*Zaccheus* on 4/8/2003 at 21:07
Oh well, I tried everything to escape (even fired an anti-tank missile at Gunther).
:)
Korunchova on 4/8/2003 at 22:14
Yay, now the escape! This was one of the best experiences i had first-time through - especially the greasels* :D - the game just keeps getting better from here :)
*technically this doesnt count as a spoiler as the player has not yet discovered what one is.
Eshaktaar on 5/8/2003 at 23:49
Good luck in Hong Kong later on! It's one of my favourite locations of the game. So much to explore, so many hidden spots, and so many ways to do things differently. I seldomly play a game the entire night until 6 in the morning, but I was so amazed at the HK level that I lost any feeling of time on my first run through.
Raymond Luxury Yacht on 6/8/2003 at 12:02
Amen to that. The music resonated in my head for days, and I dreamed about swimming for awhile too. Hong Kong was one of my favorites. The 'accents' are a riot.
Loais on 6/8/2003 at 12:43
[SPOILER]THe greasels under paris just ignore you[/SPOILER]
Or they ignored me once dont know why. **shrugs**
Rogue Keeper on 6/8/2003 at 13:46
First time I played DX, one of the forst most intense moments in the game was when I have first time visited Hells Kitchen - I really like the music which plays there, it gave me the feeling that I actually watch a class A futuristic thriller, which breathes and lives its own life. This is also the first mission which shows you the "real life" of simple people in the future - not the abandoned Liberty Island, Battery park or sterile UNATCO bunker.
No, these were the dirty streets of the unhappy New York of 2064, and all the bums, their comments and events (thugs threatening the poor, NSF/UNATCO firefight), the newspapers and bulletin boards and advertsments gave me the feeling the I really am part of this sad world, which has two faces - super hitech, megacorps, mindwashing ads on one side and dirt, depression, sickness on the other.
A true cyberpunk.
Z on 6/8/2003 at 16:37
Indeed. The atmosphere was spectacular. I especially loved the way I could actually read the newspapers and bulletins, and how the stories therein served to further drive home the dystopian, cyberpunk nature of the Deus Ex world. I also liked the way they made such an effort to make this vision of the future seem real.
Oh, but one thing. It's difficult to be sure exactly when DX is set, but it isn't 2064. The general consensus seems to be 2052.
Z
Aranolorion on 6/8/2003 at 18:13
methinks its 2059, but dunno why :P.
chris the cynic on 6/8/2003 at 20:50
It is 2052, for one the Sporting Weapons act of 2042 was 10 years before the game, for another the grid zoning laws were instated in 2046, six years before the game.
Also JC is 23 and he was born in 2029.
The reason many people seem to think it takes place later is that the cloning tanks have the word incept on them connected with a date that is in the future. Incept does not mean birth, as many people seem to think, it means to take in. Incept date is most likely the date when they planed to have JC incepted (taken in) to MJ12. Which was his 25th birthday.
Others seem to think that incept is short for inception (beginning.) This would also make sense as it would be the date that a subject began their membership in MJ12.
Regardless the year the game takes place is 2052, and the month is April.
Z on 6/8/2003 at 22:04
This may be a no-brainer to some of you, but it always strikes me as odd when I think about it: Doesn't it seem kind of strange that the entirity of the events in Deus Ex took place over 2 or 3 days? (Including lengthy flight times across the Pacific and Atlantic) It always seemed weird to me.
Z
