{"id":100368,"date":"2020-10-21T00:34:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T00:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/red-dead-redemption-2-morality-good-bad-wild-west-high-low-honor\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T00:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T00:34:34","slug":"red-dead-redemption-2s-morality-system-feels-redundant-but-it-really-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/21\/red-dead-redemption-2s-morality-system-feels-redundant-but-it-really-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Dead Redemption 2’s Morality System Feels Redundant, But It Really Isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> <\/strong>is one of the most acclaimed games of the last console generation with a world so huge fans are still discovering new mysteries to solve two years after its initial release.\u00a0Yet, this also includes a relatively straightforward morality system.<\/p>\n

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em><\/a>\u2019s morality\u2013the Honor system\u2013is based on whether players commit good or evil acts, but it has little impact on the plot of the game itself. There are some different lines and new cutscenes, but ultimately, the outcome of the story is the same and Arthur\u2019s honor is ultimately irrelevant. However, there\u2019s a good reason for this to be the case.<\/p>\n

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Honor in Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> can be gained or lost throughout the game. For example, a player can farm Honor in Red Dead 2<\/em><\/a> by doing camp chores, disarming opponents during duels, and paying off their bounties instead of getting into shoot-outs with the authorities. Players can lose Honor by killing civilians, stealing, and even for engaging in some mechanics which are mainstays of the genre like looting dead bodies.<\/p>\n

The Honor system does affect a few things. Arthur\u2019s lines in some scenes are different depending on his Honor to reflect his personality. When Arthur is telling John Marston to leave the Van Der Linde Gang<\/a>, a Low Honor version of the character is blunt, telling John to \u201cget lost\u201d and is more cynical, saying he doesn\u2019t see a \u201cway outta any of this\u201d and that Dutch\u2019s \u201csilly idea\u201d of freedom doesn\u2019t \u201ceven exist.\u201d \u00a0He\u2019s more interested in money as well, making sure Abigail will send him his fair share of the loot when John mentions it.<\/p>\n

A High Honor version of Arthur\u00a0still tells John Marston<\/a> to get lost and says he sees no way out of their situation, but does so in a kinder tone. He makes appeals to their friendship to convince John to leave. Instead of saying Dutch\u2019s ideas don\u2019t exist, he claims they \u201cdon\u2019t work no more.\u201d Overall, though, the Honor system makes little difference to the overall plot. An Arthur with very low Honor will be shot dead by Micah, but an Arthur with high honor dies of tuberculosis any way.<\/p>\n

Mostly, the changes are aesthetic rather than changes to the plot. The way Arthur Morgan<\/a> phrases his thoughts is different, but the gist of most scenes remains in-tact. There is no way for an Arthur with High Honor to redeem himself in a way that changes the major course of events in the game\u2013but that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

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Red Dead Redemption 2<\/em> deals with Arthur\u2019s confrontation with his imminent death as he asks himself who he wants to be in his final days. The fact is that his relationship with Dutch Van Der Linde<\/a> deteriorates and his ultimate demise are fixed events, but the point is that the reason Arthur\u2019s honorable acts are honorable is because he\u2019s trying to make right what he can, despite that fact. As Arthur says in the scene with John, even with Low Honor, \u201cI gotta see this through, try and make some of it right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The degree of Arthur\u2019s success is measured more by his internal struggle than it can be by external events. An Arthur with High Honor is more at peace during his death, while a Low Honor Arthur<\/a> is robbed of his final desire for revenge against Micah. The stakes on Arthur’s part are purely internal, but they are powerful stakes nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Even telling John to leave is ironic, as players know his bloody fate from Red Dead Redemption 1<\/em><\/a>, but while John seeks redemption in the first game by trying to\u00a0violently alter the circumstances of his life, Arthur has a different approach. Arthur\u2019s story is about the character trying to reconcile himself with his actions in life, many of which the player has no control over as they\u2019ve taken place before the game. Though he always dies, players still have control over his\u00a0redemption.<\/p>\n

Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is available now on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n

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