Deus Ex Franchise - Immersive Sims

[Flexo]

I have Human Revolution but not the DLC. It sounds like Cyberpunk.

Director's cut?

The DLC is pretty fun if you enjoy the game and want more of it. Like an old fashioned expansion.

If someone wanted to claim DX as the backstory to Cyberpunk.... (like Event Horizon & Warhammer 40k) Eh it could work.

 

[The Last Stand]

Director's cut?

The DLC is pretty fun if you enjoy the game and want more of it. Like an old fashioned expansion.

If someone wanted to claim DX as the backstory to Cyberpunk.... (like Event Horizon & Warhammer 40k) Eh it could work.

I don't have a Wii U. Digital copy from Games with Gold.

I'm thinking Cyberpunk because of Deus Ex's elements into transhumanism and cybernetic modifications.

I remember people pushing to not pre order it so it would fail because the preorder promotion was so offensive.

Another controversy I've read about with Mankind Divided: Augs Lives Matters.

Basically, BLM raised a stink over the marketing trying to criticize/sell off their slogan. However, Mankind Divided's release predates the movement.

 

[WULULULULU]

The modern generation of gamers do not deserve Deus Ex. Embracer and Square Enix should kill themselves.

 

[Flexo]

I don't have a Wii U. Digital copy from Games with Gold.

I'm thinking Cyberpunk because of Deus Ex's elements into transhumanism and cybernetic modifications.

Yes, the original DX from way back even had this theme of new "nano cyborgs" outdating the old fashioned "gear" cyborgs.

DX:HR is the prequel showing us the start of the cyborg revolution. I was always disappointed the first game only hinted at Adam's backstory. I keep putting off MD because I know once I start playing it I'll get sucked in and do little else (I played through HR like... 2 or 3 times) but I keep wondering if they do go back and explore Adam's life more.

Was the DX fan film posted in the thread? (At this point DX is like Sonic - just give it to the fans and go away, developers.)

 

[WULULULULU]

Yes, the original DX from way back even had this theme of new "nano cyborgs" outdating the old fashioned "gear" cyborgs.

DX:HR is the prequel showing us the start of the cyborg revolution. I was always disappointed the first game only hinted at Adam's backstory. I keep putting off MD because I know once I start playing it I'll get sucked in and do little else (I played through HR like... 2 or 3 times) but I keep wondering if they do go back and explore Adam's life more.

Was the DX fan film posted in the thread? (At this point DX is like Sonic - just give it to the fans and go away, developers.)

That context really shows how fucked up the first game is given that there was still a form of resistance occuring in the would-be Jensen trilogy. By the time we are in Denton's POV, the world is already in a New World Order, little freedom, forced compliance and a lack of free will/thinking for most regular citizens.

If someone wanted to claim DX as the backstory to Cyberpunk.... (like Event Horizon & Warhammer 40k) Eh it could work.

Deus Ex was always the better Cyberpunk-themed story than Cyberpunk itself.

 

[Flexo]

I've got the novel. (was there more than one?) Again something I hope to get too soon.

 

[TVB]

The modern generation of gamers do not deserve Deus Ex. Embracer and Square Enix should kill themselves.

Squeenix mistreated Eidos/CD in the worst ways possible and I'm not holding my breath of what Embracer is doing to these IPs. I hope and pray Eidos/CD IPs do get into the public domain

 

[topsykrets]

Adam Jensen sucked and so did his shit ass games.
Miss me with the cover-shooting one-button melee takedown shit.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

It's kinda hard to believe Human Revolution is over 10 years old now. The graphics still hold up and the plot is still pretty relevant. I think it's a future cult classic.

 

[TVB]

It's kinda hard to believe Human Revolution is over 10 years old now. The graphics still hold up and the plot is still pretty relevant. I think it's a future cult classic.

When it came out, it was considered a sophomore slump, but years later it was reassessed as a cult classic and one of the best video game sequels.

 

[WULULULULU]

It helped that the artstyle and aesthetic of the two later Deus Ex games were what one would imagine in a time before the OG version, hell I remember some people were saying that Mankind Divided had the aesthetic of the original Deus Ex modernized in a good way.

 

[Flexo]

Adam Jensen sucked and so did his shit ass games.
Miss me with the cover-shooting one-button melee takedown shit.

If a game is going to have cover-shooting, i prefer it done the way DX did it.

I'm not going to defend the melee takedowns. Though it did make pacifist runs almost too easy, there needed to be more of a cap on them.

(the one where you bust through the wall though... that was kino)

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

The only Deus Ex I plaeyd was Human Revolution, but I liked it a lot. The hostage negotiation felt insane and intense to young teenage me.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The only Deus Ex I plaeyd was Human Revolution, but I liked it a lot. The hostage negotiation felt insane and intense to young teenage me.

In retrospect, everything about HR is intense especially those live action Sarif ads. I wish games would world build like that again, I think the only other game that mirrored the Deus Ex type world building is Remember Me from Dontnod which also came out during the same time. There was a website that gave an interactive archive of the events that led up to the events of Remember Me. From what I remember it was really immersive.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

I've got the novel. (was there more than one?) Again something I hope to get too soon.

There were two DX novels IIRC. Icarus Effect which was a prequel to HR and Black Light which covered the time between HR and MD

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

HR/MD storyline.

Nobody who played the original ever asked for this.
Rhetoric, you believe it!?

 

[Flexo]

There were two DX novels IIRC. Icarus Effect which was a prequel to HR and Black Light which covered the time between HR and MD

I got black light. Need to go get Icarus Effect then. Thanks!

 

[CringeNigger]

The first game is definitely the best, it's a fucking masterpiece. It has its flaws, but they don't take away from the experience or ruin the gameplay or atmosphere.

Invisible War is unplayable garbage. Everything about this game just sucks. Shitty engine (when I used to play it, I noticed that this game runs THREE different .exe files before the game starts), shitty graphics, shitty maps, shitty dialogue... They even fucked up the inventory system. The first game had goofy ass voice acting yet it fits like a glove whereas IW has monotonous extremely boring voice acting and the plot is basically the same. I felt immersed while playing the first Deus Ex and felt like I was a part of the game world, in Invisible War I felt like the world is fake because all the maps are way too small. This is also the reason exploring the game world wasn't fun but tedious for me.

Human Revolution is overrated. After I beat the first Deus Ex, I beat like 10 more times and also played lots of mods for it. After I beat Human Revolution the only thought I had before uninstalling the game was 'I've seen everything this game has to offer' and never wanted to play it again. It doesn't help that the plot is basically rehashed from the first game just like in Invisible War.

 

[Spud]

Adam Jensen sucked and so did his shit ass games.
Miss me with the cover-shooting one-button melee takedown shit.

I'm personally disgusted they didn't have the stats. I WANT MY MASTER LEVEL SWIMMING BACK GODDAMNIT!

 

[Dread First]

Human Revolution is overrated.

I have a bit of a soft spot for Human Revolution. I remember being a high school kid looking at Steam games I could never play on my piece of shit family PC hand-me-down from 2007, and Human Revolution was the one that managed to evoke the most wonder from me. Were you ever a broke kid playing the latest DBZ fighting game demos at Game Crazy way back when? Human Revolution would be one of those games I'd love to buy or at least try from there had Hollywood Video not gone bankrupt the year before its release.

Funnily enough, I still never played Human Revolution. When I built my first PC and bought my first set of Steam games, I bought some sort of Eidos mega bundle thingamajig that gave me Deus Ex GOTY, Human Revolution, Mankind Divided, and Invisible War. I started playing the original first and uh... I never once looked back. Came for the cyberpunk atmosphere, stayed for the countless ways to break the game and all the memes that ensued.

The fact that you can't break Human Revolution or Mankind Divided to anywhere near the same extent as Deus Ex GOTY is basically the biggest reason why I never bothered playing them in the first place.