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[Ahren]

Hey guys. Just checking to make sure if you guys still believe the Earth has five moons.

 

[SoulWeaver]

Hey guys. Just checking to make sure if you guys still believe the Earth has five moons.

Expert Opinion


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[ShadowFighter15]

In the original Deus Ex game (released June 2000), a limitation with texture memories meant that they were only able to do half of the New York skyline viewed from Liberty Island (the other half does exist in the game's files but the limit prevents it from being shown in-game). This meant that the World Trade Center appeared to be missing and, due to the game's themes, its absense was explained as being the result of a terrorist attack.

Fast forward to the following year and I imagine a fair few Ion Storm employees who had worked on Deus Ex and remembered this little hickup in development nearly had heart attacks.

I don't know if everyone knows this but if you fire up the original Deus Ex and you run around in Liberty Island when we made the skyline in the background we had pieces with the Twin Towers and pieces for the other parts of the city and for New Jersey. The texture memory was so high that I couldn't use it all. I took one of the pieces and put it on one side, flipped it and put it on the other. So I made New York out of one half of the city so the Twin Towers were out.

When people complained, we just explained that it had been destroyed by terrorist attacks. We start the game with the Liberty Island statue having been destroyed by terrorists a few years before. We just said that the towers had been destroyed too. And this was way before 9-11.