Yes, but I wanted her in-game. I just hope we see her in the next game :)
Deus Ex Mankind Divided is such an underrated game
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Yes, but I wanted her in-game. I just hope we see her in the next game :)
Loved HR but never did get around to this until a couple years ago on Playstation and was very impressed. Exploring Prague was interesting and there were lots of neat secrets and sidequests to work through.
It did occasionally get irritating with the backtracking and constant patrols, but you get abilities to help mitigate that eventually somewhat(still a relative constant as you zigzag districts constantly). Also some abilities felt a bit OP where at times even on highest difficulty I could stealthily deal with most anything, but I did pretty much max out everything by doing all side content, so my power level was kind of expected I guess. Still, I did always feel like I was engaging with the tools and abilities to bypass various patrols without just clicking a "win" button either. I had to always be mindful of what I was doing, so credit is due.
Great game and an engaging story and setup. Highly recommended and I still need to play the DLC stuff which I hear is as-good if not even stronger than the core game.
It did occasionally get irritating with the backtracking and constant patrols, but you get abilities to help mitigate that eventually somewhat(still a relative constant as you zigzag districts constantly). Also some abilities felt a bit OP where at times even on highest difficulty I could stealthily deal with most anything, but I did pretty much max out everything by doing all side content, so my power level was kind of expected I guess. Still, I did always feel like I was engaging with the tools and abilities to bypass various patrols without just clicking a "win" button either. I had to always be mindful of what I was doing, so credit is due.
Great game and an engaging story and setup. Highly recommended and I still need to play the DLC stuff which I hear is as-good if not even stronger than the core game.
I really, REALLY love this game and I lump it together with Prey because both are sci-fi masterpieces that everyone should play. Finish Jensen's story!
it was because of the microtransactions that square enix implemented in the last moment along with cut content, but the game was always amazing and these microtransacitions actually had zero impact in the game because you could get all these items in the game by playing, but you know internet loves negativity and many people didnt buy the game because of it
The games sold 12 million copies combined, if that is poor sales then I dont know man
I remember the reaction to Human Revolution being "holy crap, this team came from nowhere and made a proper Deus Ex game, what a miracle". Then they did it again with Mankind Divided, and people were like, "Yeah, but it's just another Deus Ex game". As if we were drowning in them.
this! especially The Director's Cut of Human Revolution that's still stuck in PS3-era jail
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE did I mention LOVE this fucking game!
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! It hurts it couldn't cook for longer and it seems we'll never get the conclusion to Jensen's story. Eidos Montreal finally nailed the Deus Ex gameplay in this game. The level design is just so fucking PHENOMENAL and the Palisade Bank Heist and the DLC Heist mission are just so goddamn amazing it's incredible.
And more importantly, as touched on above, they actually commit to a non-lethal playstyle. You can beat the game without killing a single person. And no bullshit, oh I tranquilized them and so they're knocked out as opposed to shooting them. Yes, that exists as an option. But what I mean is you can get through the majority of the game as an actual Ghost, meaning never knocking out a single guard, never getting seen. A complete ghost. I cannot tell you how fucking satisfying that feels. And the limited boss encounter also sticks to this multi-facted design where a stealth build can either incapacitate or just talk down even the main bosses; preserving you playstyle.
Why can't I get this in other games?!?!
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! It hurts it couldn't cook for longer and it seems we'll never get the conclusion to Jensen's story. Eidos Montreal finally nailed the Deus Ex gameplay in this game. The level design is just so fucking PHENOMENAL and the Palisade Bank Heist and the DLC Heist mission are just so goddamn amazing it's incredible.
And more importantly, as touched on above, they actually commit to a non-lethal playstyle. You can beat the game without killing a single person. And no bullshit, oh I tranquilized them and so they're knocked out as opposed to shooting them. Yes, that exists as an option. But what I mean is you can get through the majority of the game as an actual Ghost, meaning never knocking out a single guard, never getting seen. A complete ghost. I cannot tell you how fucking satisfying that feels. And the limited boss encounter also sticks to this multi-facted design where a stealth build can either incapacitate or just talk down even the main bosses; preserving you playstyle.
Why can't I get this in other games?!?!
Man I love to see so much love for this game in resetera, this is great
Mechanically and aesthetically it's fantastic, and what levels are there are well-designed, but all the complaints about the narrative being cut short really hold water. Last time I played I was in shock by how the majority of the game and most of its memorable moments all exist within the side quests. A lot of the main quest is "fly here and talk to someone" with very little of the more standard infiltration levels that make up the previous game. I think by the time you reach the halfway point in MD you've only really infiltrated like one large enemy base, where as by the same point in the HR you had done it like 4 times by then.
The strange thing is that HR isn't even really a longer game? Like they take the same amount of time to play but I just feel like I'm doing sooo much more when I play HR.
It's such a shame because the game really does play so well. You just want more of it so you can start using your abilities more and then it ends.
The strange thing is that HR isn't even really a longer game? Like they take the same amount of time to play but I just feel like I'm doing sooo much more when I play HR.
It's such a shame because the game really does play so well. You just want more of it so you can start using your abilities more and then it ends.
It also has some of the most insanely detailed worlds I've ever seen in a game.
Still better than a lot of similar games today.
Still better than a lot of similar games today.
Yes, the veticality that the game offers and all the secrets the map has, its just incredible, we need more maps like this, I am tired of open worlds
For comparison, I really enjoy Cyberpunk's narrative. But I really don't see the actual benefit for Night City being so massive and a GTA sorta copy. The "small" but densely packed hub design that Deus Ex goes for is just FAR more rewarding and memorable. Like, who cares and remembers all the empty space and highways in Night City? Whereas I know every inch of Prague like the back of my hand and every vendor and person that exists within it.
I'm glad the sentiment has improved over time, the game's not perfect but I felt it didn't get its due at release. A massive achievement for immersive sim design and I'd sacrifice just about any upcoming game for a follow-up.
You walk through the Red Light District at night as the city soundtrack slowly blends into this masterpiece as you enter the club:
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Because the game's story feels like part one of a bigger whole and has no satisfying conclusion. The game's story is building towards Rab'iah and we never even get there.
That's not to say Mankind Divided is a bad game, far from it, but it does explain some of the negative sentiments at launch. I think people now can appreciate the game for what it is more than dislike it for what it isn't.
The announcement trailer is one of the best. All the new augs it shows off. So good.
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Loved this series and the second game was pretty good. Adam Jenson is a pretty cool character as well. This Sam Coe shut ain't it.
I know the hub map gets a lot of praise, but I thought it was almost too dense. The first time I played the game, I played it like any other immersive sim and compulsively searched every nook and cranny, broke into every apartment, read all the emails on every terminal, crawled around in every ventilation duct… and eventually started to find it all very aimless and boring. There's a lot of stuff to see but not much of it is all that compelling. It made me appreciate how purposeful the maps felt in the first two games by comparison.
Great game, incredible music, plays well, just overall a great improvement over the first game. A real shame that the story just sort of ends after what feels like the conclusion to act 2, though.
The writing is a complete and total mess (inexcusably so in spots) and the game feels like it ends at the beginning of its third act, but Prague is one of my favorite immersive sim hubs ever. It's so densely detailed and full of connecting paths and quests, it's wonderful.
fantastic game
I liked it a lot more than HR and thought it was the best deus ex since the original
I liked it a lot more than HR and thought it was the best deus ex since the original
Gameplay was amazing. Had a lot of different ways to navigate areas and the variety means you can do another play and play it differently.
However the story, the main thing Deus ex is known for, was pretty simple and by the end didn't get into the Illuminati when tooth the game was slowly building them up. Instead we foil another terrorist plot and the game ends. The post credit cutscene then drops a couple big reveals which has major implications for the current game and the next one if it happened.
Basically it it was a fun game but wasted a lot of it's potential and because a sequel is unlikely it's a 2 part story missing the second part it's incomplete.
However the story, the main thing Deus ex is known for, was pretty simple and by the end didn't get into the Illuminati when tooth the game was slowly building them up. Instead we foil another terrorist plot and the game ends. The post credit cutscene then drops a couple big reveals which has major implications for the current game and the next one if it happened.
Basically it it was a fun game but wasted a lot of it's potential and because a sequel is unlikely it's a 2 part story missing the second part it's incomplete.
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That was a factor, as was the fact that people felt the game didn't have a proper climax (I personally felt it was fairly sastifying while still clearly setting up for a sequel, but still). Also, this is just speculation, but I remember loving a lot of the side content in the game and honestly thinking it might be better than the main plot, and its possible people rushed through the game without seeing any of that.
One of my favourite games of last gen, probably all time. I just LOVE the atmosphere in this. Probably the most accomplished speculative sci fi setting in gaming. I love how everything seems interconnected and serves a purpose. Prague is the a masterclass in game design and visual narrative. And it's the peak of immersiv sims for me.
I didn't even finish HR, but this one clicked (and I've played it a couple of years after release).
I really hope they can bring this series back.
I didn't even finish HR, but this one clicked (and I've played it a couple of years after release).
I really hope they can bring this series back.
Almost the same for me. LOVED the first one, but I didn't get past the very early part of the second one. Like a European city block or something. Maybe I need to give it another chance.
How much of that was MD's sales and how many MD copies were sold at deep discounts? These days that game goes for like $5 on PS store during sales.
I loved Human Revolution and the original Deus Ex, but couldn't get into Mankind Divided at all.
For me the world just seemed uninteresting. Human Revolution felt new, and the cyber renaissance motif was intriguing. Mankind Divided had the lamest theme ever going on with the Aug Underclass thing.
In general Eidos missed the mark hard by recontextualizing the franchise to be about robot arms rather than the deeper themes found in the first game. Augmentations in DX1 were a background plot device detail at best.
For me the world just seemed uninteresting. Human Revolution felt new, and the cyber renaissance motif was intriguing. Mankind Divided had the lamest theme ever going on with the Aug Underclass thing.
In general Eidos missed the mark hard by recontextualizing the franchise to be about robot arms rather than the deeper themes found in the first game. Augmentations in DX1 were a background plot device detail at best.
I don't like it on a personal level, it's missing the "revolutional optimism" that made the HR's atmosphere so unique, Prague feels sad and depressing.
Not to mention that it ends in the first act of what feels like three, automatically disqualifying it from any "this game is good" discussion - it's just unfinished. Biggest cliffhanger I've had the unfortune to stumble upon.
Not to mention that it ends in the first act of what feels like three, automatically disqualifying it from any "this game is good" discussion - it's just unfinished. Biggest cliffhanger I've had the unfortune to stumble upon.