Deus Ex is a game, I really, really loved. Still do, in fact. Back then it was ground­break­ing. I didn’t like the suc­ces­sor, Deus Ex: Invis­i­ble Wars, though. They fucked up because the tried to use the same code base on two dif­fer­ent sys­tems: on a con­sole and on a PC. Of course, for PC gamers it really sucked hard. Leav­ing all the game­play issues aside, the story wasn’t a bum­mer either. And still … there’s one phrase that still sticks in my head: “The only fron­tier that has ever existed is the self.“.

I tend to believe that this say­ing is true. Even though it was issued by a fic­tional arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence called Helios in the sec­ond install­ment of Deus Ex. Humankind has come a long way since the dawn of human­ity. We’ve made some progress and all just because of a few good men who con­tin­u­ally pushed the enve­lope. We’re right here, we con­sider our­selves mostly civ­i­lized and we mas­sively use tech­nol­ogy to achieve great things. In the end, it’s always about push­ing, about try­ing harder than ever before, about sens­ing out the fron­tiers. Read more…