GTA has become a staple of the game industry, revolutionizing gameplay with an open-world style that countless other titles have mimicked outright or incorporated in their own designs to some degree. While open-world style gaming is nothing new anymore, there's still plenty to be done with the genre, says Rockstar's Dan Houser.
"I think there's something really interesting in the open world experience. Obviously we've made like ten of them now and they still don't feel boring to me. It still feels that we're only scratching the surface of that potential. But who knows what we'll be doing?" Houser said to IGN.
Houser was asked about the future of his company and what Rockstar will be working on. And while GTA will no doubt remain important, Houser's happy as long as the games stay high quality and Rockstar is still very relevant in the years ahead.
"We'll hopefully have done a bunch of interesting games in the next ten years. That's always the goal. I've never been that good at the futureology side of game-making. We never really care what the name is on the box, either. The name Grand Theft Auto, the name Max Payne, the name's Red Dead, the name's Table Tennis, it doesn't really matter as long as the game's cool," he said.
"I would never have believed you would have been talking about this in ten years time. We were still talking about Space Invaders [ten years ago], and that was already 20, 30 years old then. Hopefully we'll continue to do interesting stuff, that's you know, that's kind of all you can hope for."
Rockstar recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III's original release. As a tribute (and to gain some additional revenue of course), Rockstar is bringing the game to iOS and Android later this year. As for GTA V, the industry continues to wait for the next iteration, likely to hit next year.
