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Dan Houser

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1426 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It was one when you played as Trevor, but he was a secret agent.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Oh.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It was cute.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It never quite came together and it was never finished.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

It was about half done when it got abandoned.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

But I think if that had come out, probably wouldn't have got to make Red Dead 2.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

So there's always compromises.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

But it was, you know, I like making the stories.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

For me, I love the model of GTA 4 when you had the extra stories coming afterwards.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Or Red Dead 1 when you had the zombie pack coming afterwards.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

I like just doing these extra things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

So I personally like to have...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

done more of that in that company and with stuff we're doing in the future we're going to try and come up with worlds where we can add more stories I like single player DLC I just think the audience loves it and it's really fun to make

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

If you get it right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

We still love single player games.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

And I think...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

we started up absurd we did a lot of soul searching yeah and also a lot of like cynical looking at looking at what goes well in the industry luckily if you want to do what we're forced to do and also what i want to do which is make new ip you need single player games you can launch a multiplayer game as a with new ip it's just extremely hard so luckily we are like

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

focusing on what we're good at which is open world single player games and we might add multiplayer components to one of them I think one of them it's going to be really tough later on but we're still thinking that through but I think we're really leaning into single player experience as being a strength for us as a company and something we love to do and I think something a large part of the audience prefers and I'd love to with all of those keep single player DLC one way or another going

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

Never thought a lot about a Pirate Game.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#484 โ€“ Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming

My son is obsessed by that game Sea of Thieves at the moment.