I can't believe there wasn't an achievement for killing that guy with a vending machine. A mean, the whole "Pointlessly tragic" line is just telling the player to do it.
Fun Fact: Ennio Morricone originally intended that this music was used for this specific video, but he had to sell the rights to the song to the creators of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Picture this: A man with several military grade augmentations, who you know to be so deadly he's killed most of the security in your base with a vending machine, running towards you with said vending machine in his grasp.
Huh, the guard comments that a single hit from a vending machine failed to kill him that one time, and when you try it out, it really doesn't. Two hits, though...
If I'm being honest: it was in this video like eight to nine years ago that I'd first heard Morricone's amazing music. I'm lucky enough to have enjoyed several movies with his scores now, but this is always going to be special to me 'cause it was my first. Thanks for that!
But seriously, vending machines and big boxes are unironically great weapons: Work as a shield, can hit several enemies at once, and while it rarely kills in one hit, it stuns pretty good and allows picking back up for the next round
It's... beautiful. The whole time I was watching this I was thinking how with the right augs and enough candy bars you could bring your own cover, and what a weird idea that was How pointlessly tragic.
So I've been rewatching this and decided to take a look at the comments... And realized just how goddamn depressing it is that so many people don't seem to realize where this track is from. I'm so down, I think I'm going to rewatch this again.
I wish, newspapers/news reports would include whether/how the guards at locations were taken down. "This afternoon, Tai Yong Medical corporate headquarters was broken into. All the security personnel seems to have been bludgeoned to death with a vending machine. This is Eliza Cassan, reporting to you live from Picus."
The song is actually the soundtrack to an italian movie, the song is called L'estasi dell'ora" That means the ecstasy of the gold, i just found that very approppriate...
@granollers09 The song, believe it or not, is actually in the title for this clip. The song is called "The Ecstasy of Gold", and Au being the periodic symbol for gold, it's a very clever pun. (Well I thought so anyway)
geneus I love the end I had to sneak through the vent and run to to lift to avoid all those guys. I didn't upgrade any of my stealth upgrades so I thought I had no need for the candy bars now I see things differently lol.
Haha, I did the same thing -- had an "oh really?" moment with the death by vending machine banter. But The Ectasy of Gold makes it 1000x better. Hell, the The Ectasy of Gold makes anything 1000x better.
I saw some kind of graphic comparing various ways to die vs getting killed by a shark. I think 13 people died a year to vending machines - looks like the number will skyrocket in the future.
Eidos needs to start allowing community gameplay mods to the campaign, which would change how the game is played and let others know if you beat the game with that mod. One of which would be called The Ecstasy of Au(gmentation), in which you start the game with enhanced strength, you can't use weapons, and a vending machine spawns at the beginning of every location.
Song is Metallica theme. It's called The ecstasy of gold. Also did you know that it was theme of western movie "The good, The bad and the ugly"? Damn, that was educating.
Getting killed by a vending machine...to this music...even if it weren't Deus Ex I would say, "What a shame." Seriously, with this music I expected Jensen to run into one of the other mercs holding a lemon-lime machine and the two have a stand-off for ten minutes.
