Is one good act enough to redeem a lifetime of regrets?

Sometimes

No, lol. Unless you are rich.

Redemption is a myth, doing good deeds doesn't erase bad ones. Murderer who becomes saint is still a murderer.
There's no karma or anything like that. You either learn from your mistakes or you don't. It doesn't undo what you did, only prevents you from making more mistakes like that.

It felt realistic that Edith Downs still didn't forgive him. Some evil deeds can't be made right.

I have no idea what you meant by this but jamming a hook through the roof of a fish's mouth isn't exactly pleasant

This guy gets it. Arthur was such a mopey fucker for the entire game because he knew there was nothing he could possibly do to redeem himself for a wasted life he spent causing others pain and hardship. Running a dozen errands and throwing money at everyone he could wouldn't change that, and he knew it. I wonder if he would've been as satisfied as he laid dying if he knew John would betray his sacrifice for revenge, rendering Arthur's actions for nothing.

Depends. But in Arthur's case, he was well beyond fucked in that department.

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>Sorry for murdering your dad and turning your mom into a prostitute and forcing you to work in the mines
>Here's 30 bucks boah
>+++ Honor

I loved the game, but there's just too much of a difference as to what the player is doing and how the story frames the characters.

You didn't quite get the point. They still don't forgive him and it still doesn't make it right. He directly caused their situation and suffering and they're still suffering by the time Arthur dies. Honor isn't so much of an objective moral barometer so much as a binary "IS THE PLAYER AN ASSHOLE? YES/NO" for NPC dialogue/soundtrack/ending purposes. If it were up to me the honor meter would've been completely hidden for the first playthrough.

The fact of the matter is, you don't need to convince anybody but yourself. It's all about what your head believes. is correct.

Hitler worked for the Jews to destroy the old European nobility and empires, allowing a new class to take control.

>Hunts down deserter to make him pay his debts
>deserter is confronted by his colleagues, just conscripts from the farms, same as him
>mow them all down like dogs
>kill about thirty conscripted American soldiers so this one runaway fuck doesn't have to face up to his own poor decisions
>"You're a good man mister, I can tell"

In RDR 2 you can grind honor by catching fish and setting it free.

oh

I fucking hate how Jack ends up being a gunslinger after playing RDR2

that's the point
Arthur sacrifices for John > John wastes the sacrifice for revenge > John sacrifices for Jack > Jack wastes it for revenge

>catching fish and setting it free.
>Not just asking a stranger in St. Dennis for a ride and waving at everybody like an exited simpleton in a big city

>Arthur's actions for nothing

Jack got a dozen more years with his dad and mom that he otherwise wouldn't have had.

You can make the argument that Jack turned into an outlaw against John's and by extension Arthur's wishes but there's nothing to state that he didn't get away with revenge killing Ross and live the rest of his life a free man and go onto raise a family.

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one good deed vs many bad deeds. it's noble of him to do something good but he's still a murderer and a thief.

Additionally Arthur's actions saved a couple other people in the gang as well. Sadie and Charles just to name two.

>jack wants to become a gunslinger in RDR2
>jack literally becomes a gunslinger in RDR1
>"ah, yes... this has led me to the conclusion that he puts his guns away for good and raises a family a free man after killing a federal agent and leaving a trail of several people he asked for directions to said agent"
olympics tier mental gymnastics

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Woah buddy, chill. Who hurt you?

That's Churchill and Stalin you're thinking of

>Jack goes on a fishing trip in red dead 2

Proof he becomes a fisherman.

So the best thing to do is just keep killing. Nice.

No, but that’s the point. He understood his “soul” was damned, but he did his goddamned best
closest I’ve come to crying like a faggot over a video game, what an emotionally taxing experience

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>"Hah! Your argument is invalid because Jack ALSO ate and he did NOT become a professional food caterer!"

That's how stupid you sound. Jack said he literally hated fishing. Jack said he literally wanted to become a gunslinger. Em I going too fast for you?

I still can't believe Micah was getting the shit kicked out of him by a man literally minutes from dying of tuberculosis.