[Lacerda69]

> a fairly simple game play idea, executed well.

tbh that is all you need for a truly exceptional product, not just in gaming. And it's insanely hard to do that.

Dungeon Keeper is still one of the best games I played after all these years and I will die defending it on this hill.

[thomasz]

Yes. But strangely, he always promised wide simulations of worlds with fascinating emergent behavior. But even his truly great games were never like that. But it took journalism roughly 25 years to notice.