Deus Ex: Human Revolution, it happens this week! Options

[Seriously Mike]

Is anyone else as hyped for this game as me? I already preordered it after playing the Italian demo, because I felt that it's pretty much a return to the good ol' first DX (if a little simplified) and started toying with building a SR character based on the main character.

You lucky Americans get it three days earlier, on Tuesday, while I have to wait until Friday.

[Abdul Alhazred]

I've pre-ordered it and already downloaded it on Steam. Now I just have to wait until Tuesday. The reviews are good so far.

The only issues I've heard about it are the 4 bosses in the game.

[Critias]

I got sold on the game just from the look of the first few cinematic trailers, etc, and my nostalgia from the older games. I don't preorder very often (in fact, it's just the second time I've ever done so), but I've had this one preordered for months, now.

[Seriously Mike]

The only issues I've heard about it are the 4 bosses in the game.

The first game had four too (Hermann, Navarre, Simons, Page), and I've seen only three Tyrants in DXHR. Page isn't going to be the boss this time.

[Tanegar]

Not sure I'd classify Bob Page as a boss, since you never fight him directly.

[Stahlseele]

OK, i shelled out 100€ for the collectors Edition . . now i just have to wait for it to be delivered . . probably saturday <.<

[Critias]

Gettin' the fancy one, huh? Nice!

I thought about the collector's edition, but most of the stuff I'm interested in (the in-game content), I got through just preordering from Gamestop. If I paid the higher price, I'd (personally) only really be doing it for the sweet action figure -- art books and soundtracks have just never been my thing.

[Seriously Mike]

You should be able to order the figure itself online.

[Stahlseele]

Gettin' the fancy one, huh? Nice!

I thought about the collector's edition, but most of the stuff I'm interested in (the in-game content), I got through just preordering from Gamestop. If I paid the higher price, I'd (personally) only really be doing it for the sweet action figure -- art books and soundtracks have just never been my thing.

Well, the games i DO buy, i usually buy the most blinged out edition i can get my grubby paws on . .
only with settlers of catan did i make an exception . . i ain't paying no 700€ for a board game x.x . .

[Critias]

Yeah, board games get a little crazy, sometimes. I'm an RPGer and a wargame guy, I've yet to really get bit by the board game bug -- but seeing the prices for some of 'em at GenCon was a stark reminder of why. Whenever a 40k army is cheaper than some other game, something is wrong. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Grinder]

Whut? Which version of SoC clocked in at 700€?

[Stahlseele]

Whut? Which version of SoC clocked in at 700€?

ok, so it's 500€ . . STILL TOO MUCH FOR A BOARDGAME!
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Siedler-von-Catan...e/dp/B0007WDW24

and for the english speaking people:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17419/c...lectors-edition
they are selling it for 400$ and 780$ . .

[Seriously Mike]

Too bad I can't have a custom avatar easily here. It would be awesome. And I'm completely prepared for the Revolution (paid for my preorder today, apparently the local webshop is pulling another screwjob advertising normal box as "preorder". Whatever, as long as it works.).

[Grinder]

Well, not correct. Check it out.

[Seriously Mike]

I said "easily". "$20" doesn't sound like "easily", "e-mail to admin" doesn't either.

[Grinder]

I'm sorry. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Bigity]

I'm waiting on my video card upgrade (well sorda, but my current rig involves an Athlon XP 2100 and an AGP card) to put into my Core 2 (newer, but still old) system and then I'll be getting this bad boy on Steam.


EDIT: Good grief do I need a new desktop.

[Stahlseele]

Athlon XP socket 939?
Upgrade to 4400+ Dual Core.
And the Graphics can be upgraded to 4350 or 4530 or something, i think . .
Yes, you can have GDDR5 and HDMI on that rig. And both of those together probably cost all of 100 bucks . .

As for Core2 . . i have a Core 2 Quad, Socket 775 is not THAT old . . whoever keeps telling you that 2 or more cores at 3 GHz are going to bottleneck your graphics card has NO idea . .

[Critias]

Home from the store, installing right now. Whee!

[Stahlseele]

Home from the store, installing right now. Whee!

won't work for days, because of steam saying:"No, because No!"

[Bigity]

Athlon XP socket 939?
Upgrade to 4400+ Dual Core.
And the Graphics can be upgraded to 4350 or 4530 or something, i think . .
Yes, you can have GDDR5 and HDMI on that rig. And both of those together probably cost all of 100 bucks . .

As for Core2 . . i have a Core 2 Quad, Socket 775 is not THAT old . . whoever keeps telling you that 2 or more cores at 3 GHz are going to bottleneck your graphics card has NO idea . .

It's dual core, so a little aged yea. Not too bad and I got it for 25 bucks so hard to complain (work sells off old desktops to employees for a steal, optiplex 760 - i'll drop in some RAM and a HD4650 or something with a PSU I have and it should be tons better than my old Athlon box)

[Stahlseele]

i still have an 939 running myself.
and it works splendid under win7 64 bit . .
4 Gigs DDR1 RAM, PCI-E-Graphics, i'll give it that, Dual Core Athlon XP 4600+ i think with 1 Meg of Cache.
Nice little Board with 8 SATA1 ports, 2 IDE ports and FLOPPY port . . yeah, i can actually get 16TB HDD into that one . .

[Critias]

So far, so good. Gameplay's about what was advertised in trailers, etc, the cut scenes have been fantastic, and the overall mood and feel has been great. In large part, it reminds me (in good ways) of the old Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines game, with the versatility/variety of play. I can really see how branching out augmentations in different ways could result in an entirely different play experience, too -- somewhat breaking character for me, I've actually been investing in some of the hacking stuff, just because it's been very helpful so far.

Added bonus? None of the trailers mentioned/showed just how far you can fling a body. I already knew you could drag 'em to hide 'em, sure...but you can really wing those mamajamas, too, same as all the other stuff you can carry around. It's pretty fun to one-shot a baddy stealthily, then just go "fuck it" and announce your presence to the next handful of 'em by launching his comatose form at them.

[Stahlseele]

No Spoilers!

[Abdul Alhazred]

When I play all I can think is that this would have made a GREAT, GREAT Shadowrun game.