8 Best Video Game Endings You Can't Get On A First Playthrough

Red Dead Redemption may indeed be something of a modern-day masterpiece when it comes to it's immersive gameplay, rich character development, and of course its attention to detail, but one thing that fans were a little chaffed from seemed to come from how the title handled it's ending.

Or should that be endings, because depending on your Honor rating come the close of the game, you might not even get access to the best ending despite making the more honorable choice. To better explain in the final mission you come to a fork in the road in which Arthur can choose to either take the money and run or help John Marston out, and by choosing the latter you'd think you'd earn the best ending right?

After all, you've forgone wealth in the pursuit of helping a man who pretty much just exists to rub you up the wrong way. However, if your Honor meter is low, an ensuing firefight will see Arthur bite the bullet quite literally as he's shot in the head!

Turns out that by having high honor you'd see the tense situation diffuse with Arthur finally left alone to die in peace, watching one final sunrise as he passes on. It's still a bleak ending, but it's a fitting one, capping off his story as he breaks a cycle of violence he was embedded in from the very start.

Still you'd have to have been a right saint of the West in order to have this ranking, and precognition to know it'd ever effect the story this greatly. Better get chopping that wood for camp friends!