A Red Dead Redemption 2 player online has pointed out an adorable detail about Jack Marston in the game. While it's not clear just many hours this gamer has in Red Dead Redemption 2, it's the sort of detail someone would only notice if they'd played an awful lot of the game.
Despite the game approaching five years old, gamers never seem to stop discovering new details in Rockstar's classic Western title. Just recently, a player with over 1500 hours of play time discovered a cool carriage detail in Red Dead Redemption 2. To this day, the game remains the gold standard for attention to detail in video games, with practically nothing living up to it since. While some gamers get frustrated by Rockstar's long development times for its titles, it can take seeing the tiny details come together to understand exactly why these games take so long to produce.
Redditor Agile_West3110 pointed out the adorable detail that Jack Marston is actually missing a tooth in Red Dead Redemption 2. Players have to get up close to notice it, so it's no surprise that this is a relatively unknown detail to many in the community. Ultimately, the overarching Red Dead Redemption story is about the Marston family, so it makes sense that they'd be given that extra bit of polish and detail from Rockstar.
Other gamers in the thread noticed just how much attention to detail Rockstar paid to this particular element. It seems that as the story progresses and the in-game months pass, Jack's adult teeth actually grow in to replace those he'd lost. It borders on an excessive level of detail, but it's such a huge part of the reason Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time and remains extremely popular to this day.
It remains to be seen if Jack Marston will ever be seen again in a Rockstar title. There are many gamers out there who believe that Jack Marston would be the perfect protagonist for Red Dead Redemption 3, but with the game almost certainly many years away, Rockstar has a very long time to make that decision yet. With his adult life being so close to the end of the American West as it's commonly depicted in popular culture, it may make sense to forgo the Marston family in favor of a new approach, one that doesn't restrict the storytelling potential so much.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.