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Bertram_Tung wrote: October 30th, 2025, 15:06
You would have liked it if the little grey men returned
I would have liked it if it had been a Deus Ex game, i.e. in the same universe as the first Deus Ex and played like Deus Ex.

But that was never in the cards. For the record, I don't consider DX2 to be a Deux Ex game either.
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Deus ex is the worst deus ex
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rusty_shackleford wrote: October 30th, 2025, 15:41
Deus ex is the worst deus ex
Yes. It is also the best Deus Ex. Because it is the only Deus Ex.
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Roguey wrote: October 30th, 2025, 01:01
Fox1 wrote: October 30th, 2025, 00:39
I hope noone here actually gave these subhuman devs any of your hard earned money for this trash
This is the first time in a long while where I felt I got my money and time's worth from buying and playing a new game on release.
You post the same sentence for every gay **** released from here to Mars. The watchers are all over you. :tumbleweed:
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Jesus Christ that's an ugly girl.
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Irenaeus wrote: October 30th, 2025, 19:23
Jesus Christ that's an ugly girl.
I'd hit it
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What the hell man
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Irenaeus wrote: October 30th, 2025, 19:22
Roguey wrote: October 30th, 2025, 01:01
Fox1 wrote: October 30th, 2025, 00:39
I hope noone here actually gave these subhuman devs any of your hard earned money for this trash
This is the first time in a long while where I felt I got my money and time's worth from buying and playing a new game on release.
You post the same sentence for every gay **** released from here to Mars. The watchers are all over you. :tumbleweed:
Don't forget that 5 minutes is "a long while" for people of high time preference.

Edit: Corrected
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Tangerine wrote: October 30th, 2025, 20:03
Irenaeus wrote: October 30th, 2025, 19:22
Roguey wrote: October 30th, 2025, 01:01


This is the first time in a long while where I felt I got my money and time's worth from buying and playing a new game on release.
You post the same sentence for every gay **** released from here to Mars. The watchers are all over you. :tumbleweed:
Don't forget that 5 minutes is "a long while" for people of low time preference.
You mean high time preference
Low time preference means the future is as important as the present, high time preference means you prefer the present
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Irenaeus wrote: October 30th, 2025, 19:53
Atlantico wrote: October 30th, 2025, 19:52
Irenaeus wrote: October 30th, 2025, 19:23


Jesus Christ that's an ugly girl.
I'd hit it
What the hell man
She looks like a German girl I met once :heart:
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Ok... so... Not worth the free download then? I have been going through my collections and purging various "crap" over time, so I assume I should not waste any time on this download?
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Xenich wrote: October 30th, 2025, 20:41
Ok... so... Not worth the free download then? I have been going through my collections and purging various "crap" over time, so I assume I should not waste any time on this download?
Ok, after the Outlands 2 thread, I am pretty sure not...

going back to downloading some obscure 90's ******** game for my collection that is far better than this garbage.
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Xenich wrote: October 30th, 2025, 20:41
Ok... so... Not worth the free download then? I have been going through my collections and purging various "crap" over time, so I assume I should not waste any time on this download?
I guess it's really down to your tolerance for slop. I tried playing it for a few hours because why not I can easily pirate it right? My brief thoughts are that it feels like a bad dishonored clone with a vampire skin. Skill tree is simplistic and there's no longer unique clan abilities since everything can be unlocked so it makes clan choice matter a lot less. It's on the Unreal engine which means it runs like **** most of the time with frequent stuttering and there's the trademark nu-game dev design where there's tons of visual clutter for no reason. As you can imagine woke **** is sprinkled everywhere as well. Particularly amusing is how when you leave your apartment after the tutorial there's an interracial couple kissing on the street and the first prostitute you meet is a man who asks if you wanna ****.
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Kolgrim wrote: November 2nd, 2025, 15:42
Particularly amusing is how when you leave your apartment after the tutorial there's an interracial couple kissing on the street and the first prostitute you meet is a man who asks if you wanna ****.
The street NPCs are randomly generated without much care for consistency. There's a ton of ******* and ****** and other non-Whites, true, but the kissing couple and the prostitute change.
The FLAMING ****** Nosferatu is a much better example of how pozzed the game is.
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That's just Seattle in 2024.
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logincrash wrote: November 2nd, 2025, 17:24
Kolgrim wrote: November 2nd, 2025, 15:42
Particularly amusing is how when you leave your apartment after the tutorial there's an interracial couple kissing on the street and the first prostitute you meet is a man who asks if you wanna ****.
The street NPCs are randomly generated without much care for consistency. There's a ton of ******* and ****** and other non-Whites, true, but the kissing couple and the prostitute change.
The FLAMING ****** Nosferatu is a much better example of how pozzed the game is.
Since ******* are ugly inside and out, would he count as accidentally based? /s
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Just like Yves, I chase tales
rusty_shackleford wrote: October 28th, 2024, 07:36
Mediocre or bad games can still have parts that are good.
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Finished my first playthrough, had a good time overall. Last boss was too difficult for my preferences though, going to dial down the difficulty for playthrough 2. See if I still like it after that.
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Atlantico wrote: October 30th, 2025, 10:02
HR was such ******* **** of a Deus Ex game it beggars belief. Postmodernist garbage that was wearing the Deus Es IP as a skinsuit.
It was made by the Canadian French ******* we call Quebecers.
So OF COURSE it was.
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
Reject your retarded-wing political programming and learn to think.
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Finished the game.
The plot twist is literally this:
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The Chad Gideon and the Virgin Phyre.
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Roguey wrote: November 8th, 2025, 12:57
The Chad Gideon and the Virgin Phyre.
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what in the goddamn......?
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Trickster wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:02
what in the goddamn......?
Christ, we are reaching levels of millennial cringe that were never thought possible..
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the vampires in bloodlines seemed like cool people who were in on something that normal people weren't
a lot of them were very likable
these vampires all seem like gay as **** try hard theater kids
GOD I HATE GAME DEVS
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Bertram_Tung wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:49
the vampires in bloodlines seemed like cool people who were in on something that normal people weren't
a lot of them were very likable
these vampires all seem like gay as **** try hard theater kids
GOD I HATE GAME DEVS
this means vtmb2 is way closer to VTM as played
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rusty_shackleford wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:55
Bertram_Tung wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:49
the vampires in bloodlines seemed like cool people who were in on something that normal people weren't
a lot of them were very likable
these vampires all seem like gay as **** try hard theater kids
GOD I HATE GAME DEVS
this means vtmb2 is way closer to VTM as played
i don't play tabletop games but my understanding is that VTM got a lot gayer (as ****) with the latest version. 5th edition I believe they call it? so that tracks.
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Bertram_Tung wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:59
rusty_shackleford wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:55
Bertram_Tung wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:49
the vampires in bloodlines seemed like cool people who were in on something that normal people weren't
a lot of them were very likable
these vampires all seem like gay as **** try hard theater kids
GOD I HATE GAME DEVS
this means vtmb2 is way closer to VTM as played
i don't play tabletop games but my understanding is that VTM got a lot gayer (as ****) with the latest version. 5th edition I believe they call it? so that tracks.
VTM as played at tabletop actually exists in videogame form
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rusty_shackleford wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:55
Bertram_Tung wrote: November 8th, 2025, 13:49
the vampires in bloodlines seemed like cool people who were in on something that normal people weren't
a lot of them were very likable
these vampires all seem like gay as **** try hard theater kids
GOD I HATE GAME DEVS
this means vtmb2 is way closer to VTM as played
The World of Darkness setting is unironically best enjoyed by watching some nerd autistically describe every piece of lore in an hour and a half long YouTube video, and avoiding the primary product - the turbo-gay table top "game" that is oriented at flaming theatre kids to circlejerk for hours. Literal LARP with some nerds dressed as wizards and fighters swinging sticks in the woods is less cringeworthy than the Vampire the Masquerade/Requiem/etc.
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