User blog comment:The Milkman/What Makes the Cowboy Cool/@comment-5124348-20121008173640

I agree one hundred percent Milkman. RDR is my favorite game of all time (well, actually, it ties with Shadow of the Colossus) even over Skyrim specifically because of John Marston. I don't know if you've heard of this, but one of my favorite missions in RDR is the stranger task called "I Know You", specifically because it shows various aspects of John's character in connection to allusions to Jesus, Hell, Damnation, etc. The quest also has strong foreshadowing of Marston's end and concludes dramatically. Neither this quest nor the entire game would have been as good were it not for Rockstar's masterful characterization of John Marston, as you have pointed out in this post. Well done, Milkman.