Different branch of the company, but it's funny to remember that Daikatana was the big name at the time.

​@@mariosskordos9177well, just the fact that it's the same damn company blows my mind. I had no idea. Deus Ex was a masterpiece. Daikatana was....this garbo. That's akin to learning that Carrot Top is a cousin of Christopher Walken. Sure their parents aren't the same, but they don't belong in any family tree together. It's like if Sony, the kings of the video game industry, were to release a $3,000 robot dog. Sorry, that one did happen. That's the kinda gubbins you end up with when your company is so huge that you run out of ideas, and have to start copying nature. Yeah, I realize that *some* mutants are interested in those dogs, but there's also people who dress their sex dolls up and take them out with them in public. I wish I was joking. That's the nice thing about humanity, though. Every time I assume that I'm the loneliest, most desperate weirdo in the world... the internet will prove me wrong. There's always one more rung on the ladder. So (for 24 hours or so) I can wake up in the morning and be happy I'm not that guy taking his sex doll to Denny's. I don't own a sex doll, they're expensive. Come to think of it, Denny's is a little too pricey for me. And there are people at Denny's. People who probably brought their dolls. I think I'll stick with Lyons.

I hadn't heard of Deus Ex until relatively recently (within the time I saw Penguinz0 make a gag video on Human Revolutiom to now, that long) I feel like even if I more than likely didn't have a computer that could run it at the time, if Daikatana weren't in the way, Deus Ex could probably have made its way from abused cult classic, to legitimately good series.

@@Boogie_the_catCarrot Top and Christopher Walken, buhaha, good one! There was a joke, right?

Easily the best version as it's not utter crap

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True dat. A totally different take on a port, and a really good playthrough.

@@octaviusking That's a shame, but possible follow up in the future? :)

Really? I saw that for sale a few days ago and thought that's a disaster I want to steer clear of. But now you've got me curious

we all cheat...........in fact only cheaters win in my cheating book.

I don't think it did that exactly. Anachronox (along with Deus Ex) was developed in the Austin branch (the successful one, I guess), while Daikatana was made in Dallas. The branches did share voice actors though. You get those fake Asians in Deus Ex, including the Ebihara actor voicing Tracer Tong.

@@xenaretos Anachronox and Daikatana were both developed at the Dallas office and shared parts of engine and tooling, derived from a Quake 2 source code drop. Ion Storm Austin was a successor studio of Looking Glass Austin and was only working on Deus Ex at the time, in Unreal Engine.

The thing I hate this game for...and Ion Storm as a whole, really...is that they effectively killed Looking Glass Studios. LGS were looking for Eidos to rescue them from a knotty financial situation, but Eidos poured so much money into Ion Storm that there was none left in the pot for poor old Looking Glass...

CP2077 is fine on PCMasterRace. Not perfect, but kept me entertained for 75 hours.

It helped that Samurai Jack was a stylish and visually pleasing animation. It also didn't begin by proclaiming Gennedy Tartakovsky's intentions making the animation viewing public as his bitches.

And Heroes did quite decently with a story with those attributes, as well.

@@RetroDawn I'm still upset about them randomly taking Adam Monroe out of the show tho, lol

Daikatana release date: May 2000. Half-Life release date: Nov 1998. TimeSplitters: Oct 2000. 007 Golden Eye: Aug 1997. Perfect Dark: May 2000. Unreal: May 98. Metal Gear Solid: Sep. 98. Soul Reaver: Aug 99. Deus Ex: June 2000. Daikatana would have been considered terrible if it released two years prior.

Forsaken 64 killed itself with that cover. It's a great game with a fantastic 3D flight system, it should have had a flying machine shooting on the cover instead of that temporary tattoo waiting to happen.

And got a cut version on top of that, too!

Lol the code base is so incredibly twisted and messed up. So many people doing mods on a pre-release engine.. it’s no wonder that it never could sync back to mainline. A perfect example of no unit testing and no way to dump and inspect state of “known good”. It should be taught as an example of how not to fork.

@@JasonStevens To be honest, many games we released were rushed out. With notable exceptions - Deus Ex being one. You can blame upper management for that, of course. This we know :)

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@@mikedrop4421 I was thinking Peter Molyneux who would eventually start to ruin his godlike reputation a few years on from Daikatana's flop and then continue to trash it all the way to 22 cans.

@@cupofcustard oh yeah absolutely. I didn't know how old you were. My brother is in the 20s and has no idea who PM even is lol

@@mikedrop4421 haha no worries. Was a 90s kid and a pc gamer so bullfrog was a big part of my childhood. I had no idea until recently what Moly had done to himself and others. Such a shame.

@@cupofcustard I spawned in the mid 80s so I know exactly what you're talking about. Kim Justice covers ol' Pete's triumphs and tragedies in excruciating detail if you ever feel like you need even more of him in your head lol.