Theoclymenus: You were wrong to give up so early on Deus Ex. On the other hand, what were you doing playing the game in the first place if you didn't like the idea of it ? Or perhaps you gathered the wrong idea of it from reviews ? I'm quite an impatient person by nature but if I hear (or read) from multiple sources that a game (or anything for that matter) is pretty special I will FORCE myself to persevere, even if I'm not seeing immediately what others are loving about it. When a game gets almost universal praise you have to take note, and even if it's not your kind of thing usually I've found that it is always worth seeing what all the fuss is about, even if it takes you many hours or even days. If you flat out hate a game even after persevering with it for, let's say, a couple of days' worth of GENUINE attempts to get into it, by all means abandon it.
A friend gave me their copy years ago. I'd heard it was popular, but not much more. I started it up, and some man in black and shades offered me some morally iffy mission which made it seem that I wouldn't be working for him for long. I don't remember there being any motivation. Off I went, and ran around the periphery of what amounted to a very large and featureless jagged black square block. On the far side, I entered some hole and fetched something off a pedestal directly. Done. So yes, I admit to being unimpressed. I'm pretty keen on cyberpunk: Stephenson, Gibson, and especially Stirling. Still, the game's apparently lame start left me uninterested.
Thanks for the encouragement, though. I'll give it another whirl.
