Montana Smith said:
Yet no rumours that the original may be released for the PC?
I read somewhere that Rockstar uses in house teams that aren't on assignment to do ports. Since nobody appears to be off assignment at the moment, the chances of a port happening any time soon are unlikely. Plus, consider the market: will the returns on the port out pace the returns on a new IP?
Montana Smith said:
...and discovered for the first time that RDR is set in 1911. Not a classic western period, but the Mexican Revolution.
The time period is important to the overall theme and story. By the time the sun sets on RDR, the days of the Wild West are over. The country had been physically settled, but more importantly the United States Government has exerted its control and influence from sea to shining sea. So while there are still "far off places" and flare ups happen, the frontier has been civilized.
Note: In 1859 California lay as far from the old Eastern states as could be; the quickest route from one American coast to the other was via a perilous sea voyage of four thousand nautical miles aboard a cramped steamer, with an overland trek across the Isthmus of Panama midway. The transcontinental telegraph line was still a year from completion; news from the East took two weeks to arrive via Pony Express.
Toss in the large numbers of Germans, Poles, Chinese, Mexicans and Mormons and you can see why the West was a world apart. Not to mention those individuals who were only loyal to whatever plot of land their gold claim was on.
But I digress. The point is at the game's beginning, the Mexican Revolution is in its infancy. And once it ends, the conflict is in full swing as it continues to devolve into a multi-sided civil war. It's the perfect continuation point -- the Wild West has moved slightly South, you can explore US-Mexico Border Politics, and continue where the story left off.
