Rockstar Co-Founder Shares Thoughts On GTA 6, Abandoned GTA 5 DLC, A Medieval Game, Agent, And More
Rockstar Games’ former VP of creative, Dan Houser, left the company in 2020, but he’s still a wellspring of knowledge about Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, both of which he was a lead writer on. Houser recently shared his insights into both game series as well as a few of Rockstar’s unrealized projects.
During a nearly three-hour interview with Lex Fridman on YouTube, Houser touched GTA 5’s uncompleted DLC that would have featured Trevor as a secret agent.
“It never quite came together, and it was never finished,” recalled Houser. “It was about half done when it got abandoned. But I think if that had come out, [we] probably wouldn’t have gotten to make Red Dead 2. So, there’s always compromises … I like making the stories. For me, I love the model of GTA 4 when you had the extra stories coming afterwards or Red Dead 1 when you had the zombie pack coming afterwards. I like just doing these extra things. So, I would’ve personally liked to have done more of that in that company.”
