I'm sorry but nah.
I know it's your opinion but HZD isn't even in the same ballpark as RDR2. The only thing that stood out in HZD were the enemies..that's it. The rest was just the same open world antics you see plaguing Ubisoft and many other open world games.The only games that comes close is the Witcher 3 and GTA 5.
RDR2 's world is an intimate one where simple interactions with random NPC shows a truely living and breathing world. Simple day to day tasks like picking bags and chopping wood is given context and listen to conversation of your most hated gang members can make you sympathies with them. These are what make RDR2 so great and unless HZD at least does those thing that you could say they are both in the same ballpark if not then they don't belong in the same sentence.
RDR2 is unmatched in this department and the only one to truely test Rockstar are CD Project Red.

The Xbox One X version of RDR2 kills Horizon visually.

HZD? Are you taking the piss? Is this a early April fools joke?

Ps3 games put fallout 4 to shame not hard to do

You are so right. I wish people would just stop using the Ubisoft formula and try something new like Rockstar did with RDR2.

Yeah, other rockstar games i find a chore to play tbh. Red Dead 1 was always my favorite because of its narrative, but even it took me a while to beat.

But i cant put RDR2 down. Its fantastic. The dialogue is great, every conversation is worth hearing and theres so many of them. I like how the guy i saved from a snake bite saw me much later in the game and bought me a free gun. The cinematography is impeccable too, and the option to switch to first person is so nice. When i got to saint denis, ive never been more impressed by an in-game town. It looks and feels so damn cool.

The controls arent great, its a little slow, but this is a hell of a game.

Its that slowing down that some people don't like though. I can understand why, because some people want faster paced games. Personally, I don't mind slowing down for a game. I just prefer it to not be forced on me, and I'm the kind of person who will do all that side stuff for as long as its fun. The problem I can see me having with the game eventually, if I play it long enough, is that a lot of that slowing down is going to get really tedious, when all I may want to do is get into the action. For instance, one night, I may want to advance the story a good deal to set up my next play session and get access to stuff later in the game. but if I have to slow down and do things I'm not interested in doing, then it becomes a chore, and frustrating.

I experience this in RPG's where I'm going for the platinum trophy. I'll play as much as I can doing routine stuff not related to advancing the story. But eventually, I just want to move on, and in those games, I can stop all that side progression stuff, and just head back to the story....outside of being locked into a side quest of some sort.

If this is all you see from playing RDR 2, I genuinely feel sorry for you.

Yeah while ignoring the plethora ora of activities that this game have to offer like actual side and main quest, fishing, hunting, playing mini games like domino and other things.

That’s not even remotely close to true.

What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.

It's okay as long as they get a cut of the money.

Expect R* to force it on you.

Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.