Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
You know, I think that was something we really wanted to achieve in games that we didn't know was even possible.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
So to hear people say that is incredibly rewarding.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
one of the things we've enjoyed about doing a comic book is that we are, it still has lead times, but the lead times are not four or five years.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
The lead times are, you know, a year and we're putting, we can make little updates much, much newer.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
And we're, you know, we're, we're just wrapping issue 10 of a, of a 12 issue arc for that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
So it's not quite, it's not quite as difficult.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
You still can get the tone of it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Um,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
But yeah, I think it's an issue anyone trying to talk about this current era, which began in 2015, 2016, is going to have of how do you characterize it when things move so quickly and so fast.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Yeah, the art's beautiful.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
David Lapham is the artist.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
He did an amazing job.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
He is a wonderful, wonderful storyteller.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
I hadn't seen a modern story there that I knew about.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
I'd started to spend a bit more time in the Rockies and in the West.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
And I was like, I'd spent a lot of time in like the countryside in upstate New York and thought I'd never really captured it quite right.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
And just the idea of these places as they change, it didn't, it was a way of doing a crime story that didn't feel the same as a GTA.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
You know, it was not somewhere you would necessarily set a GTA, but it felt like it was really interesting and underexplored.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Yeah, it's definitely slightly over the top.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
he's not necessarily, you know, the sharpest tool in the box.