Rockstar’s Dan Houser has said not having a matured and ”codified” medium lets developers exercise their creativity and freedom.
Unlike with film, TV and books which have become ”so structured” in their methods, videogames enjoy a freeform environment. Houser says he wouldn’t trade it in for ”respect” any time soon.
”I think the medium is still very young. It’s not a baby, but it’s still probably an infant. So everything is growing and evolving as we go along and we’re still figuring out how to do stuff,” Houser tells the Telegraph.
”It’s really fun at the moment because we’re not in any Academy and the medium’s not codified. There’s no accepted way of doing anything so that give us enormous pleasure because we can make it up as we go along.”
”Movies and TV and books have become so structured in the way they have to approach things. Not working in that environment gives us enormous freedom. I’d rather keep the freedom and not have the respect.”
Grand Theft Auto IV’s story has been the most ambitious to date from Rockstar Games and dually received a hurricane of critical praise.
Source: Eurogamer
