Spoilers ahead for Red Dead Redemption 2
Summary
- A Red Dead Redemption 2 player reignites a debate regarding the game's epilogue, with fans split on its impact seven years later.
- Many have labeled the conclusion as a farming simulator with John Marston.
- While some find RDR2's epilogue boring, others appreciate its significance and emotional depth.
A Red Dead Redemption 2 player has raised an age-old debate seven years after the game’s release, questioning Rockstar’s design of the prequel’s epilogue. Red Dead Redemption 2 was first launched in 2018, offering a story set before the events of 2010’s Red Dead Redemption. Players follow the outlaw and Van der Linde gang member Arthur Morgan, set in a fictionalized United States during 1899.
Rockstar has yet to confirm or deny the existence of a fourth Red Dead game, as the developer is understandably hard at work preparing the behemoth Grand Theft Auto 6 for its May 2026 release. However, that hasn’t stopped players from creating their wish lists. Fans have a roster of characters they’d like to see return in a potential Red Dead Redemption 3, including Jack Marston, Mother Superior Calderon, and Sadie Adler, but the fandom shouldn’t hold their breath waiting to hear of its existence any time soon.
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Posted on Reddit by webgtx, a meme was shared on the RDR2 subreddit, featuring the character Gru from the animated Minions franchise planning the epilogue’s design before becoming noticeably confused by the finished product. Emphasis is put upon RDR2’s epilogue being nothing more than a four-hour farming simulator with John Marston, and a handful of players wished they had received a “dramatic and epic” final mission. Some gamers consider Red Dead Redemption 2’s final chapter as one of the best epilogues in gaming, but there are a few who still berate the conclusion so long after its release.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Player Reignites Controversial Epilogue Debate
Among players’ love of the ending, one Red Dead Redemption 2 fan spotted a heartwarming detail in the epilogue, proving there’s a lot to admire about the game’s controversial conclusion. Several Redditors joined the debate to defend the game’s epilogue, saying that fans do not give the conclusion enough credit. One person revealed that they cried a lot during the slower moments, and another highlighted that, at that moment in time, players are supposed to feel like John, who’s yearning to be an outlaw again.
The epilogue explores John Marston’s life, preparing for the segue into the first Red Dead Redemption game, with a focus on family life and farming. There are several things to do in Red Dead Redemption 2’s epilogue, despite some gamers finding the gameplay boring, including filling Arthur’s journal with animals, fish, and locations, roleplaying as a gunslinger through bounties and gang wars, and also soaking up a peaceful life at Beecher’s Hope.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 95 /100 Critics Rec: 93%
- Released
- October 26, 2018
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Drugs and Alcohol
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Engine
- RAGE
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- N/A
