Mobile Gaming

First Impressions Of Deus Ex: The Fall

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A few years ago I decided to pickup Deus Ex: The Fall during one of the many Steam Sales. It is one of the most negatively reviewed games on Steam, but for a few bucks I figured someday it would pique my curiosity. It received a lot of flak for being a port of a mobile game. As a result the graphics aren’t exactly polished, and the game itself leaves off with a “To Be Continued” message upon completion, as repeated in the many reviews I’ve read. So, how bad is it?

Deus Ex: The Fall takes place in the same universe and timeline as Deus Ex: Human Revolution. You play the role of Ben Saxon; a mercenary in hiding after some shit goes sideways. After going through a basic tutorial in the form of a flashback your friend and partner Anna Kelso in a safe house. Both of you are augmented, and there is currently a Neuropozyne shortage; something augmented beings need to prevent cybernetics and other body augmentations from being rejected. Saxon has to set out to find a supplier, or even an alternative that isn’t quite legal yet.

The graphics aren’t really anything to write home about. Granted, this is a port of a mobile game that was ported to PC minus the microtransactions. There is no jumping, which is weird for an FPS, and the NPC’s are slightly more diverse than the original Half Life. As I walked through Panama city I found multiple NPC’s that were identical all the way down to the shirts they were wearing. Other than that it handles quite similarly to Deus Ex: HR. It offers the same options for combat, multiple dialog choices and reading material like in the previous games… making me wonder why I didn’t choose to play those instead?

As I read in the reviews, this game only has about four hours of gameplay total. So this will be another one that I’ll be taking very slowly, just to savor the few dollars I pissed away to be able to play and tell a short story about. 😛 I’ve already left a note for my future self so that I’m hopefully not too lost.

For The Cost Of Three Gaming Laptops You COULD Buy A Used iPhone with Fortnite

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In the wake of Fortnite being taken off of Apple’s storefront (and Creepy Uncle Google’s) there seems to be opportunists that want to fix that problem… by selling used iPhones that still happen to have the app installed for thousands of dollars more than what said phone itself is actually worth?

It’s bad enough if you buy a top-of-the-line used iPhone 11 Pro for more than what a Apple charges for a brand-new iPhone; it’s worse when you’re spending that kind of stupid money—again, thousands of dollars—on something like a used iPhone XR or iPhone 8 Plus. There’s a sucker born every minute, and in a perfect world eBay would have some kind of “common sense” test they would have to first pass in order to use the service.

I really shouldn’t be surprised about people wanting to buy used phones just so they can have the Fortnite app (after all toilet paper is still a currency in some places)… from the perspective of people that have more money than sense, and the technologically impaired that don’t understand how apps work, as the article goes on to make valid points that people should not be this stupid to ignore, but will anyway because of how fucked up we are as a people:

Even in a best-case scenario, you won’t be able to play the latest version of the game with any seasonal updates Epic Games throws into the mix. I have no idea how long you’ll be able to keep on playing an older version of Fortnite, but odds are good that even this window will eventually close.

Most Apps and programs require frequent updates (content, hats, security patches, etc) and if Fortnite’s servers are all run by Epic, then a version update will make that several thousand dollar black market iPhone as nothing more than a lesson that a fool and their money are soon parted. I mean just think… for one of those Black market iPhones you could have a few of these delicious rainbow gaming machines occupying your humble abode:

Or buy one, add drives to all four drive bays, and still have money left over to buy an entire warehouse of poptarts.