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Dr. Quadragon ❌

Deus Ex 1 deserves a Black Mesa style remake. Leave core gameplay and ideas, modernize graphics (haul it over to the modern engine) and touch up on mechanics. I'd buy this shit so hard.

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@drq Have you tried "Deus Ex: Revision" yet? Actally on steam too as a free mod.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@espen Yeah, I have, and I loved it for what it is, but it's still Unreal Engine 1 with all that entails. It still looks like a 20 year old game.

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@drq Yeah, it would be nice with a remake I agree. Youtube keeps bringing up videos about Deus Ex: Re-engineered (which is the game in UE4 apparently?) Although I don't find a project page or similar soo, not sure about this one.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

There's a lot of games and stories that tell us that we're fucked and the society is doomed.

DX is the only game that showed us *HOW EXACTLY* we're fucked and doomed.

Really, scrape off the deliberately thin science fiction veneer - and you pretty much have the today and all of our biggest problems made manifest.

Capital consolidation, centralization of communications and death of privacy, billionaires with ties to government, the global pandemic that started in China (Yikes!), corporate neocolonialism, state-sanctioned terrorism, radicalization, unemployment, the real economy turning to shit all the while demonstrating great numbers that bosses like, poor people being marginalized and taxed up to their throats while the rich get off the hook, and, to quote Ross Scott, as many homeless people as there are pigeons.

The game literally predicted all of this. Down to two towers disappearing (it was a texture size limitation thing, and is a coincidence - but still!)

There's a lot of games and stories that tell us that we're fucked and the society is doomed.

DX is the only game that showed us *HOW EXACTLY* we're fucked and doomed.

Really, scrape off the deliberately thin science fiction veneer - and you pretty much have the today and all of our biggest problems made manifest.

Owl!🦉

@drq
In our world, corporations and billionaires are cute little kittens compared to governments.
After all, cyberpunk as a genre is retrofuturism, we have other opportunities and other problems, although there are certainly similarities.

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