Revisiting History in Red Dead Redemption 2

“They killed my husband,” a grief-stricken Sadie tells Dutch Van Der Linde and his protégé, Arthur Morgan. Fleeing from a heist gone wrong, the Van Der Linde gang has found themselves deep in a deadly blizzard, one crew member dying, the others not far behind if they can’t find food. With a dozen mouths to feed and provide shelter for, Dutch and Arthur set out to search for supplies and find themselves at a house taken over by a rival gang. The Adler homestead, where Sadie has been held captive for three days after her husband was murdered. This story already feels familiar to Bess, my 96-year-old friend who has grown fond of video games. Bess’s husband was killed in the 1950s, when her youngest children, twins, were still very young. Suddenly a single mother of seven kids and earning a meager wage as a housekeeper for a local shop owner, doing whatever needed to be done to feed your family was something Bess had grown accustomed to. While Sadie went to the Van Der Linde camp to start a new life after the murder of her husband, Bess moved her children to a public housing project in St. Louis. My partner and I are avid players of Red Dead Redemption 2. One of my favorite games, I’ve played and replayed the story of Arthur Morgan four times, totaling over 400 hours spent in the game. My partner, while familiar with the story from my play throughs, enjoys the Online experience, having taken over her son’s account and character after he died from a COVID related heart attack in December 2022. Discovering games and getting her first console in May during a visit in which we played Breath of the Wild together, Bess was eager to experience the “wild west outlaw game” that both my partner and I have talked about with her. <a href="https://cl-craven.medium.com/revisiting-history-in-red-dead-redemption-2-52d34e7fed38">Click Here</a>