Here are some tiny details I never forget about Deus Ex, and I normally have a bad memory...
- The code for Alex's storage locker is "2001". I remember this as 2001 is one of the years I played Deus Ex in.
- jcd/bionicman. 'nuff said.
- nsf001/smashthestate, code for the NSF terminals on the first map.
Add your own...
I love the things the MIBs say.
"Cold. Cold and dark. It goes on forever."
"Some of these people are androids... watch the way they move!"
"Visual contact has been lost. Don't worry, we'll find him."
Other priceless quotes:
"I spill my drink!"
"A tourist with a deathwish! Better just throw yourself in the canal."
"Scanning. Area."
"A BOMB?!"
The bums talking about The Man Who Was Thursday sculpture.
"Hooray, my kitties! Now they can go out and play and not get eaten!"
"See how easily our technologies turn on us? The more power you think you have, the more quickly it slips from your hands."
The entire discussion with Morpheus.
Spoiler
- 0451
- smashthestate
- 'I was in your class at the academy. You probably don't remember!'
- 'Could we ask a big, big favor?' 'Sure'
- 'Please give me a weapon a move out of the way!'
'You can have my pistol'
'That will be adequate'
- 'Iron and copper. The statues copper on an iron frame, right?'
- '910. I'm catching up, Gunther'
- Chasing Decker, Erin and Young.
- Setting up Anna's death by letting her follow me into a corridor filled with blinking batches of death aka LAM's!
You don't spin a menorah.
- "Bravery is not a function of firepower."
- "God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."
- "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?"
- "Sticks and stones."
- "I forgot to give Manderley my resignation."
Goddamn this game is one the greatest ever. Reading these takes me back to some good times...
The amount of all those great little details is astounding. Loads of great lines & dialogue. And the music is just perfect.
Like in the first Paris scene, where you meet Aimee, the crazy woman who's lost three of her cats to the greasels. I remember her lonely ramblings for some reason made an impression on me then.
"I didn't know...How could I know?"
And then later on, after you've carefully crept past the guards, soothed by the music, you find a book on a table in the house opposite the catacombs, with the poem in it; "Petals of Twilight" -
"...And it is told that he made his way
through their streets
at night, crawling through their many
windows and crouching in
their gardens, moving
through the sewers beneath their
cobbled roads and
slipping over their railings.
Watched by their cats and the roosting
pidgeons of their city,
yet wary of their slumbering dogs, he
went. They would not see
him, nor wake as he drew near,
but would only shudder, softly calling
out the names of their
gods in sleep.
Restless, they tossed as he passed
under the window like an
errant lover fleeing dawn.
And by morning light he was gone, away
from that place, and
moved on to another world."
The entire intro sequence and Illuminati ending are stuck in my head, but more specifically Page saying "We've had to endure much you and I". I find myself repeating that to colleagues after an especially hard day.
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?! -This is probably the one moment in any game I've ever played that I'll never forget, no matter how hard Alzheimer hits me. It's also a running gag among friends whenever we sneak on each other.
"You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage." (OK, I generally remember the line only up to the word "dissected"), the message you get from Icarus in the Paris Mansion.
"Gene Rodenberry was a mason, Star Trek was created to prepare us for the New World Order."
I've played Deus Ex thirty times. Never does Icarus say that. Nice try though.
You don't spin a menorah.
MURDER ME!!!
Yes, he does. When you enter Nicolette's bedroom (one of the locked doors on the second floor) if I remember correctly. Not that long after he said "What are you looking for?".
You can hear it in this youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3cO1l_U7RQ
"Gene Rodenberry was a mason, Star Trek was created to prepare us for the New World Order."
Hey, has anyoen seen The Mothman Prophecies?
Did the phone conversation in that remind you of Icarus / Daedelus? Pretty much the same voice effects. I wanted him to call again an go, "I NOW HAVE FULL ACCESS TO YOUR SYSTEMS."
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share- Icarus - "I now have full access to your systems" - scared the living *beep* out of me haha
- Icarus - "What are you looking for..." - creeped me out as well, hell all of the Icarus messages sent a chill down my spine.
- "I SPILL my DRINK!"
- 0451
- NSF001/Smashthestate
- "A BOMB!?!"
- "Cold. Cold and dark. It goes on forever"
- "Sure"
- "SCANNING AREA", "TARGET LOST"
- "He's miles away by now"
- "He's gone, not our problem"
- "I really gotta get my sonics checked"
ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
-ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
--ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
---ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
----ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
-----ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
------ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
-------ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!!
-------RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
------RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
-----RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
----RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
---RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
--RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
-RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
^Freaked me out. I missed out on the phone call you guys were talking about though, I'll have to check it out on my next play through.
ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! ICARUS HAS FOUND YOU!!! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!
nsf001/smashthestate
jcd/bionicman
"SCANNING AREA" would always make me *beep* my pants, especially if I had thought I had secured the area
"A bomb's a bad choice for close combat." -- JC to junkie in Battery Park subway station.
"Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a good look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation. I don't have time to write a letter." -- JC to Walton Simons when escaping UNATCO.
Maggie Chow's cat being the only neutral animal tagged as an enemy by your character's IFF system.
The philosophical debates with Morpheus in Morgan Everett's hideout (one of the best conversations in the game!)
Pretty much all of Icarus/Helios's dialogue.
"Ipsa scientia potestas est"
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- the bum in the free clinic telling war stories
- the guy who was at the academy with you's login: klloyd/target
- FINALLY GOT TO CAP SOME REBELS, EH DENTON?
- you've got ten seconds to beat it before i add you to the list of nsf casualties.
- TAWK TA ONE A DA GUYS IN GREEN. UNATCO'S RUNNIN THE SHOW. - nyc riot cop
- paul revealing he's nsf, saying he told the troops guarding the plane to stand down, then after you shoot them anyway... "JESUS CHRIST JC I SAID I TOLD THEM TO STAND DOWN"
- the conversation between amos (the mercenary) and jackson (nsf guy) in the statue of liberty has some good lines:
MERCENARY THUG
I wonder. How's a guy with a tattooed forehead get to be an NSF colonel? Pardon
me, but back in Alabama we wouldn't let a man who wears earrings plan a military
operation.
NSF TERRORIST
I'd watch what I say about JoJo. He's got a temper.
MERCENARY THUG
He's a punk and he's gonna get us all killed.
NSF TERRORIST
The NSF is strong because it represents everyone's interests.
MERCENARY THUG
Yeah, yeah.
-the girl with filben at the beginning: *when you buy bullets from her* "put a slug in the commander's head for me. he's the reason my brother's dead." then, when you buy darts: "someone should stick the commander full of these things like a roast pig".
baby can you dig your man?
he's a righteous man.
Get out of here Denton! This is none of your business.
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