The official DEUS EX thread

got through the second boss fight last night, both were really easy (possibly because i over-prepared due to their reptuation...lugged the rocket launcher through half the building for the first boss, saved up all my typhoons for the second one).

still really enjoying this game, except for all the loading.

i really liked this for a few hours but the weird empty nothing-to-do city hubs and "make your own path" gameplay that turned out to be "1. air duct or 2. shoot everyone" and pointless upgrade system kinda wore on me. some of the levels are super hallway repetitive too, i just started slaughtering motherfuckers so i could get on with the plot. also batman voice.

yeah all those things are true. but i still like sneaking around the buildings enough to keep me going (and the air ducts usually don't let you skip the guards completely, maybe they'll get you past one occupied room and deposit you in another one).

I kinda went into 'kill everyone' mode once I got on the tanker to antarctica or whatever..

I was v. tempted to lug the rocket launcher around for the first boss fight, but I didn't bother in the end, and got past him pretty easy by lobbing grenades and running a lot. Just started the not-Hong-Kong missions now.

Running through air ducts and and hiding from guards never gets boring for me. Putting a pistol through someone's head then hiding them in the air-con system fills me with psychopathic glee.

What's people's upgrade system? I'm saving upgrade points then spending them when I think I need a boost, but I don't know if I'm missing a trick by not spending any money on snazzy stealth upgrades or whatever.

mostly i waited to upgrade until running into something i couldn't do, like fall without dying/jump over a fence/hack something/carry something. but now i'm finally messing around with the cloaking, it certainly makes sneaking around less painstaking.

h8 this stupid game that I suck at

I suck at this game too, but it's great fun. Auto-save is my friend but it is also my nemesis, always depositing me in full view of a guard unless I duck as soon as my game loads.

The worst thing with games is when you don't know what the game wants you to do, and I'm finding that a lot with Deus Ex. I'm getting gradually better, but the multi-level map thing is still hella confusing.

/looks at loading screen

Hey, if it wasn't for the loading screens then I would probably have forgotten that LIMB clinics are open 24/7 for all my augmentation needs.

finished this last night

i love games where you can save at any time, especially in the middle of boss fights and before deciding on a forking path. i think this is the main reason i'm not cut out to play dark souls, like, ever.

yeah that game sounds like masochism

this game (HR) is pretty great much of the time but yeah theres some dum dumb ai and whoa the racial stuff is pretty fucked tbh, even when i try to give some sorta combo of dudes watched the wire but didnt get it/maybe they dont have not white people in montreal excuse something comes along thats pretty O_O

its kinda weird re:difficulty too? like 80% of the time most of the difficulty comes from my own decisions not to just plug dudes in the skull and find the alternate way around the confrontation - but then there are times where the difficulty spikes a ton and suddenly yer staring at that goddamn whirly loading screen thing for half an hour until you just go play skyrim or something

what platform are you playing on? I don't think my PC is up to par, wondering if it's worth it on console (PS3)

is this worth paying $20 to own on ps3? I have a copy from gamefly but don't have time to play; am half tempted to buy it and just keep it for when i have time/am paralyzed

(same question for mortal kombat btw)

i am playing on 360 - console seems to actually work pretty well. after being really into mortal kombat i lost interest and actually traded it in to get skyrim so idk

i think mortal kombat was my first understanding of the modern truth of fight stick or gtfo, the precision required was pertty daunting with a straight controller and made wins/losses seem full on random which is NAGL for fighting (and driving) games IMO

but yeah i am liking deus ex hr way way more than i expected to, i pretty much bought it in that "well i oughta be at least conversant wrt this" way but quickly became enamoured, despite the main character being a cardboard gritty half assed max payne. lots of the aug stuff is annoying because its really easy to hit a frustration point and just blow an upgrade on something useful RIGHT NOW only to find that its either mostly useless or else just leads to another thing to waste an upgrade on. the hacking minigame is just a time spammer nightmare with minimal strategy pretty much based on luck with pointlessly fiddly controls which is weird considering its just a button press. but yeah it looks great and theres some def effort in the atmosphere and vibe of the thing, although theres this weird thing where i keep hearing a woman screaming in the background like every 3 minutes or so that is deeply unnerving in a not well thought out way. as a whole though
(and note i have not finished it and am at a super frustrating point atm) it seems well worth $20 - idk if i buy the idea all the reviewers had about it rewarding multiple playthroughs, im pretty sure that i will be plenty done with this on a single run, but the good def outweighs the bad (so far)

eh, 40 bucks for MK and DE seems fair. Taking the plunge.

MK was easily worth $20 to me, just for the single player ridiculousness in the story mode

Much like Saints Row, it's a really embarassing game to own, but a lot of fun

re: the original

I got around 5 minutes into it. The first mission is to execute some random person without any reason given. Not my idea of fun so I quit the game without doing it.

re the first Deus Ex? that is not the first mission.

not to mention that when you get the dude in the first mission you're given the option not to kill him

get to* the dude

...and the original has a famously slow start. It was probably worth playing for an hour before quitting. I can't imagine playing it now tho.

actually the original is kinda famous for how awesome that first level is...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqvcmmjvW31r2ni29o1_500.gif

this is kinda good? i'm into it. got most of the way through it before figuring out i kinda hated my build and started over.

i am choosing the appreciate the bad combat mechanics as an incentive to play it as a stealth game, which is more fun anyway.

and like most marquee title 'thinky' games it is just above being totally stupid.

the guy who v/o'd your boss is way bad

my favorite bit is playing as sort-of pacifist but rewiring turrets to gun everybody down. i carried one of those things around a whole map once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r4XM-sDJt8

yeah it took me a while, playing this w expectations created by the robustness of the first one, to notice that literally all the environments are carefully constructed so that you can stealthily tuck-and-roll from one piece of cover to another, and that that's what you're supposed to do. goole otm about hacking turrets being the most satisfying thing in here. i wish the boss fights had turrets.

AI curiously uninterested in rooms with computers in them right after a turret goes haywaire

ai curiously uninterested in an awful lot

still better than Invisible War, which was a relief to me

invisible war actually probably has a better plot, but nobody noticed because the game is so completely terrible and has no atmosphere. the atmosphere in this one goes a loooooooooooooong way.

one of the minor things that disappoints me about this one is that it sets up this whole lovingly art-directed corporate-dystopia near future, and then every single person in the game is monomaniacally obsessed with "augmentation". like, there are no other issues. disappointing after dx1's premise of "every conspiracy theory ever is simultaneously true except the roswell greys are bioengineered".

which in itself was kind of a great meta-joke. you get to area 51 and the game's like haha of course there aren't ALIENS here, that would be RIDICULOUS.

this is kinda good? i'm into it. got most of the way through it before figuring out i kinda hated my build and started over.

i am choosing the appreciate the bad combat mechanics as an incentive to play it as a stealth game, which is more fun anyway.

― goole, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and like most marquee title 'thinky' games it is just above being totally stupid.

the guy who v/o'd your boss is way bad

my favorite bit is playing as sort-of pacifist but rewiring turrets to gun everybody down. i carried one of those things around a whole map once.

― goole, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

oh you mean human revolution. smh at saying you're playing 'this' in a thread for the original game

one of the minor things that disappoints me about this one is that it sets up this whole lovingly art-directed corporate-dystopia near future, and then every single person in the game is monomaniacally obsessed with "augmentation". like, there are no other issues. disappointing after dx1's premise of "every conspiracy theory ever is simultaneously true except the roswell greys are bioengineered".

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:54 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which in itself was kind of a great meta-joke. you get to area 51 and the game's like haha of course there aren't ALIENS here, that would be RIDICULOUS.

― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:54 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol otm

oh don't get all old timey pc gamer on me

the guy who voices sarif is one of the best things about dxhr btw! he sounds like will arnett

oh don't get all old timey pc gamer on me

― goole, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:51 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark

it was just confusing, mate. i dont know why you'd make no attempt to identify what you were playing

the whole last year of the thread is talking about HR! sorry m8

anyway, cool game. weirdly, it's got some big problems, sort of one-trick in its gameplay, and isn't exactly 'exciting', but still engrosses. i think cos the quests take some time to finish, maybe? somewhat mysterious

i think i just enjoy progessing through office buildings stealthily

my second playthrough of dxhr was a lot less rewarding than the first. but the first time was pretty good. not something i'll revisit again (unlike og DX) but i respect the job they did

the guy who voices sarif is one of the best things about dxhr btw! he sounds like will arnett

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:51 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think he sounds like fred armisen in the californians

lol