RDR2 and Kingdom Come really set the bar for immersion. Cyberpunk tries but falls short once you look closer, while GTA 6 is about to blow minds.
Most games give you a cast that clocks out the second a cutscene ends, just standing there waiting for the next scripted beat. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the outlier. Nobody else has matched that level of immersion for me. The gang actually lives in that world: they answer you, they answer each other, and it reads as genuinely realistic rather than looped idle animation. Everyone has their own routi
