Lex Fridman

There was a changing traffic lights.

There's the feeling like, first of all, you had a feeling you could do anything.

And then the world was reacting to it in a way that didn't feel scripted.

So there's these two concepts that I was reading about, just to put names on them.

One is systemic video game design, so systemic games, and the other is sandbox video games.

And systemic is from the environment perspective, which means that there is these interlocking game rules and systems that interact with each other and produce emergent

And that emergent behavior is what creates a feeling like there's a living world.

And then the sandbox aspect, which is overlapping but different, is from the user perspective, from the player perspective, the feeling like you can do anything.

And when those two things combine, the feeling like you could do anything and the feeling like there's a world...

that full that that is also doing anything it wants that's a creates this incredible feeling of like this world is alive and i'm in it and it's the combination of those two things i think is very powerful and i think with gta3

There's often been a tension through your work between an open world at freedom and the narrative-driven storytelling.

And I think you've often, maybe always, gotten the balance right.

So what is the value of each and how do you get the balance right?

But you felt that character's personality.

You felt the depth.

You've actually talked about this, the really powerful concept of creating a 360 degree character.

I think somewhere you mentioned that in order to do that, you had to be able to imagine what that character would do in any possible situation, which is really interesting because

philosophical concept, I started to immediately think, can I imagine, how good of an NPC am I?

Can I imagine myself in every, I try to do that very much when I look at human history, when I look at the Roman Empire, when I look at World War II, within the German side, the Russian side, the British side, the American side, I imagine myself if I was a soldier,

But like that exercise, like if you put Trevor as a soldier in World War II, what would he do?