Ask my spouse, youngsters or anybody who’s seen my PlayStation account’s sport log, I’ve spent lots of of hours enjoying the critically acclaimed Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 through the years. Since its launch seven years in the past, I’ve logged many miles, robbed numerous carriages, gotten into too many brawls, and laughed and cried with Arthur Morgan on his expansive and emotional open-world journey. I just lately completed my fifth playthrough of the sport, and I’ve discovered the proper solution to adapt this beloved online game.
I’m not saying that is going to occur anytime quickly (or in any respect), but when I had the possibility (and money) to place collectively a staff to deliver the most effective video games of all time to the large display and inform the story of the Van der Linde gang, right here’s how I’d do it…
Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 Is A Huge Recreation That Appears Too Daunting To Adapt
There’s an excellent purpose we haven’t seen Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 on the listing of upcoming online game motion pictures and exhibits through the years, and that’s as a result of this sport simply appears so formidable to adapt. Based on HowLongToBeat, a web site that tracks the typical time spent enjoying a sport, the principle story takes roughly 50 hours to finish. That doesn’t embrace any of the facet missions, random encounters, looking, fishing, robbing or full exploration of the map (a completionist run takes round 189 hours, by the way in which).
Plus, with the way in which Arthur Morgan’s story unfolds from a rough-and-tough outlaw searching for himself and his gang to a dying man trying to find redemption and a second likelihood for one in every of his closest pals, it’s one thing you suppose could be higher as a TV present. Nonetheless, there’s a method.
However I Suppose Focusing On The Blackwater Bloodbath Would Be The Excellent Approach
When Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 begins, the Van der Linde gang isn’t in the very best of form. Retreating to the icy and desolate Grizzly Mountains and licking their chops, the band of outlaws is on the run from authorities of all sizes and shapes after the ill-fated Blackwater Bloodbath value them an ungodly amount of money and a number of other of their closest pals. We by no means see the bloodbath itself, however as an alternative solely hear tales about it by means of cutscenes and conversations at camp.
I believe specializing in every thing that led to and went down in Blackwater would make for one hell of a film, and would immediately give us the most effective Westerns within the course of. Dutch Van der Linde going in opposition to his rules and following the dangerous recommendation from Micah Bell, Arthur Morgan and Hosea Matthews investigating their very own leads, and the way they finally made it out of Blackwater barely alive could be epic.
I’ve At all times Wished To See The Violent Gunfight Play Out
We by no means obtained any single-player DLC for Pink Lifeless Redemption 2, and so we by no means obtained to discover any new story concepts as soon as the credit rolled on the sport’s huge epilogue. That’s a disgrace, as a result of a sequence of missions surrounding Blackwater would have been a lot enjoyable to play. Nonetheless, making a film concerning the bloodbath would permit us to see what actually went down when the gang took on the Blackwater Police Division and the Pinkertons after stealing an estimated $150,000 ($5.9 million in 2025 cash).
Going off what characters like Javier Escuella, John Marston, and Sean MacGuire mentioned, the gunfight was bloody, pricey and the stuff of legend (it has ramifications all through all the sport). I’d like to see what it was like that fateful day.
The reality is, I don’t know if Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 will ever get the big-screen therapy, and I’m even much less certain Rockstar would take the route I proposed. Regardless, I’d be there day one to see it in theaters. Till then, I assume I’ll begin one other playthrough of this legendary 2018 sport…