The official DEUS EX thread

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

er whoops. fuckin browser.

went with alan wake instead, super cheap

noooooooooooo

hahaha you just jumped from my most hated game of this year so far to my most hated game of 2010

lol that was a tragic exchange

adam jensen is kind of a douchey character to play but alan wake is a pretentious whiner you want strangle.

adam jensen saw the dark knight a few years ago and thought christian bale's voice was really cool and decided to talk like that for the rest of his life

Two things so far have confirmed for me "yeah, this is a Deus Ex game" (well, three things if you count the voice acting that veers from competent to jaw-droppingly shit with no warning)- getting told off for going into the ladies' restroom at work, and finding an apartment with a hidden saferoom full of ARMED LAND MINES.