Spoilers ahead for Red Dead Redemption 2
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ARed Dead Redemption 2player has raised an age-old debate seven years after the game’s release, questioning Rockstar’s design of the prequel’s epilogue.Red Dead Redemption 2was first launched in 2018, offering a story set before the events of 2010’sRed Dead Redemption. Players follow the outlaw and Van der Linde gang member Arthur Morgan, set in a fictionalized United States during 1899.
Rockstar has yet to confirm or deny the existence of a fourthRed Deadgame, as the developer is understandably hard at work preparing the behemothGrand Theft Auto 6for its May 2026 release. However, that hasn’t stopped players from creating their wish lists.Fans have a roster of characters they’d like to see return in a potentialRed Dead Redemption 3, including Jack Marston, Mother Superior Calderon, and Sadie Adler, but the fandom shouldn’t hold their breath waiting to hear of its existence any time soon.
Posted on Reddit by webgtx, a meme was shared on theRDR2subreddit, featuring the character Gru from the animatedMinionsfranchise planning the epilogue’s design before becoming noticeably confused by the finished product. Emphasis is put uponRDR2’s epilogue being nothing more than a four-hour farming simulator with John Marston, and a handful of players wished they had received a “dramatic and epic” final mission. Some gamers considerRed Dead Redemption 2’s final chapter as one of thebest epilogues in gaming, but there are a few who still berate the conclusion so long after its release.
Among players’ love of the ending, oneRed Dead Redemption 2fan spotted a heartwarming detail in the epilogue, proving there’s a lot to admire about the game’s controversial conclusion. Several Redditors joined the debate to defend the game’s epilogue, saying that fans do not give the conclusion enough credit. One person revealed that they cried a lot during the slower moments, and another highlighted that, at that moment in time, players are supposed to feel like John, who’s yearning to be an outlaw again.
The epilogue explores John Marston’s life, preparing for the segue into the firstRed Dead Redemptiongame, with a focus on family life and farming. There areseveral things to do inRed Dead Redemption 2’s epilogue, despite some gamers finding the gameplay boring, including filling Arthur’s journal with animals, fish, and locations, roleplaying as a gunslinger through bounties and gang wars, and also soaking up a peaceful life at Beecher’s Hope.
