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[NakeyJakey] Returning to Red Dead Redemption 2
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I’ll never understand how people see anything in Arthur as a protagonist. Whether you play him good or bad, the guy has no thoughts of his own. He’s just a male version of the born sexy yesterday trope. The big payoff at the end of the game is that much like a three year old, he suddenly gains consciousness and self awareness. But you have to play through 40 hours of being a big dumb unthinking Neanderthal first.
Protagonist doesn't mean good guy, or smart guy. He's just the main character.
Problem is the game tries to paint him as either a good guy or a bad guy based on the honor system, but he’s not a good guy or a bad guy or complex guy either. He’s not much of a guy at all. His only driving force in the entire game is a blind trust in his father figure. The only internal conflict he has in the entire game is the extremely late realization in his forties that his “dad” isn’t an all-knowing benevolent entity, but is a flawed, self-serving human just like everyone else, and that he needs to learn to think for himself for once. And once he reaches the stage of independent thought, we’re already done playing as him lol.
I think his character would be much more compelling if Arthur made this transition after the first act, and not the final hour of gameplay. An RDR2 where Arthur has been freed of his entirely being’s reliance on Dutch and a conflict with Dutch taking a bigger role in the plot.
He is the protagonist because the story revolves around him as the main character. I'm not saying you should like the game or the character. Him being the protagonist is independent on whether you like him as a character or the game. Protagonist literally means main character of a story, which he objectively is.
I don’t think that Arthur being the protagonist of the game is in question here fella. He’s in the cover of the game.
Well, you were before you edited your comment
Incorrect lol. I never said Arthur wasn’t the protagonist. That would be silly.