Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Re: I'm still confused by the battery thing (spoilers)

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="fabio"]That's what always drove me crazy about the Deus Ex games. They have one or two areas in the entire game with an overwhelming number of enemies then mark them off as "You're not seriously expected to fight this." The Paul ambush and MJ12 base in the original game. The crash site in HR. Bitch, those moments should be <b>standard</b> in the last third of the game. Let me tear into that shit and give me full recharging batteries to do it with. Nothing is worse than when an action game turns into a long term resource management sim. Instead of making me wonder if the game is going to give me enough resources to make my way piecemeal through cannon fodder gradually wearing me down, set up huge difficult obstacles that are a challenge to my naturally regenerating resources.[/quote] Agreed. I guess the part that got to me involving the crash was that the game was very kind about leaving loads of ammo for me to kill bosses with in the room in which they trapped me with bosses... but they didn't give me a sniper rifle right before the crash site. (OK, it's Deus Ex: they probably did. I sure couldn't find it.) I *wanted* to save Malik. I wanted to shoot as many of those assholes in the chin as possible. Now, I am all for my bad decisions later meaning that lives are lost. HR has it almost all the way there. But man was it cheesy to know that a decision I made to drop the sniper an hour before hand was gonna have such consequences. (And I am only complaining so much about HR because it was the only 2011 game I've played all the way through.) I guess the other thing that gets me is that they give you all these upgrades, but none let you keep a second or third battery cell charged. That seems like a missed opportunity. And yeah, I would have loved to have been able to tear into the zombies at the end because I was an overpowered cyberpunk cyberlord, instead of having to run backwards with the shotgun, Doom-style. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey![/quote]