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NecroBob posted:Has anyone played through the game without drawing a weapon or attacking any NPCs? Apparently there are people who can complete the game without inventory or skills. No idea how though. Best I could do was a 100% non-lethal run, and that got tedious fast.
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Underflow posted:Apparently there are people who can complete the game without inventory or skills. No idea how though. Best I could do was a 100% non-lethal run, and that got tedious fast. I thought non-lethal was pretty good fun. I seem to remember seeing a clip from a no skills or items run where the guy was using things like gas barrels to attack NPCs, so I don't know if it's possible without at least that step.
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May 30, 2011 12:38
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:I thought non-lethal was pretty good fun. I seem to remember seeing a clip from a no skills or items run where the guy was using things like gas barrels to attack NPCs, so I don't know if it's possible without at least that step. Yes, saw that one too. That guy does all sorts of impressive stuff. I did like the non-lethal run, but the scarcity of tranq darts in BioMod got on my nerves a bit. Made me want to replay in GEP everything that moves mode immediately after.
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May 30, 2011 13:47
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Pfft, a ranged non-lethal game? Where's the fun in that!
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May 30, 2011 13:49
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My funzone is augmented.
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May 30, 2011 15:39
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Underflow posted:Best I could do was a 100% non-lethal run, and that got tedious fast. Christ, I'm the complete opposite. After I finished my non-lethal run I tried to go back and do a lethal run. So incredibly tedious and just a general feeling of dissatisfaction with every kill. Like there was no more challenge or threat or panic-equipping the pepper spray to hopelessly stun everyone around me before whipping out my baton.
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May 30, 2011 15:55
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If my play history is accurate, JC Denton is a brutal, murderous psychopath with a particular affinity for jumping off tall things to chop people in the head with a sword. In his free time he enjoys setting pigeons on fire and denying candy to children.
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May 30, 2011 16:00
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XausF1 posted:Christ, I'm the complete opposite. After I finished my non-lethal run I tried to go back and do a lethal run. So incredibly tedious and just a general feeling of dissatisfaction with every kill. Like there was no more challenge or threat or panic-equipping the pepper spray to hopelessly stun everyone around me before whipping out my baton. (NOTE: This was all using Shifter mod) See, I did a melee-only non-lethal playthrough and it was pretty challenging. Then I did a Realistic melee-only kill-everything-killable with full augs, and it was a blast. I loved rushing into a room and cutting everything down before anyone knew what happened. One scene stuck out: the castle with Gunther. Normally pretty tedious, but I had the EMP aug, full speed, full regen, full unarmed, and the Dragon Tooth sword. I did this little figure-8 around the area, and realized that I'd just killed everything on the ground. Sounds strange, but for the first time in a long time, it felt bad rear end, like the augs were finally worth something.
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May 30, 2011 16:09
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Grand Fromage posted:If my play history is accurate, JC Denton is a brutal, murderous psychopath with a particular affinity for jumping off tall things to chop people in the head with a sword. In his free time he enjoys setting pigeons on fire and denying candy to children. My morality is augmented.
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May 30, 2011 16:10
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XausF1 posted:Christ, I'm the complete opposite. After I finished my non-lethal run I tried to go back and do a lethal run. So incredibly tedious and just a general feeling of dissatisfaction with every kill. Like there was no more challenge or threat or panic-equipping the pepper spray to hopelessly stun everyone around me before whipping out my baton. My first play was a stealthy, non-lethal (until I got the dragon's tooth...  ) run and now I can't play it any other way. Who the hell goes in guns-blazing? That's so boring!
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May 30, 2011 17:11
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XausF1 posted:Christ, I'm the complete opposite. After I finished my non-lethal run I tried to go back and do a lethal run. So incredibly tedious and just a general feeling of dissatisfaction with every kill. Like there was no more challenge or threat or panic-equipping the pepper spray to hopelessly stun everyone around me before whipping out my baton. Yeah, you're not wrong there; I just realised I haven't played the game since those back-to-back non-lethal/GEPstapo runs. Think I'll install Windows on a partition of my main machine for that Nameless Mod plus the HD texture pack - and Anachronox if possible. Oh, and IW while I'm at it.
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May 30, 2011 17:14
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Underflow posted:Anachronox  Where can I get that game nowadays?
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May 30, 2011 17:43
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Revener posted:
I found it at a fleamarket, but Amazon has it.
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May 30, 2011 19:06
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Anachronox should really be sold on GoG, it fits the bill pretty well
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May 30, 2011 19:11
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Cicadalek posted:Anachronox should really be sold on GoG, it fits the bill pretty well It might happen. GOG is announcing a new publisher on June 2nd and it might be SquareEnix, which owns Eidos these days. That would also mean DX on GOG. And maybe Thief!
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May 30, 2011 21:32
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Cray posted:It might happen. GOG is announcing a new publisher on June 2nd and it might be SquareEnix, which owns Eidos these days. That would also mean DX on GOG. And maybe Thief! I'd pay them a hundred bucks if they put up a version of Thief which works on startup. I'd love to replay the games (favorite series ever), but the thought of spending several days just to get them running is not appealing anymore.
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May 30, 2011 21:46
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Yeah, Thief is one of these games than can work flawlessly on a modern system, Win7 and widescreen and all, but it requires some work. Pretty much a perfect match for GOG.
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May 31, 2011 07:42
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Sam. posted:My morality is augmented. My ethics are flexible.
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May 31, 2011 12:16
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Does anyone find themselves missing the voice acting in Deus Ex? It was all very down to earth and, more important, believable. Even the impossibly dry segments, it just all fit together. I recently played Homefront (in the hope it would actually capture some of the excitement of Red Dawn or World in Conflict (it doesn't)) and it kinda clicked how over-the-top a lot of voice acting is.
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Revener posted:Does anyone find themselves missing the voice acting in Deus Ex? It was all very down to earth and, more important, believable. Even the impossibly dry segments, it just all fit together. I recently played Homefront (in the hope it would actually capture some of the excitement of Red Dawn or World in Conflict (it doesn't)) and it kinda clicked how over-the-top a lot of voice acting is. That's good writing, not good voice acting. The writing is definitely great (in fact, the writing is what makes Deus Ex the greatest game ever made), but they could have done better with the voice acting.
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Sam. posted:That's good writing, not good voice acting. The writing is definitely great (in fact, the writing is what makes Deus Ex the greatest game ever made), but they could have done better with the voice acting. The writing certainly didn't hurt, but I really do mean the voice acting.
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Jun 1, 2011 21:19
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Is there a good editor or way to modify save files for the original Deus Ex? I'm doing another playthrough and kind of want to mess with stuff like augs and inventory. Or is the best way to just use some console cheats? Google wasn't very helpful regarding save editors.
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Jun 1, 2011 21:26
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You can add any aug/skillpoint/weapon/item you want using the console. See here and here.
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The voice acting was alright at the start and just kind of steadily declined in quality the further you went from New York. I think the main reason it didn't detract from gameplay was that all the voices you heard the most were well done, or at least not distractingly bad. Bob Page and Simons were pretty good, and Jacobson's voice still has an automatic calming effect on me
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Cicadalek posted:The voice acting was alright at the start and just kind of steadily declined in quality the further you went from New York. I think the main reason it didn't detract from gameplay was that all the voices you heard the most were well done, or at least not distractingly bad. Bob Page and Simons were pretty good, and Jacobson's voice still has an automatic calming effect on me I'm not counting the "Hello I am a Chinese Guy in Chinese City. Goodbye." voices.  I still think those are a meta-joke.
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Cray posted:Yeah, Thief is one of these games than can work flawlessly on a modern system, Win7 and widescreen and all, but it requires some work. Pretty much a perfect match for GOG. Is Thief really that hard to get working? Last time all I had to do was set processor affinity to one core and it worked just fine. No widescreen support, but no problems either.
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Revener posted:I'm not counting the "Hello I am a Chinese Guy in Chinese City. Goodbye." voices. "Mistah JC Denton, in da fresh"
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Sam. posted:"Mistah JC Denton, in da fresh" I choose to believe that Deus Ex got all the voices and accents completely right and it is the real world that does it wrong.
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The only things that cheer me up about the gritty future will be the comical Australian club girls and the not-quite South African-sounding class warrior/bartender.
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Cicadalek posted:The voice acting was alright at the start and just kind of steadily declined in quality the further you went from New York. I think the main reason it didn't detract from gameplay was that all the voices you heard the most were well done, or at least not distractingly bad. Bob Page and Simons were pretty good, and Jacobson's voice still has an automatic calming effect on me I found the Morpheus voice the most calming. Which is weird because I think it was the same actor as Walton Simons who, since I've heard him again recently, sounds like an amateur. Sam. posted:"Mistah JC Denton, in da fresh" From the Human Revolution thread:  …  Poppleganger fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jun 2, 2011 |
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FlyingCheese posted:I'm using the steam version + Shifter and the Deus Ex "Fixer" posted in the OP. Reposting this. I would really like to replay the Deus Ex (probably 7-8th time). I guess I could go back to running it natively without the Fixer but it seems to work for everyone else. I don't know what's wrong.
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Poppleganger posted:I found the Morpheus voice the most calming. Which is weird because I think it was the same actor as Walton Simons who, since I've heard him again recently, sounds like an amateur. That would be Tom Hall, co-founder of Ion Storm. A professional voice actor he ain't. quote:From the Human Revolution thread: what
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Wait, is that what DX3 is actually going to look like A preview build leaked, while being insanely optimized the graphics probably aren't as good as the final product will be.
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ToxicFrog posted:Is Thief really that hard to get working? Last time all I had to do was set processor affinity to one core and it worked just fine. No widescreen support, but no problems either. On XP the processor affinity was also the only thing I had to do, but on Win7 the graphics would glitch out/look muddy and the videos would not play unless I used fan-made fixes. It's not "hard" if you're at all computer literate, but it requires a bit of effort.
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Poppleganger posted:From the Human Revolution thread: I hate when games attempt to give a character personality in their voice or appearance instead of having interesting things to say.
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I just realized that you can use cigarettes as basically a single shot peppergun. This goddamn game.
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TIL that there are people in the world who thought the voice acting in DX was anything but borderline terrible.
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Stuntman posted:I just realized that you can use cigarettes as basically a single shot peppergun. This goddamn game. Are you serious? I thought it just hurt your health a bit. This, plus zyme-induced bullettime, and I'm going to incapacitate a room of guys by running around and smoking in their faces.
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Dr_Fever posted:TIL that there are people in the world who thought the voice acting in DX was anything but borderline terrible.
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