What went wrong?

What went wrong?

Feels like it was shortened to sell dlc and also sequel baiting.

Felt more like a Battlefield campaign with upgrades than an actual Deus Ex game.

Also paying ingame upgrades with real money that are one use only.

Square enix

I liked it a lot

I honestly feel like it's a 9/10 game, but they completely fucked it with the DLC fiasco and by literally cutting the game in half.
Full disclosure, finished my second playthrough of the game today.

The story mainly.

No marketing.
Chopped up story.
Side-stories were better than the main story, which floundered around a lot.

I enjoyed it a lot. Did a total stealth playthrough my first go, then a gun-every-fucker-down run on NG+

What is it that sticks in your head about the game? What makes it... memorable?

Prague as the only hub

It's weird because it feels shorter than Human Revolution but I spent wayyy more time on my first Mankind Divided playthrough.

I think it was a solid effort, lots of attention to detail. It's just that Deus Ex doesn't have much buying power beyond PC gamers.

Really liked it though. I've seen people criticize how "shitty" the portrayal of treatment of augs was in the game but I mean it was as real as can be. That ghetto gulag was a fucking shithole, I'd be crying myself senseless if I was stuck in a police shithole like that with no drugs to feed my required neuropozyne intake.

Ending was awesome, felt like an action movie ending. Though some shit, like the cloak aug, was way too OP. It was too easy to just cloak and run past everything.

The sidequests were all mostly 10/10, overshadowed the main story. Isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I hope the next one goes more illuminati conspiracy shit. Also, it shouldn't have even bothered with DirectX 12, broken piece of shit and still is.

Prague was a very cool locale. I was initially bummed that we would only have one hub, but I quickly fell in love with it. It was so detailed, and densely packed with things to find, that on my 2nd run I was still finding new things.

It was neat how every time you came back, things changed, like weather, time, etc. Night time definitely looked far better than during the day, but even the gray dreariness of the daytime had a beauty to it.

I also really enjoyed the Investigation mission.

Have they improved any of the loading or FPS issues? I'd love to go back and finish it off, but the sudden drops to like 5 FPS put me off for a bit.

Not enough bob

I actually haven't played it since the last 2 patches came through, so I can't say.

Might go back and replay it again though to make different choices.

I would imagine there was some optimization done. It didn't run too terrible on my 760, ran mostly high with some mediums in there between 30-40fps, with occasional dips into the 20s, and this was release week.

I too had horrible frame drops like these. I was so hyped I played through the game anyway but fuck man stuff like that kills the experience

Palisade Bank was wicked. It felt the most like an original Deus Ex map, so many floors and entryways, security up the ass.

Prague as a whole was much more interactive compared to any of Human Revolutions cities.

In general, it was good enough to make me realize how basic Human Revolution was. This game was a step up in every way, just not a gigantic step up.

I found framerates stable with DirectX 11, I'm using a 970. As for loading...it's maybe slightly improved. Still long as fuck.

Direct X12 was the biggest problem. Pic related.

If it takes anything from the deus ex, it's the liveliness of the world. The game has a lot of side missions and assisted exploration which makes really good use of the city's size. The sidequests are all pretty interesting and so is the main story. Especially since we're getting so close to bridging the stories of the reboot and original game.
Runs on my machine :^)

it kinda came and went without much notice. I beat it but it didnt really stick with me like HR. might be due to the lack of discussion like most denuvo games. they just get forgotten

Running it with a 960 and I had fairly consistent FPS 40+ even with a lot of settings in high, one or two in like ultra and rest medium. However no matter how much I tweaked it every once and awhile I'd drop to a solid 3-4 FPS.

Forgot to mention, runs on my machine (980Ti) except for when the game locks up my controls for seconds at a time in the middle of gameplay. Goddamn is that annoying.

That's odd. I did not have random crazy fps drops. Like even during firefights and shit, it remained around 50-60fps.

My average was 59fps infact. Lowest I think it ever went was like 40.

i didn't have any problems running it (r9 390 + i7 4790k on high) but the game wasn't very good

anybody else wanted to impregnate her

It felt like 1/4 of a game.

Only one city hub.

All of the game revolves around quests or side quests, there's not much in the way of reward for exploration or interaction.

You can tell at least 80% of the development time went into just Golem City. Where there's only one quest..

Cliffhanger ending, generic Ruskie bad guy, uninteresting CONSPIRACIES teased instead of actual insight..

The game has like 1/2 to 1/3 of the content Human Revolution did.

A lot of the levels aren't interesting at all, there's very little personalization and intricate detail in them.

They took the idea of "alternate solutions" and just slapped on vents everywhere as a genius idea to it all.

None of the characters are interesting or exciting. Mediocre as all hell writing.

The stealth gameplay itself is just as easy as ever since the AI is just as garbage as it was before, throw boxes into corner, knock them out one by one.

Overall incredibly unimpressive. I'd give it a 9/10 or so in vision and ambition but like a 3/10 on the overall product and delivery.

>game delayed by like half a year
>still felt like it was rushed and shit out day before release

>go into palisade bank
>spend few hours exploring entire bank
>say goodbye to the last living guard and receptionist by door

The ability to either remote control robots, or to just unleash them against all humans is really satisfying but cruel to listen to.

>Also paying ingame upgrades with real money that are one use only.
hol up what

Just about everyone that played it.