What Makes Arthur Morgan The Perfect Anti-Hero

[@flingymingy]

A big part is the vulnerability, it’s interesting to actually have a vulnerable protagonist. The fact your character can always come back to life usually ruins it but giving him a disease flips that on its head.

[@necfreon6259]

Come back to life eh guess you have a problem with talion in middle earth shadow of Mordor and war I suppose

[@flingymingy]

@@necfreon6259 I mean I would but shadow of war cleverly uses the idea of not dying and incorporates it into the story? Why would you assume I have a problem with it?

[@necfreon6259]

@@flingymingy looks like you kinda flipped that on its head sense you said dudes spontaneously coming back to life was kinda cheap but being cursed with immortality instead of just the ha you can’t kill me type of thing but instead was replaced with god damn it I can’t die makes it kinda interesting I guess

[@RusetheInsane]

The moment he admits hes afraid will stick with me for the rest of my life. One of the most impactful scenes for me, its both beautiful and tragic.

[@VincentSaan]

True the missiion where hea just trying to make it to the doctor while coughing his heart out really got to me, i guess it reminds us of our own fragility

[@therodian96]

Arthur's "I gave you all I had" was like Obi Wan's "You were my brother Anakin, I loved you". It broke my heart because I never expected a fictional video game character to mean so much to me.

[@Dave534]

Good writing and acting is a big part of the experience I will take a guess and say Micah is your most hated fictional character of all time

[@raelanimates8829]

@@Dave534 For me, I both like and hate Micag at the same time, I love him as a character, he has a fantastic character, but I hate him as a person, simply because of his morality, for Arthur, I absolutely love him as a character obviously, and Im kinda neutral on him as a person, mainly cuz he also doesnt have that good of a morality, but he is a good person deep down, only took TB for him to try and be that good self

[@history-jovian]

@@Dave534 I have played RDR 2 and it was satisfying for me to FUKING shoot him in his stuff.

[@matthewtellez1196]

Every now and then I always say that line in his voice almost perfectly

[@joshuajones9556]

this is what i said, i told my girlfriend about this and she laughed at me cause "its just a game character" but i almost cried, i felt like i lost a part of me when arthur died.

[@TacTar]

If RDR2 was a movie, Rodger Clark would've been Oscar nominated. His performance was on the level of Pacino's Michael Corleone and The Godfather.

[@Zygothknightlord]

Yeah. Even better than The Godfather though.

[@Ligmaballin]

I really don't get why video game actors don't get roles in movies, they clearly got the skill, for example why are they casting Josh Brolin as Joel in TLOU. Just use Troy Baker, Joel was literally modeled after him and he's the voice actor, he's also in the same age, just make him gain a bit of weight and you're good to go. And why did they use Tom Holland for Uncharted instead of Nathan Fillion? I just don't get Hollywood

[@solen5529]

Because not every voice actor can act/want to act same way most actors can't voice act, I'm guessing most voice actor's can't act since there are multiple different variables to those 2 types of acting and who do you think is gonna do better in a movie? a voice actor or a well trained actor who specializes in that specific kind of acting? it's not as simple as "well why don't they get the og voice actors to act in the movie" lmao

[@warpitexis2341]

@@solen5529 you do know that voice acter are not always just voice actors. Games these days are made with motion capture so there is not much differents except that there is a 3d model over there body. Normal acting in games is probably even harder because you have much less to work with because the whole world is digital

[@Don_Master83]

@@solen5529 RDR2 was like 85% mocap. The actors always try to make a point of that when people say it was just voice acting. As that diminishes the hard work they put into it. TLOU 1&2 were mocap as well and I think some or most of RDR1 was too. They’re acting just as much as an actor in a film or show. As Roger Clark put it, it’s like theater in the round, because the camera can be anywhere, and they’re doing the scenes mostly in one take. So it’s much like doing theater, except they’re in mocap suits and they have to imagine they’re surroundings and everything. The stuff they do in the booth is kinda no different than actors having to do ADR.

[@somberstricken4424]

Everyone was complaining when RDR2 came out "I don't want to play as this new guy, I wanna play as John!". RDR2 epilogue "I don't want to play as John! I want to play as Arthur!"

[@user_hellothere]

@@futurei0oo it's funny you say that cuz I always thought it would be amazing if Red Dead 3 took place even further back, say the gold rush, add California to the map and some other stuff maybe Chicago or New York, and have you play as another new character that's amazing in every way, and then he dies in the end and you end up playing as Uncle, and the epilogue is him meeting Dutch and Arthur and then when they're only like 13 to 15

[@CorYxKeNshun]

For real, mfs were simping over john and then started meat riding Arthur. I hate those types of people

[@AngelOfDæth_4]

It's true. I hated it when the trailers first came out and we had a different protag. But he easily outshined Marston as a character.

[@NickDog292644]

@@futurei0oo RDR3 Surviving Lombardo

[@OreganoParsley]

You know, I wouldn’t like the start of the gang since we know what happens, but I think jack’s story is good how it is. There was an 8 year gap between story and epilogue. How about we play as someone like Sadie?

[@highwind1991]

He's honestly my favorite protagonist in all of fiction. Rockstar will simply never top this game. It's one of the best pieces of art I have ever experienced

[@buttonmashranker]

Totally agree

[@TheGamersGist]

They said the same about John marston

[@bonechawneomusic]

We need a game about the early days of Dutch, Hosea, and Arthur.

[@greb.]

@@bonechawneomusic what about a game with a completely new character in the earlier 1800s, with no ties to the Van Der Linde gang?

[@MatthausJamesRothschild]

@@greb. - Or, a game where you are/play as a rival gang, to the Van Der Linde gang. Based between 1890 and 1899. I always thought that would be pretty cool, to see Arthur, Dutch, Hosea ect.. as ‘NPCs’, where they go about doing what we did with the characters.. I.e missions and what not. And you play as their rival gang (not as the O’driscolls). It probably wouldn’t work out well, but I always thought it would cool

[@bonechawneomusic]

Arthur is a tragic hero. Loyalty to the gang was his purpose. His life ended learning that Dutch didn't truly value loyalty except to himself.

[@anz2441]

Bout sums it up.

[@Zygothknightlord]

Arthur is not a hero , He was a villainous protagonist who turned to be an anti hero in a later half of the game storyline. He killed a lot of people but he fully redeemed and become selfless person in a later half of RDR2 storyline.

[@CALLUM-0-1]

@@Zygothknightlord Would hardly say feeling a bit guilty, helping a couple of people and then killing more innocent people and lawmen is redeeming yourself

[@craftymasterproductions4218]

@@Zygothknightlord He was always an anti-hero.

[@craftymasterproductions4218]

@@CALLUM-0-1 That’s not what happens, but okay

[@AshPrimeDCFC]

I didn't think they'd top John Marston but they surpassed him. Amazing character with great development, which just made the ending that much more heartbreaking.

[@sammysweetheart8600]

Well said!!

[@SolusFather]

John Marston > Arthur Morgan

[@aaxel_dz]

@@SolusFather cope

[@RohnJambo717]

Man when I played RDR2, I started as a full blown scumbag with 0 honor, after his TB analysis I went for Arthur's redemption as I figured he probably wasn't going to make it, the ending although extremely sad, felt even more rewarding as I personally felt that I had actually cleared Arthur's name by then and was able to leave at peace knowing that all the bad deeds were undone. Masterpiece of a game in every aspect.

[@iupobur4235]

In my new playthroughs, I would do whatever I want until his diagnosis. Then I'll start to redeem myself.

[@frankhorriganfromfallout2]

His 20 years of horrible deeds weren’t undone by like 1 month of good deeds

[@adamjohanssonn]

@@frankhorriganfromfallout2 no but it shows that he wanted to change and that he regrets what he was, and thats a huge thing

[@jeeseninala]

All the bad deeds undone, bitch arthur killed countless innocent people

[@fl260]

Playing the game right now and this is exactly what I'm doing too. That said, I still looked everywhere on the internet to see if it was possible to keep him alive. He just had his first fucking cough after robbing a house with Javier... man that's heavy. I don't want to get there!

[@LeeEverett1]

I remember when RDR2 was first announced and they said that John wouldn't be the main protagonist and it instead would be some guy named Arthur, I was complaining "wtf Rockstar who is this, I want John Marston's backstory" and wasn't even open to giving Arthur a chance. I swear after only like 3 hours of playing as him, Arthur immediately grew on me and the more I played the more I cared and got invested. After all those hours spent playing as him and he finally dies, it felt like I genuinely lost a friend I went through hell with. The irony is when it switched for you to play as John, I didn't even care and wanted to play as Arthur again. That's how powerful Arthur Morgan was as a protagonist for me. Easily top 5 of all time.

[@RareSeaSalts]

And really, we did get jhons earlier backstoru, through arthur

[@MCKevin289]

I booted up my Xbox 360 and started playing RdR I. Throughout that run I was constantly thinking “What would Arthur do and I hope I’d make Arthur proud of me/John.” Arthur became my conscience in that run.

[@mehshutup3041]

Sad thing is, a lot of streamers decidedly skipped the epilogue because they lost Morgan. Most notably markiplier. When Arthur's dead he's just like, that's it... and stopped playing

[@Megacooler96_]

He's literally one of the best if not the best written character for a game and just in general. It's going to be very tough to top this game

[@anz2441]

I don't believe it will be topped.

[@DeutscherPatrick]

Got topped even before it released

[@Zygothknightlord]

Arthur Morgan is definitely one of the most well written fictional characters imo.

[@connorseaturtle3162]

​@@DeutscherPatrick what by😂

[@DeutscherPatrick]

@@connorseaturtle3162 The Witcher 3. Just personal taste. Rdr2 is still an amazing game

[@westofelizabeth]

He's vulnerable. He cares for his people. He's torn apart. I love him.

[@filmneek]

I do find Arthur doing low honour things so out of character for the story as a whole. Makes far more sense for him to be a good man throughout and helping his community

[@Leongon]

Doesn't matter, in the end regardless of how nasty you play with Arthur, he ends up doing his best for the gang no matter what your choices are, and that loyalty to the gang was what the story is about. It's because of him that a bunch of the members survive past his own ending.

[@thisbubblygoodness7611]

I did High honor the first few runs, but ultimately, i love the Low Honor 'Go with John' ending, Arthur's a bad man, i like how Low Honor doubles down on that, but he makes his final 'redemption' but giving up the money and going with John (thats just my 'story' i guess). and Arthur getting shot in the head by Micah Bell is as tragic as John getting gunned down by Edgar Ross at the end of RDR1, im kind of over the high honor 'sunrise' happy ending, give me a sad ending. both endings work well in the end, i personally love Low Honor, i mean, this game really doubles down on being an 'Outlaw' far more then RDR1, so even when Arthur's sick i still want to hold up a few stores and rob some stage coaches.

[@AveChristusRex789]

For one of my playthroughs, what I did was have Arthur be low honour until he contracts TB. Afterwards, he was high honour. That way his development hit even harder for me

[@sandwich699sefsdf7]

@@AveChristusRex789 same i think that's canon he's meant to be a bad man that turns into a good one when he runs out of time

[@edmondvalmont1546]

Yeah, but it depends on the low honor things he does. For example such as robing it’s “permitted” for me, cause it’s logical for him to rob people (cause he’s a criminal) but it’s completely illogical for him to slaughter Valentine just because. So the low honor things my Arthur does are according to his nature.

[@vwolf2]

Perfect timing for me, I just finished his story and I'm working on the epilogue. Arthur's complexity as a character and being able to help shape his morality really played a role in how I saw him especially at the end. By the end it was like a piece of me was dying because I put so much of my own values in him and I related so much to his struggle. Not afraid to say I shed quite a few tears by the end of his journey.

[@glb1993]

Same here buddy when Arthur died during my playthrough I cried like a baby, I'm a man in my late 20s but this moment made me cry so badly lol.

[@amitr24242]

@@glb1993 yeah I played this game when I was 20 too!(now 22) and I shed some manly tears(I'm kidding I'm a girl and I cried womanly-manly tears)

[@mihailcirlig8187]

@@glb1993 I actually finished the game the night before going to school. I was in the train and rewatched on KZbin the last sequence and I couldn't stop shedding tears lol, fortunately I had a hoody so I could hide myself ahah, the only other time I cried for the death of a fictional character was in SPOILER Meruem and Komugi in HxH. Shedding tears for the death of a criminal who tried to redeem himself is a thing I will never be ashamed of.

[@manwithamic2372]

Arthur saying goodbye to his horse at then end of the game was the most heartbreaking moment for me. Especially since I basically took care of it and made sure it was safe for most of the game.

[@oooalonsonacho6935]

Yes! It made me realize that the bond meter wasn’t meant for the character and the horse. It was meant for ME and the horse😭🤧

[@damianhenry7485]

Greatest game ever created Im literally still playing it taking my time.

[@Leongon]

I've played it the whole way through like 10 times now, 100% it and filling the compendium. It's not just the story and characters so well done, it's just an awesome damn videogame, its world and mechanics are so well made. I even learned a whole lot about northamerican fauna since they did the animal behavior so accurate... I got my mind blown when I was slowly riding through a forest just enjoying the ambient and I heard a woodpecker pecking a tree and I spotted the critter just by sound, and later being able to spot a panther just to lose it from my sight as it prowled into the shadows because it was hunting me and snuck all the way around to come at me from a blind spot since I wasn't running away, and went straight for my neck, or when I got ambushed by wolves and I didn't stop to fight them and only shot one down before sprinting through and later passing through the same area I see one wolf mourning the dead one... holy shit they put a lot of detail into that world, I've never seen shit like that before.

[@24fretsoffury]

Currently in epilogue of second play through, 865 hours so far all together. I’m still just as excited to play this game, and experience it, as I was in the first 10 hours. It’s genuinely my favorite game of all time.

[@AveChristusRex789]

I agree, alongside Witcher 3 imo

[@damianhenry7485]

@@AveChristusRex789 Mass Effect 2, The Witcher3, Red Dead Redemption Are the greatest video games I've ever played. Hopefully we get something as good as these games soon.

[@AngelOfDæth_4]

The game is a digital masterpiece (cliche, I know, but still true). I've never played anything else that comes close to the detail and care that went into this game.

[@MrYogurtExists]

I wouldn’t really call Morgan an Anti-Hero but more of an Anti-Villian as he’s still being honourable under a villainous gang. John would probably fit under Anti-Hero a little bit better in my thoughts.

[@AngelOfDæth_4]

I love that idea of an Anti-villain 🤔🤔

[@craftymasterproductions4218]

Wasn’t it said that the Van der Linde gang helped people at the beginning? I wouldn’t call it villainous, at least at first.

[@starry402]

@@craftymasterproductions4218 they were like a Robin Hood gang, robbing from the rich and giving it to the poor or something like that. But after the black water fail it kind of turned twisted

[@oimate6357]

The words “hero” and “villain” seem a bit goofy when talking about red dead redemption They’re just people

[@_D_E_N_N_I_S_]

@@oimate6357 maybe you should google what anti hero means.

[@theoutsiderjess1869]

Arthur was a character that changed my life forever and at first I hated him. Overtime I began to love him when I got to see how Arthur think and felt about the life he lived as an outlaw. I related to him completely with not only how he feels about the life he lives and how he hates all the killing he had to do while being good at it. I also grew up sick so everytime Arthur coughed my heart hurt and by time he died I felt like I lost an older brother

[@BADVIBEZ-yk4ue]

Lol I thought the killing and robbing was fun I've never achieved to high honor in this game

[@Dead8Head]

How about Joel Miller

[@Dead8Head]

@@BADVIBEZ-yk4ue same, I murdered an entire town to get no "Witnesses"

[@Stargun-vj1uh]

I love that about Arthur, he's a character you really feel like you grow to love. I want to seriously actually play him low honor for most of the game, but it's so hard because I can see the good in him forming, and I want to be that. High honor Arthur is just so sad to lose, low honor is just sad to play. I loved Arthur as a character and RDR2 is I believe my favorite single game.

[@HEKVT]

Arthur was definitely one of, if not the strongest character that Rockstar made.

[@wexi4123]

CJ and Arthur are definitely Top 2

[@Batman-nr4en]

@@wexi4123 Cj is overrated

[@Zygothknightlord]

@@Batman-nr4en But you can't disagree that CJ has a lot of impressive feats , has a lot of impressive abilities , has a lot of iconic quotes , has a good story and he's very ambitious to become a kingpin of San Andreas who has a lot of businesses , assets , properties , money and influence and these reasons make him a great character. If you don't like him I think because he's a villainous protagonist (CJ is not really anti hero or redeemed unlike Arthur Morgan and John Marston. Almost every persons who CJ loyal and care about are a killers and gangsters and he probably kill more victims after GTA SA storyline) and sometimes he's a straight up psycho , Not everyone like psycho characters who willing to kill all of their enemies but their violent deeds make the characters interesting and badass imo.

[@Zygothknightlord]

@@wexi4123 Yeah. Both are a really great characters but in a different way. Arthur is much more relatable and realistic while CJ is much more accomplished and dangerous.

[@Batman-nr4en]

@@Zygothknightlord yes he is a good character but definitely not top 2

[@somberstricken4424]

He actually reminds me of my husband, so when Arthur cried, I cried. I don't even want to talk about the whole confrontation on a mountain.

[@AllahDoesNotExist]

Brokeback Mountain 2.0

[@EnclaveHater07]

That's sweet ❣️

[@captainstupid818]

arthur resembles my father wayyyyyy too much so his whole unfortunate story hit way too close to home and broke me into pieces 💔

[@cosmogcrusader5546]

@@AllahDoesNotExist Lumbago Mountain

[@haydenhodge1149]

RIP Bozo

[@Broomer52]

I always thought “if I could go back in time and write down a story as a book series before it was ever made, what would it be?” The answer to me was the Pirates of the Caribbean series and The Red Dead series. The story of Arthur and John are such award winning stories that I feel are limited only by the medium it’s in. If an Author came up with the story first it would go down in history as a modern classic

[@xvxvcaspervxvx]

I don't know; I'm just a 33 y/o man who defiantly had tears in my eyes at the end of CH6. Part of me wanted Arthur to endure because I couldn't accept the hand that Arthur was dealt, but I partially knew that Arthur understood his fate and wanted to make a change for the better in the hearts of those he cared about with the time he had left. But what are any of us to do, when the doctor gives us the news?

[@tacthescribbler772]

32-year old woman here! I cried, too! (Though I tend to immerse pretty easily and am not immune to misty eyes.) And you perfectly encapsulated how I also felt, the first time I played through the end of Chapter 6. Both John and Arthur gave us a glimpse of the heart they hide behind their rough shell. Men who perhaps wanted to do good. *Did* do good, depending on player choice. But the unfortunate circumstances that surrounded them, the hand they were dealt, as you put it, prevented them from breaking out of that shell. But they still did the best they could with what they had. Did what they had to do to survive, and to take care of the people they loved. Wouldn't any of us do the same, if life gave us the same terms? We are all human, and I think that's what made Arthur such an amazing character. He was human, too. We connected with him, in some of the deepest and most subtle ways a human can.

[@d-fens5866]

Me before RDR2 came out: Damn I wanna play as John Me after my first play through was finished: Damn… I wanna play as Arthur.

[@marko9695]

I actually just played RDR2 for the first time. I knew I would get to play as John eventually so I just left all the side missions to him. The second the epilogue ended, I decided to do a second playthrough, just to play as Arthur again lol

[@Monkeyboy1995project]

the only game and character to make me cry, a true masterpiece

[@Nott_Vermeen]

Arthur is the best video game character ever. His arc became a personal one. Really put the idea of ‘how do you want to be remembered?’ into play.

[@WorldlyBudget]

The voice acting was perfect. When Arthur said “I tried”, even now, I cried. Best game I’ve ever played.

[@agentthorny]

I love how if it was real life, Arthur would have had just a tiny impact on the world but this is the life that we live. And I love it.

[@cowel8734]

I love the honor system. At first I hated the way he'd beat ppl for money but eventually he gets to soften up. When I play a game it helps to feel like the bad guy deserve to die.

[@ericsugrue5880]

Just found out this channel exists. Never subscribed faster in my life. It’s the nerdstalgic content I didn’t know I needed until now.

[@staticwolfblogson8154]

Credit to the small details of the game that truly paint out Arthurs beautiful and artful introspective side, the Journal is amazing, as are the small experience conversations for the commited, its not likely that you will find out about arthurs true guilts, his son or his origins without delving into everything the game has to offer

[@Rard_420]

I personally enjoyed seeing him turn from anti hero to hero

[@re11o]

His redemption is TRULY felt😢

[@redharlow76]

I’ve said for a long time that RDR2 is amongst the best, if not the best, narratives ever told, in any sort of medium. Arthur Morgan is the prime reason for that

[@luyandankolisa7171]

Arthur,Sadie and John were amazing in this game

[@CorYxKeNshun]

Take out sadie and put charles

[@KingKong-ux3gg]

Literally the greatest protagonist in ALL media ever.

[@Cinedragon]

I remember having serious doubts whether I would love Arthur as much as I loved John. RDR2 surpassed all my expectations and when you get to play as John again in the end, I was like: Screw John! Give me back Arthur!

[@glb1993]

Arthur Morgan will be forever my favorite video game character of all time, and my favorite character of media in general counting movies and TV shows or books. Arthur is just an incredible character and his story line is just perfect in all the right ways, it makes you genuinely care about him which by the games end makes it hit you in the feels more than anything else in media. This game is the only game I had ever played to make me cry when the protagonist dies, Rockstar did that part way too well. RIP Arthur Morgan you will forever be missed.

[@zembla8957]

I just finished RDR2 main story and Bro I can say the character of Arthur has more depth and personnality than some actual people irl💀

[@ResevoirGod]

Don’t fully agree that it’s a nice neat package no matter how you play the honour system. Morgan comes across as a massive hypocrite when complaining about Dutch killing people or acting like a mad man when you made Arthur kill an entire town because you lost a game of poker…

[@rileybolling761]

Somehow it just fits to be high honor. He knows that the world is leaving them behind, and he tries to redeem himself. He stops doing bad for the sake of it and actively starts disobeying Dutch.

[@deacon6221]

For the first 4 chapters playing Arthur as a mean mf makes sense. But after the TB it only makes sense that Arthur redeems himself.

[@John-996]

If you have low Honour he says maybe we have all gone Rotten. But Arthur has been shown to be a bit of a hippocritics which makes his chracter all the Human. Most people are hypocritical. Arthur Himself writes about in his Journal.

[@thisbubblygoodness7611]

i actually love that Arthur displays an amount of hypocrisy, this makes him far from a 'black and white' character, he says some things that even the player would be like 'um actually...' like, as others said, people may give Dutch shit for killing a girl on a ferry, or an old lady on Guama, but no one talks about how Arthur has participated in 3 massacres in 3 different towns, it drives the point that the gang is getting sloppy, their 'ideals' are muddled, its great writing.

[@PuffinPassin]

that’s one of the things i loved in rdr2. how i could see and almost feel what Arthur was feeling in that moment. when he was faced with those difficult decisions i could tell he didnt know how to answer. this is one of the greatest games in this century

[@natedawg912]

What makes Arthur one of the most tragic characters ever written imo is that not only does he die in a brutal way, but in a matter of weeks beforehand and throughout the process of dying he learned that the life he was taught to live was no good, and the man he devoted it to in the end wasn’t ever worth his loyalty. He died with the knowledge that most of what he did with his life was for nothing except in service of an evil man who deep down didn’t truly care for him

[@TheRealChappers]

Arthur Morgan perfectly captures what makes the man with no name so interesting

[@lilrog91]

I still to this day say F**k Micah! Lol. Arthur had big shoes to fill as a character. I was worried going in after the masterpiece that was the first game, John Marston is and will forever be iconic. But man Arthur Morgan blew me away, he really is the best protagonist/antihero hands down.

[@ElMarko6994]

I’ll admit that when I first started playing rdr2 I was bummed I wasn’t gonna be playing as John, but after I got down off the mountain and really got into the game Arthur became my favorite game protagonist ever and it literally felt like a punch to the gut when Micah shot me in the face at the end of my first play through lol

[@davidmartinez52420]

God I love this game so much. I had low honor on my first play through and was beyond pissed when Micah shot him in the face. I couldn't even play it for like 3 days after that, then I restarted to make sure I had high honor this time. I cried when he died. I didn't know a video game could make me so emotional over a character's death, but this one did.

[@kristincostelloe4825]

I was so immersed in RD2. I really grieved for Arthur. Great stuff 👏

[@thrillhouse4151]

Arthur’s voice acting is so perfect, I find myself emulating him throughout the day whenever I play.

[@smokey3504]

The most impressive thing with Arthur Morgan's writing is how it interacts with the honor system and player choices. Whether he's gunning down a town of people, handing out money to the destitute, or helping some nutcase he just met retrieve a macguffin from their old home, he always feels like the same person at the end of the day. Something like that isn't easy

[@Karinawastaken]

Arthur in the trailers looks so differ to what he is in the games In the trailer he looks like a happy go lucky kid while in the game he’s an absolute badass who is tough as nails

[@SouradeepSBK]

I literally cried again when you included "I tried..." RDR2 is just something else.

[@HPLikecraft]

I think what also helped make Arthur a much more perfect anti-hero was making John into a more juvenile character.

[@harshsingh6904]

What I like about RDR2 is that while the choices in the game don't affect the story much, they can enhance it in a major way. You can keep Arthur's honor low before he gets TB, and after that you can make high honor choices, giving more depth to his redemption arc.

[@thegrimsleeper07]

People we all love: Roger Clark

[@mr_indie_fan]

There is actually a straight off the bat hero in a rockstar game (technically) and that would be red from red dead revolver, the cheesy game that came before red dead redemption.

[@johnny13x2]

I have to say that the only issue I have with this video is saying that the failing point of Andromeda wasn't that we were not playing as Shepard. As Shepard's story has ended. Having Shepard still be played afterwards just doesn't make sense from the scale and ramp up of the original trilogy. Andromeda failed for almost over a dozen reasons. But Ryder wasn't one of them.

[@Gailchor]

When I first started the RDR2 i always thought how are they gonna kill him off but in no future instances I thought that he would die such a death that would make me feel like this every time I see him.

[@burtbiggum499]

People didnt hate andromeda for the protag they hated it for being a shit game. Also every gta has different protagonists.

[@NikkiG1134]

Best of Arthur Morgan Drunk priest: "I took your advice sir, I took your advice" Arthur:"Then your god has finally deserted you" Micha: "I always looked up to you Arthur" Arthur: "That was your first mistake" Arthur:"Its Arthur, dumbass" Guy: "Cant stand there" Arthur: "What in the street?" Guy: "Yes in the street" Arthur:"Is it your street?" Guy: "Just get out of here" Arthur: " Why?" Guy: "I said, just get out of here" Arthur: *slap*

[@gertywhatagash_]

Finally just got over Arthur's death, and then you go and bring another tear to my eye. First video game I've EVER EVER given a shit about the story and its characters. R.I.P

[@Nikolai601]

Nathan Drake and Arthur Morgan are my all time favorite video game protagonists

[@Ligmaballin]

I never expected John Marston to be topped, when i heard they're gonna name the new protagonist "Arthur Morgan" i was kinda disappointed, "like who the fuck is that guy?" But boy was i wrong, he's probably my favorite video game character of all time.

[@Deiiiyu]

This game singlehandedly brought back Western Fiction back into pop culture.. this was just too cool and good

[@NukaVader76]

Humanity: "Westerns are basically gone. No one likes them!" RDR series: "Yall hear somethin?"

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@NukaVader76 humans: bro who wants to watch western its so Old Rdr2: gold experience requiem

[@ninthshark9153]

i love how videos are still being made today! thank you for the great content!

[@kap3469]

Ngl, when I played through rdr2 when it came out. I got so attached to Arthur and felt sadder than I've ever felt over a characters death. Really good character/story.

[@Dave534]

I fear we will never see a game like Red Dead 2 again a lot of the top talent have left Rockstar

[@GraveyardTricks]

Play Hunt: Showdown. The gun mechanics are a million times better.

[@toastedravis]

@@GraveyardTricks no one is playing Red Dead just because of gun mechanics

[@GraveyardTricks]

@@toastedravis that's cause it's a shit game

[@jonasskjtt5542]

@@GraveyardTricks you are not even trying to be a good troll, sigh…

[@therodian96]

@@GraveyardTricks You better watch your goddamn mouth, boy!

[@BasedSif]

Rockstar makes good ass characters. RDR, GTAV, RDR2 all have great characters to me. Never played GTAIV but I heard good things about Nico

[@oogbooga1924]

GTA 4 is a must. better than 5 IMO and holds up still very well with the story and physics engine

[@deacon6221]

Nico was a badass and a good friend. Like Arthur. Wayyy less emotional tho.

[@Zygothknightlord]

@@deacon6221 I agree. Niko is is also well written , deep and badass but he's a more ruthless than Arthur. I see some RDR2 and RDR fans don't really like GTA protagonists because they're more violent , emotionless and have less redeem qualities than Arthur and John although GTA protagonists are also nice , helpful and loyal to their allies. BTW a violent and badass characters who willing to kill all of their enemies like GTA protagonists are also my favorite fictional characters.

[@deacon6221]

@@Zygothknightlord I’m always a sucker for anti villain types. Characters who may be bad guys but have redeeming qualities like their code of honor etc or their loyalty to their friends. Like Tony Soprano.

[@lordgrim7942]

roger clark's performance was so good that i was convinced arthur really existed in real life

[@boxerchester8920]

Arthur is the best protagonist ive ever played as and i hope if they make a RDR3 we could play as a younger Arthur to see everything he spoke about Like how he met dutch, had a kid with some waitress and their death and then of course meeting mary

[@mariosoares5431]

This video: takes 2 weeks to appear on my recommend Me, looking at it: I have a video. This is a good one

[@bwmitchell100]

I’ve never had a game hit me emotionally than this. When I found out it was coming to a end no matter what I did everything I could to make things right. Changed the way I thought about games.

[@SturtH9]

Game and character are absolute masterpieces.

[@Zygothknightlord]

Yeah

[@thatRyzzle]

I didn't keep count, but I agree on all the points made here. Great game, with a great plot and story that serve a great character and his chosen family. So far, this is Rockstar's masterpiece, IMHO.

[@Veggie_Balcony]

my god, the only end of a game that i have bawled my godamn eyes out, i got so invested in arthur it was heartbreaking when he died, what should have felt natural felt weird when i got to play as john again, felt odd

[@metalheadjake3339]

Arthur Morgan and Doomguy/Doomslayer are by far My favourite video game characters. I like John Marston but I wish I could just play as Arthur throughout the entire RDR2

[@lukegrills3223]

What if Arthur comes back in red dead redemption 3 as a zombie that's sick imagine if you can play as him and kill everyone

[@ZeeGauntlet]

I love Arthur Morgan so much. He’s my favorite character of all time.

[@burnthetrolls5971]

Arthur Morgan is the perfect example of Redemption he starts off as a villain but then little by little he starts to change his ideology and realize that what he's doing isn't right and when he got Tuberculosis that was the turning point in his life and the moment he realized "This is the end and I need to fix my mistakes as much as I can" and he knew he had to get John and the others out of that life before it was too late he is the best protagonist I've played as he wasn't a copy of John Wayne (thank God) but he wasn't exactly a copy of Clint Eastwood or even a copy of John Marston, he was just Arthur Morgan a Legend of the West

[@weswarden2216]

They need to make a movie based off this game. Ever since my first playthrough of rdr2, I knew it would make for a hell of a movie

[@pieshka4509]

It wasn't really that Andromeda ditched Shepard and our galaxy, it was that the new characters weren't really interesting, the story is kinda hard to follow, some ME alien species aren't in the game ie Quarians, faces are plastic and emotionless, some lore was changed for twitter likes, the bugs, and for some a dev being flippantly racist towards fans. Every time I try to continue my save the only I thing really care about is the character Vetra, and I have no real clue what the story focus is. Meanwhile I can get hit in the feels just from a simple look from Author and can't bring myself to do a low honor play through. Even the left right eye movement with a dumbfounded look when you're doing the pig farm thing and the brother and sister are flirting infront of Author makes him such a human character

[@caveresch]

Arthur is the greatest fictional character in history. Leagues ahead of John.

[@knightsaber3155]

my top 4 favorite video game characters are this: 1. Arthur Morgan 2. John Marston 3. Ezio Auditore da Firenze 4. Nathan Drake

[@shawnthompson2303]

Roger and Rob are two super cool dudes. They were at my comic con in town last year.

[@CaseyAvalon]

Thank you for an awesome video on a game I actually STILL play to this very day.

[@MaddDawG427]

Great video mate, thanks for the content!

[@Zygothknightlord]

Arthur Morgan is definitely one of the most well written fictional characters ever.

[@haanis5458]

Im on my third playthrough now and on my first two playthroughs i was a good guy. In the first playthrough i didnt really do any stranger missions so he didnt really seem to change that much. That together with the fact that i played as a good guy the entier time. In the second one i was a worse person in the begining, but i became a better one in the end. And i did more side missions so i got the complete "good" ending. During this playthrough im gonna start out as an anti hero and im gonna turn into a full villain by the end. I will start out by doing it all for the gang, but i will gradualy do more stuff for myself. And in the end i will make one final good choice to help John.

[@dementiahotel]

the thing I find fascinating about arthur is how he amazingly represents freedom or just the want to be free. I believe it's when him and hosea go to hunt the bear they discuss leaving the gang and Arthur says he doesn't want to leave despite how long he's been apart of it. I believe he's always wanted to leave but couldn't due to the consequences. Another thing is while yes a horrible person. Murderer, low life, really the worse thing a human could be, he still shows the want to be a good person. I find this most obvious through the honor bar. Yet I find that mechanic (in terms of the story) useless as his label is "outlaw" once you have that label its impossible to redeem yourself. Impossible to be a good person, one of his many wants. This is messy and probably doesnt make sense but thank you for reading this if you did (I wrote this as the video played I apologize if any of these points were mentioned)

[@originata3748]

I think the video ironically details why Arthur is a messy character, not complex. He has a bunch of conflicting character traits and is able to morph into whatever the story needs him to. Maybe the perfect video game anti hero. He wouldn't work well as is in other types of stories in my opinion because it would be more obvious.

[@artbyatticus3001]

I feel like the point of him is that he’s messy. He has a bunch of conflicting character traits that help to strengthen his character. He’s able to do violent and threatening things with such ease due to the fact that he’s grown up threatening and robbing people so he’s just extremely proficient at it. However, at heart he was originally a good person and is still capable of being good. You do have a point that part of the reason they made him like this is so he could fit better into the story but he is still a complex character (in my opinion).

[@John-996]

Most people are messy People are complex and dont just act in one way really depends on the situation Arthur is really complex Chracter, Dutch even more so.

[@originata3748]

Arthur's "messy" not because he isn't perfect (though he nearly IS) but more messily created. He's a frankenstein of a character and doesn't feel realistic. It's a larger issue of the game so it's not just him. It's easy to not be concerned with this as you're playing as the character and the game overloads you with inconsequential decisions and emotional cut scenes. As I said, he wouldn't work well in other types of stories where we'd do more observing instead of participating.

[@artbyatticus3001]

@@originata3748 Well, like you said, that is your opinion. I disagree with that for my own reasons as I have played the game a certain way the whole way through thus making him a consistent and progressive character. Even then, when you read his in-game journal and observe his gradual development over the story he is still a very well written character. You don’t have to agree with me. Have a good day/night.

[@Unparryable]

Watching this is going to make me cry, isn’t it?

[@user_hellothere]

It's always so weird to see other people play Red Dead or gta, and the character looks different, my Arthur always has a big old beard, and currently that the last playthrough I've been playing he's been wearing a suit and tie lmfao

[@aquaplush7531]

I just ADORE Arthur. He’s an amazing character. RDR2 is one of the only games to ever make me actually cry, the others being Death Stranding and A Way Out.

[@John-996]

Dan talked about his writing inpriation in a podcast allot of it comes from really old books. was really intresting.

[@split2961]

Remember when people thought they were gonna hate Arthur and would prefer John?

[@kylelyon8518]

This game literally changed me as a man idk if i will ever love a game the same ever again

[@ftw7026]

I know at the start of playing RDR2 all I wanted was to play as John and not Arthur, then by the end I never wanted to let Arthur go. That's how I knew it was a good game. And the fact I cried when Arthur died. A game has never done that to me before or since. Rockstar are gonna have to work their asses off to top this game

[@lukegrills3223]

Arthur death saved the hole of red dead redemption

[@jaydee-mf2kl]

When i walk in when my brother finishes the game: Is there a leak in the plumbing?

[@winklenator]

I’ve never seen character choice done better than RDR2. I feel like since Mass Effect and the Witcher 3, there’s this obsession to open world rpg with as much as autonomy as possible. Rockstar knocked it out of the park with this one

[@shahanahsan05]

Rodger Clark is one of the greatest VA's of all time

[@Hippyboat]

I loved and lived this game .. even months after finishing it , I was not ready to let the world go..

[@TangoSuckaa1]

The most frustrating thing about this game is that Arthur didn’t get to kill micha