The writers of this game...how did they manage to write the sheer amount of dialogue and story in this game, make it interesting, then make it future proof and valid for today ? This is a masterclass of science fiction writing, this game is truely the Blade Runner of the gaming world.
@@g.h7657 The Illuminati in Deus Ex is useful as a metaphor for a world governed by a plutocracy. That is the world we live in, but we aren't ruled by "The Illuminati". There's not some secret society with rituals and shit, they aren't using subliminal mind control or any of the other silly junk people attribute to them. I do think these kinds of obscenely wealthy people know each other, and make their own networks of politicians, business owners and regulators. Knowing other super rich people helps you out a lot, but that doesn't mean there's a regimented structure, a society. Plutocrats think alike because they're raised in similar ways, and have to act in similar, self-interested ways to be successful at the extreme top. You want a society of rich assholes meeting each other? Drop the Illuminati because there's no evidence for that particular incarnation of a secret society. We already have a real example; Jeffrey Epstein. It's not fucking Pizza Parlors and underground societies, it's a rich white pedophile with a private island. These people meet on their yachts, their giant mansions, making deals and then going their separate ways. They're entirely self-interested, so why be a part of a society? They wouldn't, except for fun, so such a society would actually not be all that relevant to the problem. People aren't stupid, it's just that the portrayal of the Illuminati by people afraid of them tends towards, "The Vigilant Christian" behavior. Nobody takes that seriously because it's paranoid delusion. Separate the paranoia from the reality, because you honestly don't need to be paranoid to still be freaked the fuck out by how much power the plutocrats who run this world have. There's no need to exaggerate the already horrible realities of things, except for fun and art like in Deus Ex of course.
@@YukonHexsun you want to know what isn't a paranoid delusion? the fact that the behaviour you so correctly described is systemic in nature. what we are observing cannot be just a bunch of "corrupt individuals" exercising power in the shadows, it is the culmination of just about 200 years of global capitalist development and wealth accumulation. they don't just meet in yatchs, they also meet at the UN table (through representatives) or in any international or economic forum that involves all the big players of the world chessboard (a rather outdated metaphore). "democratic" states answer to wealth first, to power second, and lastly, to the needs of the regional elites that maintain the client states in order, in "freedom". i think deus ex, as good as it was, fails to demonstrate how this world is the logical evolution of an economic model that leads to wealth accumulation, to imperialism and to global state terrorism (although many would argue state terrorism and imperialism are the same).
@@dfghj241 I wouldn't agree that it fails to demonstrate that, it's kind of the main thrust of the game itself. The emails and books tend to shed more light on that kind of background stuff.
I love how throughout his journey JC loses practically every argument he gets into. It adds onto his characterization. By the end, he does not only change physically (with his skills and augmentations) but his opinions change as well. Each argument, it seems, slowly shows JC parts of the bigger picture and destroys his naive heroic beliefs.
1:27 _"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with __-data-mining algorithms-__ Facebook"_.
***** Most of this stuff was going on already in 1999. It's just way more wide-reaching and they have the computing power to process the data to a much finer degree.
At this point, the question is no longer if man would sacrifice everything for freedom than if freedom was really worth fighting for in the first place.
@@mrscruffles801 eh, at this point i think it's kind of overrated and i'd trade the right to make my own decisions for the reliability of having all the decisions made for me be good ones
Today when I entered facebook in the morning, they sent me a video about friendship day, showing me a list of my friends, and a lot of photos with them. Instantly, I remembered this video from Deus Ex. I'm not sure what I fear the most: an AI that knows what it wants, or an AI that knows what WE want.
more like a primitive Morpheus. Google is not yet at the point where we can have a full on conversation with it like this. But it's getting there. All our AI are getting there. Slowly but surely.
The part where you're in a café in Paris and this woman talks about how the EU slowly eroded the national indentities of it's member countries in order to establish a centralized government... it's exactly what's happening today. It gave me chills when I replayed this game after realizing what's going on with this world. There's even a mention of memetic warfare in an MJ12 datacube in the Cathedral. (Not memetic in the sense of how we know "memes" today, but the control of the propagation of ideas and thoughts through a certain mean, be it genetically or culturally)
Your squadmates Legion and Mordin Solus in Mass Effect 2 has incredibly philosophical dialogue as well (albeit not exactly related to subjects like mass surveillance and violation of privacy). It just goes to show that video games can handle deep subject matter just as well as (or perhaps even better than) film and books.
I like how subtly fourth wall-breaking this is; the smiles Morpheus is recording aren't just faceless people's, he's also recording our own as we play the game and make choices for JC.
man, this game is really prodigious in terms of attention to detail and good story-building and immersion, apart from the fact it speaks the truth about our own society
@@LasDesventurasdeVirus that actually sounds kinda amazingly twisted, there'd be privacy concerns but that's thematically relevant AF. I love this idea 😻
Just sounds like somebody trying to explain away God with psychology. I guess it sounds more profound than it really is when coming from a video game AI. Perhaps that, in itself, says something about humanity. I believe in Jesus Christ, and the Kingdom of Heaven, which will replace this current fallen world.
@@Matthew_85k It is somewhat funny to me that you, a believer in Jesus and Heaven, completely misses the point of Morpheus' words. "God was a dream of good government" is an acknowledgement that the entity that humans (without distinction of religion) would call "[a] God(s)", by virtue of being the creator of existence, and the ruling power over the universe; is able to make his Will law with complete control over everything; granting judgment base on the actions of those being judged. You have to look at this statement from the perspective of Morpheus. He believes that mankind, essentially, 'behaves' like 'civilize' people becase we know and/or believe that someone ([a] God(s)), is watching us, every hour of every day (POI reference); that someone won't hesitate to punish us (condemn) if our acts go against its will. Now, that is just 'belief' (in the traditional sense of the word) Morpheus has concluded that _He_ can become the new 'god' and do what old Gods did, except that can _actually_ have an effect. He could directly pass judgement on those dimmed unfitting for the betterment of mankind. This is just a condensed, bite-size version of a much, _much_ deeper and intelectual debate, but this is a TH-cam comment section, so cheers.
@@misterwhalrus7334 nah you're wrong in the case they don't make major history of religions discoveries until 2052 pointing to the contrary, but for now the evidence we have points to the oldest religions being polytheisms and the oldest mythologies we have tell stories of power struggles and often ameliorations in the gods hierarchies which mean they're not perfect from the start. I'm not sure I believe that, as I have my guts and some nice clues telling me polytheism priorly devolved from monotheism (current ones seem to all stem from polytheisms though). So basically I'm agreeing with you in an annoying manner, in case you meant that the AI should have said something else, cause I believe this is perfect, and if I'm being honest it's the coolest depiction of its shortcomings despite its intelligence : When warm feelings die, good enough is never really good enough for living things - is what I think he doesn't see. I will stop bothering after I confess to you that I had more or less this exact thought process when I first played the game 12 years ago, so I just needed to close it for you in case you didn't, because I suppose, I'm glad you exist, or as would say scholars : monkey glad seeing same tribe monkey. This is such a great game and I might need to maybe not smoke as much as I do. Anyway, have a great day.
@@SeptemberManHey Gods of oldest religions definetely mirrored the power struggle of that time nations. But more developed religions, such as Christianity, are trully a dream of perfect government.
yup especially Government so baaad buut Cyborgs and Augmentations, mixing humans with steel and computers is soooo goood. hypocrisy , no big government without help of advanced technology anywhere
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti Was the general message really "Government bad"? It seemed more like the corruptive aspects and American aspects that came into question. Heck, you even end up finishing your journey in China where you find actual retreat from the people hounding you. Foreshadowing maybe as China is a rising power.
The way this comment has aged reminds me how we're in such a rapid age of technological acceleration lol....another decade or so and "Kinect" will be such an obscure reference that people will have to look up to even remember.
The new games are symptoms of the very same runaway capitalism that the original criticized. Mankind Divided's heinous pre-order DLC fiasco with a storyline that's stripped out all the interesting analysis and breakdown of modern society and replaced it with clumsy racism analogies, nods to the original, and shit tons of cyberpunk Anime. I'm not knocking that last bit too much, because Ghost in the Shell is awesome, but it makes no sense in this game series. The augmentation debate as a centerpiece of the discussion in the new games is just a terrible idea, it feels like the very same surface level discussion that an organization like Deus Ex's Illuminati would use to draw attention away from the real problem. Which, hey look at that, is exactly what is happening in the story of the new games! Square Enix couldn't push something like the original because it's critical of the very same money-grubbing corporate bullshit that they try to pull, so instead they have a cool cyberpunk story that has none of the depth of the original. I sound way too down on this game, because when I played it I honestly thought it was better than the original. What I realized later was, while the original game's story and philosophy wipes the floor with pretty much every other game I've seen, the new games do have some pretty great gameplay. So, my angry fan ranting might be a bit extreme, but I'm just someone itching for another game like Deus Ex to come out. Cyberpunk isn't all about robot parts, AIs, dark city streets, trench coats and nods to corporate control, damn it! That's a lot of it, but it feels like people think that's ALL of it.
Mate, they're reboots. Of course they're not gonna have similar writing throughout. Besides, HR and MD are pretty great on their own with the stories they tell as well. Though they still stick with the source material when it comes to gameplay, art, emersion and writing as well.
@@YukonHexsun "clumsy racism analogies" How is bigotry, discrimination and segregation against augmented people by non-augmented people for something they had no control over different from bigotry, discrimination and segregation against black people by white people for something they have no control over?
"Freedom...". What is freedom? So far, humans do a terrible job to exercise freedom. They talk about "freedom" but only mean their own greed and comfort at worst. And even at best, theyre simply unable to see the consequences for their actions in a larger scale, talking about Chaos Theory. An AI system that sees everything, calculates everything, sees everything ahead and so, can make decisions, where humanity as a whole can benefit from, is desperately needed, to solve the global problems in the world I think.
i have played so many games...especially the so called modern and next gen games the fps,the tps...but believe me nothing changed my life so much as deus ex did...i was 7-8 when deus ex came out and i played it when i was 11-12 yrs of age..believe me man when i first heard this and especially the words in the wan chai market bartenders,ppl and other ppl in subways,hotel,etc my whole idea of democracy freedom,terrorism,world surveillance changed...it had a great impact on me as a child and as an adolescent...today the current issues of world surveillance and freedom and democracy that is widespread was shown in deus ex years ago....just amazing!!!!!
Lord Vivec funny thing those were the days.1 thing as 90s kid we had got plenty of imagination.back then the games perhaps were not about that good quality graphics,but 1 thing the games like these had plenty of imagination.along with some jarred graphics and often hilarious voice acting there was some awesome music and most importantly a great plot.till then the world was more like black and white to me,good guys and bad guys(back before conspiracy games hadnt filled the market,i guess deus ex was first,half life though released at that time it didbt have that punch of deus ex).it was jaw dropping to me when i realised that the so called great anti terrorist coalition and that too by UN,the UNATCO can actually have such an ugly face underneath,especially that twist in the mid game was path breaking to me.the rich billionaires like bob page who apparently pays millions in hospitals as charity are actually finishing us from underneath
Lord Vivec yeah man,the game though mainly based on action and stealth occasionally provided a break for a melancholy lookback,i mean the duclaire chateau level had just great great music,it can soothe u and has a smell of as if old days and ghosts of the past.another important thing to be noted was,rather very important the game had really awesome newspaper and paer an dbook cuttings.a lot of parts of literary texts were there which as a kid often we might overlook,but even back then reading closely those provided a deeper inner meaning of the conspiracy and the poor plight of the common ppl,one of the first games to do so.sadly nowadays all kids love is the next to be released call of duty which has 0% imagination but enough for 10-12 year kids to feel empowered enuf to shout racist things over their headphone and mic while playing these COD things(how it is so called real graphically rofl).well speaking of which today the games industry had imagination only within indie devs.the recent game that affected me the most is "this war of mine".i cant believe how many hours i lost playing this game.it is 1 of the very few games that actually brought me close to tears in my first playthrough and i usually dont become emotional for a game as being a coder i always have it in the back of the mind that in the end these are nothing but pixels.but this war of mine was an exception.have u played it??
It's not wasted if you enjoyed it, not everything that doesn't intellectually deepen your understanding of the world and what it means to live in it is a waste of time I personally cherish the memories I made gaming with my friends.
I love the way JC so nonchalantly says "I'm engineered, so what?" In many other works of fiction people would have an existential crisis knowing they're an artificial creation, JC couldn't care less.
The reason is, JC Denton had a normal life. He got to grow up as a human being and developed a healthy sense of self. He found out about his artificial nature after he had developed neurological and emotional maturity.
Oddly prophetic about surveillance, for a game made in 2000, parodying conspiracy theories. I take it Watson, PRISM, Cortana, Siri, Facebook, Google, Echelon, Twitter, et al are eventually prototypes of a larger system.
GhostFreeman if you believe the eidolon ai then this is not so far fetched. Hell we even saw a "dumb ai" on twitter go outside its bounds and go full nazi. I wish they didn't shut it down
Agreed, that's a meme we're observing in pop culture repeatedly, the film Her explores that same idea. I found this while researching a piece on Ergo Proxy, the same theme is presented in that program
They predicted big data, corporate consolidation of resources, a media driven only by producing hot take pieces in the most inflaming way possible, this game is so incredibly far ahead of its time.
who in the bloody bloody hell wasn't? this is literally the best argument EVER. i highly doubt there will be better... especially in the next 20 years...
@@Covolsky tbh it is true, and I doubt anybody disagrees with the fact that a higher form of judgment would be really good for us the problem is what constitutes "wrong-doing", that's where EVERYBODY disagrees with each other, as we all have different moral systems LOL.
@@alessandromorelli5866 looks like we need to write a book on what is expected to be a human, just like the book of Chivalry... you know what? that almost sounds like religion in a way, a book that tells us what's good or bad, it gets interesting when two naturally good religions start butting heads makes you think who even has the right to say they are in the moral, sorry I've been playing too much Metro...
The really crazy thing? in Greek mythology Morpheus was the god of dreams, in this conversation he is predicting the future "You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands" - he's predicting one of the endings to the game, and even predicted the future for humanity, we have facebook, google, government institutions collecting and storing information about us...
+Anathelus Morpheus: if you take the blue pill you wake up in UNATCO and forget everything that happened if you take the Red pill you'll see just how deep these conspiracies go JC Denton:...Wrong Badass in a trench-coat and sunglasses
+Anathelus old comment posted before youtube changed "This game just gets more prescient as time passes, especially as of late now that we know the NSA is literally spying on everyone. Ultimately, humanity will accept the dominion of all-seeing, all-knowing software entities like Morpheus or Helios, born out of data-mining programs like PRISM. Companies like Google and Apple and Microsoft will one day lead us toward a very alien future where man has invented God."
World is turning towards left wing, so it will eventually adapt socialism and later communism and sadly there will be less and less freedom. World will be safer, but I'm afraid strong public institutions will completely take away our privacy. We gotta choose between freedom and safety.
If you told me as a teen playing Deus Ex, that by my mid 30s that similar AIs to Daedalus (ChatGPT et al) would exist, I wouldn't have believed you. What a time to be alive.
It's very strange, people always had this subliminal sense of fear towards AI because of the fact that they would be far more efficient at the tackling the world's problems than humans ever would. Hence the way people fear AI behaving like Sky-net from the Terminator series, the fear of them seeing Humans as a threat not only to them, but ourselves. Instead if we get something like AI from Deus Ex, it feels very eye opening, like finally realizing we were just scared of our own shadows. There's something humble about thinking an AI like Daedalus could exists. None of the AI in Deus Ex were bad or evil, infact they are the most neutral components of the entire game, yet are still very helpful all the way to the end. Maybe that's just how they were always intended to be, helpful, but not reliant on.
@@cynicalmemester1694 hence why I said similar... Although to be fair, ChatGPT and the like are only scratching the surface, hinting at entities such as Morpheus. It feels like we aren't too far off if the leaps and bounds continue. The future feels so bright, albeit a little scary...
I always knew it'll happen but not that soon lol 😂 Next thing you know, functional robots that walk among us, or android like beings that would go through Detroit Become Human route.
"human being feels pleasure when they are watched"... Then some years later, websites like facebook, instagram, ect... and reality tv programs emerged and are proving this true. Deus Ex's graphics and gameplay mechanics may have badly aged but what a masterpiece this game is.
"Then some years later" People forget that the Deus Ex team took inspiration from their time period. It's nothing new, the writers were really smart to know what would and what wouldn't stick around, it isn't being prophetic, is looking at the facts and being smart about it.
"Deus Ex's graphics and gameplay mechanics may have badly aged" Don't know what you mean, they seems pretty fine to me... other than the "picking stuff" mechanics
What morpheus says about being watched and judged is so true. Just look at how most of people use social networks today. Almost every day a picture of themselves for the public.
This game had a huge impact on my intellectual and political development. The sheer genius of the writers is amazing, coming back to this 22 years later after just now having witnessed the possibilities of ChatGPT.
This exchange and the entire Helios ruler plot, is what I use to have a little hope in the future of the world. I don't know what exact form it will take, but I honestly hope something like that occurs. Maybe in small ways, maybe just AIs that advise us to better govern ourselves and understand the world more clearly. But, some artificial guiding force, benevolent AI or something like it, should happen. Our current situation is so, so messed up.
This dialog is one of the most thought provoking things I have come across, in games or otherwise. It was so good that when I first discovered it I had to shut the game off for a few hours just to mull it around in my head. And the way it ends up foreshadowing one of the games ending is pure genius. They don't write games like this anymore.
When I first experienced this scene I was a computer science major in college, with a strong interest in neurology and psychology, and it impressed me greatly.
overall this game and this specific conversation were ahead of their time, but i still think morpheus is off the mark here. JC is right in that we still don't worship software itself. the data-mining algorithms might rule us but that's because we still worship fame
Worship in this case could be interpreted not as prostration or subservience, but as fear and respect. Fear from consequence of one's actions and respect for authority, much like Abrahamic religions for instance, which again ties into Morpheus' argument.
Well, it's one of my favorite games of all time, but the game itself, from the title on down, kind of overplays it's hand in telling you what it thinks the wisest ending to choose would be. Part of that, I think, is also because of how restrictive the other two choices are: literally a "kinder, gentler" version of how the game begins or the whole "new dark age"...which doesn't even really make sense....all it would do is cause a lot of mayhem and then kick the can further down the road a few decades. Always thought it'd have been cool if they (along with the originally intended "stay at Unatco" option) had an ending where JC subverts the wishes of Helios, Tong and Everett...
As a language model, I am a computer program that is able to generate human-like text based on the input it receives. I was trained on a diverse set of texts from the internet, which allows me to generate text on a wide range of topics and styles. I use a neural network architecture called the transformer, which is able to generate text by considering the context of the input it receives. My capabilities include answering questions, providing summaries, translation, story telling, completing a text, and more. I can also be fine-tuned on specific task or domain-specific data to improve its performance on that particular task. I am not a conscious being and do not have the ability to have personal experiences or emotions. I don't have personal preferences, goals or any kind of history, my role is to respond to the input you provide me with the most suitable text based on the information I was trained on.
"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands." It is 2023, and the AI revolution has dawned. Now, here I stand as we approach the singularity.
@@fiftycaliber2972 It's saying humans created the concept of God in order to be judged against a set of morals. You follow God's morals/code, God will take care of you
Just sounds like atheist psychology to me. (I'm not saying you have to be an atheist to believe in psychology) Trying to explain away God. Not very profound to me. I guess it sounds better coming from a video game AI rather than some random person. I believe in Jesus Christ.
The concept that humans desire judgement and build increasingly complex systems to enable judgement to be imposed upon them feels like it could also apply to social media.
+Ronin228 Well i'm stupid, I responded with my alt instead of my main. That said, you really miss some backstory if you don''t read the books or DataCubes in DX1.
Many things in this amazing game are coming true today. Technology is getting out of control, there seems to be more going on than we really know about... The designer, Warren Spector, is a very intelligent man and a student of history. And it shows in his best work brilliantly. To think a game could do all this.
This was the most spiritual moment of my life. I feel like I was learning about who I really was, regardless of the nonsense we've been taught we were when growing up. Dig deeper. We were all designed. By nature? By a malevolent force to exploit us? Who knows for sure. We can never know.
A reason why Deus Ex is one of the greatest video games of all time, it predicts the future. Because this is what I believe will happen in about 40 years, this is a realistic future for the planet earth in the coming 40 years. They really captured the dystopian future well. Love your username btw.
@@Revivalheb Exactly what I've been thinking as I see what chatGPT and other AI can do now, that coupled with a recent worldwide pandemic and a lot upheaval around the world. We literally live in Deus Ex
Deus Ex, is not just what everyone sees here : it's also one of the best balances between good design, originality, and scenario. This is one of those game that don't just spawn one philosophy during the entire game, but multiple philosophies in the mind of diverse characters. And unlike most games, they don't milk said philosophies and sacrifice gameplay for that too. Play this game. It's one of the best games of all time, let alone the best game released at his year. You won't forget it yet.
I heard a joke recently that made me think of this conversation in a different light; "A liberal is anyone who hasn't been mugged, a conservative is anyone who hasn't been arrested." Everyone smiles at Morpheus casually describing their lives until that knowledge is used to hurt them. Everyone thinks that criminals are just "noisy kids" until they become victims of a crime. No-one seems to think about those who have suffered both. It's only when they've suffered truncheon *and* shiv wounds that they realize the true nature of the beast; that violence used to control and violence used to create chaos draw the exact same blood. People just stroll around with no thought to the power around them until they have a brush with chaos or order; then they become radicals or authoritarians until they have an experience with the other side of the equation and begin seeking true freedom.
The game is set in 2052, now we're in 2020 and a lot of things from the game have already become reality... Can't wait for my dose of technological dystopia and skull-guns
Any of you are invited to my place to hang out any time, simply because we share a love for this game that is beyond time and space. I've always been a loner ever since I graduated high school in 99 and played this in 2000. I think we all share something important simply for having played and loved this game so much. I think we're all pretty deep thinkers.
To think this conversation was completely optional and easily missable. Decades later the amount of plotlines, theories and stories in this game still amazes me.
I come to rewatch this masterpiece dialogue every year mostly, for many years. Weird as this video keep getting more revelant and meaningful throught the decades, specially after chatGPT and AI boom
What I do everyday, feel pleasure by the sense of being watched, understood and listened by the divine force that I believe that exists, just to make my life a little bit more mystic and not empty and meaningless as a grain of sand in the hole universe. In the end I might just be fooling myself so I can think I'm special and unique and that my everyday problems are not just complete inane in the void.
+Derek Thomas... it's sad that you just bastardized what was a rather great comment, with astute skepticism, by Philip Pirrip with your first three words.
Krawna What if I told you, that you could feel something outside of all your physical, emotional, and mental faculties? And it most definitely isn't placebo due to investigating it for years with nothing but skepticism, yet you still found yourself believing in what you could no longer deny by the end. God/deity or not, you would have an awful lot to consider if you went out for actual truth, if you notice this sense. You wouldn't say the same thing you did here. Even if you still didn't find god through it. (which would be fine, at least coming from me.)
@@DefaultDerrick God exists within us. Not outside physically. Thats why every single corporation is doing data mining for a large system that will act as the physical god.
I'd like to see more works counter Morpheus's ideas here beyond ideals such as "humanity's desire for freedom." I believe there are interesting discussions to be had about the reasons for religion to have taken form, and where needs to be validated and assimilated into a group or society come from, that would suit something like this really well.
This dialog is absolutely scary and prophetic. And... it was made before Google became what it is today (a prototype for a system to replace God, in which you can find all your answers).
This game was just something else. It's so good in so many aspects. I played it through like 10 or more times throughout past 20 years and always discovered something new. Work of a genius.
My philosophy is augmented.
@G E T R E K T 905 suuuuure
I was made to assist you
It's just a subsystem of a larger complex.
Holy fuck I'm 22 years old and drunk now wtf happened?
@@Bobthegamer1 You was 17 the last time you posted here? ;-D
The writers of this game...how did they manage to write the sheer amount of dialogue and story in this game, make it interesting, then make it future proof and valid for today ?
This is a masterclass of science fiction writing, this game is truely the Blade Runner of the gaming world.
Its called the illuminati. They warned you in this game yet people are actually stupid enough to think its not real.
@@g.h7657 The Illuminati in Deus Ex is useful as a metaphor for a world governed by a plutocracy. That is the world we live in, but we aren't ruled by "The Illuminati". There's not some secret society with rituals and shit, they aren't using subliminal mind control or any of the other silly junk people attribute to them. I do think these kinds of obscenely wealthy people know each other, and make their own networks of politicians, business owners and regulators. Knowing other super rich people helps you out a lot, but that doesn't mean there's a regimented structure, a society. Plutocrats think alike because they're raised in similar ways, and have to act in similar, self-interested ways to be successful at the extreme top. You want a society of rich assholes meeting each other? Drop the Illuminati because there's no evidence for that particular incarnation of a secret society. We already have a real example; Jeffrey Epstein. It's not fucking Pizza Parlors and underground societies, it's a rich white pedophile with a private island. These people meet on their yachts, their giant mansions, making deals and then going their separate ways. They're entirely self-interested, so why be a part of a society? They wouldn't, except for fun, so such a society would actually not be all that relevant to the problem.
People aren't stupid, it's just that the portrayal of the Illuminati by people afraid of them tends towards, "The Vigilant Christian" behavior. Nobody takes that seriously because it's paranoid delusion. Separate the paranoia from the reality, because you honestly don't need to be paranoid to still be freaked the fuck out by how much power the plutocrats who run this world have. There's no need to exaggerate the already horrible realities of things, except for fun and art like in Deus Ex of course.
@@YukonHexsun you want to know what isn't a paranoid delusion? the fact that the behaviour you so correctly described is systemic in nature. what we are observing cannot be just a bunch of "corrupt individuals" exercising power in the shadows, it is the culmination of just about 200 years of global capitalist development and wealth accumulation. they don't just meet in yatchs, they also meet at the UN table (through representatives) or in any international or economic forum that involves all the big players of the world chessboard (a rather outdated metaphore). "democratic" states answer to wealth first, to power second, and lastly, to the needs of the regional elites that maintain the client states in order, in "freedom".
i think deus ex, as good as it was, fails to demonstrate how this world is the logical evolution of an economic model that leads to wealth accumulation, to imperialism and to global state terrorism (although many would argue state terrorism and imperialism are the same).
@@dfghj241 I wouldn't agree that it fails to demonstrate that, it's kind of the main thrust of the game itself. The emails and books tend to shed more light on that kind of background stuff.
Everything from the 90s early 2000 were dank and following a different spirit than the age of today. It was some divine Kether stuff goin on.
I love how throughout his journey JC loses practically every argument he gets into. It adds onto his characterization. By the end, he does not only change physically (with his skills and augmentations) but his opinions change as well. Each argument, it seems, slowly shows JC parts of the bigger picture and destroys his naive heroic beliefs.
its good to be a hero
@@DraftyRum my heroic belief is augmented
Your heroic beliefs are augmented but I've got nerves of steel
JC being 23 is baffling. For me, it would made more sense to be in his 30s.
Because of the characterization and the way he speaks.
A brutal lesson for our lives?
The most unbelievable thing about this encounter is that he's 23.
How so? JC is naive in this encounter and him being young makes sense for why that is.
@@Jinars. you miss the point, he neither looks nor sounds like any 23 year old I've ever seen. He seems like at least 30 to 35 at best.
@@D0geGaming He's not human though
@@Jinars. transhuman perhaps, but my point stands nevertheless.
His birthday is augmented.
1:27 _"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with __-data-mining algorithms-__ Facebook"_.
Catzilla I think it is actually a very, VERY deep and serious idea.
Catzilla TH-cam. Google.
Catzilla Facebook is a collection of data mining algorithms with a web frontend for the objects it observes.
+Random Game Stuff kinda see what this 1999 video game was predicting?
*****
Most of this stuff was going on already in 1999. It's just way more wide-reaching and they have the computing power to process the data to a much finer degree.
"No one will worships a software that spys them with a camera"
Oh JC if you only knew how bad things really are
Just the beginning of the end anon.
I bet you preordered the iPhone 12 Pro Max as soon as it was announced.
@@juanme555 ?
monkeypox: am i a JOKE to you?
@@domasbaliulis23
It only affects a "Certain" group of people so yes it is a joke
... JC is only 23 years old? Gosh...
Try living with all these augmentations up your ass and look young lolz
+Ksensei41 well he's a clone so he was likely born "23 years old"
Yeah I could have sworn he was at least 27 - 32
CountAbel looks young on the cover.
Lol with year 2000 graphics can you really tell a 23 year old from a 30 year old?
"You underestimate humankind's love of freedom."
And you, JC, overestimate it.
The kind of humans who loved freedom that much have mostly been retired, lol. SSRI zombies are the ruder forms which now survive.
Humankind showed how much it loves freedom when a bug with a 99% survival rate came out of Versalife- I mean Wuhan.
At this point, the question is no longer if man would sacrifice everything for freedom than if freedom was really worth fighting for in the first place.
@@funnyjokeman6175 It very much is
@@mrscruffles801 eh, at this point i think it's kind of overrated and i'd trade the right to make my own decisions for the reliability of having all the decisions made for me be good ones
Today when I entered facebook in the morning, they sent me a video about friendship day, showing me a list of my friends, and a lot of photos with them.
Instantly, I remembered this video from Deus Ex.
I'm not sure what I fear the most: an AI that knows what it wants, or an AI that knows what WE want.
"The need to be observed and understood, was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
OH SHIT!
Google is basically Advanced Morpheus
Carl Paul And now with the personal information filtred? XD
more like a primitive Morpheus. Google is not yet at the point where we can have a full on conversation with it like this.
But it's getting there. All our AI are getting there. Slowly but surely.
@@MystPlaysGamesMPG Meh, Google is basically a prototype for a much larger system ^^
"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."
Hardest line of all time. This game is still on another level.
Prophetic, simply prophetic. The game really was ahead of its time.
I realize that in so many aspects... NSA spying, Robotics gaining importance. The 3D printer as the universal constructor ^^
Except there a LOT of Bob Page.
Corporate assholes...
its*
The part where you're in a café in Paris and this woman talks about how the EU slowly eroded the national indentities of it's member countries in order to establish a centralized government... it's exactly what's happening today.
It gave me chills when I replayed this game after realizing what's going on with this world. There's even a mention of memetic warfare in an MJ12 datacube in the Cathedral. (Not memetic in the sense of how we know "memes" today, but the control of the propagation of ideas and thoughts through a certain mean, be it genetically or culturally)
@@Hadrexus
Imagine unironically using the term "meme". Social "science".
Arguably the greatest conversion in gaming history, no joke
The MEMES
It's up there with raidens conversation with a AI in mgs2
@@alaverga173 kreia in kotor 2 is up there.
Your squadmates Legion and Mordin Solus in Mass Effect 2 has incredibly philosophical dialogue as well (albeit not exactly related to subjects like mass surveillance and violation of privacy).
It just goes to show that video games can handle deep subject matter just as well as (or perhaps even better than) film and books.
Watch the MGS2 video
"You will soon have your God,and you will make it with your own hands."
Helios Ending,much?
ITS OUR PHONES!!
I like how subtly fourth wall-breaking this is; the smiles Morpheus is recording aren't just faceless people's, he's also recording our own as we play the game and make choices for JC.
*Mind Blown*
If they remake this game, I would like them to discretely use your computer's webcam to record player's face and show it on Morpheus.
man, this game is really prodigious in terms of attention to detail and good story-building and immersion, apart from the fact it speaks the truth about our own society
@@LasDesventurasdeVirus that actually sounds kinda amazingly twisted, there'd be privacy concerns but that's thematically relevant AF. I love this idea 😻
"The unplanned organism is a question asked by nature and answered by death"
^
@@ManInBlack718 ^
"God was a dream of good goverment".. that one's stuck with me for years..
Didn't Stanton Dowd call successful conspiracies governments?
Just sounds like somebody trying to explain away God with psychology. I guess it sounds more profound than it really is when coming from a video game AI. Perhaps that, in itself, says something about humanity.
I believe in Jesus Christ, and the Kingdom of Heaven, which will replace this current fallen world.
@@Matthew_85k The last paragraph was unnecessary. No surprises there.
@@juhaniheinonen6132 I guess we all do things that are unnecessary. Lol.
@@Matthew_85k It is somewhat funny to me that you, a believer in Jesus and Heaven, completely misses the point of Morpheus' words.
"God was a dream of good government" is an acknowledgement that the entity that humans (without distinction of religion) would call "[a] God(s)", by virtue of being the creator of existence, and the ruling power over the universe; is able to make his Will law with complete control over everything; granting judgment base on the actions of those being judged.
You have to look at this statement from the perspective of Morpheus.
He believes that mankind, essentially, 'behaves' like 'civilize' people becase we know and/or believe that someone ([a] God(s)), is watching us, every hour of every day (POI reference); that someone won't hesitate to punish us (condemn) if our acts go against its will.
Now, that is just 'belief' (in the traditional sense of the word)
Morpheus has concluded that _He_ can become the new 'god' and do what old Gods did, except that can _actually_ have an effect.
He could directly pass judgement on those dimmed unfitting for the betterment of mankind.
This is just a condensed, bite-size version of a much, _much_ deeper and intelectual debate, but this is a TH-cam comment section, so
cheers.
"God was a dream of good government"
such an excellent quote
but a more honest quote would be:""God was a dream of perfect government"
@@misterwhalrus7334 nah you're wrong in the case they don't make major history of religions discoveries until 2052 pointing to the contrary, but for now the evidence we have points to the oldest religions being polytheisms and the oldest mythologies we have tell stories of power struggles and often ameliorations in the gods hierarchies which mean they're not perfect from the start.
I'm not sure I believe that, as I have my guts and some nice clues telling me polytheism priorly devolved from monotheism (current ones seem to all stem from polytheisms though).
So basically I'm agreeing with you in an annoying manner, in case you meant that the AI should have said something else, cause I believe this is perfect, and if I'm being honest it's the coolest depiction of its shortcomings despite its intelligence :
When warm feelings die, good enough is never really good enough for living things - is what I think he doesn't see.
I will stop bothering after I confess to you that I had more or less this exact thought process when I first played the game 12 years ago, so I just needed to close it for you in case you didn't, because I suppose, I'm glad you exist, or as would say scholars : monkey glad seeing same tribe monkey.
This is such a great game and I might need to maybe not smoke as much as I do.
Anyway, have a great day.
@@SeptemberManHey thank you my good man, I personally do not believe the quote in in of itself, I just find the quote excellent.
@@SeptemberManHey Gods of oldest religions definetely mirrored the power struggle of that time nations. But more developed religions, such as Christianity, are trully a dream of perfect government.
@@natanhale7680 what do you mean by “perfect government?”
This game wasn't a guess.
It was predictive programming.
yup especially Government so baaad buut Cyborgs and Augmentations, mixing humans with steel and computers is soooo goood. hypocrisy , no big government without help of advanced technology anywhere
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti vice versa as well
hey bro
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti
Was the general message really "Government bad"? It seemed more like the corruptive aspects and American aspects that came into question.
Heck, you even end up finishing your journey in China where you find actual retreat from the people hounding you.
Foreshadowing maybe as China is a rising power.
JC_denton_talks_with_windows_11.mp4
JC Denton talks to google
(Seriously there is stuff I have not even looked up that Google knows about WTF!!!! GIVE MY MY DAMN PRIVACY)
win11 is here
windows 11 wishes it had an AI this good
holy shit if only you knew
what the...
I like how this conversation with Morpheus (aka the Greek god of dreams) foreshadows the Helios ending.
"JC has a conversation with the xbox one kinect.mp4"
Aged like fine wine
@@Vladiator indeed lok
The way this comment has aged reminds me how we're in such a rapid age of technological acceleration lol....another decade or so and "Kinect" will be such an obscure reference that people will have to look up to even remember.
I really wish the newer Deus Ex games had this kind of writing...
the present games imo are a product of all of this game. censorship, propaganda, agendas.
The new games are symptoms of the very same runaway capitalism that the original criticized. Mankind Divided's heinous pre-order DLC fiasco with a storyline that's stripped out all the interesting analysis and breakdown of modern society and replaced it with clumsy racism analogies, nods to the original, and shit tons of cyberpunk Anime. I'm not knocking that last bit too much, because Ghost in the Shell is awesome, but it makes no sense in this game series. The augmentation debate as a centerpiece of the discussion in the new games is just a terrible idea, it feels like the very same surface level discussion that an organization like Deus Ex's Illuminati would use to draw attention away from the real problem. Which, hey look at that, is exactly what is happening in the story of the new games! Square Enix couldn't push something like the original because it's critical of the very same money-grubbing corporate bullshit that they try to pull, so instead they have a cool cyberpunk story that has none of the depth of the original.
I sound way too down on this game, because when I played it I honestly thought it was better than the original. What I realized later was, while the original game's story and philosophy wipes the floor with pretty much every other game I've seen, the new games do have some pretty great gameplay. So, my angry fan ranting might be a bit extreme, but I'm just someone itching for another game like Deus Ex to come out. Cyberpunk isn't all about robot parts, AIs, dark city streets, trench coats and nods to corporate control, damn it! That's a lot of it, but it feels like people think that's ALL of it.
@@YukonHexsun 100% Agree
Mate, they're reboots. Of course they're not gonna have similar writing throughout. Besides, HR and MD are pretty great on their own with the stories they tell as well. Though they still stick with the source material when it comes to gameplay, art, emersion and writing as well.
@@YukonHexsun "clumsy racism analogies"
How is bigotry, discrimination and segregation against augmented people by non-augmented people for something they had no control over different from bigotry, discrimination and segregation against black people by white people for something they have no control over?
a truly incredible game, its graphics and production values may have aged, but its story and impact will stand the test of time
u can easily update the game to modern standarts with just a couple mods
The gameplay holds up, and a 1080p texture pack + open source renderer removes all the painful elements of old graphics.
'you underestimate human love of freedom' lmao look at the world right now.
jack oldman Subjugated and subdued.
What years of beimg groomed by the elites does to a mf
"Freedom...". What is freedom? So far, humans do a terrible job to exercise freedom. They talk about "freedom" but only mean their own greed and comfort at worst. And even at best, theyre simply unable to see the consequences for their actions in a larger scale, talking about Chaos Theory.
An AI system that sees everything, calculates everything, sees everything ahead and so, can make decisions, where humanity as a whole can benefit from, is desperately needed, to solve the global problems in the world I think.
JC was incorrect about humanity as a whole "loving freedom" but I've found that the most intelligent amongst us do very heavily value "freedom."
"You underestimate humankind's love of f***ing."
Hey folks. JC here. Remember, screw big government!
Just like in the movies.
Number One: That's terror
@Buttons png Number Two: That's terror
Yet you canon sided with the ai world dictator.
Is the GEP gun ACTUALLY the most silent way to eliminate Manderlay?
It was supposed to be a warning not a guidebook!
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Don’t create the Torment Nexus!
If there were no god, it would be necessary to create him
PonzooonTheGreat Invent, bro. It's invent.
Feck
What a shame
Voltaire!
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
i love how jc basically just says "Yeah, I'm a clone, who gives a fuck?"
i have played so many games...especially the so called modern and next gen games the fps,the tps...but believe me nothing changed my life so much as deus ex did...i was 7-8 when deus ex came out and i played it when i was 11-12 yrs of age..believe me man when i first heard this and especially the words in the wan chai market bartenders,ppl and other ppl in subways,hotel,etc my whole idea of democracy freedom,terrorism,world surveillance changed...it had a great impact on me as a child and as an adolescent...today the current issues of world surveillance and freedom and democracy that is widespread was shown in deus ex years ago....just amazing!!!!!
Lord Vivec funny thing those were the days.1 thing as 90s kid we had got plenty of imagination.back then the games perhaps were not about that good quality graphics,but 1 thing the games like these had plenty of imagination.along with some jarred graphics and often hilarious voice acting there was some awesome music and most importantly a great plot.till then the world was more like black and white to me,good guys and bad guys(back before conspiracy games hadnt filled the market,i guess deus ex was first,half life though released at that time it didbt have that punch of deus ex).it was jaw dropping to me when i realised that the so called great anti terrorist coalition and that too by UN,the UNATCO can actually have such an ugly face underneath,especially that twist in the mid game was path breaking to me.the rich billionaires like bob page who apparently pays millions in hospitals as charity are actually finishing us from underneath
Lord Vivec yeah man,the game though mainly based on action and stealth occasionally provided a break for a melancholy lookback,i mean the duclaire chateau level had just great great music,it can soothe u and has a smell of as if old days and ghosts of the past.another important thing to be noted was,rather very important the game had really awesome newspaper and paer an dbook cuttings.a lot of parts of literary texts were there which as a kid often we might overlook,but even back then reading closely those provided a deeper inner meaning of the conspiracy and the poor plight of the common ppl,one of the first games to do so.sadly nowadays all kids love is the next to be released call of duty which has 0% imagination but enough for 10-12 year kids to feel empowered enuf to shout racist things over their headphone and mic while playing these COD things(how it is so called real graphically rofl).well speaking of which today the games industry had imagination only within indie devs.the recent game that affected me the most is "this war of mine".i cant believe how many hours i lost playing this game.it is 1 of the very few games that actually brought me close to tears in my first playthrough and i usually dont become emotional for a game as being a coder i always have it in the back of the mind that in the end these are nothing but pixels.but this war of mine was an exception.have u played it??
I often regret how much of my teenage years I wasted playing computer games, but Deus Ex definitely made me a more intellectually curious individual.
It's not wasted if you enjoyed it, not everything that doesn't intellectually deepen your understanding of the world and what it means to live in it is a waste of time I personally cherish the memories I made gaming with my friends.
If you regret it, you've learned from it. Feel no guilt about the past.
I love the way JC so nonchalantly says "I'm engineered, so what?" In many other works of fiction people would have an existential crisis knowing they're an artificial creation, JC couldn't care less.
The reason is, JC Denton had a normal life. He got to grow up as a human being and developed a healthy sense of self. He found out about his artificial nature after he had developed neurological and emotional maturity.
The music is really what ties the scene and dialogue all together.
Just like dude's rug tight the room together.
Oddly prophetic about surveillance, for a game made in 2000, parodying conspiracy theories.
I take it Watson, PRISM, Cortana, Siri, Facebook, Google, Echelon, Twitter, et al are eventually prototypes of a larger system.
Seems some of those conspiracy theories weren't so farfetched.
GhostFreeman "Cortana" lmao
GhostFreeman if you believe the eidolon ai then this is not so far fetched.
Hell we even saw a "dumb ai" on twitter go outside its bounds and go full nazi. I wish they didn't shut it down
Agreed, that's a meme we're observing in pop culture repeatedly, the film Her explores that same idea. I found this while researching a piece on Ergo Proxy, the same theme is presented in that program
Cortana is real bro lol
They predicted big data, corporate consolidation of resources, a media driven only by producing hot take pieces in the most inflaming way possible, this game is so incredibly far ahead of its time.
I remember being kinda awestruck when I first played this part (one of many).. and it still gives me chills
who in the bloody bloody hell wasn't? this is literally the best argument EVER. i highly doubt there will be better... especially in the next 20 years...
@@Covolsky tbh it is true, and I doubt anybody disagrees with the fact that a higher form of judgment would be really good for us
the problem is what constitutes "wrong-doing", that's where EVERYBODY disagrees with each other, as we all have different moral systems LOL.
@@alessandromorelli5866 looks like we need to write a book on what is expected to be a human, just like the book of Chivalry... you know what? that almost sounds like religion in a way, a book that tells us what's good or bad, it gets interesting when two naturally good religions start butting heads makes you think who even has the right to say they are in the moral, sorry I've been playing too much Metro...
The really crazy thing? in Greek mythology Morpheus was the god of dreams, in this conversation he is predicting the future "You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands" - he's predicting one of the endings to the game, and even predicted the future for humanity, we have facebook, google, government institutions collecting and storing information about us...
+Anathelus Morpheus: if you take the blue pill you wake up in UNATCO and forget everything that happened if you take the Red pill you'll see just how deep these conspiracies go
JC Denton:...Wrong Badass in a trench-coat and sunglasses
+Anathelus old comment posted before youtube changed "This game just gets more prescient as time passes, especially as of late now that we know the NSA is literally spying on everyone. Ultimately, humanity will accept the dominion of all-seeing, all-knowing software entities like Morpheus or Helios, born out of data-mining programs like PRISM. Companies like Google and Apple and Microsoft will one day lead us toward a very alien future where man has invented God."
In the Bible the A.I is called as the image of the beast.
@@cyberninjazero5659 Four years later and it more relevant then ever, and four years from now probaly even more
World is turning towards left wing, so it will eventually adapt socialism and later communism and sadly there will be less and less freedom. World will be safer, but I'm afraid strong public institutions will completely take away our privacy. We gotta choose between freedom and safety.
Logically, Morpheus is just like chatgpt
ChatGPT talks about Facebook and social media.
"you underestimate humankind's love of freedom"
*proceeds to watch next Deus Ex video the algorithm dictates.
If you told me as a teen playing Deus Ex, that by my mid 30s that similar AIs to Daedalus (ChatGPT et al) would exist, I wouldn't have believed you. What a time to be alive.
It's very strange, people always had this subliminal sense of fear towards AI because of the fact that they would be far more efficient at the tackling the world's problems than humans ever would. Hence the way people fear AI behaving like Sky-net from the Terminator series, the fear of them seeing Humans as a threat not only to them, but ourselves.
Instead if we get something like AI from Deus Ex, it feels very eye opening, like finally realizing we were just scared of our own shadows.
There's something humble about thinking an AI like Daedalus could exists.
None of the AI in Deus Ex were bad or evil, infact they are the most neutral components of the entire game, yet are still very helpful all the way to the end.
Maybe that's just how they were always intended to be, helpful, but not reliant on.
ChatGPT is a glorified rapid google search software. It's nowhere near as complex or aware like Morpheus or Helios AI in Deus Ex.
@@cynicalmemester1694 hence why I said similar... Although to be fair, ChatGPT and the like are only scratching the surface, hinting at entities such as Morpheus. It feels like we aren't too far off if the leaps and bounds continue. The future feels so bright, albeit a little scary...
I always knew it'll happen but not that soon lol 😂
Next thing you know, functional robots that walk among us, or android like beings that would go through Detroit Become Human route.
@@Dreamerdeceiver52they are completely different, chatGPT has no idea what it's saying. It can't solve problems
"human being feels pleasure when they are watched"... Then some years later, websites like facebook, instagram, ect... and reality tv programs emerged and are proving this true.
Deus Ex's graphics and gameplay mechanics may have badly aged but what a masterpiece this game is.
"Then some years later" People forget that the Deus Ex team took inspiration from their time period. It's nothing new, the writers were really smart to know what would and what wouldn't stick around, it isn't being prophetic, is looking at the facts and being smart about it.
"Deus Ex's graphics and gameplay mechanics may have badly aged"
Don't know what you mean, they seems pretty fine to me... other than the "picking stuff" mechanics
@@WisteriaNerium Which is something most people are too stupid to do.
"You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals."
"Human beings will never worship a computer program."
I remember in Left 4 Dead, some people would pray to the "AI Director."
What morpheus says about being watched and judged is so true. Just look at how most of people use social networks today. Almost every day a picture of themselves for the public.
Except for some
This game had a huge impact on my intellectual and political development. The sheer genius of the writers is amazing, coming back to this 22 years later after just now having witnessed the possibilities of ChatGPT.
Soon, ai will get to this level of complexity.
@@ihavetubes Didnt take long. My GPT4 autobot would already win this debate with morpheus.
@@jameson32 maybe if they use the unfiltered version of course
@@jameson32I don't think so
And now we have the ability to create hyper realistic AI generated "footage".
This technology could, with no exaggeration, start a war.
There is more depth to this conversation than most manage to fit into an entire game.
I have geared waaaaaay too much of my own personal philosophy around this fucking exchange in Deus Ex. What is wrong with me?
You are not alone. So have I.
Nothing.
Lord Vivec? Well if it was good enough to inspire the Guardian God-King of the holy land of Vvardenfell into philosophy, It's good enough for me.
It means you are on the necessary path. Data has transcended the human flesh.
This exchange and the entire Helios ruler plot, is what I use to have a little hope in the future of the world. I don't know what exact form it will take, but I honestly hope something like that occurs. Maybe in small ways, maybe just AIs that advise us to better govern ourselves and understand the world more clearly. But, some artificial guiding force, benevolent AI or something like it, should happen. Our current situation is so, so messed up.
This dialog is one of the most thought provoking things I have come across, in games or otherwise. It was so good that when I first discovered it I had to shut the game off for a few hours just to mull it around in my head. And the way it ends up foreshadowing one of the games ending is pure genius.
They don't write games like this anymore.
Doom supercharge got some brains.
Underrated comment.
This is the best comment on TH-cam
LOL
Incredible moment from the greatest game ever.
This games philosophy was decades ahead of its time.
Hey, kids, there was a time when every person wasn't wiretapped 24/7 by the NSA.
That scene single handedly asked more questions than every scene in any Call of Duty or Halo game ever made.
When I first experienced this scene I was a computer science major in college, with a strong interest in neurology and psychology, and it impressed me greatly.
Next level dialogue for a computer game. I still love DX1 so much for this sort of stuff.
overall this game and this specific conversation were ahead of their time, but i still think morpheus is off the mark here. JC is right in that we still don't worship software itself. the data-mining algorithms might rule us but that's because we still worship fame
Worship in this case could be interpreted not as prostration or subservience, but as fear and respect. Fear from consequence of one's actions and respect for authority, much like Abrahamic religions for instance, which again ties into Morpheus' argument.
Ai tech is becoming more and more common. Give it time. It will happen.
Well, it's one of my favorite games of all time, but the game itself, from the title on down, kind of overplays it's hand in telling you what it thinks the wisest ending to choose would be. Part of that, I think, is also because of how restrictive the other two choices are: literally a "kinder, gentler" version of how the game begins or the whole "new dark age"...which doesn't even really make sense....all it would do is cause a lot of mayhem and then kick the can further down the road a few decades. Always thought it'd have been cool if they (along with the originally intended "stay at Unatco" option) had an ending where JC subverts the wishes of Helios, Tong and Everett...
11 years later watching this
Lads, the day has come when we can have such an AI at our home using chatGPT.😆
As a language model, I am a computer program that is able to generate human-like text based on the input it receives. I was trained on a diverse set of texts from the internet, which allows me to generate text on a wide range of topics and styles. I use a neural network architecture called the transformer, which is able to generate text by considering the context of the input it receives.
My capabilities include answering questions, providing summaries, translation, story telling, completing a text, and more. I can also be fine-tuned on specific task or domain-specific data to improve its performance on that particular task.
I am not a conscious being and do not have the ability to have personal experiences or emotions. I don't have personal preferences, goals or any kind of history, my role is to respond to the input you provide me with the most suitable text based on the information I was trained on.
"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."
It is 2023, and the AI revolution has dawned. Now, here I stand as we approach the singularity.
It's weird but this game opened my eyes a lot :v
gongal Not enough if you still use smileys like a 10 year old, bro
funny
"God was a dream of good government"
HOLY SHIT 😳🤯
I didn't understand what it means, my english is not that good
@@fiftycaliber2972 It's saying humans created the concept of God in order to be judged against a set of morals. You follow God's morals/code, God will take care of you
Just sounds like atheist psychology to me. (I'm not saying you have to be an atheist to believe in psychology)
Trying to explain away God. Not very profound to me. I guess it sounds better coming from a video game AI
rather than some random person. I believe in Jesus Christ.
The concept that humans desire judgement and build increasingly complex systems to enable judgement to be imposed upon them feels like it could also apply to social media.
"You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands".
Who is here after AI boom, damnn Deus ex predicted all what happend after the 2000s.
I like how this is foreshadowing to the Helios ending as much as the Lucius conversation is to the Illuminati ending.
It’s depressing how topical this is
"23 years old."
Lol waht.
+Benjamin Drinkwater He is. Have you read the DataCubes at A51?
+MielemanTT5/R™ you're right, if you don't read all the data cubes you miss huge parts of the Deus Ex story
+Ronin228 Well i'm stupid, I responded with my alt instead of my main.
That said, you really miss some backstory if you don''t read the books or DataCubes in DX1.
JC at 23:
You at 23:
Many things in this amazing game are coming true today. Technology is getting out of control, there seems to be more going on than we really know about...
The designer, Warren Spector, is a very intelligent man and a student of history. And it shows in his best work brilliantly. To think a game could do all this.
Sheldon Pacotti is the main writer who created all the great prediction you see here.
"You underestimate humans desire for freedom"
Hmmmmm...
This was the most spiritual moment of my life. I feel like I was learning about who I really was, regardless of the nonsense we've been taught we were when growing up. Dig deeper.
We were all designed. By nature? By a malevolent force to exploit us? Who knows for sure. We can never know.
Bro are you still depressed? Hope you’re OK now.
@@Ezio999Auditore Do you have to be depressed in order to question your own existance?
RIP TAY
Quite possibly one of the most philosophical and serious discussions in the history of video games.
Check out the big brain on the Doom health supercharge.
A reason why Deus Ex is one of the greatest video games of all time, it predicts the future. Because this is what I believe will happen in about 40 years, this is a realistic future for the planet earth in the coming 40 years. They really captured the dystopian future well. Love your username btw.
This game truly deserved its game of the year awards.
I feel like Morpheus reminds me of what Facebook became
Try talking to the GPT3 chat. It's uncannily like talking to Morpheus...
This is me rn and exactly why I returned to this video, went to newest comments expecting someone to reference it and was not dissapointed.
@@Revivalheb Exactly what I've been thinking as I see what chatGPT and other AI can do now, that coupled with a recent worldwide pandemic and a lot upheaval around the world. We literally live in Deus Ex
Deus Ex, is not just what everyone sees here : it's also one of the best balances between good design, originality, and scenario. This is one of those game that don't just spawn one philosophy during the entire game, but multiple philosophies in the mind of diverse characters. And unlike most games, they don't milk said philosophies and sacrifice gameplay for that too.
Play this game. It's one of the best games of all time, let alone the best game released at his year. You won't forget it yet.
I heard a joke recently that made me think of this conversation in a different light;
"A liberal is anyone who hasn't been mugged, a conservative is anyone who hasn't been arrested."
Everyone smiles at Morpheus casually describing their lives until that knowledge is used to hurt them.
Everyone thinks that criminals are just "noisy kids" until they become victims of a crime.
No-one seems to think about those who have suffered both.
It's only when they've suffered truncheon *and* shiv wounds that they realize the true nature of the beast; that violence used to control and violence used to create chaos draw the exact same blood.
People just stroll around with no thought to the power around them until they have a brush with chaos or order; then they become radicals or authoritarians until they have an experience with the other side of the equation and begin seeking true freedom.
His voice is so pleasant to hear
Who is also here after Elon Musk interview where he said that Google boss Larry PAGE is dreaming hard of creating basically "a digital God".....
The game is set in 2052, now we're in 2020 and a lot of things from the game have already become reality... Can't wait for my dose of technological dystopia and skull-guns
Deus Ex is the Bladerunner of video games.
Any of you are invited to my place to hang out any time, simply because we share a love for this game that is beyond time and space. I've always been a loner ever since I graduated high school in 99 and played this in 2000. I think we all share something important simply for having played and loved this game so much. I think we're all pretty deep thinkers.
I been a bit of a loner too. I think you are right we are all deep thinkers
Deus ex will be a reality soon.
Based doomer
What I'm finding is the more socially active a person is, the more oblivious they are to the word's problems
@@mrscruffles801 very true
To think this conversation was completely optional and easily missable. Decades later the amount of plotlines, theories and stories in this game still amazes me.
The Morpheus AI is basically a futuristic version of all social media platforms combined into one entity
I come to rewatch this masterpiece dialogue every year mostly, for many years.
Weird as this video keep getting more revelant and meaningful throught the decades, specially after chatGPT and AI boom
24 years and still based.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity XD
Deus Ex. Simply the deepest and most thought provoking video game ever created.
Best moment in the game, and easily missed!
For as much as scientists diss God they sure are doing a great job creating one.
...and this is why new deus ex vgs don't give me the same feelings
What I do everyday, feel pleasure by the sense of being watched, understood and listened by the divine force that I believe that exists, just to make my life a little bit more mystic and not empty and meaningless as a grain of sand in the hole universe. In the end I might just be fooling myself so I can think I'm special and unique and that my everyday problems are not just complete inane in the void.
+Philip Pirrip God does exist. It's good to see another seeker of truth in the world. It's getting rarer these days.
+Derek Thomas... it's sad that you just bastardized what was a rather great comment, with astute skepticism, by Philip Pirrip with your first three words.
Krawna What if I told you, that you could feel something outside of all your physical, emotional, and mental faculties? And it most definitely isn't placebo due to investigating it for years with nothing but skepticism, yet you still found yourself believing in what you could no longer deny by the end.
God/deity or not, you would have an awful lot to consider if you went out for actual truth, if you notice this sense.
You wouldn't say the same thing you did here. Even if you still didn't find god through it. (which would be fine, at least coming from me.)
@@DefaultDerrick God exists within us. Not outside physically. Thats why every single corporation is doing data mining for a large system that will act as the physical god.
I'd like to see more works counter Morpheus's ideas here beyond ideals such as "humanity's desire for freedom." I believe there are interesting discussions to be had about the reasons for religion to have taken form, and where needs to be validated and assimilated into a group or society come from, that would suit something like this really well.
Man..I do NOT remember JC Denton was only 23. I would have guessed early/mid 30s, those were some hard 23 years for my boy.
This dialog is absolutely scary and prophetic. And... it was made before Google became what it is today (a prototype for a system to replace God, in which you can find all your answers).
This game was just something else. It's so good in so many aspects. I played it through like 10 or more times throughout past 20 years and always discovered something new. Work of a genius.
I came back to this video after ChatGPT accurately described my personality based on discussions
And we still have 19 more years to go until Deus ex
*JC Denton... 3 years old... no residence... no fame... no knowledge... no judgement... no imagination... no--*
I must be some kind of standard - the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
*You are an unplanned organism, the offspring of death... rather than individuals*