Top 10 Things Red Dead Redemption 2 Does Better Than The Last of Us 2

In RDR2, you avenge Arthur, and it feels completely satisfying because Micah was an extremely evil character and he got what he deserved. Also, the aftermath where John can have some time with his family and most members from the gang have a happy ending is fulfilling.

But in TLoU2, not only do you not manage to kill Abby for what she did to Joel, but Dina leaves you just because you wanted to kill Abby. You end up feeling bad after finishing the game, uncertain if you made the right decision.

Abby is neither as bad as I thought she was going to be, but her character arc didn't make any sense in the universe of TLoU2. There are parts of the game when you don't know if you want to empathize with her or with Ellie.

Arthur, on the other hand, has more depth and more of an arc than John did in the first RDR. You not only feel what he is going through but also feel his change and evolution as a character.

Giving TLoU2 the excuse of being a story about hate just to explain how pessimistic it needs to be is ridiculous. You feel depressed not just because of what the characters go through, but also because the game doesn't take one moment to feel happy (besides when Ellie and Dina move to the farm).

Both the drama and the plot twist feel weird and forced just to appeal to the "hate" plot the game wants to transmit. RDR2 has many depressing moments too, but it compensates with a lot of happy moments and a satisfying ending where the good guys have a happy ending and the bad guys get what they deserve (plus the events in RDR).

This might be unfair because both games have a lot of differences in both story and gameplay. Since they are both third-person shooters with a lot of story, I'm counting this as a reason.

In RDR2, you have a lot of things to do and more variety since the game is more action-oriented. The main focus in TLoU2 is the story, making it feel repetitive and boring at times.

Both games have brought new gameplay mechanics that the first ones didn't have, but Naughty Dog removed a lot of fun gameplay features like puzzles, replacing them with boring tasks like moving a dumpster or a useless jump button.

There aren't many bad secondary characters in TLoU2, just unnecessary ones or ones with poorly made arcs. In RDR2, you have such a big variety of secondary characters with big personalities that the comparison feels unworthy.

Just compare characters like Dina, Jesse, and Lev with Hosea, Lenny, or Sadie.

TLoU2 doesn't have an uninteresting or bad world, but being a linear game, it doesn't have a lot of possibilities for exploration or immersion. RDR2, being an open-world game, has a lot of possibilities, places to explore, and interesting locations to visit at any moment.

This one feels kind of unfair since TLoU2 has a lot of attention to detail, especially with the graphics. However, RDR2 is an open world, so it needs even greater attention to detail and more interesting additions, which makes it a bigger achievement. Some details might feel pointless, but others truly help make the game feel more realistic and add a lot to the style of the game.

Not only in terms of story but also in terms of dialogue, RDR2 feels better because of the characters it has and the time it's set in. TLoU2 might have some decent dialogue, but at times the dialogue is clumsy, weird, or stupid, which is really cringy, especially given how good the dialogue in the first game was.