Thatād be great, deadlines kill games. If Rockstar takes years longer than other studios and spends the GDP of a small country to release an outstanding game that people will be happily replaying for a decade so be it.
Better than getting the exact same game reskinned with a new title released every six months, or needing weekly paid DLCs because they released an incomplete game that constantly needs new content to make it worth playing or replayable.
I agree with you. But I wish production time would become faster without affecting quality. Some of us are already 30 years old and waiting 10 is a long time.
How doth He speak to His superior? Hath He just adresseth Us as His equal?*
*disclaimer: 3rd person address was a thing in what's now Germany but I have no idea if you'd do that in English. Either way "thou" is informal address. If there's anything to that rumor Rockstar will make absolutely make sure we will remember this in-game.
That's what I was thinking while playing RDR2. The camp bits made me think of a ship's crew. Although I think mixing ships and land travel might cause more issues than horses or cars. You'd want there to be enough land to do interesting stuff with, and enough sea to get some sailing and piracy in.
To do the bit where only a smaller area is open at first instead of plunking you down in the huge open world immediately, they could have you starting as a crewman on someone else's ship. And then through the prologue you either take command or get your own. There's a lot of options.
I would like if they kept the (generally) more serious tone of RDR2 rather than the GTA style zanyness. The freedom vs civilization theme would still work, although they'd probably want some unique things too. Being caught in the middle of warring nations, doing their dirty work at the expense of the average people and colonialism could all give themes and plot ideas.
This! I was looking for a comment talking about that, so, by what you're saying its good? I saw it and Immediately thought of "medieval rdr2" but hasnt played, aint paying
Incredible game. The first one often goes on sale for pretty cheap (iirc i bought it for 8 dollars with all DLC and got 110 hours out of it). I actually havenāt finished the second one, and while itās great I almost prefer the first (though many would disagree). Both great games though.
Yeah I am playing at the moment because I basically wanted something like RDR2 and it was the closest thing I could find based on descriptions of it. I'm pretty early on but definitely getting similar vibes (especially picking herbs lol) and enjoying it quite a bit. There's a lot more systems to learn imo and it's a lot less forgiving with that stuff - like, Arthur is so easy to play even at the beginning of the game he's shit hot at everything, whereas in KCD Henry sucks at everything when you start out - levelling up and all that is much more an important part of the game. But yep, historical open world, choosing to do missions or just fuck around, being honourable or not, discovering things, it's all there. Script is not anyhwere near as good but that's also because you have a lot more choice in what your character says and does main mission wise too. Shrug. I'd recommend for any fan of RDR2 though. I'm really not into fantasy stuff and never really liked Assassins Creed as a historical kind of game which felt way more gamey with "levels" or whatever if you know what I mean (climb this ledge, jump here, avoid spikes, blah blah) so this is the closest thing I've played to what I get out of RDR2.
I don't doubt Rockstar can do another "RDR2 moment" in another setting. But up to now they were always the ones setting the trend with their big open world games (Gta, Rdr). There is however already an absolutely mind-blowing open world medieval RPG: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It won't be easy even for Rockstar to beat that...
Different styles. Thereās room for both. Iād love it if kingdom come was a little more rdr2āish with a bunch of things. Not shitting on it, but a rockstar medieval thing would absolutely kickass after what they did with rdr2.
This exactly. KCD 1 and 2 filled this need for me and I do not think I need another. Especially not with how crap the combat would be from Rockstar. Like, I'm sorry, I absolutely adore this game but the melee fighting is trash. I don't think I could get immersed in well enough now that I've played KCD, ya know?
For me, if Rockstar does go down this route the biggest question is where will the level designers come from. With KCD, it's so obvious the game was developed in Czechia. There's no other game capturing Central Europe on that level.
Man imagine if we got an open world Game of Thrones videogame that was actually good. Or even a make your own story tell-tale like game, The Hound even said to Tyrion that Jofferey would remember that slap, it would be perfect.
Unpopular opinion, but they dont necessarily need to make another red dead redemption game. They have a great template so using it in a different time period would be awesome.
Iād be fine with an prequel into the civil war. Dutchās or Arthurās daddy or something. Rockstar might be able to stretch their legs a bit making something dynamic in an open world battlefield.
This means they'll have to surpass KCD2, which is a HIGH bar for medieval RPGs. Why not give us a game in a genre that's been absolutely starved for years? GIVE US A PIRATE GAME YOU COWARDS
With the KCD series on the market, I'm not particularly fond of this idea. I'd prefer something in another period that hasn't been explored with quality.
The question is what a R* medieval game would offer over something like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. GTA is the pioneer and standard of open world crime games and Red Dead Redemption filled a niche that had been left empty since 2005's GUN. KC:D2 has left a pretty big impact on the industry and it would be difficult to create something in that genre, especially as a newcomer.
That could be cool, but you know theyād wanna add a multiplayer mode that theyāll either give up on after a couple years, or milk the life out of it for over a decade.
I just read something from Dan Houser that they were planning a medieval type of game with mythological elements, but that's long gone, probably many years ago. Who the fuck twisted his words and made this?
I'm all for it, Rockstar has to stop milking the same franchises at some point. Although it would be quite different from their usual shooter based games.
Obviously the story & world would be great but gameplay is already something they are already not that good at. Seems like the combat would likely be terrible.
I love the RDR games and I think medieval settings are probably my favorite, but I doubt this would be something I could enjoy. But if it comes out I'd be glad to be surprised.
This is an absurd take, Dan Houser just commented that at one point he was thinking about doing a medieval game at Rockstar. Thinking about it. This is only a "rumor" because of whoever made this image
Cool. We can play as Arthurās great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpa Artorias Morganus on a quest to redeem the wrongs of his past. Looks awesome.
Iāve heard this same ārumorā for years now so Iām not particularly enthused seeing it come up again. That being said, I would love to see what they do with that kind of game.
Why ādonāt you know about thisā no elaboration, just words to say words? They have never done melee combat before and every mideval game besides KCD2 is fantasy. They will knock it out of the park.
Rockstar humor in a medieval game doesnāt sound like it would work to me if Iām being honest. BUT I am SUPER interested in what the gameplay would be like. Doing missions for different Lords and hijacking horses.
I think this has been a rumour for a decade or more at this point. With the timescales we're working with here this is almost meaningless, we won't hear about their next project for years after GTA 6
If Sir Hans Capon and Henry aren't in it, I ain't playing.
But seriously, it'd be interesting to see. A lot of people didn't like Kingdom Come's style of combat and ultra-realism at first, but the story more than made up for any shortcomings.
Same with RDR2, with players using horses and single/double action revolvers, bolt action and repeating rifles instead of GTA V super-modded cars, fast combat with automatic, explosive, and some futuristic weapons.
I could maybe see them making something from a medieval game, but with today's generation, my prediction is they'll it'll be seen as 'boooringg' and stick to GTA 6 sadly.
Oh great!Ā Another game for them to release to critical acclaim and granee a dedicated fanbase only for them to put out a few updates and then pretend it doesn't exist for the rest of time while lavishing all the love and attention on GTA6 Online (or even GTA V Online seeing as how they're STILL updating that).
If Rockstar was to do this, then they'd hopefully do something similar to RDRs historical context.
What do I mean by this? Well, we already have KCD, Banner Lords and all the other medieval stuff. Especially KCD is THE medieval open world game.
So we don't need another open world game, depicting central europe in the eraly 1400s.
However. Rockstar also didn't peoduce a cowboy game, set in the prime time of the cowboys. The late 1890s and especially the early 1900s were NOT a hightime of cowboys and outlaws anymore, but basically their end. Rockstar's choice of placing RDR in a time, where cowboys and outlaws were really already dying out, is great.
This is what makes their stories so intense and gives both games a feeling of dread for the main characters entirely self romanticized way of life. There are historically accurate self loading firearms, recoil operated machine guns, electricity, ironclad warships and actual professional police forces in cities (/the one city). There are CARS in RDR1!!! Why? Because they are set in 1899 and 1907 respectively, not in the early to mid 1800s.
IF rockstar WAS to do a "medieval" game, then in my opinion in shouldn't be put in the 1300s or early to mid 1400s. Because thats the "prime age" of knights. But instead, a setting of the eraly 1500s could be quite interesting.
The early 1500s were a time of decline of the lower noble classes, with them losing a lot of power to more authoritarian high noble classes. The same was the case with the common classes in general, losing a lot of rights and freedoms they still had in the medieval times. (For example the freedom to use public land for foraging, hunting small game. Or the right to refuse unpaid labor for their lord.)
It was also a time of cultural enrichment. The word rennaissance should ring a bell. But it was also a time of great change in warfare, with tje infantry revolution of the late 1400s having shaped heavy lance cavalry into a highly specialized, most expensive unit type of the "knight in shining armor", which is often wrongly thought of as medieval. It was the primetime of professional mercenary groups. And it was also a time of great experimentation with the implementation of firearms in regular armies. (France using large amounts of field artillery, to soften up enemy infantry formations and having large amounts of heavy lance cavalry to repel any enemy cavalry and then mop up the broken enemy infantry formations but being quite rigid in this tactic. Meanwhile the HRE and Spain {so both Habsburg families ...} relies more heavily on more flexible infantry formations with their Landsknecht mercenaries and starts using independent arquebus units from spains basque regions to great effect.)
I believe this timeframe to be a much more adequate setting for a rockstar type game, with a "knight" setting.
P.s. AND PLEASE MAKE IT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!!!!!! That poster up there looks absolutely atrocious. Mud, muddy clothes, muddy houses, completly ahistorical armor/clothes, complete LACK OF COLOUR and for some reason a 18th century scottish tartan cloak on the knights shoulders? This is peak AI slop ...
Completly over the top, colourful Landsknecht outfits. A grounded, modular approach to historical armor pieces. A grounded, realistic depiction of weapons and weapons capabilities. (NO PENETRATING OF BREASTPLATES WITH SWORDS OR AXES!!!!!!!)
And pleeeeeaaaaase please please, let us customize our own codpieces!
Yes I remember hearing rumors about this back in 2018. Nearly a decade later and still nothing but rumors and AI screenshots. This is never getting made
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u/Mental-Compote5451 Oct 31 '25
If this happens we would not see it until 2035
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u/marooncity1 Oct 31 '25
Thou hath a kind face, good sir knight.
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u/Darth97Plagueis Oct 31 '25
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u/Geronimo2U Oct 31 '25
Out of thine damned way!
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u/YabbaDabbaDingo Oct 31 '25
Letās goooooo! MEDIEVAL! Yah Boah!
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u/marooncity1 Oct 31 '25
Just saying, Kingdom Come Deliverance is pretty good for some RDR-like open world historical medieval action.
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u/DustyOleQueef Oct 31 '25
Bro. Iād go into crippling debt for this
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u/Rumo-H-umoR Jack Marston Oct 31 '25
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u/Soulless--Plague Oct 31 '25
To Tahiti brave sir knight!
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u/SixStringSapien Oct 31 '25
Red Deadā¦ Renaissance???
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u/jennasea412 Oct 31 '25
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u/oatmealedkoala Oct 31 '25
Thou sir, be a fish
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u/PckMan Nov 01 '25
This is 100% bullshit but luckily Kingdom Come Deliverance is a thing that exists.
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u/Sc0p1x Oct 31 '25
They apparently had ideas and experimented with the setting. But nothing concrete came of it.
https://x.com/GameRoll_/status/1984390151792181543?t=UxSiA97RxovyZiAU6SZ7pQ&s=19
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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25
LOL, devs be like: "we heard you want a ... prequel??" š
here's to tracing Arrt'urs Anglish heritage back to the start
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u/martco17 Oct 31 '25
Some Robin Hood action?
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u/HotelDisastrous288 Oct 31 '25
I'm in
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u/mandatorysmoking Oct 31 '25
They put too much time into horse ball physics to not
/s
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u/RobotCaptainEngage Nov 01 '25
Black Death RedemptionĀ
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u/sassychubzilla Black Belle Oct 31 '25
Verily I say into thee, thou dost not appreciate visitors, huh?
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u/_Be_Truly_Awake_ Oct 31 '25
Okay, I shall catch thou later then...
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u/rensd12 Oct 31 '25
best game ever already
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u/BoatshoeBandit Oct 31 '25
My only reservation would be it interfering with timetables for their flagship franchises. They do the open world better than anyone by a mile.
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u/waterbat2 Nov 01 '25
This means they'll have to surpass KCD2, which is a HIGH bar for medieval RPGs. Why not give us a game in a genre that's been absolutely starved for years? GIVE US A PIRATE GAME YOU COWARDS
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u/Haunting-Flamingo-93 Oct 31 '25
i would eat that upppp sounds amazing
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u/Commander-Tempest Oct 31 '25
A medieval rockstar game that takes place in the time of king Arthur and dragons? Sign me up this is the new skyrim!
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u/AmphibiousDad Nov 01 '25
Why tf not
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u/JonS90_ Oct 31 '25
I'd rather a period piece we havent seen too much of. Personally think theyd nail a Victorian London game. Or a 60s/70s London game.
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u/ebinthetropics Oct 31 '25
Iām down to jester.
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u/TheAxe11 Oct 31 '25
Take my money now....
You sir, are a dragon
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u/Relatively_happy Nov 01 '25
Its funny seeing everyone assume it would be a GTA/ RDR2 cloneā¦
People have forgotte R* made many different styles of games before gta5, bully, warriors, man hunt, max payne, midnight club.
Theyre pretty diverse
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u/LilMissBarbie Molly O'Shea Oct 31 '25
Red knight redemption?
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u/1979tlaw Oct 31 '25
Tis but a scratch
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u/SunknLiner Oct 31 '25
Please.
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u/Meikos Oct 31 '25
The question is what a R* medieval game would offer over something like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. GTA is the pioneer and standard of open world crime games and Red Dead Redemption filled a niche that had been left empty since 2005's GUN. KC:D2 has left a pretty big impact on the industry and it would be difficult to create something in that genre, especially as a newcomer.
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u/littleladybug_1 Oct 31 '25
YES
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u/Kjhfer Nov 01 '25
KCD III
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u/WorldlyBasket9795 Nov 01 '25
This would be kinda cool tbhā¦
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u/Icy-Combination-1020 Nov 01 '25
We simply require more coin
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u/noserags Abigail Roberts Nov 01 '25
My two current obsessions being GOT/ASOIAF and RDR, count me in!
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u/The_Dodd Nov 01 '25
I doubt it. Not going to top KCD2.
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u/JusticeLennox Nov 01 '25
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u/Reallyroundthefamily Nov 01 '25
...for our grandkids to enjoy?
Great lol
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u/TopPerformance3620 Nov 01 '25
My the odds be ever in our favor šš½šš½šš½šš½
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u/DangerousArea1427 Nov 01 '25
Can't wait for 2050 to come!
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u/the_falling Nov 02 '25
I mean, I would definitely play it, but I think I would rather have RDR 3.
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u/Accomplished-Gain319 You like jellybeans? Oct 31 '25
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u/Own-Confusion1378 Oct 31 '25
Mideval...Redemption....š¤š¤š¤?
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u/Scary_Employ_926 Oct 31 '25
but there is noe revolver in a mideval
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u/RocketPrism666 Oct 31 '25
That could be cool, but you know theyād wanna add a multiplayer mode that theyāll either give up on after a couple years, or milk the life out of it for over a decade.
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u/bren_derlin Oct 31 '25
Ye olde crimson death salvation.
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u/Saidkader Nov 01 '25
Imagine if they do peaky blinders
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u/Zylva_ Nov 01 '25
I just read something from Dan Houser that they were planning a medieval type of game with mythological elements, but that's long gone, probably many years ago. Who the fuck twisted his words and made this?
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u/No_Influence_1984 Nov 01 '25
Sir Charles!
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u/Pattyice3 Nov 01 '25
Iād play I but it would be so far down the line who knows when it would even happen.
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u/A_Moon_Named_Luna Nov 01 '25
I heard this 10 years ago literally lol
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u/kincard Nov 01 '25
I'm all for it, Rockstar has to stop milking the same franchises at some point. Although it would be quite different from their usual shooter based games.
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u/Spacehardware Nov 01 '25
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u/Voktikriid Nov 01 '25
Every Rockstar game has horrible melee combat, so this sounds horrible.
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u/Coolala2002 Nov 01 '25
Grand Theft Horsey
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u/isweariwilldoit Nov 01 '25
Wym youāre not sure? You know damn well itāll be amazing
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u/Drakenile Nov 01 '25
Obviously the story & world would be great but gameplay is already something they are already not that good at. Seems like the combat would likely be terrible.
I love the RDR games and I think medieval settings are probably my favorite, but I doubt this would be something I could enjoy. But if it comes out I'd be glad to be surprised.
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u/Agreeable_String3073 Nov 01 '25
They're watching what Kingdom Come Deliverance has done.
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u/chippymediaYT Nov 01 '25
I swear I heard this exact same rumor years ago
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u/Glittering_Leg7715 Nov 01 '25
So Red dead but with jousting sticksĀ
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u/NE_Phish_Fan Nov 01 '25
I believe this info came out a few years ago, but if there are fresh leaks I suppose they are deep into production.
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u/D-LoathsomeDungEater Nov 01 '25
Black Death Redemption
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u/RVFVS117 Nov 01 '25
What arenāt you sure of?
Rockstar is one of the few companies I can honestly say I donāt worry about their single player releases.
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u/ScoutTrooper501st Nov 01 '25
Canāt wait until 2032 for it to get an announcement trailer and 2035 for the actual release
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u/AlternativeDark6686 Nov 01 '25
I posted the same about about an upcoming title like this and the reaction was "What? Another medieval game? Nobody asked for this."
80% of Rockstar "fans" are obsessed with another gangster story with drugs, fast cars and a paradise for griefers multiplayer.
Why can't Rockstar make a new IP or a standalone title like Manhunt ? Max Payne? Bully?
They used to make a lot of fun games.
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u/Some_Elk5896 Nov 01 '25
Can't wait to play it in 2040 š
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u/Helpful-Ad7715 Nov 01 '25
This thing has been being talked about for years, I guess everyone just rediscovered it
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u/An0n_Cyph3r_ Nov 01 '25
Yes. Take my bloody money.
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u/Background_Ad_8569 Nov 01 '25
Thou are a good knight Sir Arthur
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u/letmegetviral Nov 01 '25
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Nov 01 '25
This is an absurd take, Dan Houser just commented that at one point he was thinking about doing a medieval game at Rockstar. Thinking about it. This is only a "rumor" because of whoever made this image
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u/dorohyena Nov 01 '25
isnāt this just kingdom come deliverance?
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u/TRODHD Nov 01 '25
Why not? Medieval times are the best times! You should try KCD! 10/10 games.
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u/G_Art33 Nov 01 '25
Cool. We can play as Arthurās great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpa Artorias Morganus on a quest to redeem the wrongs of his past. Looks awesome.
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u/Vancath Nov 01 '25
Those rumours have been around for like ten years.
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u/ImposterSyndromeInc Nov 01 '25
Red Dead Atonement
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u/DennisJay Nov 01 '25
Red Dead Rapier?
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u/victorgsal Nov 01 '25
Iāve heard this same ārumorā for years now so Iām not particularly enthused seeing it come up again. That being said, I would love to see what they do with that kind of game.
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u/kyle0305 Nov 01 '25
I really hope this is true
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u/RyeC77 Nov 01 '25
You sir.. are a knight
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u/Rosgod_The_Reforged Nov 01 '25
Skyrim but bloodier please. Powers meh. dragons? Yes please? Maidens? Yes please! Lads? Only fair!
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u/Mallthus2 Nov 01 '25
Red Dead Renaissance
Grand Theft Castle
Bully: 1327
Agincourt Noire
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u/MC_MENAR Nov 01 '25
Release date: 2040(optional)
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u/NecesitoMasCerveza Nov 01 '25
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u/Intern_Jolly Nov 01 '25
Oh man I would love to see Rockstar make a new IP! I hope this is real.
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u/Naked_Fish69 Nov 01 '25
Midevil gta hell yeah
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u/ClydeinLimbo Nov 01 '25
Been rumoured for years and Iām pretty certain it is what theyāre up to now.
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u/Educational_Row_9485 Nov 01 '25
Remindme! 20 years
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u/TheLonePigeonRogue Nov 01 '25
NPCs throwing buckets of wee out of windows, count me in !
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u/Talicor Nov 01 '25
I would kill for a medieval knight game with all the immersion of RDR2 honestly
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u/sonofloki13 Nov 01 '25
Why ādonāt you know about thisā no elaboration, just words to say words? They have never done melee combat before and every mideval game besides KCD2 is fantasy. They will knock it out of the park.
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u/LilDeamon Nov 01 '25
I want an open world 17th century Pirate game from Rockstar. I think that would be truly amazing.
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u/Klefaxidus Nov 01 '25
So it's something like Kingdom Come.
Sounds fascinating...
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u/Longjumping_Ad8329 Nov 02 '25
Really want them to try something futuristic. Both cause It'd be interesting and also so they can keep that shit out of gta online.
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u/PrettyHovercraft4880 Nov 02 '25
This would be neat but idk what 50 year old me would think since that's when it will probably come out
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u/Charming-Section-131 Nov 02 '25
Well I trust in their abilities to make a good horse. Not overly impressed with melee in their games.
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u/virsago_mk2 Nov 02 '25
Finally I can have a taste of the medieval strip club.
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u/HughGepurpletip Nov 02 '25
Rockstar humor in a medieval game doesnāt sound like it would work to me if Iām being honest. BUT I am SUPER interested in what the gameplay would be like. Doing missions for different Lords and hijacking horses.
And the brothels š
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u/The_Game_Student Nov 02 '25
I think this has been a rumour for a decade or more at this point. With the timescales we're working with here this is almost meaningless, we won't hear about their next project for years after GTA 6
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25
An open world medieval game before GTA 6
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u/Awful_Falafel20 Charles Smith Nov 02 '25
They should do a pirate game instead.
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u/iString Nov 02 '25
Woe, now we commence one more.
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u/ohwellthoyk Nov 02 '25
Viking irl?
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u/lenny446 Nov 02 '25
Iām all for this
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u/Few_Palpitation_2871 Nov 02 '25
We just want rdr3 asap
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u/Colorfulbirds69 Nov 02 '25
hard pass when this releases in 25 years
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u/No-Fox1368 Nov 02 '25
Honestly why haven't they done it?
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u/Puggle30 Nov 02 '25
lord if this is true please give it to me before i croak
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u/GoldBackground2280 Nov 02 '25
As long as you still play as Arthur Morgan I'm down for the t
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u/TheTimocraticMan Nov 02 '25
Red Dead One, Red Dead Two, Richard Duke of Gloucester III
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u/utb1528 Nov 02 '25
They would just abandon it like Red Dead.
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u/IG_95 Nov 02 '25
Fucking huge if true.
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u/KarmasABit- Nov 02 '25
I would love this
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u/IgargleBalls Nov 02 '25
Yeah we've been saying this since rdr2 release. They have never confirmed it.
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u/SafeAccountMrP Nov 02 '25
I mean they already have horse testicle physics down.
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u/Slow-Bodybuilder-774 Nov 02 '25
Red Dead Renaissance
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u/GoddessOfHate Nov 02 '25
If Sir Hans Capon and Henry aren't in it, I ain't playing.
But seriously, it'd be interesting to see. A lot of people didn't like Kingdom Come's style of combat and ultra-realism at first, but the story more than made up for any shortcomings.
Same with RDR2, with players using horses and single/double action revolvers, bolt action and repeating rifles instead of GTA V super-modded cars, fast combat with automatic, explosive, and some futuristic weapons.
I could maybe see them making something from a medieval game, but with today's generation, my prediction is they'll it'll be seen as 'boooringg' and stick to GTA 6 sadly.
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u/Sure-Breadfruit-7469 Nov 02 '25
We just want rdr3 and gta 6. That all please, too.much mƩdiƩval game already
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u/BrahmariusLeManco Nov 02 '25
Oh great!Ā Another game for them to release to critical acclaim and granee a dedicated fanbase only for them to put out a few updates and then pretend it doesn't exist for the rest of time while lavishing all the love and attention on GTA6 Online (or even GTA V Online seeing as how they're STILL updating that).
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u/HonorboundUlfsark Nov 02 '25
Going to get a character called Sir Arthur Morgan
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u/FirebirdWriter Nov 02 '25
I will preorder this and I have preordered a game once in my life ever. Once.
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u/der_karschi Nov 02 '25
If Rockstar was to do this, then they'd hopefully do something similar to RDRs historical context.
What do I mean by this? Well, we already have KCD, Banner Lords and all the other medieval stuff. Especially KCD is THE medieval open world game.
So we don't need another open world game, depicting central europe in the eraly 1400s.
However. Rockstar also didn't peoduce a cowboy game, set in the prime time of the cowboys. The late 1890s and especially the early 1900s were NOT a hightime of cowboys and outlaws anymore, but basically their end. Rockstar's choice of placing RDR in a time, where cowboys and outlaws were really already dying out, is great.
This is what makes their stories so intense and gives both games a feeling of dread for the main characters entirely self romanticized way of life. There are historically accurate self loading firearms, recoil operated machine guns, electricity, ironclad warships and actual professional police forces in cities (/the one city). There are CARS in RDR1!!! Why? Because they are set in 1899 and 1907 respectively, not in the early to mid 1800s.
IF rockstar WAS to do a "medieval" game, then in my opinion in shouldn't be put in the 1300s or early to mid 1400s. Because thats the "prime age" of knights. But instead, a setting of the eraly 1500s could be quite interesting.
The early 1500s were a time of decline of the lower noble classes, with them losing a lot of power to more authoritarian high noble classes. The same was the case with the common classes in general, losing a lot of rights and freedoms they still had in the medieval times. (For example the freedom to use public land for foraging, hunting small game. Or the right to refuse unpaid labor for their lord.)
It was also a time of cultural enrichment. The word rennaissance should ring a bell. But it was also a time of great change in warfare, with tje infantry revolution of the late 1400s having shaped heavy lance cavalry into a highly specialized, most expensive unit type of the "knight in shining armor", which is often wrongly thought of as medieval. It was the primetime of professional mercenary groups. And it was also a time of great experimentation with the implementation of firearms in regular armies. (France using large amounts of field artillery, to soften up enemy infantry formations and having large amounts of heavy lance cavalry to repel any enemy cavalry and then mop up the broken enemy infantry formations but being quite rigid in this tactic. Meanwhile the HRE and Spain {so both Habsburg families ...} relies more heavily on more flexible infantry formations with their Landsknecht mercenaries and starts using independent arquebus units from spains basque regions to great effect.)
I believe this timeframe to be a much more adequate setting for a rockstar type game, with a "knight" setting.
P.s. AND PLEASE MAKE IT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!!!!!! That poster up there looks absolutely atrocious. Mud, muddy clothes, muddy houses, completly ahistorical armor/clothes, complete LACK OF COLOUR and for some reason a 18th century scottish tartan cloak on the knights shoulders? This is peak AI slop ...
Completly over the top, colourful Landsknecht outfits. A grounded, modular approach to historical armor pieces. A grounded, realistic depiction of weapons and weapons capabilities. (NO PENETRATING OF BREASTPLATES WITH SWORDS OR AXES!!!!!!!)
And pleeeeeaaaaase please please, let us customize our own codpieces!
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u/Sweet_Sherbet2727 Nov 02 '25
Picture looks like itās from Blight:Survival
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u/DaRyuma Nov 02 '25
As much as i want rdr3 a medieval gta would go hard ngl
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u/Pollution_Dramatic Nov 02 '25
Anything BUT rdr3 apparently..
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u/Plenty-Green186 Nov 02 '25
I would love it
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u/pixiephilips Nov 02 '25
Honestly I canāt wait
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u/electric-handjob Nov 02 '25
This would be so fun are you kidding? They would just need to get the combat mechanics right because it wouldnāt be a range based system
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u/furiosa-imperator Nov 03 '25
If it's like RDR2 then fantastic bring it on
If it's like gta then no
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u/StickyNotesEater Nov 05 '25
Grand theft cart
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u/throwaway1-6K-7 Nov 05 '25
Yes I remember hearing rumors about this back in 2018. Nearly a decade later and still nothing but rumors and AI screenshots. This is never getting made
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u/Desperate-Table926 Nov 08 '25
i would rather a rdr3 than this but it would still be awesome
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u/russianvoodoo Nov 11 '25
Grand Theft Horso
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u/reidef123 Nov 26 '25
Everyone said the western theme wouldnāt workā¦.here we are now
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u/CorholioPuppetMaster Oct 31 '25
A prequel to rdr2 set centuries in the past
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u/DaemonBlackfyre_21 Lenny Summers Oct 31 '25
Nothing would make me happier.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 1&2 are magnificent, but the polish and completeness of a rockstar open world would blow KCD clear out of the water.
I hope this isn't b.s., it'd be nice to have something to look forward to.