Not seeing the appeal of Deus Ex...yet

I bought this game a few months ago and can't really find a reason to go on playing. Right now I'm in Hell's kitchen looking for my brother paul. Does this game pick up later? So far, I find the story hard to follow and unintresting.

Sounds to me like you've just started, Yes it will pick up.Treflis

Haha I need to give this game a serious chance someday. I tried it half a year ago and I couldn't even bother to get past the training rooms / tutorials. It's just like witcher, I stopped playing after like two hours. Why you ask? I don't want to have thousand complex things thrown at me the moment I enter the game. Just let me start up and chill a bit instead of immediately introducing fifty alchemy reciepts or giving me two hour long tutorials on how to pick locks and aim a gun.

IF by playing for 5 hours counts as just starting then sure.JangoWuzHere

the game starts to be enjoyable when youre in police headquarters, then you realise it was worth it to not uninstall it ^^

It's 10 years old so it's not really going to appeal to everyone, or many people at all.

[QUOTE="Treflis"]Sounds to me like you've just started, Yes it will pick up.JangoWuzHere

It was a great game when it came out (one of my favorites) but it aged horribly.

It was a great game when it came out (one of my favorites) but it aged horribly.

fivex84

Huh, when I made a thread about this very same thing I was blasted back to the stone age. I got to hong kong and stopped playing. I can see how it was great 10 years ago and ahead of its time but playing it today After being spoiled by the many great games released since then, It dosent really hold my interest. Tc if you really want to play this game install the new vision mod, it makes the graphics decent.

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"][QUOTE="Treflis"]Sounds to me like you've just started, Yes it will pick up.Treflis

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It was a great game when it came out (one of my favorites) but it aged horribly.

ZuluEcho14

[QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"][QUOTE="fivex84"]

It was a great game when it came out (one of my favorites) but it aged horribly.

Advid-Gamer

Did did this to a point where you went into the woman's bathroom at UNATCO and Manderley scolded you for it and realized how much time was spent perfecting this game design and it's ability to approach objectives in multiple forms that no other game today has matched?ZuluEcho14

Alpha Protocol dammit!

yeah pretty much, using weapons that you're skilled with makes all the difference. IZoMBiEI

I bought this game a few months ago and can't really find a reason to go on playing. Right now I'm in Hell's kitchen looking for my brother paul. Does this game pick up later? So far, I find the story hard to follow and unintresting.

JangoWuzHere

it's a pretty old game. i tried playing it a while back, and couldn't get into it. but i could see why the game has such a following. i played it too late. these older games you need to play since the day they came out to really understand their appeal.

it's a pretty old game. i tried playing it a while back, and couldn't get into it. but i could see why the game has such a following. i played it too late. these older games you need to play since the day they came out to really understand their appeal.

positivebalance

Once you go into the airplane docked in the hangar and have a brutal showdown with some robot whore the game starts getting good.

This is a 45-50hour game for a first time through-er. Lots of story and details to follow and figure out. If you need to be spoon fed excitement in games, you might as well quit and go play a game made for the masses.

Its a dated game the stroy is Ok at best, retty generic imho, and the combat is bad, but to be fair these were new things at the time and we just have somewhat higher standards today interms of how a game feels and plays. Its dated but its a decent game. The New deus Ex seems to bring the best of Deus ex 1 and modernize it as in makin it control better more fun, the new Deus ex already has more than 200,000 lines of conversation, more choices yadda yadda. SO all the interaction will be their but it will obviously look better and play better.

This is a 45-50hour game for a first time through-er. Lots of story and details to follow and figure out. If you need to be spoon fed excitement in games, you might as well quit and go play a game made for the masses.

VeryBumpy

really i only took about 21 hours, and really what is with your elitist remark, If you need "spoon fed excitement" "game for the masses" as if your level or taste in games is above other peoples, maybe they are called better games. I wouldn't call Half-life 2, Uncharted 2, Gears of war all taht stuff spoon fed, its just the nature of the type of game they are action, not everyone wants to spend 50 hours crouching around corners, if anything Deus ex was more spoon feeding interms of story, the story was bland and not exciting or climactic at all, you should try reading about a story's climax it is what usually makes good novels.

[QUOTE="positivebalance"]

it's a pretty old game. i tried playing it a while back, and couldn't get into it. but i could see why the game has such a following. i played it too late. these older games you need to play since the day they came out to really understand their appeal.

KHAndAnime

I agree, KH. Your comment brings to mind something that makes me roll my eyes which I will get to in a second. I can appreciate that many people like to jump into a game and not have to think. If you're having fun, there's certainly no harm in that. I play plenty of games like that.

What makes me roll my eyes is when I read comments from people who say they didn't like a game because (I will paraphrase), "the controls sucked" or "there was too much information thrown at me" or "if I wanted to read a book, I'd read a book". I understand the appeal of wanting to play simple, fun games. I play them myself, but it's kind of annoying when people rate a game low because they are too lazy to learn something new to themselves.

Ignore these so called 'classic gamers'. they have their nostalgia goggles on 24/7. if you think the game isn't good then stop playing it. simple.

PS I didn't like it either

Ignore these so called 'classic gamers'. they have their nostalgia goggles on 24/7. if you think the game isn't good then stop playing it. simple.

PS I didn't like it either

Eneru112

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Ignore these so called 'classic gamers'. they have their nostalgia goggles on 24/7. if you think the game isn't good then stop playing it. simple.

PS I didn't like it either

KHAndAnime

stop trying to fit in so hard

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"][QUOTE="Eneru112"]

Ignore these so called 'classic gamers'. they have their nostalgia goggles on 24/7. if you think the game isn't good then stop playing it. simple.

PS I didn't like it either

Eneru112

stop trying to fit in so hard

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"][QUOTE="Eneru112"]

Ignore these so called 'classic gamers'. they have their nostalgia goggles on 24/7. if you think the game isn't good then stop playing it. simple.

PS I didn't like it either

Eneru112

stop trying to fit in so hard

I think this is a love it hate it game. People that love it defend it with there life every time there is a thread like this, then there are people that can just not understand the appeal the game has. Mirrors edge is like this for me, I would give the game a 9.5, I loved it and am playing trough a 2nd time, but most here will feel about mirrors edge, the way i feel about Dues ex. In the end its all opinions, but if you are 5 hrs in and dont like the game STOP PLAYING it dosent magically get better and turn in to a completely different game then you are already hating.

[QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"] Did did this to a point where you went into the woman's bathroom at UNATCO and Manderley scolded you for it and realized how much time was spent perfecting this game design and it's ability to approach objectives in multiple forms that no other game today has matched?Baranga

Alpha Protocol dammit!

You sir are my new hero.

On topic, yes, the game does get better. It doesn't hold your hand the way this generation's games do, which might take some getting used to. And to add some fuel to the fire, I watched one of my friends playing this so-called great MGS game and it felt like he was watching the game with me :D

Once you go into the airplane docked in the hangar and have a brutal showdown with some robot whore the game starts getting good.

TJamesA

HA! I remember that one. During my first playthrough there wasn't a brutal showdown, I was just following orders. Second playthrough, I left some mines by the door. :D

[QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"] Did did this to a point where you went into the woman's bathroom at UNATCO and Manderley scolded you for it and realized how much time was spent perfecting this game design and it's ability to approach objectives in multiple forms that no other game today has matched?Baranga

Alpha Protocol dammit!

it's an undeniable classic game but i can see how it could be a bit inaccessible for people who didn't play it within the first few years of release. sometimes its like that with old games, even classics

[QUOTE="ZuluEcho14"][QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"] I love how when some one points out how great this game is there is always something you must do or are not doing that makes the game great.............. A great game is great reguardless of how you play it.Advid-Gamer

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[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"] :roll: These claims are ignorant, there's probably a hundred gamers frequenting here that played Deus Ex for their first time post 2005 and loved the game.-Feath-

stop trying to fit in so hard

I'm not trying to be provocative here but I don't believe anyone can be purely objective. I know I'm not, everything I do is subject to my own unique experiences. I didn't see many many flaws but I do agree with you assessment of the thought going into the game.

It took me a long time to play through the game because I would play different stratagies as I went. I know a save anywhere you want system. Who Knew?:)

I dont see how, when I play a game for the first time I play the way I want to play it, if it is worth another play trough I try and play it a different way if you are able to, to change it up. I dont read about how I should play it trough my first time around, wouldnt that defeat the purpose of a RPG?Advid-Gamer

it's an undeniable classic game but i can see how it could be a bit inaccessible for people who didn't play it within the first few years of release. sometimes its like that with old games, even classics

Macutchi

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it's an undeniable classic game but i can see how it could be a bit inaccessible for people who didn't play it within the first few years of release. sometimes its like that with old games, even classics

ChiliDragon

good point, agreed

I'll admit that Deus Ex appears a bit dated now (especially graphically), it is a pretty old game. You have to remember that one of the reasons it suffers in comparison to some modern games is that those modern games look back to Deus Ex for the inspiration. Deus Ex once set a standard, one that has been imitated many times. Alpha Protocol and Mass Effect? Deus Ex is where those games started. It's really the first game in the FPS/RPG type of genre. Current games can do a lot of the things Deus Ex did better, simply because computers and consoles can handle longer, more complicated coding and AI today, but Deus Ex is really where it started.

That said, not everyone is going to be able to get past its dated standards and graphics. I feel a bit sorry for the people who didn't get to play it when it first came out, because it was really fantastic by all standards at that time. Even today it's one of my 5 favorite games of all time, and I think I'm going to go install it again.