Dan Houser

They were really fun.

Um, but there was not enough of them.

And then we felt we needed more story because the story was perhaps a little short.

So we kind of quite late in development, uh,

started putting in almost like these rpg type content where you go and meet someone and the way we thought of them was they were like short stories so you go and meet someone they'd set you a slow problem like go and collect me 15 bunches of flowers and when you came came back it would resolve your story and so the one go get them for my bride you come back and the bride's dead you know tried to make them like these short stories with a stinging tale and

He came out, as I was trying to come up with ideas for those, as just this weird character.

And then we built him a bit into the story where he would unlock as you worked your way through and be a commentary on what you were doing.

So he was meant to be a kind of manifestation of your...

you know, shadow, your karma, the devil somewhere, you know, just saw the world.

And then we built out his backstory over time and decide, you know, and so in Red Dead 2, you could interact with him again and, or not really interact with him, but he was there and he was meant to be, you know, something I suppose any creative is scared of, an artist who's kind of sold his soul to the devil.

And that slowly revealed itself.

Sort of, because he knows what you're up to.

The connection is... And what's never really made clear is, does he know this about everybody?

Like, is he following you, or is he able, because of the pact he's made with evil forces, able to do this for everybody?

And I don't think we necessarily ever clarify that.

He's certainly able to do it for you.

But it also changed depending on what you'd done.

So it was, it was sort of slightly, it wasn't as interactive as it could be, but it was slightly interactive or slightly responsive to what you'd done.

So I felt it was still valid video game content because it was living up to a point.

And I just thought the character, Dr. Friedlander was just funny because he was awful.