{"id":8979,"date":"2011-09-12T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T18:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2011-09-12T07:34:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:34:51","slug":"deus-ex-3-is-fine-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/12\/deus-ex-3-is-fine-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Deus Ex 3 is fine, I guess&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"8979\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Deus_Ex_HR_talk.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Deus_Ex_HR_talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Deus_Ex_HR_talk\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8980\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2011\/09\/09\/the-joystiq-show-007-digitally-augmented-edition\/\">this week&#8217;s Joystiq podcast<\/a>, I&#8217;m part of a panel of dudes who played Deus Ex and have a few things to say about it.  I&#8217;m also on <a href=\"http:\/\/gameshark.libsyn.com\/jumping-the-shark-episode-88\">this week&#8217;s Gameshark podcast<\/a>, where there&#8217;s a fair bit of Deus Ex talk.  It seems odd to me that I&#8217;m talking Deus Ex: Human Revolution on two podcasts this week.  I should probably step aside and let people who feel more passionately talk about it.  Having some guy go &#8220;eh, it&#8217;s fine, I suppose&#8221; isn&#8217;t really interesting.<\/p>\n<p>But since I didn&#8217;t care for the original Deus Ex, I&#8217;ve been asked by some folks what I think of this latest sequel.  And that&#8217;s actually an interesting angle to me, because I think a lot of Deus Ex fans really appreciate what Eidos Montreal has created.  I do as well.  Partly because Eidos Montreal gets what made Deus Ex work, but also because they get what didn&#8217;t make Deus Ex work.  Human Revolution address many of my complaints about the original game, including the AI problems, the problems at that time with the Unreal engine, and what I felt was a sloppy and mostly irrelevant mishmash of conspiracy theories in lieu of a story.  Probably my favorite thing about Human Revolution is its timely and relevant theme of society&#8217;s ambivalence about technology.  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