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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"
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Not buying it. I played way more Deus Ex than most people (though, maybe not as much as someone with a DX avatar?) and I played more Fallout 3 than most people, too. Other than the things that define an action RPG, like dialogue choices and skill points, I'm not seeing it.
Want more Deus Ex? Cyberpunk is the way to go, not Fallout. Want Deus Ex but with magic and space and sex with aliens? Mass Effect. Actually if you just want choices to matter, you've got Life is Strange on one end of the spectrum with adventure gaming and teenage drama, and then on the other you have Mass Effect where choices you made in the first one come back to haunt (or help) you in the second and third one. For example, the third one features a robot invasion of Earth. Robots the size of ships. (ICYMI, those "ships" attacking Earth in ME3 weren't ships, they were individual robots.) So your job is to go to all the aliens and beg for their help. They all want you to do things for them before they will help. The more you do, the more they help (and Earth just has unlimited time, there's no rush, you can even take a break for a few days in a cozy penthouse suite in the intergalactic space station). And you have this score you have to get over a certain amount to even have a chance. After that, the higher, the better. And there's this one race of aliens (insects, sort of) that are only available to help you if you made some specific dialogue choices in the first one. There are also two races at odds with one another, and in ME3 you have to choose between them. If you did a very specific sequence of choices throughout the series, you can get them to join forces. Doing that over one game would be a tall order, but doing it over three? (And now there's a fourth one, but none of the choices from the first three affect it. They basically decided to start over.)