10 Gaming Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It

10. Jack Marston Is (Probably) Doomed To Repeat His Father's Fate - Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption ends with the heartbreaking demise of gunslinger protagonist John Marston, before an epilogue shifts the perspective to his young son Jack a few years later.

Jack, now greatly resembling his late father, tracks down the Bureau of Investigation officer responsible for his death, Edgar Ross, and promptly murders him.

On a superficial level it's a satisfyingly cathartic post-script to the main story, albeit one that also spells out a likely nasty, brutish, and short future for young Jack.

Though there's no denying that Jack was forced to toughen up after losing his father and then his mother, he's hardly become the calloused outlaw that John was within a mere three-year time skip.

After all, we can assume that Jack spent much of that time caring for his ailing mother rather than chewing toothpicks and shooting bottles.

It's pretty reasonable to assume that Jack, hardly cut out for this life, would come to a violent end one way or another, most likely gunned down by one of Ross' family members or associates.

That or he'd otherwise end up on the business end of a rogue's gun through sheer lack of preparation, given his father's absence in his most formative and important years.

While an Easter egg in Grand Theft Auto V - a book called "Red Dead" by "J. Marston" - suggests that Jack may have gone on to become an author, there's no guarantee that this is canon.

It's surely far more likely that Jack tragically continued down the violent path his parents tried to dissuade him from.