5 Reasons Why GTA V Will Never Be As Good As Red Dead Redemption

3. You're A Cowboy With A Horse

Yeah, it's fun to be a gangster. It's fun to steal cars and drive fast and rob banks (I'm talking in-game here and not in real life - neither myself nor WhatCulture! condones robbing, stealing, or speeding through the streets knocking pedestrians down in real life), and GTA V does allows you to do all of these things in an awesomely fun way. But...

Listen, when we were kids, everybody liked to play Cops and Robbers. It was one of the first games we played, running around the streets with plastic guns, or tooling down hills in our go-carts screaming nee-ne-nee-na at the tops of our voices. But before we played Cops and Robbers, we played Cowboys and Indians. There's something about the life of a man who lives in the wilderness, surviving on nothing more than his hands and his wits, that spoke to our most base desires as children, and it's something that still lies in us today. Maybe it's because the world is our own, but ever so slightly removed. It's similar, but without the traffic lights and the rules and the responsibilities. It's a world where you can get your clothes dirty and adventure has the potential to sneak up on you from around every corner. Our idea of the Wild West these days is how we used to see our world when we were knee high to grasshoppers; full of excitement, intrigue, places to explore where nobody had ever been before, where treasure just might be buried under your dusty boots. And that's not even counting the horses. Who doesn't love horses? Nobody, that's who. Riding towards the setting sun on the back of your trusty steed, that's written with muscle and personality, is a far more intimate experience than putting your life in the hands of some faceless, seen-it-a-hundred-times-before machine. Yes, cars and bikes are fun, but horses are better...