* I am not a game designer, this may be a terrible story, I also know Rockstar probably won’t make another Red Dead game for some while ( Maybe they won’t even make another one ) but this is just a what I would want a the next Red Dead game to be like if they picked me of the street and asked me to make the game.
My idea for is that it doesn’t have to do anything with the van der Linde gang, because the story of redemption 1 and 2 is Johns story which I feel has already been told in the 2 games and dialogue in 2 and because of this I think that the third game shouldn’t be called Redemption 3.
I would like for it to take place around the 1850s/60s in the height of the Wild West period, It follows a new member of a gang who as the story progresses climbed up the ranks of the gang, the story spans a time frame of 19 years with multiple cuts forward in time. Over time the gang also becomes bigger ( it started as just a few 4 or 5 people but eventually it grows to around 20 people ) The gang is also way more violent and immoral than the van der Linde gang
the camp upgrade mechanic from 2 will be in there would be more customization options for how the camp looks.
Eventually about 3/4 into the story the robs a train but crashes it killing a lot of people this causes the main character to get upset at the gangs leader. And the main character tries to kill him. This causes a civil war in the gang and the last 1/4 of the game you spend trying to take down the gang leader, in the end you do take him down and become the leader but depending on your honor the game ends differently.
Low honor ( true ending ) we see a flash forward to 1880 where the gang is partying after robbing a bank but then a rival gang comes along and you engage in a gunfight in which you end up all getting killed
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High honor ( good but non canon ending ) the same scenario happens but instead of a rival gang showing up lawmen show up, they say they want you to come with them in exchange for the rest of the gang to go free and be able to live a normal life the gang first wants to kill them but the main character goes willing in order to have the gang be able to have normal lives )
The epilogue is the same no matter what ending happened: You play as the main character in 1876 when he is the leader of the gang, there are unique side missions along with the ones you didn’t complete during the main story and unique robbery missions.
Anyway this is my ( probably terrible) idea for a red dead 3
Let me know what you think in the comments