Raithe

LED Contact Lenses Following in the wake of Deus Ex.. not sure if anything on this has been mentioned before, but Augmented Reality could be coming soon...

Ah there is actually some semi-random system. Everyone chooses their reply, but the dialog system will pick one of them as the "legit" rersponse and play that cutscene with that persons response. And it does that for every dialog choice. So just because someone "won" the first response, doesn't mean they'll be controlling every response in the sequence. If I remember correctly, there will be something that "weights" the results or scores the random number generator or whatever it is depending on how many in a group go for a specific type of resonse (ie, if more people choose a dark side response, it's more likely to select one of them rather then the minority choices). But I'm fuzzy on exactly what it is. Also I have a fuzzy memory that it had somethign that for each time you "win" a dialog roll you get some kind of social credit. Dang it. now my memory is totally futzing on exactly what they said so I might have totally ballsed up that answer. But it's in that vague area.

I think the melee system really becomes noticable in . With all the crazies attacking you with fists and you suddenly can lose massive health in just a few moments. It's one thing when it's bullets or such, but when random workmen driven crazy can wave their arms and whap your health like that.. it makes it a bit silly that Jensen doesn't have some form of melee that isn't an energy sucking auto-takedown.

I would have liked if that Bob Paige epilogue after the end credits had actually changed depending on the choice you made. Oh well. It was still kind of neat. I can't make up my mind whether I like that you keep finding credits in as you go on.. It's not like you can actually spend the 20k you have by that point.. I mean you go in and you pick up those two praxis points from the Limb Clinic..and you still have that much money..and keep finding more. One the one hand, it's a little pointless.. on the other.. it does keep to a certain sense of realism that you'll find loose change even if you can't use it for anything.

There are times I do wonder why people have pets. It's been that sort of morning. The puppy has diarhea, when it's not out crapping, it's trying to eat the cat, when it's not trying to eat the cat it's pawing at me and whining to play. Or to let it out. When the puppy is being quiet, the spaniel is going nuts. When both dogs are settled, the cat decides to have its own back and pounces on the alsatian, or jumps on the desk and sits in front of my monitor to meow and try to bully treats. And I've had to hold the cat's rear under the tap and wash it after it emerged from the kitty litter with a.. mess.. firmly attached. Yay for cat scratches.

Didn't they already say that it's going to be set up with Male Shep on the front of the box, but femshep will be on the back? It was something like that I seem to recall being mentioned when they first brought it up...

Just.. because it had to show up somewhere here...

Apart from the cat waking me up about 3 hours after I went to sleep.. it hasn't seemed to be that bad the past few days.

I have just been spacing out a ridiculous amount today and I'm not sure what's driving that. Haven't even returned to DEHR yet. Keep poking at work and staring at blank page rather then doing constructive acts. Mayhap some mental gears will organise themselves once I get dinner out of the way.

Had a slow start to the morning, realised it was a bank holiday monday.. Not sure why but I'm feeling a wee bit depressive today and I can't chase down a reason for it. The cat keeps lurking by either the back door or the front door prepared to make occasional sprints for freedom. He doesn't quite get that he's a housecat that's blind in one eye and not cut out for urban traffic... Trying to figure out just where my focus is for the day.

Just finished it.. I was curious as to see if that extra scene would change in any way to reflect the different endings you choose. So I sat through the credits... and saw the same scene each time. Ah well, it was worth at least checking. It's quite a stonking game. Some of the levels did hit me with that nudging of memory of some of the original DE ones. Although I could kind of wish they'd had another "real" hub rather then several lone levels scattered around the world in the latter half of the game. I guess the original was laid out pretty similar tho... One american hub, one asian hub, and a handful of other locations... I finally started killing the special ops guys down in the Picus building - that rush when you're waiting for the big lift just pushed me out of the pacifist state. Now I'll have to consider to try a pacifist attempt. Hm, Adam's monologues at the end... since he talks about how he kept to his morality during the events, does that change for folks who were on killing sprees?

Having one of those moments of breaks to get drinks and such.. Just finished talking into giving me codes..so guess it's nearly to the end. I have to say, Federova has to be the worst of the boss fights. I reloaded that a buncha times before I managed to get a handle on it. It was after that that I decided to spend the praxis on getting the typhoon. Then the moment Namir showed his face, I hit him with three typhoon's in succession because I just couldn't be arsed with another boss fight. It's kind of nice to hear the "old" deus ex theme show up in snatches on the background radios... or the grammarphone..

Heh, that was my plan. My copy arrived about 10am friday, I installed it and started playing around 11am... I basically told family and work that I was going to be incommunicado on Deus Ex solidly. Of course, then some real world stuff intervened and my boss asked me very nicely if I could spare a few hours to research / work over the weekend... So I'm treating that as the "necessary" break from gaming before I throw myself back into the fray..

Well I think I spent about 13 hours in total on my first Detroit hub time before I headed China-ways. Now I've added about another five or so hours in that rather delightful multi-tiered city and helped the pilot find a murderer.. I've got to admit, balancing the augs is a twitchy business on exactly what you want.. I meant to pick up stealth and some hacking.. and ended up picking up all the ones that help you explore first.. icarus landing, jumping, smash through walls (although so far I've only come across about 3 of them..and they were all around detroit), with some hacking skills. Mostly relying on being sneaky without the camo-system at the moment... Dumped the whisperhead sniper rifle in Adam's apartment because I just wasn't using it and it took up way too much inventory space. I'm having fun, but I don't seem to be finding that many sidequests in the second hub.. not compared to what there were in Detroit. Still, time for a pause, some moments away from the game to have that break...

Spent a chunk of the morning whiling away time in the second hub of Deus Ex.. Now having a break to get some researchy work done before I return to the joys of sneaking, hacking and exploring... Hm, possibly throw in some food and a fresh cup of tea as part of that break...

Mwauh-Hah-Hah! My copy arrived this morning so I installed and started playing a little past 11am. Jumped straight into "Deus Ex mode" difficulty. And here I am just a little past 4pm and I've only just entered the Detroit hub because I stealthed slow and spent time exploring options through that first post-augment mission.... I'm bout as giddy as a schoolboy.

Eh, nothing too bizarre. Although I consider it freaking weird. I pre-ordered it back in December. Since then, my credit card expired, and I updated my amazon account with my new one. But apparently, when you update a credit card on your Amazon account, it doesn't actually link it to any open orders you have. you have to go into any open order you have and change the details within it, rather then just your overall account details... So when it was supposed to have been posted.. I suddenly find out that they're having credit card issues because they're trying to charge the expired card rather then the new one (and by new, I mean, several months old..) And then, even though I'm supposed to get free next day delivery, they're doing the "delivery estimate 27-30"

So in the wake of the press over GameStop's actions.. they've apparently decided to just pull all physical copies of the pc version of thegame from their shelves.. and are refusing to sell it unless Square Enix provides copies that do not include the OnLive coupon...

And another fuzzy science thing.. California Crime Predicting Computers

Had some crappy dreams which didn't start me off in the best of moods this morning, then I found Amazon had done a bit of a balls up so I'm its quite likely I'm going to have to wait several more days for my copy of Deus Ex to arrive. The puppy keeps trying to eat the cat, and I'm trying to not let it get on my last nerve and vent my general air of irritation on him unfairly.

That's what I get for not checking alll the threads ..

I wouldn't pick it up from GameStop if I were you.. It looks like they might have a small bit of bad press cropping up.. GameStop removing Free Code from Deus Ex games..

From gamescom... The Saints Row The Third interview with the "Quality Assurance Team".. and said interviewer seems just a tad flustered..

The reasons for the energy use actually came up in one of the interviews. Apparently they did implement takedowns without any energy use, but the testers would go through entire levels just using takedowns and not bothering to "find" any of the alternate routes or actually put that much thinking into it. So in the attempt to balance it out and make sure folks would do more.. they decided game balance needed that energy use just to put a slight check in... Swings and roundabouts I guess...