The official DEUS EX thread

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.

Jensen is basically Timothy Olyphant with the bat vocoder

When I was successful -- such as when I snuck past a room full of guards in a penthouse apartment, and waited for the elevator while listening to them talk about how they were going to kill me -- I wanted to find somebody in real life to high five.

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoFe8hRy42o

I've completed this. I liked it a lot. The multiple endings mechanic was a bit crap.

that video is brilliant

Those elements mixed together is definitely like a sauce.

i have the feeling that video is a damning satire of DX:HR but i don't know enough to say so

is that flappy black thing coming off the dude's forearm in the promo art supposed to be a... knife of some kind? that's really stupid.

i basically would love for this game to be horrible to save me money

I haven't played it either and I can definitely tell you that it is

finally playing this now, it's really fun. i love the metal gear solid-esque corporate espionage vibe.

i don't think i'm especially good at staying unseen and finding the secret paths (and i totally missed the hostages in the first real mission), but i think i'm almost done with the first detroit part. got through the first boss fight thanks to the rocket launcher.

the ridiculous load times kind of serve a purpose in the game, esp. considering how easy it is to die. if i start to curse at the tv, then the game is trying to tell me to find a new path.

yeah im playing it too. it's quite good! probably game of the year, but i havent played Red Orchestra 2 yet (literally the only other viable contender). the most important thing is that it's the closest we'll ever get to another Deus Ex 1, which is why it owns. it's not as dedicated to the altar of player choice as the original, since it incentivizes certain play styles over others. i wanted to do an Arnold-in-Commando type playthrough, but if you're playing the bust-down-the-door route there's no way to play the game other than as a typical whack-a-mole cover shooter. you simply die instantly when not taking cover, even with all the offensive augs. so in my opinion it's really a full-out stealth game, not a game where stealth is but one of many viable play styles. but it's one of the best stealth games in years, and should make anyone anticipating Thi4f feel relieved. i'll probably replay it when i'm done to give it a full stealth playthrough. here's some random thoughts:

-no melee attacks - just cinematic takedowns. this becomes a massive problem with the game as it goes on. not being able to just fuckin HIT shit sucks. the pernicious influence of contardification strikes again
-i like that people reference real sports teams instead of fake ones
-its a stealth game, instead of a game where stealth is an option
-man on the street convos in china hilariously lunkheaded, wish i screenshotted more of them
-stupid fucking cinematic jumping animation means you cant aim where you land
-characters complaining about heat, everyone's dressed like it's winter
-frequently sacrifices thematic coherence for 'coolness'

here's some comedy screenshots i took: http://steamcommunity.com/id/buttcrazybird/screenshots/

running into emails from j manderley made me anticipate how every char from DX is gonna be shoehorned into hr - lil' gunter opens a lemon lime soda, it sprays in his face. he throws it away and swears revenge

-stupid fucking cinematic jumping animation means you cant aim where you land

when I got this upgrade I saved and tried the stun like 10 times to get it to work once. never used again.

totally worth it to not die when accidentally stepping off a ledge or fire escape though.

i never played the o.g. deus ex, so.

does steam do that screenshot library thing automatically for you? huh

i'm convinced i can't run this so i'm going to buy stalker instead

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

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.