I'm extremely excited for another Red Dead game, as Redemption might be my favorite game that Rockstar has ever made. That said, I don't love the idea of it being a prequel. Prequels rarely end up being as compelling as the original because demystifying the past of a fictional world usually just isn't that interesting. Marston having a dark past was a cool Western movie-ass aspect of him as a character, and there was a certain looming inevitability that the things he had done would eventually catch up to him. But by setting this entire game in the past, we lose any uncertainty in the story, as we already know where the plot is going. It's always been cool how Rockstar starts a new story from scratch with all of the GTA games, as it offers a good opportunity to tell entirely new stories that aren't derivative of their predecessors. A Western setting is fairly unexplored in the video game space, and with so many good films to draw upon for inspiration, it seems kind of silly that we are going to be around the same characters again.