Red Dead Redemption 2 is a massive time sink of a game. But, just like every other Rockstar Games title, it’s full of cut content. Case in point, dataminers just found a large section of the in-game files that players cannot normally access.
In particular, a dataminer found a potentially different version of the side mission, A Fisher of Fish. In the version that players are familiar with, Arthur Morgan meets an angler, Jeremy Gill, who then challenges him to catch all the rare and unique fish all over the map. This is more endgame kind of stuff since you can only access the fishes in the Blackwater and New Austin regions in the epilogue as John Marston. However, it appears that the original plan was for Arthur to catch the fish in Rio Bravo, a desert settlement in New Austin. This implies that Arthur could, at some point, visit New Austin and Blackwater.
Normally, an endless barrage of bounty hunters will gun you down if you attempt to cross into Blackwater as Arthur. This makes it impossible for players to travel to the map of the first Red Dead Redemption game. Because of this discovery, it appears that Rockstar initially had different plans. If we stretch this small piece of evidence even further, Rockstar could’ve even been thinking about a very different story of Red Dead Redemption 2 and a much larger map at your disposal.
Then again, bigger isn’t always better. We’ve learned to trust Rockstar when it cuts content from its. This is not an exception. Most likely, Rockstar had a good reason to cut this out of the final version of Red Dead Redemption 2.
Speaking of Red Dead Redemption, rumor has it that Rockstar originally planned to drop a remaster of the 2010 game by next year with a potential reveal soon. Unfortunately, things changed mid-way as Rockstar focused its resources on the development of GTA 6.
