BlackCapedManX on 31/7/2003 at 02:50

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It's been probably almost a year since the last time I've played deus ex, because my computer was so full of crap that it wouldn't let me even install anything new. So I got a major overhaul on my system and upgraded to windows xp and suddenly.... things work again! So the first thing I did was re-install my GOTY version of Deus Ex (I used to have the original, with a copied CD, but after playing the game through I decided it was good enough to actually pay money for... then again now that I have a job, I'll actually be able to buy things, and not like, copy them from my friends who get them from their parents.)

So I have re-established the concept in my head as to why this is one of my favorite games of all time (I have three games tied for the best game of all time, all in slightly different genres.) It just totally kicks ass. The first thing I did was to play the game through on realistic (at that point I'd yet to have played it on anything but easy, now I play on normal or above), which was something that I'd been wanting to do for a while. The second thing was to play a pacifist game. I'd read in some interveiw or another with warren spector that he wanted to make a game entirely without weapons someday (or something to that effect), so my goal was to kill (or knock unconscious) as few people as possible, leaving every I could alive and moving. There are only two people that you need to take out to beat that game, Anna, and that guy gaurding the big ass missile right before A51. I screwed up on someparts (like I just couldn't bear to let Savages daughter die, I mean honestly, I'd miss out on an aug upgrade cannister), but for the most part, I was ruthless in my pacifism: "I don't care how many innocents die, as long as it's not by my hand." The silouette guys bit the bucket.... honestly, if they employed some stealth tactics instead of running straight for freedom, we wouldn't have half the problems we do in hostage situations. I'm going to do this over though and use the tactic of: damage them enough and they run around blindly unaware of everything. This will be great in hostage situations, because as long as I can do enough damage really really fast, then the oppressors will be to busy screaming to worry about killing the hostages. Plus I was recently informed that you didn't have to kill all the subway station guards to get the hostages away, you could just talk to them while the guards aren't looking and have them get on the subway (bwahahahaha! stealth and subtlety abound!)

So after that I started my "Kill Everyone who is not Invincible" game. I've been cheating a bit in this one (because my weapon of choice is the throwing knives, and they aren't exactly in great abundance, so I summon them up for myself every now and then.) This game is the first where I've really gotten into the personallity of the character rather than their play style, so I don't really mind cheating. But it makes for a really interesting game. Like, whenever my character slaughters a block full of people and can see nothing bu corpses everywhere around, he sits back, smokes a cigarette, and reflects upon the world. He's a very contemplative and disturbed man. I've been thinking up a whole history for him, why he hates the world so much (people actually have to be really interesting to go against such common logic as: don't kill the people on your side), stuff like that.

So yeah, This entry is mostly to confirm the well known (in certain circles) fact that Deus Ex is indeed an incredible game.

chris the cynic on 1/8/2003 at 23:00

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They don't react much diffrently than if you kill one thing in every place.