rant_How Deus Ex fits into your preferred world of art
Posted: 01 Jul 2010, 18:28
Deus Ex was probably the first game that truly blew me away, captivating in its every aspect. After a decade it has become somewhat harder to see what was so luring in a game with primitive geometry, pathing, textures, but one thing that stays clear in mind is how it felt the first time.
I found myself wondering if and what effect the game mightve had on my music/movie/art taste. I recall having no computer with dx for a period of roughly a year. First thing Id do once I had it fixed was launching dx and just listening the title music. Since I began to prefer industrial music over other genres roughly at the same time it all somehow fell together. Years Id listen no rock, pop, metal. Years later Id find myself spending countless hours watching more or less pure cyberpunk movies, with a Giger wallpaper on the background. Tetsuo would be the one movie to test me, a lot of friends would watch it because its different, I watched it because I believed to understand the meaning of uniting flesh with the metal. Hell, at some point I even seriously considered going with the dressing/hairstyle of the electro-goths/industrial underground. Because it was cool? It probably played a role, but a much bigger importance was on the fact that it lived in me. And now you have to wonder if a sci-fi maniac found a game, or maybe, just maybe a sci-fi/cy-p game helped a nub find his destined path.
I found myself wondering if and what effect the game mightve had on my music/movie/art taste. I recall having no computer with dx for a period of roughly a year. First thing Id do once I had it fixed was launching dx and just listening the title music. Since I began to prefer industrial music over other genres roughly at the same time it all somehow fell together. Years Id listen no rock, pop, metal. Years later Id find myself spending countless hours watching more or less pure cyberpunk movies, with a Giger wallpaper on the background. Tetsuo would be the one movie to test me, a lot of friends would watch it because its different, I watched it because I believed to understand the meaning of uniting flesh with the metal. Hell, at some point I even seriously considered going with the dressing/hairstyle of the electro-goths/industrial underground. Because it was cool? It probably played a role, but a much bigger importance was on the fact that it lived in me. And now you have to wonder if a sci-fi maniac found a game, or maybe, just maybe a sci-fi/cy-p game helped a nub find his destined path.
