Rumor: RDR 2 to be shown at E3

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Rumor alert everyone. Reddit’s member ‘AnonDN1978‘ – who claims to be a former Rockstar dev – has leaked new information about the rumored sequel to Red Dead Redemption. Before continuing, we strongly suggest taking everything you are about to read with a grain of salt as it has not been confirmed whether this user is indeed a former R* dev.

As AnonDN1978 claimed, the sequel to Red Dead Redemption will be called Red Dead Redemption 2: Legends of the West, will be a prequel to RDR, will be coming to current-gen platforms, and the PC version will arrive one month after the console release.

AnonDN1978 said that the game will take place in the same area as the original game, twelve years before the first original game, and that there will be three playable characters, two of which are from the original game and one will be completely new.

“The two “main” characters are Irish and Seth. Irish will be brought up in Ireland and will move to the Americas when he is fifteen and moves to the game setting when he turns twenty one. Seth is from Kansas City and works as a teller in a bank. He then hears of a treasure and uses his life savings to bring his family to Texas in the town of Tumbleweed. Throughout the story we experience him unraveling to his state of mind in the original game, losing his wife, children, home, and possessions to his treasure.

The third person is a character you create similar to multiplayer in GTA V. You choose his clothes and horse. Although you can unlock outfits for Seth and Irish, the third person (Who you name) can acquire all different kinds of Western tops, bottoms, boots, gloves, and hats.

Horses will also bring completely new customization to the game. You can choose there type/breed like the last game, but now you can also choose what saddle they have (with their own boosts and stats), storage, and paint.

You can also buy your own safe house and customize it.

Also, all of this carries over into multiplayer.

There will be many new and more thought out stranger missions as well as roughly thirty campaign missions for both Seth and Irish. The third character can be involved in the campaign, but can not be used in missions. He will appear as a “gun for hire” and works with Seth and Irish, tying the stories together.

“You” (the third character) will be in free roam, but Irish and Seth can be called in as companions (but not be played as), as well as other people. You will meet many of the characters from the original game including young Bonny Macfarlane, Sherriff, and even John Marston, but he will still be in his gang.

A big new part of the RDR prequel is the new gang system. You can join several different gangs, or if you think you are up for it you can join the law enforcement of certain towns, but this will restrict you on things you can do like robbing. Although you can rob it might cost you your hard earned career and possibly your life. You can also bring in a posse (up to 4-8 friends) to single player, technically co op now. You can take on certain side missions and a few campaign missions with your posse.”

As said, take everything you just read with a grain of salt.

AnonDN1978 also said that Bully 2 is also rumored at Rockstar’s office to happen, however he doesn’t have any solid info on that.

Rockstar has not confirmed whether RDR 2 is currently under development. However, AnonDN1978 claimed that the game has been in development for the last three and a half years.

As we’ve already said – and we’ll repeat once again – take what you read with a grain of salt. Rockstar has never announced a game at E3, so this could be bogus!
 
I call fake because that sounds absolutely terrible.

Plus that title is disgusting lol

I mean:

Red Dead Revolver
Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption 2: Legends of the old West?

Just doesn't follow suit unless it's a spin off title like Vice City or San Andreas. Then that would make more sense.

But I mean it's been 5 years. I would think they would do a sequel than a spin off.
 
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I call fake because that sounds absolutely terrible.

Plus that title is disgusting lol

I mean:

Red Dead Revolver
Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption 2: Legends of the old West?

Just doesn't follow suit unless it's a spin off title like Vice City or San Andreas. Then that would make more sense.

But I mean it's been 5 years. I would think they would do a sequel than a spin off.
Well Redemption was not really a sequel but a "spiritual successor", so I could see them sticking with the name and increment like GTA.
 
Give us an HD remaster of Redemption as well. Bastards.

I'd rather they put all that man-power on a NEW game than another remaster. We're 2 years into the generation now, the remasters have run their course haven't they?
 
Fake as f☆ck.

Yeah, not only does that title sound dumb as sh!t, but the rest of the whole structure described seems really dumb. Playing as Irish and Se0th? 12 years earlier and in the same area? No shtank you...
 
RDR2 is still years away.

Well I hope it's not that far out. I think it could be sooner than that, next year maybe. Rockstar's San Diego studio hasn't put out a game since. Pretty sure Toronto is also supposed to be making a big open world game as well. In my dream of dreams, San Diego puts out another Red Dead next year (or this year, but yeah, doubt it) and Toronto makes a Bully 2 the year after! Would never happen, but that'd be SO awesome....

I do think if they are making another red dead currently though that it could be out in the next year or 2... Personally hoping it takes place in the late 1800's and has bows & arrows! A Bow and Arrow with the dead-eye mechanic would make me SOOOO happy....

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Although one thing to keep in mind is this would also be Rockstar's first wholly next-gen title, so I'm sure that'd make it take a bit longer... WTF ever happened to AGENT anyways? hahah
 
I'd rather they put all that man-power on a NEW game than another remaster. We're 2 years into the generation now, the remasters have run their course haven't they?

Nothing wrong with having both. Plus I never finished RDR. So I'm taking the greedy angle.
 
I highly doubt any of this is true, but a E3 reveal is possible. Most of the time Rockstar doesn't care about E3, but they did let Peter Moore show his GTA IV tatoo and info about DLC back then and last year Sony showed the GTA V remaster trailer for the first time.
 
Nothing wrong with having both. Plus I never finished RDR. So I'm taking the greedy angle.
Well sh!+ man, what'd ya get bored during the mexico segment? All I'm sayin' is I'd rather they have all hands workin' on makin' a new RD the best it can be, rather than re-doing yet another last gen game. At this point last gen there'd been at least a few really good 'killer titles' this time we've barely got anything, bloodbourne i guess, if you're into that... to many remasters already IMO...
 
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Well sh!+ man, what'd ya get bored during the mexico segment? All I'm sayin' is I'd rather they have all hands workin' on makin' a new RD the best it can be, rather than re-doing yet another last gen game. At this point last gen there'd been at least a few really good 'killer titles' this time we've barely got anything, bloodbourne i guess, if you're into that... to many remasters already IMO...

I can agree with what you're saying. But I would rather have a remaster of this over Devil May Cry or Sleeping Dogs.
 
Not happening.

At this E3.

I don't see it happening either, but you never know. Maybe Sony gets to announce it during their show, like the GTA V trailer last year. Even though that was just a remaster of an existing game. A brand new game reveal from Rockstar will probably just begin with a trailer and an announcement about it a week beforehand.
 
If Rockstar showed up at E3 and showed Red Dead Redemption 2 the walls would blow apart. The crowd would come unglued.
 
I can agree with what you're saying. But I would rather have a remaster of this over Devil May Cry or Sleeping Dogs.

Ok, I'll give you that. I would concede that I wouldn't object to it if no Rockstar employees were relegated to work on it and whatever devs are making the DmC and Sleeping Dogs remasters made the RDR one instead. I just would hate the idea of R*SD employees who could be making RDR2 working on a remaster of a 5+ year old game that, honestly at this point, everyone should've played by now... ;)
 
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