I finished Red Dead Redemption 2 a couple of days ago. Played it straight “white hat” throughout, sparing people when given the choice, killing only people I needed to, helping everyone I came across who asked for it, and generally being nice to everyone who didn’t shoot at me.
Now I’ve started up a second playthrough as “Evil Arthur,” returned from the dead to take revenge on this cruel world.
Went on a special trip as soon as I was free roaming and collected all the creepy found masks around the map, except for the ram skull that’s in New Austin, and wear one of them all the time.
Antagonizing people rather than greeting them has been interesting, especially in camp. Even as early as Chapter 2 Arthur will talk mad shit to and about Dutch right to his face, and to others. There was a whole series of lines about “You don’t really have a plan, do you?” and “Well what is it, then?” that was pretty satisfying to hear. Actually made Dutch walk away from me, pissed.
Shot a bunch of people on the road just for looking at me. Well, actually I antagonized someone as they passed and they talked some shit, so I shot them, then had to chase down a half-dozen witnesses, and then the witnesses to the murder of those witnesses… It ended up being like 2 dozen people. Vanished into the woods before any lawmen showed up.
Most disturbing thing I’ve done so far is probably “rescuing” a woman who was tied up on some brigand’s horse by killing the rider, killing the horse, collecting the woman, taking her down to the river, tossing her in the shallow water still tied up, and watching her drown. Cut her free just before she died, let her run to the horizon, then shot her in the back and casually rode off to go find and shoot Emmet Granger.
This is going to get ugly.