I replayed a bit of Deus Ex recently. I had such good memories of it. Ya the game was ahead of its time in like '00 or something. But I couldn't get over how bad the voice acting was. And the unintentional right-wingness of everything, from the sunglasses, to the UN & FEMA conspiracy theories, to the promotion of "patriots". It was a different time, though, and QAnon wasn't a thing,so I'll give the developers a pass.
the voice acting is like one of the best parts of the game? I agree with everything else though, kinda. A conspiracy theory revolving around FEMA and a lab made plague does seem bad now, but I'm not sure I agree that part specifically feels right wing, nor the UN stuff. I always thought it was pretty clear that JC Denton's development as a character was from a nearly stereotypical action flick cop, a red blooded American patriot that buys into America's values, to taking part in a people's revolution. I did always get libertarian vibes from the writing fwiw
I replayed a bit of Deus Ex recently. I had such good memories of it. Ya the game was ahead of its time in like '00 or something. But I couldn't get over how bad the voice acting was. And the unintentional right-wingness of everything, from the sunglasses, to the UN & FEMA conspiracy theories, to the promotion of "patriots". It was a different time, though, and QAnon wasn't a thing,so I'll give the developers a pass.
They got other things right. The villain is literally Bill Gates.
the voice acting is like one of the best parts of the game? I agree with everything else though, kinda. A conspiracy theory revolving around FEMA and a lab made plague does seem bad now, but I'm not sure I agree that part specifically feels right wing, nor the UN stuff. I always thought it was pretty clear that JC Denton's development as a character was from a nearly stereotypical action flick cop, a red blooded American patriot that buys into America's values, to taking part in a people's revolution. I did always get libertarian vibes from the writing fwiw