IGN in Conversation with Dan Houser at LA Comic Con 2025 by Ryan McCaffery for IGN via VGC

A couple weeks ago I saw this headline from VGC—"Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead 2, not GTA, was ‘the best thing I worked on’"—and all I could think was "No duh."

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"Of course. Um, Red Dead 2, I think, was the best the best thing that I worked on—best single kind of realization of sort of open world storytelling, thematic consistency, and understanding how the games are assembled to take you on an emotional journey."

Red Dead Redemption II is an all-timer. It's a title the likes of which I think we will never see again. The story, the trailers, the soundtrack, the complete utter immersion in a bygone age, and Arthur Morgan. What a game...