We did not do it lightly and in no way did it to upset LGBT players.
There are also other technical reasons that would make it even harder beyond the voicework It was a tough decision to take things out like that. They’d just be completely ignoring him while he’s right there. “It’s very difficult to have these characters coexist because we can’t add any dialogue for Mercedes and Tessa. “Mercedes and Tessa were replaced because Russ was added,” says Chris Rohan. The mod team acknowledges that a female character flirting with another female wouldn't be immersion breaking, but they didn't want the scene to feel like it was defaulting to the existing interactions.Īfter community feedback, the mod team says it's working to allow for both approaches if a player wants to roleplay a lesbian JC.
The mod team added Russ, a new NPC replacing two flirtatious female characters, Mercedes and Tessa, who normally stand outside the club. More controversial changes included removing lines from an NPC and giving it to a new NPC so the world still felt like it was built for a female JC Denton. Even that infamous “ what a shame” line is recreated with the exact same sympathetic lip smack. Either we do it right or we shouldn’t bother.”įor starters, JC Denton is now voiced by actress Karen Rohan, who recorded all 1,700 of Denton's original dialogue with the customary cool, stoic demeanor. “Immersion is a core feature of the Deus Ex experience, and a half-implemented female JC Denton would sabotage that. “While a model swap and a vocal plugin could create a cheap facsimile, we felt this would be woefully insufficient,” the mod team wrote in their announcement. It even goes so far as to re-record all of the main character's dialogue, change every single text or verbal pronoun reference, and in some cases even add or significantly modify characters to have it make sense that characters are speaking with a female. A new Deus Ex Mod called the “ Lay D Denton Project” lets you play the classic immersive sim as a female UNATCO agent, something developer Ion Storm ended up cutting from the original game. Game mods that let you change the protagonist's gender are a dime a dozen, but not like this.
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