I hated Deus Ex. Don't see why everybody here praises it. Way to confusing to know where to go, and the maps were huge so it took forever to walk to the place you are supposed to go if you can even figure that out. There were a few cool parts but overall I hated it. The story was really good and it almost kept me playing, but it didn't.
That's because Deus Ex wasn't some on-rails piece of crap. It was open-ended and gave the player quite a bit of freedom. The story could turn out quite differently depending on your choices, and I don't just mean the ending.
Deus Ex actually required intelligence to play. It's a shame games are so dumbed-down now, and that people think that's a good thing.
Well I don't want to look for the right place to go for 3 hours and just get to the gameplay at the end. I liked the freedom thing and the choices, but there should be some sort of compass or something to point you to where to go, instead of looking for in in these HUGE maps. When I play a game, I want to have some fun, and in my opinion walking around in a game is not fun at all.
Did you actually play anything other than the first mission? I'll admit that the first mission on Liberty Island is badly designed and you are given little direction, but the game gets significantly better after that. Aside from that, I don't remember that much wandering around. It's not like Oblivion or one of these modern games designed for idiots that always gives you a big arrown and an X on your map to tell you exactly where you have to go. But I could always figure out what I had to do.
Did you actually play anything other than the first mission? I'll admit that the first mission on Liberty Island is badly designed and you are given little direction, but the game gets significantly better after that. Aside from that, I don't remember that much wandering around. It's not like Oblivion or one of these modern games designed for idiots that always gives you a big arrown and an X on your map to tell you exactly where you have to go. But I could always figure out what I had to do. cmdrmonkey
I played the first 7 levels I think. Just quit after that.
Did you actually play anything other than the first mission? I'll admit that the first mission on Liberty Island is badly designed and you are given little direction, but the game gets significantly better after that. Aside from that, I don't remember that much wandering around. It's not like Oblivion or one of these modern games designed for idiots that always gives you a big arrown and an X on your map to tell you exactly where you have to go. But I could always figure out what I had to do. cmdrmonkey
"designed for idiots"? If i wanna spend 99% of my time exploring a 20+km.sq. map, i'd play the GTA games. And if i wanna spend most of the time wondering what the hell to do next instead of actually engaging in a firefight, i'd play the CSI games. And if i think having an alternate ending is so cool, i'd play Warrior Within. And if i wanna spend 100% of the time wandering around with a gun looking for directions, i'd play "Armed Hobo: Desert Explorer".
Im not even sure where this complaint is coming from. I never had any trouble figuring out where I had to go or what I had to do in Deus Ex. But then again, I'm a bit older than most of you guys, and from a time before games were dumbed down for the masses like they are now.
You must have really hated System Shock 2 also. That game certainly didn't lead you around on a leash.
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Did you actually play anything other than the first mission? I'll admit that the first mission on Liberty Island is badly designed and you are given little direction, but the game gets significantly better after that. Aside from that, I don't remember that much wandering around. It's not like Oblivion or one of these modern games designed for idiots that always gives you a big arrown and an X on your map to tell you exactly where you have to go. But I could always figure out what I had to do. cmdrmonkey
that was my experience too - i don't have too much patience with wandering around aimlessly, but although there was more than one way to complete a mission it was always (apart from at the beginning, i agree) clear what was going on, and i enjoyed the interactions with other characters in the game
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