Why didn’t the gang just eliminate both men then and there? Why even bother having the discussion in the first place? Sure, it wouldn’t have solved their problems, but it certainly would have given them enough time to get out of do
By Chapter 6, everyone’s nerves are fried, drink is flowing, and Dutch has a particularly itchy trigger finger. Enter Molly O’Shea, who tells Dutch that she has been working with the Pinkertons. But…why? We later find out that Micah is the rat, not Molly, so this “plot twist” is rendered m
Who made it? Why did they make it? Is it supposed to come to life one day? Is it meant to be art? The origin of the Man-made Mutant is one of the game’s biggest unresolved mysteries. It looks like the world of Red Dead Redemption will never k
While in Rhodes, you unlock the ability to sell stolen horses to a horse fence. Do not do this. It is not worth the effort. Why? Because a basic stolen horse will net you maybe $2. If you want to increase the price, you’ll have to significantly bond with the horse, and this may take a few in-game days. And your reward will be a price increase from $2 to $5. Yay. Yes, you can make more money with rarer horses, but that includes both finding and taming them, which could also take a while. In the end, horse selling is a mug’s game and it’s not worth the time or effort invol
I thought the Gang was strapped for cash. (That’s why I spent so much of my money on donations to the camp.) Where is Strauss getting the money to loan if the entire Gang is not doing too well in terms of fund
The holidays are upon us, which means that most of us are obligated to spend hours of time with our families. I kid, I kid. We all can enjoy the time we spend with our family. However, if you’re like me, you are going to find it pretty difficult to tear yourself away from your video game console. It is no ordinary game that is taking up my time though. It is a vast open-world game with countless activities to complete on a daily basis. It has an immersive story, hilarious horse physics on occasion, and a chaotic online feature. You know what game I’m talking about, ri
It’s possible that she just wanted attention from Dutch, but she knows that he is dangerous and that revealing such information is bound to end badly for her. She wasn’t in her right mind, but she’s not stupid. While this was a devastating scene, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in hindsi
One of the most popular pastimes of open world games is simply exploring the world itself and seeing what you come across. And Red Dead Redemption 2 is filled with secrets (and lots of gold bars.) Simply exploring the world rewards you with valuable treasures, and gold bars can be found in Limpany, south of Cotorra Springs, in the Braithewaite Manor, and in the mountains northeast of Bacchus Station. There’s seven gold bars among them for a grand total of $3,500. Not bad for simply wandering around doing noth
You could argue that they were waiting for Dutch to return before attacking the new hideout, but that’s just more speculation. We later learn that Micah revealed their new location to the Pinkerton agents, and there’s nothing to indicate that they already knew about it from the let
The thematic discrepancies of this game couldn’t be more evident to me every time that goddamn deer showed up in Arthur Morgan’s dreams. These are brief sequences that felt like a fetishization of the frontier—they recall not just nostalgia for the Old West, but for the first Red Dead Redemption 2 Money Guide Dead Redemption game, with the basic melody of the theme playing in the background. It can be debated for hours what the English-class level metaphor that the deer is meant to represent, but I had this feeling that by showing us Arthur trying to remember the “glory” of the West, the game is trying to invoke the same feeling in the player. Think of the way that Kingsman: The Secret Service attempted to argue in favor of bringing back the camp and irony of old spy films, which undid its own argument when the movie ended with an homage to sex scenes of James Bond films past, reminding viewers of how problematic that era was.
Arthur gets captured by the O’Driscolls and has to fight his way out. Was there any way they could have prepared better? Probably not. What they should have done was ignored Micah’s suggestion that they meet and just not fall for the trap in the first pl
So why doesn’t Dutch just send one of the ladies to fetch the stash of money? After all, Grimshaw is one of the most respected and loyal members of the gang, and it’s clear by the end of the game that she has the gang’s best interests at heart. She would gladly travel to Blackwater and would never think of taking the money for hers
The gang has ample opportunities to eliminate both Ross and Milton, yet they never do it. Arthur has the chance to do it while he’s fishing with Jack, but we can understand not wanting to subject the child to violence. However, both agents later show up, completely unprotected, to the Van der Linde camp in order to negotiate a tr
