On Sunday, Rockstar Games posted a red image with a faded black Rockstar logo. We went crazy. When the company followed that up with a second image with cowboys against a sunset, we started to hyperventilate. But some people kept their cool and saw the comedy in all of it, turning these simple images into something completely different. One official developer even got in on the fun.
Some people think the next Red Dead game is going to be about being the very best – the best that ever was:
Better pic.twitter.com/1UVKa3p1hu
— Daniel NX Vuckovic (@VOOK64) October 17, 2016
Others know that we’re born to be princes, kings of the universe, fighting to survive in a war with the darkest powers:
— Joe Skrebels (@2plus2isjoe) October 17, 2016
Two people on Twitter even claim to know what all this back-and-forth is going to lead to.
Zoom in…. aha! I knew it! pic.twitter.com/N8XvbyT45u
— Mark Brown (@britishgaming) October 17, 2016
Datamined Rockstar’s website and found this trailer and.. well, uhm about that supposed Red Dead teaser.. pic.twitter.com/ZGMkUZdLlP
— Nibel (@Nibellion) October 17, 2016
Meanwhile, Square Enix knows what a group of cool dudes hanging out in front of a sunset is really all about:
— Final Fantasy XV (@FFXVEN) October 17, 2016
The best one to cross my feed, however, was the one closest to what we can actually expect:
Hmm … what is the meaning of this cryptic tweet from Rockstar … pic.twitter.com/GNzzMwtYTB
— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) October 17, 2016