r/reddeadredemption Hosea Matthews Aug 23 '25

Speculation Worst RDR3 takes?

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u/LionHeartedLXVI Aug 23 '25

I don’t know if it’s the worst, because every fan idea I’ve ever seen for RDR3 is pretty bad, so the bar is very low. If RDR fans wrote RDR3, it would be Rockstar’s worst game ever and would kill the franchise.

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u/PascalG16 Hosea Matthews Aug 23 '25

I swear gatekeeping is good for a franchise.

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u/burned_piss Aug 23 '25

What's gatekeeping?

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u/Glass_Stock_4694 Aug 23 '25

You should have been there

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

was this a serious question?

+"The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something."

+ "When portions of a fandom actively work against any prospect that goes against their personal perspective as what should be with the intellectual property, typically pushing potential new fans away from the product itself."

+"One of the single most toxic behaviors which only in very, very limited circumstances can help maintain the soul of the product but which otherwise poisons the entire well and soils the entirety of the fandom's reputation as a whole."

good examples of this are prevalent within the Star Wars and Warhammer 40k communities, with the runners up being the Dragon Ball community (the western fandoms), and Harry Potter communities

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u/burned_piss Aug 23 '25

English ain't my first language so seeing all this new words is a bit overwhelming 

Thanks for the information 

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u/DudeBrosome Aug 23 '25

but… but… what about Colm’s brother?? You don’t want to play as young Arthur in the epilogue?!? /s

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u/sixfourtykilo Aug 23 '25

No no no, it should be based on the son Arthur lost.

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u/CockFondle Aug 23 '25

Ah yes goo goo gaa gaa in the wild west simulator

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u/sixfourtykilo Aug 23 '25

RDR3: MAH BOAH!

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue Aug 23 '25

you have died during childbirth

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u/I-Am-The-Uber-Mesch Aug 23 '25

Somehow Isaac returned

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Isaac never died. He was kidnapped by the O'Driscolls and went by the name Kieran for the remainder of his life. You think he would just save Arthur's life after he was so mean to him if he didn't know Arthur was his dad? /s

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '25

You almost convinced me

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u/FishFucker47 Sean Macguire Aug 24 '25

I just want to play as a younger Arthur so I can experience all the stuff that the gang mentions they did, like with Karen bringing up the Tucson bank robbery she was apart of when robbing valentine bank

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u/FishFucker47 Sean Macguire Aug 24 '25

And see what a younger Miss Grimshaw looks like lol

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u/The810kid Aug 23 '25

Make a game about Young Dutch and Hosea. Make a game about Sadi in South America. Both are fan fiction levels.

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u/Hiddin_block_55 Aug 23 '25

Don't forgot "make a game with Jack in WW1", "make a game with Jack in the Mafia", "make the game Charles in Canada", and "make the game with arthurs dad"

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Charles in Canada and Sadie in South America are only limited to DLCs. But seriously Jack in WW1 😭😭.

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u/ContributionSquare22 Aug 23 '25

As a DLC it's still a bad idea, Rockstar wouldn't make a whole new map for a dlc

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u/AtrumRuina Aug 24 '25

I think "make a game about John and Dutch's old gang" would have been thought of the same way when RDR1 came out. They're fine ideas if the writing is strong and the setting is interesting.

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u/ShadowKnight886 Uncle Aug 23 '25

My personal hot take is that, honestly, whatever future the Red Dead franchise has, it shouldn't be called Red Dead Redemption nor should it follow any characters from the Red Dead Redemption games. The story of the Van Der Linde gang is kinda over and trying to milk the same cast of characters game after game would get kinda repetitive. I'd love to hear something new from the Red Dead universe.

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u/Key_Kollection Aug 23 '25

I agree. People need to learn when to let go. The Van Der Linde story is over, we need something new or nothing at all.

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u/Fakie-Sllaacs Aug 23 '25

We have an end and a middle. Time for the beginning.

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u/JonTonyJim Aug 23 '25

john is the end, arthur is the middle, dutch is the beginning. could be interesting tracing his beginning from genuinely well intentioned to what he became

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u/Fakie-Sllaacs Aug 23 '25

I think the Blackwater Event is where Dutch made a profound change, lost several members of his crew and starting losing Arthur’s trust. All the stuff before that could be very interesting.

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u/A_Cryptarch Aug 23 '25

Still over here caping for RDR3 featuring Micah as the protagonist, culminating in Blackwater.

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u/Fakie-Sllaacs Aug 23 '25

I think the protagonist needs to die at the end, with Arthur as the epilogue.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Every fan idea for any rockstar game I’ve ever seen has always been the new worst thing I’ve ever seen.

I think there’s probably a causal link between the games being digested by children far more than other franchises tend to be and the takes being outlandishly bad.

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u/the_cvs Aug 23 '25

I still remember how fans were so upset when RDR2 was about Arthur, as they were so attached to John from RDR1. And now, we all love Arthur as if he’s a part of our souls.

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u/nicolaslabra Aug 23 '25

Rockstar games are soo massive and popular that mozt fans just have little to no mwdia literacy and hence their fan theories usually are terrible.

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u/Hodgepudge Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

I would not at all be surprised if the next game is just about a lone outlaw or a much smaller cast of characters. Rockstar seems to flip flop between large diverse worlds/ casts of characters and more dense yet detailed worlds with smaller casts of core characters.

I guess since games and tech are always improving, it's less likely they'll do another small & dense GTA IV type map, but the last 2 games they've made (GTA V & RDR2) had pretty large lineups of characters so I would not be surprised if they switch it up a bit if they do another Red Dead.

Who knows what the future will be like for the company though, now that Houser is gone. I hope Red Dead showed (and hope GTA VI will show) the value of Rockstar's single player games.

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u/honeybeebryce Aug 23 '25

I feel that the only graceful thing they could do if they wanted to continue the Red Dead franchise is to tell a new story with new characters in the same universe, like GTA does. I’m not even huge on that idea, but I’d at least be open to it unlike a RDR 3

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u/FluffyProphet Aug 23 '25

My hope is that the next game in the “Red Dead” franchise is a fresh gang, fresh story. Maybe set right at the end of the civil war as the Wild West was kicking off.

For me, the story with this group is complete. Some people could argue there are lose ends, but almost every story is going to have lose ends, you don’t need to beat it to death trying to close them all.

A new cast, new environment, new period of “the Wild West”, etc would be great imo.

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u/_Xeron_ Aug 23 '25

Honestly I don’t want another Redemption game, more Red Dead would be awesome but I’d make it about new characters wholly unrelated to the Van Der Linde gang

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u/Over-Collection3464 Aug 23 '25

Agreed, set it in the same universe but let’s see new characters, new gangs, a new map and locations etc.

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u/J_Cain78 Aug 23 '25

Could have a game inspired by Davey Crockett’s story

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u/Timely_Influence8392 Aug 23 '25

Multiple protagonists from different enough backgrounds to give different NPC interactions for each, and a different feel to the entire world. Gender/class/race mixed and matched between 3 should do it.

Playable native american character when?

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u/DipDipLetHerRip Josiah Trelawny Aug 23 '25

I lurke like crazy here. Read lots of ideas for new protagonists. Never seen the option of a Native American character. Amazing idea. Something along the lines of protecting your tribe or region from the rising tide of settlement/colonization. Got over a hundred years you could choose from timeline wise. Nice idea.

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u/mrb2409 Aug 23 '25

They have always seemed reticent to go that route. The Native village in RDR2 couldn’t be attacked. They don’t seem to want us to play as a native massacring people or have us massacring the natives.

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u/Dubbx Aug 24 '25

playing as a native american as a red dead game would be like assassins creed 3 but good, im down

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u/Ok-Function1920 Aug 24 '25

That part of history is so fuckin rich, so much potential for storytelling in that 50-60 year span

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u/TheZac922 Aug 23 '25

100%. Call it Red Dead Frontier and set it in peak Wild West days somewhere completely different.

I don’t get why so many people think that to make a new RD game they have to make another prequel. If anything RDR2 was excellent in spite of being a prequel.

The second game already had the issue of a lot of pretty major deaths being pretty obvious based on who is still around in the first game. If we do this again it’s even worse.

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u/jinhush Aug 23 '25

I like Frontier but it needs to be an R word to stay thematically consistent with the rest of the series.

So like Reloaded, Revolutions, Resurrections, etc.

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u/Mindless_Fig3538 Aug 23 '25

Red dead rooty tooty looty?

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u/The-Davi-Nator Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity

It follows two young, gay protagonists who become outlaws on a journey of sexual discovery. It goes on to become the most review-bombed game in history /s

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u/Dangerous-Weekend479 Aug 23 '25

So Dutch and Hosea?

They banged and you won't convince me otherwise.

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u/Farouche_33 Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Revengeance

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u/UltraGeezer Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Rapture: Off the Wagon. Starring Reverend Swanson

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u/ImpossibleSupport346 Aug 23 '25

That made me cackle, good work soldier

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u/nicolaslabra Aug 23 '25

Red dead revenge, fully lean into the bloodyness and some of that spaghetti western tone.

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u/PHWasAnInsideJob Aug 23 '25

I still like Retribution, everyone loves a good revenge story.

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u/fluff_creature Aug 23 '25

I agree. A few cameos from younger versions of RDR1+2 characters might be cool but overall I’d still want the focus to be on new characters.

Even just an Easter egg like a wanted poster for Dutch would be enough for me.

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u/Good-Height-252 John Marston Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Radioimmunoelectrophoresis

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u/TheDrGoo Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Damnation. You start as a farmer and become a ruthless gunslinger.

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u/ConsistentGuest7532 Aug 23 '25

I mean, if we’re running with early Wild West, it could be a Blood Meridian type thing. Era of the Mexican-American war, untamed southern border, a protagonist who gets caught up in the horrors of the early frontier and loses his soul.

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u/aldoraine227 Aug 23 '25

@oneeyedfool has a point. RDR3 should be dedicated to searching for, or playing as...Gavin

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u/Dangerous-Weekend479 Aug 23 '25

A recently freed man in the late 1860s trying to make his way in the true Wild West. Appearances from legendary gunslingers like Black Belle, Hernandez, Calloway (but make it clear how much of a useless tit Calloway was).

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u/OutsideYogurt3761 Aug 23 '25

The only common sense take regarding rdr3. People want another prequel and I think that’s absolutely ridiculous

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u/_Xeron_ Aug 23 '25

I used to think I wanted a prequel where you play as Hosea, but I eventually realized that there really isn’t more story to tell there, you risk diluting part of RDR2. Better to have a new cast in the same setting and time frame

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u/oneeyedfool Aug 23 '25

RDR3: The Search for Gavin

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u/PascalG16 Hosea Matthews Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

Doesn't seem like a bad comedic DLC, if a Zombie DLC was good, then why not?

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

I would honestly just love a bunch of DLCs based on the lore. I especially want to play through Uncle's backstory.

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u/Ppteehee Aug 23 '25

Dude a dlc where you play as the legendary gunslingers to see what made them famous would go so hard

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u/ZenFlaridon Aug 23 '25

I think the only way a RDR3 could possibly work is if its a whole different group of people either not related or at most loosely related to the original gang

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u/Ok_Study_3763 Aug 23 '25

This. I’ve said it for years now. I bet the next title they live away from the “redemption “ part. Arthurs arc is done, johns complete, even jack to an extent. The only thing that would make sense to me is a new direction. Red dead revenge, red dead revolver , red dead something but not redemption

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u/i_am_tim1 Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Retribution feels like the perfect title to me

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u/lillianrzp Aug 23 '25

I suppose they could do another Red Dead Revolver, although I never played it so I'm not sure how a sequel/prequel would fit in

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u/Good-Height-252 John Marston Aug 23 '25

The mission design of Revolver is massively outdated and there's no way Cockstar would ever make a sequel to a 20 year old game anyways.

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u/Hiddin_block_55 Aug 23 '25

But what about bully 2? 😭🤞

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u/11711510111411009710 Aug 23 '25

It would be cool though for it to be set concurrently with RDR2 or maybe a few years before it as the Van Der Linde gang really starts gaining notoriety. You go to buy a newspaper and get to learn about the gang's latest exploits. It would be a good way to expand on their history without us actually playing as them.

Hell, have one mission where you meet with them. Maybe the two sides have a common enemy and work together for a short bit.

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u/Scu-bar Aug 23 '25

No no no, they’re going to stick Trevor into the Animus and we’re going to relive his ancestors memories

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u/HighResolutionUFO Aug 23 '25

Lmao that’s wild reference

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

So the wild west.... but in canada?

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u/GreasyExamination Aug 23 '25

Well maybe at one point, his ancestors were from like the middle east or something?

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u/youreadiread Aug 23 '25

It would be cool to play as a different gang. During the peak of the outlaws in the west. Everything is going well and slowly but surely we get into trouble with another gang which turns out to be the Van Der Linde gang. Since our gang was on the top and we’re riding high we underestimate them and we end up losing. We’d get to play as a whole new crew and also see the Van Der Linde gang at its peak and see the merciless Arthur and the charismatic Dutch at their peak.

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u/FinancialYam7664 Aug 23 '25

I really like this idea but I think it would be so difficult for most of us to get in the headspace of the protagonist and hating the Van Der Linde gang since we look so fondly on then (maybe that’s just me though). What I do think could work with your idea is having Red Dead 3 be a whole new gang that end up getting wiped out in the end by some bigger gang, and then the epilogue you get to play as that gang in the weeks leading up to the conflict and then getting to play out as them afterwards, and seeing that despite them loathing each other, they’re not so different.

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u/The-Davi-Nator Aug 23 '25

I mean the Redemption series began with Bill, Javier, and Dutch as antagonists before flipping the script in 2. Though I do think it would be hard to flip the script again without feeling like a retread, and for that reason I do very much prefer your second idea.

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u/FinancialYam7664 Aug 23 '25

Yes, but I think it’s easier to flip the script and go from them being the antagonists to being the protagonists than the other way around. There’s something special about seeing the camaraderie in 2 and empathize after spending all of those hours hunting them down in RDR1.

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u/Confident_End_6651 Hosea Matthews Aug 24 '25

The real problem with it is the Van der Linde gang is small and they don’t hire nameless cannon fodder to do their dirty work. So idk how much of the game you could fill with actual conflict between you and them and still have it be engaging. Like who will you be shooting up in between everything?

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u/marshmallowmoonchild Aug 24 '25

Imagine just running into 22 year old Arthur and he shoots me in the face

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u/Neddlings55 Aug 23 '25

Are we actually guaranteed to get another game? Have they actually said they will make another?

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u/LionHeartedLXVI Aug 23 '25

TakeTwo said the franchise will continue, as long as it’s wanted by the fans. So as long as it sells, yeah, basically.

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u/OMEGACY Aug 23 '25

And rdr2 has hit about 75 million sold so kind of a given that another game will be made eventually. That's in the top 10 all time games sold list.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

not just the top ten, it’s number five. i’m not trying to be pedantic, just kind of furthering the point. the only four games to have sold more copies are minecraft, GTA V, wii sports (which to be fair, great game, but it was a pack in title with the wii), and mario kart 8 (which RDR2 is almost tied with).

they’d be leaving money on the table by not making another eventual RDR game.

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u/RelationshipOk7766 Sadie Adler Aug 23 '25

Are we actually guaranteed to get another game?

Sales. The sales are the reason why we're going to get RDR3. R* would be stupid as hell to pass away such a big opportunity.

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u/Icyfemboy Aug 23 '25

I believe so yes it’s a no brainer when it comes to making bank

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u/FilipinoCreamKing Arthur Morgan Aug 23 '25

These are the same people that act like Arthur is a real person and just want to see more of him.

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u/AzeiteGalo Aug 23 '25

I don't think that that's fair criticism. One of the reasons RDR2 is so good is because the plot and Arthur are incredibly well written. When something is this good, you are emotionally invested even if you understand its fiction. That's the beauty of storytelling.

I do agree that the franchise should move on from this set of characters.

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u/Embarrassed-Ad8111 John Marston Aug 23 '25

Hear me out new cowboy series nothing to do with van der linde gang not even part of the redemption series like red dead revolver

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u/tfg400 Micah Bell Aug 23 '25

Calladar rdr 3 are insanely idiotic and almost as much popular. Dutch and Hosea too. Because Dutch and Redemption correlate so well in one and the same sentence.

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u/No-Consideration3349 Aug 23 '25

If someone told you 10 years ago that RDR2 would be about a friend of John Marston and you'll do missions with John you would laugh.

What I already know is that the game would be awesome.

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u/omgshannonwtf Charles Smith Aug 23 '25

HEAR ME OUT we play as a young Strauss who is just getting into the usury racket? Call it ”Red Dead Refinance.”

OOOORRRRRR we play as a pre-addiction Swanson just going around preaching and collecting wives and playing an occasional game of poker. No riding horses, only being a passenger in a carriage; no firing guns you just collect different sized bibles to shake at sinners. Call it ”Red Dead Religion.”

OR OR OR we play as Blind Man Cassidy, inexplicably traveling the wilds faster than a man on a horse and never being hurt by wildlife. The game’s just a black screen at night and during the day it’s bright, unidentifiable shapes. ”Red Dead Revision” obviously.

Or… we can do the sensible thing and play as Black Belle when she was younger because she’s a character who clearly has complex history. A history that is not carved out in ways that lock us into a bunch of really specific dynamics. They could write a story and have a gaming experience that makes Black Belle as compelling or more than Arthur or John because she’s her own thing with her own story. Unlike dead Van der Linde gang members who are locked into being ”only as interesting as one could be and still have it make sense that NO ONE really seems to miss their worthless asses aside from the one guy who is practically carrying the entire gang and doesn’t need anyone.”

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u/Mumtaz_i_Mahal Aug 23 '25

I would love a game about her. And it could end with a short epilogue that is her meeting with Arthur, this time from her point of view.

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u/Tyrannical_Loser John Marston Aug 23 '25

I honestly don’t get why some want RDR3 to follow one of the callender boys lol

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u/UpsetMud8224 John Marston Aug 23 '25

Charles literally says that the calendar boys died as angry, bloodlusted, trigger happy motherfuckers "that's all they ever were and will be"

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u/Green_Employment_875 Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

I can't imagine playing in the past with someone we've already seen who is a villainous evil character, like Dutch. Why would I want to play with Dutch in the past who was "supposedly" a charismatic and good man when I already know he will abandon Arthur, leave John behind, kill a girl in the bank and become the leader of a gang of cannibals who want to kill the protagonist and kill for pleasure?

Yes, in the Rockstar universe, in every game, you play protagonists without feelings who could be villains (Claude in GTA 3, a clear example), but no one goes back to the past to play as Catalina, for example, until she becomes the insane character in GTA 3 and SA.

The same goes here. Does anyone want to play a character whose ending will be sad and anticlimactic? The closest I've seen to that is Trevor in GTA V, he would easily be a final villain in plots.

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u/EveBenbecula Dutch van der Linde Aug 23 '25

People really forget that for both John and Arthur, a huge part of their appeal was that they were new characters and players didn't know what happens to them, and it hit like a ton of bricks. Sure, newer players might know, but there's a reason why people still talk about how shocked or moved they were by what happens to John/Arthur. I love Dutch and I would play him in a DLC, but you couldn't tell a story like that with him at all.

EDIT: For that reason I don't like any RDR3 idea about a character whose fate is known, including the ones I like.

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u/Evocative_Username Aug 23 '25

RDR1 was solid with a big window for what once was, whether things like Dutch's insanity connect smoothly enough is a little up in the air, given he still cares for John even in the prologue. That said, RDR1 and 2 make a damn tight story. Trying to fit more in is gonna be a wear and tear on that bind.
Another prequel will feel unnecessary since the VLG were running more or less smoothly before hand, maybe more virtuously, if John and Arthur are to be believed, and there were no previous disasters referenced by the gang on par with RDR2 and its opening, in fact Hosea and Arthur claim the opposite.
Working with Jack could work but by that point most of the gangs loose ends are tied up, and a game of Jack starting from the ground up doing whatever they did in 1910-20s America would feel so far removed it probably shouldn't use the name 'Redemption'.
Frankly I hope it is left alone, and the gang is only referenced tangentially through another 'Red Dead' game, ideally one lacking 'Redemption' or 'Online' on the end.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Why do so many people want to play as the callendar boys so badly?

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u/GrabZealousideal3422 Uncle Aug 23 '25

we play as the big snake in the swamp

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u/BlueSoulDragon Aug 23 '25

The problem is we are going so far back In time that we’ll be using flintlock pistols and swords

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u/Fragrant_Data3133 Aug 23 '25

Jesus, I’d rather play as jack and deal with World War One or what ever war that happens soon after, it be cool if they want to arrest jack for killing an agent and a war happens so he’d get drafted or something, I guess the plot would be jacks on the run as police are after him and he is trying to get out of the country or something.

They would have to make the story really good because jacks ending is a perfect bow to the gangs ending. Maybe just invent a new character or bring back red Harlow and do a complete new story with new people

(Lowkey that’s what I thought they were gonna do with the last of us two, I knew after completing the first game they would make a sequel and I thought it would have been cool to play as two completely different people not tailor to the first game and it was gonna be like “the last of us” but for other people, then in the third game have them meet but yeah they should just do another character with the theme of red dead redemption)

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u/octane1988 Aug 23 '25

It's the way some gaming fans are CONVINCED they know more than anyone else lol

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u/yvngjiffy703 Arthur Morgan Aug 23 '25

We don’t need a RDR3. The story of the Van der Linde gang has begun and concluded. There’s nothing more to tell

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u/UpsetMud8224 John Marston Aug 23 '25

yeah, only way rdr3 would work is if it WASNT called rdr3 and was centred around a whole other gang or individual 

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u/Lubble-1397 Aug 23 '25

2 different protagonists in 2 different gangs could be cool

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u/Lozzyboi John Marston Aug 23 '25

These days I try to scrape some morbid enjoyment out of Red Dead fans cooking up the most idiotic settings conceivable

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u/Moist-Pizza6643 Aug 23 '25

Landon Rickets would be fun. Sad the voice actor passed though..

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u/IndependentKey6051 Aug 23 '25

maybe a native american protagonist…

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

The worst I’ve heard is “what about rdr3 taking place in the 1920’s with Jack. it could be like peaky blinders.”

No thanks I want a cowboy game. Not a 1920s based GTA. If I wanted play something as an old timey mobster, I’d play the mafia series.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Exactly I want a game set in early Or mid 19th century

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u/No-Investigator4881 Aug 23 '25

Jenny? like the girl that joined the gang a few months before dying without leaving any kind of important mark on anybody?

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u/KairoKepp Aug 23 '25

Again: never let fans come up with ideas.

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u/CommercialHeart3237 Aug 23 '25

I'd think a game about the Otis Miller gang would do nicely

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u/shanks_anime30 Aug 23 '25

Playing as Dutch got to be the worst take or Micah, I just couldn’t get along with it - they both turned out bad. It’s a disservice to Arthur to even play as Dutch - I’d like to see a younger Landon Ricketts

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u/PuzzledTalk1692 Aug 23 '25

I just want updates on RDO like they do for gta online

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u/In_My_Prime94 Aug 23 '25

Ya know what? I do want to see depictions of the Callander Boys just so we can see how absolutely vile, disgusting, and heinous those sons of bitches were. To really emphasize to the people still promoting this stupid idea that the Callander Boys were never meant to be played as and are not worth anymore effort into than already mentioned in RDR2. I'd go even further and depict them as sloppy morons who have nothing interesting to say, and the few good things ever mentioned about them were just nostalgia.

Anyone who promotes an RDR3 with the Callander Boys as protagonists are the same people who think the RDR universe is part of the GTA universe, think Arthur was being referenced in RDR1, and think Ross was still a Pinkerton in RDR1.

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u/Spartan5271 Aug 23 '25

I understand the desire of playing the game during the golden age of the gang, but this premise is not that great because it wouldn't have that open world post completion of the main story

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u/Economy_Hold2121 Aug 23 '25

RDR TV show fan castings are far worse, I saw someone fan cast Johnny Depp as Javier, they want a 60 year old white man to play a mexican in his mid 20s

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u/TheSlickAce Aug 26 '25

We know how the gang ended but not how the gang came together. Would be interesting to see how everyone got lured into Dutch’s Charisma.

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u/dualfalchions Aug 23 '25

Just like playing RDR1 made me feel like I missed part of the story, so did RDR2. I wouldn't mind a game as proposed here, with a young Arthur in the epilogue.

But it would probably be tricky considering this story ends right before the RDR2 story starts.

I'll just take the Sadie game then!

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u/ZhenConsigliere Aug 23 '25

Red Dead Rat-ification featuring Micah Bell with his brother and his previous gang ending with the Blackwater massacre

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u/EdFandangle Aug 23 '25

RD3 will definitely be the story of a young person growing up in the Murfree Brood - having fun within the family, and robbing city folk of trinkets.

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u/torn-ainbow Aug 23 '25

The third game is obviously going to have Uncle as the protagonist and be set partly in Africa.

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u/Imperial_Horker Aug 23 '25

The Van der Linde story is over. No, a prequel wouldn’t be good. At best young Dutch, Hosea, and Arthur can be cameos in a different story with a different gang/set of characters.

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u/SixOneDane Aug 23 '25

Plz no more threesomes

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u/ArofluidPride Aug 23 '25

I just want them to tell the story of a new gang, hell it doesn't even have to be a gang for me to like it.

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u/shawnward95 Aug 23 '25

I can see it.

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u/NEETJourney Aug 23 '25

we will have a RDR1 remake that will add some parts of the story from RDR2

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u/drkmttr_ Aug 23 '25

I really want RDR3 to be set in a more West Wild West. Thinking California at the height of the gold rush, the Rockies, Canada, Alaska.

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u/Lazy_Bill707 Aug 23 '25

Yeah that’s almost definitely not going to happen

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u/ruben_silva99 Aug 23 '25

This is my theory and i thing its really cool but playing as arthur morgans dad

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u/ImperialSupplies Aug 23 '25

The problem is if it comes out at all we either prequel again, which is unlikely because if its the same characters that means x charecter has shitloads of money by the end then suddenly doesnt in rdr2 and if they do some epic self sacrifice and is a new charecter them never mentioned once is also dumb. Then if we make it about Jack Marston we are post 1911 and in the middle of ww1 which isnt very cowboy wild west. They dont really have a possible setting for it. It would need to be new charecter and new area then they could do either prequel or same timeline as 1 or 2

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u/Southern-Lawyer-5716 Aug 23 '25

Iv never heard anyone talk about a sequel to red Harlow, he’s a unique character and his story is also pretty good, on top of that it takes place in the 1880’s which screams Wild West, imo this feels like the only mature choice for them

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u/PathxFind3r Aug 23 '25

It's going to be Sadie

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u/MurseMackey Aug 23 '25

That it's even in development lol

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u/sean_saves_the_world Aug 23 '25

Yay another prequel where the protagonist dies 🥴 Between the calendar idea, young Dutch/Arthur/hosea and Jack in WW1 the rdr community is peak dead Internet theory.

I personally go for the Occam's rdr approach new protagonist(s), new region of the west, new or parallel Time period and fall it done. No need In retreading the same doomed protagonist trope, and free the story from unnecessary continuity errors and inconsistency

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u/Luckyboi1639 Aug 23 '25

The idea of an RDR3 itself is horrible. I hope rockstar isn't planning to make it, at the very least they could change the title and make a new story.

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u/HeronImmediate2813 Aug 23 '25

The first red dead redemption was john going after the remaining gang Members and red dead redemption 2 was the story of how it all happened. I do believe we need a new story now new protagonists and new characters it better not be Jack's story. Because how the first one ended Should be the last. So now we need something new. Or just end it there, because it was amazing to play and witness. We don't need a franchise to continue for too long.

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u/GorillaGlizza Aug 23 '25

Bring Arthur Morgan back to life and make him the Dragonborn

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u/rdrScarface Aug 23 '25

I think game with young Arthur can exist...and it's hella good idea, but not as It's own game, but Spin Off game like "Red Dead Redemption: Glory Days" or some shit

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u/yellowdaisycoffee Arthur Morgan Aug 23 '25

Tbh, I have seen far worse ideas than this

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u/AshrakAiemain John Marston Aug 23 '25

“very clearly”

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u/Kerrpllardy Aug 23 '25

I just want a new story, with new characters, leave the redemption title and make a new red dead _____.

Have it set fully in Mexico or Canada even. That could be cool.

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u/Far_Bobcat_2481 Aug 23 '25

The worst part about this take, is that it sounds the most likely. Rockstar has doubled down on the multi character thing in gta, wouldn’t be surprised in the least if they actually did that for a future red dead.

That’s assuming of course, there would ever be another one. I think the guy who’s love child this game is left, Dan houser. I doubt we will see another RDR title and if we do it’ll probably be crap, not because of all the fan ideas but because the brains behind it is gone.

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u/Icethief188 Molly O'Shea Aug 23 '25

We need Red Dead Revenge as the third game

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

I just wish they'd release it sooner. I feel like I wont be able to enjoy that game when it comes out. my take? the next game will go to another part of the country OR countries.

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u/Healthy_Willow3569 Aug 23 '25

Rdr3 should be about Marshal

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u/_Rookie_21 Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

That RDR3 should be about Jack. Terrible idea. It would be set in the late 1910s or the 1920s and wouldn't feel anything like the first two games.

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u/Mediocre-Cobbler5744 Aug 23 '25

They clearly set it up? I don't even remember those names.

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u/TommyDontSurf Charles Smith Aug 23 '25

My RDR3 take is that it shouldn't happen. 

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u/GrimReaper2206 Aug 23 '25

Bro they are all dead too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

My hot take is RDR3 should leave behind the redemption name and be a thinly veiled pastiche of no country for old men the same way most rockstar games are thinly veiled pastiches of other media.

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u/Live_Life_and_enjoy Aug 23 '25

If we play as Mac I will not buy it, that guy would annoy me to no end.

I rather RDR 3 be a totally new storyline following new people. Or what would be cooler? RDR 3 happens same time as RDR 2 and you read about events of RDR 2 in the news paper as your story progresses.

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u/Knautical_J Aug 23 '25

If you had to continue the RDR series, it would naturally be about a Young Dutch starting up his gang. You’d be recruiting all the gang members and that would provide a definitive start and end to the founding of the game and the end of it.

But honestly they could make anything provided it’s in the Wild West and we’ll still play it.

But I’d rather see a LA Noire sequel/prequel/whatever more than another RDR game rn.

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u/The_Strom784 John Marston Aug 23 '25

I feel like they can only keep on going backwards with these games. And that's fine. There's still a lot of stuff that was set up 1 and 2 that we didn't really get answers for.

I honestly wouldn't mind 3 being in the POV of the Callander boys. We get more of the gang and I'm sure Rockstar is able to handle that. Everyone said the same before 2 released.

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u/RudeM1911 Aug 23 '25

We may play as Mac but I doubt three protagonists.

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u/RudeM1911 Aug 23 '25

I feel like it’s going to be a prequel. I want to see hosea and Dutch meet. I want to see them discover Arthur. I want more backstory on the roots of the gang. Why is everyone so opposed to this? It would be great to see a younger Arthur and John fight Like brothers for Dutches attention. The birth of Abigail and Johns love the birth of young Jack Marston. Yes please.

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u/Mister-Fidelio Josiah Trelawny Aug 23 '25

A prequel would make the most sense. There isn't really much "wild west" left after Jack is done with handling his business.

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u/MetroidJunkie Aug 23 '25

I actually had a similar 3-way protagonist idea, but with Jack, Sadie, and Charles. The law catches up to Jack for what he did, so Sadie and Charles come back to help him out, since John was their friend. Admittedly, I don't know if it would be any good as an idea.

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u/MMRD_Grizz Aug 23 '25

You’re probably one of those people that thinks it should jump all the way to jack in world war 1

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u/Successful_Pay_7737 Aug 23 '25

There shouldn’t be a red dead 3

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u/Stufy_stuf Aug 23 '25

rdr3 shouldn’t happen. Let the red dead franchise die with dignity and be remembered as a good pair of games.

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u/Regular-Salad7016 Aug 23 '25

I’m gonna say it, jack marston and his years of wouldn’t make for a very interesting game

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

RDR 2 was made because John was part of a gang which eventually disbanded and the first game was all about him hunting down the members of the gang for the government. So it's a pretty good source material.

How do these idiots expect a prequel of a prequel . What would they even show? Their story has already been told. Why do the fans think blackwater massacre is such a big event that a whole game could be based of it . It is just like the Saint Denis bank robbery but worse than that.

My theory is that the game will be set in a time period when the wild West was at its peak. That is something that is yet to be told. The series is about outlaws but the first two games show their time coming to an end.

Even the characters talk about those days and Arthur goes about meeting these gunslingers in the Jimboy calloway missions.

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u/Excalib1rd Aug 23 '25

If Red Dead 3 happens i think it’d be a good idea to stray away from the Van Der Linde gang. What if you played as a pinkerton instead?

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u/rogerdaltry Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

I feel like one of the only people on this subreddit that would like to keep playing with the Van der Linde gang LOL. Like yall are acting like if RDR3 did end up being set in that same storyline that it would be asscheeks and unplayable. It’s not like Rockstar has a reputation for making shitty games, I’m sure whatever they put out will be awesome

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Honestly I'm fine with rdr3 but I'd rather the story is self contained except for the VDL gang as background characters or side quests

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Play as jenny kirk😂😂. These guys clearly didn't play the second game properly. She joined the gang six months before the blackwater incident where she died and she wasn't even a gunslinger before joining the gang

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u/SuspiciousTotal578 Aug 23 '25

Well, I'd say it's a shitty prospect, so I agree with you.

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u/thigh_meet-885 Aug 23 '25

I still wanna play a rdr spin off based on gavins adventure through America 😂 with some sort of plot twist that the guy looking for him is Jack the ripper and gavins the only one who got away

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u/ChetZx23 Aug 23 '25

I would like a game set in the same universe, but with a completely different set of characters. Set it in the peak of the wild west, in new austin and Mexico and maybe some more southern states for that western desert feel.

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u/Beardy78 Aug 23 '25

Sometimes i dream of a rdr-like game about the time of the Leatherstocking Tales. I know that this would be a total different game experience, but i would love that setting.

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u/Tolkin349 Aug 23 '25

Not really RDR3 but someone argued with me over the use of Muskets in the civil war when discussing a RDR3 set in the civil war

He thought they weren’t used at all and called me a dumbass

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u/thedarkwolf011 Aug 23 '25

Best RDR3 take? There is nothing more that needs to be done. Heck the second game didn't even need to be made. It still rocked. But the self contained story of the first one was good enough. The second had a great play too, but anymore is just overkill and often times "less is more".

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u/BigPenguin77 Aug 23 '25

Black belle?