That's a really interesting (and world appropriate) system. Are the Bounty hunters real players, or NPCs
I think I need to pick up Read dead 2, I loved the original red dead (it took me about 6 years to play through the story mode as I spent so much time just riding around), but I was never too sure which version to get (And Japan has a yucky censored version).
So managed to make my way through the jerly lurk land in Dark souls (thank somebody) and am pleased with my current character build. As long as I have a bit of space to maneuver, I can do reasonably well. Just have to work out an efficient way to take out some dragon looking things I saw. They seemed a bit too touch my sword swinging and somewhat magically resistant. WHich might be a hindrance since I have a magic based character