Dutch Van Der Linde - the lion whose nature it was to fight, but could not fight his own nature. After years of running and denial, Dutch accepts that Arthur was right. His time has passed and the world has changed. The gang and the dream are long gone. No riches, no more livin free, no Tahiti. Even if he won his standoff with John, they’d just send someone else. When he delivers that same speech in RDR2 he believed they were gonna make it. Here he finally admits, not just to John, but to himself that it’s over. He’s lost everyone and everything. He gives up. No blaze of glory, no ceremonious send off. While Arthur passed peacefully atop a mountain, Dutch falls to the bottom of one. He caused a lot of red, ended up dead, and never found redemption.
Another fun fact, Dutch saying they gotta stop meeting like this at 51:05 could mean how they met at the end of RDR2, at gun point on a snowy mountain.
Yeah, it implies that Dutch knew their time had passed all the way back before Arthur died- but still kept fighting. Only when John finally confronted him with no way out did Dutch actually give up
This game had so many genuinely funny moments. I love John’s humor in this one. His little joke when Dutch came for the professor was one of my favorite moments.
Anyone else been with jetro a while, and are just so damn happy our man is climbing up? These goddamn series are just TOO fuckin good, the editing and comedy are miles better than anybody else.
Little fun fact. Dutch's speech of not being able to fight change and gravity is the same speech he made with Arthur in that standoff with the Army before they jumped into the river and Dutch's actor, Benjamin Byron Davis, said that in his mind that meant Dutch was thinking of Arthur at the end.
that "generic stock scream" is the willhelm scream and once i learned what it was i started hearing it everywhere. in movies.. the beginning of tlou... and now this game lmao
@@NoCluYTsame I swear I heard it from Star Wars first and then I saw a separate video where you can hear the same scream in different games…and now I can’t NOT hear it everytime I play beginning of the last of us 😂
@@GabeGabe-w4eI think the actor from this game just disappeared from voice acting, there was another voice actor for Uncle which died but I don’t think it was this fella
51:10 “I got a plan, John.” “You always got a plan Dutch.” You gotta hand it to rockstar for basing one of the most important parts of Dutch’s character around around two lines of dialogue lol
Hey Jett, not sure if anyone has told you but there's a side quest that appears in blackwater after the main story is complete. It's not very long and it helps the game feel a little more complete.
When I played RDR2 after RDR1 I was so disappointed having to play as Arthur, and John was an NPC. By the end. I wish Arthur could had been mentioned in RDR1. I was amazed how Rockstar was able to seamlessly put RDR2 and RDR1 together so perfectly.
Hey Jett, please read this because it's important. After you complete the final mission, the story is technically not done. There will appear a side quest in Blackwater that you need to do to actually finish the story and get the end credits.
My favourite part of the whole game is Dutch’s death, and it’s even better once you’ve played RDR2. Can’t wait to see you finish the game Jett, keep it up
there is so much to say about dutch and his death. he didn’t want to put john through the grief of killing his own father, but he also didn’t want to let anyone else kill him. he realises everything he was doing in his life was pointless and wrong and so the first thing he doesn’t is fight til he reaches a point where it’s impossible. and then he just kills himself. his death speech is rehearsed, he’s been saying it for years (evidence by how he says it in 1899) because maybe nothing in his life was true or sincere. so many layers to unpack btw i have never seen a play through of rdr, including my own, glitch as much as jett’s what’s happening with that horse
One of the greatest tragedies of Dutch is that he always accepts the truth too late. Hosea: warned Dutch of robbing Leviticus Cornwall’s train in rdr2 and kept warning him of future problems but continued to brush it off until he saw Hosea was killed and the Pinkerton Agency had them cornered only then he realized Hosea was right but it was too late. Arthur: warned Dutch of Micah, Leviticus Cornwall, The Indians and the army but again he brushed off and took Micah under his wing and ignored Arthur until the end where he finally listens through his son’s Dying breath that Arthur was right and Micah had destroyed his gang and everyone he had known left him. John: Confronted him on the mountain and only then did he finally see that the west, the Idea, the plan, the dream, everything that he had longed for was all out of reach for him and that the world he knew was over. But it’s too late to change he can’t have a fresh start neither the law or his nature would allow it at the end he still fully couldn’t fight it, he knew himself better than anyone and that he wouldn’t go like Colm O’Driscall Swinging by a rope and so he did the only thing he could control how he would die. Dutch Van Der Linde would never be enslaved by anyone or anything system of government, yet he was always a slave to his own nature, his dreams, his plans it always fueled his momentum, his drive, his will to conquer and possess. From the day he left his mother till the day he died from the mountain he was never a slave to anyone but himself.
That's too much work for something that's already mostly good. With the kind of stuff that rockstar does, they can't waste a whole development cycle on a game that they already made. GTA 6 was in development before RDR2 came out in 2018 and they still have until 2025 to release it.
As someone that grew up with RDR1 first, John has always been the face of it. For a lot of newer people it's Arthur, but as much as I love Arthur, he always felt more of a side character to John's story.
Jett! Just so you know, without spoiling anything, when you think you've beat the game, it's not quite done. There will be one more mission that looks like a stranger mission (the purple question mark on the map), which is actually the end of the story. Don't wanna give too much away.
Dutch van der linde a man that was once good had a gang tried to make the world a better place but couldn’t accept that the time of the outlaws was over but after years in denial, he accepted Arthurs words that their time was over “they were in the world with people who didn’t want them no more”and those thoughts made Dutch see that the world and now him was corrupted by the flaws of society and caved into his insanity that he had been holding back all these years losing all the humanity, that he had left it’s sad he always had a plan for everything but not for him self as Arthur died in peace Dutch died For the sins that he has committed As Arthur died tall Dutch went down to the pits of hell Never able too reach the redemption that his last son had achieved cursed to never be able to change his nature
Yeah these moments really hit differently with the second game. I’m sure they’ll do a third game, whether that’s about a new gang or the Van der linde gang in their prime, we’ll have to see in the 2030s I guess.
51:10 I’ve got a plan. Don’t even joke around with me Dutch, you had your plan. And all your plans failed. Now you’re left with nothing but your consequences. Only God‘s plan.
The crazy thing about one of the scenes with John running after dutch if you look close you can tell that dutch shoots at the ceiling on purpose trying to avoid killing his last son
I really love how most of the time in the game there isnt much music in the cutscenes and really adds an effect, like you dont know whats about to happen, like with nastas
Bro, when you do the quick draw mini game you gotta press the trigger when the target your using to aim turns white for max damage per shot, or you shoot their gun or their balls for a one shot W, still a great vid
Thanks jettro for being the best RU-vidr that you can be I recently been a little sad because I lost someone that was important to my life but when you post something amazing like this it brings me happiness. Thank you
This play through brings back so many memories to me of me being in my parents bedroom playing this after school rdr1 was probably the biggest game in my childhood besides bully or Pokémon that could also be because the time my eardrum ruptured I was playing Rdr lmao keep up the great work jet your a underrated RU-vidr that deserves so many more subscribers
