, despite being tagged as a sequel to the first game, is actually a prequel to the first game. Rockstar went all out with this game, from its realism to its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:memorable areas to some 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hilarious NPCs. Another cool thing they did with the game was the ap🐓proach they took to the game's narrative, more specifically the game's approach to foreshadowing.
Whether the game allude𒈔s to events that eventually happen either late into the story or to events in the first game, Rockstar chose to take a subtle approach to its use of foreshadowing. It real🌳ly is another to appreciate the game even more.
10 Vultures Fly Around Stra꧅uss After Downes Ranch
Leopold Strauss is the loan shark of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Van Der Linde gang and handles their finances. It is quꦛite clear that he preys on the desperate and at times weak and this can be seen after Arthur returns from Downes Ranch the first time around.
Vultures can be seen flying around Strauss at the camp. This is a way of saying that Strauss is just like a vulture, picking up wh🐭atever scraps are left of the weak and desperate.
9 Javier Foreshadow😼s His Encounter With John In The First Game
In the beginning of the game, John Marston is missing in the mountains after scouting the area out. Arthur and Javier go out to look for him but Javier makes says something that🍸 will make ve♓teran players wide-eyed.
Javier will say that if he was in John's position, the latter would look for him. Sure enough, that is exactly what happens in the first game as John eventually track💯s Javier down in Mexico.
8 A Party Is Held After Mica🍒h Falls, Just Like Lenny Said 🅠
Also in the b🧸eginning of the gang in the first chapter, a conversation breaks out in the gang about what might happen after any of them fall. Micah will say he doesn't want any fuss after he falls in which Lenny will reply "when you fall, 🎶there'll be a party".
After killi𝓡ng Micah in the game's finale, John, his family, Uncle, Charles and Sadie are celebrating and throwing a party. They're actually celebrating John and Abigail getting married instead of Micha's death, but it is still a party nevertheless just as Lenny called.
7 The Cabin In The Finale Can Be Seen During The Ride⛄ To The First Train Robbery
Speaking of the finale, it takes place at a random cabin on the edge of a mountain which the only structure in the area. Earlier in the game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dutch will lead the gang to a train 🍸to rob in the snowy landscape and this cabin can be seen in the distant.
A 🍎cycle of v🐲iolence is one of the key themes of the series. This cabin shown in both this mission and in the final mission highlights how the story comes full circle.
6 Dutch Hides Away I🧜n A Cave, Despite Arthur Saying Ot꧑herwise
At the end of chapter 2, the gang's hideout at Horseshoe Overlook is compromised. Arthur and Charles head out to find a new place to set up camp and Arthur ma෴kes an ironic statement.
Arthur will tell Charles "There ain't no way Dutch is just gonna hide away in a cave somewhere. Goes against everything he stands for". In chapter 6 though, Dutch does exactly this when the gang arrives in Beaver Hollow. Plus Dutch does the same in the first ꧒game too, highli🃏ghting Dutch's descent into madness as his world crashes down around him.
5 Arthur Has Coughing Fits At Times Beforܫe His Tuberculosis Diagnosis
After returning from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the island of Guarma. Arthur is hit with the devastating news that he has tuberculosis, which he contracted after Thomas Downes spit blood in his face when he v🅷isited him earlier in the game. Arthur though shows signs even before his diagnosis 🐷that something isn't quite right with him.
Sometimes he can be seen having a bad sounding coughing fit. A huge instance is when Arthur talks to Strauss after settin♕g ๊up shop in chapter 4. He will start coughing bad in the midst of talking with him and actually has to hold his hand up to tell Strauss to wait a minute. It seemed like nothing on a first playthrough but replaying the game makes the scene an eye opener.
4 Young Jack Says 🐭He Wants To Be A Gunslinger, Which Happens
When walking around camp, you can sometimes run into Arthur's fellow gang members havi𓄧ng conversations with each other. One conversation is that Jack will tell Hosea and his mother that he wants to be a gunslinger when he grows up, which Abigail will be upset at.
After Jack's parents die in the first game, he takes his father's guns to avenge his death. Becomi🥂ng exactly what his parents didn't want to become and bringing the cycle of violence full-circle once again.
3 Edgar Ross Needs To En൩joy Fishing ꦗ
While💮 Arthur and Jack are enjoying a fishing trip, they are interrupted by Pinkerton agents Andrew Milton and Edgar Ross, the latter of which is the antagonist of the first game. Aft𝔉er failing to convince Arthur to sell Dutch out, Ross will leave telling them to enjoy fighting while they still have the chance.
Ironically enough, Jack interrupts Ross fishing in the first game's epilogue and kills him to avenge the death of his ꧃father. Seems Ross was the one who to needed to enjoy fishing.
2 💎 Uncle Sometimes Sits In🌺 The Exact Place He Dies
In the second game's epilogue, players see John Marston build his future home at Beecher's Hope. After it is done and he has settled in, John can sometimes encounter Uncle, the most useful person in a useless kind of way, sitting in the exact pl👍ace he eventually dies during the first game.
Even more eerie is t🌠he fact that he not only in the same exact sജpot but he sits in almost the same exact way as well. Wasn't this game supposed to be fulfilling our cowboy fantasies?
1 John And Abigail Standꦕ In The Exact Spot They Are Eventually Buried At
Once the game is complete and Joh⭕n has secured a future for both him and his family, he will talk about it with his wife on a spot overlooking Beecher's Hope. This spot might look familiar to some and there is a reason for that.
If players go to this exact spot after beating the first game, t🅘hey will see that this is where John and Abigail are buried. Who knew foreshadowing can be so heart-wrenching?