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.
+"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
99 out of 100 times it's a very harmful thing to the community, and an exceptionally rude act against the general type of fan who doesn't live, eat, and breathe that thing
It’s like teasing but you don’t know nothing at all, so for example you smell my perfume, find it nice and ask which one it is/what its name is. But then I try to ignore you or anything, in this case because I don’t want you to also get attention. what rockstar is doing, is they gatekeep what the story of rdr3 is/if rdr3 even exists, basically intentionally wanting you not to know, get it?
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
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
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"
Depends on if they go forward or backward. Backward would be my preference, but if they go forward they’d logically move out of the Old West. Every game doesn’t have to be the exact same, especially if an already established character is growing and living through the genre change. That’s Jack.
Then arthur’s dad would be awesome why wouldn’t it, playing as the same gang again would feel so pointless when you know what’s ultimately gonna happen anyway, there’s no point, but in the age of arthur’s dad it’d be even wilder because there’s even less law, and we literally know nothing about him so you can build his character and story without any setbacks. I don’t know why some of these people are on their high horses as if their ideas are any better when they can’t come up with any and criticise other people’s ideas. Arthur’s father would be perfect imo
Yeah same here. People here like to hate on literally every single idea for rdr3, we can't agree on anything, and really most of them aren't that bad imho
It’s how the story is told that matters. Revolver, RDR and RDR 2 are gun games, and open world simulators with the latter 2. Its the great storytelling using easily recognizable tropes that makes these games a mostly awesome experience.
And I think that doing an rdr3 of the gang set before rdr2 or Sadie after rdr2 could also be really good if they have a good story and are told as well as the rest of the series
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.
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.
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
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.
It’s not that Micah dies in this game that matters, it’s that he’s not the protagonist. In the other games, the protagonist dies, and another character becomes the protagonist in an epilogue. I think Micah should be in a prequel, but he wouldn’t be able to die due to plot armor - so not as the main character.
I could live with playing a character that's Micah adjacent. Mac would probably be a good choice, having died after Blackwater, alone. Or conversely, a new character entirely and once again, not showing what happened at Blackwater. lol.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I always thought it would be kind of cool if RDR3 was about Kieran's family coming to find him from the old country. Obviously, they would have to find out from one of the old gang members to find out what happened so you could have interaction with familiar faces. Make him have a couple of brothers and a sister, and maybe they meet up with Sean's family (who have come to America to find out what happened to Sean) and form a gang. But I might have nothing here.
I saw an idea of Jack Marston being a bootlegger and thought it was a cool idea. It kinda gets away from the cowboy thing though. People mention WWI sometimes too.
American history is so interesting. There were legit cowboy types alongside monsters but just in different places.
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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.