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That's Deus Ex. Ever since I played it for the first time, also in high school, I just don't uninstall it, because sometimes I hop back into it, and I've had some projects that are first-person. I want to do a first-person game at some point, that would be really fun, specifically like Ultima Underworld. I sometimes joke in interviews that if somebody gave me unlimited resources, that I would try to make an Elder Scrolls killer, but I want to do it in my style. But Deus Ex is one of the core inspirations for a lot of the design decisions in Esoteric Ebb. It's such a classic. I try to do someth
2026's best RPG might look like Disco Elysium, but it was heavily inspired by Deus Ex, and its creator wants 'to do a first-person game at some point'… It was a point of contention for Raph Koster who worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies when I spoke to him earlier this month for our MMO column—observing that open-world sandbox MMOs, the type Guild Wars 1 sought to set itself apart from, fell out of favour in exchange for instanced theme… …
… Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?" Raphaël Colantonio became a PC gamer for a very specific reason—he was a huge Ultima fan and wanted to play Ultima 7. …
… I want to do a first-person game at some point, that would be really fun, specifically like Ultima Underworld . …