Praise for Deus Ex and a question...

[DrSpike]

No, embrace the dark side, it will make you more powerful!

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by Kloreep

Which one did you go for first? Dark Age? That's the one I went for the first time. Didn't trust the Illuminati, didn't know if I could trust Helios.

Yes, Dark Age first and for exactly the same reasons as you give above! Regarding Helios it was the voice that was decisive... Scary!

Originally posted by Kloreep

The Illuminati ending felt the least darkest to me. Everett seemed surprisingly true to his word about benevolent dictatorship

I agree, but the end quote is somewhat suspect, no?

Carolus

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by CapTVK

SS2 is even better with the graphic updates.

Fan-made or some kind of new release?

Carolus

[Kloreep]

It's too bad they didn't end up including some of the locations I read they were considering, though. For instance, the war zone in Texas. It would have been cool to see Ion Storm Austin trash their own home state.

There's some interesting stuff like that at

http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/april02/dxbible/

Originally posted by ravagon
I generally put myself in my characters shoes and do what I'd do in their place. The Illuminati.
It's the only ending that doesn't have irrevocable consequences.

Afterall one could always merge with Helios later, after the risks involved had been calculated. After it had been contained such that negative fallout could be controlled.

Or one could destroy the global commo hub, after the virus had been contained, the vaccine distributed and a semblance of order re-established everywhere.

Until then though I'd have to go with the mythical city on the hill ...

Yeah, I like the Illuminati ending now. But at the time I was making my decision, I of course hadn't seen the endings. For all I knew the Illuminati would stab me in the back the first chance they got. Thus, for all I knew, this might be my only chance to bring down Area 51 and its centralized power. Since I didn't feel I could trust anyone, I thought I had to destroy it while I still could.

[DrSpike]

Learn to trust your friendly dictators.

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by DrSpike

No, embrace the dark side, it will make you more powerful!

Well... I have to wait until it gets here...

I'm thinking about Grim Fandango (which I've started, but not finished, and liked a lot) or Half-Life (the original, which I haven't tried yet)... I also have Thief and Thief II...

I think I'll go for Grim Fandango... I enjoyed it + I want to finish it (and some other games too) before jumping into new ones...

Land of the Dead, here I come!

Carolus

[Kassiopeia]

Go for Grim Fandango, you won't regret it

And feel free to look up help on the web for the coffee pot thing near the end, I could never get it myself either That and the tumblers in that safe...

[Alex]

ooh, grim fandango...

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Go for Grim Fandango, you won't regret it

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
And feel free to look up help on the web for the coffee pot thing near the end, I could never get it myself either That and the tumblers in that safe...

Or the grinder thing...

[DrSpike]

A great game, but one of the most (if not the most) fiendish games of all time.

[Carolus Rex]

Fiendish? Hello dictionary!

I must say that, after Deus Ex, it feels kind of strange not to have an inventory with stated goals...

Carolus

[Guynemer]

Grim Fandango.

Best.
Game.
Ever.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
Fiendish? Hello dictionary!

I must say that, after Deus Ex, it feels kind of strange not to have an inventory with stated goals...

Carolus

It means some of the puzzles are *very* hard, notoriously so in fact.

[Alex]

yeah, I had to make use of a walkthrough for most of the harder puzzles...

[Wiglaf]

And hopes for a good sequel are also dashed.

Is all this anger only because they simplified the biomod system? I always thought that was, as some of you have said, a little broken in the original anyway. And it was bothersome too.