Please help me find: Games with similar feel to Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

I was half asleep on the bus the other day and was half-dreaming something among the lines of there having been or being a neuromancer game, like the Blade Runner one.

There was never one, though, was there?

What is the best way to play the older Deus Ex nowadays? Are there any cool mods or something?

 

There was a Neuromancer game on C64! Nothing like the one in your dream exists, though.

 

Heh, it figures.

Still, C64 was one of my favourite gaming platforms of all time. It really did have a bit of a cyberpunk feeling, to be a gamer in those days.

 

the trippy loading screens with all the colours and loading an image line by line, i miss that

 

William Gibson didn't know much about computers when he wrote Neuromancer; supposedly he was very disappointed after getting an 80s computer! I like the cyberpunk genre a lot, but a lot of it seems pretty dated by today's standards, even some of the stuff in Human Revolution doesn't seem as far-fetched as it would've in the 90s, for example.

 

Heh I thought the Internet would go a bit Gibsonian (didn't we all?) back in the mid to late 90s, growing up with 80s and 90s gaming and computing machines.

I just thought it would be the next logical progression. The internet has gone a bit dumb during the last few years, hasn't it? Not a cyber-space utopia with dark dealings and an Anarchy-Online meets Blade Runner future that looks like Black Rain and a bit of Back to the Future 2.

I mean, I don't mind the cat videos and the pinterest, but they're not very Cyberpunk, and they're not at all what I pictured, playing very old copied pirate games on my C64 that still were a mystery and very hard to come by, late at night, looking at the colourful loading screens and cracker-messages many, many years after they were written.

Hell, even the SNES and PSX sold us a different future. Something like the Internet on Front Mission 3. That's where I thought we were going to be by now.

 

We are getting this on the Wii U should be great!

 

This quote, kind sir, made my effing day. Hats off!