Red Dead Redemption Rumours Point Towards Upcoming Remaster

Tired of remakes and remasters after a few years of the original game. People will buy it, so I guess it's a good strategy.

Seems like a long way away and I'm not sure if I'll go back to it since I just played it for the first time this year and I must say, it still looks really good with the 4k image quality (since it is the One X version which is currently the best version of the game).

I wish they’d thrown it in as DLC to RDR2 (using the same engine and the largely barren post-game map). It would have gone down in history as the best DLC of all time. Would have sold by the bucketload and they could have released it separately too with an option on that edition to upgrade to the full RDR2 package.

Please be real. All i need remake wise is this and Gears of War Collection with 1-3 and i am set. My favorite gaming franchises are Red Dead, Gears , Diablo. To have all these classics remade and finished would be the best thing in my gaming life. This remake makes more sense for PS5 owners as RDR1 isn’t on PS5 due to BC issues with PS3’s cell.

We just want RDR2 60fps upgrade. Why can't we get that first.

More remakes and remasters for the remake/master generation.

I miss the days when we got new original and creative content from these creators, when they were actually creating, not just rehashing.

@CenturianShark to sell you the upgrade

Just to echo the guys above me in the comments section: unnecesssary. RDR2 looks amazing and only needs a 60 fps patch. As for RDR, Xbox is the best platform for this game as I was blown away by the visuals on it thanks to the XOX enhancements. Got both and won't be buying the remakes (tired of them at this point).

@gollumb82 Agree with you but Rockstar wont ever apply a 60 fps patch for free. They know people will buy the ''remastered edition'' of Red Dead Redemption, considering GTA Definitive Edition sold over 10 million.

Lazy arse devs.

I was hoping rdr1 story would have been added as a dlc to rdr2. But too late now. Wouldn't mind a stand alone remake for current gen.

@Solidchief
I mean, I get that the PS folk will pay for it gladly as RDR has been stuck on PS3 for ages now (where it looks terrible, I know as I've first played it there) but for Xbox it seems like a cash grab. Let's see the extent of the upgrades, but I am wary of Rockstar's remasters after the GTA trilogy debacle

Hopefully better than the GTA remasters.

I would really like a full remake in the red dead 2 engine, and or at least a vastly updated version of the game. Both games are two of my favourites.

No remaster needed. It still looks and plays incredibly via backcompat.

@gollumb82 @Solidchief as a Red Dead Redemption super fan. I agree all RDR2 is 60fps and some better textures and draw distances and it’s a wrap. However Rockstar has shown, at least with GTA that they will sell us that in a newer version than a free update. Which kind of stinks. As for RDR1 remake. I think it’s time. It’s a 360/PS3 title and not even on PS consoles at the moment. It does run and look great on 360. But i am ok with this remake of course cause it’s one of my favorite games ever made. I do see both of the points y’all made tho. RDR3 is a long ways off if they plan to do it. So this is Rockstar’s way of getting every dollar out of the franchise. However it wouldn’t take much work to make the RDR2 update version for PS5/Series X/S. So i hope the wait isn’t much longer or get’s announced alongside this RDR1 remake if it’s real. 🤠

Nothing bores me more than the constant feed of remakes because you don't want to take the risk of a new game.

@Kezelpaso "...including potential next-gen versions of both games in the series..."

Red Dead Revolver 😭

@Cashews a company the size of Rockstar can take risks and be ok. The smaller studios can’t take as many risks cause 1-2 project failings and they are bankrupt. Game development is insanely stupid expensive, as i know you are aware of. But i would like to see the studios sitting on a mountain of gold take more risks and bring new experiences to the industry. However i am a RDR fanatic, so this remake excites me beyond anything coming out on Xbox . So in the end i am more part of the problem than the solution haha.

I hope to every deity ever known to man that this is TRUE! We need a RDR REMAKE for Xbox Series X|S consoles and I also hope we get a native next gen remaster of RDR2 because as it sits it's one of the BEST games ever made but it'd be so much better with native ports that took advantage of the SSD and some other touch ups to make the game look and run better on current gen consoles.

Since RDR2 is the #1 game of all time for me, I am ready to part with my hard earned cash and hand it to the evil corporation for this.
On a side note it is sad that the state of the Single-player gaming is so dire that we constantly need to pull games from the past to keep the ball rolling. Several RE games, multiple re-releases of LoU etc.

@Exerion76 I've never followed through on a GTA to completion but RDR1, definitely.

@HonestHick game development doesn't need a $200M budget to succeed. I'd argue most companies shouldn't do that. Rockstar, Microsoft, Activision, EA, 2K and Sony. Nintendo, but they simply don't. Tencent maybe if you count them. I don't, Those are about the only ahandful that can shoulder that risk.

The biggest hits have relatively small budgets. Minecraft cost $146.83 to create. Stardew Valley half that. Not everyone wants pixel. But you don't need overblown Final Fantasy fanfare to bomb properly.

Remakes on hard to find games are fun sometimes. Like Ghost Trick. But it is becoming a constant flow. People are voting remakes as GOTY. People are getting as lazy as the developers are. Guess who gets rewarded? Not us.

RDR needs a 60fps upgrade, one way or another. I'm assuming that FPS Boost somehow didn't quite work perfectly. (Wasn't a similar or identical technique successfully used on the 360 emulator, Xenia, as well as on RPCS3?)

A full remake, though? Maybe not quite as redundant as The Last of Us, but still unnecessary at this point.

@Cashews thats a fair point and i can’t find much of an argument with any of it. The only thing i will say and it will come off as a dumb sounding comparison, is i don’t eat much sweets, i don’t go to the grocery store and buy any. But if i go to a birthday party or wedding i will eat cake to be polite and it’s a free treat that i normally don’t think about but i remember liking the last time i had it months or even years ago. Pretty dumb sounding right? What i am trying to get at is, i don’t ask for remakes, i don’t even think about them but when they are in front of me i will indulge. I did ask for Gears of war collection to be made, cause those games aren’t on PC and a lot of my online gears 5 friends played on PC. RDR1 remake is cake to me, if it don’t get remade i will live all the best without it, but if it does and it’s in front of me i will indulge cause i know how much I like it. I agree with you that remakes on older hard to find titles are cool, but i also agree it’s insane they get GOTY votes. Minecraft and Stardew are great examples of smaller games that really took off, but the indie space is a little more crowded these day’s compared to when Minecraft exploded. In short i gave you a really silly sounding analogy about remakes and i agree we as gamers lose without innovation and new series and characters to enjoy. Do i like a good remake from time to time yes, but GOTY no, and we need to see some risks from someone as they just might create the next big thing in the industry. Which as we know can be very very lucrative.

I may be the odd the one out but I would love a android port.

I have yet to complete the first master.

@BRT15 I'm confused, I thought the first RDR game was released on Xbox360 and PS3, and that RDR 2 (different game) was released on Xbox One (X) and PS4.

Personally I love the original Read Dead Redemption, still play it via backwards compatibility. Would be great to have a remake.

@HonestHick I'm kinda going off of on Nintendo Life's article over the weekend "what is your goty at the halfway point"? Besides the usual TotKs most people had remakes. Not even good remakes - just straight ports of old games. I cannot imagine rewarding a developer with a trophy for putting an old game in a box on the backs of other coders.

New good games come out every day people should really open their minds to new experiences. But yeh...RDR is also cool af.

@Cashews yeah i see what you mean on that. GOTY honestly means very little to me. I care enough that i don’t want it to be a straight port. But GOTY is bragging rights and all kinds of stuff i don’t care much about. It political also. Some of the votes go to which system it was or wasn’t on, who’s the developer, single player or online, etc etc. so i am not sure how much i trust it overall. My GOTY is the game that made me the happiest to play, couldn’t put it down, pushed a few boundaries into new idea’s or better use of old ideas. Those mean more to me. If i had to bet money on a 2023 GOTY, i would say Zelda. Seems like a safe bet.

@HonestHick all the things you said are right. Personally I separate remakes into another category. Zelda will win all of the awards - unless Starfield delivers what it promises; then it is a race. Honorable mentions will go to Street Fighter and Final Fantasy. Iconic brands.

Mine so far is Bayonetta Origins. Right behind it are Street Fighter and Hi Fi Rush. The latter is such an amazing game that really hasn't been done before in that kind of fidelity. It really deserves so much more attention. Bayo Origins is better than Bayo 3 imho. Bayo 3 was amazing.

@Cashews so i took a chance on SF6 on PS5. I used to play Street fighter and Mortal kombat in my local arcades growing up. I was pretty good if not the better player in the area, not bragging, just played it more and anything i do i like to compete in. Yeah i know I’m that guy, but i try to not be a jerk about it. But i like competition. I hadn’t played SF since SF4. Wasn’t sure if i wanted to even play fighting games anymore. But wow SF6 is my GOTY so far. It’s so so much fun and i love the competitive side of it. Not in love with the single player mode, i am kind of pushing myself through it for the trophies. But Battle hub and of course fighting grounds is excellent. I think Tekken 8 and MK1 reboot have their work cut out for them. Now do i think SF6 will win GOTY, no but this goes back to my last post and thats a game i can’t put down. FF16 is another game i want to try, even tho i am not the biggest FF fan. This is obviously a different FF game, or as i like to call it a RPG light. Then there is this game called Diablo 4. My most wanted game for this console cycle. Diablo is a top 3 or 5 all time franchise for me. I couldn’t even tell you how many hours i have combined in 2-3 and now 4. It would be years of my life sadly. Couple hours a day for years. So June was a banger month for me. That’s without me even trying FF16 yet. Just Diablo 4 and Street Fighter 6 in the same month has been awesome. Throw in Zelda and what a year so far. We still have Starfield and others to go. I got SF6 on PS5, got Diablo 4 on Series X. Thinking about double dipping Diablo 4 but not sure yet.

@HonestHick “ This remake makes more sense for PS5 owners as RDR1 isn’t on PS5 due to BC issues with PS3’s cell.”

Not just for PS5 owners, but for PC gamers too. RDR1 never released on PC period.

@Smeltos the original RDR was updated for Xbox One X with 4k image quality however at 30 fps. So if you have a series console and play the game, you will get the One X version.

Textures aside, it still a good looking game. Not RDR2 quality of course but for its age, it looks really good.

@AverageGamer Correct, i forgot to even mention the PC, but yeah this remake for sure would give the game way more reach. Could put up some pretty big sales numbers. I hope we hear or see more of it soon.

@BRT15 Thanks! Didn't realize that about the original RDR, thought it looked really good for an X360 game. I guess a full remake would require updating textures and getting it to run at 60 fps which would be awesome.

@Scummbuddy I may have done Revolver dirty there... I'll just say I meant both games in the Redemption series specifically 😄

I hope this is true, largely so PC gamers can play this masterpiece of a game. As others have said, it holds up quite well on Series. Although a 60fps mode would make it an instant buy for me.

@HonestHick SF6 is kind of revolutionary on the fighter scene front. I think if people knew how much more accessible it is than the ones before it they'd jump in.

The single player isn't perfect, but imho it is better than any single player experience in a fighter before it. It's funny sometimes and it has an actual story outside of "must beat world threat from magical mean dude" that every other one has had.

Love the game. The only reason I'm here and not solely the Switch is because of SF6. I would have gotten the PS5 but their awful showcase talked me out of it.

happy 4th everyone!

@Cashews SF6 is the real deal. Happy 4th!!! 🇺🇸

Once they get Grand Theft Auto VI I will be happy about announcements like this. Before they even announce GTA VI it seems they are just messing with us at this point.

@Cashews
I just wish Capcom would have tried a tiny bit harder in its presentation. The game looks outdated and ugly compared to Mortal Kombat 1

@ZuneTattooGuy It's been that way since Street Fighter 2 and the original Mortal Kombat. Kombat is about violence and gimmicks. SF is about super tight gameplay.

@Cashews
They both have super tight gameplay, that's not an excuse for street fighter 6 looking outdated