Red Dead Redemption 2: Hunting Finally Done Right
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Arthur would definitely hunt
Hunting in Red Dead Redemption II makes sense for the story, the character, and the world in a way it doesn’t really in other games, or even in Red Dead Redemption.
In the first Redemption game, our boy Johnny could shoot animals and skin them, but it didn’t feel so fully of a piece with the game. The overall tone of the game itself was that of a spaghetti western. A Fistful of Dollars; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and so forth. It was about fast horses, weird characters, loud music, and the twang of bullets as they ricochet. When John Marston would tool around shooting animals, it felt like shooting things for the sake of shooting them. John is kind of a dumbass. I love him, but the game is about how he’s in way over his head as he tries to save his family. That guy, in that state, pausing to pop a few armadillos sounds as silly as the parent from Fallout 4 putting their frantic quest on hold to build a community instead of tracking down their missing infant.
But Arthur? There’s no question – hunting, skinning, and eating animals is part of his everyday life. There’s processed food out there, sure, but the Dutch van der Linde gang is on the run from the law, and your ragtag crew is setting up shop in forest clearings and on lakeshores. Going into towns where your face might be decorating the walls of sheriffs and saloons just doesn’t make sense. Especially when everyone in your group keeps an arsenal on their horse at all times. With Arthur as Dutch’s right-hand man and a sort of reluctant caretaker for the group, he would absolutely be hunting on a daily basis to keep his people fed.
Arthur’s also a sad, frustrated man. Having grown up in Dutch’s gang, he doesn’t know a life without violence. But he keeps a journal, and talking to other characters reveals a man who buttons up his emotions because he’s never been taught what to do with them. That he would want to venture out into the wilderness alone for days at a time absolutely makes sense. When I step away from camp to hunt or fish on my own, it feels like taking a breath and getting some space, especially when I can find a spot without a lot of traffic.
I get the feeling from the way Rockstar builds the character of Arthur that he would be out there for personal and group-focused reasons alike, and he’d have the time to do it.
Article source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/22/kimberley-strassel-fate-gops-graham-cassidy-health-care-bill-is-in-sen-lisa-murkowskis-hands.html
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