>>3953094
it really wasn't that bad, people just had higher expectations because of the first game
it's bette than the new ones for sure

This was the first RPG I played at 11.
I was blown away that I was free to break into apartments and pretend to be a gay chamber boy

Played Deus Ex when it came out. I tried and failed to get IW working on modern PCs. Just too janky.

>>3953094
>It's no masterpiece, but it's the only acceptable sequel to Deus Ex. The Squeenix games are pure trash.
The Squeenix games were prequels.

>>3953094
Blatantly held back by consoles, though. Same with Thief: Deadly Shadows.

>>3953094
I honestly like it. It got a lot of hate back then understandably. But despite that I replayed it quite a few times over the Squeenix versions

>>3953094
>IV
it played like ass on a "modern" quad core laptop even with the fanpatch. might be memory leaks. also took me a while to figure out how to stop the mouse pointer from disappearing in the game.
i would rate it better if i play it back in the day with a WinXP machine maybe. and if it wasn't a Deus Ex game.

some other complaints:
-generic ammo. would be fine if the heavier weapons didn't eat up all your ammo in like 5 shots . had to kill most enema with my sword or grenades to save ammo.

-inventory limit. made the Strength biomod a must because iy increases your limited slots.

-stealthy playstyle is useless because not much places to hide with the level design ,which was mostly tunnels and corridors. almost a dungeon crawler but scifi. the cattleprod also got nerfed and uses up too much ammo.

-multiple endings. all feel forced since you can keep playing for 1 side in the previous hubs, but once you reach the last area, you can still switch sides anyway.
one particular ending was just dumb: "congrats on killing everyone! we will give you discount coupons!" inb5 banned for vague spoiler.

>>3953094
No, it really is awful garbage and the Jensen games are a million times better.

>>3953094
I've always said if the game wasn't called Deus Ex it would be as fondly remembered as VTMB is today. It really was great and had a lot of great moments, it just wasn't a good sequel.

>>3954184
>stealthy playstyle is useless
Stealth assassin worked great, stealth ghost didn't. The illegal eye-drone biomod was extremely overpowered because you could just zap everybody with impunity from a vent. Or if you had the magrail and the vision mod you could hit everyone through walls.

>>3954376
I"m with Ross on this one. French Deus Ex'es are not Deus Ex - they're a separate universe coopting the Deus Ex name.

>>3954528
>Or if you had the magrail and the vision mod you could hit everyone through walls.
i did that but it uses up too much ammo.
also IIRC only the altfire shoots through walls. altfire shoot EMP-like shots which only work on bots, cyborgs and those suited up templars who take more than 1 shot to take down.

>>3954537
>not Deus Ex - they're a separate universe coopting the Deus Ex name.
I never asked for this

>>3954571
>I never asked for this
me3

>>3954184
>inventory limit
>stealthy playstyle is useless because not much places to hide with the level design
They were just retvrning to the tradition of System Shock 2.

>>3954584
But ME2 is ten times as awful?

>>3953094
I remember liking it more than the original when I played it as a little girl

>>3954184
It may be controversial thing to say, but the way IW handled all possible endings of DX1 at the same time was really smart.

>>3953094
If you treat like a cheap copy of Deus Ex it's actually fairly enjoyable. Liked the Omar and the final mission

>>3953099
I like it, too. 2 is a mediocre game. Plenty of shortcuts the devs shouldn't've used.

>>3954184
>would be fine if the heavier weapons didn't eat up all your ammo in like 5 shots
Exactly

Are there good mods for it?

>be me
>sees reviews berating this game for its downgrades over the original game
>decides to get it for the same reasons it's hated
>gets project snowblind, too, not realizing it was originally the third Deus ex game

>>3958275
not really no? the fanpatch(VisibleUpgrade) does add optional graphical mods.
e.g. remove glowing eyes on the augmented and changing your default model to a clown.

>>3958621
Guess one can't have everything for free

>>3958621
>changing your default model to a clown
Sorry, but I don’t self-insert in my RPGs; unlike most of this board

>>3958759
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>>3953094
I remember choosing fem Alex and seeing her eyes were just two jpegs w/o blinking.
The coffee shop / alliance skit was fun
the vtuber / AI shit was funny
the augments were fun
the Templar ending with the hanging ayy lmao and hanging frenchie was kino as fuck

>>3954518
>fondly remembered as VTMB
Bloodlines had a prequel that wasn't buggy as fug. but Redemption was very linear with its plot progression.

>>3965911
>the Templar ending with the hanging ayy lmao and hanging frenchie was kino as fuck
that's just devs being anti-christ and making xtians look like murderhoboly KKK.