Dan Houser

I think you put that beautifully.

I could not be more cynical than I was as a child.

You know, I could not see goodness anywhere.

I couldn't see, you know, I don't think, uh,

late 1970s to early 1990s england was a great it was a place of great you know optimism and naivety it was brutal and i was brutal i was brutal within it and i think um i've become much more naive and and tried to become more innocent in some ways and always tried to see the flawed good in people you know i've tried to and i've

I had to force myself to be like that because the other way is not fun.

It's not nice to not be nice.

Oh, it's fascinating.

Brilliant.

Which is what those things are all about.

Yeah.

Middlemarch.

It's the best novel written in English.

War and Peace.

It's one of the best novels written in Russian, I would argue.

I think both of those are... Because if you've only got one book, you want a long book.

Yeah, true.

And they're both books that kind of...

It's something I was always trying to put into games and, you know, that feeling of all of life is here.

You know, you've got love, death, violence, romance, the whole human experience in different ways.