History VideoGame / TheNamelessMod

* CanadaEh: King Kashue will regularly poke fun at the fact that Trestkon is Canadian, for example in the first conversation the two have, he asks if Trestkon has been "cooking moose kebabs over a polar bear dung fire" while he's been gone.

%%* BonusBoss: Athena and Beefman.

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Released in 2009, but set September of 2004. However, since it takes place in a virtual reality, the technology better matches TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

%%* PostModernism

* NoPronunciationGuide: The developers have mentioned they cared about getting Jonas' name ([[http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-nameless-mod/features/noesis-presents-moddb-tv-the-nameless-mod pronounced with a y sound]]) pronounced right.
** [[http://www.offtopicproductions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35779#p35779 Even the man who has it as his real name]] gets it wrong sometimes (granted, the name is Danish, not English).
** A running joke in the game is how unpronouncable the protagonist Trestkon's name is - a certain character will persistently pronounce it a new way every time he says it [[spoiler:except if he gets angry]].

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original VideoGame/DeusEx's WorldHalfEmpty, Forumcity at its rarely seen worst is a humorous CrapsackWorld and at its best, every non-villan lives HappilyEverAfter. As does Andreus, but no-one cares about him.

* SequenceBreaking: Most of the doors in the game have infinite strength. A good way to breeze through ''Deus Ex'' was to breech doors with explosives and rockets, which could usually be found almost everywhere. ''The Nameless Mod'' makes them much harder to find, forcing you to rely more on lockpicks, multitools, passwords, and alternate paths opposed to sheer force.

** A notepad late in the game has a list of some Deus Ex tropes, despite Wiki/TVTropes barely existing back then.

* UncannyValley: [[invoked]] Shadowcode has a pretty realistic face, which is creepy in a game where the graphics are designed to look like they are from 2000. WordOfGod, via IRC, is that this is deliberate.

See also ''VideoGame/{{Zodiac}}'', an older mod for ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. For newer mods, check out ''[[VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven 2027]]'' or ''[[VideoGame/DeusExNihilum Deus Ex: Nihilum]]''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Every character in the game is based on someone from the fan forums the game is based on, which is why the mod has a metric crapload of characters.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Between the game being based in a massive user-run game-specific forum to [[spoiler:Gamespy being the BigBad]], TNM unintentionally dated itself as a product of the [[TheAughts mid-late Aught's]]

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: The fan fiction shop owners have the "start with one question, ask another, and another" effect. No matter how much you love VideoGame/DeusEx, you are bound to have them tell you something you missed in the original game, or at least get a nice explanation of the historical background of the conspiracy theories that make up the ConspiracyKitchenSink.
** One of them even warns you when you're about to enter a particularly long-winded conversation, which is littered with increasingly rude options for escaping the branch.

* BigBadEnsemble: Scara B. King is a BigBad of the PDX campaign, but you can also choose to side with him, making the PDX leaders the main antagonists... [[spoiler:Until, that is, you uncover the AncientConspiracy and discover that Despot, the other [=ForumPlanet=] admins, and the aliens really hold this title. The aliens themselves and the Alien Overseer serve as the game's BiggerBad, while Despot could be seen as the true BigBad. However, you still have to face Scara/the PDX leaders at the end]].

* {{GIFT}}: The unregistered users act like this, according to their bio in the tutorial level.
--> Board guests are generally subject to abuse from more experienced users due to their tendency for immature behavior and their reluctance to take responsibility for their own actions, instead hiding behind anonymity.

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* PacifistRun: Of course, it is a ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' [[GameMod mod]], after all. You can finish the game without killing anyone if you're allied with a certain faction, and if you work for the other faction you only have to kill two persons. (One of them can be [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath killed by talking.]])

%%* TheUnfought: Phasmatis.

* StoryDrivenInvulnerability: Averted, you can kill anyone who is not a moderator (and you do find a way to kill these in some of the MultipleEndings), you can kill boss characters like [[PsychoExGirlfriend Kylie]], [[ProfessionalKiller ZeroPresence]], and [[IntrepidReporter Slicer]] early in the game. However, it is played straight with [[spoiler: Scara B. King. You can waltz right into his office and kill him, but it is ''very'' hard to do (for obvious reasons) and you trigger a NonStandardGameOver if you do it before TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.]]

* LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler:Despot, and presumably the other Forum Planet admins as well]].

* JokeWeapon: Screw driver, the Llamas' and Goats' sporks/foons, plus the original game's pepper spray.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: [=NPCs=] will sometimes comment on how everyone looks alike (see One Steve Limit below). Another moment is when you sneak up on two mooks near a very dangerous looking jumping puzzle. One mook will comment on the point of it being there, saying that it is like "those stupid jumping puzzles in old video games put in instead of giving you more enemies to shoot."

* CoolShades: Apparently, almost everyone, including you.

* FriendOnTheForce: Phasmatis, Trestkon's former superior from his special forces days, functions as his friend in the government.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can hurt and kill anyone who's not a moderator, [[spoiler: Scara B. King]] or one of the two reanimated heads in the voodoo shop.
** In contrast to King Kashue rewarding you for keeping enemies alive, Phas will reward you for doing the ''exact opposite''

** It is possible to kill [[spoiler: ilver Dragon]] by convincing him to flee the [=WorldCorp=] parking lot... and be gunned down by [=WorldCorp=] guards.

* NotQuiteStarring: Lawrence "Trestkon" Laxdal does the voices of a few [=NPCs=], but not the lead who named after him. Jonas Waever DOES voice himself, however.