So the Templar then lol. I unironically would like a game about that as the Templars were never fleshed out in Deus Ex 1 so a story about how they were destroyed would be pretty cool. In Deus Ex 1 its established that Unatco raided and killed all their members (Unofficially it was MJ12 that did it) excluding Stanton Dowd who survived.
Using all the rifle weapons can carry you the entire mid-to-endgame if you want. Pistols will not. Or rather, it'd be far more demanding of your reflexes (commandos and men in black aren't just going to stand motionless and let you plink a few bullets in their head at your leisure; you can headshot 'em all from a safe distance with a mastered sniper rifle though). Heavy weapons are also a powerful supplemental skill, like Big Guns in Fallout. I used the GEP Gun and LAWs lots of times. The flamethrower is a silly gimmick to use a couple of times and then forget about, the plasma rifle is worthless.
I've done multiple playthroughs with silenced pistol and nothing else on the realistic setting (or whatever it's called).
Yeah, that's the biggest problem here.
Because you are a coward with no Klingon honor.
It's not so much what I want it to be, it's more like what they are going for. I wouldn't say the first Deus Ex screams cyberpunk, but HR and MD definitely lean heavily into that direction. Where did the allusions to racism ultimately lead? Nowhere. Why are they there? Nobody knows. Why is Jensen an ex-cop of all things? All cops are bastards after all and that includes Jensen.
Nah, come on, pistols are fully feasible throughout, especially with stealth advantage. Last playthrough, I decided to go with the Stealth Pistol for my workhorse and I loved it. Yes, it does take two shots to brain a commando, but if you invest in the skill and weapon mods, the fast refire rate lets you double tap without fail. The clip capacity also scales well for versatility, you can use it as a mini-sniper rifle or a mini-assault rifle in one.
Gotta give you credit, it takes some effort to be more of a caricature than fictional characters in a comedy scene. At least Gunther thought he didn't order Lemon-Lime, you're just annoyed the machine sells anything other than Orange.
Flamethrower works as a good stun weapon, its a valid tactic if you've got the environmental protection as that prevents you catching on fire. If you saw my GMDX run I used the flamethrower at the end to kill off all the greasels in the Walton Simons fight, I think that's where the flamer shines which is in killing animals that are bunched together. Its not worth carrying through the whole game because of its inventory size, its strictly situational. You're right about the plasma rifle though GMDX made it good enough to use but again its situational, you use it only when not given another choice, in my case I think I used it either against Walton Simons or during the prison escape I can't recall because I did a lot of runs of it.
the way nuDeusEx asked those questions was caricature
I would say that Deus Ex: The Conspiracy has its influences more in the X-Files, The Matrix, Blade, Escape from New York, Big Trouble In Little China and Highlander 2 (specifically the bit where they attack that base, very reminiscent of the sub base in Deus Ex) territory.
You quoting all those movies is funny, since Cyberpunk was a genre grown from and rooted in novels, and if you've read those novels you would have realized that Deus Ex is very much cyberpunk
oh of course, its more that from a visual perspective and the fact that most people have seen these movies its easier to explain because its obvious. Novels require people to you know, read and find information.
