10 Video Game Side Missions You MUST Complete

2. I Know You - Red Dead Redemption

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As dramatically potent as Red Dead Redemption's main story is, most of its side content is pretty damn worthwhile too, and none more than the three-part Stranger mission "I Know You."

The quest begins with John Marston encountering a well-dressed man who appears to know a suspicious amount about John, though never quite lets on how he knows him.

The player must then partake in two moral tests - convincing or dissuading a man from cheating on his wife, and donating to a nun or not - after which John will encounter the "Strange Man" one more time.

After losing his temper with the man's mysteriousness, John opens fire on him, but the bullets do nothing to the man as he walks away.

Given that the man refers to himself as an "accountant" and knowingly speaks of John's eventual resting place as a "fine spot," many fans have assumed the man is in fact God, the Devil, or even Death.

Whatever your own conclusion, fans have been debating the precise meaning of the brilliantly enigmatic side mission for the entire decade since.

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