What's Your Inspiration in Video Games?

I'm curious what? I mean, this is like the blamelest question. But it carries just about your like, inspirations, a thinking about a journey in video game space. Since you've both been working in it a long time, too, as far as i know, you've prevated most of the things that  that i think about as my go to examples of it, am. And then maybe other games that ave been inspiring to you, ecause i feel like what you're doing is really unique, and especially in the game space.