y'know... like a real cowboy.

The game spends an awfully long time just not starting. It opens with a long train journey, then moves to a lengthy horse ride, a conversation that could have been shorter, before finally a cutscene where John gets shot. It's not until John wakes up in the MacFarlane Ranch does the player really get control of John. But even then, the story doesn't want to get going. It's content to just have you work as a ranch hand instead of having exciting shootouts with bandits and emotional showdowns with past friends.

But, hey, who doesn't enjoy a bit of animal wrangling, and errand trips into town like a good little citizen?