“If you look at Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy or any of those authors, there’s that feeling of all the world is here – that’s what you’re trying to get in open world games”
GTA is “not as good as Dickens,” former Rockstar boss says, but he “binged on Victorian novels” so Red Dead Redemption 2’s writing would “capture that 19th-century feeling of life and death”