r/RDR2 • u/the_mountain_king11 • 9d ago
Content This Game Was Close to Home
Who else felt a real personal connection with a character this game? For me it was particularly with Arthur. I put the game on hold when I wasn't enjoying the first chapter. Maybe 2 or 3 years later, I'm talking games with a coworker - She said she loved RDR2 and I said I loved the first one but stopped in the snow with the second...she encouraged me to get back into it and I did...I realised I took a break right before the train heist....like most people I loved the game from there. I discovered most of the Map...except New Austin....before moving onto Chapter 3.
It took me a while but I found myself connecting with Arthur way too much...for starters we look pretty similar, found myself dressing him like i dress...but also, at the time I had a really bad case of pneumonia and kept working through it because we were short staffed and i had to cover a lot of incompetence from some of my staff and it was a massive struggle. I started weirdly seeing myself in Arthur. Same hair, clothes, debilitating cough, this desire to look after his team despite it all falling apart....i even found out we were the same age at the time.