Am I the only one here bored with the game ? I got to chapter 3 of the story and then went online to see what that had too offer and spent about 2 days grinding collectables ! I have to say it bored the hell out of me as most of my time was Auto Ride on the Horse to the next location , I then signed up the the Bountie missions with 15gold and again after doing about 10 I found myself bored out my mind again! I've also been online and done a Few shooting games and again after about 10 games it just all feels a bit grindy and samey , I also went fishing for a good few hours and I enjoyed that but found it way too easy , Yes the games Beautiful and looks stunning but I do feel alone in the world and a little bored now, not sure it can keep me interested any longer , may go back and finish the Story mode and see how I feel at the end.
I suspect that being alone in the world is contributing to your feeling alone in the world. I've done over 100 hours now in online mode and its been immensely enjoyable. We all spend hours and hours literally just walking about (walking..not running, riding slowly everywhere on horseback, not sprinting around because nobody would sprint everywhere in reality), hunting, fishing, playing poker, doing treasure maps, saving up money to build up our posse camp, doing bounties. We don't use a website to find collectables and then just sprint around a route picking them all up, instead we pick collectables up as we stumble upon them, and we spend a lot of time just travelling the world to look at things and sitting and chatting and living the game world. We used to get thousands and thousands of hours out of RPing in MMOs, where many other players would burn out rushing up the levels and manicly running dungeons, and so far its been 100+ hours of brilliance for us in this. I actually think this game is designed to be played in this way and imo, is all the better when done so.