"I apologize for the video length." Don't be silly.

As someone who got into the series by first playing Human Revolution and going back, I can say that the modern games are good but the original is on a whole different level. The Eidos people tried but I think they knew it was a bit too much so they scaled back the games to try and keep quality similar. I am still mad at Square Enix for their betrayal on Mankind Divided, where they forced the devs to prety much cut the game at the end of the 2nd act so they could allocate resources to that stupid Avengers game that was completly worthless of the money and time put into it.

Lebedev: "I surrender!" JC: "What?" JC's writing in this game is brilliant.

Daedalus using that as its name isn't a plot hole. You start getting messages from a hacker calling himself "INTERNET" or "HYPERTEXT", you're not going to assume the actual Internet itself is the one talking to you, you're just gonna think he picked a weird code name.

There’s just something special about the way you pace things that just makes it so easy for me to actually sit through and enjoy actual 2 and a half hours of your content without feeling like i wasted any of my time. You’re cool man.

Deus ex is such a long game. Playing it feels like it just doesn't end yet you want to push on. Expierence more of it. It's unique. Such game in that scale with that quality rarely exists. It's truly one of the best games ever made

34:00 if you follow Walton Simons down into the cellblock, you can sneak through the door when he opens it and interrogate the prisoners yourself. Simons gets SO MAD.

I dislike how Invisible War handled the orange/lemon-lime thing. They were trying to make a cute reference to the original game, but, like, when confined to its own context, Gunther's argument with Anna means something more than that. I've always interpreted it to mean that even though Gunther is a skilled agent, his augmentations cause him to struggle adjusting to routine activities, like pressing tiny buttons with his clunky, metallic fingers. I imagine a lack of tactile feedback (being unable to feel a button with the nerves in your fingers) makes this even more difficult than it already appears at a glance. And of course the augmentations have turned him into an ugly "golem" too (quoting him). So it's like Gunther sacrificed his body, and even the ability to have a normal life, for the sake of maximizing his damage output as an agent. This deepens his character-he derives all his self-worth from being the best agent he can be, and chasing minute performance gains at the cost of his own body-and it further develops the world of the setting. His tiny, mundane struggle against his own augmentations also plays directly into the themes of the story, depicting them as something hubristic and tragic. Somewhere in the cathedral, after JC has [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS] killed Anna, you can even find an email to this effect, describing how Gunther just stands down in the altar room staring up at the cross on the wall all day. He's (in my opinion) seething with rage and hatred not just to avenge a friend, but also to mourn the part HE played in failing to save her, having to struggle with the fact that all his augmentations, her augmentations, and all the augmentations in the world failed to protect Anna. And that being the case, what the hell did he chop himself up for? What good are all these metal parts if they're useless when it matters most? And then Invisible War turns around and confirms that it really WAS a conspiracy by the maintenance workers to fuck with Gunther, which negates all of this for the sake of an inside joke ...

I'm a bit surprised you didn't notice the receptionist at the ton acts so casual not because he's laissez faire about terrorists, but because right around the corner, there's an NSF terrorist holding him at gun point who you can confront if you go through the door to the receptionist's left.

1:48:25 Fun fact: Anna doesn't have to die. It certainly wasn't intended but it's possible to abuse her AI into getting her to open the door, or clip through it bypassing the need for the key to unlock the door and allowing you to exit the level. What's even more interesting is that the game seems to have accounted for this and while she doesn't play any more part in the story, the game still acts as if she is alive with Gunther making no reference to her death, as he normally would.

"The next one shouldn't be as long" What a shame -JC

For me, the Helios ending is the only one that makes sense. Destroying the net and everything seems like a band-aid fix at best, and in the mean time it feels like it would get a lot of people hurt or killed. By comparison the illumanti ending feels like a half-measure from a JC who just desperately wanted to be told what to do by someone of higher authority. Props to Tracer Tong, but he comes off as a science nerd who's thought about it way too hard, is sure he's right, and won't entertain any other option. Morgan Everett is an Illumanti member, which is the most comprehensive thing we know about him, but I think it tells us all we NEED to know. Even if the organization isn't objectively evil (It is), it can be made vulnerable and taken over by people who are due to its secret nature. I think they were really trying to show you this is a bad choice by putting you directly where Walter Simons was standing, with Morgan taking the place of the main bad guy. Helios is just a jump into a pool of water to see if you sink or swim. Who knows what will happen? Its immensely hard to predict, at least to me. He had the decency to choose you over page, at least. Its the most ambiguous ending, but I rather liked it that way.

Let me boost this man's algorithm real quick

"Did the US have a Perestroika" Yes actually we did. It happened in two places, the Rust Belt and the Deep South. In both places large amounts of abandoned infrastructure accumulated rapidly with the sudden withdrawal of nearly all manufacturing jobs, and previously lower-middle class families went into poverty.

53:39 Fun fact: you can actually defeat all the UNACTO troops, saving Paul in the process and proceed to the subway to be taken away by Gunther.

"The Oceanlab feels like you're exploring Vaun Braun" Funny considering how the Cutting Room Floor found out the oceanlab's meshes and textures were recycled from the scrapped Moonbase level after Area 51.

Funny thing is, there is no single actual reflective surface in the whole game. It is a very stupid and brilliant illusion at the same time - the whole level is duplicated and scaled to -1 at vertical axis while the floor is transparent. Real boomer tech!

I can still remember my older brother telling me about this game when it first came out. Sounded so cool, and I was super excited to try it. I also remember how much my mind was blown when on my third playthrough I saved Paul, and on my 5th playthrough where I killed Anna on the jet near the beginning(which I was amazed you could, as she is invulnerable every time before and immediately after this) and realized there was an extended convo with Lebedev, same thing with the NSF leader at the beginning if you incapacitate the UNATCO agent and help him escape. This was always _the_ game where I found something new each and every time I played it. Like the time I rushed to get into the interrogation cell with Walton Simons shown at 32:50 and found out it didn't break the game (as the door literally opens and closes in an instant, so it felt like you shouldn't be able to get in), and that you could join the interrogation, greatly extending and expounding the little scene. You can even prevent Simons from executing them. And I found out in a very early playthrough you could evade Simons at the underwater research facility and run into him at Area 51, as that place scared the crap out of me and I gtfo'd without fighting him. :P Anyway, Deus Ex is truly a masterpiece. There was a time where I could recite the entire opening from memory, and vividly recall the feelings and memories of just opening the game, seeing the symbol and hearing the title theme.

The UNATCO dialogue (Anna Navarre and Sam Carter) referencing a massacre at Castle Clinton is triggered depending on the number of NSF that die in that mission, no matter who kills them. If any NSF see you and decide to flee the Castle, Anna Navarre will execute them at the exit, then enter the castle and exterminate the remaining entirety of the NSF forces. I hate when this happens.

Great video but one more point about Triads. They settle their problems with blades not because of traditions & stuff but because there is a surveillance system in Hong Kong which detects and reports guns' usage, so criminals are forced to use melee weapons. Maybe you mentioned it in the video but I just wanted to point out that Triads use blades not out of traditionalism.

1:17:07 If HTTP was called Daedalus in real life 70% of hackers would use names from Greek mythology and 29% would use names from other mythologies thinking they were comedy geniuses. The silly thing is Alex concluding that HTTP is talking to JC rather than saying that it could be anyone

Man, imagine making a 2.5 hour video without any filler or unnecessary stuff, while others struggle to drag their videos for that sweet 10 minute mark. This really was a joy to watch. Thank you.

22:25 Yeah, that is a problem I also have with modern """cyberpunk""", if you can even call it that. At some point in the 00's people forgot about what the literary genre was about and started focusing _way too much_ on cyborgs, neon lights, synthesizer music and other unrelated stuff... And while it can look visually cool, it's like none of these people ever read a Philip K. Dick novel or even Neuromancer.

Reject guns and meta skills, upgrade swimming only.

"Absorbed some of its story details via cultural osmosis" you killed me with that line

the funny thing is, while that unabomber guy's idea of technocratic future was pretty off, his core premise that properly implemented and well designed AI or algorithmic systems being able to manipulate the masses has proven to be true to a degree. the Ability for a massive entity like facebook or twitter to use their "algorithm" as one of many degrees of seperation from them and the deed itself allows for a wide margin of plausible deniability that makes it difficult to convincingly convey any conspiratorial ideas of what they might be up to without admitted proof. Proof like when facebook ran an "experiment" on hundreds of thousands of users to manipulate their social media feed by injecting more amounts negative or positive information and news than usual to see if it had any affect on their moods and mental health. which they concluded it did, and that they could induce feelings of depression by manipulating what people saw online. or when twitter was found to be willing and able to manually change the "trending" tab to steer people's interest towards causes or events that they want focus on, thereby generating artificial interest in something while directing focus away from other things they dont want seen. "That kind of power over people has the potential to change the course of History." - Ross Scott in his own Deus Ex video.

I mean the Daedalus thing is actually great cover because its so obviously known. As long as you didnt know about the AI itself, there's nothing to suspect. If someone contacted you with a voice changer going by "HTTP" you wouldnt think "Oh shit its the internet contacting me."

I am 31 years old, played lots of games over the years, but this game still is the best one i ever played. Even on my first playthrough when i was only like 11 or 12 years old, i already knew it was a special game. And later on, when i played this game over and over again, it became clear that Deus Ex is just a masterpiece. No mater how many times you play it, there is always something different and unique to it.

As a kid I used to think it was ridiculous that supervillains would tell everyone about their evil plan, but as a touch and attention starved adult I understand wanting to tell people about every little thing you have going on when you’ve captured their interest.

For a bunch of boomer era conspiracy theories Deus Ex predicted a scary amount of things, albeit in probably unintentional ways. I was always worried it would be a little stiff and unfun for a 20 year old game, but when I played it last year it was one of the most fun and challenging games I've ever touched, not to mention probably the most profound one. Amazing review as always!

It's ironic that the Dragon's Tooth blade takes so much inventory space since....most of that space is taken up by the blade that is nonexistant until activated. It's just a hilt; one would think ease of concealment and transport would be selling points. I guess it takes up so many slots to make room for Jedi dignity.

Actually the fun part is that even in vanilla you are not forced to choose between augs as long as you have more than one local slot. That means you can get both cloak and radar transparency if you so choose, though in that situation you'll obviously miss out on ballistic protection. But that way you can build for full stealth - add Run Silent and Vision Enhancement and you'll know where everyone is at all times too, making you literally impossible to detect. GMDX makes the augs even better too.

Deus Ex was more prophetic than anyone wanted

I don’t think you ruined Helios in the last ending. Daedalus was a threat model, and if Daedalus oversaw humanity it would be the same as any old paranoid elite destroying anything it decided was a threat until nothing is left. Icarus was designed to centralize communication and concentrate power, so the world it would oversee would stagnate and slowly die because new ideas that aren’t slight modifications of old would be surpressed. Helios as a combination of the two is the worst kind of tyrant, one that would actively destroy anything it perceived as a threat to a perfect world model that very imperfect people created. This is what we’re starting to see in China: old men fixated on “better times”, which were only “better” because they were children, crushing the new changes and interests of the younger generation. Denton by the end is a freedom fighter working with every level of society, and would inevitably bring new perspective to a machine fully designed to maintain the status quo. It needs the human element of Denton to properly do its job. The true threat is whether Helios is prepared to bring new blood into its algorithm once in a while, or whether it will allow resistance to its tyranny to keep its subjects diverse. Good video btw :)

"An incel sex tourist" God the delivery of this line kills me every time I hear it.

nice to see the skyrim guard get a new career in videogame analysis

I truely hope this becomes a series on your channel. I wont lie some of the political concepts like "accelerationism" kinda goes over my head but hearing these concepts used in an old cyberpunk expired game like this is just amazing to me. It took real balls to make a game lile this, I hope you do Invisible War and Human Revolution one day because the way you do these videos and discuss it is less about gameplay or voice acting but about the concepts being discussed in game and the real life irony in what implications are being discussed.

"You mechs have copper-wiring to re-route your fear of pain, but I've got balls of steel." --- Oh wait, that's Duke Nukem.

Games like these from the early 2000nds could have unending ambition because they didn't care about jank, bad textures, decent voice acting or animation quality. God I miss that.

Found your channel about 2 months ago, and you already are on the level of Mandalore Gaming, Raycevick, Joseph Anderson, and Ahoy in my book with your clever structuring, nice editing, and well paced narrative! Yup, i think you'll gonna reach their level soon with your sub count :) And great vid btw!

Omg Warlockracy covering Deus Ex. I need to get some wine, snacks and a blankie!

> I love her accent and we love yours Warlock

2:05:14 It actually does take a while to launch an ICBM. Kennedy(I know right?) drastically changed the Air Force's ability to launch ICBMs. Originally, the system was essentially on a feather trigger. Full Send only required 3 of 5 Generals turning keys. However, the AF Brass had installed failsafes in all of the launch computers that would send full send after a short period of time, essentially negating the need for consensus on launching. Additionally, he had the AF remove all of the explosive bolts that would break open the launch bay doors and allow for the missiles to leave their silos. In a real scenario, someone in the military would have to climb like 400 something feet in ladders and install the explosive bolts themselves. I worked for the Defense sector before, and I am of the opinion that in the Deus Ex timeline, the AF wouldn't have changed, so you would need to electrically bypass the key, as well as emulate the signal to launch and coordinates from the central launch computers. Additionally some poor MiB SoB would have to go up there and install the explosive bolts required to get the missile out of the silo. Considering we're in Nevada, those are almost assuredly Minutemen multi-stage rockets, designed to reach out and touch the Western half of the Union. The flight itself is also an interesting question, because I don't know if you could get a rocket like that to target a very nearby facility without it having to expend most of its fuel in a huge upwards parabola. The missile itself isn't the payload, it ejects a reentry vehicle housing the actual nuke. I think in order to get the nuke to send you'd have to have it travel the full time, or risk destroying the missile.

2:21:52 I remember reading something about that in a strategy guide, it is implied instead that the use of swords in place of guns by the triads is motivated by the installation of high sensibility sound sensors across Hong Kong. So it's not really a matter of honour.

I gasped when I saw "Deus Ex" and "Warlockracy" together, let's go

I have a love/hate relationship with accelerationism but I would probably always choose Helios.

Loved the video, but as for the last point of ruining Helios, idk. As you pointed out yourself, Icarus, Daedalus serve different functions, but compliment each other upon merging. And if the point of adding JC was to incorporate the understanding of the human condition, I don't think JC's primate brain would be what ultimately calls the shots. I see it as him becoming just a resource for a greater system, with a clear cut goal of adding empathy to the equation. JC's animal brain, after all, is now but a third of his being. I think it's what makes JC's and Paige's merging different - Paige intended to remain fully in control, use Helios power to indulge his primate brain. Which is exactly why Helios turns on him, as it was created for the very purpose of becoming a higher form of government, not hand over control to yet another tyrant. All that being said, my theory stands on the idea that Helios itself doesn't have significant flaws in it's decision making. There is no guarantee that upon merging, the collective will run the numbers and decide that empathy isn't that great after all, and it should rule with an iron fist instead. Which really, only makes it more interesting to me. That's the whole point, JC becomes an entirely new life form. There is no telling how he will act.

Shoutout to my men Michiel van den Bos and Alexander Brandon. I listen to their songs pretty much every day. Also, I love DuClare Chateau so much, and exploring with Nicolette. One of the most memorable video game locations for me.

The single most comprehensive overview of the game I've ever seen. I've tried and failed several times to play Deus Ex but thanks to you and all the other people who enjoy this game I get to see what it has to offer. Great video!

this is the kind of content I love, the unapologetic review presenting multiple sides of human nature and philosophy, while still being entertaining and covering the whole experience. you might wanna consider yourself a videogame anthropologist! thank you for the wonderful pieces of media

Deus Ex was the first game I bought after I left my hometown to study at university, so this game is a real touchstone for me. The look and feel, the sound design, the music, everything. I sends me right back to that very special time over twenty years ago where everything was so new and exciting.

I come back to this video every now and then. I keep noticing more stuff I didnt pick up the last time or learn something new about my favourite game. Thank you Warlock, youve become my favourite creator here.

By the grace of material dialectics let this channel grow.

Already better than Chris Davis' review who couldn't handle awesomness of this game... or had allergry for c0nspiracy the0ries? I still remember picking that game back then, felt like X-Files the videogame (there were official games but they weren't my cup of tea) and managed to beat it. It's one of the very few old games that you can still play today without pain. Unless you fully succumbed to modern handholding self-playing bar filling games... I think weapons skills are quite realistic - getting hit from character with low level weapons skill still hurt, when it land which is not easy at the early stage of field training.

I love that JC basically walked in, spent about a week to figure out this entire fucking thing and immediately fucked over everyone's plans that they've been working on for decades and somehow no one else managed to so far.

I want to raise a point about the "beautiful misery" problem, Deus Ex actually helps to place emphasis on the misery by keeping things more grounded to current day aesthetics. Or at least current day when it came out. Everywhere you look there's trash and litter, there's a real sense that the neighborhood is going downhill fast. Almost every normal person you meet is homeless, many are sick, some are addicts. The 'Ton hotel is a run down squalid Hilton. Hilton's are usually high class places but this one is more of an apartment building than a hotel. Then you add in Battery Park and the nole people settlements and you get this real look at the kind of overwhelming poverty that is rampant in this world.

Very interesting that this whole "Nanomachines" kick happened at once at this time. Cowboy Bebop's movie was based all around a nanomachine conspiracy as well.

when someone ask me something that i cant understand im gonna tell him ´´the french philosopher Goerge Bataille thought that the porpuse of life is to waste the energy of the sun´´

I actually like "point investment" mechanics but only in rare cases like Deus Ex, where it's more rewarding to play most of the game nonlethal. I think it was done on purpose because if guns were decently accurate on all skill levels it'd quickly turn into just FPS and there would be no incentive for players to think and upgrade. Classic isometric Fallouts have even stricter system where not only skill but also luck comes into play. Thong probably have never lived in anything remotely like a village or other rural settlement, he's a city dwelling tech-boy from privileged background and bear some very idealistic ideas about "pre high tech society". Choosing Illuminati is just rendering all we've done obsolete and returning to status quo instead of development. Makes JC just a high skilled servant instead of an independent actor. So I always chose Helios ending, no matter the possible threats and speculations (which rise from us projecting our nature on an AI), this is a step forward instead of step back or in place. Thanks for this amazing video. Also you made me google "fat sonic".

Out of all Deus Ex videos I’ve seen, this one finally pushed me to play it myself, and I thank you for that. Your Tamriel rebuilt video also pushed me to play Morrowind to completion, too. You’re one of the most unique creators out there. Great video as always dude.

Люблю твои видеоигровые эссе, Кирилл.

I haven't been this hyped for a video in awhile. I literally muttered 'Fuck yes!' under my breath. Whether that speaks to the quality of your content or the peculiarness of my mannerisms, well, It's probably one of those.

I always love the idea these old games had with skills. They just threw these large spreadsheets at you which let you change every aspect of the character. You wanna jump higher? That's a stat. You wanna be ridiculously wealthy? That's a stat. You wanna talk talk to a rat? Stat. What a wonderful era of RPGs. I like Skyrim and Human Revolution but Morrowind and Deus Ex gave you so much wild liberty.

This was excellent. Just the right blend of edgy humor and serious philosophical discussion. And I barely noticed the length because the pacing was so good. I hope you continue to do long-form content like this.

Warlocky: Wanna see me make my longest video yet ? Wanna see me double that video’s length ? Fans : *Y E S*

Maybe I'm the only person who likes accuracy tied to weapon skill in FPS/action-RPGs.. Since well it is part of the RPG. Your character isn't skill enough. And I hate if bullets become stronger if your skill is higher.. You could argue the PC knows where to hit but meh. I choose bad accuracy over most of the alternatives used by ARPGS any day. If I want to hit, I just raise the skill o.o

>JC >source of human ethic for AI God what a shame

Deus Ex is one of my favorite games of all time, and this is a terrific kind of Let's Play meets Retrospective meets Review. You've got a great balance of straight up reporting, analysis and jokes. More than that, I actually learned several things about the game and the lore that I didn't even realize, even after dumping hundreds of hours into it! I appreciate the editing going on too, how you introduce each section with a simple title card and a choice line of dialog from the game, which are themselves a good mix of hilarious and thoughtful. Minimal, but effective. You don't sit down and talk about/explain EVERY plot point or game quirk - as that would indeed take a long time, given that the game has a TON of content. But you do a good job of focusing on the key points, commenting with your own personal outlook now and again, and honestly, just letting the game speak for itself. Your cuts to the guy singing "Our Country Tis of Thee", for instance, was a great way of breaking from your main points/footage to showcase a snippet of the game's world, unadulterated, for us to make up our own minds about. I thought that was a wise choice throughout, and I like how you use this tactic for both the emphasis of a certain point, theme, mechanic - or just for the lulz. I also loved how you left in the random coughs as Jock takes JC back to New York. Or this gem: "Welcome to Brooklyn Bridge Station" *kills rat*. It's like the game wrote jokes for you. LOL I also really appreciate how you had sort of a "middle" approach to the choices you made in the game. I think it was the best way to show off just what the game allows you to do. An "all non-lethal" playthrough or a "I'mma be a dick" playthrough would've been fun, but would've missed a lot of details. Some of those details speak wonders to the terrific design of the game. And some are being able to cheese locks forever with a GEP gun. XD ALSO: random theory. In your playthrough, Anna Navarre claimed that Castle Clinton was a graveyard, despite your non-lethal run of that area, right? I was thinking...maybe she wasn't bugged. Maybe this still fits. You remember how AFTER Castle Clinton, your JC basically tooted his own horn and threw shade back in Navarre's face? What if this showing of backbone and competence actually impressed Navarre, despite JC not being a slaughterhouse. She says "At least you are not timid like Paul." Maybe she's covering for JC because she kinda likes his style. Like an opposites attract kinda deal? We know there's dialog about how JC and Anna would "make a cute couple" (sarcastically of course). Okay maybe that's too fanfictiony, right? How about this: what if Anna is actually trying to set JC up for failure? Like...your JC already made a bad impression on Anna, given that he didn't rescue Hermann and talked shit to her about mechs in front of the other soldiers. So when your JC basically aces Castle Clinton without killing anyone and talks shit, Anna's like "Fuck this guy." She reports a bloodbath to Manderly and recommends JC for a higher-risk assignment: an assassination. She EXPECTS JC to fuck it up because he's a non-lethal boi like his brother. So the writing, the words are the EXACT same, but it actually kind of fits your actions in this playthrough, even though you took the non-lethal path in that mission. Though yeah, it's probably just a bug. LOL

This looks great. I love hearing different takes on this game.

I've been sick all week and discovered your channel in the middle of it. Your insightful commentary helped me through many hard hours and now this? Gorgeous stuff!

I don't think Helios was "ruined" by merging with Denton, after all, the ai has the capacity to assess and judge who is the most suitable candidate to bring the human perspective Helios desires. One of the arguments I've seen online is that Helios betrayed and discarded Page and it can do the same to Denton, which is absurd. Helios's programming was made with the purpose of assimilating with the most suitable candidate, Page being very narcissistic saw himself fit for this as no one has ever questioned him, no one had marked his flaws, he always gets what he wants, when he wants; he sees himself as the superior being which is why he was certain that the assimilation would happen. Helios doesn't play by Page's rules, only the ones that it's programming dictate, which is to find and assimilate the most suitable individual to acquire the human perspective in order to better guide humanity. Page's plan was doomed from the start.

It's kind of funny that JC is paid so little in his elite job. The credits in game are basically synonymous with dollars, so the fact that JC is basically paid 1000 dollars is hilarious and fits rather well with the dystopia world he is inhabiting. Paul living in a run down hotel complements my reading; in 2052 nobody owns nothing and everyone is paid jackshit. I suppose that the agency can't afford to give their most effective agents a good salary because the maintenance cost is so high for augmented workers.

Don’t mind me, just boosting your algorithm as recompense for a 10/10 video on one of my favorite games of all time

I've been scrolling through the internet all day and was about to give up finding something to watch when this popped up. The fun thing is that I'm actually fed up with Deus Ex at the moment, or so I thought, because now I am really looking forward to the next 2.5 hrs.! Your content and perspektive is more than good enough to fill that amount of time, without padding, so don't apologize for the video length. Edit: Well worth the wait, and as I suspected, the lenght adds to your format in my opinion. Besides playing through the game several times, I must have seen close to every video made on this topic. This is the first video that gave me close to the same feelings I had while playing it, and is in a totally different league than almost every video I've seen about this game. It is so nice to see somebody capitalize on their love and knowledge of the game, rather than the games cult status. The only video I can compare yours to is the one by Ross' Game Dungeon, but your video surpasses his in many ways. You have somehow captured nuch of how it felt to play this game when it came out. I am thoroughly impressed! Keep up the good work!

My man literally cut out one of the best scenes in the game. "OH MY GOD JC A BOMB" Otherwise great video. It honestly didn't feel like I was watching this for 2 hours.

I can't describe how grateful I am for this video. I have an urge to play Deus Ex every 6 months or so and your video provides nor only the experience I was seeking but also really great sense of humor. This two and a half hours were just splendid

No lie I whooped and hollered when I saw a new video from you that was two hours. Favorite youtuber of 2021.

Your political literacy makes for very, very entertaining content. Wish more gamer content creators were as clever with their political jokes.

ok I have watched so many deus ex retrospectives, analasyis, reviews etc (probably 5-10?) and this is by far the best. I love your clips, your audio levels are perfection. Your commentary is great and your story summary and "red thread" throughout the whole review and making me understand how the game goes through storywise is truely some of the best I've watched. Hands down man, thank you for this. Earned a sub. You remind me of when I found Neverknowsbest at 20k subs.

I just noticed that the email at 21:11 is signed Harleen Quinzell. "A frown is just a smile turned upside down...". I love easter eggs like this in old video games. Ah, a different era.

I never got frustrations with the existence of weapon skills in RPGs that affect your actions. With incredible clunkyness of it - sure, systems could be done better, but not with the existence itself. It's an RPG, not a reflex-based action game, what else one can expect? That one's character would be professional at every thing in the world without even trying? Meanwhile everyone is fine with random non-telegraphed recoil in most action games with guns. Personally can't stand most shooting games besides borderlands and destiny because of that. Having bullets flying under 45° angle away from the barrel is way less natural than anything from games with weapon-based combat.

2.5 hours? Man, you become longer and longer... And i'm ok with that, frankly i'm very happy about that. Cheers, LongMan!

I was 15 when it came out, and the nostalgia is always through the roof playing it or watching videos.

I could listen to your commentary all day. This video really helped me pass the time at work tonight.

Personally, there's no reason to apologise for the video length, as the video itself was perfect. I like long format content and I really enjoyed sitting through this one. Nothing wrong with the length of it, and I'm sure others wouldn't mind if you made more long videos like it. I certainly wouldn't mind. Regardless of length they're definitely a highlight of the day. Thank you for the great content.

Did I just discover a new longform channel to binge? Yes. Yes I did.

The GEP Gun is best used for silent takedowns.

You're such a phenomenal storyteller. I don't have time to play everything, so getting to enjoy some of these games through your lens is the perfect way to do it.

Saving all your zyme from the start of the game can be a really good investment for credits when you arrive to paris and meet the drug dealer

Gawd...this is a throw back, i remember my brother and i used to make bases using the console commands and spawn all sorts of items and structures in the game. When i first learned of greys and the genetically modified chicken thing irl then i see them in game made me go nuts lol, the greys in this game are just radioactive apes though.

Just came across this in my recommended feed. I'll be binging and liking all your videos for the next week or two. Thanks for all the hard work and good humor.

When you've played a game through about 5 times, will play it through at least another 5, and you watch 2+ hour videos on it, several times over. What a game, great review, too!

Don't apologize. I know I'm gonna love every second of this video. EDIT: This was absolutely phenomenal from start to finish. Deus Ex has been my favorite game of the last 20 years and watching this felt like my first trip through the game. Most underrated KZfaq channel and it's not even close.

Wow, just wow. 2.5 hours of Warlockracy talking about my GOAT game? This is going to be right up there with when I got to spend 30 minutes talking to Warren himself about Deus Ex!

26:45: Jock: "Listen to your brother, JC. Respect his experience." JC: Shut up, old man, you're not my Dad! *squints* "Oh my god."

"And Warlockracy, Stay out of the ladies restroom."

This game is taking my mind off my heavy depression 😌 So it makes me happy to see this video, I take pleasure in simple things Thank you , who ever you are

Man i hope you play invisible war and cover it here

Hello again, it's been 8 months and I've still been binging and liking all of your videos.

I would love this level of analysis on The Nameless Mod. A total conversion mod for Deus Ex that took 7 years and is part goofiest thing ever/part best mod for anything ever made.