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Data4 said:completely blocked that door with the drink machine. No one got in. The elevator arrived and I just waltzed right in like a boss.
Data4 said:completely blocked that door with the drink machine. No one got in. The elevator arrived and I just waltzed right in like a boss.
pipka said:I tried to play DXHR. And it's boring. The lore is stale, rumors are bland. Clicking on stuff(buttons, changing position in cover, inventory) is slow. Even gunplay is slow. I'm very early in the game (Detroit hub, first time, doing quests) and I think I will drop the playthrough. They even managed to make the exploration bland; and mails have no character, no point reading them.
Will there be something redeeming? Is there something worth to see? Something exciting eventually?
Cuz up until now, AP is superior to DXHR, basing on motivation. I felt motivated to finish it, DXHR gives me none.
And aesthetics?! Why 20-something years earlier is the world more hi-tech?
P.S. J.-J. PrettyHead, you are a faggot.
Deus Ex was in a world after a great war, which is only hinted here and there. (General Sam Carter was one of the leaders in that war, but was relegated to a mere storekeeper.) That alone could have brought it to a fairly retrograde state, hence the hi-tech world of before. New age people like Bob Page were vultures who picked off the broken remnants of the old "benevolent" elite and Illuminati and either expropriated or destroyed them. While the Illuminati was more paternalistic and wanted technological advancement for all, Bob Page desired a stone age society with his high tech soldiers keeping everyone in line.pipka said:I tried to play DXHR. And it's boring. The lore is stale, rumors are bland. Clicking on stuff(buttons, changing position in cover, inventory) is slow. Even gunplay is slow. I'm very early in the game (Detroit hub, first time, doing quests) and I think I will drop the playthrough. They even managed to make the exploration bland; and mails have no character, no point reading them.
Will there be something redeeming? Is there something worth to see? Something exciting eventually?
Cuz up until now, AP is superior to DXHR, basing on motivation. I felt motivated to finish it, DXHR gives me none.
And aesthetics?! Why 20-something years earlier is the world more hi-tech?
P.S. J.-J. PrettyHead, you are a faggot.
pipka said:And aesthetics?! Why 20-something years earlier is the world more hi-tech?
Yes, Adam Jensen's Clint Eastwood voice does make him more likable, although his hobo clothing doesn't help.Vaarna_Aarne said:And of course, there's the fact that Illuminate (and certainly Bob Page) don't want the masses to get augmented, since empowered people present a new danger to them and make control harder (and after what Darrow did the idea of using augmentations as a means of control was most likely dropped entirely).
I for one think that Adam was a lot more likable as a protagonist than JC, though that might be just the fact that JC has horrible voice-acting and isn't given much personality in-game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6eeeq_2TEGerrard said:Wannabe Keanu Reeves doesn't hold a candle to JC, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnhNyRiAfE
Eidos said:We’ve been closely watching the debate that’s been going on over the inclusion of advertising in Deus Ex. It’s clear there are strong views, but primarily lots of people have been asking for more information on the issue – so hopefully that’s something I can help with.
We’re aware that this is an emotive topic and so this is something we’ve been very, very careful about implementing – because what we absolutely don’t want to do is break immersion with the game itself.
In-game advertising is one of the revenue streams which games companies can use to supplement game sales and revenues generated in this way can genuinely help with the cost of development.
To explain a little about how the process works: As part of the deal we have with our advertising partner, we’re able to reject any ads which we don’t feel are of interest for the game or its player base. In fact, that’s why they’ve only started appearing recently – because we rejected everything else up until the recent ad on the loading screen. The timing there was purely coincidental with the release of a PC patch, by the way.
As to how we deal with ads in the future, we’ve noted the passion that some people feel about the issue, and that better up-front communication would be appreciated.
Full disclosure: We have just approved a new advert which will appear in the loading screen of the game soon. We haven’t cleared anything to run on the in-game billboards as yet (that functionality does exist in the game). Ads will appear in Deus Ex in the future and our aim is to try to keep them as relevant as possible.
For other future games we’ll definitely bear in mind all of your comments on this topic – but meanwhile please keep telling us your thoughts on what we do.
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