Deus Ex devs say they weren't trying to make a statement when they made one of the most political games of all time: 'What I think is the right future for humanity is irrelevant. It's all about what each player thinks'
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A cabal of billionaires unleashing an artificial plague to further immiserate and exploit the underclass, but not in a political way.

You kids don’t remember, but back then there was no politics in vidja gams.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    They also unintentionally predicted 9/11.

    The Liberty Island skybox is notably missing the towers… they just took the skybox texture, halved it and mirrored it, to save space.

    I think there’s a single text blurb in a terminal somewhere in the game that mentions the towers were destroyed by terrorists in the early 21st century… but even that is not really that much of s broad stretch, the towers had been carbombed in 93, and the whole game of course very heavily focuses on terrorism and anti terrorism as a real world and game world framing device.