This game has taught me a large portion of the population completely just buys the narrative presented and ignores all the actual facts. They love the main character of the movie regardless of anything.
Case and point people hate Strauss even though he is arguably the most moral in the gang in terms of his deeds. His grift is semi legal and the victims are voluntary and know all the stipulations.
Meanwhile Arthur admits to killing women and children in his past and we see the whole gang murder lots of people and steal.
I mean the part that people hate Straus most for (roughing up desperate people who don't pay his shark loans back) is literally done by Arthur himself. So how does Arthur not get some or most of the blame for that? It's not like Arthur is lower in the gang ranks or can't just tell Straus he won't do it. Arthur willingly does it.
But because Arthur is the main character and we see his regret and so on suddenly people are like "omg I love Arthur he is a good person."
Mfer killed kids!
Also Straus and other characters might have regrets too but we don't see them. Sort of like real life we don't know other people's personal life or internal feelings. That doesn't mean we assume the worst. Judge them then by their actions and such. With Straus his actions are of a slimy loan shark. So yeah you shouldn't like him but compared to the rest of the gang he is a Saint.
It is implied that they are some pretty bad marauders out west but when is it actually confirmed he killed woman and children. It reminds me of Unforgiven
“He said that you were William Munny, the same William Munny who dynamited the rock island and pacific railroad, killing women and children, and Ned said you did a lot worse than that, and if he keeps hurting Ned, you would come and kill him, like you shot that US Marshall in ‘70.”
Ngl. A lot of Arthur's part of the game reminds me of unforgiven, especially that one side quests with the writer and the gunslingers. Not that that's a bad thing tho
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '23
Terrible opinion
They don’t have to live with the consequences of their own actions, but the rest of the gang does?