Deus Ex - amazing game!

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has to be one of my fav's as its one of the first games i ever played.

first played it on a K62-400, 32mb ram, with 8mb Diamond Monster 3D card and it ran like a dog with 3 legs, then played it on a 2700 athlon with a mx440 and 512mb ram and to this day i have never completed it... but im gonna make sure i do. it arrived today (lost my old copy or lent it out and never got it back... sounds about right) and its killing my new system just waaaay to performance hungry ;) :D
 
i remember that game, (*tries to fine game disc*) it was an awsum game for its specs, the graphics were so smooth and everything, i was supprised it needed so little to run. got abit hard though, had to remember some codes and everything.
 
It's an awesome game, but I never completed it without cheats. I never even finished the first level without cheats! But, then again, I was about 11, and totally new to FPS. Maybe I should dig it out again...
 
You shouldn't have - Having to refrain from reinstalling and completing for the 3rd time (luckily I'm currently addicted to gt3)

Think this could be the best game I've ever played
 
Have to agree, its absolutely awesome, ive never completed it either yet, ive always gave up at Area 51, but im playing it again at the mo as it happens, and im determined to finish it this time. :D
 
Cant bileave I almost forgot of this, I first played when I was 11 myself, never completed it but came close, my copy is lost now but it will be lurking around somewhere, i'll reinstall and play someday.

I remember being amazed with the lifelike graphics all those years ago.
 
The actual gameplay was actually fairly clunky, and the AI was awful. But it has a storyline that IMO has yet to be bettered.

I don't want to ruin it, but it took me till my 3rd go before I realised you could actually save a certain person because the previous two goes I ran off like a girly girl as I thought that was how it was scripted to happen.

Best. Game. Ever.

*Drools over thought of Deux Ex remake on Source Engine*
 
I had it on the PS1, im sure you start off near some pier or something then i put the code in for all weapons and you couldn't kill this one guy and their was robots?
 
Must admit I'm tempted to play this again (only done it once, in 2004), but there's just so many great games around that I can't find the time. Would be nice to crank things up a bit though as I only had a p4-2.7/9800pro at the time, which did chug slightly in the Nightclub!

As mentioned the gameplay/interface may seem a little... clunky to modern players and indeed it is somewhat less refined than the sequel. But it has characterisation never bettered in FPS coupled with a good storyline and relatively open-ended gameplay.

As for those who haven't played the full pc version (patched and with updated dlls, natch), you are missing out.
 
Best PC game ever*.

It was the depth about the game that I loved, and the sheer attention to detail of the developers. The way you customise yourself or your weapons in whichever direction of combat you preferred (I was always a stealth/sniper sneaky type). The large (for the time) open enviroments with various routes to take. The characters. The way you could actually change what happened in the story with your actions, and yet it all tied neatly back together by the end. The use of philosophy, and politics, and morals, and they way nothing was ever "right" in that kind of "you are the good guy, these are the baddies" way most games play. So many things.

Matmulder said:
The actual gameplay was actually fairly clunky, and the AI was awful. But it has a storyline that IMO has yet to be bettered.
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I don't think the gameplay is too bad once you get further into the game. At the start, with low skills, it's definitely a pain doing even the simplest of tasks, but once you became more specialised, I thought the game got a lot better to play.

The AI was funny though. You just learned to exploit it after a while. Shoot a guy with a poison dart, run away, hide, wait for him to die and everyone to go back to their positions as though nothing had changed, then shoot the next guy. Rinse and repeat.

Macabre said:
I had it on the PS1, im sure you start off near some pier or something then i put the code in for all weapons and you couldn't kill this one guy and their was robots?
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PS2 you mean?

Don't play it on the PS2. By all accounts it was awful on it. Deus Ex can't be truly appreciated unless you play it on the PC.

*FACT
 
Personally I'm not holding my breath on the HDTP project - a lot of work to do the whole game and these kind of user texture projects tend to fall by the wayside as the limited, unpaid 'dev' teams tend to get bored/sidetracked.

There are some obvious exceptions like Freespace 2 and F1C'99-02, but heck, even the latter team ditched it in the end to work on rFactor or something like that.
 
To be fair I'm not a big fan of the opening couple of levels, but things do start to get very interesting towards the middle/end part of the game and in fact I would go so far as to say that Hong Kong is right up there as one of my favourite levels from any game (the Hell level in painkiller, and Bluff Eversmoking from Unreal being the only peers I can think of right now).
 
Yeah the first level is definitely an exercise in patience and getting used to how the game handles. Even if you want to go in gung-ho, given your limited weaponry, ammo and skills, you tend to end up dead quick that way, so you're forced to sneak it and pick people off.

Really, going in shooting doesn't work until you get your hands on the assault rifle, which is a good couple of levels in.

Also, it took you a couple of days just to get less than 100m away from the pier?
 
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