I keep hearing that this is one of the best games ever made, should I play it or is it just shills talking?

I keep hearing that this is one of the best games ever made, should I play it or is it just shills talking?

>shills for a 16 year old game
I'd say play it but actually just kill yourself

>shills
>a game from 2000

People will tell you to play, then you'll probably go in thinking it can be played like a pure FPS, end up dying on Liberty Island 5 times in a row, at which point you'll come back to Sup Forums and tell them they lied to you.

It is good, but most people aren't willing to accept that it's an RPG first and an FPS second.

>shilling on a game that old
I don't think you know what shilling is
It plays like brussel sprouts, not particularly fun but good for you.

>Shilling for a game released 16 years ago

Shut the fuck up OP.

With a political agenda.

I played it like a stealth game personally.

It'd be nice if they remade it. I really wish they would have made Human Revolution 3, I suspect the final boss fight in that was going to be Paul Denton and mech augs vs nano augs would have been a real spectacle in 2020.

>implying nostalgia fags don't like dickriding old games

you have to read the books and shit to understand its greatness, also you'll probably get halfway through the game before you have levelled up enough for guns to not be frustrating as fuck

Yeah, but that's besides the point.

The point is that so many players see a gun in their hands and assume they're in for an Unreal Tournament charlie-fragging time, then whine that they can't accurately wield an assault rifle with zero training.

We dick ride old games because they do things modern games forgot about.

There's books?

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Shills detected

Yes, newspapers, porno mags, emails everything

The only correct answer
Holy shit OP

>Shilling a game from a dead studio

Just kill yourself you utter retard.

For some fucking reason I can't get Deus Ex Revision to work.

I'm replaying it rn in fact. It aged very badly but for some reason I just find it incredibly fun. I don't know why, the voice acting sucks, the gameplay sucks, level design is bad, enemy AI is terrible, graphics are bad even for a 2000 game, the augmentations are all boring save for the one that lets you jump higher and even the plot is very boring. But even after all of these things there's a certain charm to it.

You might wanna try some mods, personally for this playthrough im using shifter, it's a shitty mod, completely breaks the AI but you get experience points for takedowns/kills/objectives. In vanilla game you'd get experience points only at specific parts in the game and the amount was invariable, whether you cmpleted all side goals or not, you would always get a fixed amount.

Don't play it OP

Oh well of course. I thought you meant real books, like what Mass Effect got.

Of course its not shills saying its a good game, its a classic, but it also came out a while ago so you probably won't be impressed by much of it.

Further proving that the original Deus Ex is the only good game in the series.

Invisible War and onwards are consolized garbage.

>some incompetent retard giving up after 10 minutes is proof of anything

>Complaining about Deus ex piss easy stealth

Guards had like 0 peripheral vision and they couldn't see past 5 ft, I remember you could actually hide behind a barrel/metal box and push it and the enemy would not notice you. I lost my shit when I was sneaking a terrorist base and a guy saw me and he said "saw someone...must have been a homeless person"

However there was in fact a part I never knew how to sneak into properly, that chinese woman apartment, had no way to get inside without being seen

What was the issue with Invisible War anyways, why do people hate it?

I like them all though ;-;

>final boss fight in that was going to be Paul Denton and mech augs vs nano augs would have been a real

>In 2040 Anna Navarre while working with rookie UNATCO agent Paul Denton kills Adam in an anti-terrorist operation, Paul is horrified of Anna's behaviour. Adam convinces Paul with his dying words to look further into their employeers agenda setting the events of the first game indirectly in motion.

That would be a fitting ending for Adam's trilogy.

Universal ammo. The writing also isn't as good as Deus Ex or Human Revolution. Game was hurt by trying to fuse all three of DE's endings and have it make sense.

deus ex 1 still hasn't retroactively met square enix's sales expectations

It was extremely dumbed down, they removed most of the RPG elements, the augmentations were fucking terrible (and made no sense, the regen aug was located in the fucking eye slot) and there were only like 5 of them.

Also, take a look at the hud

Im just starting to play it for the past weeks and so far I can already see that its strength is in its freedom for approaches.
Im supposed to clear out that hotel, but during my exploration for the best entry point I notice two shady people in an alley.
So I sneak near them and listen to their conversation. Turns out he is a pimp and threatening a girl.
Suddenly he starts attacking her. In the heat of the moment I acted to help her and stun him.
After talking to her I find out more stuff about a criminal legend called JoJo, which gets more focus onwards.

You dont find random moments like that in modern videogames anymore.
It really feels like you're organizing yourself to solve a problem

It's a textbook case of what goes wrong when you make consoles the lead platform:

-tiny levels
-UI designed around controllers that worked like shit for keyboards/mice
-universal ammo pool that rendered multiple weapons entirely useless
-story suffered from trying to make every ending of Deus Ex canon
-PC port was more crash prone than the average Bethesda game

not to mention Alex Denton is an annoying genderbender faggot.

To quote a cancerous YouTube channel, "Pa pa pa pa pa, Play that shit!

Dont fucking forget that the PC version needed an entire HEX hack to work on widescreen

>deus ex 1

But it over sold 1 million copies on Steam alone, that's an insane amount of copies for such an old game.

I think eidos should have remade Invisible War and also fixed everything that was wrong with it

dxhr/md gameplay with invisible war's story and lots of other fixes and stuff would be great

>hex hack
You don't know what that means do you

An early example of PC games being dumbed down for consoles. Before it was released the designers were justifying smaller maps (for OG Xbox) by saying things like "why should i have to walk down a sewer tunnel just to pick up an item whats the point". Basically all the "alternate routes" are crammed together a few feet away from each other.

Well to be fair 1m copies is not a lot considering you can get the game right now for less than $2 (insane value for a 30 hour game despite being old) and $35 for literally all Deus Ex games which is still a good price even if only 2 games out of 5 in that bundle are good.

Invisible War's story just isn't that good, but some of the hubs are at least really interesting. The Cairo arcology where you visit that school for the children of the elite for instance.

yes, it had a fair amount of good ideas that in decent hands would be great

>It aged very badly but for some reason I just find it incredibly fun. I don't know why, the voice acting sucks, the gameplay sucks, level design is bad, enemy AI is terrible, graphics are bad even for a 2000 game, the augmentations are all boring save for the one that lets you jump higher and even the plot is very boring. But even after all of these things there's a certain charm to it.

The entire game is a love note to pre-9/11 conspiracy theories, and you combine that with the quirky characters/storytelling, which gives it a great sense of camp. It also helps that it is, to this day, one of the few action games with real role-playing mechanics, in the sense that characters/things actually respond to your actions.

It's easy for people to denigrate the individual aspects of the game and miss out on how well it holds up holistically.

this

hexadecimal code hack

do you know what that means in practice, as in what you're actually doing?

Editing hexadecimal values in the game code

Good. It's shit.

Alright you're just confirmed to be a fuckin idiot then.

I went in through the roof and disabled a couple of lasers. Managed to get the sword but picking it up sets the alarm off no matter what I think.

It seems Invisible War or Deus Ex 2 was going to feature large levels according to some images from a PC Gamer preview from 2002, probably it was going to be a PC exclusive at first but they changed their minds.

Makes sense. I know they programmed vehicles into the game then took them out because "you would be driving through corridors."

Yeah? that's pretty good. I didn't study programming, I was too busy getting an electromechanical engineering degree, but fuck me, I'm an idiot right? Guess I'll have to dumb my girlfriend now because she won't date idiots. Oh whats that you don't have a girlfriend? It's cool m8, at least you studied programming.

Look, pc gaming wiki described it as a "hex hack", I don't really care what it is, all I know is that I had to download a hex editor, open one of the games files, look for the value for aspect ratio and switch it with one that worked on widescreen. Don't really care if its a hack or not, don't be so autistic about it.

My issue was that the guards would come running looking for me as soon as I disabled the lasers on the roof

autism

yeah I know he got super autistic about it trying to brag he knew programming and others didn't.

>Electromechanical Engineering Degree
>Can't spell "dump"