When our opponents say: “Yes, we used to grant you freedom of opinion”, yes. You did, that is no reason why we should do the same to you! Your stupidity need not be contagious to us! [Laughter.] That you have given this to us - that is proof of how stupid you are! [Laughter.]

• Joseph Goebbels

That’s pretty insane. He legit looks like he’s fresh out of high school in this photo.

Oof

I’d rather be chewing on bark like a rodent.

Joke’s on you, all the users with female avatars are just men desperately trying to talk to women on Bluesky.

Fair enough, but the dpad on the 360 one was an improvement compared to the one from the Duke.

I was mostly ranking them in regards to general ergonomics. The Xbox One controller just feels more “slippery”, the 360 had a better feel to it, probably because the handles were more rounded.

Yeah, that’s the one. The Original Xbox Duke and the X360 controller are the GOATs imo. The Xbox One controller is also fairly decent but it took a while to get used to it.

It’d be cool if controllers could just be adjustable size

True, especially in width. I remember being extremely disappointed when I bought a PS3 and could barely play it because the joysticks so close together that my thumbs were constantly touching. I think the total amount of hours played on this system was somewhere in the double digits. Biggest waste of money of my gaming career.

It looks like the inbred cousin of the Xbox “Duke” that ended up being surprisingly ergonomical. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely hope it’s something close to that. Most controllers are too small for me.

Europe used to be Russia’s largest trading partner before the sanctions. The US won’t be able to bail them out.

Isn’t "Open"AI already a for-profit company in everything except their name?

Huh, I wonder how well a fly could handle a zero G environment.

That bit actually really surprised me, I didn’t expect them to be so blunt about it. They say the Russian army is unbeatable but for some reason they still need Trump in the White House to have a chance at winning lol.

How has nobody mentioned Condemned yet? That game is unnerving from the very first minute you start playing.

Yeah, he mentioned that. Makes a lot of sense to me.

This is genuinely the worst trailer I’ve seen since Cats. It’s going to be utterly terrible but kids are probably going to love it.

Can’t be, driving it voids the warranty

They do it all the time at my place. Ripped some huge holes in it within the first week after I installed it :/

Check out Core Decay. It’s still in development but from what I’ve seen it follows the Deus Ex formula down to a T. Probably the game I’m most excited about at the moment.

I just replayed the entire series over the last couple of months. The first one is the highlight of the series and laid the groundwork not only for the sequels, but pretty much founded the genre of immersive sims all by itself. This type of game is the rare lightning in a bottle that many have failed to capture since and it really hasn’t aged much since it came out over 20 years ago. Sure, the voice lines are cheesy, the AI is outdated and there are some pretty wacky characters in this otherwise serious game, but it all fits together extremely well and has a certain charm to it.

I don’t think there are any “bad” Deus Ex games, but the sequel Invisible War is definitely the weakest installment. It leans too much into the whole B-Movie theme and, with the exception of the last chapter, suffers from lackluster writing and forgettable characters. The gameplay itself is still fun but overall severely limited due to the hardware constraints of the Original Xbox.

Human Revolution did well to separate itself from the first title while staying true to the core gameplay and I do love the aesthetics that they went for. The story is very solid and I’d say there are more ways to approach a mission than the first game had. Adam Jensen is also a well-written character and a worthy replacement for JC Denton. The only thing I didn’t really like was the new melee system.

Finally, Mankind Divided turned out to be the most “Deus Ex” we’ve gotten since the first game came out. It’s a brilliant game through and through and I can’t really think of even minor criticism. It’s basically what the first game was, just all grown up. Even the DLCs are among the best missions in the whole series.

It’s so sad to see the great path this series was on before it was ultimately cancelled again. I felt like they had finally perfected the formula. And now we’re most likely stuck with the open ending of Mankind Divided for the foreseeable future.