Emil Pagliarulo, video game designer at Bethesda Game Studios with credits as a writer on RPG gems like Fallout 4, the ever-long-lived Skyrim, and Starfield, says that the original Deus Ex game from 2000 was a "huge influence" on him.
An influence that he's applied at Bethesda, apparently. "As much immersive sim as was humanly possible, that I could bring in, was really what I wanted to do," Pagliarulo tells Rock Paper Shotgun in a new interview.
"I love the original Deus Ex. It's a huge influence on me." He then recalls one of his core memories of playing. "I remember breaking into a house that I thought was empty to find something, and the maid turned the corner," he says.
