8 Video Games Where You Played As The Wrong Character

8. Red Dead Redemption II (Post-Game) - Sadie Adler

Before you start reaching for the pitchforks and a stake to burn me at, this entry is neither an attack on Arthur Morgan nor John Marston. Arthur's story is touching and devastating, while John's epilogue serves as both a solid payoff to Morgan's arc, setting up the original Red Dead Redemption.

However, Rockstar missed a trick with the post-ending free roam elements.

After the game's final mission - in which Micah Bell is finally given what-for - John and Abigail marry and settle down on their ranch at Beecher's Hope. Alongside, bounty hunter and all-round hellcat Sadie Adler heads off to pursue further adventures and live the life of a gunslinger.

Why then, once the credits had finished rolling, were we still playing as John Marston?!

If he has finally settled down to tend to his ranch and argue with his wife (with 20,000 dollars in his pocket, no less), it feels dissonant to continue playing as him riding across the west, robbing trains and shooting dudes in the face.

A much more savvy move would have been to switch to the perspective of Sadie, now left to her own devices on the frontier. With Rockstar focusing on Red Dead Online and with no single player DLC in sight, it might have been the only opportunity we had to play as everyone's favourite breakout star.