RDR 3 main character should be a slave

It'd be cool but I'm not sure I would trust a video game (or moreso a mainstream gaming audience) to deal very maturely with the level of heavy-ass racism that story would have to depict. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
 
As long as it's Red Dead Revenant, I need the winter setting so bad. I would be for a freed slave in a post-Civil War setting.

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Django Unchained: the game? Sure. I'd love it.
A Chinese Railworker or a native American girl or a badass Mexican outlaw all sound extremely interesting.
 
RDR3 should be a take on Blood Meridian where you are apart of a disgusting group of the worst of the worst doing all manner of horrible things to natives, slaves, and just innocent people because that's who you are. I want a Judge Holden style character that makes all other gaming antagonists look tame in comparison.

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Make it(sortof) the plot of Unforgiven. Old ass black gunslinger(maybe more criminal than crimefighter in rdr style)gathers his old posse across the west to claim a reward against a gang.

Game is directed towards a deadline for the meeting, in an old west town across the state for a traditional ol shootout with your gang vs there gang.

Not enough old timers in games gosh darnit.

Also just because its a black character doesnt mean the whole thing needs to revolve around slavery!
 
inner-G said:
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
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This hasn't crossed my mind before. But you are absolutely right. They deserve to get their stories told too in that time period. Not just glorifying cowboys.
 
No idea why people don't like the multiple playable characters feature. It worked perfectly with the story, IMO.

I loved switching to another character to see what they were up to.

That said, I don't think playing a rockstar game as a slave would be a good idea. They've never been politically correct, so it would be offensive and yet disappointing if they changed that up for the sake of it.

I'd like to play as a black cowboy though. Fuck that slave shit... Can't imagine beginning the game as one, and pressing buttons to do slave work or some shit. It would be awesome to slaughter slave owners you pass on your path.
 
jon bones said:
i love the politicization of games (assuming they're liberal obv)
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So it's only good when the message is in alignment with your own? If we want games politicized, we'll hopefully get ones all over the political spectrum. We should never hope for myopic media.
 
Red Dead Redemption is set in the early 1900's, so I figured another game should be closer to that time period. I don't know if I'd want Rockstar's writers touching slavery, either, since their political messages are painfully ham-fisted as it is.

A black gunslinger could be cool though.
 
There's nothing that it "should" be, other than what R* is inspired to have it be.

It could definitely make for a cool game though.
 
I've been thinking it'll be 2 playable characters: a young farm girl who's family escaped the South during the Civil War, and a Native American male. Big twist is that the girl came from a plantation owning family.


Or just give me John in his roughriders days.
 
Truthfully if you were going to do something like that, the Civil Wars effect on the West would be a cool place to go. But if it had multiple characters, their story should be completely separate and shorter stories with Replay ability.

You could explore as playing as a gunslinger that supports the north or south. As well as a slave building the railroad out west. Could be interesting way to go. And of course have some addictive form of multiplayer.
 
It seems some people are having trouble with the word 'should'. This purely a fantasy opinion/wish on what I think could be a cool idea for a game. This isn't some political 'should' request/demand that I am making, and if they don't I won't get the game and boycott it or anything like that.

So simply calm down, I know I didn't wake up today thinking I am the head of Rockstar games, so I know Rockstar is going to do what they think is good for them.

Thanks for listening.
 
Maybe even more interesting to play a character that actually owns a cotton farm or something similar with slaves of his own.

Make your actions in the story reflect on your "home base" in the story.

I have faith in Rockstar's ability to produce thought provoking content. Side missions in RDR already proved that to me. Especially Top Hat Man/
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Lol like a Fallout 4 thing where you build you home base of slaves and expand your slave business?

I don't think that will go very well.
 
inner-G said:
It was set at the end of the era though.

Unless they continue the story, it's likely to be set earlier
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Im answering the guys question if slavery was shown in RDR. Not making a comment about a hypohetical 3rd game.

I do like the end of the old west era from the way movies have handle it but if they jump back the timeframe I'd not be upset.

Maybe even lead up to a John Marston origin moment?
 
I'd like multiple characters for the sequel (although not necessarily done in the same way GTAV's was). You could explore some really interesting perspectives that don't get any exposure in gaming.
 
Cake Boss said:
Lol like a Fallout 4 thing where you build you home base of slaves and expand your slave business?

I don't think that will go very well.
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Not really like becoming Slave Master Pro in the West but just a background setting on which your actions (Paragon/Renegade) in the story reflect.

Minority slavery thing is already a bit played out for me. Assassin's Creed already did enough for me with Liberation and Black Flag. I think Rockstar is one of the few developers who could pull off a change in perspective like the one I proposed
 
I would prefer more traditional western genre protagonist, although I would not say no to a indian/half-indian protagonist.
 
StevePharma said:
Not really like becoming Slave Master Pro in the West but just a background setting on which your actions (Paragon/Renegade) in the story reflect.

Minority slavery thing is already a bit played out for me. Assassin's Creed already did enough for me with Liberation and Black Flag. I think Rockstar is one of the few developers who could pull off a change in perspective like the one I proposed
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Two games causes "minority slavery" to be "played out"? We've just already explored every imaginable aspect of that, in your opinion? Nothing left to do? Let's bring it all back around to the white folks now, like a good mainstream media product?

What the hell.
 
MattKeil said:
Two games causes "minority slavery" to be "played out"? We've just already explored every imaginable aspect of that, in your opinion? Nothing left to do? Let's bring it all back around to the white folks now, like a good mainstream media product?

What the hell.
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I think I'm not bringing out my suggestion well enough.

I'm all for diversity in games. We need that. I'm not sure if playing a "slave" will bring a lot to the table for you as a playable character. We'll see how Mafia 3 handles the race diversity issue with the gameplay mechanics that studio is proposing, I could be completely wrong on this.

I like being put in an uncomfortable situation as a player. Rockstar knows this, just look at that "put the nun on the traintracks" trophy from the first game. I'd like to see these situations as something interesting for the player to explore and form his own thoughts on said context. Kinda like a Tomlinson Hill with some Rockstar pizzazz
 
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