RDR bucked that expectation when it straight-up killed poor ol' John Marston at the end. Sure, you could still keep playing ...
Dan Houser, a former co-founder of Rockstar, has recently revealed that Niko from GTA 4 was meant to die at the end. Here's why it didn't happen.
Well, I would like to have, at the end of GTA 4, killed Niko, but you couldn’t do it. You know, the game doesn’t work out like that.