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Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> writes:

> The fact that your character started out as an unskilled novice who
> couldn't hold his weapon steady didn't endear him to players either.

It's odd, I remember thinking "combat sucks in Deus Ex" and then I
started another game and had little issues murdering almost everyone in
the intro level. Maybe my "mousemanship" had gotten better in the
meantime :)

OTOH, I do remember how tedious the beginning is. The weird WTF intro
animation and the character creation bit (I've always hated that). The
combat/sneaking intro was OK but I think the sneaking part was a little
hard and tedious again.

> Personally, I didn't really start having
> fun with the game until Area 51, and that's like 90% into the game...

That's pretty late. I guess I was impressed already when I got scolded
for going in the ladies' room in the UNATCO base. I also realized I
could've done the level in many different ways. Just no idea how much
choice there was...

I think I started liking it at when I got to Hong Kong which was right
around the 1/3 point of the game. Before that it was just kinda OK but
after that I was hooked. And even then I missed most of the weird side
quests early on. I did maybe two playthroughs initially and then went
back years later to see all the stuff I missed and try playing it in
different ways and getting to the cut content.

Well, I got it on Steam now that it was cheap. I hope I can find the
time and energy to play it once more...