"Red Dead Redemption" is very popular, and Lucas himself has a good reputation among players.
This official blog post was noticed by players as soon as it was released.
However, the content of it caused a lot of discussion among players.
'The final ending satisfies us? Boss Lucas is lying again!'
'Satisfied? Not satisfied at all! Strongly demand Arthur's revival!'
Looking at Lucas's official blog, many players who were saddened by Arthur's death vented their emotions through comments.
However, there were also many players who were more curious about the ending Lucas mentioned.
And these players also clearly understood one thing.
That is, Arthur's death is almost impossible to change.
If that's the case, what will the subsequent plot be like?
After venting together on the official blog, Ben, like many other players, entered the game and played the game from the perspective of John Marston.
And the timeline has already come to the eighth year after Arthur's death.
During this period, John Marston has been living in hiding with his wife Abigail and son Little Jack.
The whole game story is more inclined to be plain, and focuses on family relationships.
With his wife and son, John Marston found a job on a ranch near Strawberry.
He lived a plain life, milking cows and hammering wooden stakes.
Then the ranch owner's wife actually wanted to invite John Marston to her room for a cup of coffee.
Well, let's skip this part.
Most cowboys are not actually the image of holding revolvers and licking blood off their knife edges that people imagine.
More often, they are milking cows, helping mares give birth to foals smoothly, and doing other farm activities.
"What's called a surprise? This is it! So the previous stuff was all fake Western life, and now this is the real cowboy life?"
Controlling John Marston to do farm work, Ben was speechless.
Because this content feels like the 'Farm Life' theme in "Red Dead Redemption" on the CosmosVR platform.
But the peaceful life was soon broken.
Once, when he took his son to Strawberry to get mail and buy things, John's former enemy recognized him.
On the road, John was forced to kill in self-defense, and Little Jack was also quite frightened.
Back home, Abigail and John got into an argument. They had lived this kind of life countless times in the past eight years.
Worried about Little Jack, Abigail chose to leave John temporarily.
At the same time, John also discovered that the package he brought back was not a dress Abigail bought for herself, but a birthday gift for him, a wool shirt.
After Abigail left, John Marston worked even harder, wanting to save money to build his own small farm and win back his wife's trust.
With the help of a kind boss, John Marston applied for a loan from the bank in Blackwater and bought a piece of abandoned land that Abigail had once liked: Beecher's Hope.
So John lived a life of building a farm and paying off the loan.
During this period, through Arthur's notebook, John also met some people Arthur had helped, as well as former gang members.
At the train station, John Marston met the gang's thief Mary-Beth, who has now become a bestselling American author, who always liked to read.
Swanson, the priest after he quit drinking, has become a highly respected clergyman and has even taken over a church in New York.
Pearson, the chef, opened a grocery store in Rhodes.
Tilly, the black girl, married a lawyer and settled in Saint Denis, living a comfortable and peaceful life.
And Karen, the blonde with big breasts who played the honey trap at the beginning, then pretended to be a prostitute when robbing the Valentine bank, spent her days drinking after Sean died, and had a big fight with Susan after Susan killed Molly, she also successfully walked out of the haze of the past and quit drinking, becoming a stage actress.
Of course, in the previous life, the character of Karen was a character forgotten by Rockstar. All the gang members had their whereabouts.
But only Karen didn't, so Lucas also completed an ending for this character.
"Why does it feel like everyone is doing better than me!?" After catching up with old friends, Ben, looking at John Marston in the game, fell silent.
You say everyone is from the Van der Linde gang.
Some have entered the upper class, settled in Saint Denis, taken over a New York cathedral, and become bestselling novelists and stage actors.
At the very least, they opened a grocery store in Rhodes.
But soon Ben finally saw someone who was doing even worse than him.
That is the uncle in the gang who always has a backache and mooches off everyone.
If Dutch is the western idea king, always having a plan.
Then Uncle is the western backache king, lying on the ground all day saying his back hurts and he can't move.
But this uncle stuck to John like a leech, refusing to leave no matter what.
But all joking aside, he felt that although John Marston in the game complains about Uncle every day, he should also be happy.
And Uncle wasn't completely useless. Uncle also helped a lot with the purchase of timber for the farm's renovation, and also found out Charles's whereabouts.
It turned out that Charles had returned to the camp after helping the Indian village, buried Susan nearby, and also found Arthur's body and buried it on a mountain top with stunning scenery, allowing Arthur to sleep among flowers and beautiful scenery.
After that, Charles came to Saint Denis and made a living by fighting underground boxing. Seeing John, Charles was also very happy and agreed to John's invitation to go to his farm. During this process, he also learned about Strauss's whereabouts. That seemingly timid loan shark was later caught by the Pinkerton detective, but unlike Micah, who betrayed the gang, Strauss did not reveal anything about the gang until his death.
Later, John also ran into Sadie, who now makes a living as a bodyguard and bounty hunter. By following Sadie's path, John also earned a lot of money and paid off the loan.
With the establishment of the farm, John welcomed Abigail back, and they went to take photos and watch a movie together, and proposed in the middle of the lake with Arthur's original ring.
Looking at the two embracing in the sunset, Ben also felt a little emotional.
Arthur's regret in love was made up for by John in a way of inheritance.
John Marston now has completely transformed into the good man Arthur wanted him to be.
At John's farm, Charles, Uncle, John, Abigail and Little Jack lived a happy life.
Everything seemed so beautiful, but Ben felt there were still some regrets.
Because there was still some unfinished hatred.
But soon Ben's idea was confirmed.
On this day, Sadie came and told John and others that she had found Micah's whereabouts.
As soon as John heard this, he went back to the house without hesitation to get a gun.
He knew that all this was hard-won, and even if Arthur could see it, he wouldn't want John to avenge him.
But John also had his own beliefs.
In the room, Abigail begged John.
'I beg you… don't go! John, are you willing to gamble everything for this?'
'For what? For Micah?'
John, holding the gun, looked at Abigail and replied.
'All this?'
'All this wouldn't exist if it weren't for Arthur, Sadie… and those friends who sacrificed themselves.'
'I have no choice.'
Hearing John's words, Abigail didn't speak anymore.
She just watched with worried eyes as John rode his horse and followed Sadie and Charles away.
'We're going to kill that son of a bitch Micah.' Riding on their horses, the three of them chased after the clues and came to the snowy mountains where the Van der Linde gang had fled.
Climbing the snowy mountain with the exciting execution music, the three of them killed their way to the top of the mountain.
"Micah Bell! John Marston is here to find you!"
In the last snow mountain, they saw Micah, and also saw an unexpected person: Dutch.
But what was even more unexpected was that during the three-way confrontation.
Dutch actually shot Micah dead.
A shot eight years late.
In the next moment, the player and John poured their anger into the bullets of the revolver and fiercely shot at Micah.
Then Dutch glanced at the cowboy hat on John's head and left the snowy mountain without saying a word.
John and Sadie then found a large box of money in the room.
Now they realized that Dutch had already saved enough money for them to leave the West a long time ago.
But Dutch kept telling them that there wasn't enough money and they needed to have a plan.
As the prologue said, the era of gunslingers and outlaws is over.
It's just that there are still some people who don't admit it and are unwilling to change their way of life.
Just like people like Dutch.
Is Dutch's goal money?
Obviously not, otherwise he could have killed John Marston and Micah in the end and taken all the money for himself.
He just didn't want to end the Western life he was familiar with.
But now, perhaps Dutch has finally realized.
The era he was familiar with is finally coming to an end.
Just like the prologue said, the era of outlaws will eventually come to an end.
(End of this chapter)
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