10 Things You Didn't Know About Red Dead Redemption
5. The Protagonists Rarely Swear (For A Reason)
Now, this isn't exactly a mind blower in the grand scheme of things, but it is something you'll now notice every single time you return to Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2: that being nobody really ever swears.
Sure, in the first game some of the villains drop f-bombs now and then, but John Marston only uses the word a handful of times. Though incidental, this is surely an intentional choice considering the mature tone of the game and Rockstar's freewheeling approach to swearing in the Grand Theft Auto series. For a shooter about bloodthirsty killers and old outlaws, it's strange the few of them have a potty mouth.
This idea is taken even further in the second game. Here, Arthur Morgan might literally blow the face clean off an enemy's skull, yet across a hundred hours he only utters the word f**k once in a throwaway piece of dialogue, and a few times when singing along to old songs.
It's a reflection of how these two people view themselves: they might be killers and thieves but they aren't mindless savages, and still hold themselves up against a certain moral code.