Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
Yeah no. Deus Ex is one of the best and most important games ever made, hands down. By almost any criteria you can come up with except graphics, it's top 5 material. (Glad you agree on Civ though xD)
I won't deny that Deus Ex is awesome and was certainly a very important and forward thinking game, but it hasn't aged that well in a lot of ways.

Particularly gameplay balance and difficulty level. You practically have to know the game inside and out to not struggle through a first playthrough. It's also not very polished and actually moving around as JC is pretty clunky (like a lot of first person games from that period). That doesn't necessarily make it any less awesome or important, but it lacks a certain level of polish that would take it from being a great experience to an unbeatable experience.

I'll blame it largely on my not getting the game until about two years ago, but it certainly doesn't change that some aspects are either lacking or down right annoying. It was still great as one of the first games to really combine so many different ideas and game play styles and make them work over all though.