![]() Maybe he would have returned to crime, maybe not, he had a family, and throughout the game it seemed like he wanted no more part of his old life.ĭid he deserve to be punished for what he’d done in the past? These are the guys who were supposed to be upholding the law.Īnd then when the lawmen got what they wanted out of John, they executed him. Not really, but that was the only life he knew, and he did seem to regret it looking back.Īt the start of the game, he’d attempted to leave that life, settle down with a family.īut then these lawmen had intervened, kidnapped his family to force his compliance. ![]() In the modern world, there might be other options should he not want to take up a life of crime, but in the days of the wild west, i’d assume opportunities are a little hard to come by. If Marston was brought up in an environment where lawlessness is considered the norm, it’s not surprising he’d turn to crime. The age of the Wild West died with John Marston. A new era began with his death because his thread was now closed. Marston’s death was poignant because it showed that his lifestyle was not one that had any place in the new world. The rate of change is fast and brutal, wiping away anything that is deemed a relic. The death of Marston is done in such a fashion to signify the rapid encroachment of the modern world into the once wild West. It’s a brutal end, but also a very poetic one in what it represents for the future. So Marston is killed in what could be argued as one of the most horrific and over the top ways imaginable.Ī line of enforcement led by Edgar Ross form a firing squad as Marston comes out guns blazing. Though Marston had lost his family temporarily while hunting his former friends he hadn’t paid for what he had done, at least not in the eyes of Edgar Ross.Įdgar has seen the destruction of a group of wanted criminals and doesn’t want to have one more running around. However, John Marston was still a criminal and that quote above is uttered by Edgar Ross. “ Everyone eventually pays for what they have done.” After completing his mission he is reunited with his family, and you think that is it. ![]() He searches for those men one by one, killing them to close his ties and exact his own revenge. It’s a few years after this abandonment that Marston is forced to hunt them, but he doesn’t resist too much. So Marston hunts down his former gang mates, those who had left him to die after a crime gone wrong. Ross embraces this future, but Marston resents it because it there is no place in this new world for people like him. The days of the Wild West and the midday shootouts in the town streets are being replaced by trains and cars. While Ross is the architect, Marston becomes the tool to wipe away his own kind, and his own era. Edgar Ross becomes what Marston was in order to secure a much safer future in the more modern, tamed West. Too easy and Marston wouldn’t have the incentive to do so. Maybe it’s the only way Ross can be, to get Marston to hunt down his old gang members. He was taught to not trust them, so when viewing the lawmen from his perspective we are treated to that same outlook.Įdgar Ross leads the investigation and is just as ruthless as Marston used to be in the past. Cross a lawman and a shootout would almost certainly occur when John ran with the gang. After all we see everything from John’s perspective, and he has grown up in a situation where the lawmen were the bad guys. Red Dead Redemption manages to portray the officers as the bad guys incredibly well. This may be seen as a very harsh course of action by the authorities, but after everything John has done, it seems fair to cause him anguish like he had done to so many others. John’s actions lead to the authorities getting involved, taking his wife and son in an attempt to get him to bring down his old gang.
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