John is the quintessential man of the 19th century: masculine, hard-working, and above all, closed off. It isn’t easy to get him to open up, so it’s no surprise he makes this quip to Arthur during the Red Dead Redemption 2 campaign. It speaks to some pretty clever writing on Rockstar’s part as well. While players were excited to get another game under the Red Dead umbrella, Rockstar makes it clear both in gameplay and with this quote that players are supposed to focus on the new characters rather than the old, nostalgia-inducing charact

This was the third in a series of games that took not only first-person games to the next level but also adventure and detective games , which had their own niche genres. Despite the old-timey private investigator aesthetic, the setting is a unique post-WW3 world in the year 2042, and Tex Murphy lives in the mean streets of New San Franci

In one of the funniest exchanges in the entirety of Red Dead Redemption , John meets Deputy Jonah while Jonah is snoring in a jail cell in Armadillo. Upon waking up, Jonah immediately thinks John is a member of Bill Williamson’s gang and tries to blow his brains out. After calming Jonah down, John tells him he can go scare some schoolchildren, which solidifies John’s low opinion of Jonah, as well as their pretty antagonistic and eventually neutral relationship for the remainder of the campa

The story takes place in the kingdom of Quendor and the Great Underground Empire and is set 120 years after the previous one, but all magic has mysteriously left the world of Zork and has been replaced by technology. The player uses “Z vision” or the first-person viewpoint to closely examine and interact with their environm

This dialog perfectly encapsulates the dichotomy which exists in **Red Dead Redemption 2 ** , one which the story itself emulates with the main character’s persistent quest for freedom and search for a life without rules or law being constantly interrupted by the forces of civilization. The story is the fulcrum point under which all of Red Dead Redemption 2 balances, occasionally teetering too far in one direction or another as it desperately tries to give equal weight to every single action taken by the player, at times to a infuriatingly tedious degree. The amount of sections in the game where the player is forced to slowly walk, usually while being talked to or, especially during the Red Dead Online sections, talked at, is in itself enough to turn off many, but underneath the massive amount of self-indulgence lies one of the most beautifully-crafted Western stories ever t

Since Red Dead Redemption 2 came out in 2018, players are finally aware of how John did get those trademark scars on his face. He didn’t exactly get them in a scuffle or doing something totally illegal, but he probably wouldn’t have been stranded on that mountain Arthur has to get him off of, his face full of claw marks courtesy of wild wolves if he actually was in church. Still, this quote solidified John’s characterization as not just a morally gray guy, but as a pretty sassy cowboy

Part of the CD-ROM puzzle and adventure game trend that was popular in the 1990s, The 7th Guest also introduced the concept of Lovecraftian horror to first-person games. Like Myst, it uses 3D graphics and video cut scenes to progress through the st

Kieran Duffy is a strange supporting character who drifts throughout Red Dead Redemption 2 . He doesn’t get along very well with either John or Arthur, though John makes his distrust in the former O’Driscoll gang member pretty obvious when he says the quote above. The quote also makes a statement about John’s characterization: he’s capable of being amicable with people, even when he doesn’t want to be, but that doesn’t mean he necessarily likes them. It also might even speak to the character development John goes through from the Red Dead Redemption 2 story to the Red Dead Redemption

One of the most common issues in the console release of Red Dead Redemption 2 saw players continuously accidentally shooting NPCs they were only trying to talk to, thanks to the confusing controller layout Rockstar had implemented to account for the game’s vast array of interactive options, many of which are context-sensitive and some only occurring once or twice throughout the lengthy campaign. The PC version here, thanks to a keyboard, does not have such issues, but instead decides to assign seemingly half the available keys to one action or another, causing a bit of confusion until the player gets used to picking options with G, R, Openworldpedia.Com F, E, or I on the fly depending on the situat

In context, this quote isn’t necessarily as funny as some of the others, but it’s certainly a good euphemism. In a moment John shares with his son, Jack, the two of them see an airplane (or “aeroplane,” as it were) and while Jack stands in awe of the sight, John has a more pessimistic reception to it. He knows the reality behind air travel and makes such clear when he says the quote above. Out of context, though, the quote does sound pretty hilari