Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900...

Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it’s about time for a Deus Ex thread.

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>Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed

Cause most people were farmers back then

Only about 40%, automation hadn't kicked off yet so it was easier to have a trade and be self employed

>mfw paul wont talk to me in his apartment
>mfw been quicksaving only through the whole playtrough
>mfw happened two times in a row starting the game from the beginning

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I know the commander because he's my pal.

>in HR, the Illuminati use HAARP and Panchea in conjunction under the guise of "solving Global Warming" to manipulate the weather so they can exploits its effects for power
Is this game more redpilled than we thought?

Here's a picture.

think your game's broke or you're doing something dumb

You can trust me

Really though why are corporations allowed to pay so little?

Stick with the ____
____ with the ____

did you break the chair he was sitting on when you first visited him? the same thing happened to me, i think breaking it fucked up his AI somehow

Weren't you listening when he said, "WELCOME TO THE COALITION, JC. I MIGHT AS WELL START USING COKE"? Paul has been using drugs and you need to get him some help.

gep
gep gep

P A U L

Breaking the individual to be easier to control

OLD MEN
RUNNING THE WORLD
A NEW AGE

While the whole answer is incredibly long-winded and takes place over a long period of time, it can be boiled down to corporate culture and money ruling our nation. Money rules the government, and money rules the corps themselves. This is also why American CEO salaries have skyrocketed but worker wages have stagnated for decades.

I don't know when it stops, but we'll probably be dead when the whole thing goes tits up.

Why are you locked in the bathroom?

What a shame

HAARP can't manipulate weather IRL. It's a giant radio station.

Within the week.

No. Within six months.

Consolidation and lobbying over the last century. Plutocrats used shady methods to work their way into the governing bodies of the western world, and since rarely anybody cares about economics outside of "how much stuff can I buy with my money and how much can I get from my job", they've basically been able to strip the power from smaller businesses subtly through economic policy. Economic policy that are pitched as "helpful to the public" ie. raising minimum wage, but in actuality continue to snuff out the chances of any small business providing serious competition for a large corporation.

And now, not only do they have control over our government, they own our media and school system as well. They aren't doing this because they want more money, they're doing it for control.

Desperate. Your turn.

Desperate

I've had this happen to a key plot character later in the game. I had to enable cheats and spawn a second one with console commands.

A bomb's a bad choice for close range combat.

>We'll never get a conspiracy filled, cyberpunk sci fi, action RPG like Deus Ex ever again

It's too bad the series is about pushing social agenda and black lives matter references now. They should just hire Ross Scott to direct a new Deus Ex game.

Had this too last time I played, there's some fix with cheats if you google it

Yes...

thank you for correcting the record.

>lets replace real conspiracies with corporate funded controversies
totally deus ex guise

I was thinking, you could kinda do a STALKER-esque game with a setting where the UN took over the United States
>set in 203X where a supposedly russian/syrian/korean/whatever nuke hit the United States, UN swooped in, congress allowed the UN to have emergency powers over the US government and this has continued for a decade or so with no end in sight
>US is a 1984-esque surveillance state outside of some lawless "problem areas" where criminals and terrorists make it nearly impossible for the UN to control, the largest of which the game is set in
>wander around this problem area, basically the zone from STALKER, collecting firearms and valuable loot for cash while avoiding bandits, religous zealots, and horrible genetic experiments that the UN are testing for combat inside
>end of the game ally yourself with one of the factions
>a.) join the NSF-esque "terrorists", storm the main UN stronghold in the US, take over their nukes and find all their plans about the insidious shit they were doing
>b.) join one of the gangs and become head honcho of the whole zone
>c.) ally with the UN and finally get the zone under control
kinda stupid but just an idea I had

Got any proof to the contrary?

It's all in the numbers.

That's a very interesting concept that sounds like it'd be a good game. But I think everyone just really wants another game more like Deus Ex, I really just want a (proper) sequel desu

Get the hell out of here Denton

I never played this series and I'm doing a chronological run, so I'll start with HR (it's the first in the timeline right ?). I wanted to know if Invisible Wars is worth it

I like to pick my nose

It's not as good as the other 3 but still worth playing simply as a continuation to the originals story

If it was a cross between Fallout, Dude Sex and STALKER I could see it working, but like the other user said, it'd have to be a new IP, and a lot of people just want more Dude Sex.

Laugh it up Denton

>a cross between Fallout, Dude Sex and STALKER
This is my wet dream

That would be fucking amazing, somebody get on this

I understand that people get annoyed with agendas being pushed but desu I think there would eventually be an aug lives matter if it becomes widespread. There's already backlash and people talking like it's the end of the world with the uncommon practice of people getting chip implants.

>icarus is real
youtube.com/watch?v=JjRyHgF8hx8

I think DX:MD handles anti aug sentiments too simply, it needed more nuance, and the game needed to be double the length as well that would have helped.

what agendas do they push? i ask because im a dirty wageslave too busy/lazy to check things but all i remember about the latest Dude Sex game is the 'aug lives matter' thing and the horrendous DLC/in game purchases that DE:MD had

Why was it okay for Deus Ex to name the jew?

Because if you increase it, they'll move somewhere else.

Yeah a lot of it did feel ham-fisted, my point was just that people think it's only supposed to be supporting black lives matter and not just creating a parallel that could really happen

I haven't played for a while and didn't think about that stuff too much when I did, but I keep seeing people complaining about "aug lives matter" just being the devs giving support to BLM. Just wanted to hopefully let them know about actual backlash that's happening now against people getting chip implants.

Don't you get it? It was a foretelling of now. A sleazy guy using strawman arguments to lure you into believing him. He starts off with facts and then delves into complete nonsense.

Soothe your aching butt, guy. If you let such tiny things ruin entire games for you, pretty soon you'll have nothing left.

+5 credits have been placed into your UNATCO bank account!

i just thought the "aug lives matter" was a free marketing point comparing "social unrest today" to "social unrest future this time with robot people"

opposed to the devs actually giving credence to black lives matter

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>WE GOT A BOGEY

I GOTTA BOOGIE
NO IDEA

Is he unirioncally the greatest video game protagonist of all time?

We take care of our people around here

Probably shitposting, but I just really want to respond seriously.

It feels kinda like cheating to have a guy who's basically just a deadpan loose cannon as someone deserving of a "best protagonist" label. He's certainly a great one, what with all his dialogue, but I can't say he'll ever be the best. My benchmark for good protagonists is always gonna be Shulk, sadly.

arent these the games made by that low test beta cuck liberal?

We're 100% black.

Play them in release order.

Not if you ban their products from your country if they do that.

Don't do this. The first one is shit if you didn't grow up with it.

get the hell out of here denton

I played Deus Ex for the first time last month and loved it, you're talking shit

NUMBER ONE

But the augs were legit terrorists at points. I like the Jensen vs Illuminati stuff more, but they did an ok job with the augs vs humans story.

THAT'S UNATCO

By the time I'm near my death bed the Earth's population will be around 13-15 billion. It's fucking guaranteed that the next black plague styled super virus will wipe us out.

The economy will be great afterwards.

Fuck off cuck.

Deus Ex is a glorified FPS with a few stealth elements and is not a real RPG.

Ah yes. The one low test beta cuck liberal what makes all them games.

That kind of protectionism as a rule disincentivises further investment from multinationals, as they always want to keep their options open. Companies will not see your country as a safe bet for investment anymore.

Yes, deprive your country of products and services on top of jobs and tax revenue.

I wouldn't even say shady methods. It's just the way democracy works. Lobbies will always exist in government. It's the fucking plague of any attempt by humans at organizing anything resembling democracy.

Long term it always turns into oligarchy again.

Shit, meant to quote

Well I've played it on three separate occasions and couldn't stand how boring it is.

That's because you're 12 years old, it has nothing to do with the game.

But I like Morrowind. Deus Ex is just a worse version of that for exploration and a worse version of half life for shooting.

How can you ignore the world, characters and interactions in the game?
It's what makes 80% of it
Just because it isn't a traditional pen and paper inspired CRPG doesn't mean it isn't a roleplaying game.
If you were talking about System Shock you'd be correct, but not Deus Ex.

>dialogue makes it an RPG
>despite the fact that nothing you say or do actually matters and the only real choice you have is at the very end

You have five seconds to talk before I add you to the list of NSF casualties

Oh yes.

>How can you ignore the world, characters and interactions in the game?

I find it boring to play in a fundamental level.

A long time ago, the Supreme Court ruled that donating money to a politician's election campaign was a form of free speech, and couldn't be restricted. Things have been shit ever since.

Also, it's perfectly legal to bribe a congressman, because Congress make the laws that decide what constitutes bribery. It is extremely common for large corporations to send politicians Super Bowl box tickets, for example.

jews own every facet of society

Because money wins elections.

the series is dead now lol

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I always think about going exploring in Morrowind and having fun but I get bored with it pretty quickly. The dungeons get repetitive, a lot of the side quests are filler content, there's a lot of empty landscape with nothing but stuff like cliff racers which sucks. I like exploring in Deus Ex more, and the augmentations/stealth make it different from HL.

hi user I am stealing your idea except it will be a crappy mobile game with bad english and microtransactions

That's got nothing to do with my post
>MUH DEEP MEANINGFUL CHOICE
Is this your criteria for a roleplaying game?
Playing an established character doesn't not make it a role playing game, even Fallout had pre-made characters for the player to insert as.
Nowhere did I even say dialogue makes it an RPG, I said the world building, characters and world/character interactions did, as well as the multiple choices you're given for completing the same task.
There's still things people find out you can do in the first mission several playthroughs in, it's an incredibly open game.

They won't fucking leave if they lose 300 million customers. America has the clought to do it.