Former Rockstar VP Talks GTA 6, Explains Why Bully 2 Never Happened

In 2020, Rockstar Video games co-founder Dan Houser left the company after over twenty years as one of many driving forces behind the Grand Theft Auto and Purple Useless Redemption franchises. Whereas Houser has since launched a brand new firm, Absurd Ventures, he not too long ago shared his ideas on Grand Theft Auto 6 and defined why Bully 2 by no means materialized.

Throughout a panel look at Los Angeles Comedian Con (through IGN), Houser was requested about how he feels concerning GTA 6, the primary Grand Theft Auto recreation in a long time that he had no involvement with.

“I believe it is a terrific privilege to have labored on one thing that big–you know, I wrote the final 10 or 11 of them, so I believe the world’s most likely had sufficient GTA from me … There’s all the time a brand new story, so it is not going to be a narrative that I wrote or a personality set that I developed. I believe it may be thrilling. The sport might be nice, I am certain.”

Houser has beforehand voiced his desire to see a sequel to Bully, the 2006 recreation set at a boarding faculty. When he was requested in regards to the the explanation why Bully 2 did not come to cross, Houser cited “bandwidth points,” earlier than including, “Should you’ve obtained a small lead artistic group and a a small senior management crew, you simply cannot do all of the initiatives you need … With definitely how we’re structuring it, [we were] making an attempt to do two initiatives with a really pretty small group, and simply actually making an attempt to assume via that. ‘How can we try this and hold them each shifting?'”

Selecting a favourite recreation from his time at Rockstar proved to be tough for Houser. He famous that Red Dead Redemption 2 was “the perfect factor that I labored on [and the] greatest single form of realization of open-world storytelling thematic consistency and understanding how the video games are assembled to take you on an an emotional journey.” He additionally cited GTA 4, GTA 5, Bully, and Purple Useless Redemption as a few of his greatest experiences at Rockstar.

Houser’s subsequent mission is a comic book e-book miniseries known as American Caper, which might be launched by Darkish Horse Comics on November 12. He additionally mentioned that Absurd Ventures’ first video video games might be a presently untitled “open-world third-person comedy,” and A Higher Paradise, which he described as “a third-person dystopian tragedy.” Each video games are nonetheless early in growth.