Ion Storm

I finished the book Masters of Doom.

Was astounded that Daikatana took three years and $30 million was invested, leading to Eidos buying Ion Storm.

However, we did get Deus Ex.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um, but, uh, I got a contract and, um, I was gonna sign it because it was a good deal.

And, um, John Romero, who's the third director guy who you know showed me how lucky i was uh called me up and i told him it's too late he said work work for ion storm and and i told him i got a contract i'm about to sign and he said don't sign that contract and he drove down the next day and and made me a real godfather offer i mean this is not twenty five thousand dollars a year he said make the game of your dreams no creative interference, biggest budget you've ever had, biggest marketing budget you've ever had.

And anybody on the planet who says no to that, doesn't deserve to be on the planet.

And so I couldn't do...

So I thought it was quite interesting that you mentioned that, you know, you didn't want to do the space Marine fending off, you know, aliens from Mars kind of thing, which is quite funny that you ended up with, you know, the doom designer, John Romero, which I think was brilliant.

Um, but early, early on once.

So, you know, You're at Ion Storm now, and you mentioned getting the team together.

At one point, you had two separate design teams for Deus Ex, and apparently, I read that they would disagree on quite a lot of...