Thread 718887108

Are the sequels worth playing or should I just be done with the series after the OG?

>>718887108 (OP)
I played Deus Ex II when it came out and had a blast. No idea why people shit on it so much. I played the first nuDeus Ex and it was pretty good too though I forgot most of the plot and characters. Never played MD but I hear it was about the same quality as the other modern Dude Sex game

>>718887108 (OP)
The modern sequels are pretty trashy and I wouldn't say are worth playing. HR has nice atmosphere and great voice acting but that's about it. I have no clue about it's actual immediate sequel.

Are they worth it? Well, they're all worse than the original. I can't tell you if it's worth it for you but they're not bad games, Invisible War is plenty jank but is still fun to play in its own way. Human Revolution plays less like Deus Ex and more like a pseudo-MGS game. Mankind Divided does a better job at feeling more like Deus Ex in design but the plot goes nowhere if you care about that.

The sequels are NOT worth playing. Play Anachronox instead.

>>718887762
This is all I needed to hear

>>718887762
Boots is an awful name for a protagonist.

>>718887108 (OP)
>1
Lib-Right + Neo-Luddite god tier but propagates holohoax
>2
Overtly leftist with over-the-top overt NatSocs as villains (at least they're still joinable but not after being forced to fight them for a long time)
>3
Lib-Right + Neo-Luddite god tier again
>4
Unfinished and overtly leftist; contains very suspicious messaging/moments for its release date.

>>718887108 (OP)
IW isn't bad, just heavily shit with mechanics like ammo being tied to every gun and using up different amounts or the skll system gone and the biomods replacing augs
That said it's not a bad game. just not as good as the first

HR, played it to the second hub and stopped (was on console and disliked the controls). Not bad but very, very different in terms of how it plays overall and the presentaiton of it. It's a lot less 'you are in the enemy area' and more of a 'areas are a bit like NY' but some missions do take place in enemy only areas

Has good but not amazing stealt and both games still suffer the whole 'back up in a vent and AI can't find you' deal

Never played MD

>>718887108 (OP)
none of them are the same kind of game as the OG

>>718887108 (OP)
>>718887762
Only Invisible War (the second game, "Deus Ex 2") is shit and even then, it's only shit by way of relativity to the quality of, and expectations laid down by, the first game.

I still thought IW was good, I was disappointed at first sure, but I just played it and in the end, liked it quite a bit. It was doing its "own thing", but it is for sure Deus Ex for massive retards.
For example there are clear objectively good choices for augments because there's only like, 3, augments per slot and 5 augment slots (head/eyes/legs/arms/skeleton).
The ammunition system was very controversial, it was considered (and still is) infamously retarded at the time ... universal ammunition clips for all your guns and they used ammo at differing rates. What the fuck! Garbage. Melee combat was thus the best because of this and because of the augment slot situation I mentioned earlier.

Invisible War was made as a console game for the OG Xbox, whereas the first game was a really detailed, dense, complex gameplay and statistics manager im-sim on the PC.
But, that said, I still think Invisible War is a good game. It's just very, very flawed and bad compared to Deus Ex 1.

The only actually objectively really bad game was that mobile phone game that they made, Deus Ex: The Fall.
All the other sequels are really, really fucking good.
If you like immersive sims you will enjoy them

The first game is conspiracy kino, the reboots are written by communists and the MC is too tryhard

>>718895070
Not Human Revolution, you tard
Obama isn't president anymore, wake up it's 2025

>>718887108 (OP)
Mankind Divided is pretty good and does very well for a modern Deus Ex. It's a bit short and has its issues, but it's easily second best in the series and not miles away from the OG.

Human Revolution is just a stealth game that lets you shoot if you want to. I wouldn't call it an immersive sim at all.

>>718887108 (OP)

I beat them all on the hardest difficulty.
The first has the best story, music, atmosphere.
The second is bad but not the worst.

Third is actually pretty nice. The boss fights are easy. I don't know why people complained.

The fourth has amazing graphics and music. Good gameplay but the story is meh

im playing gmdx and its fun

>>718887108 (OP)
HR is pretty good, but not amazing. Won't have the same tone as the original at all, so don't go in expecting that. MD has a fantastic fucking hub area where a majority of your playtime takes place, but manages to have a worse story than HR, somehow.

I never played IW.

>>718887108 (OP)
Depends on what you're tying to get out of them. If you want to see where the original teams went with Deus Ex play invisible war, if not skip. It's not that fun.
If you want to see what Deus Ex looks like through a modern game design lens that completely missed the point play HR and MD.

>>718887108 (OP)
>Are the sequels worth playing
Nope.
It's a one and done "franchise".

>>718898865
>stealth and athletics untrained
Do you even mantle??

>>718887108 (OP)
Go to Moddb and download ZODIAC and The Nameless Mod 2.0, and *then* you're done.

Considering Human Revolution is the best in the series, yes you should play that

>>718887108 (OP)
>sequels
there's only one.

>>718901824
>Human Revolution is the best in the series
Human Revolution is the what now?

>>718887108 (OP)
You know what, IW has some decent writing in places. Those places being wherever JC Denton happens to be, but still.
Aside from that, Deus Ex really is the only one worth playing. None of the sequels really managed to capture that same level of gameplay complexity or writing quality, so if you're looking for more of that stuff on Deus Ex's level, you're gonna have to keep looking.

>>718899314
Why would I when I’m using rifles??

>>718902862
Because you can go higher and use rifles

>>718903102
Or I can I make a stealth takedown with the GEP, what’s you’re are fucking point?

>>718903347
You're a fuckin point

everything I've seen about IW's plot seems cringe as hell like the Omar and leaning into the Templar shit.
It appears to me that they went full sci-fi when DX is kind of a grounded, dirty sci-fi

There are a lot of cool mods for deus ex too.
The Nameless mod is weird.
Human Revolution is alright, I haven't played it in a while, It's not written the same but the gameplay is improved. The Original Deus Ex creates an atmosphere that is hard to match, I wouldn't write off HR AKA piss filter game .
Played a little bit of Mankind Divided and it is more of the same.
Deus ex is fun fucking with the AI trying to stealth and shit. Human revolution captures that but you won't get the same quality of writing.

>>718903389
>”I was never properly trained in its operation.”

>>718903491
IW is science fantasy and the JC ending further cements why the Helios ending in Dude Sex is the only ending that matters. No other ending in either game leads to the democratic utopia JC offers.

>>718898302
The boss fights got patched and tweaked after release. People complained because not because they are too hard but originally it kind of forces you to go into combat and the bosses didn't have solutions or work arounds like the original.

>>718903747
It’s funny how Nevarre, Hermann, and Simons can all be BTFO by a LAM.

>>718903848
>Nevarre, Hermann, and Simons
Aren't you forgetting someone?

>>718903848
Saving and reloading planting the LAMs just the right way when Anna comes into the plane was so fun lol. Wanted to blow her up but not the other dude

Don’t listen to tards on here. Human Resources is a great game and has a lot of other games for the time beat. You can’t genuinely tell me that Bioshock Infinite is a better game to HR despite probably selling more. Dialogue options basically copy Mass Effect but Kotor copied Deus Ex. It’s a fun game because you can play it almost entirely how you want through out the game without having to deticate time and resources to a single build (system shock 2 is guilty of this and sucks for it)

>>718904117
>Human Resources
>you can play it almost entirely how you want through out the game
Unless you don't wanna get railroaded through the most linear level design of all time and get tricked by bootleg Maggie Chow.

>>718904117
I believe the general consensus is that IW is an okay game, but not an okay DX game, and that HR is a good game, but not a good DX game. Both lose the magic for one reason or another.

>>718887108 (OP)
I just finished MD after playing through the original with the revision mod previously.

Gameplay wise, both MD and HR blow the original out of the water. The augs in MD can make the game too easy though if you really use them all. The ai is way better, gunplay better, more weapons, stealth system better, "hacking" is something you do instead of just using a multi tool, level exploration and progression with quest markers on the map is way better also.

MD does feel like a side quest game (Mass Effect 2) because it ends on a cliff hanger and they never made a sequel to it.


The orginal deus ex does not hold up at all in 2025.

>>718904117
>Human Resources is
not Deus Ex.

>>718904431
Wow, cool!

>>718887108 (OP)
The first game outright names the jew, rothchilds and rockerfellers.
The later games don't name anybody.
You do the maths. It's all in the numbers.

>>718904732
The first game also allows a nigger as the de facto leader of the Illuminati, so what’s your fucking point, retard?

>>718904245
I’d completely agree with that sentiment. I’d look it at it more like a comic book. They might share the same name but have totally different serializations

>>718904805
>The game depicts niggers as evil, what now CHUD?
Are you a doublenigger?

>>718904879
Do you also agree that Human Revolution should have been an adaptation of the Puppet Master story from Ghost in the Shell?

>>718904974
The Illuminati would never allow a nigger to run their organization you drip-fed troglodyte.

>>718904626
(you)

>>718905068
>the slimy kikes would never make an easy fall-guy for their secret organization
Lol, lmao
I bet you think indians are legitimately CEO's of jew-run businesses too

>>718905202
I bet you’re so stupid you reply to rhetorical statements.

>>718905068
The DX illuminaughty are just a sad shadow of their previous glory whose only dream is for things to go back to the way they were.
And that one nigger made it so.

>>718905265
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

>>718887108 (OP)
I think you should try all of them, Invisible War included. But if you think you're having a bad time while playing that one then skip over to the Jensen games I suppose. They're all worth playing but Mankind Divided may be objectively better designed than Human Revolution. But Prague had an issue of being a soul draining concrete jungle at times. It felt like slav commie misery imo

>>718905314
Number one: That’s terror.
Number two: That’s terror.

>>718905068
That's just another prophecy that the game made that has yet to come true.

>>718887108 (OP)
I got these games years ago on steam and only now playing deus ex GOTY. I played a little HR but wasn't sure I'd be interested in it but was willing to give it another try but I wasn't expecting to like deus ex goty so much. I'll try HR again cause I didn't really play much of it.

>>718898302
Square Enix made them outsource the boss battles for some reason; these were replaced in later updates.

>>718904245
>I believe the general consensus is that IW is an okay game
Even ignoring the massive amount of technical problems it has, the game is terrible

>>718904117
Why even bring Bioshock into the argument? It's dogshit. literally. system shock fanfic. The first two games are alright. but Infinite is style over substance

I was near the end of replaying human revolution when my game bugged out. Everytime I got to certain point in the missing link dlc the game would crash trying to load my save.
It really pissed me off, I was really enjoying it before that.

>>718906676
Try pulling your save file out and reinstalling the game, that might fix it.

>>718887260
>No idea why people shit on it so much
Because gameplay was designed around consoles. Other than that, solid game

>>718903949
lmao

>>718887108 (OP)
Yes, all of them.

>>718895070
>Jensen
>tryhard
Are you a fool?

>>718905068
That's merely your snobbish idiocy talking.
Such organizations are not run by subscriptions to retarded social trends for pliable plebeians, only by actual skill. Race, ethnicity, all these are irrelevant.

>>718895070
>reboots are written by communists
The first game was calling out capitalism all the time, Paul Denton directly criticizes it when you first find out he's defected to the NSF and when he contacts you again at area 51.

>>718887108 (OP)
Play them all, the original is the weakest one.

>mfw I replay Deus Ex, Invisible War, Human Revolution, and Mankind Divided annually
They all have pros and cons, but there's just somethin' about 'em, man.

>>718910049
You ever play any of the few DX1 mods?

>>718910049
Get the hell out of here, Denton!!!

>>718887108 (OP)
>be done with the series after the OG

This.