Deus Ex

[LeperousDust]

Absolutely loved this game all those years ago!

Hated the sequel, so what games should I look out for that play like the original? Someone mentioned Vampire Bloodlines to me, any other ideas?

I haven't played a game all the way through for a long time, they just haven't inspired me. I bought Fahrenheit, and tbh it was pretty good, but I don't know didn't seem to be what I was after, I’m not entirely sure what I’m after if I’m honest! Also I was redecorating at the time, so didn't really have time to get into it, I probably wasn't fair on it.

[Belmit]

I've not played the sequel simply because of the horrendous reviews and opinions of those that played it, loved the original though. I'm surprised no-one's released anything even remotely similar since its conception. The Splinter Cell games are probably the closest I've come to a similar experience but that's because I played Deus Ex in a stealth mode, as is my preference.

Whilst Fahrenheit was OK in that it had basic puzzle solving elements to it and you could do things your own way (kind of), I got pretty fed up of the 'press the buttons in sequence' motif after about ten minutes. The thing that annoyed me most about Fahrenheit though was that it was basically a two-hour game padded out to about ten. One weekend, after I'd got one character to get up, go to the toilet, take a shower, get dressed, and have a cup of coffee, I realised that I'd just made him do all the things I could have been doing instead of playing such a dull game. Nice concept overall though, but I won't be playing it again. Shame really as the first scene in the diner was superb and had me papping it every time the cop got up and the timer started! Took me about five goes to get out of there.

[LeperousDust]

Yeah I kind of got bored of it because of the buttons stuff. Was a refreshing idea though. Played the first two splinter cell games. What are we upto now,and are they worth it now the X-Box got its grubby hands on it? It ruined Deus Ex :(

[Belmit]

If you've played the first two then the one you're missing is Chaos Theory. It's worth getting if you liked the first two but is possibly my least favourite of the three. I think 1 and 3 were made by one company and 2 and the upcoming 4 are by someone else. Unfortunately this means that some of the improvements made between 1 and 2 never made it into 3, but hopefully that'll be rectified in the new one. Now I have the dilemma of getting it on PC or Xbox 360.

[LeperousDust]

I'll skip 3 then, it didn't look that appealing if i'm honest but i don't know why, maybe i'm growing tired of it? I've grown pretty tired of the whole game industry if i'm honest. I really need something to inspire me, Deus Ex was the last game that really moved me, it's spine tingling at some points playing it again, and the title sequence is awesome :).

I think i might just play DX again :D

[leowyatt]

Ah found your thread now after the post in the music one.

I'm actually about to start it again today after not playing it for over 4 years! Should be a bit better on this machine than my uni machine.

[LeperousDust]

I think there was a hi res textures mod if you look around for that, because you'll probably be able to use them and turn everything up too :)

[leowyatt]

Cool thanks, just had a go on Realistic and have been killed 4 times so far :D just trying to get into the statue.

[Zirax]

bah got logged out and it lost the post

check out www.planetdeusex.com (http://www.planetdeusex.com) on the single player missions, there are the 1st/2nd/3rd results for a map challenge sponsored by ION. I also remember a hi res pack, can't find it though. If you find it can you post a link?

[leowyatt]

Well I've managed to find the hi-res pack for DX2 but not for the first one :(

[Flibster]

http://offtopicproductions.com/hdtp/
Deus Ex High-Def Texture Pack - Not released yet though. :(

Although an enhanvced OpenGL renderer was made available.
http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/

Dammit - now I want to play Deus Ex again.

Simon/~Flibster

[Garp]

Cool thanks, just had a go on Realistic and have been killed 4 times so far :D just trying to get into the statue.

Whilst I was off work for a few months post-lung op I set myself the challenge of completing Deus Ex on Realistic settings. Damn hard work but well worth it in the end.

[Flibster]

Took me a couple of hours - but I've found the disk again. :D

Now installing. :D

Simon/~Flibster

[Haly]

I loved Deus Ex :)
Have to play it again sometime, I always return to it every now and then and for a long time it was my favourite game.

[leowyatt]

Took me a couple of hours - but I've found the disk again. :D

Now installing. :D

Simon/~Flibster

Nice one :) Didn't get a chance to play last night but will probably have a crack at it tonight. Seems a bit fast on this laptop but he still playable.

[Flibster]

Bloody hell it's hard on realistic!

Single sniper rifle hit and deadded... :eek:

Simon/~Flibster

[leowyatt]

Yeah realistic was one shot on the stairs from a soldier and I was dead :( then I realised I hadn't saved for about 20 minutes :( booooooooooo

[Flibster]

Gaaaaah!

Bloody hell it's hard!

Plus I keep forgetting to save which doesn't help. :embarassed:

Oh well - will have another go later on.

Simon/~Flibster

[leowyatt]

Gaaaaah!

Bloody hell it's hard!

Plus I keep forgetting to save which doesn't help. :embarassed:

Oh well - will have another go later on.

Simon/~Flibster

Hehe don't worry you aren't the only one, I keep getting annoyed when I get shot with one bullet and I die :( shame I can't kill the other people with one bullet

[Flibster]

Tranquilisers aren't much better - hit one guy with one in the back of the head...

He shouted in pain, turned and shot at me.... which attracted more people... who shot at me... which while I was running away attracted the guy with the sniper rifle... who shot at me... and killed me...

Simon/~Flibster

[leowyatt]

Do you find that it runs a little quickly on your machine? Is there any way to slow it down?

[Flibster]

It's fine for me.

Running with the v-sync on?

Simon/~Flibster

[leowyatt]

v-sync?

[Flibster]

Vertical Sync - thing with deus ex you need to force it on with the control panel

Locks it to a maximum number of fps.

Can still generate more - but it discards them.

[leowyatt]

cool, how do I modify this then?

[Flibster]

Usually an option on your graphics card driver control panel.

With ATI it's called 3d Refresh Rate Override

Simon/~Flibster

[LeperousDust]

Thought i'd give DX2 another try, just remembered how much i loath it. In fact i dislike it even more than that.

*shudders*

[leowyatt]

Well I found out I was actually using Open GL as my rendering engine so changed back to D3D and it's all running swimmingly now :D

Just on my way to the warehouse now and it's bloody hard!!! :(

[LeperousDust]

Hey guys, ragging this thread back up again, this is possibly looked at as naughty but i hope we can look at this situation with some common sense!

I've left my deus ex disc at home, and my parents are useless and can't find it in my room to mail it up, i want to install it so i friend can play it (because he's never played it, which is terrible!). Could someone up a disc image somewhere for me to download?

Few problems, i can't connect to rapidshare because it treats my university firewall as one ip 5000+ people on one ip i dont get a chance to download with a free account... I've just missed an image by literally one day easynews which is annoying, if someone ftp's it is it possible for me to connect through my intarweb, because everything but port 80 (inc ftp) is blocked which is the biggest pain in the ass ever.

So if anyone could help i'd much appriciate it!

Cheers :)

[leowyatt]

do you need a rapidshare.de account or .com account?

[LeperousDust]

.com, i may have it sorted, i think i've only got one more part to wait for now, but it's been so slow its untrue, driving me up the wall!

[LeperousDust]

nooooooo, i'm missing one part, i can't get hold of part 4, after all this! :mad:

What sort of bafoon wouldn't post all the parts:
http://www.xsharex.info/index.php?showtopic=104554

Ignore, managed to fall accross the last part, thank god, should finally be done in a few mins :) woo

[Haly]

Such a great game :D Enjoy your afternoon of Deus Ex :D

[LeperousDust]

Great its in german, i've edited the config file, and menus and most things are now englisch (:p) but the subtitles when people are talking are still a language a dropped at high school 4 years ago...

[leowyatt]

i have the full iso somewhere, do you want me to post one to you? uploading it will take some time.

EDIT: ah didn't realise it was .com I have a .de account but can't seem to find the link that allowed you to get a premium .com account when you had a .de one.

[Davey_Pitch]

I love Deus Ex, may have to re-install it and go through it again, it really is a quality game :)

[LeperousDust]

I may only need a few files from you leo, if i can find out which german ones i need to replace i don't think they would be very big at all. Just checking now.

[LeperousDust]

Ok, i give up, it's not that simple... If someone would be kind enough to mail me an iso i would be very greatful, i don't mind paying postage, and a beer on me voucher for whenever we meet in the future :)

[leowyatt]

PM me your addy and I'll get a disc out in the post :)