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Topic	Exdeath Plays Every Game in the GotD 2020 Contest Part 2 (ft FO:NV, Ghost Trick)
Evillordexdeath 05/19/21 9:15:45 PM #255:	LinkMarioSamus posted... To be fair I played Civ and Age of Empires in the first place because of my interest in history. Also the book is actually called Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. I guess I was more just pondering something. I hate the whole concept of city-states so bah to Venice's inclusion in Civ5. Sorry. No need to apologize to me, I'm not important to me if you play it or not. Though maybe I explained it a little badly because yes, I agree from a mechanical standpoint that city states are the worst but Venice's existence itself doesn't share mechanics like city state influence or anything like that - in fact, its special power is to permanently remove a city state from the game by converting it into a Venitian city, though you do have to play with city states on for them to be any good which is a bummer in and of itself. --- But let's conclude the story of Adam Jensen, protein bar addict. I think we last left him as he was about to return to China. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be over there knew he was coming and decided to shoot down his helicopter, and the pilot character he spent most of the game with didn't make it. Apparently it is actually possible, though quite hard, to save her by taking out all the enemies in that area quickly enough, but on my successful attempt of that part I just went sneaking around and felt slightly guilty when I saw that I had earned the "ghost" exp bonus. After that you have to wander around the city hub area while all the guards will attack you on sight, until you meet up with the mob boss guy who helped find the hacker last time, who is now wearing a cybernetic arm from one of the Sarif scientists. He helps you hatch a plan to sneak onto a cargo ship and wind up in Singapore where the rest of the scientists are held, which is the real final mission of the game with three simultaneous objectives, lots of guards, and no objective markers until you find the source of a signal jammer. It makes the most of the open-ended level design and is quite tough, to the point where I admittedly got frustrated by having to keep reloading saves. At this point in the story, you find out (somewhat predictably) that almost every major player in the story is involved in the Illuminati conspiracy. You meet the medical CEO lady again who sicks a naked Turkish man on you for the third boss fight. He's had body mod so that everything below his neck looks like an exposed muscular system and fights you in an area full of dummies that look the same way, but he doesn't pull the Blade Runner hiding-among-the-dolls trick outside of the initial cutscene. The big scheme is to mess with people's cybernetics to shut them down or control them, so you have to do that boss fight without your power-ups and with interference effects all over the screen, which makes it hard to spot the guy since he also turns invisible. It was a slow boss fight for me, since I'd seek him out, get one or two shots off, and then retreat to wait for my health to come back. Once that's out of the way, Adam finally meets back up with his ex-girlfriend. It's a characteristically cold reunion. They don't hug or anything like that, but Megan at least fixes up his cybernetics. For everyone without a tech wiz GF, a broadcast is being transmitted that causes them to see severe hallucinations that effectively cause them to lose their minds and attack anyone they meet, so Adam has to head off to the Arctic ocean to stop it. The man behind this signal is named Darrow. Adam spoke to him in Sarif's office at one point a little earlier. He was one of the primary inventors of the cybernetic technology in this game, but came to think the technology was too dangerous and hijacked the Illuminati's mind control signal for a vaguely Watchmen-esque scheme to manufacture a crisis around the tech and thereby convince the world it's a bad idea. You have to talk him into giving you the codes to stop the broadcast. In this final area the gameplay de-escalates quite a bit with the only threats being a little bit of automated security and some half-mad victims who will only run at you and scratch for not much damage. Sarif and Taggart both give Adam suggestions on how to modify the broadcast to transmit a message, with Sarif wanting him to lie about the "kill-switch" and blame it on the anti-augmentation activists so that government won't put any restrictions on research in that field and Taggart wanting you to say the frenzies were caused by a bad batch of the anti-rejection drugs for the augs in order to encourage restrictive legislation without outright banning the stuff. Before you can do any of that, though, you have to have a final boss fight against the Medical CEO lady in a big machine, guarded by turrets. I'd say it was an underwhelming final boss, since it just passively sits there and lets you methodically take out the turrets and then dismantle the machine itself, though it's at least somewhat effectively creepy since parts of the whole machine are seemingly tortured/enslaved people whom you have to kill to beat the boss. Once that's out of the way, you pick the message you want to give the world with some help from Eliza. You also have the option to just destroy the whole facility, killing all the most important characters including yourself and thus leaving humanity to decide for themselves what to do next. I picked Darrow's message, not because I particularly believe in his stance on the augmentation but because it's the one that presents the actual events with the least amount of lying. I'd say that's a strength for what the game is going for, though, that none of the options seem all that great. Jensen gives a soliloquy about how whichever choice you picked was the way to go and there's a post-credits stinger in which Megan joins up with some of the remaining Illuminati guys. I thought this was meant as a sequel hook for Mankind Divided but apparently it's actually to set up the OG Deus Ex, since this game is a prequel. Final Thoughts on Human Revolution coming tomorrow. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 20/129 Currently Playing: Dark Souls <cite>Evillordexdeath posted [p:954093653] in Exdeath Pl... [t:79138705]...</cite> <quote>LinkMarioSamus posted... </cite> <quote>To be fair I played Civ and Age of Empires in the first place because of my interest in history. Also the book is actually called Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. I guess I was more just pondering something. I hate the whole concept of city-states so bah to Venice's inclusion in Civ5. Sorry.</quote> No need to apologize to me, I'm not important to me if you play it or not. Though maybe I explained it a little badly because yes, I agree from a mechanical standpoint that city states are the worst but Venice's existence itself doesn't share mechanics like city state influence or anything like that - in fact, its special power is to permanently remove a city state from the game by converting it into a Venitian city, though you do have to play with city states on for them to be any good which is a bummer in and of itself. --- But let's conclude the story of Adam Jensen, protein bar addict. I think we last left him as he was about to return to China. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be over there knew he was coming and decided to shoot down his helicopter, and the pilot character he spent most of the game with didn't make it. Apparently it is actually possible, though quite hard, to save her by taking out all the enemies in that area quickly enough, but on my successful attempt of that part I just went sneaking around and felt slightly guilty when I saw that I had earned the "ghost" exp bonus. After that you have to wander around the city hub area while all the guards will attack you on sight, until you meet up with the mob boss guy who helped find the hacker last time, who is now wearing a cybernetic arm from one of the Sarif scientists. He helps you hatch a plan to sneak onto a cargo ship and wind up in Singapore where the rest of the scientists are held, which is the real final mission of the game with three simultaneous objectives, lots of guards, and no objective markers until you find the source of a signal jammer. It makes the most of the open-ended level design and is quite tough, to the point where I admittedly got frustrated by having to keep reloading saves. At this point in the story, you find out (somewhat predictably) that almost every major player in the story is involved in the Illuminati conspiracy. You meet the medical CEO lady again who sicks a naked Turkish man on you for the third boss fight. He's had body mod so that everything below his neck looks like an exposed muscular system and fights you in an area full of dummies that look the same way, but he doesn't pull the Blade Runner hiding-among-the-dolls trick outside of the initial cutscene. The big scheme is to mess with people's cybernetics to shut them down or control them, so you have to do that boss fight without your power-ups and with interference effects all over the screen, which makes it hard to spot the guy since he also turns invisible. It was a slow boss fight for me, since I'd seek him out, get one or two shots off, and then retreat to wait for my health to come back. Once that's out of the way, Adam finally meets back up with his ex-girlfriend. It's a characteristically cold reunion. They don't hug or anything like that, but Megan at least fixes up his cybernetics. For everyone without a tech wiz GF, a broadcast is being transmitted that causes them to see severe hallucinations that effectively cause them to lose their minds and attack anyone they meet, so Adam has to head off to the Arctic ocean to stop it. The man behind this signal is named Darrow. Adam spoke to him in Sarif's office at one point a little earlier. He was one of the primary inventors of the cybernetic technology in this game, but came to think the technology was too dangerous and hijacked the Illuminati's mind control signal for a vaguely Watchmen-esque scheme to manufacture a crisis around the tech and thereby convince the world it's a bad idea. You have to talk him into giving you the codes to stop the broadcast. In this final area the gameplay de-escalates quite a bit with the only threats being a little bit of automated security and some half-mad victims who will only run at you and scratch for not much damage. Sarif and Taggart both give Adam suggestions on how to modify the broadcast to transmit a message, with Sarif wanting him to lie about the "kill-switch" and blame it on the anti-augmentation activists so that government won't put any restrictions on research in that field and Taggart wanting you to say the frenzies were caused by a bad batch of the anti-rejection drugs for the augs in order to encourage restrictive legislation without outright banning the stuff. Before you can do any of that, though, you have to have a final boss fight against the Medical CEO lady in a big machine, guarded by turrets. I'd say it was an underwhelming final boss, since it just passively sits there and lets you methodically take out the turrets and then dismantle the machine itself, though it's at least somewhat effectively creepy since parts of the whole machine are seemingly tortured/enslaved people whom you have to kill to beat the boss. Once that's out of the way, you pick the message you want to give the world with some help from Eliza. You also have the option to just destroy the whole facility, killing all the most important characters including yourself and thus leaving humanity to decide for themselves what to do next. I picked Darrow's message, not because I particularly believe in his stance on the augmentation but because it's the one that presents the actual events with the least amount of lying. I'd say that's a strength for what the game is going for, though, that none of the options seem all that great. Jensen gives a soliloquy about how whichever choice you picked was the way to go and there's a post-credits stinger in which Megan joins up with some of the remaining Illuminati guys. I thought this was meant as a sequel hook for Mankind Divided but apparently it's actually to set up the OG Deus Ex, since this game is a prequel. Final Thoughts on Human Revolution coming tomorrow. --- I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 20/129 Currently Playing: Dark Souls</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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