'I would like to have killed Niko': Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to traumatise you in GTA 4, but the studio just didn't have the grit yet

RDR bucked that expectation when it straight-up killed poor ol' John Marston at the end. Sure, you could still keep playing ...
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Rockstar Faced Shutdown Fears While Building GTA 4 After Hot Coffee Scandal

Amid GTA 4’s early development, Dan Houser feared Rockstar could be shut down due to the 2005 Hot Coffee scandal, ESRB Adults ...

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser couldn't kill GTA 4's Niko Bellic as fans needed to be able "to play forever," so he killed Red Dead Redemption's John Marston instead

Rockstar Games co-founder and the studio's former lead writer Dan Houser has revealed that he originally wanted to kill off Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, but the team abandoned the idea due to ...