The Lay D Denton project is an effort to provide a FULL seamless female JC Denton experience. Features include: -A complete female JC voiceover -Female JC model -All pronouns and gender references modified -Additional minor characters, and scene changes appropriate to a female JC.
I've just finished playing this and it was absolutely awesome. I've been playing Deus Ex to completion at least once a year for the last 20 years, it's my all time favourite game and I absolutely approve this mod! :)
Huge thanks to the creators and testers, that must have been an enormous amount of work, especially considering the level of quality. Apart from just a handful of slightly off-sounding edits, the whole experience felt very "official".
Please, accept my gratitude! Yum sing!
Very well made mod
This does an excellent job of integrating into the base game and making the narrative feel designed for an alternative perspective. The VO also nails the stoic cadence of the original. A great effort, all around. Now it just needs compatibility and we'll truly be living in the future of DX1.
A grand undertaking that expands on Deus Ex, and does so without hurting the original game. Fits seamlessly as an extension of the original game, both from a vision perspective and quality perspective. Absolutely phenomenal.
Really impressed with this! I love the new female model, the different skin & hair colours..I would love to see more customization, clothing options and maybe more feminine HUD colours. Idk I just think it would be so fun and attract lots of female players! like me lol I appreciate so much all the effort put into the voice acting and the pronouns! Amazing work and I am so grateful for this mod. Always wanted to be able to play as a female Agent in one of my favourite games of all time <3
There are precisely two main reasons to download the Lay D Denton Project:
1) Karen Rohan's delivery is a dead-ringer (right down to lip smacks and awkward pauses) for Jay Anthony Franke's performance from the original game, and it stands up to repeated listens and the kind of "meme-worthy" content the original performance was known for. This performance alone is well-worth the download, and a worthy addition to the maingame.
2) There's a selection of cut content integrated in this mod -- which, to the dev team's credit, has been documented thoroughly and is available separately for modders to utilize -- which hasn't been included on any other mod release, AFAIK. This includes unused Infolink messages (the sick Paul emailing you to come back to the hotel if you go into the Sewers during the transmitter mission, Everett having an extra message in A51 Sector 3, more MIB/MJ12 commando dialogue at the A51 outdoor hangar), some ambient dialogue and a few other odds and ends.
The rest of the mod is... eh?
I really liked the idea of a female-voiced JC Denton, which was a plan that (AFAIK) was scrapped early in development, and only had a few orphaned references (enemies talking about a "guy in a coat", etc.) and some concept art proving it was even thought of.
With that said, I feel like there could have been more done to differentiate this female JC character from the male counterpart. Not that I'm expecting any new missions or weird conversation paths, but maybe certain ambient skills like a passive boost to agility over the base version or some more customization options might have been appreciated.
The new NPCs are... a little weird. Two of them, which you find the moment you step into UNATCO, start arguing about which pronoun to call you. There's an NPC in the Underworld Bar who seems to veer between awkwardly cozying up to you and treating you like you need a bowl of chicken soup and a pat on the head. There are a couple thug-type characters that catcall the player, but these are so few and far between that I almost forgot they existed.
I still believe that this is a mod worth playing, and I will be very interested to see if further compatibility can be done with other existing mods down the line -- it's already been integrated into Revision and several other community works. Still, definitely worth a look.
Thanks for the mod. Great job!
Thanks for the mod. Great job!
Nice, must see. Maybe lead to making a pronoun mod with what's going on with gaming, now a days, using these files. :o)
Fantastic high-quality work by an amazing modding team. Well done!