To be honest, when playing the first two Deus Ex games, I was all about nano-augmentation and got everything I could. But when I was playing Deus Ex 3, I was disappointed to find out that not turning on your augmentations had no bearing on the story (obviously there wouldn’t be any physical changes, but I would have expected a psychological aspect of refusing to use them).

I guess at the nano-technical level, it’s invisible so you don’t think about it. And I understand if it’s a replacement for an injury. But the idea of purposely removing a body part to replace it with an enhanced one? It just seems… unnatural to me.

Now, I would never choose death over it, or even to live handicapped if there’s an option. And when you throw in neurological augmentations to improve higher brain functionality? Things get really shaky. But I would like to think I would accept only what was necessary to retain what would have been lost.

Cliche, maybe, but…