Hindsight is always 20/20, and looking back, Red Dead Redemption 2 was always primed to be a massive hit. Taking the sheer scope of Grand Theft Auto 5 and applying it to a Western setting oozed potential.
Of course, the game swiftly became a huge success, with a huge player base still playing now. Seven years ago, in the immediate reaction to the first major reveal trailer, there were plenty of naysayers, and some of their predictions, rounded up by GameRoll, have aged about as well as a pint of milk out in the American frontier.
