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Rockstar co-founder finally settles ancient debate: GTA is NOT as good as Charles Dickens

I can now sleep easy.

PC Gamer

Red Dead Redemption 2 is "slightly more novelistic" than GTA 5 because Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser "binged on Victorian novels" for inspiration

"If you look at Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy or any of those authors, there's that feeling of all the world is here – that's what you're trying to get in open world games"

GamesRadar

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says GTA games are "not as good as" Charles Dickens books, "but they are similar" in their world-building

But he was thrilled by the comparison during a GTA 4 interview

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Dan Houser on Victorian novels, Red Dead Redemption and redefining open-world games

As the Grand Theft Auto co-writer launches a new project, he reflects on his hugely successful open-world adventures and where game design might go next

The Guardian - UK

The US government "nearly shut us down," former GTA lead says: "They decided we were the only people on the internet peddling pornography, apparently"

Here we go again

GamesRadar

Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'

Dan Houser probably won't be asking ChatGPT for help with his next game.

PC Gamer

Rockstar co-founder and former GTA lead writer Dan Houser says "AI is eventually going to eat itself," and that the people behind chatbots and AI models "aren’t fully rounded humans"

Houser's now working on his own franchise

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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the studio because of how long GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 took to make: "I don't know if I had another one of those games in me"

Houser's now working on his own IP

GamesRadar

GTA 6 Release Date Delay May Have Been Caused By Company Wanting 'More Money'

GTA 6's release delay has sparked fresh debate after comments from Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser suggested the industry may be prioritising profit over creativity. Here is what the postponement could really mean for the future of the franchise.

International Business Times UK

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says GTA is so successful because of its "sense of freedom," and because it "smashed together" shooting, driving, and simulation genres in a way games hadn't done before

"Those were the first games that showed you this idea of just living in this fake place"

GamesRadar

Rockstar Games co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto scribe reckons there's 'always that danger' that the industry will get 'overly focussed on making money'

"There's still a big ceiling creatively to create these living narrative experiences," Houser says on *checks notes* Sunday Brunch.

PC Gamer

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says "no one" was excited for GTA 3 outside of the studio, but the devs believed there was "something really magical" about it

Things changed when the game released, he says

GamesRadar

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is making a game set in the same world as his new novel about devs who create a "self-loathing" AI, and is "dabbling" with using real AI in its development

But the developer thinks the technology is sometimes overhyped "just to sell AI stock"

GamesRadar

Former Rockstar and GTA lead Dan Houser says gaming can "either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money"

"I think there's always that danger with any commercial art form"

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The GTA 4 story is "really dark" because Rockstar's co-founder was "single and miserable" while making it: "We constantly thought we may be shut down"

The Hot Coffee scandal did a number on Dan Houser

GamesRadar

Red Dead Redemption 2's brutal opening was supposed to be worse, but Arthur Morgan was "very, very nasty," so Rockstar Games "ended up cutting it"

"I think the games ended up the way they were supposed to be."

TechRadar

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 3 'will probably happen' but would be sad not to be part of it

Red Dead Redemption 2 writer Dan Houser believes a third game will eventually be made, but has admitted he would be sad not being involved in its development.

PC Gamer

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to kill Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, and only stayed his hand because the studio was 'Full of fear' and the game didn't quite work with it

So he just traumatised us a few years later, instead.

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Rockstar co-founder says he's 'less scared than a lot of people' of AI: 'If you use it to try and substitute for creativity, it's going to be really generic'

Dan Houser is open to "limited" use.

GamesRadar

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan is his "best lead character," but it's a "toss-up" with GTA 4's Niko Bellic

Dan Houser thinks Arthur Morgan is "the most rounded and works the best"

GamesRadar

No, we don't need Red Dead Redemption 3, we need to learn that too much of a good thing will ultimately ruin it

Opinion | I'd prefer to be left wanting more than wishing something never existed

PC Gamer

'I was single and miserable': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser admits that his life in New York is why GTA 4's story was so dark

I was very young and very angry.

PC Gamer

Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: 'I thought—this is not good—and I ran off'

That's… somehow appropriate.

GamesRadar

Former GTA boss Dan Houser says Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears or the Kingdom are like Alfred Hitchcock films: "They're just speaking the language of video games"

The Rockstar co-founder calls them "these amazing things that could only be video games, they couldn't be anything else"

PC Gamer

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says there's a reason the Grand Theft Auto games are always set in US cities: 'Guns'

Grand Theft Auto did actually go to London, but it was in 1999 for the original GTA—and the series never returned

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