Former GTA boss Dan Houser says Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears or the Kingdom are like Alfred Hitchcock films: "They're just speaking the language of video games"

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The Rockstar co-founder calls them "these amazing things that could only be video games, they couldn't be anything else"

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When it comes to studios that have shaped games and how they are developed, Rockstar Games is definitely one of the names that should come up. But Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has some strong words for how The Legend of Zelda shaped gaming, calling the games akin to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Speaking to Lex Fridman, Houser speaks about the early years of 3D gaming, saying "all of those early 3D games were very amazing when you first saw them," adding that "suddenly these games, they're alive, or they're believable in a different way." Houser and Fridman speak about Nintendo specifically, saying that Nintendo's approach to gaming always makes sure that no pixel is wasted, with Fridman saying, "Zelda pioneered the feeling of a world."

Creating Red Dead Redemption 2 was "not that fun," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, as it wasn't "coming together" and was “over budget so much I didn’t want to think about it."

Scott McCrae
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