Deus Ex 3. I shit you not.

[tgr]

Kill them all. You can't be blamed for the murders if there are no witnesses!

[Bunk]

Loving this game. Wish I had figured a couple little details out sooner - like parallel hacks and blowing up doors. Would have made the police station a whole lot easier - I ended up looking up spoilers for the sewer door to get out, because I was about 400 XP short of my next praxis to get Hacking 3.

The Icarus mod isn't all that important, but damn does it look and feel awesome.

I'm playing predominantly a stealth game, but without any of the "stealth" tree. Kill or not kill based on who the enemy is. The only kill I've regretted was shooting a guard in the back of the head, only to then realize that he was the nice guard who gave me directions earlier. :(

I love the fact that its letting me play as the badass, one shot to the head, hit man type with my ubermodded 10mm.

As for the first Boss

[Jobu]

Why do most office workers in Detroit write in French on their post-it notes?

[Rasix]

Fun tip: shooting a security camera with your stun gun will disable it for a few moments. 

[Yoru]

Why do most office workers in Detroit write in French on their post-it notes?

In the grim dark future, there are only the Quebecois.

[Nonentity]

Fun tip: shooting a security camera with your stun gun will disable it for a few moments. 

Holy shit. Went through the whole game not knowing this, would have made a few sections much easier.

[Kitsune]

Stun gun + plopping detpacks at his feet while he twitches does a pretty good job on the first boss, I discovered.

[Talpidae]

I knew about the zap cams.  It's not as much help as you think.

 

[K9]

Fun tip: shooting a security camera with your stun gun will disable it for a few moments. 

That would have been useful to know before I ditched my stungun in favour of takedowns. Handy tip though.

[Talpidae]

Stunguns are much better than takedowns.  It's really, really easy to shoot from cover with a stungun and be free and clear.  I've found that later on, running out of cover (even when you're close) to get a takedown will involve him getting a shout or a shot off.

Plus, the zap effect on the ragdoll is awesome.

(though, as someone already said, I wish there was more animations for conversations.  The pilot constantly doing the 'FUCK ME PLS, I ONLY HAVE STRIPPER ANIMATIONS' is really distracting.

Excited Diane, I've got wood.

[Lantyssa]

I like using the stun gun in combination with takedowns.  Saves ammo, and you can get a couple off in quick succession that way.

(though, as someone already said, I wish there was more animations for conversations.  The pilot constantly doing the 'FUCK ME PLS, I ONLY HAVE STRIPPER ANIMATIONS' is really distracting.

I was too busy thinking "please fuck me" to notice her animations were distracting.

[K9]

My experiences were a bit different; I found that pretty much anywhere I could use the stungun, I could use a takedown instead. It was only handy early in the game when I needed to do multiple takedowns in rapid sucession. Then again, I am playing very conservatively, and takedowns are just a matter of patience and timing from my point of view.

Also icarus landing stun -> double take down is just so 

[Talpidae]

Patience and timing...

Hmmm.

Sorry, have we met ?


Edited to add :

When you replay the game, listen to the intro tutorials at the start.  Seriously, hit tab and listen to them.

[Threash]

There are three shells in some of the bathrooms 

[Xilren's Twin]

I have greatly enjoyed introducing my boys to the love that is Deus Ex.  Now they both want to play the original too.  They definately play in very different styles; the younger one is run and gun, the older is stealth, but neither can hold a candle to the old man on side questing and finding all the toys. :)

BTW, the cap to my DX happiness is that with the Gamestop fiasco with pulling it from the shelves, i got a $50 gift card which means the best game I've played this year was essentially free...

(only picked Gamestop b/c of the side mission and weapons for pre-ordering, which i did 1 day before picking it up).

[Surlyboi]

So, I went the whole thing without killing anyone...

[Kail]

So, I went the whole thing without killing anyone...

[Kitsune]

I was definitely pleased about the $50 card.  Especially since they hadn't actually bothered to steal the onlive card from my copy.

[Lantyssa]

Awesome find, but huge spoiler.  Only read if you've beat the game.

[MisterNoisy]

So, I went the whole thing without killing anyone...

  So much for that achievement.  :P

[Comstar]

The Pod Hotel: Count me in for not  

I went through the entire game not knowing you can

Awesome find, but huge spoiler.  Only read if you've beat the game.

God damm
Also I like how Sarif seems to be a fan of My Little Pony, if his chat handle is anything to go by.

[Quinton]

I went through the entire game not knowing you can

Wait, what, seriously?  Dammit, I didn't even TRY

[tgr]

One thing I'm currently curious about is, how well did deus ex do? I'd love for square enix to get a well-deserved boost out of this.

[KallDrexx]

1 minor disappointment.  So I had the sneaking around so implanted in my brain, that in the police station I was hovering around in the vent for like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to strategize how I can get out of the vent to get to the room I wanted to.  I finally decided to exit the vent in the room where the 2 cops (with heavy weapons) were interrogating the black guy. 

I was strategizing how to kill the 2 police man the quickest without causing too many issues when I just stood up in the room, and realized that the cops really don't give a shit that a random civilian crawled out of the vents in a police station    From there I just walked out and went to the room I was trying to get to.

[Lantyssa]

If you have permission to enter the morgue, you can walk almost everywhere.  Don't let them see you in the vent though, as those are off-limits.

[UnSub]

One thing I'm currently curious about is, how well did deus ex do? I'd love for square enix to get a well-deserved boost out of this.

About 200k in week 1 sales on consoles, PC sales aren't known at this point.

[KallDrexx]

If you have permission to enter the morgue, you can walk almost everywhere.  Don't let them see you in the vent though, as those are off-limits.

I had no trouble sitting in the vent or coming in and out of the vents with people around.  No one even cared, even the guard that was right next to that security camera right outside the morgue. 

[Talpidae]

Completed.  GotY, without a doubt.

I'm going in again. 

[K9]

Finished, 39 hours and worth every minute. Easily the best game I have played in years, little bar the original Deus Ex and the Half Life franchise has come close in terms of storytelling, atmosphere and perfect gameplay. This is what games should aspire to be.

[K9]

Out of interest, how much XP did you guys end the game with? Playing on hard, and powergaming as much as I could I had


Also, which was your ending?


Post-game thoughts

[Lantyssa]

Also, which was your ending?


Post-game thoughts

[Talpidae]

Regarding Reed

[Miasma]

[K9]

Also, which was your ending?


Post-game thoughts

[cironian]

Post-game thoughts