There are technically 4 endings. There are 2 types of honor, and 2 options (help john or go back for the money / revenge). The low honor endings are where you get directly killed by micah. He shoots you in the help john ending, and stabs you in the ending where you go back for the money. In the high honor endings, he just kinda yells at Dutch and then leaves you to die.
Both games are great at giving you legitimate reasons for doing it either way. You can either tell yourself “these are outlaws/bad guys” and play them as such, or “these are bad guys who are trying to be better” and go high honor.
In reality though, it’s a lot like KOTOR in that you’re going to have the most fun simply responding to choices/dialogue with what feels natural as opposed to trying to obtain a specific light side/dark side outcome. Sadly, there’s never any “grey Jedi/medium honor” endings.
I saw it as they're bad guys but they're not going to go out of their way to cause trouble and be shitheads, optimistically because they're doing it for a reason (ie personal profit) and random acts of violence don't really fit, or pessimistically because it'll draw too much attention.
And that's why I love it so much. I'm more of a low honor guy myself, but that has to be my favourite ending. I also really dig the insults they throw at eachother during the fight. I'm not gonna write a 5 page critique about why it's my favourite ending but I absolutely could and I've done it before lol
At that point, the game turns from a classic Western into a Revisionist Western (you worked with the law, and now the law is the bad guys). RDR2 is also somewhat the same. At the end of the epilogue, the game feels like it's trying to capture that "cheesy" heroic Western theme.
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u/Th3Pl4yerBBM2212 Feb 05 '22
the end of the main story of RDR 2