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[Cake Boss]

Just an idea that I wish for the game, something more interesting than another mid aged white guy looking for his white family story in the wild west part 2.
The premise could be behind a slave in that setting and time trying to earn his freedom. It could provide much more interesting content, and tackle complicated issues that the country faced and still is. I think it will come at a perfect time as more and more mediums are discussing the topics of slavery and racism.

I don't know, maybe I just really want a Django like RDR game made by Rockstar where you shoot up slave owners.

 

[Majine]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

 

[Strootman]

I wouldn't mind multiple protagonists again, GTA V style.

God please NO.

 

[Ibuki]

Cake Boss
go home you're drunk
(Today, 10:54 AM)

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

hopefully! although i wouldn't mind if it were only 2 instead of 3.

 

[The Flash]

"Should"

R* "should" do what they think will work best.

 

[TraBuch]

Red Dead Rebellion

 

[xrnzaaas]

Nah I want to play as a badass gunslinger.

 

[Screaming Meat]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

Yes please. The Good, The Bad AND The Ugly. Be nice (but unlikely) to be able to do 3-player Co-op campaign too.

Nah I want to play as a badass gunslinger.

They're not mutually exclusive.

 

[Izuna]

Red Dead Reparation

 

[dezzy8]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

Only reason that I only played through it once. I hate switching characters.

 

[inner-G]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

That could be interesting.

A woman, a slave and a Native American would all be characters that would let them tell interesting stories that could be different than most others in the genre.

That said, I hated switching in GTA V. I think I like the Yakuza 4 style better

 

[giancarlo123x]

Yes please. The Good, The Bad AND The Ugly. Be nice (but unlikely) to be able to do 3-player Co-op campaign too.

I'd kill for campaign coop, I'm sure Rockstar would knock it out the park.

 

[HvySky]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

I wasn't really a fan of GTAV to begin with, but that may have been my least favorite part.

 

[Zaheer]

My wish for the last six years. I'd also like a female Native American, if they were to do multiple protagonists.

Spoiler

Some Catcher Freeman-type shit (Granddad's version)

 

[Eylos]

Red Dead Django

Django - Main Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAooXLAPoBQ

 

[SJRB]

The last thing I want is a heavy political message.

 

[jon bones]

that's a dope idea, OP

i love the politicization of games (assuming they're liberal obv)

Red Dead Reparation

ok this is solid

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

Would rather a story centered on a Native American tribe.

 

[HalfBakedProphet]

 

[JayEH]

The last thing I want is a heavy political message.

Yet every rockstar game has a heavy political message.

 

[Fjordson]

This would be kinda awesome if done right.

Nah I want to play as a badass gunslinger.

Why does that eliminate the idea of a slave...?

I mean I think the assumption is that the slave would become free early in the game. Or would be a former slave.

The last thing I want is a heavy political message.

All of Rockstar's games touch on politics / society, though. Redemption was filled with commentary on the American government, mistreatment of Native Americans, sexism, etc.

 

[Screaming Meat]

The last thing I want is a heavy political message.

Not like the RDR had one, is it?

 

[J-Tier]

Django is one of my favorite Tarantino movies. I'm down with the idea.

Would rather a story centered on a Native American tribe.

This could be great as well.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

The last thing I want is a heavy political message.

Have you ever played a Rockstar game

 

[Cake Boss]

lol I didn't know a slave trying to get his freedom was a liberal idea.

Just thought its a general conscious.

Plus I don't remember Django having a 'political' message.

 

[shoreu]

Nah I want to play as a badass gunslinger.

Yeah django

 

[Slayven]

Buffalo Soldier?

 

[Sanke__]

Django Unchained game by rockstar

Yes please

 

[Basketball]

How about a native American.. They had cool character models in rd.

 

[BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO]

The more Black's ,the better.,

 

[Maligna]

RDR3 would have to go back in time a bit compared to the last game then. You wouldn't be able to play a slave in the last game because it was almost the 1900's.

A woman, a slave and a Native American would all be characters that would let them tell interesting stories that could be different than most others in the genre.

This would be great!

 

[Staf]

"Should"

R* "should" do what they think will work best.

This. I take whatever they'll serve me. Just give me more Red dead.

 

[enzo_gt]

This is a totally awesome concept and Rockstar is definitely the studio to make such a thing. I don't know if it'd fit under the Red Dead brand/umbrella, but the concept itself is solid.

 

[The Albatross]

Red Dead Redemption took place about 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

 

[Molemitts]

That's a great idea with a lot of potential but I wonder if Rockstar could sensibly pull it off in both gameplay and story.

Also basically any idea for RDR3 would have to go back in time and be a prequel. Red Dead Redemption was set right at the end of the wild west.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Plus I don't remember Django having a 'political' message.

Nope. Not any.

 

[Cardon]

Would rather a story centered on a Native American tribe.

Yup, this or a former/current Buffalo Soldier as someone else mentioned already. Certainly would be a nice change of pace and provide a lot of intriguing narrative routes to be taken.

 

[amdb00mer]

Red Dead Django

Django - Main Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAooXLAPoBQ

You read my mind. I had basically the same thought, Django Unchained -The Game.

 

[Fjordson]

RDR3 would have to go back in time a bit compared to the last game then. You wouldn't be able to play a slave in the last game because it was almost the 1900's.

It already was actually. It started in 1911 and ended in 1914.

I've always assumed the next game would be set earlier, though. Basically like San Andreas and Vice City coming after the modern-day GTA 3. And since R* usually does new characters for each game anyway it'd be easy to do (aside from a few Redemption cameos).

 

[funkystudent]

Sure but I think Native American would be a bit more interesting.


But its red dead and you will need to play as a Cowboy ass Cowboy so maybe multi character like GTAV would be smart. That way they can have your standard western stereotype lead and have other, more out there characters to play with as well.

 

[Reverend Funk]

Yeah a slave or a native american could be rad theres a lot of really interesting subjects that could be covered. Also lmao at the people asking rockstar not to make the game politcal.

 

[Krappadizzle]

I like the idea a lot. Would be really cool to be a Buffalo Soldier.

I like the multiple characters idea from GTAV coming to RDR to let me see the story from different perspectives and potentially forming your own single player posse to free roam with.

 

[domstah]

Buffalo Soldier?

Buffalo Soldier was a character in Red Dead Revolver. Actually most of the protagonist ideas here map to characters from the first game.

 

[Ninjimbo]

I'd be more interested in a Chinese protagonist, personally. But it's RDR3, that's getting my money automatically.

 

[godhandiscen]

I would take a Django Unchained type of game. It could be kickass.

However, the game risks being awful if it is anything realistic. Imagine all the racial slurs thrown at you when you randomly interact with people?

It would be a great statement, but games are great because they allow you to escape to a better place. A place in which everybody hates you doesn't feel somewhere I want to go to.

 

[Unknown?]

Just an idea that I wish for the game, something more interesting than another mid aged white guy looking for his white family story in the wild west part 2.
The premise could be behind a slave in that setting and time trying to earn his freedom. It could provide much more interesting content, and tackle complicated issues that the country faced and still is. I think it will come at a perfect time as more and more mediums are discussing the topics of slavery and racism.

I don't know, maybe I just really want a Django like RDR game made by Rockstar where you shoot up slave owners.

He should be a white slave based in another country. White slaves don't get much representation. Slaves in American history are just so overdone.

Maybe it should be set in modern times and tackle the rampant sex slavery going on right now in the United States.

 

[PeskyToaster]

That would be sweet. Might drift too close to Django but who cares. Django was a great movie.

 

[Dick Justice]

I wouldn't mind multiple main characters again, GTA V style.

Would welcome it. Loved the implementation in V.

 

[Giever]

He should be a white slave based in another country. White slaves don't get much representation. Slaves in American history are just so overdone.

Maybe it should be set in modern times and tackle the rampant sex slavery going on right now in the United States.

What the OP suggests actually fits the existing setting of the franchise. Your suggestions involve going off to another country, or putting it in present day, neither of which make much sense for a Red Dead game.