ilweran on 14/11/2008 at 09:33
Quote Posted by Papy
Is Deus Ex a step too high for someone who never played video games before? Certainly. It's like someone who drives a car. Signaling, releasing the gas pedal, pressing the clutch, changing gears, checking mirrors and blind spots, turning on the intermittent whippers, all this at the same time is something natural for someone who's been driving for 20 years, it is done without thinking, but it requires a lot of effort to think about all this for a novice.
I'd have to say that I am not a hardcore gamer in any way. The first 'modern' (I have my own definition of modern that basically means 3D) game I played was Tomb Raider - up until then I played 2D platform games, and only tried TR because my father had bought a PC magazine that had a demo and said I might like it as it was a 3D platformer. Liked it, never finished it.
The only games I have finished are DX (twice, PC & PS2), DX:IW (twice), TR:Legend, Project:Snowblind (it was fun and better than IW) and Fahrenheit. I had played a bit of UT. Badly. But apart from that had very little experience of first person games when I first played DX, but found it fine, got through the first level with no problems (except my usual 'what happens if I hit this...' *BOOM* that happens with every game that has explosive crates/barrels :rolleyes:). Maybe people being used to a certain type of gameplay is an issue. Maybe I'm just an obsessive who likes to explore every inch of the map just in case I miss something interesting.
I'm not getting my hopes up about DX3. I want it to be good, but from what I've read they seem to have missed the point of the original game. From reading the article in Edge with the talk of boss fights and DX having no memorable moments, it's making me think of the T-Rex in TR Anniversary. In the original TR the T-Rex was terrifying, coming out of nowhere and probably eating you - I don't know anyone who didn't know what was coming who survived the first encounter. In Anniversary he was just a boss fight, and a bit pathetic. Actually if it wasn't for that example of what a remake can do I'd probably be joining the 'why do we have to have a new game, can't they just remake the original' people.
