I would love a Lawman/vigilante game, having it where the "redemption" in the game is when the lawman redeems himself of the corrupted system he is in. I also love the idea of a young man wrapped up in a gang (perhaps the Van Der Linde one) and the "redemption" in that game is him leaving to start a family, and after we play as a young Arthur Morgan for the epilogue. Realistically, we're getting Mac Callander for RDR3, as he was being built as this massive character in Arthur's life and has some of the same story beats that Arthur had.

Rdr lawman would be a damn masterpiece. But what I REALLY want is more drip. The lack of Panchos and eyepatches and even things that the gang wore really angered me

I never thought of having San Francisco but it sounds like a great idea. Also the 1860's setting, so much was happening back then besides the civil war, id love to go south of the border and experience the Mexican Empire, actual vaqueiros or just the western part of America in general. I really hope rdr3 goes this direction.

Flipping the other games' west meets east would be neat. You'd start out in a caravan of pioneers from an east coast city bound for California with plans to tame the west, but gradually become more disillusioned with society as the journey progresses further into wild country. Civil War deserter turned bushwhacker would also go hard.

Babe, wake up, Henry Films posted another RDR video!

I completely agree that the Van Der Linde Gang story is complete. My favorite Wild West story is the Lincoln County War. I think a cattle baron war would be cool in a landscape like the heartlands and west elizabeth with the option to go into the mountains to be a mountain man. That timing doesn’t align great but that’s my favorite thing to do.

so baked listening to you talk is so chill

Native American or Civil War redemption story would be awesome

I want a game like where you play as a 16-20-year-old kid in Missouri in the civil war or a bit before the civil war 1855-1859. Where you are a former confederate guerrilla during the war you were with a Willam Quantrill or Bloody bill Anderson type character. I think after the war the main character should become a gunfighter. Or start his own gang (like most of the former confederate guerrillas did after the civil war). After like a few chapters he leaves the gunslinger or outlaw life he starts a family until an old gang member/bounty hunters attack his home and hurts his family. Injured and dazed he rides to a town, and he gets patched up and he starts his quest for vengeance. I forgot to mention after the war he moves west so he could have a better start his gunfighting/outlaw career.

Sign me up for the Lawmen Story, maybe thats how your honor level could be used in RDR3, possibly if you had low honor you resign from being a sheriff and if you keep high honor you decided to stay a sheriff.

I want a game that takes place somewhere around 1873-77 because that was the peak of the Outlaw Era in the Wild West. That was when Outlaws weren’t just lowdown criminals running from a country, a world, that didn’t want them anymore. They were icons they were as famous as they were feared. Heroes and Villians. We could see the Tatum Brothers and Otis Miller and the 5 Gunslingers from RDR2. You would be an Outlaw trying to reach the level of Otis Miller and Jim ‘Boy’ Calloway.

I think It should revolve around 1855 1870. Arthurs Father and mother and young Arthur meeting the Gang Dutch and Hosea.

A lot of people talk about having Landon Ricketts as the protagonist but I think it should be someone who road with him so we don’t know his fate also they i think they should use one of the people on gunslinger cigarettes cards to give some world building The perfect person to use is Bart love cuz he’s on a card and we know nothing about him Also have a girlfriend or wife that you can flirt with and sleep with don’t show anything tho I wouldn’t be able to get the game if that happens Maybe in the high honor ending you leave go have kids and the game end no epilogue or ability to play that might be stupid idk

I would love to play as a Native American in a large tribe

I love the lawman to vigilante storyline because we get to play as a law man and experience the transition and the vigilante. So fun! ❤

4:20 is just the description of the outlaw josey wales

Love your videos man, amazing ideas bro 😎

What you said about seasons was spot on I’ve always thought Roanoke ridge needed an autumn setting as it’s based on Appalachia which has stunning autumns

Your lawman idea is cool. Going along with your idea of a lawman who becomes dissuaded with the powers that be, I could see something like "Training Day" but set in the wild west.

I'd like to play as a deserter of the civil war. Maybe a group of deserters form a gang, could be a cool angle. The gang part might even be a little overdone, maybe more of a loner character.

This video did not disappoint! Great ideas to daydream about and hope for🤞 And thanks for asking the community for ideas 👍

13:37 I totally agree with this. I've had both weed and alcohol and they do not make your vision all blurry and change colors. It's kind of hard to potray the actual feeling you get but I think the Rdr1 way was as close as you can get with all the stumbling around.

Dude these are amazing ideas.

Thank you for mentioning the holsters

Good video I really liked these points and ideas

I love the idea of expanding outward west, theres so many ideas in my head for a red dead threes map, a redwood forest area with a town that’s almost a mix of rhoads and Strawberry, a cramped San Fransisco inspired city on the coast, and a county based off the red rocks in Colorado just to name a few. We hear that Sean joined in the game in north Elizabeth, which brings up ideas of a less harsh Ambarino containing a coal mining town in the foot hills. Another cool idea is a new region of the Grizzles, as micha joined in a bar in the grizzles, maybe there could be a tavern on the road for travelers? Not a full on settlement but just a few houses and a large bar and inn. I also think the idea of a man coming out to Thives Landing would be an awesome idea, joining the law force there imagining life on the west as your stereotypical good guys vs bad guys narrative, only to realize that the police were pains off, hence the name thieves landing, and that live in the west is truly a lot more morally grey than it seems. And when his family dies of cholera, he hangs up his badge and begins traveling the country, trying to bring overs the dream life on the prairie he never had, possibly inspiring a young Dutch. Or, in the case of a low honor route, he gives up on life, and does the bidding of a corrupt lawman, roaming the frontier doing dirty business with gangs and locking people away for not paying things like protection.

Mannnn I gotta be honest, I usually hate videos like this, but seriously, every single idea you listed, I was like “YESSSSS!” 😂

Complete masterpiece of a video, took me from despising the idea of an RDR3 to dying on my knees slobbering for these ideas to come to life

I feel like it should follow Bart love, because he is the only one of the legendary outlaws who we don’t know anything about.

keep up the good work Henry

In RDR2 they talk about a time with the gang was separated for a couple months or years before black water. Arthur and Hosea got separated from Dutch and John, each having their own groups to look after. I believe the next game will be set in this time. Roughly 1897, and you will play as both Mac and Davey Callander

I absolutely love the lawman/vigilante story idea and how awesome that story could be, an idea i had for that story I had was maybe every person you hunt down you can either kill them or bring them in and watch them get hanged, and the title i thought of is pretty sick ( Red dead revenge ) Great video as always

Expanding on the Civil War idea, something similar to RDR's fame system, you could help out either the Uniom or Confederacy and then maybe be more known by either side, gaining extra side content or new weapons

this was the sole channel that gave me the inspiration to platinum red dead 2 and same day you post this I complete it 🎉 thank u henryfilms👍

I've been saying it for years now, playing as a Pinkerton who is hunting down the old wild west gunslingers.

My hope for a while has been for the series to fully shift to Mexico for a Red Dead Revolución kinda thing, since I loved the parts of the first game that took place south of the border, get that full Mexi-Western vibe with a bandido-revolutionary main character. I definitely think a brother-sister duo would work there too - one's committed to the cause, the other just wants the outlaw life. Could be some pretty cool biomes too - you got your deserts, your gulf-coast jungles, some towns and cities, could have some old Mayan temples, that kinda thing. Like you say, just spit-ballin. With that said, your lawman-vigilante concept really scratches that old-fashioned Spaghetti Western itch and I'm so fuckin down for that. With you 100% on the need to go back to the Golden Age and westward too. We've done that melancholic death-of-a-way-of-life thing for two games and it can't be bettered by something further down the road. Time for the full, old west gunslinger experience.

This video had me laughing lol earned my sub 👍

I think an interesting option would be a classic empire building story where we’re an ex-Soldier of the Civil War and we come out west and we try to establish a ranching empire and build up a town in the most lawless territory and have to fight off everyone but if you play like the Duttons of Yellowstone, it all burns down but if you play it like John Wayne, the town defends you

great video as always!

My dude I wanna thank you so much for this video because it restored my faith in human ideas and creativity. Since years I read only the things you mentioned at the start, Sadie, blackwater, origin story, Callander brothers and was only thinking: how goddamn lame is that. You got me already in the first minute of the video, natives, civil war, Sergio Leone, game is set much further in the past, yes, it's a western! Enough of van der linde, maybe just a few random references around the open world and nothing more.

You Were NOT spitballin you did good W vid. I agree to see a battle of ACW in rdr3 as a random encounter Would be dope.

I think they should include the gold rush in California, maybe also Jim Bridger at Fort Bridger. You mentioned the westward expansion. Have the character run into the Mormons and their “gunfighter” Porter Rockwell. Include Deadwood in the Dakotas, or Custer’s last stand. There’s so many possibilities.

I think haunted locations would be cool I mean we have the haunted battlefield in rdr2. Also let me make time accurate soldier uniforms and give the npcs the ability to comment on your outfit depending on where you're at

The problem with the Lawman idea is you cant commit crimes or do shenanigans in freeplay for story reasons until you turn bad. And nobody wants the freeplay to be like Rhodes in Chapter 3

The idea you have for the protaganist inspiring a younger dutch sounds like it has ALOT of potential.

I just want a peak wild west setting(1870's) with hostile and friendly Indian tribes.

I think RDR3 could still be about the Van Der Linde gang. I would enjoy a game about the dude arthur talks about when playing Dominoes with Tilly. He talks about a "traitor" that Dutch killed in the camp. Maybe this character could've had some sort of redemption like Arthur did. Maybe he saved an enemy of the Van Der Linde gang that he had a secret relationship with or something. And it would be before red dead redemption 2 which would link up with how the games go back in the timeline. And we don't know anything about him other than he is an unnamed "traitor", which isn't a big spoiler for the game

I agree with the idea that we need an RDR game that takes place much earlier than the other two. They were both excellent games but there is so much more potential in having a game set in the 1860's, probably near the end of the Civil War. Maybe have the protagonist be a member of an outlaw gang made of Confederate deserters? That way the protagonist would be getting hunted by both the Confederate and Union Armies. Have them move west to get away from both the fighting and have the adventure begin.

A lot of these ideas kinda sound fire

ngl i would like a california gold miner traveling west with his family and getting raided by bandits or smth with him being the only one left alive going on a revenge mission with a darker story and an aiden pearce type character who doesnt care for himself or anything else until the end.

Honestly, another good ass video a lot of the items you listed. I agreed with but I feel like for the story maybe you could follow Lyle Morgan or you could run into them at some point.

The native american storyline from RDR2 was one of the best parts of the game, I wish they would show more of those people’s cultures. I love to find items and points of interest around the map that tap into this side of history. My character in RDOnline was a native american as well and I loved roleplaying as such, stealthing my way into enemy camps with my bow and arrow, bringing out the tomahawk for the brutal kills. It’s awesome.

"You're the local hardman, huh?" "Real frightening." The Antagonize lines of Arthur and John were so good. Your wishlist is perfect, most of your ideas, but especially #23 to #27, fully resonate with me.

With the bandana I think that if you were wanted in a certain outfit, and than later you put on the bandana but have the same outfit you will be wanted because people recognize the outfit

i nice setting would be a story about a biker gang set in the time period just after world war 2

This channel is too underrated man

Setting the game in the actual Wild West not the end of the Wild West would be so good (btw adding holster layout/loadout or whatever would be perfect cause some holster positions just look cooler then the other ones and u can rly express yourself and just make your outfits way better looking)

A map based on the west coast extending from San Fran in the south, Portland to the north. The western border would be the pacific and the eastern border would be the rocky mountians. The time period would be around 1880-1890. These areas have a very rich history that is filled with its own folklore and legends. The main storyline could incorporate some of this folklore (like Bigfoot, ufos around mt Shasta, cursed Indian burial grounds, buried treasures) and the story of the protagonist could have run its with Trelawny, and a young Micah Bell and his father. It’s known that Micah lived in the Bay Area and Trelawny would travel to oregon for business. We could completely leave behind the Van Der Lin gang for the main story but simultaneously get insight into how Micah became the bastard we all loathe. This is the game I want to play.

Literally agree with every single part of the video (Also let me save more than 4 outfits!!!)

RDR3- A half remake/reboot of the Red Dead Revolver story playing as Red Harlow. I’ve always thought of Revolver as being loosely connected but this would be a great way to officially connect the storylines. It would obviously be set well before RDR2, completely rebuilt and much expanded Revolver map while connecting to already existing RDR map and a far more flashed out story with some new stuff. Graphics better than RDR2. Yes, it’s not completely original- but would still be bad ass to play as Red Harlow. He’s already mentioned in RDR almost as a legend or campfire tale. It would be wild to play out all the mythical tales of Harlow in a new RDR game.

something I always thought would be great is maybe a bandito from Mexico similar to Javier where you fled Mexico leaving your family or something within the first couple of chapters and you come to America heading to san Fransisco in search of gold trying to be a millionaire to pay off your bounty and get your family back or something, OR a Native American basically who got kicked out his tribe and became an outlaw or maybe a lawman him redeeming himself within his tribe and getting them land or something being his arch, or lastly a runaway slave heading northwest for freedom and becomes a lawman because his dad always talked about justice idk lol just ideas I always think about

Tom Horn was a range detective turned assassin for hire. That would be a great inspiration for RDR3

Man you literally read my mind especially with the civil war setting and the law system, idk if this is the right word , but it's implemented in such a goofy way

Personally, I wouldn't mind another game following the Van Der Linde Gang. I would really like to see a game that takes place during the Civil War though!

A cool idea would be a game that follows the Challendar brothers from rdr2, you could swap between them like in gta5 and there could be two-player coop

Lawman storyline where the main character ends up enlisting the help of an outlaw to expose and take down the corrupt and unlawful private detective agencies (like the pinkertons) with the promise of a pardon for his help. He starts the story as a hardliner who doesn’t see criminals and outlaws as anything but monsters but slowly realizes that they’re just people. People with flaws and troubles who made and make mistakes who deserve second chances. (Or I guess a low honor route would be him burying himself even deeper into the hardline position and ending with him either pardoning his outlaw companion or killing him. The epilogue would either be from the position of the newly reformed outlaw going on a trip to visit the grave of his friend, who helped him go down a better path. Or, if the outlaw died, it could be from the perspective of his brother who previously wasn’t an outlaw at all, becoming one to seek revenge on his brothers’ killer, repeating the cycle of death and poor judgment.

It would be cool to see a early van horn

I love all of those ideas of yours, I've thought of a rdr3 story myself at the past and I got some similar ideas compared to yours, it was a lawman story as well, but Y'know what, I love yours more, all of them ideas are real cool. And I really enjoyed that it wasn't another one of those Landon Rickets or Jack or Sadie bullshit cause these are just so repetitive and boring and I swear practically every rdr youtuber has done those loved this video

This is my idea for RDR3 RDR3 Story Idea It’s 1914, Isaac Morgan, now age 26, is on the tail of a mysterious outlaw who killed his mentor Agent Ross. Isaac, was thought to be killed by a group of bandits with his mother in 1894, but in reality his mother Eliza faked their deaths and tried to find a better life elsewhere. Isaac was raised by his mother to be a very good man, and always had a calling at being a lawman. Isaac became a lawman at 19 years old in 1907 and then came under the leadership of Agent Edgar Ross in 1911, after the deaths of the rest of the Van Der Linde Gang. Isaac found out that his mentor Edgar Ross was shot to death in a river in New Austin. He goes to investigate this mysterious murder that occurred, and is on the tail of this dangerous outlaw. His investigations lead him across the Eastern part of the United States, stumbling onto various clues, and going from the Center Town in Amabarino all the way to the streets of brimstone, finding his mentors Killer. He stumbles upon Jack Marston, a young kid at the age of 19, and interrogates him. He notices that Jack is wearing a very similar Jacket to his late father’s and questions him on it. Jack and Isaac meet, and the story from there can be interpreted in one way or another. RDR3 map is huge, about 2 times the size of RDR2 and includes the entirety of the RDR2 map, with Mexico, and new additions to the East and Western portions of the map. What do ya’ll think so far?

YES Having some of the pervious characters from the games would be perfect. It would immerse you more in rockstars crafted old western time period. Also maybe seeing younger versions of the towns and your character would see what really happened in Valentine or the downfall of Van Horn, and how it fell into a town of scum and villainy would be awesome. I also would love to see the ability to create your own story and character. (like rdo) That every story would be different and you could play how you want, make the decisions you want just more freedom and options. Not being limited to the boundaries of a like rdr2 was.

I like the idea of you playing as a Pinkerton right when they start out so they don’t have the reach they will have eventually. So you can play as a clean cop or a dirty one. The one problem I would see is the redemption part. Maybe he starts as a dirty law man getting more power as a Pinkerton and its up to the player to either get his shit together and be the man that he should be or go full corrupt

I would love for them to start fresh but maybe have characters from the other Red Dead games appear in side quests

Landon Ricketts could be a good option, golden age Wild West and morally gray character, he is often called a lawman but he had a sizeable bounty and interacted in a friendly way with outlaws like Black Belle. Also his role in the blackwater massacre is vague, he could fit in with both the gang and the Pinkertons in the shootout. Also, soloing outlaw forts, dueling gunslingers, and choosing to either be an outlaw or a lawmen or one thing in one state and one in the other.

Rockstar needs to watch this and take notes this sounds amazing

I would want RDR3 to be the main character starts off as a lawman. But he’s got differing ideas than your average lawman. Somewhere near the beginning of the story he meets someone or meets a gang and ultimately leaves the life of a lawman and joins up with the gang. So he’s with the gang, robbing and such. But the law isn’t finished with this rogue lawman. The law has taken a personal offense to his betrayal and has began a campaign or crusade to catch the lawman and put him on trial for his crimes or at least turn him in dead. Something along the lines of that would be really cool.

I think it’d be cool with there were to campaigns set on opposite sides of the country during the prohibition era, the west coast campaign could have Jack could go to Hollywood, go up to Alaska to go on hunting trips, fight oil tycoons, fight the remaining gangs in the area, rise of the kkk, etc; and then the eastern campaign could follow a Russian soldier who has fled Russia in order to escape the September revolution, allowing for flashbacks to WW1 and the Russian revolution, something rarely seen in videogames, this character could join the mafia, allowing rockstar to have their own take on the mafia games.

A lawman turned outlaw would be awesome, because of personal vendetta or something. Or flipping the previous concepts, going to proper west from east would be neat. In all honesty tho, I would love to play as young Arthur at the very beginning of the Van der Linde gang.

Imagine seeing black water when it was just starting up Hateful eight reference would be cool like walking into a isolated saloon with everyone dead

i havent watched the video yet but what about a young lawman that has a couple of friends and then they turn in to some sorts of villians and create a small gang and rob much and kill the other sherrifs and then they die of a hanging. And they then redeem themselves when the main character dies so in the epilogue we can find them maybe becoming sheriffs again. And if a side character dies they go and torture him and kill him like colm o'driscoll in chapter 3 (but he didnt kill him) (comment for more ideas into this lawman villian concept!) (if u had a stroke reading this i can change if u just reply) i would also love a feature of emoting like flipping someone off

I really want Landon Ricketts to be the main playable character & that also works for you Lawman idea (which I think is absolutely amazing) because I believe that Landon Ricketts was a gunslinger lawman so it would be cool to see a younger Landon Rickets in like the 1870s & by the end of the game he flees to Mexico. I also want the map to be in the west side of the map like right above New Austin & to the left of West Elizabeth & Colter is just a wide open space full of nothing & it’s non-accessible so I think that that would be a great area for the new map. & I also think it would be cool if Arthur’s abusive dad is one of the bad guys in the game & we find out that it was Landon Ricketts or had or got him killed. I think it would just be another really cool little connection between how like Arthur & John both met Landon Ricketts & with the theory that Landon Ricketts was there during Blackwater, I would just love that.

Another interesting idea is playing as a freed slave who then becomes an outlaw. This happened often in the old west and is a particularly tragic but also interesting idea for a character imo.

This may not be the best idea for a red dead game but a game focusing on the Underground Railroad around the civil war could tell a pretty interesting story. Probably be called Red Dead Railroad

I agree with the golden age I want it too but I think rockstar specifically avoided it because of the prominent stuff that was going on during that time. Gotta still get an M rating to sell copies

Damn the wagon trains and a westward map expansion made me think how awesome a PNW Red Dead would be. A simulacrum of Utah, Nevada, California, Idaho, and Oregon would be kick ass. I'm just imagining giant (grand, even) red canyons and lush pine rain forests, all whilst being harried by rueful natives, deserting Union soldiers, bushwhacking Confederates, isolated mountain men, all with even more customization options, God it would be beautiful. I would love to see the story of someone getting into trouble in Saint Denis and fleeing west to seek a new fortune, only to get tangled up in some mess out there, slowly losing everything that tied them to their old life and eventually coming to terms with what is actually important to them.

I like all of your ideas👍. But I never had any problems the wanted system and getting the bandana to work🤷‍♂️

IDK if Rockstar should do another RDR game. The two stories feel so complete. I want more Western games though. I'd love an RPG set on the Oregon Trail. The main character could be a man with no name type who stumbles into the group and gradually becomes the leader and your decision affects who becomes your friends and allies or lovers. And you need to make choices that determine who survives. I loved Undead Nightmare too. I'd love to see a full-fledged zombie western game where we are constructing a safe base. Gathering people making weapons and going on runs. Potentially making enemies and alliances.

I always thought the third would be the bootlegging era with Jack or an older timeline where you play a lawman infiltrating the van der lin gang. Since there have been hints of the gang having been betrayed before or just how they managed to get found soon after the ferry boat raid

I want black powder fire arms and gun powder is a kind of second ammo for them including lead balls and bullets. And you can choose your powder charge for the load.

Some of the things I want from the next Red Dead More challenging Bounty Hunting - I don't want to just be given a location and for the bounty to be there every time. Give me a city/state they were last seen in, and you have to ask around for them and if you find them, and they get away, that shouldn't fail the mission. It should just make it so you have to go around to other towns to see if that's where they escaped too. This would make Bounty Hunting more fun and less repetitive after multiple playthroughs imo. More customization options - A big thing that bothers me about RDR2 is how limited the customization is. You can't wear different styles of gun belts with your holsters in different positions, you can't wear your bandanna with every shirt without that shirt automatically buttoning all the way up, you can't close your coats, you can't open your vests, there aren't many truly unique hairstyles, no jewelry, etc A different story - I don't care to continue the Van Der Linde gang story in any way. I don't want to play as Jack in WW1 because that wouldn't even be a Western game, playing as a young Arthur/Dutch/Hosea wouldn't make any sense because there would be no redemption for them in the end, and playing through the events of the Blackwater heist also wouldn't make sense as there would be no logical epilogue. I'd love to see you play as two Brothers/a Native American tribe/a former slave/a Mexican gang member/a Marshall/a bounty hunter or just something different.

Great video! I kept getting swept away by Ennio Morricone's incredible music... there will truly never be another. I'm glad rockstar has honored so many of his/Sergio's movies in their games. I agree a hang em high or Josie Wales or even pale rider style arc would be sick. The lawman/vigilante arc could be incredibly compelling. I think if they can really capture all the weird morally grey political crap and the money grubbing schemes, they can slowly unveil it in a way that makes for a surprise reveal that folks who have been trying to play the straight and narrow lawman, have actually been a tool of the system. The timing and specific activities involved in your turn should impact how you're seen by locals, fellow agents, and victims of the corrupt system. Opposing it in the wrong way can still make you a monster, and carrying it out blindly with your hand on the bible might be worse still. It would be interesting to see how they would sew little seeds of doubt throughout the game.

5:02 i would LOVE a game set in the golden age of the west with the gameplay style of LA Noire honestly

3:50 this story ballad of buster scruggs actually made me so sad

I think being able to climb trees is a really bad idea, I feel like it would not fit in at all with how movement works in RDR and RDR2. But the ability the go prone/supine would 100% fit in (if only in hunting/sniping)

14:35 if the game is actually set in the 1860s and early 70s, i hope rockstars makes actually good clothing options for online characters this time, if they don’t add flowy ponchos, belts that actually fit, shawls, bonnets and crinolines/bustles (and the option to get them off whenever we need to) i’m gonna be so disappointed but not surprised

I see you're as insane about red dead 2 as I am

I would love a multiple stage side quest with Wild Bill Hickock. It would be cool to see my famous relative in a video game! Meet him at a poker table and he asks you to help him a bounty or end up in a shootout with him.

I think it would be cool they added muskets and flintlocks

I'd like to play as one of the Crow. By far, the most hated tribe by their fellow natives yet curiously honorable in that they faced their enemies 1v1 without exception. It was rough enough for any Native, but to be a native hated by your own kind would be a whole 'nother degree of rough.

They should make bounties more of a process. Instead of picking up a poster and just riding out somewhere outside of town, you would ride out and find that they'd left recently, and you have to track them down to their next stop, maybe you catch up to them but they give you the slip, maybe even after you catch them. Maybe you have to ask around to find out where they went. Maybe you encounter other bounty hunters and you could choose to kill them or hinder their progress or even team up and split the bounty. Maybe if you wait to bag a bounty it goes up but the criminal becomes deadlier.

I think the bandanna problem, heaves itself by the fact that either it is nonsensical or the locals have remembered your outfit if you have been there before and been seen.