Dan Houser
Person on 4 sites
Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working. (opens korrents.com)
“I hope it’s got comedy, cynicism, heart, drama, and some amusing life lessons. Otherwise, you can’t just have jokes for 40 hours, it won’t work.”
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What makes an open world captivating is the illusion that it was already running before you arrived and would carry on if you did nothing. (opens korrents.com)
“You know, you were in, you were in these worlds, and you went there as a visitor, and they existed almost independent of you. It felt like when you turned up, the world was running. It didn’t feel like you’d started it.”
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A game is an equation between two personalities, the world's and the protagonist's, and the friction between them is where the experience comes from. (opens korrents.com)
“Because I always thought that the games were kind of a mathematical equation. They were the personality of the world, you know, multiplied or divided by the personality of the protagonist.”
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A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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War and Peace (opens rcmnd.app)
“War and Peace is 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.”
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Vanity Fair (opens rcmnd.app)
“So I think there’s something amazing about, you know, Vanity Fair, I used to love the novel, not the magazine, because same thing, all of life is here.”
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1984 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I love 1984. I’d never listened to it or read it, and then I think I did it on Talking Book, or I maybe read it, I can’t remember, during COVID. And became, I think I did both, became obsessed by it.”
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War and Peace (opens rcmnd.app)