I think there are tons of them, but let’s list some. I’ll name one for starters
This fella popped into my head tonight. I hadn’t seen him for years:
Oooh, I like this one a lot @I_love_Cat_Stevens, something unique and different I don’t think we’ve touched upon here too much.
Arthur Morgan, the protagonist of Red Dead Redemption 2 is a fine modern example of the SW Anti-Hero: he’s done quite a bit of bad stuff in his life, but he’s got a moral and ethical code that’s kept him from being just plain evil and wicked. One of the finest cowboy characters of the last 20 years.
John Marsten of the same franchise isn’t as strong a character as Arthur Morgan, but he does have similar qualities, it just took him longer to become what fans hoped he would be.
Flaco Hernandez is a minor character in the RDR saga, but he would definitly give any of the baddies played by Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, and Jose Boldalo a run for their money. That face alone is enough to show he’s a bad dude.
And I can’t forget the Montez brood: brothers Alfredo & Jorge, and their spitfire adoptive cousin Carmela. Quintessential SW inspired villains.
If I think of any more who fit, I’ll post again.
Red Dead Redemption mentioned 
Let’s add my man Red Harlow to the list. Red Dead Revolver is literally meant to be a Spagh as a video game, after all
What about Jack Marston? 
I love him very much but for some reason I don’t get as strong Spagh vibes from him compared to the 3 other Red Dead protags. Jack does have the charasteristics of a Spagh hero who wants revenge on those who killed his family, though
John Marsten of the same franchise isn’t as strong a character as Arthur Morgan, but he does have similar qualities, it just took him longer to become what fans hoped he would be.
Have you played rdr1 or only rdr2? Rockstar changed John’s character completely in rdr2. Doesn’t feel like the same character.
Also rdr2 felt much more like a 2000s/2010s american western, rdr1 was more like a spaghetti western.
Since we are on the topic of the red dead franchise, Landon Rickets from rdr1 is basically Lee Van Cleef, the mentor and protege SW trope is central to his part of the story too, which is what LVC was most known for in the genre.
I could list a lot more too, all the characters in rdr1 are basically spaghetti western characters, the game is a spaghetti western mixed with Peckinpah westerns… I really hope it comes to PC soon, I’ve been dying to replay it.
I’ve seen playthroughs of Red Dead Redemption 1, but don’t have a physical copy and have Red Dead Redemption 2 on Xbox One. I do hope Rockstar gets off its ass and do a proper remaster of RDR as the graphics look dated compared to how beautiful RDR2 is.
RDR2 is a prequel to RDR, so it is showing John before he became the character in the original, but I was honestly never fan of his to start with, I enjoyed everybody else more actually.
I see RDR2 as more like the Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann Westerns, where there’s quite a lot of moral and ethical ambiguity among the characters, and not everything is black and white. RDR definitely has the SW vibes for sure, especially with it being set in the Southern US and Mexico.
I can see Landon Rickets being the Lee Van Cleef style character we all know and love, he did have that world-weary seen it all type of feel and look.
Jim “Boy” Calloway is kind of the antithesis to Rickets in being an example of the gunslinger claimed to be one of the best, but is in reality a fraud taking credit for what others did. He’d fit in to the SW genre somewhere.
You’re in luck then, theres a remaster that’s been in development for a while. It’s been leaked on Steam so should be coming soon-ish (hopefully).
the graphics look dated compared to how beautiful RDR2 is.
I couldn’t disagree more. RDR2 was a massive disappointment for me, I hated it’s aesthetic. I get that the graphics may seem obsolete but aesthetically RDR1 has aged like fine wine and the parts of the rdr1 map that were put into rdr2 were completely butchered aesthetically, so putting rdr1 into rdr2’s engine, like a lot of people want, would be a complete mess.
I also think the older graphics suit rdr1’s semi-cartoony spaghetti western world more too. I don’t think simpler less detailed graphics are inherently a bad thing. It’s a product of it’s time in a good way. The assets, textures and visuals in general have aged well and are practically perfect. If you were to make the graphics more detailed it could detract from the experience since higher graphical fidelity demands realistic graphics and more aesthetic detail, which aren’t necessarily better or preferrable. If you were to add unnecessary effects or inject realistic visuals into the game’s art style it would lose a lot of what makes it special. It’s similar to how people prefer older grainy film cameras that have a more limited and unrealistic color palette.
RDR2 is a prequel to RDR, so it is showing John before he became the character in the original, but I was honestly never fan of his to start with, I enjoyed everybody else more actually.
Yes, technically, but John’s character was butchered imo, feels like a lot of his characteristics were retconned. Doesn’t feel like the same character, even when considering it’s a prequel.
I see RDR2 as more like the Budd Boetticher and Anthony Mann Westerns, where there’s quite a lot of moral and ethical ambiguity among the characters, and not everything is black and white.
RDR2 is not really a western. It’s a western in name only, aesthetically it has almost nothing in common with westerns and the story is more like a modern 2010s period drama tv show. More akin to peaky blinders or boardwalk empire than to any westerns. The writing is very modern day in a way I don’t really like.
:)))))))) I am so fucking excited, i’ve been waiting for over a decade for this.
Oh damn an official announcement already. So psyched for this!
Only 14 years late!
