# Red Dead Redemption 2 might be happening **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [March 18, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364 "2016-03-18T03:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/1 "2016-03-18T03:30:26Z")
> **[Red Dead Redemption 2 Details And Trailer Leaked](https://fraghero.com/rumor-red-dead-redemption-2-details-leaked-e3-reveal-planned/)** > > Red Dead Redemption 2 is happening and going to be called Legends Of The West, if an anonymous tipster is to be believed. if it’s true, ill be VERY excited. (fingers crossed) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/2 "2016-03-18T04:46:35Z")
This and Mass Effect: Andromeda may be all the incentive I need to finally go next-generation. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/3 "2016-03-18T09:15:51Z")
I’m still waiting for the _Red Dead Redemption_ to make its way to PC… ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/4 "2016-03-18T15:30:36Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I’m still waiting for the _Red Dead Redemption_ to make its way to PC… You and me both. I’ve heard the game was great but no way in hell am I buying a console for the few games I want to play. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/5 "2016-03-18T16:14:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Fraghero received an email from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous claiming that the game has been in development for over 4 years and is in fact called Red Dead Redemption 2 : Legends Of The West. > > Our source claims to have acquired this information from an ex-Rockstar Games employee and has also informed us that a HD remake of the original Red Dead Redemption is in development for next-gen consoles and will be releasing by end of this year. Not to say they aren’t working on one, but I’d take this rumor with a huge grain of salt. Also, “Red Dead Redemption 2 : Legends Of The West” is a terrible name. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/6 "2016-03-18T16:31:08Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > You and me both. I’ve heard the game was great but no way in hell am I buying a console for the few games I want to play. Can you not rent a console? It’s what I did to play GTA V in 2013. Best done during a long weekend or vacation when you can really plunge into the game and emerge back into the world a few days later. The game is great. It’s like playing a spaghetti Western. In any case, you can find the soundtrack on Youtube and may enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/7 "2016-03-18T17:05:58Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > The game is great. It’s like playing a spaghetti Western. Or “Grand Theft Horse”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/8 "2016-03-19T03:02:41Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Can you not rent a console? Nope. All the video libraries around here closed down years ago, and even before that they used to require $100 security deposits for the consoles (understandably, but still irritatingly). Too much hassle for something I’m not going to be able to finish in a single weekend anyway - it took me about a month to get through _Grand Theft Auto V_. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/9 "2016-03-19T11:12:42Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Can you not rent a console? It’s what I did to play GTA V in 2013. Best done during a long weekend or vacation when you can really plunge into the game and emerge back into the world a few days later. > > The game is great. It’s like playing a spaghetti Western. > > In any case, you can find the soundtrack on Youtube and may enjoy it. But then we’d have to play that game at like 25 FPS at sub 720p… I’m a reasonable man, but common! What i heard is that the code base of the game was such a mess that the developers basically didn’t want to touch it for a port. I mean the game was being shown off on a PC to journalists months before release, but there was no real thought put into a PC release until after it was no longer something they wanted to do. Whatever they would spend on a third party to handle the port would be made up in the first few hours of a Steam release, but this is Rockstar, even the millions they would make on PC red dead is probably not enough of an enticement. I hope they release Read Dead 2 on PC at least. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/10 "2016-03-20T14:32:31Z")
Take-Two executives have admitted that Red Dead 2 has been in some form of development for years now. Even if this specific rumor is false, the game _IS DEFINITELY_ bring worked on somewhere in the bowels of Rockstar San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/11 "2018-10-18T20:51:11Z")
Is there any excitement for this, now its release is only a week away? The trailers make it look pretty gorgeous, with a rumoured 200ish varieties of animal, huge map, and so on. Given that GTA5 is crammed full of entirely gratuitous detail, but RDR2 won’t have the urban setting to furnish, I’ll be interested in where they’ve put their efforts this time around. I think I’m getting too old for shooting games, so I plan on channeling the Outlaw Josie Wales on an extreme pony-trekking holiday. ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/12 "2018-10-18T21:21:56Z")
Incredibly excited. RDR is still my favorite game of all time and now it’s been 2 years since the official announcement. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/13 "2018-10-18T21:38:59Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > Is there any excitement for this, now its release is only a week away? I was but [Horizon 4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forza_Horizon_4) just came out and I’m still waiting for my Ultimate Edition. I guess Amazon ran out of stock. ETA: and I plan to see about getting a VR headset for my Windows box on Black Friday. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/14 "2018-10-18T22:03:16Z")
Great. Now I have to convince my wife that we need an Xbox One. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/15 "2018-10-18T23:13:26Z")
I think I might break my no-preordering-or-buying-on-release-day rule for this game, since by coincidence I took Friday, October 26th off and have nothing else planned for it. I was surprised there wasn’t a thread on this already. This forum doesn’t get nearly as much video game traffic as it used to. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/16 "2018-10-18T23:31:52Z")
I want to get this, especially the $99.99 steelbook ultimate edition from Gamestop (I’m obsessed with steelbooks now), but my backlog is already ridiculously long. I just started Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and I still have Horizon Zero Dawn sitting on the shelf. Hell I still need to finish GTA:V. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/17 "2018-10-19T05:28:44Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > I want to get this, especially the $99.99 steelbook ultimate edition from Gamestop (I’m obsessed with steelbooks now), but my backlog is already ridiculously long. I’m pondering whether to get the normal £50 version, or the ‘Special’ edition for £75. The only substantial ‘Special’ item one gets for paying 50% more appears to be a bank robbery mission in Story mode. Obviously I don’t want to miss out on that, but find it’s (ironically) being held to ransom. I find the prospect that the player character’s facial hair grows in real time quite hilarious, and hope they’ve got some decent fire-spreading physics going on. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/18 "2018-10-21T00:45:30Z")
And of course, the jackasses at Rockstar again leave PC out. I’m guessing it’ll come out in like a year. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/19 "2018-10-21T01:09:39Z")
> [@Kinthalis](#): > > And of course, the jackasses at Rockstar again leave PC out. I’m guessing it’ll come out in like a year. What’s the rationale for not releasing it on PC? ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364/20 "2018-10-21T03:10:14Z")
Who knows. The sales for GTA V on PC were really good, well over 10 million on Steam alone, and anything sold outside steam was a Rockstar key, not Steam. It’s such a massive franchise that making sure it came out day and date with PC, or at least closely with it, would absolutely worth their while, but they just don’t do it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dead-redemption-2-might-be-happening/749364.md?page=2)