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The fact that John's prologue clothes are patched up if you wear his winter outfit is a small detail but an excellent piece of world building. Easily one the most detailed games of all time.

I still can't get over the fact that canonically John can read classical Chinese.

I doubt John is actually blind. Him saying “I got my eye back” is likely him talking about making a good shot than him being blind. Him closing his eye is ment to show how Arthur is more experienced than John as it is harder to shoot with both eyes open. And the eye patch was probably just a cool design rockstar wanted to do.

Interestingly, Arthur’s way of aiming is apparently pretty hard, but a very skilled way of doing it.

John encourages/talks to his horse. He always says stuff like, “doing good girl” or something like, “we’ve been through it haven’t we?”

Snipers will aim with one eye closed, then open both to get back peripheral vision. Might be due to Arthur being trained by Dutch, whose father probably trained him. (Dutch's father was military) (Edit:damn, this turned into the most controversial statement on the Internet lmao)

iv always thought that the heartbeat resemble a heart within john marston no matter how bad his actions seem sometimes (rdr1 and 2), and arthur ticking clock in the background resembles his limited time left before his passing

I always found it adorable that Arthur would sketch little pictures of deer and other animals in his journal, little details like that make characters seem so much more human.

As a sport shooter I'm pretty impressed to see Arthur using both eyes open, modern techniques (of any kind) often have old roots. Works with anything non to very low magnified, pistol or rifle (iron sights back then). As far as magnified scopes you can but it's easier to allow one eye to dilate as needed to get a clear picture, open the other after it's adjusted

Just to help people out, as I can see some people are confused about it. With the part about Arthur keeping both eyes open when aiming down a sight is a sign of being an experienced gunslinger, is in fact very true. If you close one eye, you lose approximately 45% of your peripheral vision. This is the same with both scoped weapons and iron sight. Now, some may think that losing that 45% can't be too bad as you're already aiming at your target, but you can't be any further from being right. Experienced marksmen will keep both eyes open until they're about to shoot in which they (may) close the eye they aren't using to aim down sight with to better help with taking a shot, then open that other eye again, this is because you need to see not just your target, but what's behind your target, around your target, and there are a few atmospheric conditions that you normally need to take into consideration depending on the distance of said target. If you were in a forest per-se, and you know this forest has mountain lions in them (only speaking hypothetical), and you were about to shoot one before it gets you, would you keep both eyes open to see if there's another mountain lion coming to get you, or close one eye to focus on that singular mountain lion? If you say focus on the singular mountain lion, you aren't going back home. Hopefully this helps some people with their confusion. If people want to know my experience with firearms, I grew up around guns on a farm, hunted things, received police training and still shoot today.

The pants he wears in the epilogue are not the same ones he wears in the prologue. The patches aren't even in the same place. Also, John is supposed to encourage his horse while running. It's a glitch that's in the epilogue that he doesn't. He also has Arthur's body, head shape, and most of his facial stricture.

These were all super cool (as I expect from your videos). The only one I don't agree with is the blind left eye; it usually depends on the shooter and how they were trained as to whether they close or keep both eyes open whilst aiming. It's usually more common I'd say to close one eye.

I love the attention to detail rockstar did making this game. But, as a diehard John Marston fan it baffles me how much is lacking out of his character in the epilogue

Man imagine if Rdr2 has a map expansion on the top of the snow of ambarino, it shows the direction of how the gang escaped Blackwater

I think it is intresting knowing more about John, because in the first game he comes across as quite mysterious.

Maybe that's the reason the named dead eye in rdr1, because from his right eye he can see normal, but he can also use his left to see things differently using "dead eye" 🤯

Unsure if been commented on before, but the "john/arthur eyes open/closed when aiming" thing may be due to what's called 'eye dominance'. Arthur may be right handed and right eye dominant, whereas John may be right handed but left eye dominant (just means he automatically focuses using his left eye). That would explain why John closes his left eye when rifle shooting (if I shoot a right handed rifle stock I do this). Its a well known fact that experienced hunters/riflemen keep both eyes open when shooting to keep peripheral vision, but *only* if their eye dominance/dominant hand match etc

7:14 this part I can't lmao 💀

John does encourage his horse while running. Also his eyes are still blue in Rdr1, they just have a hint of gray in them.

For an extremeley detailed game, I find it weird that John in the epilogue is a hybrid of Arthur and John

Its more likely that john's daugther was born between 1907 and 1911 than between 1899 and 1907 because if it had been a recent happening there would probably be some evidence in the epilogue. So jonh's horse being named rachel has probably got nothing to do with that.

About the dead eye sound I noticed the difference of sound between John and Arthur, it was just nostalgic to hear again that sound

Johns horse is named after Rachel Alexandra, a famous racehorse that looks near identical to the horse in game. Nothing to do with his daughter.

6:55 "I think they came out good" had me dead when john puked 😭😭😭

An Eye patch has an tactical advantage, when you outside and go into a house/cave or something, you switch the eyepatch and your eye doesn't have to adjust to the darkness

Arthur lives on through John's indigestion

"I think i got my eye back" is a figure of speech like saying "im back in the swing of things" He isn't blind, he hasnt literally got his eye back, hes saying his skill level has returned to that of his glory days as a gunslinger

I like that John's old holster means that he was using a mauser and lost it from the wolves. Meaning the old scruffy looking revolver John is using is just his old revolver that he probably decided to replace with a newer fancier pistol.

Idk if John is actually supposed to be blind in one eye, but his zombie costume is also missing his left eye, which is a weird design choice to keep consistent for no reason between two random costumes

Is John's left eye really blind? I mean it was cut up a bit, but it healed. The eye patch he wears was probably just random fun thing they did.

This could possibly be the most detailed game of all time!!!! I don't think we'll ever see this much depth in a game ever again. Games have become all about online multi player & micro transactions. Most games come out b4 they're even complete so I don't see a team putting in this much time & effort to make another masterpiece like this. 5 years from now we might still be finding new things

0:04 the realness off the horse letting loose urine as it died

Those greenish yellow colors under John's dead horse is so gross but realistic, I love this game.

The fact that he killed so many enemies with just one eye adds a lot more respect to John

John is not blinded by one eye , his injured eye is not as good as the other one , if he was blinded by one eye then he wouldn't have to close his blinded eye to shoot , in rdr1 he refers to getting his eye back because he has a lazy eye which is not good as the other

I was so sad that the drawings by John weren't as good as Arthur's in the journal, but at least they still have the same icon on the map, I love seeing discovered points of interest on there.

interesting that john wears a mauser box holster in the prologue yet in the epilogue when he meets up with charles he is shot by gangsters using mausers and he asks what kind of guns those are.

Huh I never noticed John’s horse very clearly pissed itself when it died 0:15

7:02 Throw out to uncle, not Jack.

It's gonna feel weird playing as John knowing his left eye is blind

John isn't blind in his left eye. In the cutscene at the beginning of "Who the hell is Leviticus Cornwall," John's head and right eye are bandaged, and he looks around at the people in the room just fine with his left eye.

Im not really sure if John is really fully blind but most likely legally blind so he sees but very little with the injured eye. Nice video btw

“I got my eye back” I think he mostly means cause he’s very rusty , cause he’s been ranching. In the epilogue he def not rusty when he saves the ranch from those mercs tho so idk. My head cannon now tho is he is blind in that eye, wolf attack plus the deadly assassin outfit having a eye patch

Amazing video! I played rdr2 for 200-ish hours on pc and God knows how many on ps4, and never knew everything in this video apart from John's more sloppier writing. This is truly a work of art, you deserve a medal :P

Fun fact, Arthur got his journal as a gift. He mentions how he’s willing to start a new journal and all that- WHICH explains why Arthur is better at drawing and writing

Arthur Morgan not closing his eyes while aiming just shows how much of a good marksman he is. Based on what I've read from redditors aiming with both eyes open help with eye strains, helps allow maintain your entire field of view, and depth perception. Rockstar did a really good job at this game.

I don't think John is blind as both scopes of the binocular is able to be seen through

Great video, RedsDeadBaby! I can see you put actual effort into this one. Two criticisms that I have is that John being blind in his left eye is entirely untrue. John means "getting his eye back" metaphorically as in getting his precision back. The Deadly Assassin outfit is just a pre-order bonus outfit that looks cool. The visually injured eye is just popped blood vessels, not serious. The closed eye while aiming is just because he isn't using it at that current moment so he closes it for better precision. And the Rachael named after his daughter thing is a theory, not a fact like the title says. I like that you included some lesser known facts on this video. Again, good job. Here are some additional notes: John not "yah-ing" his horse while riding is due to a bug with the game files, a modder named Daan found this and relayed it to me after I pointed it out. (The dialogue in the files exists, but due to an accident they made in the script for replacing the files with updated ones, it doesn't work.) John using Arthur's vomiting sounds is obviously a bug, he has his own in the game files. RDR1 John has grey eyes, whereas RDR2 John has blue eyes. You can see this in the two games' texture files. Old Boy is not directly the same as the War Horse from RDR1 but it is very obviously inspired.

I’d be interested to see if Arthur doesn’t close one eye when shooting a rifle instead of a shotgun as shown in the video. There’s a difference in technique in the real world (or there can be, everyone is different) On a different note it wouldn’t make sense for John to close a blind eye to shoot better as the eye is blind, and wouldn’t affect him anyways

Funny thing is, john was surprised and confused to see people using mausers. John can be heard encouraging his horse when it is out of stamina.

damn how this annoyed me hopefully one day they fix john at least they put out an update that his hair is

The us Army drill sergeants taught me to close my non dominant (in my case my left) eye. When asked about opening both eyes, the drill sergeants told us it was a more advanced technique.

When arthurs sick and anytime you play as john, if you swap glove, Vest, and shirt varients the character models are buggy. Forearms beef out and then get skinnier, and as you can see in the video at 9:44 Johns Gloves actually change size. The game is being buggy with what porportions to use to what body model I think. When sick with TB as Arthur if you check his wellbeing under Player < Arthur from the menu Your health is Marked with the red Debuff "Tuberculosis" and a -%40 core drain rate with a skull icon ( posion uses the same icon ) And Your general stats will note Arthur as Underweight No matter what you do or eat. I think as rockstar was rushing development in the end they couldn't polish this and other late game chapters as well as chapter 1-5, like how Annesburg theres an obvious Audio splice during a cutscene when Arthur helps Mrs. Downes Son, and this also explains why John has the same vomiting noises as Arthur and I swear to god ive heard John's grunts while climbing as Arthur. Oh yea, John does encourage and hurry his horse while riding, Calm your horse while riding and itll restore stamina as well as have Arthur/John talk to it.

“Sorry” *cutely vomits down jacks spine*

Another cool thing abt the journal is that you can see that Arthur’s drawing skill improves as you go through the journal

As wearing assassin outfit he could’ve also use the eyepatch to see in the dark as pirates used to in the 14th century

Damn I never thought about John being blind in one eye and I’ve been playing Red Dead since 2014.

7:14 Jack just sitting there like there's nothing he can do about his situation XD

I cant stress enough that people play the 1.0 version! a couple bugs, less findable weapons in the world, less treasure but no gold bar patch and 100% better John Marston model. in the updated version they use Arthurs model for John in the prolouge

John's still better at drawing than me

John vomitting from Abi's dinner in front of her was so freaking funny

arthur having both eyes open is definitely a testament to his experience. especially when that’s something modern soldiers are _trained_ to do, arthur most likely just got used to shooting with both eyes open

He is not blind in that eye, it was significantly weakened due to a Wolf attack. He does have sight in it, but it is fairly restricted.

If John was blind in his left eye he wouldn't need to close it. If however his vision was impaired in that eye, he might in order to give a clear image when aiming. I suspect the eye colour and body/ face shape changes are due to the fact R* just used Arthur's body. And stuck John's skin on. Why they made this change when they already had a presumably working model in version 1.00, is baffling. John doesn't take to the horses in the way Arthur does. He just doesn't seem all that caring towards his steed and, well, the feeling is obviously mutual. This is probably just my perception of it, because surely R* didn't program that in ... or did they? I've never had a really reliable horse with John, however I've had two fantastic bombproof ones and several others who were pretty good with Arthur. I always assumed Rachel was named by David Geddes, as she was only lent to John originally while he worked for him.

I think it’s kinda cool that Arthur’s dead eye sounds like he is taking in the sounds around him more; like he is processing all the feed his brain receives to make the predicted shot to land in dead eye, whilst John’s sounds more like a time slowing, locked-in perspective of just focusing purely on the gunfire and positioning of his enemies; perhaps meaning there are different types or ‘stances’ for dead eye? I’m probably just overthinking it, but it would be cool, because then assuming someone like Micah who is presumed to have dead eye, I wonder what his would be like?

No sound was made when using Dead Eye because no target was marked, you only panned over them.

2:18 this caused some mad ptsd

He's not blind, his eye was bleeding, probably because of a hit or something, that's actually pretty common.

6:14 Unlikely since John seems to refer it must happen between RDR2 (After the Epiloge) and 1. Since he said “years before I ran in a Gang”.

Finishes dinner, thanks for the food, gently stands up and proceeds to vomit on the table and on the other people still eating.

7:32 he looks like arthur to be honest

Little Johnny Marston

Arthurs is the ticking sound cause its suppsoes to be a reference to TB, his life is ticking away, therfor the clock sound cause he doesnt have much time left. John marstons deadeye sound is the heartbeat cause thats where he got shot in heart on his death. (Keep an eye on the bullet marks in john marstons death.)

I wish they would have had like a particular mission where Arthur Teaches John “Dead Eye”

By using the cheat to spawn any random horse you can get Johns original horse with his custom saddle.

John got the Mangekyo Sharingan after losing Arthur

5:58 that happens if the horse has been running for too long, and John recognizes the horse's speed is decreasing, making him shout so the horse doesn't stop.

When John says “I think I got my eye back” he means he thinks he’s good at shooting again since rdr1 takes place a few years after the epilogue.

Damn, I thought that I knew everything about little details about John, guess there's more than meets the eye. I did not know that John was partially blind.

Arthur's Deadeye also depends on his Honor. The sounds and the way they look are different

Fun fact: John in the epilogue is Arthur’s model with John’s textures with some additions of course

5:07 "Jhon aims with his left eye closed (due to his blindness)" Yeah except that just proved this theory to be wrong, if it was a blind eye he wouldn't need to shut it obviously. Still could do it because he was used to aim like that, but it is unlikely. The "I've got my eye back" also should not be taken literally.

What's the song name around here? 7:23

Good video I like how the channel changed

When i ride a horse in red dead redemption 2 i always hear John encouraging his horse (i play on the first version of the game)

the part with the mammoth is such a rockstar moment, i think this is part of why their games take so long to develop, they have so much stuff in their game and so much hidden stuff that you can find new stuff a decade after the games come out.

Get to 7:38 and you can see Arthur Marston in all his glory, they did John dirty in the epilogue :/

Pretty sure at release John shouted to his horse too. I know for a fact because I remember missing Arthur's way of saying "boah". And being amazed as to how little I wanted to play as John even though I was excited RDR2 was a prequel

"Sorry for puking into your pants, Jack" -John's parenting skills

7:00 Abigail: I think it came out good! :D John, seconds later: *vomits the food into her lap*

Bro i think rockstar is going to "fix" John in a Remastered version to the new consoles

What was the background song at #16 "old boy" at 8:30 ? It's familiar to me

In the intro John has a custom saddle Me: ObViOuSlY ThAt BeLoNgS To JiM MiLtOn

7:15 ah yes average day in the Marston household

When you play first person you dont see that he is blind

I wonder who taught Arthur how to draw (probably Hosea)

About the aiming thing. Thing is you're supposed to keep both eyes open when aiming a shotgun while you close one eye while aiming a rifle

5:07 "John aims with his left eye closed (possibly due to his blindness)" If John was really blind in his left eye, he wouldn't feel the need to close it while aiming. Marksmen often close one eye so that the vision from that eye doesn't interfere with aiming down the sights. If the eye was blind, closing it wouldn't make a difference, so he wouldn't bother.

I like everything but the eye one. Also, the one with horse is icky to me lol, John riding something with his daughters name?