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Reread it a while back because I wanted to use some parts of it in a philosophy paper. Wonderful book that keeps on giving. I would also recommend a very small bundle of short essays by Orwell called 'Books V. Cigarettes' (actually the title of one the essays), otherwise known as No. 376 of...

Mass Effect. The idea was to quickly get through it once again to have a save game for ME2 (I lost my previous save game) but the game is an absolute horror to play through (for the second time). Really, apart from the very well fleshed out world and universe etc. the game is mediocre to the...

Now now then, no need to degrade toilet graffiti that much. The stuff on the walls and doors of the toilets in my university library is occasionally pretty good. There are even a few poems inscribed, and if my memory does not forsake me, I think I've seen a bit of Goethe scribbled as well...

I've got that Deus Ex track, but for me the file name is 35_Quotes_Music.mp3. I don't remember it, but going from the filename, I'd guess that track plays at the credits, or at an extra-thingy.

An old and torn volume of 'The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes', by, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I hope complete means complete and not 'a somewhat complete assortment of stories'. So far, I've been enjoying myself. They are rather basic books, though the writing is good enough, but I...

Euh...I don't have a 'last book' I bought, I've got a last shipment. Frederick C. Lane, Profits from Power: Readings in Protection Rent and Violence-Controlling Enterprises. Aaron J. Gurjewitsch, Mittelalterliche Volkskultur Peter Biller, The Measure of Multitude: Population in Medieval...

Just chiming in on the Alpha Protocol thing. I love how they finally made a game that departs from the narrow view of good and evil. Heck, a year ago I've written a lengthy piece on a developers forum about why dualistic morality is a concept that comes with very strong limitations and why it...

I've been reading up on DX:HR for a while now, and I'm getting more and more hopeful about how this game will turn out. If anyone wants some additional reading, video's and interviews, here are some recommendations: GDC 10: New Deus Ex: Human Revolution Details Deus Ex: Human Revolution...

Hot damn, I need to replay the game as an asshole. I've only done two games of trying to get things right and finding out as much as I could, but THIS, this just seems like a hell of a lot more fun. Time to piss of the world as a veteran bastard.

I don't know whether its particularly 'weird' or stupid, but the first two Thief games scared the hell out of me back in the day. First were the undead, then that incredibly well done but freakish Trickster level. And I quit Thief II a few times because the mechanical contraptions were...

Anyone who wants to read up on the game, here's the official DX:HR Faq on their forums: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=86841 Beware, it's full of positive vibes and reminders that 'we want to make a Deus Ex game! really! even though we change EVERYTHING, it'll be Deus Ex...

I've finished my second game, and read some other endings by other people. By God, EVERYTHING can completely change depending on what you do. On Madison, Alan Parker, and Marburg: [spoiler:c3150163b1]Second time through, I rescued Madison after finding out that she's Parker's daughter...

Yep, they could've easily made the controls better. At least give the option to quickly access everything you need to play the game without additional menu's. A keyboard has this wonderful accessible way to access a lot, through numerical keys and the F1 to F12 keys. Otherwise, at least give a...

Oh joy. Looks like they've really gone down the action road. Some snippet of info rebounding through the interwebs: Edit: That's july last year, of course, so hopefully stuff has changed. Hahaha, no of course it hasn't, it can only get worse. Good luck playing Deus Ex: Modern Warfare.

Don't know who they intended the game to be made for, but I'm a PC all the way guy. And judging from the stats over on metacritic, the PC crowd is the one most positive about the game (PC: 74, PS3: 67, XBOX: 65). The same goes for user scores at that site (PC: 76, PS3: 62, XBOX: 64). The...

I've read up a bit on the DX:HR forums. Seems like they've got a third person cover system and standard regenerating health. Basically, it'll turn out to be the like every other game that's been made in the last few years. It's weird really how games can go down in complexity. I'll miss the...

Nope, can't do both. I've read that in veteran there are certain choices though where, instead of actually choosing, you can do both because of your sudden awesomeness. Well, basically because the game allows you to be more awesome really, but it's a nice touch.

Hmm...I'm still skeptical because of how they screwed up with Invisible War. I don't know whether I like this new Adam character as much as I like the Denton's. I'm sure he's a huge step forward from the failure that Alex D was in Invisible War. He, and actually all the characters in that game...

[spoiler:6ae8a379c0]I love how you can just go and kill off characters. There are two situations where an execute is alluded to as potentially live-saving as well, though they turn out to be false (the gelato guy encounter, and another one I don't remember...). When I'm going to play veteran...

Well, the game could've done a bit of a better job interface-wise. For example, I would've preferred if the crosshair, or cross-blob, whatever it is, would clearly get smaller when aiming, and whenever you get an improvement in skill. Instead, in the end it's still the same wide ring of 'you...