{"id":90618,"date":"2026-10-05T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90618"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:37:04","slug":"why-gta-studio-co-founder-is-avoiding-gta-6-and-all-open-world-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90618","title":{"rendered":"Why GTA Studio Co-Founder Is Avoiding GTA 6\u2013And All Open-World Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the company in 2020 and now runs a new outfit called Absurd Ventures. Houser will be forever connected to the GTA franchise, and he&#8217;s now weighed in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gta-6-guides-hub-how-to-do-everything-in-grand-theft-auto-6\/\">GTA 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/gaming\/news\/rockstar-dan-houser-gta-6-new-games-absurd-ventures-1236894786\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/gaming\/news\/rockstar-dan-houser-gta-6-new-games-absurd-ventures-1236894786\/\">He told Variety<\/a> that he did not watch the &#8220;Extended Look&#8221; trailer and doesn&#8217;t plan to. Why? He said he tries to avoid consuming things that are going to &#8220;disrupt me creatively.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And given that I spend a large amount of time trying to make open-world games, and the rest of my conscious time trying to figure out innovative ways to market them, I don\u2019t need to see what other people are [doing],&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019m always trying to think about new ways of doing it, not sit there in some kind of comparison of what I would have done differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also in the interview, Houser said he doesn&#8217;t play a lot of open-world games anymore, for similar reasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I find when I play them, I can almost deconstruct the strengths and weaknesses of the team in real time and it\u2019s distracting. I\u2019m always thinking, \u2018Well, their animation team is weak, but I think this game design is fantastic.\u2019 And, \u2018Oh, I can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser left the company in 2020 and now runs a new outfit called Absurd Ventures. Houser will be forever connected to the GTA franchise, and he&#8217;s now weighed in on GTA 6. He told Variety that he did not watch the &#8220;Extended Look&#8221; trailer and doesn&#8217;t plan to. Why? He said he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90621,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90618\/revisions\/90621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}