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Huh, I don't know if it was GMDX's fault or what, but when I got taken prisoner at MJ12 and made it to the armory, my GEP gun was nowhere to be found. Can you lose stuff if you had too many items going in?
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etalian posted:It's also has a White Phosphorus Rocket round which is really hilarious to use on groups of enemies. poo poo video gamers say. https://forums.somethingawful.com/newreply.php?action=newreply&postid=474429777 One thing I've never understood is that somehow explosives' blast radius will stop at walls for player damage, but they ignore walls & static objects for furniture breakage purposes.
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Jul 17, 2017 10:54
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If I had to guess, I'd imagine they put in a check for the player to avoid bullshit deaths (probably just a raytrace) but it was too expensive to do more than once in a frame.
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Jul 17, 2017 14:36
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Just finished MD after a year hiatus. I got it on PS4 because I didn't have a gaming PC at the time, and I spent $90 on it in a misguided effort to signal my love for Deus Ex to Square Enix. I made a big mistake picking the higher difficulty mode. I found out pretty late in the game that aim assist was a thing I could turn on, and I found out after beating the game (painstakingly) that there's actually a reticle when you take your gun out. I always just thought shooting from cover was loving useless... I really didn't like the sense of constantly being starved for bioenergy, and I really didn't like that the only melee you can do is with those stupid cutscenes that disrupt the flow, disorient you, and take up your energy, so you have no choice but to stare at an enemy while he shoots you in the face because you are too le tired to dispatch him.
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Jul 18, 2017 15:35
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I started it and was amazed to see in my first 10 minutes that there's an actual cash shop that lets you buy praxis kits for £1 each and some weird QR code thing that appears as actual pickups in the world. I was so confused, I assumed there was an in-game phone that my guy had, but nope it's actually asking me to install an app on my real phone and then scan my monitor. The tutorial stage is really goofy and not as good as the one in the last game. I sort of stopped playing when the helicopter got ambushed and you can't see a thing because smoke grenades or something filled the entire area. I'll go back in the future but that left a bad taste.
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Jul 18, 2017 22:21
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Yep, they're so desperate to get additional revenue for it. I gave them $90 for the whatever ultimate edition on PS4 and now the game costs $17 on Amazon. Go me.
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Jul 18, 2017 22:46
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Yeah the addition of microtransactions in the game really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's funny, I know the game is better without them since they're effectively paid cheat codes, but my brain balks at the idea of being nickel-and-dimed anyway.
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Jul 19, 2017 05:54
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You can just play the game without ever actually seeing those things
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Jul 20, 2017 00:12
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jojoinnit posted:You can just play the game without ever actually seeing those things I think the problem is more so that the preorder DLC was in fact a one time use cheat code. Which pissed off a lot of people when the game was new.
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Jul 20, 2017 00:14
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Party Plane Jones posted:I think the problem is more so that the preorder DLC was in fact a one time use cheat code. Which pissed off a lot of people when the game was new.
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Jul 20, 2017 00:29
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Xander77 posted:Did something change so that it's no longer pissing people off? Yes, everyone stopped playing.
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Jul 20, 2017 00:37
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Xander77 posted:Did something change so that it's no longer pissing people off?
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Jul 20, 2017 02:02
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jojoinnit posted:You can just play the game without ever actually seeing those things Even so, for some reason just knowing they're there annoys me. Whenever you gently caress up or can't do something because you don't have the right aug you feel like maybe they want you to fork out some dough.
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Jul 20, 2017 17:36
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Lemon-Lime posted:It's the most silent takedown. Paul, I...I...I thought you were a GEP gun.
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Jul 20, 2017 17:42
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jojoinnit posted:You can just play the game without ever actually seeing those things I saw them in the first 10 minutes, it really takes you out of the game. If I'm playing some sort of single-player thing, then part of it is letting yourself be immersed in it. It's greeeeeeaaaaasy. I have no idea if there's anything else that they're going to nickle and dime me with past the tutorial.
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Jul 20, 2017 17:51
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I was a lot more pissed off by the whole missing a third act thing personally. Also how the DLC was so obviously ripped right out of the main game.
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Jul 20, 2017 17:52
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You have to give Square Enix credit, they managed to kill Hitman and Deus Ex in the span of like a year and also tanked Tomb Raider's sales for good measure. At least IOI got to keep the Hitman IP and Tomb Raider is still getting another entry.
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Jul 20, 2017 18:39
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/2000-Deus-Ex-RARE-Press-Pack-John-Romero/272771728014
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Jul 21, 2017 20:38
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Guy Mann posted:You have to give Square Enix credit, they managed to kill Hitman and Deus Ex in the span of like a year and also tanked Tomb Raider's sales for good measure. At least IOI got to keep the Hitman IP and Tomb Raider is still getting another entry. Yeah it's amazing, especially since if you'd told my teenage self in '94 that Square and Enix would eventually merge to publish games, my erection would have been visible from space.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:13
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Its a shame JC never got those sideburns in game. And do I take this auction to mean John Romero is living in Ireland and he's so broke he's auctioning off his own crap? (check the other listings. He's also got a sealed copy of Daikatana that he also offers to sign if you want lol I think John Romero might be someone's bitch)
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Jul 22, 2017 11:33
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GDMX is really good. Revision makes a lot of good changes, but also a lot of bad changes which ultimately makes it worse than the original. GDMX is mostly good as it makes much more subtle changes and balances the game much better. The game is more challenging, but in a fun way. I don't have a single complaint as the only things I don't like you can disable in the menu. Perks are kind of useless since their cost is so low and you're gonna take all of them anyway so you may as well just make them part of the skills.
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Jul 22, 2017 12:29
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The debate about whether games are art is over. I just went to an gallery in London to see an exhibition about dystopia and they had this set up:
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Jul 22, 2017 17:43
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Mr. Flunchy posted:The debate about whether games are art is over. I just went to an gallery in London to see an exhibition about dystopia and they had this set up: I'm in London. Which gallery?
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Jul 22, 2017 17:50
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jojoinnit posted:I'm in London. Which gallery? Barbican.
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I've done a few playthroughs of Give Me Deus Ex 9.0 and drat it's good. I don't think I could play vanilla again especially considering the improvements made to the AI. The rebalancing of game mechanics was done very thoughtfully and made it so every skill is valuable-- no more ignoring swimming and environmental training. I went master on environmental training on my first playthrough of GMDX because suits can now be taken on and off freely and only consume power when they're "doing something" (bulletproof vests and hazmat only when you take the appropriate type of damage, thermoptic camo still drains constantly though). Tech goggles are useful now too. Half my toolbelt consisted of suits just so I could quickly put them on and take them off.
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Aug 1, 2017 17:13
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Who here likes Errant Signal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN1GJLBM8Wc
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Pretty dull analysis of the game all things considering. Yes yes, it's old and the zeitgeist is different nowadays, we know.
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Hoo boy. I don't disagree with his take on the current sociopolitical climate, but he really goes off the rails for a few minutes about it in a video that on its surface is supposed to be a retrospective on a pulpy 2000 sci-fi video game. Or does he do this in all his videos?
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404notfound posted:Hoo boy. I don't disagree with his take on the current sociopolitical climate, but he really goes off the rails for a few minutes about it in a video that on its surface is supposed to be a retrospective on a pulpy 2000 sci-fi video game. Or does he do this in all his videos? I mean, the "derail" is entirely about how conspiracy theories now aren't the same as conspiracy theories when Deus Ex, a game about conspiracy theories, was made. That's not a derail, that's talking about the game. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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conspiracy theories don't really seem that different. If anything DX was pretty diligent in stripping them of all their nasty subtext so they could just stand as bugfuck sci-fi opera
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Basic Chunnel posted:conspiracy theories don't really seem that different. If anything DX was pretty diligent in stripping them of all their nasty subtext so they could just stand as bugfuck sci-fi opera Sure they are. This was even discussed in the Human Revolution commentary. They couldn't make a game with the exact same tone as the original DX now, because today everyone has heard the word illuminati and conspiracy theories are jokes about lizard men and chem trails. When DX came out, this was not the case.
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Aug 2, 2017 01:04
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People have been making jokes about conspiracy theories since the 1930s
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Lemon-Lime posted:I mean, the "derail" is entirely about how conspiracy theories now aren't the same as conspiracy theories when Deus Ex, a game about conspiracy theories, was made. That's not a derail, that's talking about the game. Every attempt at in-depth analysis or discussion of games is a derail unless it's about how they were all dead the entire time or how a cute thing is actually super deep and hosed up and mature if you think about it.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Sure they are. This was even discussed in the Human Revolution commentary. They couldn't make a game with the exact same tone as the original DX now, because today everyone has heard the word illuminati and conspiracy theories are jokes about lizard men and chem trails. When DX came out, this was not the case. They were always jokes, what makes Deus Ex stand out is that it plays them totally straight. Like if I found out Bob Page was a lizardman I wouldn't even bat an eye
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Him saying that he originally first played Deus Ex as a teenager makes everything fall into place, thinking that the world was a more innocent place in the time before you became politically and socially engaged is like thinking that entertainment peaked when you were 12. Of course, you would think that someone trying to position themselves as a critic would be more aware of such a common cognitive fallacy...
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Guy Mann posted:Him saying that he originally first played Deus Ex as a teenager makes everything fall into place, thinking that the world was a more innocent place in the time before you became politically and socially engaged is like thinking that entertainment peaked when you were 12. Of course, you would think that someone trying to position themselves as a critic would be more aware of such a common cognitive fallacy... This is probably is a big part of it. But still, today if Kayne West mentioned the Illuminati everyone nods and maybe chuckles but they know exactly what he's talking about, and don't think much of it. If LL Cool J started talking about the Illuminati in 2000, it's not that everyone would take him seriously, but most people would be like what the gently caress is he going on about. They won't necessarily take him more seriously, that stuff just wan't a common place pop culture joke yet.
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counterfeitsaint posted:that stuff just wan't a common place pop culture joke yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJeRWZgk1Wk My guess is you either weren't old enough or just weren't paying attention. This poo poo has been around for a long time in pop culture in some form of media or another.
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Guy Mann posted:Him saying that he originally first played Deus Ex as a teenager makes everything fall into place, thinking that the world was a more innocent place in the time before you became politically and socially engaged is like thinking that entertainment peaked when you were 12. Of course, you would think that someone trying to position themselves as a critic would be more aware of such a common cognitive fallacy...
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