Just completed Deus Ex again

talkshowhost · 15 Dec 2007 at 02:58

you guys are mking me want to hunt for my disc to play it again

one of my favourite games ever

Shamikebab · 15 Dec 2007 at 03:04

I've been listening to the soundtrack for the last 2 days, sooooo good.

straxusii · 15 Dec 2007 at 07:14

One of the best games of all time without doubt, I still remember wandering around the oriental town feeling fully immersed in the experience

akirru · 15 Dec 2007 at 09:46

HangTime said:
^Actually although I'm a bit of a Glide fanboi (and have used that wrapper in the past), the best option for Deus Ex (and any Unreal-engined games) nowadays is to use updated dlls. You can get great ones here, in DX8 or OGL flavours: http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/ . Be sure to check out the Beta page, as a new OGL renderer for Deus Ex was released a couple of months back.

Woah thanks dude, those look really nice. I'll have to give them a whirl when I get home. Sound like they might give new life to some of my old unreal engine games.

Andy

georges · 15 Dec 2007 at 12:42

What do those DLLs actually do? Any screenshot comparisons?

taz488 · 15 Dec 2007 at 19:24

never played this game, but am going to now

Inquisitor · 15 Dec 2007 at 20:12

georges said:
Environmental (Aqualung is pretty similar to swimming, but there is no equivalent for environmental iirc).

Hazmat suit?

Indy500 · 15 Dec 2007 at 20:14

Inquisitor said:
Hazmat suit?

Environmental training skill with hazmat can be quite effective at reducing radiation effects. (ET is quite low cost in points compared to weapon skills).

manic111 · 16 Dec 2007 at 01:42

Im going to play through it for the 1st time over Christmas-had to leave my desktop at uni, so Im stuck on a 4 year old Dell machine-gives me the chance to play a few games I missed like Deus Ex and The Longest Journey, but is still a pain-are there any other games that people can recommend from that time period that are worth playing? Ive done Baldur's Gate, NN and Half Life.

HangTime · 16 Dec 2007 at 09:16

Freespace 2
Civilization 3 Deluxe
Max Payne
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Need for Speed: Porsche 2000
Command and Conquer: The First Decade
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M's Way

Clark the White · 16 Dec 2007 at 13:25

IMHO this is one of the best games ever, i rate it up there with System Shock 2 and UFO: enemy unknown

georges · 16 Dec 2007 at 13:42

manic111 said:
Im going to play through it for the 1st time over Christmas-had to leave my desktop at uni, so Im stuck on a 4 year old Dell machine-gives me the chance to play a few games I missed like Deus Ex and The Longest Journey, but is still a pain-are there any other games that people can recommend from that time period that are worth playing? Ive done Baldur's Gate, NN and Half Life.

Mafia!

ShiWarrior · 16 Dec 2007 at 17:13

HangTime said:
Freespace 2
Civilization 3 Deluxe
Max Payne
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Need for Speed: Porsche 2000
Command and Conquer: The First Decade
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M's Way

add X2 (or X3 ) to that list

and i would also add Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion

all the above games are highly recomend, u must complete them! :cool:

Saikor · 16 Dec 2007 at 18:09

Clark the White said:
IMHO this is one of the best games ever, i rate it up there with System Shock 2 and UFO: enemy unknown

Definately agree with that. Few games have come close to deus ex.

HangTime · 16 Dec 2007 at 19:12

A 4 year old Dell PC will likely struggle to run Oblivion at a playable framerate, I think he's looking for games around 5-8 years old.

manic111 · 16 Dec 2007 at 23:10

"and i would also add Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion"

I was going to say!! Maybe pushing it a bit

Ive heard a lot of good stuff about Mafia, so I may pick that up, although I never really enjoyed the GTA games.

Civ. 3 might be a good one, cheers for that-Ive also downloaded X-Com Terror From the Deep from Steam for $5 so I will give that a go-always hear that it is a bit legendary!

theforce · 16 Dec 2007 at 23:56

Amazing. I was searching for any word of Deus Ex 3. Deus Ex was an amazing game with a plot to die for. I think that the guy who wrote the plot should start writing some plots for Hollywood movies

Deus Ex 2 seemed a more mainstream title. Story wasn't at all that deep and even if it retained some features of the first game, all the people who loved Deus Ex 1 didn't like it much since it wasn't up the standards of the first game. It had some nice visuals though.
Any link where it has some info about DX 3. Hope it's similar with the first game in terms of plot and immersion and me wants to play J.C Denton

HangTime · 17 Dec 2007 at 20:37

I think it would be cool if you got to play as Paul in DX3.

RossG · 20 Dec 2007 at 16:54

Ive gone mad with fanboyism. Im attempting to make a Deus Ex version of monopoly. Here is what I have for the board so far. Any comments or suggestions?

1 Battery Park
2 Castle Clinton

3 New York Cemetery
4 New York Subway
5 Hell's kitchen

6 Brooklyn Shipyards
7 LaGuardia Airport
8 Liberty Island

9 Tonnachi Road
10 Wan-Chai Market
11 Lucky Money Club

12 Paris Catacombs
13 Paris Metro
14 Downtown Paris

15 Everett Estate
16 DuClare Estate
17 Paris Cathedral

18 Abandoned Gas Station
19 Submarine Base
20 X-51 Vandenberg

21 Missile Base
22 Area 51

Utilities:
VersaLife
NSF Generator

4 of a kind:
MJ12 Liberty Island
MJ12 Hells Kitchen
MJ12 Hong Kong
UNATCO HQ

james.miller · 20 Dec 2007 at 17:00

Garp said:
With Deus Ex 2 be sure to do some digging around on how to tweak the GFX performance. Sadly they used the Xbox settings on the PC release and it performs atrociously by default. Tweak it a bit and everything dramatically speeds up

on todays hardware, its not even a problem lol. but i do remember how bad it used o be. i bought both on steam :cool: