Firing Squad does Deus Ex 2

Interesting views on the combat system.

Also interesting to here their remarks on health and bioenergy.

2 weeks left,... 2 weeks left,... I must have it... 2 weeks left,... until the release... only 2 weeks,... left,... I will get it,... you''ll see... I will get it in 2 weeks... no one will stop me,... no one... 2 more weeks... left... 2 weeks of waiting... candle burning, chicken sacrificing... 2 weeks left... let the blood flow... 2 weeks left... until the release... the DX2 is coming... its DX2... and its coming,... 2 weeks left...

I''m a bit leery about the move to ignore skills in favor of a less-stat-heavy experience, but this still looks like the most intriguing game that I''ve seen this year. Looks like they''re going to great lengths to allow the user the flexibility to do whatever s/he pleases.

Nah, I''m not worried about the skills. They were largely superfluous in the first game. If they expand the augs system (which they seem to have done, what with the black market stuff and all) they can achieve just as much depth while getting rid of a lot of unnecessary complexity.

About the only good thing about the skill system was all those little exploration bonuses you got, and I''m sure they''ll manage to reward the player in some other way.

Nice little preview, but nothing special in there. Looking forward to December...

"Nei" wrote:

2 weeks left,... 2 weeks left,... I must have it... 2 weeks left,... until the release... only 2 weeks,... left,... I will get it,... you''ll see... I will get it in 2 weeks... no one will stop me,... no one... 2 more weeks... left... 2 weeks of waiting... candle burning, chicken sacrificing... 2 weeks left... let the blood flow... 2 weeks left... until the release... the DX2 is coming... its DX2... and its coming,... 2 weeks left...

I forget...when''s it coming out, Nei?

and two more months until it hits the EU. I wish they would do an UK release for Christmas, then I could import it.

Why don''t you get it through Okaysoft? They should have the US version available for sale a few days after NA launch.

Yeah but not the XBox release. Ah well maybe I will pick this up for pc then. Seems they leave me no other choice.

I''d take the PC version of DX2 over the Xbox one any day. Not just because of the controls; the graphics look waaay better.

I guess that depends on your PC huh?

As far as I remember Chris does have a PC capable of running the game.

that''s true. It''s just I am a lazy bum and got used to sitting in my comfy chair while playing games. And relocating my pc rack in front of my TV could irritate other persons in the household :). But I guess I will take the burden of playing it on my PC. I just can''t wait 2 more months.

Well you know, chrisg, with a nice s-video cable, and remote mouse and keyboard, sitting your lazy bum on the comfy chair (or in my case the ""neverending couch"") is just a radeon 9800 pro away...

Seriously, WC3 looks awesome on my TV. 9800 pro supports 1024x768 output to TV, so if you have a perty good TV (1280xwhatever if you have HDTV) and computer isn''t terribly far (<20ft?) both vertically and horizontally it''s doable. My computer is upstairs from our family room but the logitech remote mouse and keyboard don''t seem to mind, so long as I point the little transmitter just so.

We now take you back to Nei and 2 weeks until Deus Ex 2. Did I mention how many times I''ve replayed Deus Ex 1, just to use a very different strategy/persona (I think more in terms of moral code and what I''m willing to do than strategy per se.) I just hope all of the extra secret little goodies don''t involve swimming in dark canals. I''m complaining...but you know I still swam down there every stinking time through the game.

Demo in 2 days ! That will be great. I can''t believe this but I may join Fileplanet, especially since you get Splinter Cell for free.

arggghh...hopefully some kind soul will provide a bittorrent link before the day is up..

More reason to loath Gamespy..

Word is that it''s not subscriber exclusive.

meaning you have to wait in their lines to download? no thanks..

Nah, it means you can get it from places like gamershell with no wait.

oh excellent...

But, be quick !! Because it will be crazy tomorrow. I am guessing it will be one of the biggest mad rushes to get a demo in a long time. I am peronally just going to get in line at fileshack because I never usually wait more than 35 minutes and I get about 175k/sec and that is good for my wireless.

I was downloading some demo today at 519K a second...that was on fileshack..

The one place I do subscribe to...hopefully they will have it tommorow.

519? Daaayuuumm ! I need a new connection

Excellent...!!! Demo... Cool!