7 Life Lessons You Learned From Red Dead Redemption

Lesson two, then: Red Dead showed us that variety is the spice of life. You want to ride the prairie, collect flowers or hunt wolves in a constant attempt to improve your life? Go for it.

Rather play poker, cut off your fingers with a Bowie knife in a gambling accident and prop up the bar while drunk on whiskey? That’s your lookout, pilgrim, and RDR sure ain’t gonna stop you.

Actually, Rockstar encourage it with their achievement/trophies that damn well demand you go and start a brawl in every saloon on the map. The sheer number of diversions – and the sheer joy of being diverted – was enjoyably vast, extending the time we could while away in the old west.

But why should it be any different in the real world? I haven’t done the maths, but I think there are even more activities out there than there was in the game.

RDR’s message is clear: Broaden those horizons of yours. Try new things, unless that thing is Five Finger Fillet, which is a clear health and safety violation.