I started playing Red Dead Redemption a couple days ago, and Hogwarts Legacy last night.
Aside from some now and then control awkwardness and model textures and animations looking a bit outdated, RDR is pretty good. The game world looks very good and the HDR is a nice touch. I'd have preferred a Remake on this one to bring it up to modern times a bit more, but it's still very playable and enjoyable.
So far I've only played the prologue of Hogwarts Legacy. I was quite concerned about performance, as I've seen many reports of it not being too polished in that regard. The auto detect had my 13700k, RTX 4800, 32 GB RAM rig set to all Ultra with no RT on, but I turned off motion blur, film grain and chromatic aberration, and turned RT on with RT reflections, AO, and shadows. DLSS is set to Quality. I also bumped the frame rate cap from 30 to 60.
With these settings I was expecting less than 60 FPS, but surprisingly it's running very smoothly at 60 FPS so far. The key words being so far, as we all know FAR too many devs hide their performance issues well beyond the 2 hr window to suck people into buying their games these days. I got Hogwarts Legacy on Epic Games Store's free giveaway deal that I saw someone on this forum post, so thanks to whoever that was, it's a pretty nice early Christmas present
Gameplay wise I guess it's what you'd expect from an ARP genre magic based game. Lots of wand waving, colorful effects, with all the spell casting lingo. I must say, the RT reflections add a lot too. I had a bit of a stumbling point figuring out how to battle the Guardians solo, but it was merely my not holding Q long enough to actually stun them. Otherwise it's more of a block than stun and they just keep coming. The intro had some cool cutscene moments where you escape some dragons too.