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Dan Houser

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GTA 4

“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.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 31 Oct 2025

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Red Dead 1

“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.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 31 Oct 2025

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Blade Runner

“The story was Blade Runner is my favorite, and that’s… it’s obvious, you know, the replicants are better than the humans.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 31 Oct 2025

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1984

“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.”

Lex Fridman Podcast · 31 Oct 2025

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01 / belief

At that age, and I think them as a double act is so amazing. One helped discover the other and then died first, and then suddenly died in obscurity and then was rediscovered as a genius while the other one was still alive and falling into not obscurity but into decline.

“At that age, and I think them as a double act is so amazing. One helped discover the other and then died first, and then suddenly died in obscurity and then was rediscovered as a genius while the other one was still alive and falling into not obscurity but into decline.”
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Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

02 / belief

On the N64, PS1, when you went, it suddenly was like these games, they’re alive, and they did… or they’re believable in a different way. I think that was very interesting.

“On the N64, PS1, when you went, it suddenly was like these games, they’re alive, and they did… or they’re believable in a different way. I think that was very interesting.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

03 / belief

When I think about growing up, to the extent that I am capable of growing up, it is about accepting the bad with the good from any situation or any aspect of myself.

“When I think about growing up, to the extent that I am capable of growing up, it is about accepting the bad with the good from any situation or any aspect of myself.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

04 / belief

I mean, it cannot lead… That self-critical brain, I think lots of people suffer from, and I think the internet is designed to induce, if you didn’t have it before, you will have it after being online.

“I mean, it cannot lead… That self-critical brain, I think lots of people suffer from, and I think the internet is designed to induce, if you didn’t have it before, you will have it after being online.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

06 / belief

Like, you know, whenever life goes crazy… …He just was always on the side of the underdog and the ridiculous. And I think that, you know, he always wanted to answer people back, always give the silly comment, and I certainly, you know, taken that from him to my detriment probably, but it makes life more fun.

“Like, you know, whenever life goes crazy… …He just was always on the side of the underdog and the ridiculous. And I think that, you know, he always wanted to answer people back, always give the silly comment, and I certainly, you know, taken that from him to my detriment probably, but it makes life more fun.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

09 / belief

I think sometimes for designers when they’re only designing four or five missions in the whole game and two of them get cut, that must be really… … Really hard.

“I think sometimes for designers when they’re only designing four or five missions in the whole game and two of them get cut, that must be really… … Really hard.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

10 / belief

” You know, “That’s what love is.” And he’s… So I think he’s a… But he might be a sociopath, and he might certainly have sociopathic tendencies.

“” You know, “That’s what love is.” And he’s… So I think he’s a… But he might be a sociopath, and he might certainly have sociopathic tendencies.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

11 / belief

Of course, you had started it, but that feeling, I think, was one of the things, the illusions that people found very captivating, was I’m in a, I’m in a world that both doesn’t exist and does exist.

“Of course, you had started it, but that feeling, I think, was one of the things, the illusions that people found very captivating, was I’m in a, I’m in a world that both doesn’t exist and does exist.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

14 / belief

Even before the end of the game, yeah, I think you’ve been with them for seven, eight years, and you have to kind of let it go or you can’t go on to the next one.

“Even before the end of the game, yeah, I think you’ve been with them for seven, eight years, and you have to kind of let it go or you can’t go on to the next one.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

22 / belief

I think if you’re trying to do, you know, good stuff and you’re reflective inevitably, and, you know, you live in this world of constant, constant criticisms by the internet.

“I think if you’re trying to do, you know, good stuff and you’re reflective inevitably, and, you know, you live in this world of constant, constant criticisms by the internet.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

23 / belief

I think the experience of being in this fake place and then taking on these narrative adventures, when that combines, you’ve got the amazing experience.

“I think the experience of being in this fake place and then taking on these narrative adventures, when that combines, you’ve got the amazing experience.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

25 / belief

I think there’s something interesting about that moment when you change from one character to another because they are you and they’re not you, you know, and then just suddenly you’re someone else.

“I think there’s something interesting about that moment when you change from one character to another because they are you and they’re not you, you know, and then just suddenly you’re someone else.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

26 / belief

We knew we were making something innovative, but we didn’t know if people would understand how innovative it was. And then when we got the chance to make Vice City and to try and repeat it, I think every time from then on, the team was very driven to make something better.

“We knew we were making something innovative, but we didn’t know if people would understand how innovative it was. And then when we got the chance to make Vice City and to try and repeat it, I think every time from then on, the team was very driven to make something better.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

27 / belief

I think that last bit in, with tech in my experience, with things like facial animation, always been the last bits and pieces take far longer than the first bit.

“I think that last bit in, with tech in my experience, with things like facial animation, always been the last bits and pieces take far longer than the first bit.”
Speaker
Dan Houser
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast
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