{"id":217289,"date":"2025-07-07T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/deus-ex-could-be-a-command-conquer-rpg-john-romero-saved-the-game"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:04:00","slug":"deus-ex-could-be-a-command-conquer-rpg-john-romero-saved-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/deus-ex-could-be-a-command-conquer-rpg-john-romero-saved-the-game","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex Could Be a Command &amp; Conquer RPG \u2014 John Romero Saved The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deus-ex-could-be-a-command-conquer-rpg-john-romero-saved-the-game.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spector originally pitched the project under the working title Troubleshooter at his former studio, Origin Systems. He wanted to create something truly new, saying he was tired of space marines, aliens, and wizards in hats.<\/p>\n<p>The main character of Troubleshooter was meant to be Jake Shooter, a super-cop called in by secret agencies for high-risk missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeus Ex was part shooter, part stealth game, part RPG. I mean, how do you sell that? The argument I got from the Thief folks was that if you give players a gun, they won\u2019t sneak. I was also asked, \u2018Why don\u2019t you just make a shooter?\u2019 I learned the power of the word \u2018no\u2019 when pitching Deus Ex, let me tell you,\u201d said Spector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spector originally pitched the project under the working title Troubleshooter at his former studio, Origin Systems. He wanted to create something truly new, saying he was tired of space marines, aliens, and wizards in hats. The main character of Troubleshooter was meant to be Jake Shooter, a super-cop called in by secret agencies for high-risk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}