10 Simple Questions That Break Famous Video Game Stories In Half

7. Where Did Jack Marston Get His Experience?

John Marston's death at the end of Red Dead Redemption is probably one of the most traumatising and emotional video game moments in history. The fact that the outlaw hero's death doesn't also spell the end for the open world game is somewhat of a helpful mitigant, and taking over as John's son Jack does provide a little comfort.

Jack takes up pretty much exactly where his father left off and, three years later, takes to the Wild West with all of the same weapons, motivations and abilities of the man who raised him. Sounds fair enough, right? Wrong; John Marston's - let's say - unsavoury career as an outlaw is a big part of what turned him into the deadly frontiersman that players took control of, but Jack has had none of that same experience.

It makes so little sense for Jack to be as adept as John, especially given that a ton of the pair's interactions earlier in the game show Jack to be a mild-mannered intellectual. Just how was he able to become a dead-eye sharpshooter without the helpful guidance of his father during those intermittent three years?

At the very least it would have made sense for the time-slowing Dead Eye mechanic to be removed from the game when playing as Jack, but making things easy for players was deemed more important than a considered approach to the story's final stages.