Grand Theft Auto V’s Trevor DLC Was ‘About Half Executed When It Acquired Deserted,’ Says Dan Houser

Ex-Grand Theft Auto lead author and co-founder of Rockstar Video games, Dan Houser, has acknowledged the long-rumoured cancelled single-player DLC for Grand Theft Auto V, revealing the enlargement was roughly half full earlier than it was scrapped.

It’s been lengthy reported that Rockstar was engaged on DLC for 2013’s open-world crime drama, though the success of Grand Theft Auto On-line seemingly derailed these plans because it as a substitute determined to give attention to supporting the multiplayer companion to GTA V. Nonetheless, Houser has now revealed throughout an look on the Lex Fridman podcast that he feels Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 wouldn’t have occurred if the DLC noticed the sunshine of day.

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The web is aware of we made a DLC… single-player DLC for GTA 5 that by no means got here out.

It was one once you performed as Trevor, however he was a undercover agent. It was cute. It by no means fairly got here collectively, and it was by no means completed. It was about half completed when it bought deserted. However I believe if that had come out, we most likely wouldn’t have gotten to make Pink Lifeless 2. So, there are all the time compromises.

Houser went on to say that he’s nonetheless very a lot a giant fan of releasing further content material for single-player, and hopes to proceed this along with his new studio, Absurd Ventures.

I like making the tales. For me, I like the mannequin of GTA 4 once you had the additional tales coming afterwards, or Pink Lifeless 1 once you had the zombie pack coming afterwards. I like simply doing these additional issues. So, I might personally wish to have completed extra of that in that firm. And with stuff we’re doing sooner or later, we’re going to try to provide you with worlds the place we will add extra tales.

I like single-player DLC. I simply suppose the viewers loves it, and it’s actually enjoyable to make.

Grand Theft Auto V was launched for the PS3 and Xbox 360 again in September 2013, and was complemented by the discharge of GTA On-line a month later. The sport was ported to PS4 and Xbox One the next yr and in addition acquired PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S variations a couple of years in the past. Writer Take-Two introduced again in February that the sport has bought over 210 million items worldwide.

Talking in the identical interview, Houser touched base on the cancelled PS3 title Agent, stating that the undertaking didn’t work out because the open-world setting simply isn’t an acceptable match for the spy style.

[Source – Lex Fridman Podcast via IGN]