The official DEUS EX thread

(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?

there might be a seurat thread

mexicantown didn't strike me as that racist, more like a shakey translation by someone who doesn't grasp the connotations.

the number of cardboard boxes you can pick up and do nothing with is kind of weird.

yeah, where the fuck is my crowbar?

mexicantown didn't strike me as that racist, more like a shakey translation by someone who doesn't grasp the connotations.

shakey mo joke here

I guess I hope this game will be such a booming success that they'll hire real writers to work on the next one.

in ten years

Is there a safe way to defuse mines? Every time I get near them they explode without doing any damage.

crouch, move very very slowly. click on them. use them to kill that fucking asshole boss that you're totally unprepared for

argh I was fucking losing it trying to kill the first boss. I'd tried so hard to avoid massive gunfights up til then and was totally unprepared.

my point on mexicantown wasnt so much that it was racist as it was stupid. like really, thats the best you can do?

i really did love the original so i guess i gotta play this at some point

console or pc?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mjZ9peibo

what's even weirder is "the bartender -- the REAL bartender <chuckle>" literally meant nothing to me at that point of the story. was there a fake bartender? i have no idea!

there is a fake bartender of sorts. it involves the persuasion augment.

have started reading an SF novel about posthumanism instead. will wait for the inevitable steam discount.

this guy is often otm http://insultswordfighting.blogspot.com/2011/08/deus-ex-human-revolution.html

xp -- i know, but he's the upstairs bartender! i already met this bartender when i first came in! "he's the real bartender har har" "fuck u asshole i already met this guy and what you're gonna mock me bc your fucking boss likes to roleplay???"

I wonder if this will be on steam sale this weekend. I'm just getting into FO3 again and still need to finish Witcher. Upgrading my graphics card again gives so many more games to play

playing thru this game which has been an excellent experience has seriously whetted my appetite for skyrim

i have a feeling all the stealth stuff is just going to whet my appetite for batman

oh yeah, batman! that's going to be great too.

i have preordered dark souls/skyrim/arkham city and that in some way is preventing me from buying any other triple A games for the foreseeable.

oh dear
http://www.gamesradar.com/deus-ex-racist-square-enix-responds/#303587

this can be had (plus 800 MS points) at argos for £29.99 btw

Did a black woman do the voice? Because if a black woman did the voice it's not racist. That's how it works.

it's £28 on amazon!

i'm so annoyed that physical media costs less than a download that i'm refusing to buy it

also i haven't bought A Proper Videogame in two + years, so if i get this i will basically do nothing else for 48 hours

yup, not bought a proper videogame in about a year I think... tempted by this tho. maybe see if I can pick up LA noire cheap instead

all those disappointed day ones

maybe see if I can pick up LA noire cheap instead

dear god dont do this to yourself

not good? I'm out the loop, looked decent enough

painfully painfully dull, very much an interactive movie in a really well-rendered setting with nothing to do in it.

with just a dash of badly done point and click thrown in for good measure.

i thought it was better than that. i loved it while playing but the experience hasn't stuck with me. worth it used maybe. or you could read the thread for it :D

i thought it was a little better than that. i loved it while playing but the experience hasn't stuck with me. worth it used maybe. or you could read the thread for it :D