Red Dead Redemption

[Madame Adequate]

Wow yeah that is a major spoiler, but (SPOILER)I wanted to do that but his body was launched into the river by the force of my original bullets and floated away.

My Mauser launched him into the river, but not far enough that I couldn't walk out to him. I then spent five minutes slowly pushing him with my fecking ankles back onto the bay. I also used my sniper rifle to push him onto the bay. I shot every single inch of his body. xD

I had to use dynamite to rescue him from the river. Then I spent 10 minutes emptying every single bullet, knife, and fire bottle I had into him, before dynamiting him back into the water.

Ending spoilersI felt John's death was a bit of a cop-out. It seems to me that it should have been something you chose, in all honesty - we all know we could have taken all those guys (Hell, it looked like I could have done it even as it was if he'd pulled his Mauser instead of a six-shooter). Should have had a little banter where Ross called to Marston in the barn and you could choose to surrender, and die, or fight, and keep your family in danger. Then you could have an epic mission where you make your way by train, horse, and cart to Mexico and go into hiding or ask Reyes for help only he's persuaded/bribed by the US to extradite you and oh no I've gone cross-eyed.

Anyway the point is that whilst I understand why it was done, and I think it was a really awesome narrative, I feel like it was a real missed oppurtunity to give the player one last choice, and it would have been an interesting and important choice that didn't fit easily into a good/evil dichotomy. Given that the game tended to keep that stuff to either a minimum, or to have fairly low importance, I don't think that it would have been a stretch.

Also lol'd when, as Jack, I looted some corpse or other and he said "I am a sad, lonely man."

Edit: @ Xanthia: It is that good. It really, really is. This is one of the best games of this generation. I probably got more out of it because I do like Westerns, but even without that, it's just an amazingly good game.

Edit2: Hold on a tick. If Marston's ranch is (SPOILER)in West Elizabeth, why did he get off the ferry into Blackwater at the start of the game?