Deus Ex 3!? - Page 50

I killed Namir just doing it.

I feel given how much Adam Jensen is still in the dark about Bob Page and company, as well as Ms. Reed and others like Taggart, for that matter, that the game left a bit too be desired as far as uncovering a conspiracy--especially considering that Bob Page is the man holding the meeting about "the chip" in the start of game cinematic. However, don't spoil me because I only did the Taggart ending my first run, but can anyone tell me if all of the other endings are video menages from real life? Please say yes/no, lol. It was nice for that ending but I'll be pissed if they're all like that.

Oh yes, my other point was that it obviously left a lot of room for a sequel. One of my favorite things about DX1 was Bob Page trying to intimidate JC through his infolink, but to be honest, he did get inside the MJ12 conspiracy ridiculously easy for how secretive the Illuminati/MJ12 were supposed to be. Yes, I realize that was part of the story, how MJ12 was operating in the open in France and how people were already desperate because of the Gray Death, but there were a lot of people simply telling JC what was going on (Paul, Daedalus, Tong, Everett, and Savage pretty much lay everything out). Adam Jensen does a lot more of his own discovery and investigation even though he still pretty much ends up in the dark about the true conspiracy. All he knows about is Taggart, and he can't really do much. Again, I didn't watch the other endings, so I could be a bit off.

Speaking of Daedalus, though, Eliza felt a bit awkward in comparison. No, I wasn't expecting a Helios ending, but for Eliza to suddenly have a life of her own, and then for her to not really do anything until the very end was a letdown.

This game was supposed to serve as a reboot for the series, so I imagine alot more of the story will be explored in the future dlc/games. It does make me feel a little cheated, but the game itself was amazing so I give them somewhat of a break.

Yes.

I really enjoyed the regular gameplay, though there were a lot of not-thought-out little things, the fact you kept getting credit chips way into panchea in particular. It suggests they had more content and cut it, or that they plan on releasing post-ending DLC or expansions with carry over. Either way it's a dumb thing to leave in because it signals players that the money will be useful at some point, which it isn't.

The major things for me were the boss fights, namir in particular was literally impossible for me as I had no health or damage augments other than gas breathe. I like to play boss fights the hard way, without saving, but to beat namir I had to shoot him once, hide, save, wait for regen to full, shoot him once and repeat. In normal cirucmstances I had about a 60% success rate per shot, getting instagibbed otherwise. Then I managed to trap him into loop-jumping over the central glass division and shooting him once each time he landed before switching to the other side so he'd jump back over again. Took about 2.5 hours to beat him.

I also *really* hated that the game insinuated you could be nice during the boss fights (or after them). Eliza asks whether you're gonna save fedorova (cloaky boss)... there's a huge amount of buildup in the fluff and dialogue about how she's had a shit run and doesn't deserve what she gets given, I totally would have saved her if I could, but you can't, believe me I tried.

The same thing happens in the final boss fight, where you approach the girls in the quantum computer, they're presented as helpless, innocent, sentient beings, obviously suggesting that brutally murdering them is not the only option... but it is. There is no way to finish the fight without disabling them and disabling them seems to kill them (at least there's no hint that they're alive after it)

I get the feeling that the eidos guys really wanted to make the boss narratives more complex, that you could save fedorova or help the slave girls (amusingly in both cases they're women, when the fuck are we going to get a male character you have to fight but who doesn't deserve to get their face kicked in and die in a pool of blood at your feet >.>), but that the options were cut and the story wasn't adjusted to suit. The game sends mixed messages, hard.

This on top of the whole you have to kill them thing anyway, which was already a bit naff.

This same sort of "there are so many hints about more stuff being there, but doesn't eventuate" stuff is all over the place, from your interactions with the main intellectual characters, named characters who aren't interactable etc.


However, there were still moments of fantastic. As someone mentioned earlier, saving malik with non-lethal only? Fuck yeah, you feel like a *GOD* when you pull that off. Every tranq shot has to land perfectly and you have to rushdown with emp's and takedowns because it's not quite fast enough otherwise. Getting through the whole FEMA facility without being seen makes you feel like the greatest ninja ever. Those are DE's real bossfights, the ones you don't actually have to win.

The game really, REALLY does the job of encouraging you to play a game within a game- as a theorist studying this it's incredible to experience it executed so well. Videogames, to people like me are actually toys, games are negotiated things that people make on their own. Most modern videogames are toys that other people force you to play the way they want you to. Deus ex is an incredible toy that you can do just about whatever the fuck you want with and it will still give you deliberate feedback. That is the crowning achievement and the lesson other developers can take away.

Encourage people to play, encourage them to explore, encourage them to limit themselves and make their own rules. Within that lies the heart of what fun is, and boy did this game have it in spades