What does "being evil" in rdr2 means?

[wakeupmarkey]

I want to start to play rdr2 and I read an article that playing evil arthurt is very fun. So my question is how can Arthurt be evil in red dead 2? Are there choices in the game which you choose makes u a bad person? Or how can you make your character "bad"? Thanks for helping me out!

[Steven Seagull]

Just play the game and do whatever you consider evil.

[zetheract]

yep! there are plenty of mandatory choices to shape your arthur into a bad one or a good one but throughout the game during free roam, hurting/killing people or ignoring people who need help are also considered bad choices. look up the honor system and you'll see how easy it is to make arthur a bad person.

[Hex]

It's about having a code of honour, not good and evil.

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by markey:

I want to start to play rdr2 and I read an article that playing evil arthurt is very fun. So my question is how can Arthurt be evil in red dead 2? Are there choices in the game which you choose makes u a bad person? Or how can you make your character "bad"? Thanks for helping me out!

The game has an "honor" rating for the main character - the honor rating value is determined by the acts and choices made by the main character.

The main character's "honor" goes down when he does things the game code decides is "not honorable" - and "honor" goes up when he does things the game code decides is "honorable".

Basically, making choices and acting like an only-out-for-yourself outlaw will generally lower ur "honor" - the opposite choices will either make no change or increase your "honor".

As an example, stealing from and killing citizens is considered "not honorable", and stealing from and killing the members of other gangs is neutral (no effect).

The most significant outward effect of "honor" is store prices.

[Hex]

Originally posted by DargonBlak:

The most significant outward effect of "honor" is store prices.

You also get many different cutscenes.

[HRRoach]

shoot innocent animals like peoples pet dogs, that will turn him evil pretty fast. The more evil arthur will have more random attacks on him from police, bounty hunters and gangs. The more bad things you do the more enemies you make. Try doing the bandit challenges