Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: This is why we can't have nice things (Deus Ex) Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:21:15 -0500 Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Lines: 31 Message-ID: <50e5vjda2g9rhdu5e4bimtefvj12ev4m62@4ax.com> References: Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:21:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1f96be9f8feeaa84f0c641ec327dfe3a"; logging-data="1629505"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KQXxp+mHVkM/9VZssw73ErKYum0zhecM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:TOS07rLrEmw76to/1xnc4j2Duac= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 07:59:03 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, .../v wrote: >candycanearter07 wrote: >> Spalls Hurgenson wrote at 19:11 this Friday (GMT): >> [snip] >>> But, like I said, I'm not big into endlessly extending franchises. >>> "Deus Ex" had its day in the sun; it produced some excellent games >>> (and some not-so-excellent ones), and I enjoyed many of them. But I >>> don't see the need for more and more sequels. I'm much more of >>> developers creating something new. >> >> >> I personally never played the Deus Ex games, but looking at HR from >> the outside, I agree. Maybe I'm just cynical, but making these terrible >> "sequels" almost ruins the original game(s) retroactively, because the >> newcomers will either A) hate the game and assume "this is just how the >> series is", or B) enjoy it and be split from the fans of the originals, >> since they're fundamentally different games. >> >In Deus Ex, I felt that stealth was "underpowered." If you are going to >make stealth _that_ central to the game, then I shouldn't have to >ragequit after ten attempts to sneak by the first guy the tutorial >introduces the stealth feature for. +1 -- Zag This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)