CaptainSpandex wrote...
They've argued with - and even at times antagonized - their fanbase for suggesting that if Mass Effect were more of an RPG, if it had a little more depth, it would be an even better game.
Deus Ex is certainly less of an RPG.
On the gunplay angle, you're a master of all weapons.
On the leveling system, you have "XP" but really what you have is a mission-based XP system that allows you to almost fully upgrade all your abilities over the course of the game.
What Deus Ex does better than ME is
implement the same RPG elements, but it by no means has mroe of them.
But here is Deus Ex: Human Revolution. A very deep, very nuanced hybrid RPG that is essentially a product of the same late-90s/early-00s PC gaming philosophy
Lol! It's a game that has less RPG features that the original, with less character customization (you could at least choose from 4 skins of JC, including giving him his "real" name), and had more complex elements (lockpicking
and multitools).