finished it great story, great voice acting, superb music and very nice art design but, few crucial elements where missing that made deus ex 1 so memorable.
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1 of the elements this game was missing is a "back stab". the entire game I was waiting for either sarif or that sleazy hacker to back stab me, but nothing of that sort happened
second element that was missing is being captured (perhaps even a little torture to spice it up ) but alas, no escape mission.
third element, not from deus ex 1 but still, its a shame they didnt make the police mission a fully stealth mission (mission fail if being detected or killing a police officer)
4th, the game was very easy primarily because not enough enemies and it was easier just to get rid of them then to waist time sneaking. I don't say this often but in the case of DE:HR they should have taken a chapter from project IGI or Metal gear (1 alarm= endless amount of troops). That would have forced the player to be more careful and use stealth more often.
all and all the game is no dought a GOAT in my mind.
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There are several reasons in my book for why this isn't goty. Don't get me wrong, the game is great, better than most games out there, but i don't really like some of the design decisions, and they can make or break a game. I played in "Give me Deus Ex":
Finishing moves are atrocious, specially when you're doing a "silent" one that does so much noise that would wake the entire neighborhood. (and the enemy npc's don't even notice)
Red screen when low health; easy AI even in max difficulty; Boss fights; Technically all over the place, with some extremely good architectural design mixed with some npc's that almost seem taken from the original DE; mouse consolitis; Badly optimized (or just bad engine); 3rd person cover ....
While I would agree on most of your points, I have to say I really like the 3rd person cover mechanic. At least you are not staring at walls all the time, and it lets you use the cover effectively.
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It's a shame that using lethal weapons (silent or not) is rewarded very poorly and there's no damn silenced sniper in the game itself (stupid bonuses for preordering/buying from one shop or another, this needs to fucking stop!).
While I would agree on most of your points, I have to say I really like the 3rd person cover mechanic. At least you are not staring at walls all the time, and it lets you use the cover effectively.
I agree, I actually liked the 3d person implementation. one thing I didn't like so much was the fact that I could destroy these big ass robots with one emp bomb, serously they posed absolutely no danger to me.
If I have one complaint about the cover system is that, if we're looking at Adam in 3rd person that much, we need his character model reflecting some physical changes throughout the game!
It's a shame that using lethal weapons (silent or not) is rewarded very poorly and there's no damn silenced sniper in the game itself (stupid bonuses for preordering/buying from one shop or another, this needs to fucking stop!).
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The "u" is actually pronounced like "ou" in the French "vous" and the y/j in the middle would've been semi silent
Sorry, blame my classical background, 7 years of Latin does that to you!
Edit @ Sabin: listen to it. He says da-y-ous; y is cut off and it's not "us" like in English. If anything, brummies would probably get closest to it natively ^^
Another example would be "spiritus" if you've ever heard a priest or something pronounce that. Rolling r, same thing with the u.
Oh, and there's a massive difference between classical Latin and modern Latin like in churches. Modern Latin is much closer to Italian than proper Latin; the way "excelsis" is pronounced nowadays is the Italian way, not Latin.
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great story, great voice acting, superb music and very nice art design but, few crucial elements where missing that made deus ex 1 so memorable.
) but alas, no escape mission.
