Red Dead Redemption 2’s brutal opening was imagined to be worse, however Arthur Morgan was “very, very nasty,” so Rockstar Games “ended up cutting it”

Red Dead Redemption 2’s opening act was already fairly robust – sludging by knee-high snow for hours is all the time brutal – however the recreation’s introduction was initially going to place gamers, and extra so protagonist Arthur Morgan, by even worse.

Rockstar Games co-founder and frequent Grand Theft Auto lead author Dan Houser not too long ago revealed another starting for the open-world cowboy sequel the place Arthur Morgan acts “very, very nasty,” nevertheless it was scrapped in order to not make the sport’s main man instantly hateable.

“There was a bit at the start of RDR where [Arthur] had a baby who just died,” Houser told the Lex Fridman podcast, “and we ended up cutting it, which was the right decision” as a result of “it was too tough in some ways.”

“And he was not very sympathetic to his occasional girlfriend who’d had the baby. So, it made him very, very nasty at the start, which I thought would be interesting to play around with because then it would make his redemptive arc even more interesting,” Houser added, whereas explaining that the ultimate model of Arthur was “still sort of tough and nasty, but he’s slightly more likable early on. That was the right decision commercially. It’s better that way.”

What Houser loved in regards to the unique thought was Arthur’s “inability to access his emotions,” which is a really huge distinction to his emotional collapse nearer to the Western epic’s finale. Even so, Houser thinks “the games ended up the way they were supposed to be.”

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