Buggy Loop
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June 23nd 2000 to be precise. Exactly 25 years ago.
ION Storm John Romero's wise business decision to call Warren Spector and tell him to make the game of his dream, no creative interference, biggest budget and marketing budget he would ever have in his career, and we got Warren Spector's magnum opus
IMO, Deus Ex is the GOAT.
It's simply the peak of immersive sims, while the recipe was kind of there since Warren Spector's System shock, and System shock 2 being also one of the best immersive sim of all time, Deus Ex really pushed the envelope. It was not just a cool horror game with some emergent gameplay, the RPG mechanics, augments, dialogue options were a league above anything that had been done in the genre before. As much as I love System Shock 2, it is more narrow in choices.
I don't have more facts than that for my preference
This video does a good job explaining everything I think about it
Those one liners
"What a shame. He was a good man *smacks lips* What a rotten way to die."
Perfect soundboard material for prank calls
This classic Computer gaming world review

ION Storm John Romero's wise business decision to call Warren Spector and tell him to make the game of his dream, no creative interference, biggest budget and marketing budget he would ever have in his career, and we got Warren Spector's magnum opus
IMO, Deus Ex is the GOAT.
It's simply the peak of immersive sims, while the recipe was kind of there since Warren Spector's System shock, and System shock 2 being also one of the best immersive sim of all time, Deus Ex really pushed the envelope. It was not just a cool horror game with some emergent gameplay, the RPG mechanics, augments, dialogue options were a league above anything that had been done in the genre before. As much as I love System Shock 2, it is more narrow in choices.
I don't have more facts than that for my preference

This video does a good job explaining everything I think about it
Those one liners
"What a shame. He was a good man *smacks lips* What a rotten way to die."
Perfect soundboard material for prank calls


This classic Computer gaming world review

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