>>713865434
The graphics and gameplay are fine in my opinion, better than fine. The story is just such an insufferable wannabe HBO piece of shit that squandered the opportunity for an awesome cowboy story and instead stuck us with hours of directionless grief and vain grasping questions of mortality ultimately signifying nothing.

Even that said, the open world itself is good. I think it would have benefitted from the Bethesda formula:
>character creation for your cowboy pc (use the one from online)
>pick stats, choose custom backgrounds like orphan, miner child, adopted indian etc
>brief origin sequence starts you somewhere in the world to explore at will
>take on work, gamble, hunt or roleplay as your chosen profession with more fleshed out minigames for coal mining or blacksmithing, barkeeping etc in addition to the existing bounty hunter, moonshiner
>stumble across a "main" quest at some point or perhaps multiple possible main quests depending on things like honor or allegiance
>have your choices actually AFFECT the world in some meaningful way beyond how law enforcement treat you
>have the civil war break out and the map is suddenly criss crossed by trenches and artillery, player has to pick a side and resolve it if they want to stop getting blown up by cannons all the time
>let the player go eradicate the last indians or help the indians scalp all the wypipo for the fuck of it
>go nuts and add a legacy system so you can marry a townsperson, give birth to a child who takes over for you when you die with stat buffs based on lessons you gave them/heirloom items you left behind
>go even more nuts and add a shadow of mordor rivalry system with random gangs of bandits and moonshiners popping up and forming generational feuds (or alliances) with the player's family
>yes i know its fucking patented fuck that shit so much