When I first played the game I thought the sniper that you first kill in the tower shot at some sensitive part of the helicopter, I did not believe Tong lol.
Icarus’s line about being behind, ahead of, and beside Denton reminds me of an old Irish prayer that starts off like “Christ before me, Christ behind me, etc.” They really captured Icarus’s intent to assimilate everything and become a sort of digital god.
KALE JOSH WILSON (thank you josh that was crazy with the crown vic and billy and all them. I have to be kinda strong to say it like this, but I liked your stoof, Josh.)
Hey! I know this is an older video, but I was wondering if you'd be okay with me using your footage in a video essay I'm making. I can give you credit in the video!
0:02: Oh, hey, it's Maggie Chow from Hong Kong. 0:34: Here's the "Free" Clinic from New York City. 0:50: Paris, complete with a showcase on the janky combat between -Majestic 12- "UNATCO" and Silhouette. Also, "the others" are the Illuminati, most notably Morgan Everett. 1:04: Liberty Island, featuring Joseph Manderley, a Man in Black, President Philip Riley Mead, First Lady Rachel Mead, Agents Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre, Jaime Reyes, Sam Carter, two civvie looking NPCs, and two UNATCO troopers on guard. 1:15: The MJ12 base under UNATCO HQ on Liberty Island. Meanwhile, the talk about Gary Savage, X-51, and Vandenberg Air Force Base is obvious enough, but dialogue at 1:22 hints that, apparently, the scientists had an effective Artificial Intelligence on their sleeve; the Deus Ex Bible hints that this may be the cut Moon A.I. Ada, who may have been sold to the highest bidder to and for McMoran Global Steel, a notably strong competitor against Page Industries and co-participant for the Zhou Enlai Lunar Base in certain texts in the game. 1:35: The primary unit is Paul Denton, while the secondary is JC Denton. 1:58: This, with hindsight from the DX Bible, shouldn't actually be JC Denton. Rather, the protoform in the tank may actually be Alex Denton in the Area 51 endgame and, as some of us know with less fanfare, the sequel Invisible War. 2:13: On a sidenote, the Liberty Island mission introduction text should have had "Six Months Later" stamped on it, so to show that it, and by extension the tutorial mission, occur way after the iconic cryptic conversation, not immediately. Sure, this may be spoilery, but seriously, even I was actually confused at some details at first glance. Sorry, The Conspiracy for the PS2, but you goofed by doing otherwise.
Love the Developer's Foresight, but really, am still not a fan of gangsta aesthetics in games like this and even GTA. 1:22: Heh, why a weak-a*s Derringer?
Face it, we never did this ganger stuff for the LAMs, since we already have a lot of those already. No, we're more likely to have served UNATCO justice against them, be it non-lethally according to the tenets or lethally according to your superiors. 0:37: ...Huh. 1:11: The other option makes JC remark that the punk should go back to school.
And to honor UNATCO's tenets, one may wanna play this entire game on a pacifist run, unless when necessary (you can allow certain NPCs like Gilbert Renton to kill certain other NPCs like JoJo Fine, bots can be destroyed, bosses are free game, dreaded creatures like Greasels and Karkians can't exactly be knocked out, and so on), up to the very end, regardless of what you choose on Area 51. Shame such a run doesn't lead to Dishonored-level dialogue where the enemy feels unnerved being foiled by some guy who's that strict and optimistic for such "deceitful and obsolete" tenets. Oh, well, if every porkchop were perfect...
*I guess we'll never know.* (Anyhow, this is actually a smart way to acquire the average now, overpowered later when modded Assault Rifle quite early, and besides, you could just knock the trooper out instead if you feel nice or pacifistic.)
The first time I got the "what are you looking for?" message, I laugh my ass off, just imagining the ai seeing me from the distance strolling around the mansion looking for a key
The idea of a kill phrase is funny as hell. Imagine if Anna passed someone talking about the novella Flatlander Woman is a reference to, and just randomly blew up one day.
i love the way icarus was handled in the game, there's no huge cinematic cutscene, it's just thrown in there like "oh yeah, and there's this evil super intelligent AI trying to kill you" with no fanfare whatsoever
