100 - Deus Ex
Added 2023-08-16 06:00:04 +0000 UTCTo celebrate their 100th episode, the lads decide to take some zyme and augment their vision as they finally cover what many people (including Josh) consider to be one of the greatest video games ever made: Ion Storm’s Deus Ex. Topics include the variety of gameplay styles, the forever-memed dialogue, and the legacy of the first PC game that let you kill a guy with your legs.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition available on Steam
Warren Spector’s GDC Speech on Deus Ex
Great Moments in Video Game Voice Acting: Deus Ex (Hong Kong)
Great Moments in Video Game Voice Acting: Deus Ex (Paris)
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Commercial: “A Message from UNATCO and the NYC Tourism Board” feat. Jay Anthony Franke as “J.C. ‘Cramble’ Denton”.
Jay Anthony Franke: Cameo // Instagram
Comments
if y'all need another game to destroy a few hours of your life with may I suggest eye: divine cybermancy? it's like deus ex but more inscrutably french, and the studio that made it went on to do the wh40k space hulk games
zetsubunn
2024-08-19 22:25:34 +0000 UTCSince when is the National Science Foundation secretly waging an insurgency?
John Her
2024-08-10 04:03:38 +0000 UTCdo you think when jay z plays deus ex he names his jc denton "jay z denton" and smiles every time its said in game
BrianAlflordIsGoodActually
2023-08-20 23:17:33 +0000 UTCThere is something weirdly enticing but also deeply unsettling about hearing lines clearly written by AJ read by someone who isn't one of the Lads
Nathan Woods
2023-08-20 04:37:51 +0000 UTCIt’s a testament to the quality of this podcast that I’m not a game person and can still get sucked into listening to you I’ll talk about a game that I know absolutely nothing about and still get some enjoyment out of the conversation. Happy 100 episodes!
Elizabeth Power
2023-08-19 00:59:03 +0000 UTCPlanescape: Torment (the greatest game ever made) also has multiple death-by-dialogue boss encounters, ala the Gunter/Anna killwords.
Kyle Cassidy
2023-08-18 01:09:57 +0000 UTCI know the list wasn't exhaustive, but I was disappointed by the omission of the oopsie-doodle
Tom and Joe made me give them money to play their game and now I, Teagan, am anime sickos canon. I'm gonna live forever!
2023-08-17 06:49:25 +0000 UTCI've been to enough safety meetings at work to know that ladders are the most deadly tool a worker will use. Maybe the creators thought spreading ladder safety awareness was more important than making that part of the game fun
Jimmy McMillan
2023-08-16 23:00:10 +0000 UTCit’s not quite the same as the vanilla experience but gmdx includes auto save functionality
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-08-16 21:11:56 +0000 UTCthrigits. three. digits.
Elah
2023-08-16 19:20:25 +0000 UTCAnd this time I will save on separate save slots!
The Token Detergent Rinser (British)
2023-08-16 19:14:42 +0000 UTCFor me, this game has always been “the one that got away”: I was bad at games (still am, really) but also bad at game playing technique - I would save over my existing save every time. It took me a while, but I eventually got through the first couple of levels, and I got back to UNATCO base, met all the fun characters in there. Then, I went to embark on the next mission, and came to the corridor where it loads the next map… and the game froze. In fact, my entire computer froze. I restarted and tried again. Same issue. Every time I attempted to go through the corridor, it froze and I needed to restart. I even tried leaving it on for around 4 hours, and it still had the same problem. I eventually tried installing the game on a different PC, and copying the save file across to the other computer. Still the same issue. I finally gave up. I should go back and try to play it again.
The Token Detergent Rinser (British)
2023-08-16 19:13:56 +0000 UTCI feel like a creative french art collective trying to take out the Statue of Liberty isn’t so far fetched.
James Cézanne-Taipale
2023-08-16 17:36:24 +0000 UTCWhenever people talk about Warren Spector, I always hear the little jingle from Mega64's GDC award video in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9q8oxkhnvI
Korax
2023-08-16 14:40:20 +0000 UTCOh man--seeing a link to Eegra triggered a rush of memories on the order of Proust's narrator tasting the madeleine.
Kyle Cassidy
2023-08-16 12:14:48 +0000 UTCand yes I said yes I will Yes.
Moppie
2023-08-16 07:09:35 +0000 UTC
