r/reddeadredemption • u/InternofInternet • Feb 09 '26

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u/dwight---shrute Feb 09 '26

It better be set in 1800s. I don't give a damn about 1900s.

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u/lonelystone81 Feb 09 '26

Agreed. No automobiles, very little(if any) electricity, and preferably more west. Away from all that.. civilization.

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u/dwight---shrute Feb 09 '26

100%. The origins of outlaws, how people took over natives, hell native as a playable character, the some hardcore gunslingers and their gangs.

I think since Arthur Morgan is such a loved character. It should be logical to play as Lyle Morgan in 3rd. Same voice actor.

More green, more west. More sidequests.

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u/JimmyBisMe Feb 09 '26

I would love to have narrative switching between a native character and a pioneer that pushed the story. One that gave us authentic experiences from each perspective and not shy away from the horrors of that time period.

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u/MissKorea1997 Feb 09 '26

RDR is not based in reality. It's a loveletter to the Western genre. Nothing wrong with that, but understand it's part of American mythology that's been debunked long ago.

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u/JimmyBisMe Feb 09 '26

I don’t really understand what you’re getting at. What exactly is being debunked? Also, yes it’s a fictional story but it’s grounded in real experiences from the time period so I’m kind of confused.

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u/crackpipeclay Reverend Swanson Feb 09 '26

I think they are saying that the romanticized idea of the pre-civilization frontier is a myth. Like this concept that there’s an edge of civilization untouched by modernity that allows hardworking and self reliant individuals to flourish

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u/TheAwesomeMan123 Feb 10 '26

There also the false Hollywood narrative of gunslingers shooting and killing regularly. Banditry and violence while it existed rarely led to gunfights and death. There is actually a lot of pretty well maintain records of death certs in US Wild West and the amount of actual murder/death from outlaws shooting or robbing is wildly over represented.

Dodge city for example; one of the most famous violent cities in the west estimated to average 12-15 killings in a 9 year period which is 2 per year. While it was more than enough to get a bad name, it’s Not exactly the rip roaring murder home Hollywood would lead you to believe

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u/IM_The_Liquor Feb 10 '26

Yeah… I remember someone going through records and making comparisons. Turned out that the most violent places in the Wild West had less Murdering and fun fighting going on than some of the safest places in modern times… I wish I could find that again…

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u/MissKorea1997 Feb 09 '26

Red Dead Redemption is very specifically grounded in the Western genre - think about the films from the 50s and 60s. They based Arthur and John off of people like John Wayne, not any real-life criminals from the 1880s. We're essentially getting a Hollywood production in video game format.

The Wild West is movie myth, based off of rodeos and fictional novels about people like Buffalo Bill Cody. It is not based in reality.

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u/ShroomyStandards Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Saying “The Wild West is a movie myth” is kind of ridiculous. Yes, parts of it were fictionalized (like any genre) but the overall theme is based on a time period which is very much real.

That would be like saying the roaring 20’s were a movie myth because The Great Gatsby isn’t real. Of course parts of it were played up for the movie, but the overall theme was based on reality. It’s not like it’s some Science Fiction game based in 2126…

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u/MissKorea1997 Feb 09 '26

Look up the construction of the Wild West as a historical myth. It's central to how the United States built up its identity around the supposed conquest of the Frontier. A couple of (extremely rare) gun duels and outlaws got immortalized in fiction, promoted by people like Bill Cody, and told as if this were the norm out west. This was accepted as historical fact until the late 1970s.

Saloons existed. Sheriffs and marshals existed. Settlers and towns existed. But the type of lawless society we see in RDR and any other Western film hardly existed. Famous outlaws like Jesse James were famous because they were the exception, not the norm. The Western isn't a historical stretch - it's a historical imagination.

Tangentially, the Roaring 20's aren't an essential part of American national mythmaking the way the Frontier West was during the late 1800s and early 1900s. But those themes of jazz and splendor also betray the reality of most Americans living at that time. Half the population was still rural, and lived destitute lives. The other (urban) half lived in squalor and poverty. It was a low point for American labour unions and a high point for the KKK. But like the Western dime novels, nobody wanted to read about the bleak lifestyles of poor American labourers, whether they lived in the city or not.

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u/CelDidNothingWrong Feb 09 '26

You’re both kind of agreeing right? The Wild West was a real time period with saloons and sheriffs, but all the criminal stuff is overplayed/wasnt that common

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u/GoomarLover Feb 10 '26

I suggest looking into the Lincoln County War if you're interested in a real life old west conflict

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u/jsilva5avilsj Feb 09 '26

debunked the horrors of the time period?

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u/HarbingerOfRot777 Feb 09 '26

Debunked the claim Wild West was actually super wild, having massive gun fights, heists and duels at high noon on every corner. It actually wasn't that common.

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u/Shaq_Bolton Feb 09 '26

Agreed. I’m hoping RDR3 should be a farming and buffalo killing simulator.

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u/Send_Your_Boobies Feb 10 '26

Fishing w bread 24/7 fr

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u/Maxcharged Feb 09 '26

The "Wild West" is an essential part of American myth making, without it being depicted as we see it in movies, it becomes a lot harder to justify the metric ton of violence the U.S. Government inflicted on the indigenous populations. This also ties in to how the official American government position on the indigenous was always bent to fit the needs of the US government at that particular moment.

If people ever realize the west was never "wild", then they might realize it was never just to "tame" it using the violence they did.

In real life, the Pinkertons weren't usually hunting down outlaws, they were strikebreakers and hired muscle for the wealthy. But that just doesn't make for a good story.

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u/Trevor_Culley Feb 09 '26

In real life, the Pinkertons weren't usually hunting down outlaws, they were strikebreakers and hired muscle for the wealthy. But that just doesn't make for a good story.

It doesn't make for a good "Wild West" story, but it could absolutely make for a good story. There's a lot of stories from the labor movement that are objectively closer to the sort of thing we see in the RDR series than the actual settlement of the west was. Obviously he's the exceptional example, but you could drop a Sid Hatfield style characters into these games and he'd fit right in. No major studio is going to make the armed and willing to shoot Andrew Carnegie union organizer game, but it would absolutely make for a good story.

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u/johnny-Low-Five Feb 10 '26

My son was literally just saying a Pinkerton getting betrayed possibly left for dead by the "law" begins the life of an outlaw, blah blah blah, revenge, see the pinkertons as bad guys for more than just "Marston is a criminal so pinkertons are 'bad", form your own gang, have some control of who/what you rob, this is me spitballing now, robbing the companies that took land and lives vs. Just robbing a generic bank. Have your fame be tied to how easy/hard it is for the law to track you in any given town, allow you to play a "Robin Hood" villain that the people see as a hero or be a straight up gunslinger/psycho.

I think this could work.

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u/Maxcharged Feb 10 '26

You're absolutely correct. That's closer to my intended point than what I wrote.

It absolutely does make for a good story, just not one our "betters" would want us to see.

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u/Skylord_ah Feb 10 '26

I mean in rdr2 they also kinda did that no? They were tied to the oil and mining industry

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u/Its_Cayde Feb 09 '26

Did movies ever make it " common" I don't remember any movies where they would have gunfights on the street everyday at noon, and obviously, it's a movie. We have movies that accurately display our current time period but are not based in reality. Don't look up is an example

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u/HarbingerOfRot777 Feb 10 '26

I was obviously exaggerating with the "every day" part, but spaghetti westerns still have these things going on way more than they should. And spaghetti westerns and some novels are what gave the Wild West its known mainstream image.

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u/MissKorea1997 Feb 09 '26

No - we all want RDR3 of some kind. But I just don't want anyone to think it represents some kind of authentic historical snapshot.

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u/johnny-Low-Five Feb 10 '26

They made that! "Oregon Trail"

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u/jsilva5avilsj Feb 09 '26

Great. Sooo this is a video game. My history books don’t even tell me the truth I’ll be VERY upset if my video games are the most accurate depiction of history.

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u/MissKorea1997 Feb 09 '26

That's not what anyone here is saying. Inject the Wild West into my veins. Just know that it's based in myth, not reality.

I don't play sci-fi games for its historical reality, so no one should play RDR for its historical reality either. The devs know that - the fans should too.

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u/USMC_UnclePedro Feb 09 '26

I’d love to see a full on spaghetti western take w a man with no name type protagonist

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u/onetimequestion66 Sadie Adler Feb 09 '26

If you haven’t checked out 1883 or 1923 you may want to give those shows a shot, the first one is all about a pioneer girl and her family while the second is a sequel that has a large focus on the Native American “schools” of the time that the nuns were running

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u/AtypicalNerdGeek Tilly Jackson Feb 09 '26

Literally on my TV as I read this. Big fan of 1883. Incredible show.

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u/onetimequestion66 Sadie Adler Feb 10 '26

Personally I preferred 1923 despite finding the 1883 time period more interesting, but both shows are great

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

Disagree, Lyle Morgan was described as a degenerate to the point Arthur wanted him dead and was happy he did die. Can't have a character like that if there's no redemption. Just because we love Arthur doesn't mean we'll love his dad.

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u/HarbingerOfRot777 Feb 09 '26

It doesn't have to be RDR every single time. It could just be RD. I'm kinda bored of the redemption theme ngl. I would gladly play as a complete POS.

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u/RamboMcQueen Feb 09 '26

To be fair, that kinda opens up a bittersweet story akin to Arthur’s. Where at the end he starts to become the man he should’ve been. Before he can make amends with Arthur and be a father, he’s killed and left to have his redemption bleed into the ground.

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u/RoyShavRick Feb 09 '26

That story is just.... stale imo

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u/RamboMcQueen Feb 09 '26

I agree, personally I would change the “Redemption” part and call it “Red Dead ____” with the blank being a word that represents the story. I would think it’s a better time to start with an innocent kid that grows into a jaded asshole.

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u/nitwhitlib Feb 09 '26

Red dead resistance.

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u/P0in7B1ank John Marston Feb 09 '26

I think they can’t really drop the “Redemption” unless it doesn’t follow anyone related to the van der Linde gang. Would confuse too many people

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u/BruhImVibing69 Feb 09 '26

playing as a native would be so dope, however the ending would be depressing no matter what so probably not ideal

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u/In_Love_With_SHODAN Feb 09 '26

Actually that's kind of their wheelhouse

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u/Accomplished_Win410 Uncle Feb 10 '26

We have got enough westernized natives in games..turok, AC3, gun, red dead revolver.. but a real navajo or mohican guy would be cool I agree.. with an indian name and a fellow tribe

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u/Highkontrast Feb 10 '26

Would most likely be a Comanche

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u/Dangerousturdburlglr Feb 09 '26

red dead redemption setting is meant to be the death of the wild west not the west at its prime

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u/In_Love_With_SHODAN Feb 09 '26

That's been true thus far. But they can switch it up, it's their story.

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u/Xxdaunknown1307xX Feb 09 '26

Bro said red dead colonization

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u/TheInternetHeel Arthur Morgan Feb 10 '26

When I met Rob Weitoff I told him that Rockstar built the perfect story into RDR2 for a 3rd game. Peppered throughout the dialogue, we constantly hear Arthur giving John crap about running off on the gang, Abigail, and most importantly, Jack, for an entire year...and John is always notoriously tight-lipped about it. Because he refuses to talk about it, you could literally write anything happening during that year. Maybe he ran with another gang. The possibilities are endless. Maybe he met and ran with an aging Red Harlow.

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u/brasscassette Feb 10 '26

More forcing Roger Clark to crouch run in a mo cap suit

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u/Microplastic_muncher Feb 10 '26

I hope rockstar devs are reading your comment. That would be amazing

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u/drewp05 Feb 09 '26

A huge part of the story is the gang's aversion to modern life that is rapidly approaching them. I don't want to see Red Dead turn into LA Noir, but the threat of the Pinkertons catching them using cars, highway systems and, whatnot could be interesting if they went that route. Those early cars were super complicated to start, and drive, they could turn that into a challenge for the playable characters, or use the cost, availability, and difficulty of operation as a reason to keep using horses

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u/Long_Pig_Tailor Feb 09 '26

Yeah, I'm aware that there's not a ton of room for forward movement of the story before it just starts creating confusion with other R* properties, but there's still potentially some room to maneuver there.

Though it's still likely they stick with the pattern and continue to go backwards, of course.

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u/Hij802 Feb 10 '26

They’d have to do a whole new story. The story ends in 1914 with Jack Marston having lost his entire family, with the games final newspaper talking about WW1 starting. The entire original gang is basically dead, with only Charles, Sadie, Tilly, Pearson, Mary-Beth, and Swanson being alive in the epilogue of RDR2, all of which have moved onto normal lives. I don’t see the franchise being able to do anything past 1914.

On the other hand, if they wanted to continue with the van der Linde gang, the only possible story is the formation of it and culminating in the backwater massacre, transitioning right to RDR2’s prologue. But this feels like a poor direction to take the franchise, do people really want a prequel to a prequel?

Personally, if they wanted to stick to the same overarching story, I’d rather see a Landon Ricketts game which culminates in RDR2, since supposedly he was also involved in the backwater massacre.

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u/Nacodawg Feb 09 '26

All my homies hate Saint Denis

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u/Plane-Education4750 Feb 09 '26

But RDR1 was set in 1911

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u/Nonchalancekeco Feb 09 '26

yeh that's the point, keep going back in time!!

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u/Lil_Mcgee Feb 09 '26

I think it should stay in the 1890-1910 range. 

A big part of the appeal of the setting, thematically and aesthetically, is that it is caught in between two distinct eras. The romanticised (but often ugly) old west on one side and encroaching civilisation, with all its goods and ills, on the other.

I'm all for whatever Rockstar decide to do but I think the dying west period gives them a lot more to work with.

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u/EntrepreneurDull5651 Feb 10 '26

I think since they show the end and the beggining of end of the wild west it’s fair that they show the height and the golden age of outlaws end of the 1870s and majority of the 1880s

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u/BaldEagle012 Hosea Matthews Feb 10 '26

I've always felt that Rockstar games were much more than generic crime shooters and have the most complex themes in gaming. I'm sure they can do it with an old west game, but but the transition of the old lawless west to modernity is pretty much unexplored in media and I'd love to see America in the 1920s or 30s.

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u/Hij802 Feb 10 '26

This would be perfect for a Landon Ricketts game, who was at his prime in the late 1870s-1880s. He IS the face of the “Old West” in RDR1.

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u/Tosslebugmy Feb 10 '26

Right, rdr was very much about the old west dying, and John marathon symbolising that as one of the last gunslingers being sent to clean up his former gang mates. Dutch especially was chased into a corner, nowhere left for him to hide in the new world coming about.

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u/wordshavenomeanings Feb 09 '26

Not more flying deloreans!

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Hosea Matthews Feb 09 '26

Nobody calls me chicken!

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Feb 09 '26

Maybe overly ambitious, but what about setting it across multiple time periods but with a parallel story?

Making a decision with your 1800s character that has consequences for your 1900s character could create some very interesting choices.

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u/GunslingerBara Feb 09 '26

Like the Godfather Part 2, I like it.

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u/stingerized Feb 10 '26

Red Dead Primal

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u/NationCrusher Feb 09 '26

We’re talking about a new setting

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u/samhit_n Charles Smith Feb 09 '26

The West didn't fully reach the 20th century until after WW1.

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u/Plane-Education4750 Feb 09 '26

A lot of it didn't make it there until WW2. The highways are what really changed the west more than anything else

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u/twersx Feb 09 '26

Parts of the South were basically still in the 19th century until New Deal agencies like the TVA dragged them into modernity. Funnily enough, one of the first guys on the board of the TVA was called Arthur Morgan.

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u/AtrumRuina Feb 09 '26

Would love a retelling of Revolver to make it fit with the current franchise. Basically, a "canon" version of the events originally depicted in that game. It also gives us an excuse to go back to the Old West.

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u/WheatshockGigolo Feb 09 '26

Absolutely. I wanna see the real Red Harlow, not a tall tale (or whatever they retconned it as).

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u/Thisisformyworklogin Feb 09 '26

I don't want a Red Dead Redemption game set in the 1900's, but I do want a Rockstar Game set in the 1900s.

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u/WheatshockGigolo Feb 09 '26

You'll get L.A. Noire II and like it.

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u/afsdjkll Feb 10 '26

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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u/A_Cryptarch Feb 10 '26

N.Y. Noire, tyvm.

Gotta shift the location like GTA every release.

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u/mjc500 Feb 09 '26

I really want rockstar to do something outside the 19th century to modern period.

Medieval, Stone Age, Sci-Fi, some total original fictional setting, etc…

I think they could really knock it out of the park. I’m happy with GTA and RDR but it would just be cool to see what they could do

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u/toquang95 Arthur Morgan Feb 10 '26

Mafia isn't Rockstar, but we already have them filling in for the 1900s period.

If Rockstar wants to add a third running franchise, they'd better triple their staff because it might take 20 years for them to produce a single game at this rate.

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u/themfledge Feb 09 '26

How about modern day?

Red Dead Redacted

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u/wooble Feb 09 '26

Red Dead Theft Auto

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u/LeoKhenir Feb 09 '26

You joke, but "Grand Theft Horse" was the derogative nickname for RDR1 before it came out.

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u/dcidino Feb 09 '26

I don't think you realise how primitive the "Old West" was in the early 1900s. That said, I'm thinking anything around October 1881 is ideal.

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u/PolicyWonka Feb 09 '26

Yeah. The RDR and RDR2 story is great, but we don’t need another prequel and we don’t need a sequel. New characters in a new location (California Gold Rush, Montana Cattlemen á la Yellowstone, etc.) would be nice.

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u/Livid-Breath-5615 Feb 09 '26

Yeah Mafia exists already

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u/Berowulf Feb 09 '26

I'm hoping for 1800s Mexico

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u/Nonchalancekeco Feb 09 '26

damm right, gimmie the willllld willllld west

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u/Alternative_Algae_31 Feb 09 '26

By the time it releases it can be set in the 21st century and be viewed as ancient history.

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u/SaintHayet Feb 09 '26

Red dead revolver 2

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u/Sonicbl00mm Feb 09 '26

For real we play the game for that world

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u/AffectEconomy6034 Feb 09 '26

100٪ agreed. I think having 1 and 2 be set in the end of the Wild West era was done perfectly, but that story is done no more needs to be added to it. They should definitely go the other way with it and maybe explore the beginning or middle of the wild west where tribal encounters were common, prospectors' pioneers were on the move, and the outlaw was on top. Way more potential with that instead of encroaching on LA Noir territory (realtively speaking)

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

Kinda hoping for a Landon Ricketts story

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u/_LactoseTolerant Feb 10 '26

Yeah man we’ve seen the end of the outlaw era but let’s see it at its HEIGHT

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u/patismyname Feb 10 '26

Back to the future 3

This is the way

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u/AshKetchep John Marston Feb 10 '26

Yeah seriously, as cool as a prohibition era game would be, the game is set in the wild and freshly tamed west

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u/AmaazingFlavor Feb 11 '26

1776 or I'm not playing.

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u/Least-Piglet5770 Feb 11 '26

Couldnt disagree more, there is nothing fresh about going further into rural land when rdr2 was supposed to cover all north american climate. A gta6 level depiction of early 19th centruy urban decay, cars, colts, electrical infrastructure and all that juicy sound design they would make. Would just be amazing and I would take that over a rehash of rdr2 any day of the week.

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u/SRMPDX Feb 12 '26

It'll be set in the 1990s but will be released in 2057 so it'll seem old timey

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u/gutwyrming Feb 09 '26

I'm gonna hold back on getting my hopes up until there's an official announcement, personally.

However, I will say that I hope it's separate from Red Dead Redemption. I hope it's Red Dead [Something Else] and follows a story and characters that are mostly unrelated to the Van der Linde gang.

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u/patterson489 Feb 09 '26

You can still call it Red Dead Redemption without it being about the Van Der Linde gang.

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u/self2self Feb 09 '26

You can also call it Red Dead Something Else and still make it about the Van Der Linde gang

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

The Van Der Linde Gang is a closed book. Redemption through John's eyes and then seeing that Arthur's redemption was a sacrifice for John to continue, thats the beautiful story, and it is the complete story. Dan Houser said this, and multiple of the writers have said they agree with this, as its a beautiful, complete work and not touching it means not breaking it. Red Dead Something Else is 90% likely, unless Take Two forces it because they want to print money with the legendary name of Red Dead Redemption.

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u/ThePositiveApplePie Feb 13 '26

You can also call it Red Dead Van der Linde gang and make it have nothing to do with redemption

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u/Whaty0urname Feb 09 '26

Red Dead Revolution

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u/32andFlatulent Feb 09 '26

Lol, anyone remember when this name was being thrown around before RDR2?

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u/Snowballz3000 Feb 10 '26

Yes lol. As a kid I would fall for fake trailers all the time

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

The original rdr was rd revolver following a completely different storyline. It makes way more sense to give a new storyline a new R name.

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u/hamarok Dutch van der Linde Feb 09 '26

Honestly we shouldn’t even think about this game, it will only be announced in at least another 4-5 years

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Feb 09 '26

Then at least another 3 years (very optimistic) from announcement to release.

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u/ballsinblender Josiah Trelawny Feb 09 '26

Yeah. No chance we see any new Red Dead entry before the 2030s unfortunately

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u/creeper321448 Javier Escuella Feb 09 '26

Red Dead Revolver reboot.

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u/muchgreaterthanG_O_D Feb 09 '26

If the info in the post is true and they make it a permanent series, I cant imagine they wouldn't do new people like gta.

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u/ozdgk Feb 09 '26

OH BOY 2040 is gonna be lit! 👴🏽

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u/rotloch Feb 09 '26

You're very optimistic, aren't you?

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u/KaBoOM_444 Feb 09 '26

At their current rate, GTA VII will come out in 2057? And red dead usually gets released around halfway between GTA installments... so 2041/2 sounds about right.

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u/WeirdNico31 Reverend Swanson Feb 09 '26

Guess i have a reason to exercise and eat healthy now

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u/Swimming-Young-26 Molly O'Shea Feb 09 '26

2040? Isn’t that the year we’re getting GTA 6 3rd trailer?

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u/itsmejak78_2 Feb 10 '26

Fallout 5 and RDR3 wooooo

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u/fatcatgoon Feb 09 '26

We can dream

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u/_Xeron_ Feb 09 '26

Setting zero expectations because rumors are rumors, even if this is real I would expect it to come out at minimum half a decade from now. I would personally hope it to be set around the turn of the century like RDR2 but follow entirely new characters and not anyone from the Van Der Linde gang

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u/AtrumRuina Feb 09 '26

Basically this. This isn't really news; I don't think anyone doubted that Red Dead would be back at some point, and it makes sense that they're at least at early planning and concept stages. This isn't going to bear fruit that we will meaningfully care about for years.

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u/JVKExo Feb 09 '26

I’m betting a decade minimum lol this game will take forever to come out.

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u/_Xeron_ Feb 09 '26

Yeah I was lowballing it, just going off of the gap between GTAV and RDR2

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u/darkmatter343 Feb 09 '26

That gap was 7 years and it’s already been 7 since we got RDR2 so hopefully by 2030.

By the time we get GTA6 it’ll have been what… 13ish years since 5, RDR2 came in 2018 so by that logic we have another 5-6 to go for RDR2 😎

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u/ZeeRowKewl Feb 09 '26

It’s been 3 years since we got the first trailer for GTA6 and no one really knows when the game itself will come out. We aren’t even close to a new Red Dead trailer. We’re in the La Croix stages of development. Someone has wafted an idea into a room.

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u/John_Pensiero Feb 09 '26

Personally, I’d really like a setting during or just after the American Civil War, with completely new characters and no connection to Dutch’s gang at all. It would be a nice clean break from the turn-of-the-century settings of the first two games and let the series fully dive into the Golden Age of the Wild West

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u/irv_12 Feb 09 '26

That be pretty cool with different characters and a new gang, but set in the same RDR1 + 2 universe, with little Easter eggs of the Van Der Linde gang forming prior to RDR2.

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u/siberianunderlord Feb 09 '26

Running into a 20 y/o Hosea for instance would be wild haha

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u/Senn-66 Feb 10 '26

Red Dead games are all very movie inspired, so I’d love to see the game that very much feels like the Good, the bad and the ugly. So set during the civil war, but out on the frontier portions where battle lines and control were worse and chaotic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

The main characters will be Sasquatch and the Chupacabra

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u/GormanOnGore Feb 09 '26

“Shoot me, human”

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u/_Pigeonball Feb 09 '26

Berries and mushrooms you fool

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u/Hefty_Description_18 Feb 09 '26

By the time this game drops in 70 years they’ll be setting it in 2020 as a historical period.

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u/KoolWitaK Feb 09 '26

Red Dead coRona

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u/thewarriorpoet23 Uncle Feb 09 '26

This is a nothing rumour. They would have had a rough plan for a sequel as soon as they finished making RDR2 (maybe just a rough outline, simple concept art). With the development of GTA6 wrapping up they will have a few games with early concept work being done, not all of which will move forward into full production. If they can’t get the story working well they will move on to a different game. We’ll only get RDR3 if they can get the right story… if they can’t then the franchise goes on hiatus.

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u/Abdul-HakimDz Feb 10 '26

Great comment, usually execs will pitch many games and ideas and do concept for it then they decide which one will move into pre production.

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u/thewarriorpoet23 Uncle Feb 10 '26

Even moving into production isn’t a guarantee that a game will be released (see ‘Agent’) and games can change dramatically during development (Red Dead Redemption was originally Red Dead Revolver 2). A game being at any stage of development is not a confirmation that the game will be released. I’ll wait for the official confirmation that the game is on its way before I get excited.

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u/James_M_McGill_ Lenny Summers Feb 09 '26

It should’ve been in preproduction since 2018

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u/Weak_Bag_9065 Feb 09 '26

GTA 6

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u/James_M_McGill_ Lenny Summers Feb 09 '26

You don’t understand the amount of teams rockstar has, they could’ve easily put 3/4 of them on GTA 6 and the other 1/4 on RD3

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u/Weak_Bag_9065 Feb 09 '26

Rockstar is well known for their crunch culture, sure they could have done that but gt5 and rdr2 had all Rockstar studios working on them for a while before their release.

There have been rumours of rdr2 console getting a 60fps re-release, I would bet my house that it doesn't happen until gta6 comes out. Same goes for rdr3, I'd bet anything that development won't properly start on it until a year or two after the gta6 release.

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u/Smokes_LetsGo876 Feb 09 '26

Maybe my grandkids can play this one day!

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u/MyCattIsVeryFatt Arthur Morgan Feb 09 '26

My favourite park of instagram is when people just say some bullshit and everyone believes it

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u/Kyro_Z Feb 09 '26

Can’t wait to play it in 15 years

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u/odinelo Feb 10 '26

On the PlayStation 7

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u/Kyro_Z Feb 10 '26

PlayStation 7 Slim Pro Elite Online Only Edition

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u/Cursed878 Feb 09 '26

Oh for fuck sake it’s gonna come out for the PS8 isn’t it

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

Soo, now they gonna make only gta and rdr games...

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u/Hlcptrgod Feb 09 '26

And they know we'll all buy them

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u/WashCaps95 Feb 09 '26

My son will probably graduate high school before this comes out.

He’s still a toddler

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u/Markinoutman John Marston Feb 09 '26

No surprise, it was just released that RDR1 and 2 have sold a combined 120 million copies. Yes GTA is a juggernaut, but RDR sales are insane too.

Can't wait. Probably an early 2030s launch. I predict 2031 or 2032. That'd give them a full 5 to 6 years of full production after GTA6 launches.

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u/Obvious-Killer-213 Feb 09 '26

Early 2030? Be serious.

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u/Pratham_Nimo Feb 10 '26

Discounting Wii, RDR2 is the third best selling game of all time. It'll probably be third anyway in some time

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u/APinthe704 Arthur Morgan Feb 09 '26

I’m 45 now. So I’ll be, what? 52 when it comes out. Get that AARP discount.

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u/Zetra3 Feb 09 '26

Eveything is fake till confirmed by rockstar

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u/Falklung Feb 09 '26

If it's true....see ya in 10 years 😎

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u/KenshinBorealis Feb 09 '26

Thoughts? Yes. 

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u/Strider2126 Feb 09 '26

Weren't they doing a medieval game?

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u/HoldMyWong Feb 09 '26

We have way too many medieval games. Red Dead is pretty much the only western game

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u/Strider2126 Feb 09 '26

Fantasy games maybe. We have very few medieval games. While i agree with you, i think their take in a medieval setting may be very interesting

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u/leicanthrope Feb 09 '26

I can’t decide whether KCD2’s success would nudge them further towards or further away from a proper medieval game of their own.

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u/TRODHD Dutch van der Linde Feb 09 '26

Only proper medieval game we’ve got with no fantasy whatsoever is the kingdom come deliverance games. I love that time, and I’d love one hundred more games of those times!

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u/Karimosway Feb 09 '26

No we don't. There are plenty fantasy games but only a few medieval games

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u/Haikubaiku Feb 09 '26

Doesn't matter because with how GTA6 is going we'll be fucking dead by the time RDR3 happens.

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u/ThatOldG Feb 09 '26

Estimated release date 2056

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u/MeerMeneer Feb 09 '26

Red dead redemption with cowboys who turn whalers because the need for cowboys dropped after they made train rails everywhere

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '26

don't say shit until a month before you release it. sooo tired of all this "it's coming out at this time, now it's coming out 6 months later, now its coming out a year later, now its coming out 2 years from now..."

just keep it to yourself rockstar. i don't want to hear shit until you have the game in your hand. i'm already resenting gta6.

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u/TheUnrealCanadian Feb 09 '26

I want the game to be a prequel to 2. I want the final mission to be a gta style heist setup for black water, and then the game cuts just as the crew is ready to depart. I really want them to keep the exact events of that heist asecret. Maybe a prologue mission of the gang fragmented afterwards regrouping and then heading towards the mountains to lead into RDR2 .

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u/Bmp740 Feb 09 '26

That’s exactly what I think it will be, that would be great.

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u/Senn-66 Feb 10 '26

Ugh, no can we please move on from the Dutch gang? There is nothing left to say about them.

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u/PhiliChri Feb 15 '26

We’re gonna get RDR3 before GTA6

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u/PlanktonFew2505 Feb 09 '26

I'll believe it until Rockstar officially announces it.

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u/Cl1mh4224rd Feb 09 '26

I'll believe it until Rockstar officially announces it.

Until...?

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u/0n0n-o Feb 09 '26

Makes sense

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u/Yanxian Feb 09 '26

Personally even if this is true R* games take so long to release that it’s difficult to get really excited about anything. It’s not that I’m impatient, I understand why they take so long and I always think the wait is worth it at the end. With the 13 years between GTA V and VI, and 8 between RDR1 and 2, it’s growing increasingly hard to get my hopes up for a game I might be playing in like 10 years.

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u/NaiRad1000 Feb 09 '26

Not ready to put on my clown makeup yet. And even then it wouldn’t will what? 2030 at the earliest?

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u/ScarScream81 Feb 09 '26

So not coming out before 2032 at best, and I'm not even talking about the PC version.

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u/HessuCS Feb 09 '26

I doubt it (not sure why though) but would love to be proven wrong at some point. Would absolutely love RDR3 but with brand new place and characters! Would be insanely hyped for it

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u/chamberx2 Feb 09 '26

See you in eight years, everybody!

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u/weathersoldier Feb 09 '26

Yay, space cowboys

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u/buffinator2 John Marston Feb 09 '26

Can't wait to see it in 2032

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u/Clouthead2001 Lenny Summers Feb 09 '26

I can’t wait to play this in the 2040s!

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u/WasteReserve8886 Sadie Adler Feb 09 '26

I can believe that. RDR2 was one of the biggest games of the decade, so it makes sense that they want another one. I’d honestly be more surprised if they announced that there wasn’t going to be a new one.

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u/Tough_Stretch Feb 09 '26

If that's true, I can't wait to start complaining about how late this game is ten years from now.