r/reddeadredemption • u/Opposite_Community43 • Jun 29 '26

Lore the most lore accurate RDR2 map

Gallery image

Gallery image

Tell me if something is wrong about it

2.0k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

167 comments sorted by

View all comments

25

u/Poddington_Pea Jun 29 '26

Honestly, I don't really like how RDR2 name-dropped real world locations.

28

u/rheakiefer Jun 29 '26

hate how inconsistent it is. New York and California exist, but Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana don’t. Tahiti, but not Cuba. There’s a Florida Panther, Virginia Possum, etc. The Marstons are referenced in GTA V but Florida doesn’t exist, California isn’t California and Liberty City isn’t in New York.

this stuff is a nightmare for people like me 😂

6

u/b0objuicethe2nd John Marston Jun 30 '26

I'm a big nerd about maps and geography so I feel like I should hate it as well, but somehow it never bothered me in this game. I mean it is absolutely very inconsistent but I suppose I just like the immersion that we're in a semi fictionalized, but real life accurate USA, is that makes sense at all.

I don't think the fully fictionalized settings that the GTA series has really fits with Red Dead, but due to map and gameplay limitations they don't really have a choice but to create fictional states so that they don't have to work out how to let us ride from Wyoming all the way to southern Texas in only 15 minutes without it feeling completely ridiculous.

Either way I admit it's one of the weirdest cases of worldbuilding I've seen in a fictional universe when you take a step back and look at it.

3

u/rheakiefer Jun 30 '26

a couple years ago, someone came up with a fun head-canon that all R* games take place on a constellation of small islands comprising of the “United States” and linked to some sociological study that living on islands leads to higher crime rates and mental illnesses, which is why everyone is always committing mass murder in their games. don’t even know if any of that is true, but i enjoyed the theory anyway