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• Cheers to DX. Thanks to Ion Storm Austin for giving us the crown of PC gaming and for showing what gaming... : Marrbe
• Sometimes you've gotta make a silent takedown. : Alice O'Connor
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0U7OUtRvXM : Lone Swordsman
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  the code phrase is IRON and COPPER!!!! : razorblade79
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    JUNIOR and WHOPPER!!! : Dave-A
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      Why would a bakery need infra red security???? : SpaecKow
      • Clearly you haven't tasted the magic their ovens are capable of producing. : Marrbe
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  Oh my god, JC! A bomb! : ZTac
  • A bomb! : drazz
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    I laugh every time he says it. Someone should make a song of this. : lcizzle
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0U7OUtRvXM : mikecyb
  • NO MORE INTERNETS! : Waffles!
  • Not a ba...a bomb. : FirstPersonCooter
• 0451!!! : deject
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  I speeel my drink!!!! : freshyk
  • yevgenny! : toilet
• I wanted orange, it gave me lemon lime. : dael
• skulgun : ArB
• hmm, maybe its time I go back and play past the first level : maulla
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  If a person bought Deus Ex on Steam and had never played it before, what mods (if any) would that person need to best enjoy it in a modern context? Any graphics or balance enhancements necessary? Best to play the vanilla original?

  Jun 22, 2010 6:25am PDT
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  If a person bought Deus Ex on Steam and had never played it before, what mods (if any) would that person ... : rudds
  • I've always been a fan of doing going through the game vanilla first (with certain exceptions like Vampir... : one random winner
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    Honestly, all you need is the updated renderer and you're good to go. I completed Deus Ex yet again a few... : Alice O'Connor
    • ^^ This : lcizzle
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      This is what I did as well. Also I forced Vsync on to prevent speedups and applied an anti-mouselag regis... : Marrbe
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        Please detail this anti-mouselag registry fix. : SockMonkeh
        • Now that I think about it, it was anti mouse acceleration. I had acc in DX even though it was turned off ... : Marrbe
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        Wow, I'm going to try this v-sync fix. I have the same problem with the game speeding up at random places... : phate81
        • Couldn't find an option for it in DX so I forced it on for the application in nVidia Control Panel. : Marrbe
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      updated renderer yes, plus New Vision and HDTP. Also purely graphical : MamiyaOtaru
      • No! The texture replacement packs don't feel like Deus Ex. Stylistically they're not quite there. : Alice O'Connor
  • I say play the original like god intented it to be played also, don't take swimming and if you don't i... : razorblade79
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    Shifter+ for earning points for being sneaky. : breadsticks
    • And this for updated computers: http://www.kentie.net/article/dxguide/index.htm : breadsticks
  • I just played through it with Steam vanilla version and had no issues. : JMro
  • dialing wand. : steelsamurai
• Greasy Greasy Greasels But truly, hats off to Ion Storm and Warren Spector. Deus Ex is the pinnacle of... : Anir
• This is an epic day. : The Grolar Bear
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  I bought it on sale on steam a few weeks back, currently up to the Paris level. I feel that the the story... : transmetal
  • Anyone that says DX has great voice acting is deluded or being sarcastic. The story's great, but the voic... : AlexW1203
• Who dat der wit da birtdat todat? : noobja
• I speeled my drink! : tfsbrian
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  What a shame.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAPXMZk2iw : scary_monster
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    BAHAHAHAHHAA the comments on this video are what did it for me, i'm in stitches : OhSnapHighFive
    • Best set of YouTube comments ever. : Johnny Law
    • Yep...I fucking love the comments!! I can't believe youtube commenters actually managed to pull it off! A... : scary_monster
• bloodshot. : umegastar
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  Flatlander Woman : MercFox1
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    Laputan Machine : deject
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      I may have just missed a couple of lines in the game itself, but are you two referencing http://designr... : AlexW1203
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        Those are the killphrases for Anna Navarre and Gunther Hermann, respectively : MercFox1
        • Aaaah, right. Well, that explains that then - I was never good enough for those. I did make a mean MJ12 C... : AlexW1203
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    I thought it was sticky LAM in airplane? :D : Grimp
    • I did Sniper Rifle to the FACE. : deject
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  10 years old next week: Diablo II : MatthewPhillips
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    since no thread is complete without fanboyism or some degree of threadshitting: Deus Ex > Diablo I + Diab... : Hoax
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      I think oranges are better than apples. Does anyone else think that is an ironically legitmate comparison : SockMonkeh
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        No fruit can compete with perfectly ripe cherries. : Marrbe
        • +INF like a motherfucker : deject
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          carrots > * : devpaul
          • carrots != fruit : one random winner
      • you can't compare oranges and apples it's just not possible to prefer one to the other. If you ever have... : MamiyaOtaru
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  Yay! I'm transcribing my interview with two lively fellows from Eidos-Monteal now and should have it post... : warcrow
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    your excitement over this makes me wary because you were also pretty excited over the xcom game while eve... : Hoax
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      Everyone? : warcrow
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        EVERYONE! dunno listening in and reading some preview people were less enthusiastic about it, basically t : Hoax
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          There is more it than that, but yes I'm excited for it because it looks new & fun. I'm going to write som... : warcrow
          • cool i will wait for your write-up then before calling you a fag (more so on the dx one than on the xcom) : Hoax
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    That shaky cam footage that Screw Attack had up for a bit looked like they were trying to do Deus Ex just... : deject
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      Yep, they had multiple entrances to the bar area, silent takedowns (hoping for nonlethal) on that guy in ... : MercFox1
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        There are both lethal and non-lethal take downs (mechanically, you tap the button for non-lethal and hold... : ZTac
        • I hope it's not like MGS3, so many poor dudes' throats got slit :( : Zek
      • Non-lethal takedowns are always the most silent takedowns. : AlexW1203
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  Played the game for the first time a few weeks ago, really liked it. I laughed so loud when Maggie Chwo s... : lausai
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    the whole segment in HK may be the worst voice acting ever. : ass-street
    • yeah I feel that the worst has to be the bartender : lausai
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  Still the best game of all time, except for maybe System Shock 2. : phate81
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    I loved system shock 2, but still havent gotten around to playing dues ex. I need to get it working on ... : GoodBoy
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      Don't know what version you have, but Steam's ran just fine for me, I went through it recently with no tr... : hunhauu
      • I have the original game as well as a game of the year version, both on CD. Probably still in original s... : GoodBoy
    • I haven't tried it myself on Win7 x64, but all I had to do on XP was apply a no cd crack because the copy... : sanchez
• EYE did itI EYE did it! : jvox
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  Are you kidding? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7tRYj-Y6qI : sanchez
  • lol Kept fat fingering the key pad and had to pull out the baton. : lcizzle
• It's not today... and certainly not ten years old. I'm almost 40, but thanks! : excessus
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  So I have the GOTY edition. Does someone have a list of fixes (mouse acceleration, v-sync) for Win7? : warcrow
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    use http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/ the OpenGL renderer version 1.9 for Deus Ex its faster and less prob... : Hoax
    • Thanks! :) : warcrow
    • sweet, will try this as my urge to replay Deus Ex again is rising : devpaul
    • hm, ok I might have to try it. : Flinz
    • Thanks for the tip about notebooks! : Enkidu
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    I get BSOD's like crazy when I try to play it from Steam. Sad panda, I am. : Wolfanoz
    • Wow you get actual blue screens? Or a pop up saying this program has stopped responding? If it's the sto... : lcizzle
  • See my reply to SockMonkeh above. : Marrbe
• Deus Ex Yakety Sax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cenmlaW8qiU : tunis5000
• Birthday song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8jMn2Kcgs : StriderNL
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun's long writeup on the game - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/06/22/the-rps-verd... : Dontdrop
• What did you do to celebrate?? : arcane_
• this thread is severely lacking JC Tenton : pancake humper
• I am no deus ex fanboy or anything, but this is one of the best games on pc, ever. And I mean it : JohnnyDanger
• It's about time to play this again. I've played through 3 times over the years, getting to be time for an... : nodge69
• Just beat it on all three endings last night. If I'd known, I would have waited... : Conan
• Best PC game of all time. : pgharavi
• Great game! I never complete games, but i finished this and tried out the different endings. : kingfish
• It's 75% off on Steam now, just $2.49. Seriously fucking buy it if you don't own it already!! Fuck I am... : mikecyb
• i see this came out for Mac, so i can only hope that it gets a Steam release and our PC license transfer ... : Korban
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  Now if I could just get it to run on win7 now... And I've already been through a bunch of the renders,... : Freon
  • I just played through it on Windows 7 64-bit. Had a ton of weird speed issues and whatnot at first, but e... : Conan
• i have like 3 or 4 full copies of this game that i got for free from various PC magazines over the years. : -=kodiak=-
• You're wearing sunglasses on a night operation?! : Majuju
• Here's to Warren Spector. Thanks for taking it all in stride. Looking forward to Epic Mickey. : Navy Spitfire