Message #328709

[Canama]

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Admittedly I've only played Deus Ex 1 but it's worth the price of admission alone (I hear DX3 is just as good, but it won't run well on my computer, and I hate DX2 but ah well).

Why is Deus Ex so great? The story and the choices. It's a well-written and mature tale about things like classism, government, terrorism, rebellion, and so on. It kept me engaged from the moment they said "go" to the moment the credits rolled. And the gameplay is neat, too - the shooting isn't as good as Half-Life, and the stealthing isn't on MGS level, but the neat thing is that you can do all of it as you please. And there's a lot of subtle choices in the game, including several where you may not even realize you do have a choice! There are so many times when I thought "there is no way they will let me do this" and it turned out that yes, they will let me do this!

To quote Yahtzee (and agreeing with this man is not something I do often, so this should make you listen): "I don't see how these days you could have a game with nearly as much depth and complexity as Deus Ex 1. And before all you people who like The Witcher 2 start pounding your keyboards so hard that it starts snowing Cheeto dust, I meant the kind of complexity that I like: A plot where people can reference philosophy and G. K. Chesterton in really really bad accents, and it has an intuitive inventory system, and a health system where you can get all your arms and legs blown off and have to slither over to a health station using only your lips."