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RSS FeedsRed Dead Redemption 2 Boss Shares Some Shocking Stats About The Game [Update]
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16 october 2018 00:05:11

 
Red Dead Redemption 2 Boss Shares Some Shocking Stats About The Game [Update]
(GameSpot DS News)
 


Author Harold Goldberg sat down with Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser recently for a chat about Red Dead Redemption 2, and there are a number of notable takeaways. [Update: Houser and Rockstar have now clarified some of these comments, saying it was only a small handful of people working such long hours and that other employees are not expected to do the same.]Starting off, Houser discussed the intense production of the ambitious western, saying in a piece for Vulture that some people on the development team worked 100-hour weeks several times in 2018 to finish the game. This is an alarming figure, though it is not entirely surprising. In 2010, the spouses of Rockstar San Diego employees wrote an impassioned blog post in which they criticised Rockstar`s management for overworking employees on Red Dead Redemption 1. Rockstar responded to the post by saying it was `saddened if any former members of any studio did not find their time here enjoyable or creatively fulfilling and wish them well with finding an environment more suitable to their temperaments and needs.`Going back to the Vulture piece, Houser said, `We were working 100-hour weeks` for several periods of time in 2018. Oftentimes at the end of a project, developers will `crunch` to finish a game, and it appears that was also the case with Red Dead Redemption 2.Red Dead Redemption 2 appears to be a massive undertaking. The Vulture report says the final game has 300,000 animations and 500,000 lines of dialogue. It is estimated by the author, presumably based on information from Houser or other Rockstar representatives, to be a 65-hour game, and it could have been longer. The report said Rockstar cut five hours from the game, one part of which was scaling back a love interest for main character Arthur Morgan. Apparently, the writers intended for Morgan to have two love interests, but Houser explained that `one of them didn`t work,` and as such, this story element was removed. Additionally, some missions ...


 
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