BlackCapedManX on 25/12/2003 at 05:44
Because I love this game to the point of beating it into the ground (it's a cruel and complicated form of love), and because I hear all this talk of complain about the skill system in DX1 and why removing it was such a good idea, I've started up a new game with a certain principle in mind.
I'm playing this run like a straight FPS. That is, no skills and no augs, I will still be using weapon mods (I pity to think what my pistol would throughout the entire game without the laser sight.... oh the humanity!), but I will not upgrade skills at all nor will I install any augmentations. This is something of a protest against the whole idea in DXIW that removing skills was a good thing because they were to complicated and whatnot. I personally believe that if there is something that you think is to excesive and uneeded, instead of having it removed for the sake of all those who did enjoy it, just don't use the damn thing. This was orignally going to be role playing as just some guy, so he wouldn't have any augmentations (and be eternally befudled by everyone saying that he was all augmented and whatnot), but I decided as a form of test, to see if I could manage to play through the whole game without upgrading skills (due to that odd quirk with the first screen, if I try to downgrade every skill to untrained and start the game, where you end up with about 1000 more skill points and you're still trained in pistols, I am stuck with a trained level in pistols, but I don't see that as a huge detriment).
This is sort of an unfair test as to see if the game can be played without skills, as I've already played through the game 7 times (3 times in my "usual" fashion, heavy with rifles, ammo conservationalist to the extreme, find everything possible, be stealthy and kill silently etc. 1 run as a heavy weapons gun 'em up style, 1 as a no kills and no KO run, 1 as a kill absolutely everyone run, 1 with Hejhujka'a weapons mod) and done more than my fair share of messing with the inner workings of the game and toyed around with the maps using the UnrealEd that comes with the GOTY version. Like I said before, I have a cruel and complicated love for this game (one that causes me to have it installed on each of my three harddrives.... fun times indeed.)
[edit] BTW, I am currently at The Breakout from Unatco HQ
ZylonBane on 25/12/2003 at 18:42
If you're really trying to simulate the DX:IW experience, you should actually start with every skill at Advanced (but not Master, as that tends to confer some over-the-top abilities).
BlackCapedManX on 27/12/2003 at 01:51
I'm doing the opposite, I'm proving that you don't need to mess with the "confusing and overly-complicated" skill system to beat the game. It's for everyone who complained about it.
sergeantgiggles on 28/12/2003 at 00:54
When you get done with that, the funnest way to play the game is with lethal low tech weapons only, and minimal sneaking. Maybe steel darts out of the crossbow too. Gives you a rush.
BlackCapedManX on 29/12/2003 at 06:31
Mad crowbar dash on someone armed with automatic weapons? And I thought my snowboarding was crazy.
Could be interesting though, I've yet to play a close range character, ninja stealth like or otherwise.
sergeantgiggles on 29/12/2003 at 23:06
You just have to aim high. Two hits and they die.
