As fun as this game is, the message of it is so clear: Revenge won't bring your loved ones back, and it won't undo any wrongs that have been done to you in your life. Revenge is a deadly poison that hurts the carrier more than the people its inflicted upon.
I feel bad for Bob. Soon as Silas asks him if he thinks his life is worth sparing, he just stutters. Silas answered Bob's question with a question, and Bob either didn't have an answer, or knew the answer and didn't like it. He clearly didn't think his life was worth sparing because he regretted so much, and at the age of 73, he had so little time left. To me that's more tragic than accomplishing revenge and still feeling empty.
I always pick the good endings in things like these. But as I was about to pick redemption, I thought about my brother, and what I would do if he were killed. I realized that Bob may have turned his life around, but he never saw justice for the evils he did. I find it hard to believe that he did a complete 180. If he truly regretted his past as much as he SHOULD, he would have probably taken his own life or turned himself in. But nope... No punishment for him. So yea, he had to die, for justice.
i chose redemption because silas scared the shit out of bob besides bob turned to a good guy o there is really no point in putting a hole in that old man
I prefer the redemption ending, since throughout the story, and especially right in the last levels, there's a theme of "becoming the devil that you hunt" and letting go of your old petty hatred.
I don't know why people are arguing so much. Both endings are fine. I do think the revenge ending suits it better, but mainly because I think it was simply done a bit better. Whether you want to go by the logic of "well, he's killed hundreds of men, it's stupid for him to stop at the guy he really wants to kill" or the logic of "this way his life can finally have some meaning, by choosing the very difficult decision of redeeming himself without killing", one's not clearly better than the other. It's something that suits people differently, which is why you get to choose. I chose the revenge one, feel a little guilty for it, but it's perfectly understandable to go either way. Nothing wrong with the redemption ending or the revenge ending.
It is widely assumed the "Spanish Coin" is a piece of the Gold of Juarez. How Ringo, Reed, and Bob got ahold of it is anyone's guess. The only other characters (Besides Cortes and his conquistadors) that had physically encountered the Gold of Juarez were Ray, Thomas, and William McCall, Jeremy Barnsby and his renegades, Marisa, Juarez and his bandits, Ben McCall, Eddie Guerra, Kim Evans, and several Mendoza Cartel footmen and Peacekeeper's International mercenaries.
