I could understand if the game took place after RDR and they somehow magic’d Marston back to life, because plot convenience. That would obviously cheapen the conclusion of the previous game. But how does telling Marston’s story prior to the events of RDR cheapen it? I don’t see how learning more about him makes his…

The tortured genius is a pretty damaging and self-destructive concept. The reason a lot of famous men were abusive assholes isn’t because they were tortured but because they grew up in a society that taught them it was okay to act that way. And the reason that a lot of famous women self-destructed and committed…