Sup avalanche? Your Onimusha retrospective was on point. And your RE clone videos are just a treat. I played tormented souls because of you, would have missed that game otherwise. You and Grim keep up the great work. 👍
I believe the Dragon's Tooth sword is loud like that because it's playing the sound effect 5 times; since the damage in-game is calculated as being 5 instances of 20 damage to make up the total of 100 damage that the item's description says in-game
On the topic of discovering things every playthrough: my last playthrough (probably my 30th or so) is when I finally learned that both Mr. Renton and Sandra can die in the hotel. If they do, Jojo immediately starts sassing toward JC like Jojo is gonna "let" him stay in HIS brand new hotel if he really wants to, but there are gonna be some changes around here and JC had better be cool with that. A few playthroughs before that, it was knocking out all the UNATCO troops BEFORE sending the NSF distress signal, so Walton Simons says something to the effect of "Colonel Lewes isn't responding, so I guess you took care of the troopers ... you win this round, but your killswitch is still active," instead of his usual "I've ordered the troops to kill you." GOD I love this game.
Still my number one of all time, even ahead of the witcher 3. Partly because of nostalgia but also because the whole deus ex package is so... FULL so complete that no other game comes close to it
Good find, I didn't know that. My most recent discovery was from Warlock's video on Deus Ex, which showed one of the pinball machines opens a secret area.
same, I also played the game around... 15 times and then just watch someones letsplay playing it for the 2nd time after ages and they still found things I had no idea of. That was definitely something.
the reviews saying the game is too obtuse to enjoy is so insane to me, I beat this game as a 10 year old by just running around skipping through conversations and shooting everyone. They're missing the point that this game has so much freedom that if role-playing or stealth never even occurs to you as an option you won't ever be hindered or stopped.
I remember reading the planetdeusex forums, and one of the many silly little theories was that Jock was killed off camera at some point and replaced with an AI in the helicopter for the rest of the game. The reason why? There are credits for both Jock and 'Black Helicopter' at the end of the game.
Can I just say how nice it is to see Grim grow so much as a creator? Even when I started watching him nearly 4 years ago, his content was excellent. But over the last year or two, his content has improved to the point where I'd consider his reviews some of the best on the Internet. Keep up the good work Grimmy...Also, where can I buy a para-pug? I'm not kidding...I need to know...
You can tell he's struggling less now too. Just compare filming areas from old videos to now. It's nice to see someone get better, plus his nail polish is CUTE CUTE CUTE
Right there with ya bud. Been here since 4.5k and he just keeps on getting better. I missed the period of no phone demon though. Ah well, off to leave my mandatory comment.
It's wonderful that you can put out a Deus Ex review in 2021 and find new things to say about it that I've never heard before. You bring such a unique touch to your reviews, I treasure each of them and have rewatched so many, sometimes multiple times. You're far and away my favorite youtuber, its criminal that your stats aren't in line with other channels that produce content at half the quality. I've shared your videos around to my friends. Keep up the good work man, you're only one algorithm-grabbing video away from the numbers you deserve.
Civilization is near collapse, the world economy is in chaos, a deadly virus ravages the earth’s population… and also here’s a review of a very cool video game. Love it
I actually found out not long ago why the Dragon's Tooth Sword has such a loud hit sound. It's because each attack is actually coded to be 5 simultaneous attacks, and the overlapping sound effects make it loud and a bit static-y. That's also why the sword can't destroy things like security cameras, despite the info card's figure of 100 damage. It actually does 20x5 damage, which is below the required threshold of 50.
i never knew that! i swear, despite having beat this game ages ago, there's still plenty of stuff to learn about it. i find something new every playthrough and learn something new with every online discussion of it. i didnt even know about the sewer mission to save ford schick until my 3rd playthrough, i thought jock was just being a paranoid weirdo!!
The Algorithm blessed me. Yesterday I got this video and I've been binging dozens of your back catalogue since then. I've just stumbled on something golden.
I first played Deus Ex in 2018 and I utterly fell in love with it, I'd play it for hours each day and couldn't wait to finish work to have another go. Despite its age, Deus Ex didn't at any point feel not fun or difficult to play. I loved the nostalgia of the era, all the effort the team put in was still glowing.
I've lost count of how many reviews/retrospective/analysis videos I've seen of Deus Ex at this point but you better believe I'm down to watch two hours of Deus Ex talk from Grimbeard. Thanks chief
I feel like these are solvable problems, but that might be the first world privileged perspective.. but as a great timeless world leader once said.. let them eat Snickers.. if you're hungry why wait.. Not sure whatever happened to her, I think she might have peaked early, still left a delibal impression.. every time I attend a masked ball I am fucking strapped with Snickers, although you know, it's hard to not take up an appetite with all that lead paint.. as another great leader once said.. "lead paint, tasty but deadly!" Wait.. is that why we're always trying to shoot the poor? Holy shit.. and I thought it was malicious, this whole time we were just trying to feed them.. fuckin ingrates...
Funny thing, you can get both the sniper rifle and crossbow about 5 minutes after you leave the dock, while the gep gun can only be found about half-way trough the game. Also, if you want a decent combat build without actually spending skillpoints on weapon ability, get the sniper rifle and keep slapping every weapon mod you find on it, by the time you get to new york, it should be a very effective no-scope headshot machine. Also, you get exactly one reward for being non-lethal, if you kill the nsf troops inside castle clinton, Carter will not give you extra stuff at the armory.
A 2-hour review from grim beard on one of my favorite games of all time... Yeah I'm down for that! Even flaws aside I should still get a good feeling of the warm fuzzies by the end.
edit: This is the best video covering Deus Ex on the internet. The time you spent showing and talking about all the details and optional fun things you can do really shows the breadth of the game in a way I haven't seen anyone else do. I also appreciate the mention of Goldeneye as an influence; I find that it is very, very under-recognized in general by the PC gaming community, despite how revolutionary it was for when it came out, and despite the developers of games like this one and Half-Life citing it as a major influence, most PC gamers seem to regard it as a mirage rather than a real game simply because it was exclusive to a console. Project for a New American Century. That's the real version of a "Majestic 12" who are all operating to carry out a goal in coordination with each other, even if they appeared to have disparate roles in the Bush Administration and wherever else the people who put their names to that document were during that period.
On the subject of paul, some RPGs today have found that the answer to "character that dies having relevance later" is to have multiple characters that can fill that role. You have the primary, expected character, but also a background character who can act as understudy and do some of the same things slightly differently or for different reasons, and if that one can die chuck in a third person you barely meet at all who can fulfill those plot beats.
Gamers were obsessed with graphical fidelity in the PS2 days too. They were wrong then too. I keep thinking, "one day, the graphical ceiling will be reached. Things won't really be able to get better. Then those game makers will be forced to do more, better things!" Turns out more things meant NFTs and I'm pissed.
The Paris hub is big in terms of floor space, but I think there's much more time you can spend exploring Hong Kong - one of the biggest disappointments with the Paris hub is how few of the buildings you can explore or how much side content it has. It would be ripe for a modder to add some extra material to.
I still remember the days before the internet. It was nice. Things really were different after the floodgates opened, and the usage of the internet became ubiquitous through social media in the late 00's. Before then it was just that thing nerds used, and I knew that "normies" and the general public wouldn't be able to handle it. They'd be stumbling drunk into a place they don't understand, and nothing would be the same anymore. Now the world is slowly becoming 4chan, and the internet has become srs bizness for real. The more the line between reality and the internet blurs, the lamer both get.
I'm only a -late- mid-millennial and even I miss the days when the height of online social media was myspace, enjoyed by a minority of users. And even they weren't casuals like those of today. Hell, a lot of profile pages were extensively customized. The term "casuals" came about with facebook and the throngs of normals it attracted onto the internet. I shudder to realize I even miss the time when Farmville represented casual gaming. P.S.: I somehow confused the cutoff point of the millennial generation for the 90s. I spawned in '88. If you're born before the turn of the millennium and came of age after the turn, you're a millennial, hence the damned name. Couldn't be simpler.
@@justinbrown8214 If you mean how the internet going mainstream was going to backfire, yes, yes I did. >__> I know it must be hard to accept there are people who maybe know something you don't. Someone having different experiences in their life informing their thoughts and decisions, real scary stuff huh? Thanks for being an example of just the type of modern fuckwit I was referring too though.
I never ever thought I could sit glued to my monitor for two hours watching a Deus Ex retrospective. The love just pours out of every second of footage. Any chance a Retrospective on Invisible War might happen in the future?
Some pretty major rewards for Non Lethality are getting to loot MIBs and not triggering their self destruct, especially in close quarters or stealth situations.
I have a perverse pleasure in completing objectives in a non-lethal way to come back afterwards and wipe the map clean. Versalife lab and MJ12 facility are my favourite hunting grounds for this
god the zoom in on Maggie with that awful attempt at an East Asian accent. I don't know what it is about it but it always cracks me up. it's so fucking funny on top of the absurdity of the voice line delivery
I absolutely love how you make longer videos that cover every aspect. Especially with games I never got the chance to play, but spent years being curious about.
Here’s a fun thing: My spouse, who has never played Deus Ex but has listened to me ramble on about it for a decade, spoke at an ECGC a few years ago when Warren Spector was the keynote speaker. Unsurprisingly, raving fanboys (as I would have been) wouldn’t stop bugging him during a post talk mixer so my spouse tried to give him a break by just sequestering his time for a bit with some not-Deus-Ex-related conversation. I’ve never been so proud/envious.
I know this video is like a year old but I just wanna say that I fucking love Chad dude, he's a great creation and super funny. Love your content Grim, you are one of the few video game retrospective/critique RUclipsrs I watch that manages to make me genuinely laugh and keep me entertained with meta and insightful commentary. Keep up the good work man, love you and everything you do :).
Grim mentions how Paul Denton is so under utilized in the game and that reminds me that for a while I always wondered why, when they were making the prequel games, they didn't just use HIM as the protagonist. I mean, we all know Paul got into some kinds of crazy adventures before JC entered the scene and I'd personally love to see what he got up to.
@@DGneoseeker1 or all three. Have different playstyles and huge complex levels that utilizes their different strengths and weakness. And a different story that could flesh out the world from different perspectives. Oh well, we'll always have Adam's augmented Oakleys
The darker story is that Square Enix didn't really want to make a Deus Ex. They just wanted to have a stealth action game with their own character and franchising.
I like the idea, but it would be backwards to the way Deus Ex (2000) was. His philosophy would need to become more certain and restrictive throughout the course of the game so he could end up where he was at the beginning of Deus Ex
I've replayed this game so many times, and it feels like every time I discover a new line of dialogue in reaction to a new sequence of actions taken. Like last time I played I discovered if you deal with the hostages on the subway platform in the Battery park level before taking on Castle Clinton Ana Navarre commends you.
I love how John Romero, the guy who made Daikatana, one of the most dissapointing and hated games ever, also played a major role in helping to make Deus Ex, and he did so AT THE SAME TIME as making Daikatana. He created the opportunity in the first place by offering Warren Spectre the creative freedom to make the game of his dreams, and also defended Deus Ex and fought against its cancellation. Nobody would ever guess that someone responsible for making such a horrible game could have also been so instrumental in making such a great game. It goes to show that you should be careful not to judge someone based only on the outcome of one project.
Romero was the CHAD around those parts; he deserves as much acclaim as can be heaped on him as he really was a cool dude, and still is. Him and specter both deserve a lot of credit for what they did; I mean look at what Doom and Quake did for gaming, and then what Deus Ex did for another field/genre of it. Both key players in its history
You are my favorite video game retrospective reviewer. Don't stop making quality content like this. I swear you will get that 100k sub count. Just don't quit. All of us love your content it's a gem
if you haven't set up toxic canisters and tnt boxes on the first floor of the NSF base to drop another TNT box and obliterate whole first floor of unatco troops with one big BOOM, before sendnig a message, you are unable to have fun at all
Dude, I've literally watched your vids for a year and I'm so mad at myself for just subbing today. You deserve better sir. But I'm not even exaggerating when I say that they have an kept me so entertained and distracted I think I may have forgotten that I can interact AT ALL!!!😂 Amazing videos dude!!
The background information segments in your reviews give them.a quality that you won't get elsewhere. Surely, the world has nothing to gain from yet another Deus Ex review, but here we are. Thank you, Grimbeard
Fantastic review! You're doing a great job. The random tangents, so funny. Been watching for only a year or so but been through your entire library, can't wait for more.
A fucking tour de force of a video. Since 2000, I've been playing Deus Ex every so often as well as listening to the music at work. I'm really grateful for such a superb documentary that competently covers so much ground. It's fun, entertaining and educational. You've entered EmpLemon territory!
Hey Grim. I fell into the "why does everyone like this game?" camp until a few months ago. I originally played in the mid 2010s and was trying hard to go stealth but was angry how failing stealth made every enemy know my position. This year I started streaming it with my friend acting as Col. Campbell giving me advice on discord. I was in a rough spot where a guard would turn and immediately see me after I quick saved. I ended up firing my crossbow and the tranq dart missed by a wide margin, hit the wall, and the guard immediately went to where it hit. This was the moment it all clicked. As stupid as it fucking sounds, as obvious as it could be. I think what really happened was I stopped trying to judge the game or get it off my backlog and was just playing it. It wasn't me as a player against game designers with flaws, it was me fucking up and somehow recovering in a very relatable fashion. Anyways, I love you. System Shock 2 was my first Immersive Sim. I still wake up screaming and break out in cold sweats when audio compresses. Also don't worry about pleasing me or video length. You make me happy just being you and doing things how you enjoy doing them. We are in the existential dread part of our lives where it's been 30 years since the cold embrace of the world and still feel like we squandered everything. We didn't squander it, Grim. We don't need that feeling of recognition (the fame worship mentioned by the AI) to be happy. We just need to support each other and let people know they matter because we are all humans trying to keep the flame of hope alive in a void of existentialism. Stay awesome!
i didnt appreciate deus ex until i played mankind divided , i thought human revolution was good but not great, mankind divided felt truly great with a lackluster cliffhanger ending and then i decided to play deus ex og, its was just shocking how the eidos deus ex's felt like them trying to make a good game first and then the story and world came, while deus ex felt like a world and story that just happend to have serviceable gameplay
I was just thinking, “wonder why we haven’t heard from Grim in a minute”. Turns out he was making a freakin feature-length movie. Also, you’ll have to elaborate sometime on why Invisible War is misunderstood
I spill my drink... with excitement! Also, being from Austin: past videogames, that tenuous relationship between Dallas and Austin is the same in every respect. Thanks for bringing the Deu(s Ex.)
So chuffed you've released a review on one of my favourite games, on my birthday! This was the first game that made me wag primary school to play when I was 9 years old. Thanks for all your work Grim, Keep it Real
Para-pug returns! and also there's a video Between this and the Hbomberguy review of Human Revolution we just need an Invisible War video this month from Mandalore or Gervais or someone and we'll have a full TV season's worth of a franchise review-through.
55:40 It is a very authoritarian ending, yes. But a huge part of the reason authoritarianism is bad is that most authoritarians are greedy, unwilling to listen to the needs of their people, and promote themselves over everything else. If we take Helios as he seems, these don't really apply to Helios - he has little to no material needs or wants, he actively wants to understand the human race and what it wants and needs, and it seems to have little to no ego. It's almost like the thought experiment of the enlightened dictator, a dictator who has all the power but who's primary goal is to maximize his people's happiness (though you have to be careful with that phrasing because you can have a society with high average happiness that exploits and harms many to achieve it). A human could not, realistically, do this role, and even if they did, apon their death you'd have a huge power vaccuum. An AI could actually do the enlightened dictator job, never clogged down in red tape or politics, always looking to make things better for the people it rules over. In practice, one can imagine many 'bugs' or unintended outcomes that would undermine it's perfection.
Thank you Grimbeard for all the content you've been making over the years. I am going through your channel basically for all the reviews. Also, Juha Kauri was pronounced well, so "the shot you took" was worth it. :)
In the training tutorial, you're told that JC and paul "don't know how to smile". So his sociopathic personality is actually based in lore because of his nano-augmentations
Rad video, agree with everything, favorite game. Doing my fourth or fifth playthrough now to check out the Revision mod, highly recommend that for replays...has a totally modified sound track, better textures, native support for all kinds of resolutions, and some light level redesign. Some of the new character textures suck but they're easy to disable. As an added bonus you can tell the game to never automatically pick up certain items like the combat knife.
A 2-hour video that manages to not feel lengthy at any point deserves credit ... and a subscription on my part. Your review is suitable for newcomers and fans alike, as you not only cover the basics, but also go in-depth on interesting behind-the-scenes information about the game's development, making it more of an essay than "just" a review. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into making this video, and it shows. The good pacing and right dose of humour made it easy to watch it in one sitting. Great job !
"Why they gotta make killing dudes and finding ways to do so, so enjoyable" Funny, I never had that issue with Deus Ex... I _did_ however have that issue big time with Dishonored, so much so as to nearly ruin the experience for me. Mostly because that game actively does chastise and penalize you for going lethal, yet playing non lethal is kinda dull... Also tranq darts stack, once you get higher skill you can easily double tap and it sends people to sleep near instantly. And I'd describe Dragon Age Origins as a great AAA game made by people who cared, it's also the Swan Song of Bioware. The last game made by the golden age team and before the dark times. It was directly the result of them needing money to finish Dragon Age Origins, what many in Bioware considered their magnum opus over Mass Effect (though history went the other way) that led to them floating too many shares, and EA performing a hostile takeover using shell companies. RIP Bioware.
I encourage you to replay dishonored without worrying about killing people. The game doesn't actually penalize you for being lethal unless you create a massacre.
Had the same problem with Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain. You can go through an entire mission killing every enemy, but raise not a single alarm or be spotted once, and the game would punish you in the rankings. This is a game that gives a ton of lethal options btw lol.
It doesn't help that they treated Brent Knowles, like Milton in Office Space, and did their level best to scrape his name off of DA:O, as the one who'd created & written the entire setting, retroactively elevating David Gaider from character writer for Alistair & Morrigan to lead writer. Dragon Age 2 is what happens, when you jealously toss out the existing world-building, and believe EA's hype about yourself, with five years less time than it would take to start from scratch.
@@futonrevolution7671 That I did not know. Wish there were more people covering DA:O, but it seems to have sadly been forgotten. Partly because it became lost in Mass Effect's shadow and partly because of it releasing when good bioware was becoming EA-Bioware. Nice portrait btw. :P
@@planescaped Thanks, chief! Yeah, DA:O's been a victim of revisionist history, by EAWare's need to convince people it's not just a label slapped onto a different studio. You can't make it seem like it's just a first draft for DA: Inky, or that The Warden isn't integral to the setting, or that the first ME had a plot that made actual sense (granted, it was basically a competently-told version of Star Control 3, of all things), if you acknowledge its existence. Poor Dragon Age 2 has been dumped into the same pit, as its EAWare transitional period marketing material... *especially* David Silverman's "When, you press a button, something awesome has to happen. So, Button Awesome, connected now!" and Jennifer Hepler going on and on about how player choice in a story requires meaningful options "from virginal girl-next-door to crazy-up-against-a-wall-let's-get-it-on-right-here" interviews. Small wonder that her only major contribution to DA:O was the Branka portion of the Deep Roads. I keep trying to make a guide for running a 3x Ranger + 3 Wolves + 3 Bears party. Being able to add a 4th Ranger makes the "Quests and Legends" mod a requirement for the build. It litters the cutscenes with wolves zooming around, backwards, and floating bears with upside-down spherical bodies. Unfortunately, it runs into *slight* problems with Old BioWare's memory leak issues, though, and - since you can end up with unsummonable invincible pets, if you're not extremely careful - I can't find a way to get through Denerim Market without the game crashing. Scenes in the party camp allow you to summon even more, which has gotten me up to a max party size of 29. Maybe, some decade, I'll mod the casting animation to have enough time for Spiders; they'll probably spawn under the map like Leliana in speedruns.
Left/right is always too simplistic, but the game (outside of the authoritarian options) is definitely anti-government and anti-authoritarian, and that can be both a left and right wing attitude. One part that comes to mind is that in the USA of Deus Ex, civilian gun ownership has been outlawed, and that this makes most civilians defenceless. While 2nd amendment rights are typically seen as a right wing talking point, plenty on the left also think that self defence is a human right, leading to left wing organisations like the John Brown Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association, and Redneck Revolt. Is Deus Ex left wing or right wing on that? I'd argue it's neither, it's just opposed to the concentration of power.
With regards to the graphics, I recall first playing the demo of this game on the old family potato PC, (333mhz pentium, 32mb ram, 8mb ATI Rage Pro gpu! hell ya!) and being absolutely blown away by the shiny reflective flooring in the UNATCO main lobby before the training area! My tiny little child mind could barely believe that the rusty ol potato could make a shiny! A shiny that ran quite well, too! And being used to the inanimate character models with gorilla fists used in Goldeneye 64... Actually having people, even with sex doll mouths and granny dentures, actually talking was a big step up!
For that - Revision and DEDX mods are exist. DEDX - more of a remaster, then ReVision mod - really look like remake in terms - how it's rebuilds levels and etc.
I just leave a comment on every video to turbocharge the algorithm. But also because these videos are the reason I can fall asleep at night and I'm so thankful you put these into the internet ❤️
*Grim posts a new video Me: awesome, let's see what we have for toni- *It's a 2 hour Deus ex Review Me: Goddamnit, praise the unholy GothNation, for this magnificent gift !!
Not gonna lie, the Lay D Denton mod got me back into a Deus Ex kick. Crazy, I remember me and my brother were so excited when the Deus Ex demo had extra levels to download - we played around more in UNATCO than anywhere else in the game. We used to bring TNT crates to JC's office, and try to delicately set it down without blowing up the whole stack lol. Now look at DX - mods mods mods. I'm telling you - if you can get a mod community into your game, that game will last forever.
on my very first playthrough, I remember thinking „wait, that 747 is a dead end“ and placing LAMs on the corridor wall before Lebedev, knowing I can just pick them up again on my way out. mid-cutscene, the LAMs went off and Navarre never got to speak. I only realized what happened when Alex contacted me, all panicked. „that was agent Navarre“ - „o rly? well, shit happens I guess“. to this day, that’s one of my top gaming & also gamedev moments - just that they accounted for someone doing THAT. I was also playing at the same time as a friend who decided to approach DX like a regular FPS. when I told him what happened, he was completely mindblown and started over :)
i've been watching for over a year now and the consistently high quality output of these videos is just baffling. not a single dud, always fresh and always funny as hell.
Man from my own limited video experience, imagining the work to conceptualize, rig up the pug, do the audio chopping and editing for the chad scenes, and all the other editing is staggering. Even para-pug's eyes go out when chad takes over... So well done my dude. Is the bed music you use your own too? edit: ive watched this like 10 times bro its gold
I still remember reading about this game in a preview article in PC gamer magazine. I believe the interview was with Spector himself, and he was going off about all kinds of crazy features. I remember he was saying things like if you shot a silenced handgun for example on a rooftop a guard may spot you not from your physical presence but rather by noticing a dropped shell casing hitting the cement and rendering an audible noise.
Holy shit, i have been semi watching yoir vids, kinda on the fence there but this one imo is your best in the comedic sense. The bit with Chad was something special. Thanks Grimebeard…err i mean Grimbearded, close enough. Thanks man!
Last time I played it, I ended up going melee demolitionist. A crazed bomber swinging a knife and I had a blast Amazing game, great story, open ended, perfect writing. A true rpg
You have something special here. I've only seen a few of your videos, but your structure, aesthetic, writing, and insight are all robust with professionalism and passion for gaming. Keep up the awesome work man. We appreciate you.
There's something deeply ironic about a guy who made a game about conspiracy theories now fervently denying that elite members of society would ever conspire in ways against the public interest a decade later
Technically they said they wanted to make a game that's a "what if all conspiracy theories are true" it wasn't like they wrote all of Deus Ex story and agree with all of it. Also not so fun fact, apperently OG DEVS thought that original Deus Ex was bad hense why Invisible war is so much different from first game, it wasn't just console-ification, it was also them hating their own game for some reason because some of their friend bozo's didn't like it 😢
Thanks Grim-B! Watching these vids for games that have been on my 'forever to do list' makes me feel content that I'll likely never have time to get to them.
ahh, the one youtube game review channel where I actually enjoy the asides & meta stuff (among many other self-evident qualities such as the editing, sound design & confidently chosen well-defined tone)
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I'm sick and tired of your videos being so god damned good!
Look who is talking!!!! Your retrospectives are phenomenal!!!!
Yours are pretty good too bro. We haven't forgotten ;)
Sup avalanche? Your Onimusha retrospective was on point. And your RE clone videos are just a treat. I played tormented souls because of you, would have missed that game otherwise. You and Grim keep up the great work. 👍
Take some notes then
Best youtuber besides RagnarRox!
"Chad" is by far the greatest invention ever made. It's like a sentient text to speech device that's also a sociopath.
Based Chad timestamps: 22:47, 1:07:07, 1:33:15, 1:47:12,
Maybe you can slip out my rockets
Hope it lasts.
Credit chits.
The sentence mixing is so good.
Please
I believe the Dragon's Tooth sword is loud like that because it's playing the sound effect 5 times; since the damage in-game is calculated as being 5 instances of 20 damage to make up the total of 100 damage that the item's description says in-game
oh god, ultimate jank
i still love the game xd
On the topic of discovering things every playthrough: my last playthrough (probably my 30th or so) is when I finally learned that both Mr. Renton and Sandra can die in the hotel. If they do, Jojo immediately starts sassing toward JC like Jojo is gonna "let" him stay in HIS brand new hotel if he really wants to, but there are gonna be some changes around here and JC had better be cool with that.
A few playthroughs before that, it was knocking out all the UNATCO troops BEFORE sending the NSF distress signal, so Walton Simons says something to the effect of "Colonel Lewes isn't responding, so I guess you took care of the troopers ... you win this round, but your killswitch is still active," instead of his usual "I've ordered the troops to kill you."
GOD I love this game.
Still my number one of all time, even ahead of the witcher 3. Partly because of nostalgia but also because the whole deus ex package is so... FULL so complete that no other game comes close to it
Good find, I didn't know that. My most recent discovery was from Warlock's video on Deus Ex, which showed one of the pinball machines opens a secret area.
That’s quality, I had no idea about those two dialogue options
same, I also played the game around... 15 times and then just watch someones letsplay playing it for the 2nd time after ages and they still found things I had no idea of. That was definitely something.
This game is a damn masterpiece. I think the gameplay, with GMDX, holds up just fine.
the reviews saying the game is too obtuse to enjoy is so insane to me, I beat this game as a 10 year old by just running around skipping through conversations and shooting everyone. They're missing the point that this game has so much freedom that if role-playing or stealth never even occurs to you as an option you won't ever be hindered or stopped.
I actually would be very interested to see such imsim's used in psychology / profiling
I remember reading the planetdeusex forums, and one of the many silly little theories was that Jock was killed off camera at some point and replaced with an AI in the helicopter for the rest of the game.
The reason why? There are credits for both Jock and 'Black Helicopter' at the end of the game.
lol typical PDX post.... when you first talk to Jock's helicopter, his name in captions is listed as "Black Helicopter", that's why.
Can I just say how nice it is to see Grim grow so much as a creator? Even when I started watching him nearly 4 years ago, his content was excellent. But over the last year or two, his content has improved to the point where I'd consider his reviews some of the best on the Internet. Keep up the good work Grimmy...Also, where can I buy a para-pug? I'm not kidding...I need to know...
Loves the message, too depressed to tell you where to get a pug. That's the grimbeard I know.
You can tell he's struggling less now too. Just compare filming areas from old videos to now. It's nice to see someone get better, plus his nail polish is CUTE CUTE CUTE
@@whyishoudini Might be able to use that new Gamer money to feed some new little rat boys
Right there with ya bud. Been here since 4.5k and he just keeps on getting better. I missed the period of no phone demon though. Ah well, off to leave my mandatory comment.
Two thumbs up man!!!
It's wonderful that you can put out a Deus Ex review in 2021 and find new things to say about it that I've never heard before. You bring such a unique touch to your reviews, I treasure each of them and have rewatched so many, sometimes multiple times. You're far and away my favorite youtuber, its criminal that your stats aren't in line with other channels that produce content at half the quality. I've shared your videos around to my friends. Keep up the good work man, you're only one algorithm-grabbing video away from the numbers you deserve.
Thanks so much for the kind words
100% agree. Hope you’ll get the attention you deserve soon.
Shit’s spicy.
Couldn't have said it better
This. Absolutely.
Civilization is near collapse, the world economy is in chaos, a deadly virus ravages the earth’s population… and also here’s a review of a very cool video game. Love it
I caught just about every variation of that and came out ok . . .
The only thing missing is that Hecate statue loosing her head
Life truly does imitate art.
Wow very funny you totally put a lot of thought into that
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus"I was in a car accident and was okay so I don't know why people even wear seat belts."
"Deus Ex is a first person cyberpunk late stage capitalism hellscape immersive sim meme generator" best start to a youtube video ever
I actually found out not long ago why the Dragon's Tooth Sword has such a loud hit sound. It's because each attack is actually coded to be 5 simultaneous attacks, and the overlapping sound effects make it loud and a bit static-y. That's also why the sword can't destroy things like security cameras, despite the info card's figure of 100 damage. It actually does 20x5 damage, which is below the required threshold of 50.
i never knew that! i swear, despite having beat this game ages ago, there's still plenty of stuff to learn about it. i find something new every playthrough and learn something new with every online discussion of it. i didnt even know about the sewer mission to save ford schick until my 3rd playthrough, i thought jock was just being a paranoid weirdo!!
The Algorithm blessed me. Yesterday I got this video and I've been binging dozens of your back catalogue since then. I've just stumbled on something golden.
Good to see you are alive sir!
Goth gamer nation on the rise ;)
The supernatural videos are pretty funny too, even if you're like me and always hated the show
Same. I'm like you but two years in the future. I can report that these videos are still indeed enjoyable.
I first played Deus Ex in 2018 and I utterly fell in love with it, I'd play it for hours each day and couldn't wait to finish work to have another go. Despite its age, Deus Ex didn't at any point feel not fun or difficult to play. I loved the nostalgia of the era, all the effort the team put in was still glowing.
Cant believe i watch all 2 hours without noticing the time go by. Enjoyed every part of it. Fantastic work and nail varnish.
I never stop having time for hour long deus ex reviews
@King 🤣
Love how the Para-Pugs becoming a new character.
I've lost count of how many reviews/retrospective/analysis videos I've seen of Deus Ex at this point but you better believe I'm down to watch two hours of Deus Ex talk from Grimbeard. Thanks chief
Starve to death watching a 2hr long grimby episode.
What a rotten way to die.
What a shame
How 'bout some soy food_?
I never asked for this.
i don't think you can starve in 2 hrs man
I feel like these are solvable problems, but that might be the first world privileged perspective.. but as a great timeless world leader once said.. let them eat Snickers.. if you're hungry why wait..
Not sure whatever happened to her, I think she might have peaked early, still left a delibal impression.. every time I attend a masked ball I am fucking strapped with Snickers, although you know, it's hard to not take up an appetite with all that lead paint.. as another great leader once said.. "lead paint, tasty but deadly!"
Wait.. is that why we're always trying to shoot the poor? Holy shit.. and I thought it was malicious, this whole time we were just trying to feed them.. fuckin ingrates...
Funny thing, you can get both the sniper rifle and crossbow about 5 minutes after you leave the dock, while the gep gun can only be found about half-way trough the game. Also, if you want a decent combat build without actually spending skillpoints on weapon ability, get the sniper rifle and keep slapping every weapon mod you find on it, by the time you get to new york, it should be a very effective no-scope headshot machine. Also, you get exactly one reward for being non-lethal, if you kill the nsf troops inside castle clinton, Carter will not give you extra stuff at the armory.
GEP gun all the way :D
A 2-hour review from grim beard on one of my favorite games of all time... Yeah I'm down for that!
Even flaws aside I should still get a good feeling of the warm fuzzies by the end.
what flaws ? :(
edit: This is the best video covering Deus Ex on the internet. The time you spent showing and talking about all the details and optional fun things you can do really shows the breadth of the game in a way I haven't seen anyone else do. I also appreciate the mention of Goldeneye as an influence; I find that it is very, very under-recognized in general by the PC gaming community, despite how revolutionary it was for when it came out, and despite the developers of games like this one and Half-Life citing it as a major influence, most PC gamers seem to regard it as a mirage rather than a real game simply because it was exclusive to a console.
Project for a New American Century. That's the real version of a "Majestic 12" who are all operating to carry out a goal in coordination with each other, even if they appeared to have disparate roles in the Bush Administration and wherever else the people who put their names to that document were during that period.
New American Century. heh.
he actually gets some shit wrong, like the "believing in ambrosia scams" part.
On the subject of paul, some RPGs today have found that the answer to "character that dies having relevance later" is to have multiple characters that can fill that role. You have the primary, expected character, but also a background character who can act as understudy and do some of the same things slightly differently or for different reasons, and if that one can die chuck in a third person you barely meet at all who can fulfill those plot beats.
JC Denton is the most unintentionally hysterical guy in fiction
unintentionally?
@@magmad1ver Means without intention
In da fresh
In da fresh
This is the world Dale Gribble lives in
Hell yea
Pepper spray = Pocket sand
Gamers were obsessed with graphical fidelity in the PS2 days too. They were wrong then too.
I keep thinking, "one day, the graphical ceiling will be reached. Things won't really be able to get better. Then those game makers will be forced to do more, better things!" Turns out more things meant NFTs and I'm pissed.
The Paris hub is big in terms of floor space, but I think there's much more time you can spend exploring Hong Kong - one of the biggest disappointments with the Paris hub is how few of the buildings you can explore or how much side content it has. It would be ripe for a modder to add some extra material to.
Especially the area where you pop out of the catacombs. All the stuff is in the other end.
"I'm genuinely interested, despite my tone" is line I've had to speak or paraphrase several times in my life.
One of the games I was hoping to see you cover one day :) so stoked to watch!
I still remember the days before the internet.
It was nice. Things really were different after the floodgates opened, and the usage of the internet became ubiquitous through social media in the late 00's. Before then it was just that thing nerds used, and I knew that "normies" and the general public wouldn't be able to handle it. They'd be stumbling drunk into a place they don't understand, and nothing would be the same anymore.
Now the world is slowly becoming 4chan, and the internet has become srs bizness for real. The more the line between reality and the internet blurs, the lamer both get.
I'm only a -late- mid-millennial and even I miss the days when the height of online social media was myspace, enjoyed by a minority of users. And even they weren't casuals like those of today. Hell, a lot of profile pages were extensively customized. The term "casuals" came about with facebook and the throngs of normals it attracted onto the internet. I shudder to realize I even miss the time when Farmville represented casual gaming.
P.S.: I somehow confused the cutoff point of the millennial generation for the 90s. I spawned in '88. If you're born before the turn of the millennium and came of age after the turn, you're a millennial, hence the damned name. Couldn't be simpler.
Oh wow you predicted all of this? Ok Nostradamus..
@@justinbrown8214 If you mean how the internet going mainstream was going to backfire, yes, yes I did. >__>
I know it must be hard to accept there are people who maybe know something you don't. Someone having different experiences in their life informing their thoughts and decisions, real scary stuff huh?
Thanks for being an example of just the type of modern fuckwit I was referring too though.
@@planescaped *referring to
@@justinbrown8214 Right... when all else fails, be a pedant who nitpicks typos. XD
A truly unique channel. Love everything you do. Obsessed with your style of editing.
Get the hell out of here Denton!
Your pfp is familiar
I wonder from what game is it from
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 I believe it's from System Shock
I never ever thought I could sit glued to my monitor for two hours watching a Deus Ex retrospective. The love just pours out of every second of footage.
Any chance a Retrospective on Invisible War might happen in the future?
your wish has been fulfilled
Some pretty major rewards for Non Lethality are getting to loot MIBs and not triggering their self destruct, especially in close quarters or stealth situations.
I have a perverse pleasure in completing objectives in a non-lethal way to come back afterwards and wipe the map clean. Versalife lab and MJ12 facility are my favourite hunting grounds for this
@@pavelmakarov3565 you are doing it right.
god the zoom in on Maggie with that awful attempt at an East Asian accent. I don't know what it is about it but it always cracks me up. it's so fucking funny on top of the absurdity of the voice line delivery
I absolutely love how you make longer videos that cover every aspect. Especially with games I never got the chance to play, but spent years being curious about.
This is exactly it, for me, as well.
Here’s a fun thing: My spouse, who has never played Deus Ex but has listened to me ramble on about it for a decade, spoke at an ECGC a few years ago when Warren Spector was the keynote speaker. Unsurprisingly, raving fanboys (as I would have been) wouldn’t stop bugging him during a post talk mixer so my spouse tried to give him a break by just sequestering his time for a bit with some not-Deus-Ex-related conversation. I’ve never been so proud/envious.
ECGC?
@@kingstarscream320 East Coast Game Conference.
I've re-watched this video so many times it's probably tattooed on my corneas.
Grimbeard, Gman, Ross, and Warlocky have all reviewed this timeless masterpiece.
Deus Ex when, civvie?
Nice to see someone else acknowledge Warlockracy, found them like 2 months ago and damn that is some high quality content.
Warlockracys humor is spot on too good. "I wanted orange and it gave me lemon lime."
Civvie said on twitter that Deus Ex is boring. I bet it's because of shooting mechanics.
Civvie is overrated.
@@АлександрБабяк-щ9ъ that's pretty sad
I know this video is like a year old but I just wanna say that I fucking love Chad dude, he's a great creation and super funny. Love your content Grim, you are one of the few video game retrospective/critique RUclipsrs I watch that manages to make me genuinely laugh and keep me entertained with meta and insightful commentary. Keep up the good work man, love you and everything you do :).
How is this channel not bigger? Maybe it's just because I was a weird goth teen in the late 90s and early 00s. I really, really relate.
Been going back and watching some of your older videos and Holy shit this is criminally underrated. I'm so glad I subscribed
I was looking for music for Shadowrun and ended up here.
Great review you made there, I like these long review/background info - type videos ^^
some of the midwestern us city's have the gunshot detectors and triangulation software . of course its been a thing since the 90ds .
Grim mentions how Paul Denton is so under utilized in the game and that reminds me that for a while I always wondered why, when they were making the prequel games, they didn't just use HIM as the protagonist. I mean, we all know Paul got into some kinds of crazy adventures before JC entered the scene and I'd personally love to see what he got up to.
Probably because they wanted us to try having mechanical augmentations.
Who didn't think it would be more fun to play as Gunther?
@@DGneoseeker1 or all three. Have different playstyles and huge complex levels that utilizes their different strengths and weakness. And a different story that could flesh out the world from different perspectives. Oh well, we'll always have Adam's augmented Oakleys
The darker story is that Square Enix didn't really want to make a Deus Ex. They just wanted to have a stealth action game with their own character and franchising.
I don't think that's a good idea. Paul already has a philosophy, a personality. Doesn't leave much room for roleplay.
I like the idea, but it would be backwards to the way Deus Ex (2000) was. His philosophy would need to become more certain and restrictive throughout the course of the game so he could end up where he was at the beginning of Deus Ex
I've replayed this game so many times, and it feels like every time I discover a new line of dialogue in reaction to a new sequence of actions taken. Like last time I played I discovered if you deal with the hostages on the subway platform in the Battery park level before taking on Castle Clinton Ana Navarre commends you.
I love how John Romero, the guy who made Daikatana, one of the most dissapointing and hated games ever, also played a major role in helping to make Deus Ex, and he did so AT THE SAME TIME as making Daikatana. He created the opportunity in the first place by offering Warren Spectre the creative freedom to make the game of his dreams, and also defended Deus Ex and fought against its cancellation. Nobody would ever guess that someone responsible for making such a horrible game could have also been so instrumental in making such a great game. It goes to show that you should be careful not to judge someone based only on the outcome of one project.
Romero was the CHAD around those parts; he deserves as much acclaim as can be heaped on him as he really was a cool dude, and still is. Him and specter both deserve a lot of credit for what they did; I mean look at what Doom and Quake did for gaming, and then what Deus Ex did for another field/genre of it. Both key players in its history
A greater pyrrhic victory for mankind at large there never was.
He made Doom too.
I guessed it. (I was 1 at the time but I always trusted John Romero and I just knew he was cooking up something special)
@@robertforster8984Do you have a single fact to back that up?
I've seen this video maybe ten times, and still watch it when I want to chill and have something on that I know is informative and fun.
You are my favorite video game retrospective reviewer. Don't stop making quality content like this. I swear you will get that 100k sub count. Just don't quit. All of us love your content it's a gem
if you haven't set up toxic canisters and tnt boxes on the first floor of the NSF base to drop another TNT box and obliterate whole first floor of unatco troops with one big BOOM, before sendnig a message, you are unable to have fun at all
Setting up ridiculously complicated but incredibly effective booby-traps is one of the most satisfying things about this game.
When you reach Vandenberg there's a man in black talking to two soldiers below a bridge and walkway.
There is also two TNT boxes you can drop.
But what if they have loot
IT FINALLY HAPPENED. I MISSED YOU GRIMBEARD. Love u and ur work.
Dude, I've literally watched your vids for a year and I'm so mad at myself for just subbing today. You deserve better sir. But I'm not even exaggerating when I say that they have an kept me so entertained and distracted I think I may have forgotten that I can interact AT ALL!!!😂 Amazing videos dude!!
Man, caught myself thinking a few times the last few days, "ooh, end of the month, new Grim coming up." This is a real treat to wake up to.
I had to come back and rewatch this, this was the video that got me to play deus ex
The background information segments in your reviews give them.a quality that you won't get elsewhere. Surely, the world has nothing to gain from yet another Deus Ex review, but here we are.
Thank you, Grimbeard
You are only youtuber that makes me laugh out loud and also giggle like middle schooler
Fantastic review! You're doing a great job. The random tangents, so funny. Been watching for only a year or so but been through your entire library, can't wait for more.
59:06 now that's a deep cut from my childhood.
A fucking tour de force of a video. Since 2000, I've been playing Deus Ex every so often as well as listening to the music at work. I'm really grateful for such a superb documentary that competently covers so much ground. It's fun, entertaining and educational. You've entered EmpLemon territory!
Deus Ex did predict the Roomba! The Roomba came out in 2002 while Deus Ex came out in the year 2000!
Hey Grim. I fell into the "why does everyone like this game?" camp until a few months ago. I originally played in the mid 2010s and was trying hard to go stealth but was angry how failing stealth made every enemy know my position. This year I started streaming it with my friend acting as Col. Campbell giving me advice on discord. I was in a rough spot where a guard would turn and immediately see me after I quick saved. I ended up firing my crossbow and the tranq dart missed by a wide margin, hit the wall, and the guard immediately went to where it hit. This was the moment it all clicked. As stupid as it fucking sounds, as obvious as it could be.
I think what really happened was I stopped trying to judge the game or get it off my backlog and was just playing it. It wasn't me as a player against game designers with flaws, it was me fucking up and somehow recovering in a very relatable fashion.
Anyways, I love you. System Shock 2 was my first Immersive Sim. I still wake up screaming and break out in cold sweats when audio compresses.
Also don't worry about pleasing me or video length. You make me happy just being you and doing things how you enjoy doing them. We are in the existential dread part of our lives where it's been 30 years since the cold embrace of the world and still feel like we squandered everything. We didn't squander it, Grim. We don't need that feeling of recognition (the fame worship mentioned by the AI) to be happy. We just need to support each other and let people know they matter because we are all humans trying to keep the flame of hope alive in a void of existentialism.
Stay awesome!
i didnt appreciate deus ex until i played mankind divided , i thought human revolution was good but not great, mankind divided felt truly great with a lackluster cliffhanger ending and then i decided to play deus ex og, its was just shocking how the eidos deus ex's felt like them trying to make a good game first and then the story and world came, while deus ex felt like a world and story that just happend to have serviceable gameplay
I was just thinking, “wonder why we haven’t heard from Grim in a minute”. Turns out he was making a freakin feature-length movie. Also, you’ll have to elaborate sometime on why Invisible War is misunderstood
I spill my drink... with excitement! Also, being from Austin: past videogames, that tenuous relationship between Dallas and Austin is the same in every respect.
Thanks for bringing the Deu(s Ex.)
I spilled my drink is my favorite Deus Ex meme
So chuffed you've released a review on one of my favourite games, on my birthday! This was the first game that made me wag primary school to play when I was 9 years old. Thanks for all your work Grim, Keep it Real
"I've got nothing but good to say about this games soundtrack. It's perfectly one with every part of it. It's a strand in it's DNA."
I love the bit around the gamer footage at ye olde e3, aged even better now you can see the most replayed parts of the video
Para-pug returns! and also there's a video
Between this and the Hbomberguy review of Human Revolution we just need an Invisible War video this month from Mandalore or Gervais or someone and we'll have a full TV season's worth of a franchise review-through.
MandaloreGaming and Gervais are great but I wouldn’t recommend Hbomberguy. He is an insufferable breadtuber.
@@kingstarscream320 DANGER DANGER HOSTILES APPROACHING
You, sir, have a good taste in content
Accursed Farms has you covered.
Accursed Farms has you covered.
55:40 It is a very authoritarian ending, yes. But a huge part of the reason authoritarianism is bad is that most authoritarians are greedy, unwilling to listen to the needs of their people, and promote themselves over everything else. If we take Helios as he seems, these don't really apply to Helios - he has little to no material needs or wants, he actively wants to understand the human race and what it wants and needs, and it seems to have little to no ego. It's almost like the thought experiment of the enlightened dictator, a dictator who has all the power but who's primary goal is to maximize his people's happiness (though you have to be careful with that phrasing because you can have a society with high average happiness that exploits and harms many to achieve it). A human could not, realistically, do this role, and even if they did, apon their death you'd have a huge power vaccuum. An AI could actually do the enlightened dictator job, never clogged down in red tape or politics, always looking to make things better for the people it rules over. In practice, one can imagine many 'bugs' or unintended outcomes that would undermine it's perfection.
You can't even write your own notes in the newest deus ex game. That's how good and inovative this old deus ex game is
Thank you Grimbeard for all the content you've been making over the years. I am going through your channel basically for all the reviews. Also, Juha Kauri was pronounced well, so "the shot you took" was worth it. :)
In the training tutorial, you're told that JC and paul "don't know how to smile". So his sociopathic personality is actually based in lore because of his nano-augmentations
can't believe this game is 23 years old. it feels like so much love was put into it.
Rad video, agree with everything, favorite game. Doing my fourth or fifth playthrough now to check out the Revision mod, highly recommend that for replays...has a totally modified sound track, better textures, native support for all kinds of resolutions, and some light level redesign. Some of the new character textures suck but they're easy to disable.
As an added bonus you can tell the game to never automatically pick up certain items like the combat knife.
A 2-hour video that manages to not feel lengthy at any point deserves credit ... and a subscription on my part. Your review is suitable for newcomers and fans alike, as you not only cover the basics, but also go in-depth on interesting behind-the-scenes information about the game's development, making it more of an essay than "just" a review. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into making this video, and it shows. The good pacing and right dose of humour made it easy to watch it in one sitting. Great job !
2 hours?! lets go!
after binging like 4 hours of grim beard videos in a row I still somehow need more
tell me bout it man i haven't slept in days
@@we-must-live years for me
Brand new to your channel but just have to say your videos are incredible! This and your vid on DX:IW are the best I've seen. Awesome stuff, mate!
This game was an absolute masterpiece
"Why they gotta make killing dudes and finding ways to do so, so enjoyable"
Funny, I never had that issue with Deus Ex... I _did_ however have that issue big time with Dishonored, so much so as to nearly ruin the experience for me. Mostly because that game actively does chastise and penalize you for going lethal, yet playing non lethal is kinda dull...
Also tranq darts stack, once you get higher skill you can easily double tap and it sends people to sleep near instantly.
And I'd describe Dragon Age Origins as a great AAA game made by people who cared, it's also the Swan Song of Bioware. The last game made by the golden age team and before the dark times. It was directly the result of them needing money to finish Dragon Age Origins, what many in Bioware considered their magnum opus over Mass Effect (though history went the other way) that led to them floating too many shares, and EA performing a hostile takeover using shell companies. RIP Bioware.
I encourage you to replay dishonored without worrying about killing people. The game doesn't actually penalize you for being lethal unless you create a massacre.
Had the same problem with Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain. You can go through an entire mission killing every enemy, but raise not a single alarm or be spotted once, and the game would punish you in the rankings. This is a game that gives a ton of lethal options btw lol.
It doesn't help that they treated Brent Knowles, like Milton in Office Space, and did their level best to scrape his name off of DA:O, as the one who'd created & written the entire setting, retroactively elevating David Gaider from character writer for Alistair & Morrigan to lead writer. Dragon Age 2 is what happens, when you jealously toss out the existing world-building, and believe EA's hype about yourself, with five years less time than it would take to start from scratch.
@@futonrevolution7671 That I did not know. Wish there were more people covering DA:O, but it seems to have sadly been forgotten. Partly because it became lost in Mass Effect's shadow and partly because of it releasing when good bioware was becoming EA-Bioware.
Nice portrait btw. :P
@@planescaped Thanks, chief! Yeah, DA:O's been a victim of revisionist history, by EAWare's need to convince people it's not just a label slapped onto a different studio. You can't make it seem like it's just a first draft for DA: Inky, or that The Warden isn't integral to the setting, or that the first ME had a plot that made actual sense (granted, it was basically a competently-told version of Star Control 3, of all things), if you acknowledge its existence.
Poor Dragon Age 2 has been dumped into the same pit, as its EAWare transitional period marketing material... *especially* David Silverman's "When, you press a button, something awesome has to happen. So, Button Awesome, connected now!" and Jennifer Hepler going on and on about how player choice in a story requires meaningful options "from virginal girl-next-door to crazy-up-against-a-wall-let's-get-it-on-right-here" interviews. Small wonder that her only major contribution to DA:O was the Branka portion of the Deep Roads.
I keep trying to make a guide for running a 3x Ranger + 3 Wolves + 3 Bears party. Being able to add a 4th Ranger makes the "Quests and Legends" mod a requirement for the build. It litters the cutscenes with wolves zooming around, backwards, and floating bears with upside-down spherical bodies. Unfortunately, it runs into *slight* problems with Old BioWare's memory leak issues, though, and - since you can end up with unsummonable invincible pets, if you're not extremely careful - I can't find a way to get through Denerim Market without the game crashing. Scenes in the party camp allow you to summon even more, which has gotten me up to a max party size of 29. Maybe, some decade, I'll mod the casting animation to have enough time for Spiders; they'll probably spawn under the map like Leliana in speedruns.
Left/right is always too simplistic, but the game (outside of the authoritarian options) is definitely anti-government and anti-authoritarian, and that can be both a left and right wing attitude.
One part that comes to mind is that in the USA of Deus Ex, civilian gun ownership has been outlawed, and that this makes most civilians defenceless. While 2nd amendment rights are typically seen as a right wing talking point, plenty on the left also think that self defence is a human right, leading to left wing organisations like the John Brown Gun Club, the Socialist Rifle Association, and Redneck Revolt.
Is Deus Ex left wing or right wing on that? I'd argue it's neither, it's just opposed to the concentration of power.
With regards to the graphics, I recall first playing the demo of this game on the old family potato PC, (333mhz pentium, 32mb ram, 8mb ATI Rage Pro gpu! hell ya!) and being absolutely blown away by the shiny reflective flooring in the UNATCO main lobby before the training area! My tiny little child mind could barely believe that the rusty ol potato could make a shiny! A shiny that ran quite well, too! And being used to the inanimate character models with gorilla fists used in Goldeneye 64... Actually having people, even with sex doll mouths and granny dentures, actually talking was a big step up!
I played this in 2001 on my old PS2. One on my most memorable game.
Would be nice to have a REMAKE of this masterpiece
For that - Revision and DEDX mods are exist.
DEDX - more of a remaster, then ReVision mod - really look like remake in terms - how it's rebuilds levels and etc.
I just leave a comment on every video to turbocharge the algorithm. But also because these videos are the reason I can fall asleep at night and I'm so thankful you put these into the internet ❤️
I even like and comment my own comments with the hope that helps
1:33:46 CHAD having to drop something while Grim covers the Pug's ears is a historic moment deserving of preservation.
*Grim posts a new video
Me: awesome, let's see what we have for toni-
*It's a 2 hour Deus ex Review
Me: Goddamnit, praise the unholy GothNation, for this magnificent gift !!
Not gonna lie, the Lay D Denton mod got me back into a Deus Ex kick. Crazy, I remember me and my brother were so excited when the Deus Ex demo had extra levels to download - we played around more in UNATCO than anywhere else in the game. We used to bring TNT crates to JC's office, and try to delicately set it down without blowing up the whole stack lol. Now look at DX - mods mods mods. I'm telling you - if you can get a mod community into your game, that game will last forever.
on my very first playthrough, I remember thinking „wait, that 747 is a dead end“ and placing LAMs on the corridor wall before Lebedev, knowing I can just pick them up again on my way out. mid-cutscene, the LAMs went off and Navarre never got to speak. I only realized what happened when Alex contacted me, all panicked. „that was agent Navarre“ - „o rly? well, shit happens I guess“. to this day, that’s one of my top gaming & also gamedev moments - just that they accounted for someone doing THAT. I was also playing at the same time as a friend who decided to approach DX like a regular FPS. when I told him what happened, he was completely mindblown and started over :)
i've been watching for over a year now and the consistently high quality output of these videos is just baffling. not a single dud, always fresh and always funny as hell.
This objectively has to be one of the best content creators on youtube! If anyone disagree, fight me!
Man from my own limited video experience, imagining the work to conceptualize, rig up the pug, do the audio chopping and editing for the chad scenes, and all the other editing is staggering. Even para-pug's eyes go out when chad takes over... So well done my dude. Is the bed music you use your own too? edit: ive watched this like 10 times bro its gold
The BGM is also all his
The first RUclips game reviewer to make skits entertaining. I'm pretty sure Grim lives in Twin Peaks, though.
I still remember reading about this game in a preview article in PC gamer magazine. I believe the interview was with Spector himself, and he was going off about all kinds of crazy features. I remember he was saying things like if you shot a silenced handgun for example on a rooftop a guard may spot you not from your physical presence but rather by noticing a dropped shell casing hitting the cement and rendering an audible noise.
Holy shit, i have been semi watching yoir vids, kinda on the fence there but this one imo is your best in the comedic sense. The bit with Chad was something special. Thanks Grimebeard…err i mean Grimbearded, close enough. Thanks man!
Last time I played it, I ended up going melee demolitionist. A crazed bomber swinging a knife and I had a blast
Amazing game, great story, open ended, perfect writing. A true rpg
You have something special here. I've only seen a few of your videos, but your structure, aesthetic, writing, and insight are all robust with professionalism and passion for gaming. Keep up the awesome work man. We appreciate you.
I'll take the GEP gun.
It _is_ the most silent way to eliminate Manderlay, after all.
I wonder how many of the ppl who gave bad reviews...didn't realize they had a skill menu to lvl up stuff.
There's something deeply ironic about a guy who made a game about conspiracy theories now fervently denying that elite members of society would ever conspire in ways against the public interest a decade later
Sheldon Pacotti (and a few others) wrote the story, not Warren Spector.
But it is pretty funny to see...
Technically they said they wanted to make a game that's a "what if all conspiracy theories are true" it wasn't like they wrote all of Deus Ex story and agree with all of it.
Also not so fun fact, apperently OG DEVS thought that original Deus Ex was bad hense why Invisible war is so much different from first game, it wasn't just console-ification, it was also them hating their own game for some reason because some of their friend bozo's didn't like it 😢
Thanks Grim-B!
Watching these vids for games that have been on my 'forever to do list' makes me feel content that I'll likely never have time to get to them.
Team 1 and Team A thats next level petty lmfao
ahh, the one youtube game review channel where I actually enjoy the asides & meta stuff (among many other self-evident qualities such as the editing, sound design & confidently chosen well-defined tone)
Thank God I rented the PS2 port from Blockbuster on a whim. That game had a profound impact on my gaming library for the rest of my life.
Will you review Invisible War ? I know it gets a bad rap, but it was my first Deus Ex game when I was younger, so it holds a fond place in my heart.