>artstyle aged like fine wine
>the main plot of the story came true
Just like the original.

>inb4 Deus Ex is a chud franchise guys!!! even doe its about how ebil capitalism and transhumanism!

>try getting into md for the fifth time last night
>first mission
>side objective is disabling some signal comms relayer bullshit (a laptop and a tripod)
>try throwing a grenade at it from an air vent
>it doesn’t work of course
i don’t understand why people want to make cool games never bother playing cool games to see what made them cool

>>712464337 (OP)
for me it was blad and forgettable. I played it once and never touched it since

>>712464337 (OP)
The music is kino of the highest order. Hengsha daylight is my favorite theme and there's still great ones along with it.

Bump

>>712464503
You lost the culture war.

I'm currently glitching praxis points so I can be RoboCop from the start. Pure 90fps OLED kino on the Steam Deck. Licky I have the original release on steam and the original missing link DLC so I can have a the cinema pee filter

>>712464337 (OP)
F.E.A.R, probably.

Surreal how good this was. A ten years later 360 Deus Ex sequel should have been a disaster but the absolute madmen pulled it off.

>>712470932
I'll never forgive Squeenix for how wrong they did the devs along with Sleepy Dogs devs. Disgusting piece of shit company that would rather invest in woke Forsaken than god tier Nier games

>>712471207
Square Enix also tried to turn Deus Ex into some Marvel universe abomination where you'd have to get the novels, comics, and phone games to understand the story. Fucking cancerous company.

>>712467810
who lost the culture war?

>>712471768
>the Kingdom Hearts approach
YIKES

>>712471891
You did, tranny :)

>>712464337 (OP)
Ive been playing this. Its not that great. The bosses are nice, jensen is better than jc, but the level design is generic linear and repetitive, too many computers to hack, npcs have the same walking patterns, story is unninteresting
Its feels like hitman absolution, or thi4f.

>>712464337 (OP)
>first person camera
>60 fps locked
I just can't force myself to replay it.

>>712464503
Stellar Blade and chuds won

>>712473221
>60 fps locked
Huh? It goes higher

>>712472976
are the "trannies" in the room with us right now?

>>712474646
Room...? We're on an imageboard...

>>712473149
>pic related
With MGS and Splinter Cell dead, Squeenix could have lead a stealth game revolution with Nu-Deus ex, Hitman and the Thief remake. the fuck happened?

>piss & bloom filter
>aged well

>>712475791
Games with pee and poo filters are better than current games. You just fell for the meme to criticize it.

>>712464337 (OP)
isnt the plotline about a medicine people need but cant get?

>>712475791
This is THE piss filter game. Instead of just masking graphics which it still does it's an integral part of the art design.

It improved with Director's Cut. That's the proper game.

>>712474646
There was actually a tranny involved in the writing of this I think, or Mankind Divided.

>>712476247
No the original is better. You being dishonest to youself and the game if you play it without the piss aura

>>712475456
cover shooters and cinematic games became too popular, thats why Hitman and deus ex became liner cover shooters

>>712476448
>you play it without the piss aura
Takes 20 secs to add it back how the fuck is this still an argument in 2025.

>>712464337 (OP)
>made the most distinct looking game of its generation
>15 years later
>reduced to being a meager kojima imitator
What went wrong?

Gold filter was soul. I bought a resold key from the original version just to get it back.

>>712477619
Tragically this happens to a lot of artists. They make one incredible work and then the rest of their portfolio is so much lesser that you can scarcely believe it's the same person.

>>712477202
It's not the same. Also, the DLC being forced in kills the pacing of the story.

>game has memes

>>712477619
it's a team effort unironically
eidos had a great team, but now they are scattered across the industry

that one 4chan hacker guy

>>712479115
Surely she will fix Mass Effect h-ha ha

>>712464916
MD is better than HR

>>712477619
Serves him right for being one of the biggest pussies in the industry and listening to meme bandwagon opinions, to then adjust it in the DC to absolutely sovlless-style

He's an embarassment

Video games do not age. They are exactly the same when released as they are today, updates withstanding.

>>712464337 (OP)
I never understood how to play this game but I liked the aesthetics of it, how do I go past the intro?

>>712479387
Our perception changes.

>>712479645
That's not the game's fault then, that's on you.
If you can't appreciate older games for the merits and demerits they have and have to constantly compare them to newer games then there's no hope for you.

>>712479387
fortnite

>>712479938
No one is blaming the game, faggot.

>>712479549
What didn't you understand about it? It's an immersive sim, you can play how you want.

>>712479938
The passage of time and shifting industry standards changes our perception of art. There's plenty of works that were good for their time but seem bad now because they've been surpassed by their ancestors or seem outdated today.

HR has aged great because its artstyle and ambiance are timeless.

>>712479549
You uhhhhhhhhhhh shoot the bad guys??? Or sneak up and punch them??? Do the objectives given to you??? What's wrong with you man?

>>712479549
Shoot the belltower niggers from cover. After the intro you're free to open locked doors with explosive mines, triggering them by throwing some cardboard on them

>>712478876
>It's not the same
Nah it is
>the DLC being forced in kills the pacing of the story
This I can actually get behind the dlc implementation was just shitty.

>>712481234
The modded-in gold filter is not the same as the native gold filter.

Source: the guy who made the modded-in gold filter.

>>712480289
I recall in my attempts to play (it was on a friend's PC so I couldn't play all time mind you) I was meant to sneak around but they always found me and I could never realize what was the proper way to move around. I never returned to this game after years for some reason. Blame me all you want.

>>712480847
I guess I'll try to play it again proper this time. I can, I just memory holed this game for some reason.

>in MD the "aug lives matter" protestings true purpose is to incite anger against augs so they can be eradicated

what did they mean by that

>>712479074
>they thought back then they'd release more than two a decade

>>712479074

Piss filters suck

>>712481821
If it's your first stealth game you can just savescum with quick saves and quick load

>>712479549
stick with the prod
prod with the prod

>>712479275
Listening to the HR commentary, she seems like a controlling cunt.

>>712482000
funny how that entire aug lives matter plot point filters goyim to this very day.

What would it take to get one last game

>>712483916
a genuine miracle

>>712482621
you suck piss

Is the director's cut as bad as people say if you get the gold filter mod to fix the broken lighting issues?

>>712483916
Probably selling the franchise to Microsoft. I'm not even joking, they're the only one funding games at the moment.

If you've got a better publisher in mind, let me know.

Bros...

David Sarif and Frank Pritchard were great characters. yeah I loved HR to death. Replayed it 3-4 times. I couldn't get into MD at all, dunno what changed.

>>712484747
eh

>>712484747
it fucks up THE PACING
understand this and buy the regular one on some key site

>Director's Cut
>removes the soul
Huh?

>>712484747
It also fucks the ganeplay by letting you recharge two bars instead of one. So for example you get 14 seconds of invisibility instead of 7.

>>712485257
>director's cut
>reintroduce old graphic bugs because it's based on a older fucking WIIU build

>>712464337 (OP)
Xbox360 games are not old, shithead.

Going to play Invisible War. Wish me luck.

>>712485003
>MS buys it
>Adam gets turned into a black guy

>>712485257
I hate piss filters so much.

>>712485548
The game looks extremely flat without it.
Someone post the cityscape comparison.

>>712485257
They massacred my boy

>>712485483
>Master Chief.
Still white.
>Marcus Phoenix
Still white.
>Joanna Dark
Still white.
>Indiana Jones
Still white.
>Chai (Hi-fi)
Still white.
>Avowed, Starfield, Fallout, Oblivion...
Make your own whiteboi.

Are you on ketamine? I think you're confusing Microsoft with Sony.

>>712485257
That soft bloomy look is so comfy, goddamn.

>>712485047
:((((

>>712485047
I never asked for this.

>>712485047

How is MD? I loved HR when it released but I just never got chance to play the sequel

>>712486442
Better in every sense gameplaywise.
Better hub.
Better graphics.

Short and unfinished main story. But a lot of great sidequests.

>>712485420
Does it even add anything besides integrating the DLC into the campaign and making it so you can beat the bosses without weapons?

>>712486442
It's weird. Feels more like a big DLC than a proper sequel that took five years to make..

>>712486556
>Better graphics.
But worse artstyle.

>>712486562
There's this >>712485383, reworked boss fights removes the bug that made it so you can simply one punch namir to get it over with , removal of the piss filter, dev commentary and a botched new game+. You can carry over your augs but not the fun weapons you pick up near the end (laser gun, plasma gun), they get removed from your inventory upon starting ng+

>>712464337 (OP)
This is a text book example of a type-Windows game. One good one bad, no in-between. DX 1 good, IW bad, HR good, MD bad. There was that iOS one and its port but fuck me if I will ever count that piece of shit.

>>712486843
Is the Missing Link worth playing if I play the original version? I'd have to pirate it separately since I never got it on my Steam copy of HR.

>>712464337 (OP)
days gone has become an interesting litmus test to differentiate people who enjoy systemic game design and those who have been mindbroken by "muh AAA slop" influencer discourse. the way the systems provide friction which pushes the player to engage with the open world is top shelf, as is the unusually well paced and restrained plot delivery

>>712487339
Absolutely. It sucks when it's forced in the main game with the DC, but it's great as a standalone DLC

>>712465063
Michael McCann should get a fucking soundtrack Oscar for both the games! Literally captured cyberpunk perfectly and the atmosphere, was really sad when 2077 came out people totally forgot how well this game was

>>712487434
Thanks anon, I appreciate it.

>>712467973
I don’t know why people complained about that it truly added to the art style and it wasn’t on all the time

>>712487339
Missing Link is okay. It's good level design and atmosphere but it's pretty much a non-sequiturr in the story, ruins the last level if you play it first, and the writers really went too far with reactivity so if you kill a few mercs everybody tries to shame you for it.

>mankind divided followup never ever
FUCK YOU SQUARE ENIX FOR FORCING EIDOS TO CUT THE GAME IN HALF THEN SCREW THEM OVER WITH THE MANDATED MTX, ONLINE AND LE AUGMENT YOUR PREORDER SHIT

>>712464337 (OP)
the basic foundation of the gameplay is rotten, seventh gen cover meme. everything goes through chest high wall hugging and it's boring.

>>712487448
SOUL SOUL SOUL SOUL SOUL
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OtSAa5niU1Y

>>712487629
aaaaaaa i hate squenix

>new Deus Ex cancelled because it's "too niche"
DXbros... it's over.

day of sex

>>712487856
So fucking depressing I can't even afford a shit tier cyberpunk apartment like that.

I fucking love HR. In my top 5 since I played it.

https://youtu.be/zuV1jPIz98E?si=5oxjZAFvXjxO-9Q7

>>712490035
Fuuuuuck man

>>712490035
for me, it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFXmFMgonY0
especially the faster paced section, it's THE DXHR music for me.

>>712491114
Nah if you want THE ONE it's obviously Icarus

https://youtu.be/FUy87tpfNe4?si=rfW_bCSV_lSKpyu3

>>712491640
Has Michael McCann done anything lately? Man is too kino to not be working.

>>712491640
First and Last is also a great one. But then again, they're all great

>>712473149
Is that just an oddity with the scan, or did they make the font extremely dark on Hitman so you have to really focus to see that you're getting Absolution instead of something like Blood Money?

>>712485483
If you really paid attention to the hidden details, you'd know you weren't even playing as Adam in Mankind Divided to begin with. I think they would've been a little more upfront about that plot point, but then Phantom Pain came out almost a year beforehand with the same big twist.

>>712486843
>plasma gun
It's a real shame that once you get it, there's nothing worth using it on. Just aug zombies.

As a Michigan man myself, I appreciate it for letting me clean up the streets of Detroit.