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Just finished it by MM Denton 06/02/2005, 12:24pm PDT
Entropy Stew wrote:

To be more precise, since the responces to 9/11. The thing is, I can't narrow down who Walton Simons should be. That fuckwad charged with the most holy quest of spying on the internet? Ashcroft? Bush?

-/ES/-

No, obviously not Bush.


Finally played it. Great game, the kind of game System Shock 2 should have been. While not as wholesale awful as in SS2, I still think the skill system (or "virtual incompetence" as I call it) sucked. Luckily someone in the design team agrees with me because there's a code to give yourself all the skill points you need to bring all your skills to master level without putting that "Cheats enabled" mark of stigma on your save files. I like to think that with $50 billion invested in this cyborg, they probably would have taken the time to actually teach him how to shoot, swim, etc. And with the difficulty set to "realistic" the challenge is retained. Instead of a stooge clambering his way towards competence, I start out excellent, then my gradually improving augs made me AWESOME.

Excellent plot. A close second to planescape. And I agree it's spooky in this political climate. The emergency govt powers, the "private contractors" taking over military roles, the application of the term "terrorist" to all opposition. But dear god, they needed some better voice actors, especially when doing the voices with foreign accents.

I think Rumsfeld would be Simons, an ugly dude with zero charisma given to tellingly callous statements who's proven himself to be politically untouchable. (remember when there was an uproar in congress to have him removed because of the Iraq fiasco that sorta... disappeared?) Bush would still be the puppet president, Condi and the rest of the cabinet the MJ12 lieutenants. Paige would probably be Rupert Murdoch. And I think Cheney's killphrase would just be a well-timed "Boo!"
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Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by Entropy Stew 12/26/2002, 2:28am PST NEW
    Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by CrackerBarrel 12/26/2002, 3:10pm PST NEW
        Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by FABIO 01/01/2003, 5:51am PST NEW
            I envisioned that. by penelope 01/01/2003, 6:57am PST NEW
                Steve Miller. (nt) by creativepig 01/01/2003, 11:02pm PST NEW
                    elaboration by Ray, of Light 01/02/2003, 3:03pm PST NEW
                    Re: Steve Miller. by TAFKAM 01/02/2003, 3:05pm PST NEW
                        YOU WANT TO REACH OUT AND GRAB ME, YOU BUTTFUCKIN FAGGOT (nt) by Jhoh Creexul 01/03/2003, 3:03am PST NEW
                            After that review? Hey, I'm a starfucker! -nt2003- by TAFKAM 01/03/2003, 9:12am PST NEW
            Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by curst 01/03/2003, 11:07am PST NEW
    Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by Asmo 01/16/2003, 5:46am PST NEW
        The zeitgeist is obviously quite gay -nt- NT by Entropy Stew 01/16/2003, 5:12pm PST NEW
    Just finished it by MM Denton 06/02/2005, 12:24pm PDT NEW
        Question by MM Denton 06/02/2005, 2:42pm PDT NEW
            Not sure. But! by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2005, 2:52pm PDT NEW
                a real ending was too much work by bombMexico 06/02/2005, 4:20pm PDT NEW
                    I liked that ending the best by Quentin Beck 06/03/2005, 3:21pm PDT NEW
            two of them, actually by FABIO 06/02/2005, 9:09pm PDT NEW
                They also ditched the entire menu and inventory system. by Creexul :( 06/02/2005, 9:17pm PDT NEW
                    One of those is bad, the other isn't by curst 06/03/2005, 12:10pm PDT NEW
                        Re: One of those is bad, the other isn't by FABIO 06/03/2005, 12:52pm PDT NEW
                        Re: One of those is bad, the other isn't by Creexul :( 06/03/2005, 7:05pm PDT NEW
                        Re: One of those is bad, the other isn't by Mischief Maker 06/03/2005, 8:51pm PDT NEW
                Re: two of them, actually by Mischief Maker 06/03/2005, 8:39pm PDT NEW
            Re: Question by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2005, 9:16pm PDT NEW
        Re: Just finished it by Creexul :( 06/02/2005, 9:29pm PDT NEW
            Hey, that was actually kind of funny. by Arbit 06/02/2005, 10:50pm PDT NEW
                Re: Hey, that was actually kind of funny. by Creexul :( 06/03/2005, 12:48am PDT NEW
                From the same series by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/04/2005, 11:03pm PDT NEW
    Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2005, 9:25pm PDT NEW
        Re: Playing Deus Ex makes me really fucking paranoid since 9/11 by bink 06/08/2005, 11:18pm PDT NEW
            Someone else on this board also thought the internet was constantly policed NT by WHO COULD IT HAVE BEEN? 06/08/2005, 11:24pm PDT NEW
                Straw-man argument. NT by bink 06/08/2005, 11:58pm PDT NEW
 
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