There’s no amount of money in the world that can fix what this man did. But paying Roger Clark to apologize on your behalf as Arthur Morgan is, at the very least, a better plan than anything Dutch ever came up with.
Clark, who won Best Performance at The Game Awards 2018 for his role as Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, recently shared what he called one of his all-time favorite Cameo requests.
A fan reached out to the actor after he accidentally deleted his fiancée’s RDR2 save file. To make matters worse, this wasn’t a casual playthrough. According to the request, the fiancée had completed roughly two-thirds of the game and had made every honorable decision along the way. If you know anything about Red Dead Redemption 2‘s Honor System, you know that committing to a full high-honor run takes real dedication. You’re talking dozens of hours of deliberate choices, greeting every NPC, helping every stranger, and resisting the urge to rob a single train. All of that, gone. Just like that.
The request itself was pretty straightforward. The fan asked Clark if he could “say some words of support for this devastating loss” and let his fiancée know how sorry he was for what happened. Clark didn’t just record the Cameo. He also shared the story on X, thanking his followers for the support. “I enjoy them all but it’s ones like these below that I live for,” Clark wrote. “Let us all send this poor girl positive vibes. At least her man knows what he did.”
That last line is doing a lot of work.
Clark has always been one of the more genuine actors when it comes to engaging with the Red Dead Redemption 2 community. He’s been vocal about his love for the role and the fans who continue to celebrate it years after the game’s release. He also recently hinted at incoming Red Dead news alongside John Marston voice actor Rob Wiethoff, and has previously shared his thoughts on what he believes is Arthur Morgan’s canon ending, which, unsurprisingly, is the high-honor path where Arthur helps John. The same path this poor woman was on before her fiancé erased it from existence.
The whole thing is both hilarious and genuinely tragic in a way that only Red Dead Redemption 2 can inspire. This is a game that, over 82 million copies later, still makes people cry during its final hours. It’s a game that left IShowSpeed in tears after a 43-hour marathon. It’s a game where Dan Houser revealed Arthur’s tuberculosis was inspired by his own grandfather’s battle with the disease. People don’t just play RDR2. They live in it. Losing a save file two-thirds of the way through isn’t losing progress. It’s losing an emotional investment that most games aren’t even capable of creating.
That might be the most telling detail of this whole story. Nearly seven years after release, someone’s fiancée was still playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time, making only honorable decisions, deeply invested in Arthur’s journey. That says more about the staying power of this game than any sales figure ever could. It also says something about what Rockstar left behind when they walked away from Red Dead Online and redirected all resources toward GTA 6. The single-player experience was always the heart of this franchise, and it’s still beating.
For now, fans are still waiting on the long-rumored next-gen upgrade for Red Dead Redemption 2, which insiders insist is real but which Rockstar has never officially acknowledged. If it ever does materialize, here’s hoping it comes with cloud saves enabled by default, for the sake of relationships everywhere.
As for whether the Cameo actually worked and the engagement is still on, we may never know. But if this woman has the patience to play two-thirds of Red Dead Redemption 2 on a pure honor run, there’s a decent chance she has the patience to forgive the man who accidentally destroyed it. Maybe. Probably. Hopefully.
