2. Red Dead Redemption - John Marston sacrifices himself
Red Dead Redemption
featured on our Top 5 video game endings, and rightly so. Sometimes
the saddest endings are the most powerful, and it's the most powerful
ending that stay in our psyche for years after we finish them.
John Marston isn't a
hero. He's just a family man who gets dealt a few bad hands.
Red Dead has two
endings. The second shows the retribution of Jack Marsten, John's
son, and while this is a great ending, the main ending for me will be
the death of John Marsten, he dies, to save his family and goes down
in a blaze of glory.
The closing moments of
John's story portrays him as a great husband and an even better
father, one who will lay down his own life if it means protecting his
family.
John spends his last
moments shipping his wife and son off on horseback to safety, while
he attempts desperately to stall the pursuers who have finally caught
up with him. When stalling fails, he opens fire into the group of
people meaning to do him and his family harm, and he damn well takes
a few of the bastards down with him, before climatically being shot
to pieces.
John may not be a hero,
nor does he try to make out he is. But what he is, is a good man, and
a man who puts his family first.
