Maybe they'll kill off our main character at the end of the game again, but this time they let us take over as John instead of some whiny, snot nosed kid lol

While I'm personally super hyped for this game, and certainly have very high expectations for it......people really need to stop hyping up every other game as the game of the generation. It's getting old, and frankly, it's getting tossed around so damn much it's lost all meaning.

Can't be possible as this is a prequel to the first RDR.

 Edit: Ahh.. Someone already mentioned it above.

This game looks so dull and boring.. Waiting for the multiplayer ot be shown.

I agree that people hype up games far too much but if there's a game that deserved to get the hype then surely RDR2 is that game. Whether it will deserve it or not is not the point here.

That's a handy outlook to have adopted -- all things considered ...

Excellent thread OP!!!!

Good info just got me hyped again.

Multiplayer  ....  lol  fuck that. i cant wait for the amazing story.

A new IGN article. I'll post it here and add it to the OP:

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/05/04/how-rockstar-is-making-its-open-worlds-even-better

Nelson continues to tell me about all the household duties required to maintain the camp beyond lining stomachs, and how the principles of camp life can be scaled and applied to a town. The amount of detail suddenly becomes dizzying. But everything Nelson tells me can be traced back to a simple and elegant idea – “the real world runs on a schedule” – upon which complexity has been added gradually, layer upon layer. A camp becomes a town, which eventually grows into a city.

The endgame is to create a world inhabited by characters who exist independently of you. Like the real world. They’ll have conversations among themselves, which will branch and change depending if you’re nearby or get involved. NPCs aren’t there simply to give you missions or upgrade your items. This world doesn’t revolve around you.

Rockstar has spent the last eight years building a world. Not generating one procedurally but crafting one by hand. Red Dead 2 embraces new technology to realise those core ideas in new ways – a more detailed, immersive, and interactive open world, where fun is every bit as important as fidelity. But this new world, unlike previous ones, hasn’t been made by a single Rockstar studio but all of them, functioning as a single team, working constantly, for the best part of a decade.

“We've done it out of necessity. It used to be that a 50-person team could make a game, and then it just got bigger and bigger and bigger,” Nelson tells me. Since work began on the project, Rockstar has gradually consolidated all of its studios into a single team spanning the globe. So whereas previously it shipped games made by Rockstar North or Rockstar San Diego, Red Dead 2 will be presented as a Rockstar Games Production. A global effort.

Reading this i am really starting to feel excited for the game. First one was a truly special game

8 years and ALL the R* teams involved. It's GOT to deliver.