Lazlow Jones reveals more about leaving Rockstar Games, disturbing phone call from GTA fan and more
Lazlow Jones, one of the co-founders of Rockstar Games and being the Director of Production, sat down with IGN for an exclusive interview with them where he talks about leaving Rockstar Games after almost 20 years of being one of the main people behind the. creativity from the company to the new game studio he now works for. He also talks about the Epsilon Program.
Lazlow Jones was with Rockstar Games from April 2001 to April 2020, completing a 19-year run with the Gaming company. Lazlow was best known for his Radio Hosting in the GTA Series, where he started hosting Chatterbox FM in GTA III, after the positive feedback from fans on his Radio Show, Rockstar Games then hired him to Co-Write and produce all the Radio Stations. in Vice City. After that he became a permanent person within the series, with GTAV having his own main role within the story.
IGN Interview
In the IGN Interview, that was posted yesterday Lazlow Talked about the time of leaving Rockstar Games and what happened. Lazlow telling IGN that he left Rockstar Games in early 2020 and then the hit of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Lazlow also told IGN that just a few weeks after Red Dead Redemption 2 released in October 2018, his sister informed him that she had terminal cancer, which meant that Lazlow moved her in with him so that he could become her primary Caregiver, while he . still writing and producing for Rockstar Games, he also added that he spent a lot of time writing his Chemo Wards comedy “which is a very interesting creative exercise.”
Lazlow said taking care of his dying sister made him stop and analyze things, so he quit Rockstar Games and then COVID happened. He spent a lot of time watching documentaries like Black Mirror. He then told Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar Games, who also left in March 2020, a month before Lazlow beat him and asked him to form a new studio, which is now known as Absurd Adventures.
When asked about Burnout and if he got sick of making Grand Theft Auto Games and Red Dead Games, he didn’t agree or disagree, but noted that Nine GTA games were released while he was working at Rockstar, and went from working on GTAV, to Red Dead Redemption 2, back to GTA Online and then to GTA 6. He was excited to start working on a new intellectual property and it made even more sense for him to work with Dan Houser because of the project set in the future. , he hadn’t worked on a futuristic game before.
IGN also said that Lazlow doesn’t want anything to think that Absurd Ventures is trying to take on Rockstar Games and compete with Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption.
Lazlow also pointed out that Rockstar Games has a form of nailing a certain time period, past and present, but Absurd Ventures is trying to nail the future, which Rockstar Games has never attempted before. He added that everything Absurd does is satire in the truest Rockstar sense.
Lazlow is already sick of AI and is just getting started, saying he rolls his eyes at the thought of AI, and Absurd Ventures about it taking the Rockstar Style perspective, but how do you take the piss out of AI in the year 2030. ? 2040? You can read the full interview here
Disturbing Phone Call from a Fan
Lazlow Jones revealed that during the development of Grand Theft Auto V, a fan left a message on his work phone, Lazlow took the call in which he was welcomed by women introducing themselves as representing the members of the Epsilon Program. These women and the followers were GTA fans who went through every GTA game looking for new information about a fictional religion in which we know as The Epsilon Program.
Lazlow went on to tell IGN that these women said they were fans of this fake in game religion that Rockstar made. Lazlow went straight to the Headquarters in Manhattan, New York to tell them all about the crazy voicemail and even joked about getting rich on the backs of people searching for meaning in life.
“She really sounded like she was a follower of the Epsilon Program,” he said. “It’s crazy when you satirize something… because we were very honest about it. We created a website for the Epsilon Program back in 2004, and all the copy on that, it’s very clear in my mind that it’s a money-grabbing, modern-day fictional religion. But they sounded like right followers of it. It excited me and scared me to death at the same time.”
Epsilon Program made a bug in GTA 5 due to a phone call
Lazlow told IGN that the phone call did not remove them from this fake Religion, instead they duplicated it in GTAV, creating more diverse missions and scenes for the game and even going as far as writing a Bible for the in-game religion called. The Epsilon Plotin which it was divided into pieces around San Andreas for players to find.
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