santaClaws on 23/11/2004 at 16:51
I updated my drivers (see above). I didn't think it'd be necessary to reinstall DirectX? Does this get me anywhere? Besides, is it possible? Doesn't DirectX check for installed versions and quit the install if it detects any equivalent or better?
foldy on 2/12/2004 at 20:54
Quote Posted by henke
there is more freedom of choice
Not really. Like the original, the only choices that have any real consequence in the game are those made in the game's final area. There are seemingly different factions in the game, but you can't really join one or the other, you just do as you please at the time with no fear of any real repercussion.
Igorrr on 3/12/2004 at 14:51
Actually this reminds me of a small disappoitment of the first Deus Ex game. First of all I LOVE Deus Ex 1!!! But it was disappointing not being able to stay with the UNATCO until the end. It would have been really great if you had the option of playing the game EVIL!!!
SD on 27/12/2004 at 03:14
I just started playing DX:IW yesterday. I've had it for a while, and was just looking for a gap in my schedule when I could give it a whirl.
I'm enjoying it somewhat. It feels like Deus Ex, which is the main thing for me - it's noticeably the same universe, except a little bit later time-wise.
The big black mark for me is the quality of the graphics. Really, they're poo. I don't think there's any improvement on the graphics of the first game, and they were hardly earth-shattering then.
But, the gameplay is pretty good, so I am having fun. I appreciate they were trying to do things a bit differently on the sequel, but most of the changes don't improve things at all.
If they learn the lessons from this one, then I am confident that DX3 will be a very good game indeed.
SD
hayaku on 27/12/2004 at 04:43
Quote:
But it was disappointing not being able to stay with the UNATCO until the end
lol. Somehow I don't thing that would have worked very well with the game story - JC becoming God
Fragony on 2/1/2005 at 13:08
Stick with it. It starts out boring and it ends boring, but there is still a lot of fun to be had if you keep an open mind. I played the x-box version, so no serious lag for me(still the worst I have ever seen on a console), and the graphics can be pretty spectacular at times, especially a sequence on antartica that is also pretty damn creepy. I would give the game a solid 7, a good but flawed game with a few flashes of brilliance.
Skull Gun on 19/1/2005 at 00:16
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
If they learn the lessons from this one, then I am confident that DX3 will be a very good game indeed. SD
I doubt it, didn't Warren Spector leave Eidos soon after Thief 3 was finished? I know for a fact that Eidos are now concentrating more on consoles and not considering PC a priority for any of their games, this would include Deus Ex 3 as they own it.
Despite low sales on the PC, the high success of the console version of DX2 ensured that the game met sales targets, this doesn't bode well for Deus Ex 3 on PC so expect more "streamlined" changes and less of the complexity (apparantly) that was in DX1. I wouldn't be surprised if DX3 is a console only release.
Still at least we have Bioshock from the creators of System Shock 2 (which IMO is way better than DX) :D
Gin-Ryu on 20/1/2005 at 20:12
I don't know how they'll continue the Deus Ex saga I'm hoping they remake the second but this time with a totally diferent story
TheGreatGodPan on 20/1/2005 at 23:10
Quote Posted by Skull Gun
Still at least we have Bioshock from the creators of System Shock 2 (which IMO is way better than DX) :D
Blasphemer! :mad: Your opinion is markedly different from mine, and therefore unnacceptable! Pistols at dawn!
Anarkos on 13/2/2005 at 06:30
Quote Posted by henke
The story is better
Say what?
BLASPHEMER!!
The DX2 story was barely coherant, and managed to completely wreck the characters of JC and Paul. It was kinda like the Matrix sequels; flashy and absolutely contrary to the fundamentals of the original.
Even the big surprise story revelations were handled terribly.
[SPOILER]In DX1, we learned that MJ12 controlled UNATCO when JC escaped from the MJ12 prison...into the UNATCO base. This revelation was shown to you. It was believable, shocking and kinda scary (your allies = your enemies, woo). In DX2, we rescue the fruity religious lady from the strange military base thang to discover that her cult and the WTO are both Illuminati pawns. How? By discovering that an Illuminati commando reached her first and doesn't like you? No. By hacking into a WTO computer? No. By talking to a Illuminati AI? No. By discovering the frozen body of an Illuminati leader? No. By watching a conversation between her and the ex-resistance-leader-turned-WTO-head-and-Illuminatus? No. By her going "Ahahaha, this was planned from the start"? No. By being told by a anti-WTO group? No.
By the Illuminatus concerned going "oh, by the way, my enemy is actually my brother in the Illuminati, surprise!"? Uh...yes. In a brilliant stroke, they chose the least plausible possible way to tell you. Incredible. Honestly, the whole point of the Illuminati is that it is a secret conspiracy, right? The key word there is secret...so why would one of the leaders tell you that she was in on it?[/spoiler]
You don't find things out for yourself in DX2. You get spoonfed them.
And, uh, about the intro. A nanotech bomb type thing destroys a city...including your parents. Do you care? No. Does it help frame the story? No. Does it really matter in the end? No.
So, uh, your family is wiped out, along with a city, and what do you do?
A) Hunt down the perpetrators and kill their arses.
B) Wander around aimlessly doing pointless errands for a few manipulative factions and then stumble upon t3h ub3r consp1r@ry? Liek, OMG!
....option B. Why? I don't know. Why was this included? To make the intro video dramatic and kewl, no doubt.
And then there's the protagonist. JC...dark, brooding, in a trenchcoat and body armour, with sunglasses, 'cause his vision is augmented. Alex...wears a purple jumpsuit and has hair that can be seen cloned at the gates of any high school. Who, out of these two, is your choice for the ultimate nano-augmented badass?
Alex? You on the crack or something?\
:nono:
