The official DEUS EX thread

*forehead*

I played for like an hour. Story/production seems A+. Gameplay is a little bland but it's early. World needs to be more interactive. Enemy AI is kinda weak. Overall, hard not to be impressed at the start.

edit: i am wrong about the onlive pass acting as a second copy apparently.

oh god, that video

uhh what - offer beer (hot devil)?

this game is pretty dope even if the combat kiiiinda sucks and sometimes Im not exactly sure what I should be doing and I end up murdering 25 gang members rather than be clever about sneaking around their compound.

my vacation has been cut short by mandatory hurricane evacuation so this is going to be what i'm doing this weekend!

nerdery upon nerdery:

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/1450/gurpsindx3.jpg

i take it this is a shot from the main character's room. upper left is a GURPS book.

of course it is

Buy it. Ten hours in my GOTY so far

kind of hate how some side quests require certain augments to complete. level 1 hacking not gonna cut it.

i thought playing all. the. way. through. invisible war would handily save me $60 on this one but now you guys have ruined that thanks a lot

kind of hate how some side quests require certain augments to complete.

hatred for this makes total sense and i wouldn't call what i'm about to do "disagreement" but oh my god this is exactly what i want from deus ex

do like the look of most of this, even though the enemy ai looks laughable.

also one thing i notice with this and the first deus ex game was how the external environments always look like fake film sets.

but overall graphics look really impressive.

that video is so um

btw, this game is basically a remake of deus ex 1 -- at least structurally. the plot is slightly different but it progresses (at least so far) in the exact same way. 1) opening mission 2) return to base (UNESCO/SERIF) 3) big city crawl (NYC/Detroit) 4) Warehouse excursion to shut down a satellite 5) Off to Japan/China. It even has similarly named characters: Jenson/Denton, Manderlay, Tong, etc. It'll be very recognizable to any fans of the original. It's also -- weirdly -- not as good as the original, tho it's good enough to definitely justify playing.

I wonder if I'm going to end up in Paris soon taking orders from a rogue AI.

(no airport level, tho... yet)

my resistance is crumbling, i'm going to buy this

u will enjoy it.

that video is so um

― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

has nothing on every single person in dx1's hong kong sequence

North American ilxors who don't care about a physical product can get this cheapish- Amazon has their digital download for $35, including a couple of bullshit preorder weapons that will be either game-breakingly overpowered or completely useless. If you buy it but don't download it from them, you can go to your Games Library, copy the CD key, plug it right into Steam, and hey presto.

oh and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y414Q7vVgYU

i just realised i actually want this, apparently it is like deus ex but with all the cringeworthy stuff taken out

okay i have not done pc games in a while. can anyone tell me how likely i am to be able to run this playably with a 2.3ghz dual core, 3gb ram, 512mb graphics card? - this is technically within their specs but you know i don't know if i trust it. also if i buy a boxed copy can i get that to work on steam, is that doable somehow

it's pretty cringeworthy at times

no 'ronald reagan wrote about america as a city on a hill' introduction tho right

that dance video, lol at 1:20

xp no, but some embarrassing racism

i tried to pick up this game at an actual store last night for instant gratification, but apparently it's sold out everywhere.

that's got to be good news, right?

i am debating ordering it via physical media in order to i. save £2 ii. have a memento iii. make myself do more productive things for the extra ~ 72 hours

these not necessarily in order of importance

is anyone here playing it on spec as not-awesome as i will be

Is anyone playing this on a console? Haven't kept a PC up to date to standards, but I have a PS3. Note that I usually hate FPS games on consoles, but tolerated Portal 2.

i'm playing it on the 360. i love it, but i don't play fps's on the PC

the references to a police kerfuffle in 'mexicantown' was pretty o_O for me..

I'm playing on PS3 and it's great. The combat seems a bit fiddly but I'm more of a stealthy h4x0r anyway.

It does feel impressively like the original. Including the o_O racist stereotypes, box-throwing physics and guards who let you hide in a vent and shoot their shins, but that's all part of the charm really. I didn't like the hacking minigame at first, but actually it's quite fun.

if anything i think it's actually more racist than the original!

(or maybe i'm just older now...)

it's too bad, i was looking forward to something new, but oppet's post kinda turning me off. and the racism. that video up there, man. and "mexicantown". who writes these fukkin things?

if it helps, the game really is tremendous. so much fun, amazing theme, cool toys, open worldy. it just, yeah, has racist moments that are supremely uncomfortable.

like at one point you can antagonize the chinese bouncer by saying, "you all look the same to me," which - u don't have to say that, u can be nice but why even include that as an option?

weren't we all brainstorming a while ago that LA Noire should have been like Truth | Doubt | Lie | Racism

Posted by Larry Jackson on 27 August 11 at 9:25pm
I attended PAX (gamer convention) today and asked one of the reps about this, his name was kyle and he stated that the game was made by a french company and blamed it on their view of the rest of the worl and then said well it is what it is and kinda didn’t really seem to have a problem with the content, I told him that not everyone shared his Laissez-faire attitude about it.

lol blame the french

thread crossover, we're talking about "it is what it is" on the innocuously angry thread

but really tho who writes these things??

tbqh i've probably heard more spoken dialogue coming out of video games than films i've watched over the past 10-odd years. video games, even the biggest most respected titles, really fail on like human-level basics of writing. it's amazing. all that money and it's still garbage.

xps ahh, the french

That also is going to piss off actual french people, since the game was made by french canadians, lol

I mean, unless Eidos Montreal is in France

haaaaa

i laughed at the helpful last line here (w/ wikilink of course):

It’s not racism, it’s not sexism, it’s not anything but a cog in the mechanics of a game that tells a deep and social message that one can’t get from just a seven minute clip. It’s akin to pointillism paintings where dots of pure color were applied in patterns to canvas and while close up it looked like nothing but a dot, from far away – and viewed as a whole – it create an image. The most famous of these types of paintings was Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat.

oh jesus christ

fucking nerds

I feel like an idiot making excuses for what is some p offensive stereotyping, but I think I give it a pass because i) the game is really really good and ii) the writing and acting are terrible for all the characters so it is more inept than offensive (to this white male of privilege). Isn't there a Burzum thread which will give me the answers I need?