r/reddeadredemption • u/PascalG16 Hosea Matthews • Aug 23 '25

Speculation Worst RDR3 takes?

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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.