There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev—after all, what are some of the 2000s' best RPGs if not beautiful all-American jankfests?

A lot of my favourite games ever made fall under the expansive rubric of "eurojank." Stalker, the first Witcher, Mount & Blade—the list goes on. But maybe it's a little unfair to confine the jank phenomenon exclusively to Europe. After all, what is 2004 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, which is still getting fan patches 22 years later, if not a prime cut of jank?

So says Andrii Verpakhovskyi, designer on the original Stalker games, in a recent interview in Edge magazine. "Some...