Deus Ex Mankind Divided review
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- This video has been a long time in the making as I really wanted to give my favourite series' latest addition the thought and attention it deserves.
It's not a nostalgic review like the others, I'm trying to be fair in this one. But if you want to see the other Deus Ex videos that I've made, see below:
Deus Ex - • Deus Ex - a Nostalgic ...
Human Revolution - • Deus Ex: Human Revolut...
A few additional points (6 GB upload isn't something you want to do more than once, fortunately these are just a few small things)
Stealth now uses a Hitman-style bar, enemies only spot you once this is full. If you're further away / concealed in some way then it fills up a lot slower, making stealth much more manageable rather than an insta-alarm. This is much better than Human Revolution, though it's still harder because of the greater number of enemies in the levels.
Looking at the Soundtrack Michael McCann was accompanied by Sascha Dikiciyan and Ed Harrison this time as well. Apologies for not giving you guys credit in this video- you've also helped to make this game's music what it is. My extra long pokey fingers would also pat your heads in approval.
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"You can't just pick up Deus Ex and play it"
The best line.
Palisade Bank is incredible. When I found out how to reach the three other accessible corporate vaults and the things you could get inside them, it was one of the most rewarding feelings I've ever had in a game.
My Grandpa once said, "Your generation relies too much on technology!"
I replied, "No your generation relies too much on technology!"
Then I unplugged his life support
What the fuck...
really?
Lol good one
He didn't asked for this
That's brutal.
Mankind Divided is really underrated, the gameplay and exploration is absolutely superb. Such a shame it didn't sell better
i agree
because a deus ex game is about its story
what a shame.
instead we're probably going to get 10 more call of duty's then again we live in an age of instant gratification the growth of online gaming has taking an impact of deep single player stories
every deus ex game has the original to live up to, everyone's expectations are extremely high despite the fact no game in the series has or will surpass it so they won't enjoy it for what it is and nitpick the one note story that obviously doesn't live up to the first game
FYI, you don't actually have to fight that guy at the end. You can find an item that is literally a remote control that kills him.
They should have allowed us to not kill him. Maybe like in Dishonoured where we can just brand people instead of killing them.
You can't not kill him afaik. But I'd argue that it's in a good thing in the sense that it's in line with his character. There's no way he'd back down until either he gets what he wants or he's dead.
What happened to Phillip's comment? :(
Duesux Machinin
nothing
MD unlike HR has the ability to not kill any boss, there is even an achievement Pacifist(a recurring challenge from HR) in Steam that is given upon completing the game without killing anyone at all, even the bosses (Something that was requested/suggested by the fans since HR).
I absolutely love your enthusiasm in these types of videos.
this game requires a huge dedication from the player to enter into the atmosphere , i don't know if i'm ready for this
A resposta é 42 Do it man, you won't regret it. I just finished it. I loved it so MUCH. I keep playing it
huge investment my ass
It's worth it. I took 3 weeks off of work when it came out. It was worth it. I can't wait to build my new PC and give it another go.
@@FreelanceDev4life
>I took 3 weeks off of work when it came out
yikes
@@stdcall 2 years late but let’s hope he means because of sickness
4 years and a half later I discover this video :). Thank you. Once in a while, when my mediaplayer puts on the deus ex soundtracks, I get a nostalgia shot.
But how can it be nostalgia when it's only a few years old? It's that good.
I do care for the story, a lot even. Yet I think I agree with most of what you way.
Deux ex is just one of the games that never really gets old.
Exept Invisible War, the unwanted bastard-child.
@@2kliksphilip Thats it, I'm re-installing.
This is one of the most underrated games of the last several years. Opportunities for creative exploration and environmental storytelling in an open world/hub space were maybe never done better than they are here. Puts Cyberpunk to shame. This and Kingdome Come Deliverance are the template for the kind of games I desperately wish were made more often.
Okay, finished this video and its 100% how I feel. Like pretty much exactly. What are your other favorite games? :)
At 0:42 he is viewing textures right?
Typical map creators XD
but the textures are great
I do that and I don't make maps
Everyone look at textures
Orks i do that in every game i play XD unfortunately it's difficult to do in 3rd person games like Witcher 3 ):
I am looking on wall in reality
the way you talk about this game reminds me of how hard I fell in with FarCry3 and DisHonored back in the day
Both games were released some time ago, both of them had one or more following games, a new generation of consoles have been released sinse then so, unless you want to hear me rant about how the Snes was the last good console released, yeah, "back in the day".
Your rendering settings are absolutely amazing! I am watching the video on a 1080p monitor and with the settings on 4k it looks like I am playing it myself.
Sgt. Snuffles Sneaky move ;)
the music in this game give me chills. I can't stop listening to its soundtrack.
What a poetic and deep review, amazing, never watched any better!
One of my favourite side missions in this game was the bank heist, absolutely brilliant one that.
Interesting take. I really enjoyed the game, to the point where I think it may have been the best Action crpg of 2016, and certainly one of the best multi-platform games of the year. That said, I was still pissed at Square. Not the devs in Montreal, the publishers themselves.
The DLC was pulled from the game and modified a bit, and roughly 1/3 of the game was cut altogether from the end for the next installment which they cancelled soon after release do to poor sales.
The jail DLC? That was supposed to be in the beginning of the game. I forget the quote from Square but it was akin too “People don’t want 90 main stories, and add microtransactions”.
The game was obviously made not even knowing they would be added, and the reason so many characters or stories seemed unfinished was because the game had those 30 hours cut, and the 3 DLC’s pulled from the game a month, possibly less, before launch. It was like a movie that needed to be 3 hours long, and the studio saying “No, we’ll get less money in ticket sales because there will be less showings. Chop it in half”, and they left a ton of film on the cutting room floor.
It’s a testament to Eidos Montreal that the game made sense at all. Square should be disgusted with the Augment My Pre-Order campaign (or maybe not, I didn’t really care), but they should be appalled with the cuts, canceling the sequel, just the entire handling of the game and franchise after the fact.
“Pre-orders were horrible, we better cut half the game”. “It’s selling badly, forget it, lose what isn’t in the 3 DLC’s, the sequel is cancelled”.
So yep, the game was a blast, and I know they said the sequel was cancelled because they needed all hands on deck for new Marvel titles, but following the production from start to finish, that’s a load of crap.
I can only imagine how much better the game would have been if it was left the way it was initially submitted for final approval. 80 hour main quest, 100-150 hours of side quests. What the heck was Square Enix thinking? Especially with the length of action crpg’s of late? Skyrim and Fallout 3? Pretty fricken long, though a ton is procedural. The Witcher 3 had recently come out? Pretty fricken long. And the content was already done! It wasn’t like they wanted more money to add to the game. Wow it irks me.
My 3 favorite franchises all got screwed in about a year and a half. Deus Ex for being chopped then cancelled which was then changed to “put on hold indefinitely”, then Fallout 4 which was a leap backwards in every way that made the new Fallouts so enjoyable (story, choice, agency as none of those choices matter, but hey, you can build settlements instead of rescuing what you still believe is your young child; but yeah, what parent wouldn’t rather build fricken fences?), and the utter disaster that was Mass Effect: Andromeda. The only one I chose not to finish, as everything felt like a gosh darn chore. None of the “Social Justice” complaints, and I could care if Manveer hates me for being a cis half Caucasian male. The game was just so bad. I didn’t like the fighting. I was not a fan of the story...
It was a rough year and a half for my favorite franchises, thank goodness I’d had such a silly library of older games I hadn’t played to get me by, as it’s not just my favorite franchises, it’s the majority of AAA games now. Heh, I finished Divinity: Original Sin 2 then started on the Arkham series as I’d only played the first.
At least Madden is back on PC, and gameplay is exactly like it was on the PS3. The tangents Deus Ex Mankind Divided can lead into!
I knew about the low sales and the following hiatus-status of Deus Ex but I had no idea about the cut conten that already was finished!! That's just sad. I really enjoyed the gameplay, and I enjoyed where the story was going. So sad how it just ended with a whimper. And as a slap in the face a cliffhanger in the credits on top of that..
TLDR?
@Mohammed
Postponed indefinately. The game failed to even setup the cliffhanger because of the lackluster story and characters. How many of us care to see if Jensen discovers who is behind all of this?
Cyberpunk 2077 is another added to the list of disappointments
I didnt even think about buying it because of my shitty pc :..|
I played it on a low at 1080p with a laptop that had a 775m. Managed above 30fps and I put 80 hours into my first play through.
I can't even play CSGO on low and i don't have steam :(
Have you tried working hard for better moneys?
You can get a PS4 disc copy on amazon for $1
I played it at 720p on medium-low, on a 940M laptop card, at 30 fps. No regrets.
Phillip I have to thank you for your genius work. You really know what you are talking about. Thanks for your work your review changed my opinion about that game. Thanks for all Phillip !
I love these reviews
This review literally made me rethink the game which got so much bad press from mainstream and other indie channels. It seems like a fantastic open world with actually interesting things in it that you can break into and fuck with, aka my favourite kind of game!
I will never get full experience with games like this, games these days felt like all have that play however you want kinda thing. Well the thing is I always play games like this non lethal stealth. If i fail stealth I will restart and keep trying.
They always push for u to do that unfortunately. In deus ex human revolution u got the most points for that play style and got shouted at by npcs if u didn’t. For some reason with this game I didn’t feel obliged to play like that so maybe the same will happen to u.
Phillip, in the offices of the bank, you were seen through the window when you were hacking. You can turn on the shades in almost all offices so you can move around freely. Just find the semi obvious buttons on the walls.
Oi Philip, review Dishonored 2
Yes!
Julian Lawrie console port...
Console also runs like shit...
[ H4NS3N ] its just very bad optimized
***** Yeah, I heard the engine is the main reason.
Fun fact: going to the aug train screens at the back of a station and taking the augs line avoids all of those unstoppable police check ups.
I'm a fan of the series, played the first one's multiplayer for many years, maybe it's my most played game ever and it started me on the path of learning level design and 3d modelling. It's good to see that someone, who knows about technical details makes review like this. I had to stop at 10:36 just to press like.
It was 8.49 USD on sale this morning, so I bought it on your recommendation. I'm hyped, I loved Human Revolution.
I liked what you said about the near-future being exciting yet terrifying, on one hand I'm excited to experience the real 2029 and laugh at the representation of it in this game, on the other hand I'm a bit scared because I don't know where I'll be and what I'll do then
P.S.
In 2029 I'll be 37, and if there WILL be augmentations and bionic body parts I would like to replace my blind left eye, and improve my right one :-)
DX: start with UNATCO, quit it becauase it's corrupt, and take down the people behind it.
DXMD: start with TF29 (UNATCO), and stay there.
I fucking love your reviews man, some of your best content
I liked the destruction darius reference at the end with the explosions.
Quality video as always Philip. I really love your videos for this reason. You put time into it to make them as great as you can. Keep up the good work baby !
Thanks for the review! I'm in love with human revolution and especially Hengsa, because it not only takes you to a location with a different culture, it also upgrades it to 2027.
When I heard Mankind divided is going to be in Prague I was a bit disappointed, because I'm Eastern European Russian, so there is nothing new (culturewise) it could have given to me. But when you see same streets, same people, same swearings, same piles of shit everywhere AND all this cool tech within your own city, it makes you believe that we ARE going to have all those upgrades. Makes you believe that it's just a matter of time when people would have those augmentations within your own place.
My own opinion with different perspective.
I think the last game was in Poland... Ehm and Polish and Czech Cultures are West Slavic, so you will see a lot of similiarities, of course you will hear "Kurva/Kurwa" in both games, because Poles and Czechs use it a lot, the languages are kinda similiar. For example. If you meant it like "It didnt give me anything new culturewise because im Eastern Slav" then thats wrong, there are A LOT OF difference between West Slavic cultures and East Slavic cultures, I cant understand Russian, if you came to me spoke to me in Russian, I wouldnt understand you anything... mabye 2% of words, but thats nothing.
an amazingly great game. my favorite of all time
I really love your reviews, I wish you did these more often!
7:20 "we ship people" cool can I get mine by next Tuesday?
I'm playing through for a second time and just noticed that written on a container in the sewers for the first time literally yesterday. I was like, "What? Well, good to know!"
0:24
I kinda feel like that with all games. I don't enjoy playing games anymore.
IKR, sometimes I just look at my Steam library filled with hundreds of games... and think to myself "damn, I have nothing to play."
:/
Moooment mal, dich kenn ich doch! Lol.
Yeah growing up as a gamer sucks. You get bored of games at 20. I did myself as well. Thank god I found a way to work with games instead and just doing workshop.
I think we're getting old, m8.
I'm 44 and I'm still enjoying games.
Even if there has been clearly a
change in gaming for the worst (DLC with cut content day one, dumbed down games with bad consoles port, micro-transactions in full price games) there are still beautiful ones.
DX:MD is one of them even with its flaws (the original DX wasn't perfect either even if it's one of my favorite games ever).
very good job, i like that you are real, long-term gamer not like other famous youtube players (they are not gamers for me), you know the games, their history and stories, you deserve much more attention! you know who Warren Spector is, you remember ut99, fileleech, the story and the details from the first deusex... Impressive! Not many such people i know! subscribed.
Thanks for the review. I didn't know what to expect from this game but this video makes me want to play it.
7:09 he sees a box disappear for a split second and tries to crawl under it. It's a glitch but he still falls for it.
11:56 Man, I haven't seen Adam this pissed before
The most underrated and misunderstood game of all time. Level design, narrative, stealth, dialogues, weapons, missions, lore etc. is refined. I don't understand how anyone can negatively criticize a game like Mankind Divided, EVEN recognizing some problems, it is just phenomenal. I just love this game!
The ending is rushed and incomplete. Nothing like the original Deus Ex was.
This game's narrative is a complete joke. The concept of augmented people experiencing racism is so stupid but the execution is even more cheesy and cringe even the characters are poorly written because they tried to make this awful idea work. I would rather play 1000s of Kingdom Hearts than go through this game's story. The only good things about Mankind Divided's non gameplay parts are a couple of sidequests, level design and Adam's voice actor.
I'm so disappointed in this game but since it's short it's very replayable and I've put over 80 hours in this game. I like exploring the levels in this game like the Utulek Complex, Palisade bank, Garm facility, Prague. So much effort put into other aspects but the story is so insulting to the player's intelligence and to the Deus Ex franchise.
Also, this game inherits Human Revolution's flaws and only magnifies it like how no one in this world shuts the fuck up about augmentations. Everywhere you go all the npcs only talk about how much they hate Augmented people or how Augmented people are facing "Racism" which makes the world feel very fake and shallow as if this world was a made up to tell this shallow story unlike the original Deus Ex which had such a rich atmosphere.
This video is the very reason I subscribed to you , high quality writing and review . One of my most favourite games wished the game was completed and as the ending was very underwhelming .
YT recommended me this video. No idea if it is because of your Boris upload today or if it's pushing cyberpunk content to hype... well, Cyberpunk:D
"pissed stained future" made me chuckle
who else hates it when good UA-camrs like this one dont get views like they once did
It would be dank to see you stream this game
All of the immersion dies when you actually live in Prague. There's not a single real place in the game.
Here Here to the next installation. MD was wildly underrated!
It never felt like busywork or overwhelming to me. The game has no map with things to do, on the contrary it rewards you for thinking outside the box or being curious. Its a really great game with amazing graphics, details, world building, secondary missions better than the main one, lots of replayability. I was hooked from the moment you reach praga and are free to burglar every single home you see 😅 I played the whole game 3 times in the past years and it never gets tired.
This is an old video and you're probably not going to see my comment but this is the video that encouraged me to buy the whole Deus Ex series (On sale for 12$ on Steam) about a week ago. You introduced me to one of my most favorite game series' in a while. Thank you so much.
interior designs and fashion designs in this game are amazing and realistic.
I think I've watched this video 6 times, good job Philip.
There are so many errors in the subtitles, I want to die
Magni be a UA-cam hero and fix them!!!
2kliksphilip A few words are different from what you say, it's often just single word mistakes
that's because Philip uploads the script straight into UA-cam. This means that there will obviously be slight differences between the script (subtitles) and what he's saying.
That really doesn't matter... It's about the message he gives, not in the precise word choices he makes in forming the sentences that make up the actual message.
superghost6 well said
+2kliksphilip
1.) There isn't any right way to play the game, you can stealth the game, run and gun, juggernaut, etc. This also means you don't have to play necessarily as a good guy, you can kill cops, kill civilians, damage property, deliberately screw some people over, etc.
2.) Ya quick saves. I wouldn't have used them as much if they had more auto-saves but what can ya do.
3.) You can save Miller, the guests, and the main bad guy. You just have to make the right choices.
4.) 15:10 That's the point of augmentations, it saves your time, health, ammo, etc. Try playing the game without augs, it's really hard. (the cloaking and carbon blade shooting augs have saved my ass more than once.)
5.) Hell ya they're going to make a another deus ex!
3) I guess the point there was to stay totally stealthy when going to the Man so the Soldier would just think you are doing nothing?
I saved both on my first try but seems most people aren't so lucky.
I guess i was just one of the lucky ones then.
I completly Feel you
Deus Ex is Just awesome
you got this man! great youtube channel! hope you go further with this:)
9:08 that was definitely a computer in a Canadian office!
PBR isn't very new. It's the same as the bump maps you discussed in your nostaligic review of the first Deus Ex game. It's normal maps (bump maps 2.0), height maps, occlusion maps, metallic maps, and so on.
The best part about Adam Jensen is that his birthdate is same as mine. 9th March 1993 :D
the atmosphere and the soundtrack of this game is so great. same for DXHR.
great vid, you just earned a sub! i'm still playing through it and i'm loving the attention to detail!
Spoilers!
I was kinda angry with victor as a last boss. The first time i saw him i was like: Please, don't be generic 'im a big-last-boss-guy'.
But he was. Sure he has some backstory, but...man. 'HAR HAR IM BULKY TANK BOSS THAT YOU WILL FIND AT THE END OF THE GAME.'
From a trailer, i thought that there will be more depth to whole 'cult', victor and that yellow-hoodie terrorist from the trailer.
In game, we see him once, at the station and that's it. Lame. I wanted a nice sub-story and i got nothing.
I was good at the game and victor was not really a challegne for me, and i was playing as pacifist/stealth/hardest.
Also I was angry at the fact, that we are in Golem city only once. C'mon it was such a cool level, it is a sin that we are not able to return to it after police started to freak out.
Good game, but these small things bug me.
I remember uninstalling human revolution after 5 minutes because of the mouse lag and cover system
Damn philip how much I love your videos!
McCann's Deus Ex is my favourite game Soundrack of all time.
Great video, watched till the end!
Also im gay
Olex Prost considering the video has been out for 4 minutes.... that's impossible 🤔
Olex Prost how..
Olex Prost it hasn't been out long enough
totally watched it at 10x speed, dont underestimate me...
I spent 82 hours on my first play through. Will play it again during christmas.
I laughed when you looked at the shadow alignment
Very well made video, Philip! I played a little of Human Revolution, really loved it! Wondering if i should get Deus Ex Mankind Divided or the new Hitman... hmm
A weird thing I've decided after coming back and finally (restarting and then) finishing Mankind Divided: while stealthy pacifism still feels like the "best" way to play, I've found that remaining a bystander in some of the moments of oppression is a lot harder to do, especially in today's political climate.
I ended up evolving my playstyle into that of a sort of augmented antifascist. While I still wasn't killing police, I made a point of knocking them out and disabling their defenses throughout the late game, and genuinely regretting not doing so earlier on when I saw similar things in Golem City. My Adam Jensen had some incidental character development in that regard, and it solidified the game as something that deserves to be revisited. I just wish I could have actually freed some of the caged citizens, or that they would have taken the opportunity to escape when it became available. It was strange seeing those NPC's fail to react when I jumped in to help them. Maybe that's something they'll do better in the next game.
That's weird, I finished the game in a few days. And I actually found it very fun to play. Only bad thing was the abrupt ending.
If you like to explore, the game is really worth it as many sides of the stor(ies) aren't told directly but they are revealed through hints (dialogues, important characters who are seen from afar in cutscenes, lol even some quests and/or special ways to end them are well hidden in the game and need to be found). Also, the game can be improved with mods (graphic ones like the sharders mods but also mods which improve the gameplay like Deus Ex Mankind Divided Hardcore Revival 1.0).
Of course I know this isn't a "request series", and I know I probably sound dumb asking this, but you should do a review of Mirror's Edge. I consider Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 the best games evaaa, and Mirror's Edge kind of let me re-live that feeling of playing both Valve games for the first time. The sterile feeling of Portal and the futuristic city of Half-Life, backed up with a decent soundtrack just sort of give me this nostalgic feeling. Hopefully you feel the same, too.
This made me hyped for Cyberpunk 2077.
Thank you philip
You gave me the courage to boot up the game again
btw I hope that the metro simulator was fixed
I'm not sure if this is the best DE:MD review but I finally understand what's cool and what's meh about it.
Nice review Philip ! I got pretty much the same feeling about the game, even though I went through the campain a lot faster than you.
Personally think the best thing about DX:HR is the "dialog boss fight". I reload the game many times to try different dialog and see the output.
Same to DX:MD. I spent 1 and half hours reload and choose different dialog with Ruckus, and I still not sure whether I have fully go through all the speech branch...
Ed Harrison's music is great. I just wish he had more of a role in MD.
The NeoTokyo OST which he did entirely on his own is perfect.
Adam is a favorite character that literally share the same birth date as I am. It felt like a rarity.
The review I was waiting for :)
Kylo drinking from a flask through his fucking ears is the single best thigng you can come across in a game.
"if i had really long fingers i would stroke his head with respect" -kilk XD
when Deus Ex died, Dishonored spoke at it's Eulogy
and when Dishonored died, Prey (2016) gave a speech
You can cheat on the final boss battle by crawling through a vent and sniping him from a safe location too. I actually discovered this in my first play through while looking for a place to hide from him.
your videos get stuck all the time on my mobile... but only yours
it works! thank you... didnt think that is automatically set to 4k.... damn you and your high quality videos! :)
Awesome review!
*Trips laser in vent*
"They somehow noticed me without any reason!"
@@2kliksphilip yes you were, fair enough :P
@@2kliksphilip Yeah I actually did the same thing now just to check if your specific version was bugged. The same thing happened to me as well.
2kliksphilip, i've played all Deus EX since the first, i played 2hrs of makind divided only to find the controls/input lag on the mouse a little sluggish which was disappointing, i mean i can run @ 60fps 4k, but its sluggish... Thanks to your review i'm going to give it another go.
Why no talk of the breach mode? Personally I love it - it completely removes quicksaves, for one thing, encourages speedrunning, forces you into combat some times, into stealth other times, yet still has great story without you being an OP supersoldier. Plus, all the joy of CSGO crates without the need to use real money
I loved mankind divided, and I agree with everything you said. I always got annoyed when people gave MD hate without knowing the reasons why it so short and why the main story wasn't that good.
But from what I've heard online, Square Enix actually wanted to sabotage their own game if it doesn't meet their unrealistic sales standards. They apparently did this with Tomb Raider, to the point where Eidos had to fund the OST with a kickstarter.
Mankind Divided getting chopped in half was not only so Square could make Jensen's story a trilogy, but also because they wanted development to be a lot cheaper. They hired younger, less experienced devs to make Mankind Divided, to save money. The developers that worked on Human Revolution saw what was happening, and begged Square to reboot the development, but this time with more experienced developers. Square agreed, but under the condition that sales had to surpass their (unrealistic) expectations, or the whole series would be shelved. This was why the game was delayed 6 months. If it wasn't finished by then the entire series would, again, be shelved. The second half of MD was assigned to a different team, to preserve development time and increase profits.
Because of this, there was so much content cut from the game. For instance, there's evidence that Golem City was originally meant to become a hub, and that at least 5 side missions were cut. Sarif and Delara were originally supposed to show up in the London section, as well. Pritchard was supposed to be in the base game, but also got cut and got put into the System Rift DLC. I don't know if he was originally supposed to have a bigger part in the story instead of just a side mission, but he was my favourite character in HR, so this really pissed me off.
As well as all this, Square Enix made the Breach team come up with alternate methods of funding, aka microtransactions. This was Square punishing Eidos, while still demanding the impossible sales. So, Square Enix sabotaged their own game so they could force Eidos into working on a more profitable game, like the Marvel MMO they're making now.
Even if Square Enix themselves said that Deus Ex isn't on an indefinite hiatus, it's still a really shitty thing to do, just so they could make more money. And to give you an idea of how high Square's standards were, Mankind Divided got an average score of 8/10 from various reviewers (and a 9.2 from IGN). For the week of its release, it was the top selling game in the UK, and the 3rd best selling game of August in North America. It also won best console design, best game design, best narrative, best performance, /and/ game of the year in the Canadian Video Game Awards 2016. But all this apparently wasn't good enough for Square Enix to start work on the sequel.
TL;DR it's Square Enix's fault that Mankind Divided failed where it did, and it's because of Eidos Montreal that we got a game actually worth playing at all. All because Square are too money hungry to actually care about a beloved franchise and its fans.
(Also this is all just information I've picked up over time. I don't know how much of it is true and how much of it is an exaggeration or just straight up lies. Please feel free to correct anything or add your own takes on things.)
I just finished Middle Earth:Shadow of War and I had the same feeling. I was always excited to load that game up. Deus Ex I need to convince myself to try again and play. It's super complex, but the game just dumps you into the game, has people yelling at you that they need your help right away and you bumble through the controls trying to figure out what the hell the game wants you to do. The load times are outrageous and the stability stinks. I've had to reboot twice already and I've only played for 4 hours.
You should come to Prague and see for yourself! You are welcome here!
Deus Ex: Mankind divided was the first Deus Ex I have ever played. It was okay. I feel like the bad parts I didn't like just happened because of bugs. I literally had to start the whole game over again after the game bugged out. I still had fun with it, but like you said, it was hard to just play it if I could play something else
The first game had an OP pistol that I used to kill everyone in all maps.
Great looking game. Great sounding review. Winning.
Hey Philip, you mentioned DOOM 2016 on a recent video, will you review it?
Btw, great review, the narration was on point.
I love this game. Flawed in a lot of ways, yes. But outside of preorder/micro transaction controversy and an underwhelming MAIN story (I emphasize main because there are some awesome side quests), this is one of the most intricate and well designed games on the market in terms of exploration, level design and replayability (Which are the reasons I love Deus Ex). The world detail and environmental story telling is awesome, and this game is huge as long as you don't go directly through the main quest line. All I heard when it came out was complaints about length which i found genuinely confusing as my first playthrough was just short of 30 hours, longer than any first playthrough I've had in the whole series. It sucks that publishers and their greed are getting in the way of developers making great games, and tarnishing the legacy of great franchises. With that said, during my time with the game I had no idea microtransactions existed until i saw it online, the praxis and XP system is very well balanced and rewards you for everything you do in game; being able to purchase them with real money would just simply break the game and make it easy. Also Breach which you didn't mention here is a strange and completely unnecessary addition but similarly to Mass Effect multiplayer, was kind of fun and addictive in it's own right. Overall if you don't have trouble ignoring the unnecessary game modes, mediocre main story and microtransactions, (which i didn't at all, I play this series for it's gameplay & open nature) this is an amazing sequel that builds a believable world to mess around with and learn about at your leisure.
My biggest gripe with this sequel is that I feel the _entire_ game was severely _hobbled_ simply by the fact that we're continuing to play as a pre-defined Jensen - I would *much* rather have started with a new, wholly clean-slate character, who can go his/her own way and find their unique story along the way, without all the last entries baggage dragging on behind...
- (of course J could've turned up during the story in a cameo role or whatnot)
I would love if you reviewed the new Hitman game.
With all the features mentioned in this review, Mankind Divided would be a nearly perfect game if only it supported mods. With an unofficial patch, the worst of its glitches could be fixed (memory leaks, missing textures, quickload CTDs, etc).
But what most depressed me was a combination of the music and the negative barks by random NPCs. I didn't realize how being told to screw off incessantly by so many random NPCs was depressing my mood until there was a place near the end where people were actually civil and polite. This may be realistic for the setting but not why I game. I just wish it supported mods to fix these problems or at least make them optional (so that I could turn them off).