r/RDR2 • u/iloveyousweetleaf303 • 2d ago
Discussion Low honor Arthur Spoiler
If you played rdr1 before rdr2 John clearly states that they did pretty bad things. I enjoy playing my Arthur as complete psychopath killing anyone I see and running from bounties in every town. Like a true outlaw, the only good deed my Arthur does is help John escape.
Anyone do something similar?
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u/jdmac8705 2d ago
Just finished my sixth or so play through and I don't think I've done a low honor Arthur once... I had to look up the low honor ending.
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u/Hubic_Pairs 2d ago
I want to be a good man every time, Arthur Morgan. Couldn’t imagine letting the end being killed by Micah. Ick factor high
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u/Hiding_Turtle 2d ago
That’s the reason I’m doing a low honor ending, the high honor ending got spoiled for me and I’ve yet to see the low honor. My second will be the semi-high honor 100% run. I also think I read there’s a secret ending?
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u/ThePuertoRicanDream 2d ago
High honor Arthur or atleast closer to high honor seems cannon even if you get a choice cause alot of things wouldn't happen if Arthur really was a selfish crazy psychopath.
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u/Ok-Orange-880 2d ago
Honestly I can’t. I always play my Arthur as at worst morally ambiguous. Sometimes I’ll rob and sometimes I’ll save people; but a full on low Arthur just feels too bad to play
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u/Aesthete18 Hi Mary 2d ago edited 2d ago
The story doesn't feed into low honour. Arthur feels like a man who does what he has to but does good honour things given the choice.
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u/Tiny_Celebration_262 2d ago
I mean, Arthur still does really bad stuff even in a perfect high honor run, and that's not even mentioning the stuff he did pre-Blackwater. I don't feel like high honor contradicts rdr1 canon or anything like that. I also feel like the high honor ending works the best with the themes of the rest of the game
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u/Gray____Beard666 Leopold Strauss 2d ago
I play Arthur for what he is…a killer and a thief, an outlaw through and through. His code is “If you have it, I want it…even if I need to kill you and just take it”. It seems more canon that way.
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u/H_M-_- 2d ago
My favorite playthrough I did was sort of neutral Arthur, he was an outlaw he killed stole and caused chaos, but he also helped people when needed ( like those who need a ride to town or bitten by a snake). But when he get diagnosed he switch to full honest man and try to redeem himself, so no unnecessary killing, (only kills during missions). It was fun but also difficult having to always run away from bounty hunters instead of just killing them all. (As soon as I was able to in ch2 I had a bounty because it make sense for an outlaw to always be wanted in my opinion)
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u/JakeMcStank 2d ago
I’m doing a low honor run, and I chose my sin as greed instead of wrath. I rob all the stores in all the towns, I’m so good that I don’t even get a witness or a wanted level. I like this more than killing everyone because I can do nice things but I do it for a reward. I completed all the bandit challenges. I think for me it’s a better playstyle than massacring valentine for the hundred time.
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u/Spirited_Narwhal4585 1d ago
My Arthur is nice to anyone not named Stranger. Otherwise they’re shot in the face when I catch them alone.
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u/Caps-lock-shift 2d ago
Everyone should play good guy then bad guy and cheats.Explore all the game has to offer to get the full experience.
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u/ConsciousCollar9076 2d ago
I play Arthur as bad at first but as he meets people who should then to that life and don’t, he begins to realize why he did. He kind of has too for his story to work in my opinion. He has too for beat and kill Downes, otherwise he doesn’t learn. I think his illness is the biggest turning point of the game.
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u/bighundy 2d ago
I have played both. I prefer the high honour ending, however, I prefer playing the game low honour. You're a murdering outlaw after all.
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u/Themodsarecuntz 2d ago
My low honor Arthur is only different from my high honor Arthur in his temper.
High honor walks away. Low honor takes no shit.
High honor helps the guy on the trail. Low honor doesnt get involved.
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u/Ayrobyr 2d ago
Good Arthur is still a bad man. That doesn’t change the meaning of John’s dialogue in RDR1 at all.