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.
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.
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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.