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Take-Two Interactive announces Dan Houser, Vice President, Creative at Rockstar Games, will be leaving
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They ain't starting their own thing.
Why would they waste all the money they earned to just start their own thing? Take two are right to ask for them to be faster considering thousands of staff they literally got. It's one of the biggest or biggest studios in the world when you combine it all.
Also take two were asking for Rockstar to speed up in the last month or so. Dan went on a break right after RDR2.
Maybe he didn't like the direction of just being a GTA online studio for years. Remember he's the main writer in all the games. I'm sure he would love to write more stories for different games and releasing games faster would allow him to do that.
Take two are not stupid. They know how big Dan and Sam are. I doubt they had anything to do with this decision. Leslie also left on bad terms with everyone. Dan is still there until March. Maybe he is retiring. Maybe he had a falling out with his brother over how they should proceed. Maybe he wanted to make more single player games like Bully2, but his brother wanted to make GTA 6 next.
Maybe but what is locked down in the focus on single player. Can't say the same about the games after that though.
This is sort of like Nintendo losing Miyamoto in his prime, yeah?
The culture at R* always seemed a bit off, but man, do they make games that are spectacles. Whether you like their gameplay and stories or not, I think it's fair to say that everyone pays attention to their output. They've been the benchmark so many times since breaking the mold with GTA3.
I've gotta think this has to do with T2, and their never-ending quest to recreate the golden goose that is/was GTA5. Dan is a story guy, and I think the prospect of a GaaS future with T2 wasn't how he wanted to spend his last years in the industry.
The culture at R* always seemed a bit off, but man, do they make games that are spectacles. Whether you like their gameplay and stories or not, I think it's fair to say that everyone pays attention to their output. They've been the benchmark so many times since breaking the mold with GTA3.
I've gotta think this has to do with T2, and their never-ending quest to recreate the golden goose that is/was GTA5. Dan is a story guy, and I think the prospect of a GaaS future with T2 wasn't how he wanted to spend his last years in the industry.
welp. GTA VI is fucking boned.
watching all these old gaming titans like BioWare, Bethesda, etc. topple one by one is depressing
Dan was the writer or co-writer on every 3D GTA, both Red Deads and Bully.
This is huge.
Curious to see what he does next, and what Rockstar's next moves are. Red Dead 2 really showed the range they were capable as a studio, I hope they carry on with a single player narrative focus.
Curious to see what he does next, and what Rockstar's next moves are. Red Dead 2 really showed the range they were capable as a studio, I hope they carry on with a single player narrative focus.
One guy does not make or break a game the magnitude of GTA in this day and age. I swear some of you just like to overreact to everything
actually the Houser brothers are very influent on those games, so i don't agree with you
He was one of them. Sam is equally as important but stays out of the limelight. Leslie Benzies was also up there, before he departed R* after GTAV. All in all this is sad because RDR2 was their greatest work, and Dan was a massive part of it.
Benz leaving/terminated was big news. He was basically their secret weapon. But RDR2 showed that they could continue to make amazing of not polarizing games. Now that Dan's gone, I'm a bit nervous. Hope the new blood and Sam can keep the quality and focus on SP going.
This won't change a thing about the next Rockstar games. It might actually leave some room for other, better writers...
Well WTF...Doesn't every GTA and Red Dead exude their (brothers) personalities? Without him... it may not feel like a GTA6..
Rockstar of 2020 is not Rockstar of 2001, so yes they are influential but there is now countless other people around them involved with making these massive games. I also don't believe he is just going to up and leave without being aware of who his replacement is.
Did ID die when Carmack left.... No because games companies are not just one person anymore. It's just like how Mario/Nintendo will be fine when Miyamoto retires.
Rest in peace to an era that I enjoyed from the beginning with GTA on the PSone that I had to ask my older cousin to buy it for me from Babbages.
I have no idea or opinion on what he might be doing, but I really don't think money is any kind of concern or evidence to contrary. Certainly they wouldn't have any trouble finding someone to fund that hypothetical venture.
And Capcom came back š¤Square has fallen
Blizzard has fallen
Rockstar is going to fall
DEATH TO THE OLD GODS
So he will be back to working for someone again?
So why not stay with take 2 like his brother?
What Leslie said about them breaking away was way before GTA online came a big thing. There's quite a few possibilities maybe he's had a creative difference with his brother which happens, or he wants to move into TV or retirement.
The Houser brothers won't find anything as big as cash cow as GTA online.
Just as a game though. PokƩmon is an media/entertainment franchise and in that regard it's number 1.
Nah... the "Agent" name might see red tape issues with Rockstar/Take 2
Sony will announce... "Spy" ;)
I don't know anything about the guy, but I'm guessing he's already got multi-generational fuck you money and is probably not concerned with creating a cash cow. I was just responding to your assertion that financing would be some kind of deterrent to setting up a studio outside of TTwo. Why or if he might want to, I have no idea, but money's certainly not going to stop him from trying.
A game thrusting worldwide top 10 charts since 2013 isn't incorrect at all, that's quite the opposite, it's a perfectly mainstream product.
I wonder if this will have an impact on mission design going forward. It'd be nice for R* to finally embrace the idea of player agency. It has always struggled to find a balance between its intricately, almost obsessively detailed game worlds and creating a narrower focus for missions, favouring the application of strict rule sets that can border on absurd.
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Where does it say he was booted and why would this change the kind of games Rockstar creates š
Nowhere, but I like sometimes to make my own narrative. But I do think that Dan was a strong force that was pushing for great writing and with him leaving, I think there are fewer left to push for that game structure. There was that article a couple of weeks ago that said take two was pressuring rockstar management to make games faster. And a faster release schedule means less focus on big stories.
My guess is that he wanted to retire, if T2 tried to fuck with him, i don't see him only leave while his brother is still there.
I don't see him going to another company. He's either retiring completely or moving to movies/books
YEAH! Maybe he can get the Benz back on board too and they could work exclusively on a blimp floating over New York, y'know, to match their skyhigh ambitions for Microsoft's GTA killer.
Or maybe he retires to the Caribbean bullies his butler and house staff and sleeps on a mountain of cocaine and money.