I just reinstalled Deus Ex.

Karl Hungus

7 years on, and it still remains an incredibly immersive and enjoyable game. Some older games start to feel very clunky, but Deus Ex really does feel that if it had some ragdoll physics and better graphics, you wouldn't really be able to tell the difference between it and a game that was made in the past year or two.

Man, why don't they make more games like this? It was just a phenominally good experience.

Vokes

Yep, completely immersive - for me, few games on the PC ever came close to that level of immersion.

Great soundtrack too.

humanji

Brings back good memories. One of the few games I've played where as soon as I finished, I started again. *sniff* them were the days...

Rhyme

There's a theory that if one of these 'epic' games (deus Ex included) is mentioned on a message board, at least one other person will install it.

If i could find my copy, i'd do it.

Also, superb game, pity about the sequel.

koneko

Ditto, but I have no idea where my copy is either, I could probably find the second one easy enough among the more recent games, but... you know....

Kiith

This is one of two games that totally drags me into the story. The other being System Shock 2. One of the lads i live with recently 'acquired' this again, and i plan on playing through it as soon as i get some time off. Great game.

SeantheMan

It got voted "Greatest PC Game of All time" in the latest edition of PC Zone
Funnily enough i only reinstalled i there on Monday too:p

Ill post up the results of the 101 top PC games when i get 15 mins :rolleyes:

Retr0gamer

One of those games along with the System Shock games that I really need to get around to playing, for shame.

Still I did force Praetorian to play it and he ended up loving it. I got forced to play Unreal which was the gaming equivalent of having my scrotum slammed repeatedly in a heated up George Foreman grill.

0ubliette

I played it and finished it on the ps2, i think. Played it on pc aswell, but never really thought it was as mindblowing as people made out. Guess im one of the few who didnt really like it that much.

Retr0gamer

Thats because you played the watered down sequel.

kaimera

I think I sold my copy a while back

Now I wanna play it again. Bah.

johnny_ultimate

One of the finest games ever made. Great story, combat, characters etc... The soundtrack was superb too (love that opening number while the 3d title spins around).
My copy has pride of place on my gaming shelf so I'll be sure to pull it out later - can't break tradition after all

SeantheMan

kaimera wrote:

I think I sold my copy a while back

Now I wanna play it again. Bah.

It sells for 4-5 euro on those 3 for 15 jobbys in game
Loads of classics there

Youd have no trouble gettin a copy

Tar.Aldarion

Retr0gamer wrote:

One of those games along with the System Shock games that I really need to get around to playing, for shame.

Still I did force Praetorian to play it and he ended up loving it. I got forced to play Unreal which was the gaming equivalent of having my scrotum slammed repeatedly in a heated up George Foreman grill.

Get playing system shock, class game.

johnny_ultimate

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Get playing system shock, class game.

I tried playing 2 it recently, but after a nightmare of a time trying to install the thing, I ended up having to delete all the FMVs. When I finally did get around to playing, it seemed to have aged pretty badly.
Must give it a go again though - Bioshock is by far my most anticipated game of the moment.

Tar.Aldarion

Just saw System shock got 7th best game ever in that 101 best games list. Really remember it being great.

joe_chicken

Arggg... damn all you people!!!

I was standing in my friends house the other day, and was looking through his game collection... I lifted out my copy of Deus-Ex and was deciding whether to bring it home and install it again... I didn't.

I regret it now, will have to go get it.

Great game.

It's a prime candidate for a "source" (Deus Ex: Source... how cool would that be) if any of you patient Modding type people are listening

Blazer

Yep..Deus Ex was and still is a classic game.
It's a pity that Ion Storm didn't take a leaf from Valve's book and still develop for the pc rather than selling themselves out for the crappy Deus EX 2:IW on the console. Was one of the most disappointing sequels ever!!:mad:

DarkJager

I found Deus Ex 2 to be a lot better than the original. Don't know why, but there was just something I really really like about that game.

Kiith

DarkJager wrote:

I found Deus Ex 2 to be a lot better than the original. Don't know why, but there was just something I really really like about that game.

I CAST THEE OUT!!

Rhyme

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Just saw System shock got 7th best game ever in that 101 best games list. Really remember it being great.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/SHODAN.ogg

"Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

flogen

kaimera wrote:

I think I sold my copy a while back

Now I wanna play it again. Bah.

I remember getting it with my PC (or someone giving it to me at the same time) - playing it for 5 minutes and never going back to it.

I lost the disc, and then start hearing about how great it was - if only I'd given it a chance!!!

shatners basoon

My favourite game of all time i'd say, must have played it through about 6 times. What makes it really great is the bad assed dude from california dreams (that kids show like saved by the bell) was the voice of JC! Great inventory system too.
The less said about the sequel the better!
Never finished system shock 2 got very near the end and then i lost it somehow (i blame the psychic monkeys), gotta try track it down again. Looking forward to Bioshock though.

There should be more RPGshooters as the standard non fusion genre is getting old!

SeantheMan

It was the first real PC game i got into

When i got my first proper PC back in 2003 (xp that is, not that 95 or 98 thing ):p

Started playin it and really got into it :cool:
Then broadband came along in early 2004 and i got that, and Deus Ex wasnt really good online..and a friend gave me Medal of Honor..and that was it

Deus Ex got dropped due to online gaming

(I still play mohaa , match tonight :cool: )

Gonna try get back into it though, some fella is makin High res models and texture mod for the game. So ill download that, hopefully itll add to it

shatners basoon

It didn't originally have an online mode as a i remember, think they just chucked it on the goty edition or whatever it was called. It was atrocious alright though, maybe a mmorpgfps would have been a better idea:p

Kiith

Rhyme wrote:

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"Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

Best enemy voice ever in a computer game, with Xerxes a close second.

BopNiblets

Love it, stealth FTW, but when the shít goes down, the Dragons Tooth is comin out for some slicey slicey! GIMME A WII PORT AND I'LL BUY ONE!

I've been meaning to play it again with the High Definition Textures pack!

Shame about the forgettable sequel, I blame the consoles.

FranchisePlayer

Yeah deus ex the first one was great it scared the **** out of me though the whole dadelus hunting you down and sometimes you would read news atm thingys and all it would would be JC denton over and over again.Scared the **** out of me was only 8 at the time though:o

Lemming

Superb game. Ranks up there with the Half-Life series, the Baldur's Gate series, and the Fallout series for breaking genre boundaries and making absolute classic games.

I never really liked DX2 though - looked pretty and all, but it didn't suck me in the way DX1 did.

Ri_Nollaig

i LOVE this game, i really cant count the number of times i must have played through it but yet just want to play it again! there really has not been another like it and is my favourite game of all time.

humanji

Holy shìt! Didn't know that existed. Time to pull a sicky and head home to play.

Chumpski

Must play this. Its one of those games i've always meant to play as everybody raves about it.

thebman

I've given this game a fair shot a few times after people kept recommending it to me but hated it.

I found the controls really annoying.

Burning Eclipse

brim4brim wrote:

I've given this game a fair shot a few times after people kept recommending it to me but hated it.

I found the controls really annoying.

Banned.

And that is why I'll never be a mod:p #

Seriously though, can that be possible, hating the best reason in the world to play PC games??

petes

One of the best games I have ever played.

MontgomeryClift

Is it any good on PS2? If so, then does it have a 60Hz option?

shatners basoon

not really worth playing it on a ps2, its still decent but not nearly as good, it'll work on any pc these though and can be picked up dirt cheap.

Yeah deus ex the first one was great it scared the **** out of me though the whole dadelus hunting you down and sometimes you would read news atm thingys and all it would would be JC denton over and over again.Scared the **** out of me was only 8 at the time though

Freaked me out a bit too, kept expecting it to just appear and zap me or something! Hated ppl with flamethrowers too- pretty much instant death for me- why can't i just drop and roll????!!!!

Worst were the greasels though- nasty lil bastards!!!

BopNiblets

MiB for me, could never sneak past em and you just know after blasting them for ages you're going to be standing right in front of you when they kerplode... ouchies.

Malice

BopNiblets wrote:

I've been meaning to play it again with the High Definition Textures pack!

I didn't know there was a texture pack for it. I must check that out. Deus Ex is a classic. I didn't enjoy it much when I bought it mainly because I was coming to it from a Quake/Unreal Tournament perspective so running around shooting up everything was my automatic reaction to every situation. Once I focused on the stealth aspect my appreciation for the game grew enormously.
Some things I loved about it:

Crawling around the passageways looking down on the alien research facility, running around with the sword, the first time you meet the cold Men in Black.

Timans

Just bought this via steam with my last €9.

Better be good!

johnny_ultimate

Another great point about this game - when playing through a second time, you can simply ambush the characters you know are going to try and murder you up later in the game. Makes things much easier, especially with that

Herman fellow

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airetam_storm

You people dont seem to like DX2 at all, i thought the depth and the story were great, not quite up to the standard of the original but still good enough to make it a great game.

The things that really let it down were the physics (since when can a solid matal box fly as far as a basketball when pushed?) and the (criminally bad) combat.

I cant decide whether to wait for the texture pack for the original to reach completion or try it now!

Karl Hungus

airetam_storm wrote:

You people dont seem to like DX2 at all, i thought the depth and the story were great, not quite up to the standard of the original but still good enough to make it a great game.

The story wasn't bad, but story isn't what made the first one so great.

Zillah

Oh, the memories...

Favourite game ever tbh, or certainly up there. Such a rich environment, and the storyline was wonderfully long. These days I always find myself dreading the incoming credit sequence and it always arrives too early. Deus Ex hit the point where I thought it might end, then did some more, and then did a whole other two chapters or so. New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Area 51...God I love this game.

One thing that always pissed me off: The healing module and the run/jump module take the same slot. Sure, running and jumping is cool, but compared to spontaneous regeneration? Nah.

I tried System Shock 2 for a couple of hours. Got quickly tired of running around bashing zombies with a pipe. I honestly suspected I had the wrong game from what everyone had been saying about it. That said, it took me three attempts to get into Planescape Torment (the opening scenes are SO bad), but now it ranks way up there in the top 5.

Karl Hungus wrote:

The story wasn't bad, but story isn't what made the first one so great.

Uh, yes it was, or at least a huge part of it.

FranchisePlayer

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Another great point about this game - when playing through a second time, you can simply ambush the characters you know are going to try and murder you up later in the game. Makes things much easier, especially with that

Herman fellow

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Johnny correct me if I am wrong but if you did early in the game didn't the "friendly" npc chracter gain invincibility and therfore made them impossible to kill even if the would try to kill you later on in the game

johnny_ultimate

FranchisePlayer wrote:

Johnny correct me if I am wrong but if you did early in the game didn't the "friendly" npc chracter gain invincibility and therfore made them impossible to kill even if the would try to kill you later on in the game

Hmm havent played in a few years but I do remember taking down some of the soon-to-be-badguys at an earlier stage than the narrative dictates, with favourable consequences.
Not a 100% sure, so that gives me another excuse to give it another whirl

tman

Installing it now... I've been meaning to get around to playing it for years now:o

Tar.Aldarion

Still haven't played it myself...shh.

JCDenton

I Speeeel My Drink!

Cunny-Funt

yep one of the greats. I pity those that didnt play it when it was out, or those who only play console games. They missed out.

hamster

Yep, must agree with most here - I got that game on budget last Dec 2002 and played it solid (played using stealth) until the end of January. Got me through a bad period and cheered me up no end. Based on the unreal engine - I was satisified with the clear no nonsense interface... but it was the story (repeat story) that made this game. Half Life had a purpose... but boy did this have a story!
In fairness, thought and effort went into Deux Ex - the multiple endings, the choices you could make (remember in the plane? - "Believe me - not him!"). Warren Spector was involved with the project.

It's true - what a script - it's why I lean on rpg's a lot with richness of stories...

That game is right behind me right now on the shelf in it's budget green case - last used in a 2nd run install last May 2003 (it was so good I reinstalled it... but was rudely interrupted by a career re-location).