Red Dead Redemption 3 - 10 Ways To Make The Perfect Sequel
1. Landon Ricketts
Yup! The man, the mustache, the legend himself! If we can't get a young Dutch and Arthur (or an altogether new story), perhaps we could explore the early days of the greatest Sam Elliott stand-in in the history of gaming.
A young Landon Ricketts story offers us a lot of possibilities.
He was a gunslinger in the golden age of outlaws; his story could explore social stratification (like anti-Chinese racism if they explore his time in California, or the conflicts with American Indians in the Southwest and the Dakotas), and we could see a redemptive arc where he turns away from a life of crime and follows a more honorable path (ultimately fighting on the side of the police during the Blackwater Massacre, before retiring to Mexico after a shootout in California).
Granted, this probably won't happen.
His voice actor, Ross Hagen, passed away in 2011 (in fact, Mt. Hagen in RDR2 was named after him), and though Rockstar could just as easily cast a different voice actor, they may want to let his legacy rest in peace.
But if they wanted to place RDR3's focus on a preexisting character, they could do a lot worse than Landon Ricketts.