🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:25:12 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:01:11 +0100, JAB <nowa...@feckoff.com> wrote:
>
>>On 14/10/2015 07:33, Leg...@invalid.com wrote:
>>>  From Sream..FREE
>>> Deus Ex: Revision
>>> Upgraded graphics. Must also have Steam's Deus Ex to play.
>>> It is a complete upgrade to game.
>>>
>>> http://store.steampowered.com/app/397550?snr=1_41_4__42
>>>
>>
>>This was one of those games I desperately wanted to like but just 
>>couldn't get into it how ever much I tried to tell myself that I should 
>>like it. I don't think I got even more than a few hours in before I gave 
>>up only to try again several months later but I still didn't "get it". 
>>One of the other games like this was System Shock 2 - booh hiss I hear!
>
>Deus Ex is definitely one of those games it took effort to appreciate.
>It was never a good looking game; even when it was new it was behind
>the curve graphically and the fact that the gameplay all took place at
>night didn't help. The character models were awful (that was a common
>problem with Unreal-engine games of the time for some reason). The
>plot was extremely slow-paced and even when the action heated up, it
>was in no way as intense as anything found in other FPS games; this
>wasn't helped by its cumbersome interface. 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. The setting was
>often self-important, full of references to esoteric conspiracy
>theories and if you weren't "in the now" it was often a dismal slog.
>
>And yet... and yet... by the time you got to the end you realized that
>you had just had an amazing experience. The world was well detailed,
>the story was beautifully complex, the characters - for all they were
>dry and too wordy - were a cut above the archetypes found in most FPS
>games, and the game did its best to give you multiple avenues of
>attack. 
>
>It might not be a particuarly FUN game but - especially for its time -
>it was very IMPRESSIVE. 
>
>Sadly, the starting levels are some of the least impressive. Liberty
>Island plays out like a slow FPS shooter, and there's just not enough
>direction in the Manhattan levels. New players are bored with the
>first part, confused by the next and most give up just before it
>starts getting interesting. Personally, I didn't really start having
>fun with the game until Area 51, and that's like 90% into the game...
>

Total opposite for me.
I got into Deus Ex instantly.  Like I got into Doom instantly.
I didn't encounter any of your problems.
It was like wow, this game is made for me to enjoy, and I enjoyed.