Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Auvers

Day-ooss

that is the latin pronunciation of Deus

Tyrant^

Newaglish wrote: »

Just to solve an argument I'm sure I'm bound to have soon: how do you pronounce Deus Ex?

Thought it was Deu - es or Day - us
Both wrong apparently

Dee - uhs ...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deus

degrassinoel

Tyrant^ wrote: »

Thought it was Deu - es or Day - us
Both wrong apparently

Dee - uhs ...

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deus

I've heard it spoken a few times as Day-Us

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Just completed it yesterday.

Part Metal Gear Solid.
Part Hitman.
Part Blade Runner.

I'm sure I missed about half the side missions and still got around 30 hours out of it, and I'm jumping straight back into another playthrough to complete the missions differently and make different decisions.
#.

i dunno, I did some googling after I'd finished the game and.. I couldn't find much about any side quests I missed. I think I actually got them all bar 1, and I didn't get that many. I suppose it's an fps masking as an rpg, so too much to expect it to have as many quests as an rpg.

Burgo

degrassinoel wrote: »

I've heard it spoken a few times as Day-Us

yeah always thought it was that myself.

pixelburp wrote: »

That's what I thought - I'm amazed some people here have already completed the game; I presumed you guys had just been playing the main-plot quests, and not exploring or seeking out sub-plots / missions

I did every side quest, and took my time going through areas as I didn't want to kill anyone, and tbf there aren't exactly a huge amount of side quests in the game.

Newaglish

degrassinoel wrote: »

I've heard it spoken a few times as Day-Us

That's how I say it at the moment. I was hoping to find some sort of developer interview where they call out the name. If they've created it, I can only assume that they get to pick the pronunciation!

humanji

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote:

i dunno, I did some googling after I'd finished the game and.. I couldn't find much about any side quests I missed. I think I actually got them all bar 1, and I didn't get that many. I suppose it's an fps masking as an rpg, so too much to expect it to have as many quests as an rpg.

Yeah, it's got feck all side quests. I guess they'll all come with the DLC...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

actually, something I noticed last night after starting my second play through

I killed all the soldiers during the intro, thinking they didnt count towards the pacifist achievement but they do so I'm starting all over again
I entered the dlc code I got with the game, and I got the auto hack too, the remote detonation stuff.. but I didn't get my 10000 credits

i was meant to get them at the start of the first proper mission, at the warehouse.. but I got the remote detonators and not the credits. anyone else get this?

spankmaster2000

I've just arrived in

Singapore?

after 20 hours of play.
(Do I have much left to go?)


Also, am I the only person who wished (setting & story-wise) that it was slightly less sci-fi?

I know the original had all sorts of advanced stuff, but your main mode of transport was a helicopter, rather than a pretty high-tech looking hover-jet. Even the ol' computers were pretty "normal", and people read "paper", newspapers.

None of the above is a problem mind you, the game is awesome, but it seems to suffer from the unfortunate (and probably unavoidable!) "Star Wars prequel syndrome" where everything in the "past" seems far more awesome than the original.


Also, all the mechanically augmented folks were supposed to be hideously ugly, and, well, a bit rubbish, no? I'd love a pair of Jensen's arms! And he's got a couple of much cooler toys than JC ever did!

Sephiroth_dude

How many side quests are in the game?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

spankmaster2000 wrote: »

I've just arrived in

Singapore?

after 20 hours of play.
(Do I have much left to go?)

umm....yeah, not a huge amount to go but you're not really near the end yet

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

How many side quests are in the game?

i don't think there's more than ten over all

--edit

apparently there are 14, but only ten with achievements

Sarky

Collector's edition arrived today. The figurine is really quite lovely. The box is very pretty. I love the art book. I'll have to wait a few more hours before I can actually comment on the game itself, but I do have some lovely shinies at least.

kearneybobs

Sarky wrote: »

Collector's edition arrived today. The figurine is really quite lovely. The box is very pretty. I love the art book. I'll have to wait a few more hours before I can actually comment on the game itself, but I do have some lovely shinies at least.

My Aug Ed arrived from Amazon there. Nice little Artbook. Playing it through on the PS3 atm, but I'll get to my PC version asap.

DarkJager

Finally beat that prick Barrett! Cheap win though, I just hid on top of the crate inside the last alcove. Popped out every so often to put a few shotty rounds in his face and he finished himself off with some reckless use of grenades

Heading for Hengsha next but just wonder if I should try and finish all the side quests in Detroit first, or will I get a chance to come back for them at a later stage?

WolfForager

Haven't gotten the game yet myself, but i thought you guys would enjoy this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lry8GoO3To4

Sephiroth_dude

Haha thats brilliant

spankmaster2000

Well that's just great. By the time it got to the 7:30 mark of that video I nearly spat out my tea to stifle a "lol".

My boss is looking at me funny now. Time to get back to work.

Shiminay

1:20 in and all I want to do is see the 2 tards on that video die of a horribly slow and painful wasting disease...

Will not be watching any more of it.

AllYourBass

DarkJager wrote: »

Finally beat that prick Barrett! Cheap win though, I just hid on top of the crate inside the last alcove. Popped out every so often to put a few shotty rounds in his face and he finished himself off with some reckless use of grenades
QUOTE]

Trying to beat him with a sneaky character and rubbish weapons on "Give Me Deus Ex" mode is almost an exercise in futility. It felt like that scene in Shaun of The Dead where they throw everything in the garden at the zombie to little effect.

grizzly

Is the only way to recharge the power cells those energy bars? Also which hacking abilities are worth putting points into?

pixelburp

Reached shanghai last night, and a bit worried that people are saying the side quests peter out... I wouldn't mind but that hub area seems huge, I was expecting there be even more distractions than in Detroit. Hummity, wondering now if the honeymoon period is already over

Shiminay

grizzly wrote: »

Is the only way to recharge the power cells those energy bars? Also which hacking abilities are worth putting points into?

There's a jar of energy recharging stuff that charges up to 3 cells, damned if I can remember what it's called, but I recall it takes 4 slots in the inventory.

Kiith

I've only used the takedowns twice, and that was only when i had to (2 side quests require you to actually kill/capture someone). Kind of stupid that it doesnt recharge manually, or in between missions. I've avoided every other enemy so far. Proper stealth mode (and by that, i mean proper quicksave/load mode :P)

pixelburp

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

[...]
I killed all the soldiers during the intro, thinking they didnt count towards the pacifist achievement but they do so I'm starting all over again[...]

FFFFFUUUUUUUU...
Well there go my plans for bragging ...

Are you sure about that? I only recall having the machine gun / pistol at the start, and without any augs I couldn't do takedowns - how on earth then can those kills count towards the pacifist achievement?

marco_polo

pixelburp wrote: »

FFFFFUUUUUUUU...
Well there go my plans for bragging ...

Are you sure about that? I only recall having the machine gun / pistol at the start, and without any augs I couldn't do takedowns - how on earth then can those kills count towards the pacifist achievement?

Unfortunately for anyonewho only finds this near the end of the game (and there are loads), you have to sneak past all the guards at the start for the pacifist achievement.

Shiminay

pfffffffffffffff I say to that - what kind of head of security (or even what kind of man) sneaks past all the intruders in his employers office who are shooting his colleagues and are ultimately going after his love interest?

That's a bit lame, it should definitely start after you get your Augs and get into the game proper.

marco_polo

Shiminay wrote: »

pfffffffffffffff I say to that - what kind of head of security (or even what kind of man) sneaks past all the intruders in his employers office who are shooting his colleagues and are ultimately going after his love interest?

That's a bit lame, it should definitely start after you get your Augs and get into the game proper.

Indeed . Probably the same sort of head of security guard that wanders aimlessly around the main office chatting to everyone for about an hour during a crisis while

all the hostages get killed (ok that one may have been my bad)

danthefan

Would anyone know what the cheapest digital version of this is?

DarkJager

Kiith wrote: »

I've only used the takedowns twice, and that was only when i had to (2 side quests require you to actually kill/capture someone). Kind of stupid that it doesnt recharge manually, or in between missions. I've avoided every other enemy so far. Proper stealth mode (and by that, i mean proper quicksave/load mode :P)

You'll need them in Hengsha court apartments. Just past it now and there's about 12 guys there who are goin to be waking up with broken jaws and pounding headaches.....if they wake up at all!