The Skinners are just all the people who got bored of having high honor during endgame

If you shoot the Survivor you Gain honor. Mercy kill.

These Skinner Brothers make the O'Driscolls look like angels

I can sometimes let the O’Driscolls slide but for the Lemoyne Raiders, Murfree Brood and Skinner Brothers it’s on sight.

Sheriff : "alright here is your $90 bounty" John with $981,854.72 : "I'll take it..."

This game doesn’t help my name one bit :(

9:35 From this moment on, I never gave Uncle a hard time for being "lazy." He survived being slowly cooked alive, and that shit hurts. Probably a lot more than his "lumbago."

One of my favorite memories from my first play through was encountering the wagon with a dead driver being pulled by a wounded horse, a female white Nokota. I cut her loose, rode her into the Blackwater stables to get her cleaned up and healed, and renamed her “Revenant”. She was my horse through the latter half of the epilogue, eventually getting to level 4 bonding. I made a point of using her during every Skinner Brothers bounty, and attended Otis Skinner’s hanging with her. It just felt like the right thing to do.

Skinner Brothers vs Murfree brood. Winner has to fight the night folk

I hunted them down as John Marston for about 4 in game days. Found all of their camps and random encounters and slaughtered them like the pigs they are. They were too close to beachers hope for my comfort.

Sad the man that was scalped that even being as injured as he was he was still worried about a stranger and telling him to run away because they could still be near.

I like to imagine that Dutch came into the tall trees region and just wiped out the skinner brothers there so he could set up shop

The scalped dying man’s voice actor is underrated what a bone chilling performance

Someone at Rockstar needs a hug. For real.

I always got a laugh how the enemy gangs develop. At first it's just a rival group of outlaws. Then it's bitter old war vets. Then it's inbred cannibals. Then it's another group of masochists. And finally, just some dudes in Mexico haha

Killing skinner/murfee brothers is one of my favorite things to do in rdr2 . I completed the game with high honor & im only killed bandits, gangs, robbers in the entire game😌

Humans: *Exist* Skinner Brothers: "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"

The horse at the start with the arrows in I found in my game one I cleaned him up and made him my main horse eventually we went to get revenge on them and found them killed them all

Wow, this is a new feeling. Sadness, for someone else. Too bad it’s overshadowed by all this *_UNYIELDING RAGE!_*

Imagine a game having so much background stories and mysteries that there could literally be multiple games made from it.

I can't be the only one who freed the injured horse, took it to the stables, nursed it back to health and kept it.

>walk up to a guy in his own camp and threaten him with a knife >walk away with your back to him after he shows no real fear Do all the skinners just share one brain cell, or?

10:14 This is one aspect I like about John's character, he tries to understand people, and make sense of what they're doing; even if said people are sadistic nihilists.

they're terrifying, every time I had a mission close or in tall trees I was always on edge and scared

I never expected to watch a documentary about a gang in a videogame. The fact that this is possible, just shows how amazing this game is

I’ve hated the damn Skinners ever since they killed Willard Wayne in that epilogue mission. Might sound crazy, but I vowed to kill every Skinner in West Elizabeth, to avenge him

Dude the skinners sneaking up behind you while you camp is terrifying. Good thing I never camp so they ain’t gonna catch me lackin’!

13:25 him: Its seems that i was too late to save this gentleman. Also him: **Stands his ground. Without doing anything for over 10 seconds**

"unfortunately I was too late to save this gent" Literaly was watching the skinners harrass hin for 30 seconds from a bit of a distance.

"Maybe we should pick up torture?" "Nah, we got Uncle' singing."

The skinner brothers are to me the most disturbing part of the game and had me more creeped out than the cult in outlast 2

The atrocities that the skinners commit are the kinda things you read about in Blood Meridian

13:24 “I was just to late to save this gent” *watches him beg for his life for like 30 seconds

"its alright. you're... alright, they're all gone. Just go to sleep, now..." that made me tear up a little

*bypasses the choice of duel-wielding revolvers and uses one* “Oops, only one bullet” Happened too many times man

They spared me for one reason only. *My lumbago*

Game: this mission is called “uncles bad day” Me who just shot, burned, cut, and utterly slaughtered all of the skinners: Bad seems a little f-cking light

If you take Elias Greene alive he says he’ll bite you, and John will say “you bette damn not.” For some reason I just found that really funny.

"i dont feel much like defying this police chief, he has very frightening cheek bones" the best line i have ever heard

The Skinner Brothers remind me of myself ingame, brutally killing, burning, poisoning, giving all types of death to the innocent. The only exceptions are special npcs, like Mickey (I just couldn't kill him, he's nice), Joe Butler (He's a good guy), Grizzled Jon (idk, I just feel like sparing him), etc. Also, I spare every gang I come across (if they don't attack me. I do attack them sometimes, though it is because I felt bloodthirsty and I didn't want to have the law bugging me), because I relate to them: Brutal, Merciless, Triggerhappy.

This explains the dead horses that I come across with arrows in them.

"Mr Skinner to the Sheriffs Office, the Sheriffs Office Mr Skinner."

I do love the fact that Jonh is like “I’m going to kill you old man” but also charges head first to save him from a dangerous gang of scalp hunters

7:15 I had this encounter. Accidentally let the guy die, but the woman survived. John asked "Ma'am, are you ok?" She walks up to the dead man, and responds with "We was just camping..." and begins to cry. If you choose the nice dialogue, John responds with "I'm so sorry" She responds "Please leave me alone". Don't know what happens if they both survive.

I realize the Devs had to inflate numbers to make the encounters challenging, but if you add up the numbers you kill throughout these encounters, the Skinners could have easily ridden down as a group and wiped out Blackwater.

My mans still out here putting spoiler warnings 2 Years after it came out. You are a saint. Thank you from the people who got the ending spoiled for them by people back when it came out.

I actually found the missing horse from the wagon. I stopped the wagon and freed the first horse (keeping it for myself) and when riding to Beecher’s hope, I came across the horse. It was dead with a bunch of arrows in it’s body. Poor thing

This video is just absolutely brilliant. From your in-game cinematography to the story telling. You really set the tone and atmosphere of the Skinner Brothers with a bit of your charm. Great video from beginning to end. Really admirable :)

Scooter brothers! Wait, wrong game.

I remember getting ambushed by skinners I remember killing them all and the last one I threw my lasso at him and kept running with my horse while he kept screaming never felt more satisfied

I remember that in Red Dead Online you can encounter random events in Ambarino involving the Skinner Brothers. I’d assume they originally used to operate up there before moving down to Tall Trees in West Elizabeth.

2:11 just like to add, you can actually find the other horse. It spawns dead within a few metres of the first. Covered in arrows, as you can imagine

Enemy gang: exists Semi-automatic shotgun and bolt-action rifle: Allow us to introduce ourselves

Skinners: we'll kill you next time Me: I'll kill you this time

7:03 Can we take a moment to appreciate how she got stabbed straight in the neck (with the sound effect and everything) and got up like it was nothing? Adrenaline ftw😂

Some say the dead sports team were killed by Edmund Lowrey Jr, the psychopath the player may encounter during the side quest American Dreams... Awesome video, your voice transmits wisdom and tranquility, and your videos look like documentaries!

I have the platinum trophy for RDR2 but had never seen the athletes' mass grave, that has to be one of the most disturbing things I've seen in this game.

9:33 they were trying to cure his lumbago

I'm certain during Uncle's abduction and torture he mentioned the word "Lumbago" about 50,000 times

7:26 the only time where being bald is an advantage in death

After I hogtied Elias Green, I took his sweet hat and wore it to his execution. Good times....

The same camping encounter happened to me, I was really scared, Then I saw that one of them had a missouri Fox Trotter *All Hell Broke loose after that*

"however traveling along the region during the night is ill-advised", nah i want all the smoke

Love this guy

17:44 Holy Lumbago, you need to clean your revolver, fella.

That faint picture of Dutch flashing in the background when you mentioned that Tall Trees won't be safe from future terrors...chills. 21:07

Even though it's a videogame, still all this imagery of all the disembowled, beheaded corpses looks gruesome af.

I’ve heard that the dead black water team was the work of a serial killer near valentine called Edmund lowery jr. you can find other victims of him throughout the map and if you catch and kill him as Arthur, you won’t find the dead team

Fizhy: Shows brutal images of people that has gotten tortured. *Gets 3 midrolls*

Whenever I see the Skinner boys, I go crazy every time it’s shoot on sight.

The skinners and Murfrees made me so excited for undead nightmare 2. Our gang is far more likeable than much of the cast of the walking dead in my opinion, good balance of damsels in distress, useless yet likeable characters and enough heavy hitters to accomplish something.

I love how the gangs get more uncivilized as the game goes on. Like the more civilized the world becomes the more deprived the gangs get.

Seeing these people suffer and bleed is more haunting when you know how it would actually look in real life

Everytime I encounter a Skinner I hogtie one of them then leave them in swamps for the nightfolk or the Gators to get them but I usually blow their heads off 😂

If you go back down the road you can see the missing "dead" horse

Saddest thing about the Scalped Man encounter is that you gain Honor for killing him, as if you're putting him out of his misery.

The Skinner Brothers seems to be the 'evil' version of the original Van Der Linde Gang. The Skinners almost mirror Dutch's mode of operation and philosophy before his descent into madness. As explained within RDR2 lore, Dutch's vision was to create a 'Savage Utopia' free of the controlling grip of civilization. His gang have long travelled westwards to hopefully settle within the open plains. This appears to be the strategy of the Skinners, moving to Tall Trees probably with the intent to settle on the Great Plains prior to John Marston and his posse's arrival. Certain members of the Skinners seem to be the equivalent to members of the VDLG. Elias Green is a hot-headed enforcer who seems act as a reflection of Micah/Bad Arthur and as a contrast to Good Arthur. Whereas Otis Skinner is an educated, eloquently spoken leader of the gang, very similar to Dutch or Hosea in that regard. Note that the Skinners appear have been around for as long if not longer than VDLG. It was possible that the Skinners may too have started as a band of idealists that took the writing's of Evelyn Miller to heart, hence the Skinner's preference of staying within the wilderness and their interesting inclusivity when it comes to recruiting members despite their misanthropy. In one conversation within a Skinner camp, one member appears to be reading out a book or a journal written in the poetic style of Evelyn Miller. Like Dutch, the original Skinner Brothers may too have faced mounting pressure, tragic setbacks and other hardships that has eventually driven their leadership and everyone within the gang insane and descend into unutopic savagery, repurposing their goal to instead destroy Civilization as a whole as opposed to living free from it. By RDR1, this was Dutch's philosophical standpoint, and why it seems that he has attracted remnants of the Skinner gang to the reiterated VDLG.

"That does not immunize the region from future terrors" *Inserts pic of Dutch*

There's also another encounter if anyone hasn't mentioned but when riding in the tall trees you can find a man riddled with arrows riding his horse and someone riding along will comment on it.

With the wagon at the start, if you go back to where the wagon came from you will find the second horse…dead

I put the first guy out of his misery and got honor points for it.

Man the chief looks terrifying but he's nice and sweet

What everyone tries to do at the end of rdr1 7:39

Spending 200 dollars on useless weapon customization (it looks cool): 😃 Spending 200 dollars clearing a bounty (so you can go five seconds without dying): ☹️

wow, seymour skinners ancestry is really messed up

John comforting the guy on his death bed was so nice imo

See? This is why we need Undead Nightmare 2. The aesthetics of RDR2 are VERY fitting for it.

If you take the skinner brother to jail and wear the bear headgear and outfit is hilarious reaction from him and dialogue too.

You should do a mission on the del Lobo's as they seem kinda interstiing

I recently dusted off my PS4 and started playing this game again I’m continuously amazed by the amount of detail they put into this game. Just everything about this game. I may replay as soon as I reach 100%

A fire bottle and a stick of dynamite is effective for counter ambushes unless it is bounty hunters and you have >$250 in a bounty.

Arthur woulda sent Ottis skinner to the electric chair lol

21:08 Nice fade in of Dutch, I really liked that. A somber reminder of the psychopath he became by 1911

Online shows that the Skinner Brothers were in conflict with the locals of West Elizabeth just before the events of the main story, it appears that they hadn't yet gotten to the complete point of evil they're shown to be at in 1907 since you often find them in the middle of attacks and not after them. Interesting to point out also is that Flaco Hernandez seems to have a bone to pick with them as they're the occasional targets of his assassination missions. This could suggest that the Skinners and the rest of the Del Lobos have a feud going on, and it presumably also explains why they aren't encountered down in New Austin. I think the Chez Porter family might be connected to the Brothers in some way since one of the areas you can fight them for Flaco is their house. Anyway I thought it was worth just info-dumping there. As little lore there is to the Online portion of Red Dead 2, there's still some interesting nuggets to think about.

I came across that second encounter late one night while riding through the area. It was storming hard and pitch black. I had found a little cabin to hide out in but I kept hearing these screams coming from outside. I finally built up the courage to investigate, and followed the sound through the rain to the dying man. That whole sequence was probably the scariest I had in the game. Got the hell out of there ASAP.

10:02 It was worse, I was already dying from lumbago then someone tried to cook me.

"I was just too late"... you... you watched it happen.

Instead of steaming hams they went for the scalps.

I was hunting moose at that location in RDO, and right at that turnoff on the road, is an ambush site. The enemies were labelled as Skinners!