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Let's Finish Deus Ex: Why do these scientists know all the passwords?
Italax
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Let's Play: Deus Ex
So, everyone here seems to love Deus Ex but no seems to have done a LP of it that I could find (probably out of fear of getting lynched for fucking it up, which I will probably do in a spectacular fashion) so I thought I'd have a shot at it. But first, for the few heathens that have no idea what Deus Ex is, a little history:
The game was released in 2000 for the PC and later ported to the PS2 in 2002. Set in a dystopian world during the 2050s, the central plot follows rookie United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition agent JC Denton, as he sets out to combat terrorist forces, which have become increasingly prevalent in a world slipping ever further into chaos. As the plot unfolds, Denton becomes entangled in a deep and ancient conspiracy, encountering fictional recreations of organizations such as Majestic 12, the Illuminati, and the Hong Kong Triads throughout his journey.
So who will we meet during this exciting adventure?
This is us, JC Denton. Fresh to UNATCO, he's here to kick ass and take names. He also likes to wear sunglasses at night.
Deserted after killing every member of security in UNATCO, half of the New York police department and several MiBs. What a Badass
Paul Denton, our brother and the first augmented agent at UNATCO. He's a pacifist and probably a vegetarian. To spite him, we'll see if we can find any puppies to kill.
Deserted with JC. Also a badass.
This is Manderley, our boss. He gives us orders, pays us and lets us rig the soda machine to give out orange soda instead of lemon-lime. Oh JC you prankster.
There are some things a GEP gun can't fix. Manderley was not one of these things.
This is Anna. She's a cyborg. She's a fucking bitch. She takes out her aggression that JC is better than her in every possible way by killing terrorists. JC takes out his aggression by playing Duke Nukem Forever.
Killed in Mission 3 Part 2 for being a colloasal bitch and doubting JCs status as 'awesome incarnate'
This is Gunther, our other mentally challenged cyborg friend. He likes big guns and dead terrorists.
This is Alex, he's the voice inside our head (No, not the one telling us to burn things) that will give us information. Basically, he's our resident Tech Geek.
He deserted because I would have killed him otherwise.
This is Jaime (I'll be making fun of how you pronounce his name later) and he's our doctor. He helps us shove chunks of stuff into our body to make us kill things better.
This is Sam Carter. He gives us the exploding sticks that makes the peoples fall down.
This is Janice Reed. She's Manderley's secretary and she's also a bitch. I swear all the women in this game have a huge stick shoved up their collective asses. Maybe I'll shove a slightly sharper stick up there as company.
She didn't even get a snappy line of dialogue. She got what she deserved, utter disdain and merciless death.
The Smuggler is our friend. He sells us weapons. Good weapons, weapons that make JC a very happy person. Is The Smuggler, in reality, Santa? Only time and certain illegal interrogation techniques will tell.
(All Character Bios from now on are spoilered. I'm assuimg new people are gonna watch this, maybe not.)
Chapter 2 Characters
Tracer Tong is awesome, despite his wtf face. He gives us cool stuff, stops our killswitch, gives us a base and probably orders us whores on the weekend.
This will be a video LP but that might change depending on how well this goes. I'll be letting you guys make some of the decisions on what to do (The game is full of choices and I'm not against playing differently than I normally would). I'm also not sure how big each update should be, whether I should blast out huge chunks or try and keep each video short. Either way, give me some feedback after the initial video:
Thanks to Lork for linking me to Vimeo, much better quality video.
Chapter 1 - NEW YOOOOOORK NEW YOOOOOOOOOORK
Introduction: Let's get some training! (Google Mirror)
Mission 1 - Liberty Island: Paul can go to hell for this non-lethal shit. (Google Mirror
Intermission 1: UNATCO HQ: He got Lemon-Lime! (Google Mirror)
Mission 2 Part 1 - Battery Park: Fuck pacifism. (Google Mirror)
Let's Play Deus Ex - Bonus 1: Rocket Castration and Not-so-Friendly Fire
Mission 2 - Part 2: If this is Hell's Kitchen then I'm the goddamn chef. (Google Mirror)
Mission 2 - Part 3: Ladders that do not go anywhere close to heaven.
Intermission 2 - UNATCO HQ: Things aren't right here... (Vimeo Mirror)
Bonus 2: The greatest democracy the world has ever known! (Vimeo Mirror)
Mission 3 - We debate the ethics of gangs and drug dealers.
Mission 3 - Part 2: Catching a Plane to pain.
Intermission 3: I think they're hoping we catch bird flu.
This isn't China...
Chapter 2 - China is so racist
Jailbreak
I swear to god this better be Hong Kong.
What do you mean 'Fetch Quest'?
Schwing!
VersaDeath (Oho, Puns!)
VersaLife 2: Electric Boogaloo
Return to Escape from New York with a Vengeance!
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Night of the Not-So-Living-Dead
Here we mark the death of Stage6. R.I.P Noble Website, you served us well.
Chapter 3 - <Insert Joke about Wine/Cheese/Frogs/White Flags here> aka Paris - The City That Never Bathes.
I Hope You Like Brown Part 2
I Need a French Hooker and Some Zyme.
Looking for Some Cheap Hookers
You lost your virginity WHERE?!
Though I Walked Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death...
...I Fear No Evil...
What's a Deus Ex?
60% of the game's major black characters are in this area.
I died more the first time
So, everyone here seems to love Deus Ex but no seems to have done a LP of it that I could find (probably out of fear of getting lynched for fucking it up, which I will probably do in a spectacular fashion) so I thought I'd have a shot at it. But first, for the few heathens that have no idea what Deus Ex is, a little history:
The game was released in 2000 for the PC and later ported to the PS2 in 2002. Set in a dystopian world during the 2050s, the central plot follows rookie United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition agent JC Denton, as he sets out to combat terrorist forces, which have become increasingly prevalent in a world slipping ever further into chaos. As the plot unfolds, Denton becomes entangled in a deep and ancient conspiracy, encountering fictional recreations of organizations such as Majestic 12, the Illuminati, and the Hong Kong Triads throughout his journey.
So who will we meet during this exciting adventure?
This is us, JC Denton. Fresh to UNATCO, he's here to kick ass and take names. He also likes to wear sunglasses at night.
Deserted after killing every member of security in UNATCO, half of the New York police department and several MiBs. What a Badass
Paul Denton, our brother and the first augmented agent at UNATCO. He's a pacifist and probably a vegetarian. To spite him, we'll see if we can find any puppies to kill.
Deserted with JC. Also a badass.
This is Manderley, our boss. He gives us orders, pays us and lets us rig the soda machine to give out orange soda instead of lemon-lime. Oh JC you prankster.
There are some things a GEP gun can't fix. Manderley was not one of these things.
This is Anna. She's a cyborg. She's a fucking bitch. She takes out her aggression that JC is better than her in every possible way by killing terrorists. JC takes out his aggression by playing Duke Nukem Forever.
Killed in Mission 3 Part 2 for being a colloasal bitch and doubting JCs status as 'awesome incarnate'
This is Gunther, our other mentally challenged cyborg friend. He likes big guns and dead terrorists.
This is Alex, he's the voice inside our head (No, not the one telling us to burn things) that will give us information. Basically, he's our resident Tech Geek.
He deserted because I would have killed him otherwise.
This is Jaime (I'll be making fun of how you pronounce his name later) and he's our doctor. He helps us shove chunks of stuff into our body to make us kill things better.
This is Sam Carter. He gives us the exploding sticks that makes the peoples fall down.
This is Janice Reed. She's Manderley's secretary and she's also a bitch. I swear all the women in this game have a huge stick shoved up their collective asses. Maybe I'll shove a slightly sharper stick up there as company.
She didn't even get a snappy line of dialogue. She got what she deserved, utter disdain and merciless death.
The Smuggler is our friend. He sells us weapons. Good weapons, weapons that make JC a very happy person. Is The Smuggler, in reality, Santa? Only time and certain illegal interrogation techniques will tell.
(All Character Bios from now on are spoilered. I'm assuimg new people are gonna watch this, maybe not.)
Chapter 2 Characters
Tracer Tong is awesome, despite his wtf face. He gives us cool stuff, stops our killswitch, gives us a base and probably orders us whores on the weekend.
This will be a video LP but that might change depending on how well this goes. I'll be letting you guys make some of the decisions on what to do (The game is full of choices and I'm not against playing differently than I normally would). I'm also not sure how big each update should be, whether I should blast out huge chunks or try and keep each video short. Either way, give me some feedback after the initial video:
Thanks to Lork for linking me to Vimeo, much better quality video.
Chapter 1 - NEW YOOOOOORK NEW YOOOOOOOOOORK
Introduction: Let's get some training! (Google Mirror)
Mission 1 - Liberty Island: Paul can go to hell for this non-lethal shit. (Google Mirror
Intermission 1: UNATCO HQ: He got Lemon-Lime! (Google Mirror)
Mission 2 Part 1 - Battery Park: Fuck pacifism. (Google Mirror)
Let's Play Deus Ex - Bonus 1: Rocket Castration and Not-so-Friendly Fire
Mission 2 - Part 2: If this is Hell's Kitchen then I'm the goddamn chef. (Google Mirror)
Mission 2 - Part 3: Ladders that do not go anywhere close to heaven.
Intermission 2 - UNATCO HQ: Things aren't right here... (Vimeo Mirror)
Bonus 2: The greatest democracy the world has ever known! (Vimeo Mirror)
Mission 3 - We debate the ethics of gangs and drug dealers.
Mission 3 - Part 2: Catching a Plane to pain.
Intermission 3: I think they're hoping we catch bird flu.
This isn't China...
Chapter 2 - China is so racist
Jailbreak
I swear to god this better be Hong Kong.
What do you mean 'Fetch Quest'?
Schwing!
VersaDeath (Oho, Puns!)
VersaLife 2: Electric Boogaloo
Return to Escape from New York with a Vengeance!
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Night of the Not-So-Living-Dead
Here we mark the death of Stage6. R.I.P Noble Website, you served us well.
Chapter 3 - <Insert Joke about Wine/Cheese/Frogs/White Flags here> aka Paris - The City That Never Bathes.
I Hope You Like Brown Part 2
I Need a French Hooker and Some Zyme.
Looking for Some Cheap Hookers
You lost your virginity WHERE?!
Though I Walked Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death...
...I Fear No Evil...
What's a Deus Ex?
60% of the game's major black characters are in this area.
I died more the first time
PSN: Italax - Steam ID : Italax
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
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seriously, im excited about this
Also, most pictures in the OP seem to be not working.
EDIT: Ok, they should work now.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
FFXIV: Tchel Fay
Nintendo ID: Tortalius
Steam: Tortalius
Stream: twitch.tv/tortalius
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
Australian++ by the way.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I'll catch up with the videos after I play a bit. Thanks for doing this.
PSN ID : Xander51 Steam ID : Xander51
I'll have to remember to watch the videos when I'm at a library so I can abuse their DSL.
Well, it's on Steam.
EDIT: I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL SOMEONE I FORGOT THE MIC ON MY PLAYTHROUGH OADF9GYUARWGPAYIREWHOGK OH FUCK YOU
Uh, I'll have to rerecord my commentary and put it over the top. This will delay the update. I'm gonna go and slit my wrists now. I am so annoyed. Has anyone got a good program for just recording audio, I'm gonna need it to get the hours worth I missed.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
the open source program audacity is what I use
you can find it at sourceforge
Yea, I used that. Also realised that my hard drive maxed out near the end of recording. So there's gonna be a jump from parts. This entire video has been a mess, my next one will suck less I promise. I'll upload it tomorrow.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
Looks like someone's gonna have to glue you back together in hell!
... I'm so sorry.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
You poor fool! Play it now, now, now! And yeah, be careful about what you read in this thread, DX has one of the best game plots and it would be a shame to spoil it.
Oh, and don't feel forced to always do the obvious thing. The programmers were genious and programmed a very durable plot into the game. There are a lot of things you can do in the game that are far from obvious, which can have far reaching effects, from how characters react to you to who lives and who dies. Even exploiting game bugs to keep characters who are supposed to die alive will change things. Here are a few minor examples from the first level:
(Minor spoiler for the first stage):
There's a friendly agent captured by terrorists. You can rescue him and give him a gun, and he'll spread the word about how great you are. You can rescue him but refuse to arm him and tell him to hide, he'll spread the word that you're a glory hog. You can ignore his cell and he'll claim you abandoned him. You can sneak in, accomplish your objective, and leave without killing a single guard, and he'll *really* rip into you when he finally gets rescued.
At HQ, you can sneak into the woman's restroom and get caught. You get bitched at by the woman and later your commander, and word starts to spread around HQ that you're a perv.
None of these are particularly impressive, I just wanted to drive home that just because the game says "Do X to accomplish Y" You can do Z to accomplish Y, or do W to accomplish V, and the game script is usually durable enough to react to it. I missed so much cool stuff on my first playthrough because I just blindly followed orders and ignored everything else.
This is gonna be one complex Lets Play. You better get video working right because if you plan on taking screenshots you're fucked.
*EDIT*
Oh yeah, and good luck. Make sure to explore the ladies rest room for me.
And if it makes you feel better, no matter what you do your LP will be better than this one.
But... but... it has ghost in the shell music!
Which is oddly appropriate, when you think about it. They have lots of similarlities.
1) I died to the security bot on my first attempt. I also forgot the record the mic.
2) I died to the first enemy you meet from a point blank headshot.
Now for everything that went wrong with the video I show here:
3) I died to the enemy in the bunker in one hit because i timed my stun rod wrong.
4) I miss the enemy on the ledge inside the statue and trigger all the guards on the ground floor to attack me, who take out my legs and force me to crawl the rest of the mission
5) Fraps records really large videofiles, so my Hard Drive got filled just before I rescued Gunther.
6) I forgot to record audio for the video I did get.
7) The rerecorded audio for the first 2 thirds of the video is kinda quiet.
So yea, really sorry about this and I promise the next video will be better. We're getting into the good part of the game anyway. My quicksave is working anyway, so that will save me a lot of pain.
Also:
I was seriously considering picking the albino. Hell, at one point I was planning on calling JC 'Ghost', picking the Albino model and running through the the Chinese stages with a sword yelling "FOR WINTERFELL!" every time I killed someone.
EDIT: Google Video is processing it now. No idea how long that takes.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
Mission 1 - Liberty Island: Paul can go to hell for this non-lethal shit.
I'll leave the Augs up to you guys. The only exception will be regeneration, which I'm getting to matter what any of you say. So we have a choice between stronger melee attacks and the ability to lift heavy objects. Tell me soon so I can do the next update.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
Next time: Castle Clinton
I'll try and do this the stealthy route to get extra dialogue with Paul and Anna. Also, you bastards are sick so I'll show you that you can in fact kill a starving child in this game. With a rocket launcher.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
"Oh yeah, I like throwing stuff at people."
"What are you doing? I don't understand."
"I'm throwing stuff at you."
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
(only after getting the key code
I'm gonna do worse than mace him.
Sometimes I Stream Games: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/italax-plays-video-games
I gave him the candy, stabbed him in the neck and threw him off the pier.
Steam... ?
You made me install it for the 7th time in 3 months.
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I can't even look at the game now I'm that sick of it. I hope I didn't ruin it.
Yeah, I wish the albino was chosen. He's kind of cool. I actually half want to install the game again just to choose the albino, except you hardly ever see JC anyway.