I still persist in dropping in on many of their pointless minecraft blathers to grumpily opine that Notch is a cunt and the game has nothing to do with him - for everything good about it is achieved by the players. He just adds the occasional stupid gimmick to a basic engine he entirely ripped off another game. He deserves neither the money nor the respect he's getting, and the fact he's a mean-spirited and unfriendly little arsehole is just the icing on the cake.

.. *cools down*

.. Deus Ex! I take it we all here are seasoned alumni of Denton Brothers' School of Robotics?

I certainly hope none of you are going to disappoint my by confessing otherwise >_>

That left me smiling.

For comparison:

DX1: Latecomer, I wasn't quite a mature enough gamer or well-funded enough to know about Deus Ex or seek it out at release, but I tried it out and was beaten into whimpering submission by the stealthing challenge of Liberty Island around a year later, then finally rediscovered it perhaps another year or two later with the correct mindset for the depth and challenge - and lost myself in it for a week, for 5-15 hours a day, until I was given those infamous choices.

I forgot to eat or drink from sunrise to dusk. I was in love. And I fucking despised greasels.

DX2: Demo. Showed it to all my friends just to share the shock, and the bitter amusement that they had released a first person action RPG  in 2003/4 without a head hitbox. Tried to play it again in around 2008 and smiled at the fact that no-one loved this game enough to find a fix for the fact it just doesn't work on half the NVidia cards produced since 2004. Didn't try again.

DX3: Well. Like the thread started; I'm getting excited x.x It actually sounds like a semi-realistic action game in addition to having a good artstyle and story. If a game like Deus Ex actually had a decent combat system I might find a new level of love for a game. If something could combine the joy of STALKER with the depth of Fallout.. Oh my. Oh my.

Odd thing to point out though - System Shock 2, the earlier game, had much better combat than Deus Ex. Bringing down an overhead wrench blow on the head of an unaware Hybrid was painfully satisfying - the way the wrench could contact any surface as a physical object in the world is something third-person melee action games are only recently matching, while the FPS largely still treats melee weapons as floating animations which never actually touch the world beyond the player's digital skin.

I intend to replay Deus Ex completely before I get my hands on the third game, but I am dreading certain aspects of it... MiBs with plasma rifles, and madly twitching NSF troops convulsing and screaming rhythmically while I wait for my tranquiliser darts to finally put them out ._.

.. and Greasels.