>Make a prequel to one of the most celebrated and critically

>>388836250
MD failed because they tried gutting as much as possible to make room for DLC/future installments, not because it was a prequel.

They should have gone full reboot. The prequel shit was tedious as fuck. I don't fucking care about the plot, I already know how I resolved it in the first game. FUCK PREQUELS.

>>388836383
You can thank square enix for that.

>>388836520
that's literally what they did besides a cameo from Bob Page in the CG intro

>>388836520
should've just called the game Human Revolution and nixed the Deus Ex title, it makes no fucking difference whatsoever, you can play the whole thing as a stand alone cyberpunk game and it makes zero difference. Any flaws HR had were magnified a hundred fold by having the Deus Ex name attached.

>>388836541
Meanwhile they keep pouring ressources into that shitshow of FFXV, japs and their misplaced pride is the worst

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>make a prequel to a highly celebrated masterpiece
>prequel follows formula of protagonist stumbling upon globalist cabal which he must destroy
>prequel has a radio dj red pilling people in-game
>prequel is successful enough to have its own sequel
>sequel abandons anti-globalist themes, embraces black lives matter and other soros globalist cabal crap
>sequel gets shit on by gamers and kills the franchise for at least the next decade

Bravo, Squenix, Ubicuck couldn't have done a better job killing a franchise. Maybe in 10 years, go back to the original formula and be anti-globalist instead of using a beloved series to promote the globalists' shit ideology.

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>>388836626
Maybe you should try getting a job.

>>388836746
Maybe you should stop pushing your right wing conspiracy theories Denton!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrKFzavlGNc

>>388836718
>>sequel abandons anti-globalist themes, embraces black lives matter and other soros globalist cabal crap
this, do you know they had alex jones parody in one trailer? very passive aggressive too. alex jones is LITERALLY deus ex.

are we back to the 'pretending to hate hr' phase again? we've been through this at least 2 or 3 times already

also deus ex is dead because square enix wanted it dead

Square killed it dead but i will agree that it felt like the visuals were superior to the story

>>388837020
I don't hate it. I just thought it was real boring with the prequel shit.

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Is it true that the reason the industry is so focussed on DLC is because gamers are graphics whores who refuse to pay more than $60 at a time for a video game?

>>388836250
Not to trust that team to know what works?

I get that they wanted to move on, but they completely eliminated the previous cast to make way for a new one, then made the entire thing boring as hell.

How did they fuck up something so basic? HOW?

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>>388836250

>Has basically nothing to do with the original

>>388836250
game wasn't bad, just gutted and turned into a planned trilogy

>>388837054
nope. console exists you know. fucking minecraft sold billions. its just jews jewing.

>>388836898
>>388836718
The reason for this is essentially this >>388836626

Even if it's bait, you can't release DE1 anymore today since anti-globalism is largely a right wing topic nowadays.

And ya don't wanna associate with those dang nazis don't ya kid?

>>388836250
eidos montreal is a shit dev

>>388837137
Megan got P A G E D

>>388836250

We learned that Square Enix is intentionally sabotaging old, successful Western franchises during a time of record-breaking profits for the company.

Square Enix forced Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to be split into two games to double the profit. They added on multiple unnecesssary pre-order packs and day 1 item DLC. You could buy in game experience with cash and it was a single player game. It was blatantly anti-consumer, no one bought it, and so Square Enix shut down the franchise. In my opinion, ruining Deus Ex and Hitman was always their goal.

>>388836718
Making augmented people the oppressed ones was fucking stupid.

Augs are for rich people. The game should have focused on the class divide rather than trying to be an allegory for the racial divide.

>>388837280
she was SARIF'D before that.

>>388837137
yes? He's right. Especially the gameplay and mechanics.

>>388837318
>Augs are for rich people. The game should have focused on the class divide rather than trying to be an allegory for the racial divide.
DUDE AUG LIVES MATTER LMAO
DUDE CZECH REPUBLIC IS 50% BLACK LMAO

>>388837292
I'm very very close to believing this, considering just how fucking inept they are with their western IP's. If the same thing happens to Tomb Raider then its confirmed.

>>388836626
DX is a very libertarian game, anon. Maybe even liberal.

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>tfw Dude sex is dead forever now

>>388837229
That isn't a counterargument. Console gamers can be graphics whores who refuse to pay more than $60 for a game at any one time.

>>388836250
Is the gameplay of the first Deus Ex anything like Human Revolution? Because it's honestly one of the worst games I bothered to finish, neither stealth or fighting were fun

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>>388837570
Wouldn't say forever. My guess is SquareEnix waits a year or two, lets Eidos do other projects then funds for a conclusion to the Jensen trilogy.

>>388836250
I unironically like each of the 6 Deus Ex games.

Does it take more effort today to make a video game that makes the use of modern hardware? Naive me would say that what takes time is gameplay level design and that it takes the same amount of time to create a good looking game as it did 15 years ago. The primary difference being higher textured models, larger spaces, and godrays and shit.

So they cancelled the new dx?

>>388837472

Not disagreeing, but what would be their incentive? Is it really that hard to compete with today's Western games?

>self-reminder that what happened to Deus Ex is why I'm happy NOLF and SMAC are in IP limbo. RIP System Shock, though, because that IP's gonna get rekt by "le current year" tards.

>>388836626
Rhetoric! And you believe it!

>>388837870
Today is harder, at least for these AAA games. Also, one of the main issues newer games suffer from is that all the time/resources they could spend on level design are being transferred towards better looking graphics or gimmicks that no one wants.
Then again, older games didn't have the tools so easily available. So it's a matter of perspective.

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>mfw I liked both HR and MD
>mfw it's dead
>mfw MD ended in sequel bait and the DLCs were great but they were side-stories

top why

>>388837864
even the fall?

>>388837374
That's a good thing. Deus Ex played like shit and had garbage game feel.

>>388836250
that the overuse of the word literally in contexts other than its actual meaning is too far gone to ever be stopped.

>>388838460
Yes, 100%ed it in one evening.

>>388836250
>>Somehow prequel does well enough to warrant a followup
>>Has even less to do with the original game
But it was linking a lot of the events to the original, and there were countless references.
Be a mouth-breathing hater all you want, but the Deus Ex series, alongside VTMB, are phenomenal games; it's a damn shame not many games are like them.

>>388837318
but the globalist have historically used the race war to distract us from the very real class war, it's no like the game could make that the..ohhhh

>>388838210
>that no one wants.
>being this delusional
Developers focus on graphics because that's exactly what the people want.

>>388837864
>Liking Invisible War and The Fall
Inexcusable

>>388837318
>Augs are for rich people.
They're not though. Companies gave staff augs so that they could become competitive.
You then become dependent on neuropezine, which costs a fortune.
You can't afford it
You end up on the street, and die
MD took place after HR, when augmented people went crazy and killed millions(?). People, rightfully, are afraid something like that could happen again. Issue is that the augmented people didn't want it to happen.
I see nothing wrong with how it was handled in MD. I'd say Edios were a bit biased towards the augmented, but there are arguments for both sides in the game.

>>388836626

>alt-right
>against corporations and their influence on the government

hahahaha, the right loves getting ass fucked by the rich, get outta here.

>>388839047
There's an obvious standard for what the average consumer will accept, yes. Original DE graphics would be laughed at nowadays but some games try to push too far the graphics, usually making it worse. The whole uncanny valley deal.

>>388839086

Not him, but I enjoyed both of those games. They are clearly the weakest entries in the series, but I still didn't regret playing them.

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>>388836853
>Paris Conversation theme
Fuck this, reinstalling.

>>388836898
>they had alex jones parody in one trailer

If you guys played the director's cut of Human Revolution, that DeMerle cunt who headed the writing staff bragged that they had one guy listen to hours and hours and hours of Alex Jones to write the lines for Lazarus. She laughed about it, but fast forward a few years and suddenly a ton of the globalist things Jones warned about have been verified.

I like to think the guy who wrote Lazarus' dialog is red pilled as fuck these days.

>>388839325
>The whole uncanny valley deal
Maybe just a little off topic, but the uncanny valley is little more than a meme these days now that mouth breathers mention it every time they don't like something that happens to have CG people.

>>388839592
-Posted from Android*
ftfy

>>388837254
I don't think DE1 was anti-globalist, it was just about the wrong people being in control of that because they wanted power instead of wanting to make things better. You can stop globalism in its tracks with Tong's ending, but it's basically just putting humanity backwards and he later admits it was a mistake.

>>388839592
*pulls up in tesla made with batteries that required cobalt from african mines operated by child slavery*
*hooks up electric car to grid that's mostly powered by coal*
*covers face with bandana mass produced by a 6 year old in taiwan*

Yeah, let's fight those evil right-wingers to save the little guy! LOVE TRUMPS HATE!

*beats someone's scalp open with a bike lock*

>>388838609
ok underage

>>388839697
True. Personally its rare to actually encounter those moments, more like
>great looking character
>Animation is shit so it's like you can see the puppet strings which takes you out
Still, the point was that the resources are being spent on these advancements, that inevitably get cut back because of console limitations, so we go back to square one. Great bullshots, average looking in motion. And instead of compensating this with better gameplay/level design/etc, we just get an inferior game all around.

>>388837054
>not wanting jensen's sunglasses

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>>388837318
>rather than trying to be an allegory for the racial divide.
How could've they implement gems like this into the game then?

>>388840075
>jensen's sunglasses
>not JC's

>>388840075
>ended in sequel bait and the DLCs were great but they were side-stories
they are shitty
I am playing Human Revolution right now and I had enough with stealth and I go and murder people with shotgun to the face when they see me
this game is so much more fun when not ghosting through levels

>>388837318
It's the Illuminati

When was the first time you guys found out about the original Deus Ex? For me, it was a few month prior to release.

>at barber shop for a beard trim before an important meeting
>rummaging through magazines
>see a computer one, flip through
>read article about upcoming game
>several ways to proceed
>"can't find a key? blow the door open"
>"don't have explosives? find a vent to bypass door"
>admire screenshots which looked pretty good by late 90's standards
>made mental note to pick up a copy when it was released

I'm glad I picked up that magazine and found out about Deus Ex, it was a fantastic game.

>>388840173
>can't lose them
>can't fall off your head when you're doing shit
>are presumably bulletproof

>>388840308
i was at home drinking biocell when alex ring

'paul is die'

'no'

>>388837318
Half of the millionaire nigs in the NFL right now are refusing to stand for the anthem to push some leftist meme about how they're oppressed.

Every self-indulgent celebrity award show now is an endless parade of uninformed, insufferable millionaires playing one victim card or another on a soap box.

>>388836250
>one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed masterpieces of all time

since when is Invisible war anything close to that?

>>388840454
Just because they're millionaires now doesn't mean they never experienced any discrimination or anything and aren't allowed to talk about it now. I'm not saying none of them are just doing it for attention or virtue signalling though.

>>388836250
I bought Mankind Divided for 10€ last week but haven't played it yet.
How is it?
I heard it only takes place in one city, is it a lot shorter than Human Revolution?

>>388840308
how old are you anon

Impressive, political obsessers still managed to make it about them.

>>388836626
I doubt any of the original Devs would like to be related with garbage like Trump or the alt-right. Stop falseflaggin.

>>388840598
>Invisible war
Who?

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>>388840832
>deus ex
>not about politics

>>388840653
MD, gameplay wise, has made several steps forward comparing it to HR.
I liked the story/writing enough, nothing too impressive, but still enjoyable.
The problem is that this isn't even half of a game, I'd say it has 1/4 of the content I was expecting, and while the maps are good, there are too few missions, and one main hub doesn't cut it at all.

>>388836250
>Has even less to do with the original game
If anything MD had more (still little) to do with the original game.

>>388840832
You would be right if it wasn't a Deus Ex thread.

>>388841035
Because deus ex is all about trump and nfl, alt-signaling and virtue-signaling

>>388840653
>How is it?
I didn't like the characters. I felt attached to Pritchard, Malik, Sarif, and others. I couldn't feel anything for the characters I interacted with in Mankind Divided. If you chose to go full stealth, there is no challenge. If you go full homicidal maniac then there is disconnect with the themes. And despite now working for an organization like Interpol, Adam still has to do everything himself.
>"Oh no, you have to decide which mission you want to participate in and lose out on the other one."
Why can't any of the other hundreds of agents help me? My pilot has an invisibility augment, she should be able to do stuff but she gives half-ass excuses.

>>388840882
I don't think he's saying it's not about politics, but that everyone wants to spin it to show how they're right and the people they disagree with are wrong.

>>388836626
Since when? If you can't answer that, please fuck off.

Thank you.

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>>388836250
>MD
>Has even less to do with the original game

Nigga what? it had even more characters and references to the original game

They were clearly gonna do something more with it before Square Enix forced them to cut the game in half Reminder that you play as a clone of Jensen

>>388841264
>My pilot
Sorry, I meant the agent who says she's a pilot but just talks on Adam's info link. She's not the active pilot in this game.

>>388841406
>Reminder that you play as a clone of Jensen
This is fucking stupid.
Especially since MD Jensen is 10 times better than HR Jensen.

>>388840653
I think it's better. The main story is sorter, but there is much, much more to do in the hub than the hubs in HR combined. The side quests are excellent - some of, if not the best, I've seen in a game.
The world is great and really interesting. Reading about how things have changed since HR, and how things will lead to the original is entertaining.
Characters aren't given enough attention, but they are all good - just not around enough.
Gameplay is quite similar to HR, but the level design is some of the best around.
Whilst the story of MD is complete, it does sort of end abruptly because of the planned sequels.
Soundtrack is also good, but maybe not on par with HR.

>>388841340
>but that everyone wants to spin it to show how they're right and the people they disagree with are wrong

that's basically human nature summed-up, that poster/that post/(You) is still retarded.

>>388836250
>So what did we learn?
That you're a fucking dumbass

>>388841578
In what way is it stupid?

>>388836626
>all these gullible fools taking the falseflag bait
Good job derailing the thread. Are you happy there's one less game thread on /v/?

>Aug lives matter
>not wanting to live alongside augmented people, who have superhuman abilities and can be turned into homicidal killing machines against their will by being hacked is perfectly reasonable
>It's just like those poor black people in the USA
>not wanting to live alongside black people who are vastly overrepresented in violent crime and just one twitter hashtag away from a violent chimpout is perfectly reasonable

The comparison makes perfect sense, but probably not in the way they intended.

>>388840047
Okay.

>>388841731
>>all these gullible fools taking the falseflag bait

...he said, as he replied to the said falseflag post himself and probably did so without a sage.

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>oh boy I can't wait to figure out who's behind this
>game ends

>>388842047
I want to shame the retards, not him since that's not gonna stop him. But maybe the retards will think twice next time.

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>>388842153
You already know who's behind it from the beginning.

>>388836626
Is this what passes for subtlety in the /pol/cuck's mind?

>>388841731
>alt-left retard posts something stupid
>falseflag! falseflag! falseflag!
>someone says anything that triggers alt-left snowflakes or is a blatant /pol/tard satire
>da ebul /pol/! delete /pol/ now!

>>388842954
>altie
you mean the alt-left retard here? >>388842954
>>388841731

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>>388840308
When our family first got a computer in 2004, my brother and I went to walmart to get some cheap PC games. There was a value pack called "Lock and Load", which contained Beachhead 2000, Project: IGI, some spec ops game, and as a bonus, included the preview edition of Deus Ex.

Deus Ex quickly became our favourite after we learned that you can't play it like any other FPS. The preview edition was a very, very long demo. You get to play up until leaving from UNATCO HQ after breaking out of MJ12. It gave me the biggest case of gaming blue balls I've ever had.

>>388841717
This whole
>theory
started with people misunderstanding the dialogue with Sarif.
Also, Pritchard specifically checks if Jensen is a clone in the books or whatever they are.

I'm learning that great games don't sell well. Doesn't help that you guys meme'd the completely optional, worthless microtransactions in Mandkind Divided as the biggest example of corporate greed.

This place is a shithole.

>>388837864
Did you read the books too ? If yes, how good/bad are they ? I'm considering getting them.

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>mfw I played through Dude Sex: HR thinking I'm not gonna get Pacifist since Tranq gun sometimes kills
>mfw I somehow managed to get it but not Foxiest of Hounds
What the fuck

>>388843225
>This place is a shithole.
>I'm learning that great games don't sell well

new AND retarded, a deadly combination.

dxmd is actually really good and would be a 10/10 if it was twice as long

>>388838609
>game feel

go back

>>388837841
Nah, they got the Marvel license. Theyre gonna milk the shit out of that capeshit

>>388836898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUIcCyPOA30

>>388836718
>sequel abandons anti-globalist themes, embraces black lives matter and other soros globalist cabal crap
no it didn't

>>388843457
Joe's face at :44 always makes me crack up

>>388836898
apparently enjoying conspiracy theories in this day and age means you are likely a racist """nazi""".

>>388843225
>MD
>great
>defends microtransaction hell in single player games too
average HR kiddie

>>388843283
this dragon loli does things to me

>>388840936
The side quests were great, They werent generic filler shit most rpg games have. The thing is was that the main story was so short, I dont mean short as in over quickly it was like they tried to stretch 25% of a story into a full one.

All you did was catch some guys who blew up a trainstation meanwhile other DE games have you travel around the world altering the future of the whole world.

>>388843597
THIS
the over arcing story is still stop the Illuminati

>>388843181
You can see a Jensen clone in the Versalife vault

>>388840639
Kaepernick, the one that started the whole thing, was adopted by two wealthy white people and grew up in an affluent white neighborhood.

>>388836250
>Deus Ex 2 was widly shat on due to several reasons
>one of them is the sequel itelf null the ending of the first game, making it a useless add-on to a good story
>they do the same with MD

just do a separate thing already

>>388843447
The whole cape thing seems to have been going on for a while. I don't see it lasting too much longer. A couple more movies, one or two mediocre games maybe.

>>388843782
There's a difference from enjoying them, and screaming they're real, like pizzagate. Which incidentally has a wiki in making over at /pol/

>>388844195
Have a pity (you), you deserve it for trying so hard.

>>388840653
Better but shorter.
I think unlike HR people are going to appreciate it more in some years.
The whole preorder fiasco and denuvo really hurted its launch.

>>388844114
How does MD null the ending of HR?
HR had 4 endings that were very different, and all shit.
MD at least has you living in a world that has clearly been affected by the events of HR.

>>388843836
You're retarded

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>>388836250
Mankind Divided got a bad rap considering the game was about as good as HR which was well-received. I swear Square deliberately sabotaged its release with their harebrained pre-order and microtransaction schemes, as well as lack of proper marketing.

>>388844037
That's funny, but doesn't necessarily mean he's doing a bad thing. Drawing attention to and giving support for the downtrodden is a good thing, as long as he doesn't go fullretard "I'm against racism but ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY DEVILS"

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>>388844278
whatever it takes to get you to go back

>>388844114
HR's endings were already vetoed by the post-credits scene in HR itself, and it being a prequel.

>>388844376
nice argument

>>388843836
considering this place liked HR, MD should be up to their standard leaving microtransaction shit aside

>>388844415
More likely they just wanted to push us as far as they could in the hopes of squeezing a few extra cents to pay for their Ferrari's, hoping we'd just take it.

I actually liked Mankind Divided more than HR. While there was only one hub, it was extremely fucking detailed. Definitely could have been a better game had square not meddled as much as they did though.

>>388837020
I don't 'hate' HR, just think it's kind of mediocre

>>388836652
What flaws?

>>388844805
Prague was amazing, I only found the cult quest on the third play through.

>>388839843
Deus Ex is anti authoritarian, which anti globalism is a subset of. Anti authoritarianism is neither right or left.

THE FRUITFLIES, ADAAAAAAM

My biggest gripe with MD was that there were always several ways to get to places. That made having jump/strenght/etc pointless and kills replayability. Too many fucking vents everywhere too.

HR suffered from it too, but at least there were the occasional route and place you could reach only by having one or several augs.

>>388843234
No I didn't and I don't really plan to. Maybe I'll change my mind.
But if you like the series and don't mind possibly mediocre writing then you should just try reading them.

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>>388836250
>>388836652
>>388836718
>>388837137

The seeds of MD failing were already there in MD.

The new games are to Deus Ex what Fallout 3 and 4 and to the originals.
>new developers look over the old game
>a particular theme jumps out at them (transhumanism for DX, 1950s nuclear theme for Fallout)
>go full retard on that one theme and ignore everything else the game was about

In the case of MD they just pushed it too far since it was now just 'augmentation as some kind of metaphor for absolutely everything', and it makes zero sense if you haven't played HR to the point that the game has to open with a 10 minute recap video

>>388845643
I think you've oversimplifying things

>>388844750
You can't blame them considering how regularly people do take it in the ass
>pre-order tier schemes
>amiibos
>performance patch DLC

>>388845639
I enjoyed other vidya books so I'd probably enjoy the DX ones. Thanks for the answer.

>>388836250
HR was good though.

>>388845807
says the 16 year old

>>388840308

2006.

>shitty Compaq M2000
>256 megs of RAM with a Celeron M processor clocked at 1.5 GHz
>no consoles
>I need old games to play! I don't even have a toaster.
>/v/ recommends System Shock 2, Deus Ex, and Unreal Gold
>all three were fucking phenomenal

This place isn't so bad sometimes.

Fuck squeenix

is prey (2017) a deus ex game?

>>388845807
Want to know how I know that you're a newfag?

>>388846048
meant to quote >>388845928

>>388846043
no

>>388846129
cool bait

>>388846043
about as much as mass effect andromeda

I think that Deus Ex gameplay would work quite well in a coop mode of sorts

You could have a friend infiltrate one part of a facility to disable some security stuff, then you could sneak through the previously secure area and open a passage for your friend and then you could take down some bad guys together, then you could get whatever objective item you needed and escape

Actually you could have it like dark souls, so you could do things yourself (but they'd be a lot harder), or you could summon a friend or two to help you out

>>388836250
The lessons is Canadians don't know dick about American politics nor global politics. The first Deus Ex was about the dystopia whereas the prequels were about the tech.

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>>388845709
That was the main reaction to promo materials I saw from average people who hadn't played the other games.
Just not understanding the world or what the plot was meant to be because the devs had gone so far up their own ass with the augmentation story

>it's a society where some people have robot arms but now it's like Apartheid ok?

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>>388845643
Maybe that's why I'm more willing to forgive MD's shitty story - HR's was already pretty bad. The writers just cannot get away from "augs augs augs" angle even when it just feels forced and senseless. The game tries to be more 'grounded' than the first by avoiding the more zany stuff like greys but it actually somehow feels more contrived.

>>388846464
So, basically Clandestine?

>>388845643
But the newer deus ex games look at other themes as well though - the influence of (corrupt) media, and corporations running the world for their own profit.
Also how on earth is it bad that they made MD so that playing HR helps give you context, and they give you a video to catch up if you didn't play it.
Should all sequels just be entirely disconnected from previous games?

Is there anyway to skip MD's recap intro?

>>388846881
Yes, the game asks you if you want to watch it or not.

>>388846721
yeah kind of, but on a bigger scale with better production values and more content
that game always made my gpu produce coil whine

>>388846881
I'm fairly certain it gave you the option to skip it

>>388846881
>skipping the best part of that game

>>388846881
I don't think there're any videos you can't skip one way or other.

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>>388847049
Speaking of
>the actual best part of the game is an optional mission

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>>388846765
>Should all sequels just be entirely disconnected from previous games?

They should have done what every other DX game did which was create a new time period and protagonist to start fresh.

DX1 actually had a pretty good pitch to newcomers.
>you're an augmented secret agent who is going after a terrorist network
>everything else is revealed to you along the way

MD is a mess for that. In terms of gameplay content it's a full game, in terms of story and narrative it's basically an expansion pack to HR.

People who never played Half Life can enjoy Half Life 2 and understand what's going on. If you play MD without playing HR then you will have no clue. This is disastrous because the total number of possible customers is capped at how many people bought the previous game, and then you have to hope that every single one of those people also buys the new one

>>388847232
Which one are you talking about ?

>>388847321
The VersaLife bank vault, many people choose to go after the bomb maker

Cat lady best quest

>>388839185
Yeah and none of that makes any fucking sense.
A company giving its staff augs would be like them paying for unqualified employees college tuition. Its not the way the world works.

>>388847389
This isn't an optional mission. I did it on my second playthrough, oh boy it was great
>already went into the other vaults before doing the mission
>everything is like I left it

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>>388844134
>A couple more movies
uh

>>388837259
Really any French Canadian dev. They're good at deluxe indie games like Fez or Rayman but need to be kept well the fuck away from your standard, narrative driven AAA games

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>they'll eventually get around to another Deus Ex, probably
>by then it will be set in an alternate past and Bob's VA will be dead

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>mfw blew up the dam and didn't buy the next one
stories over bitches.

>>388847254
>If you play MD without playing HR then you will have no clue.
Why do you say this? Not only are you given a recap, you hear about the aug incident through characters in game. How is it any different to being dropped into a new world?
Admittedly I didn't like the idea of Jensen coming back - but he's in a new city, working with new people for new organisations etc.

>>388847534
I know someone whose company made them get a PhD to stay employed. I can imagine plenty of companies require their employees to do or get stuff.

>>388847891
the destruction of panchaea is canon

>>388846643
One thing that really pissed me off about HR was that you could use the CASIE aug to pressure what's-his-name into admitting that he's only fucking it up for everyone because he's jealous that he's one of the few people who can't accept augmentations, and yet the conversation immediately defaults back to him acting like he's atoning for a crime he enabled. You go from "IF I CAN'T HAVE IT THEN NO ONE CAN" to "it must be destroyed for the greater good" in the span of one line.

>>388837318
Imagine the shitstorm augs would cause in our RL society. Its why I think its being kept a secret atm. Islamist fanatics with iron arms, legs & associated augs that can wreck 30 humans in a fight? Yeah, thats what i thought

>>388848165
None of the endings are canon, though. The stupid thing just blows up itself before Jensen even reaches the controls.

>>388836520
Should've made the games based on different possible DE endings, like Zelda does

>>388848165
suicide end is canon? I don't think so.

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>>388836718
Don't forget the thing that triggers me most
>sequel is very close to first game's timeline and hardly connect them together

>>388836250
>Has nothing to do with DX1
nigga did you even play human revolution

>>388848663
>hardly connects them together
>has multiple references to the upcoming events of the first game
>is only 2 years after HR, but 20+ years before the original

>>388847549
Same. I robbed the shit out of that bank the minute I could

>>388836541
Hey, they need to finance FF somehow.

>>388840308
I vaguely recall playing the demo around the time it was released and dropping it really fast because of how the combat felt. At the time I was probably just looking for a decent shooter and I don't think I had read anything about it.

I didn't even look at the game again until 2009, when a let's player I liked happened to play it. I let the whole playthrough play in the background while I did other stuff, and by the last couple areas the game started to look really interesting.

The plot had been really hard to keep up with since I wasn't in control and the game kept introducing so many new characters throughout, so I downloaded it and played it myself from start to finish, this time paying attention and enjoying it immensely.

>>388848578
the destruction of panchaea is canon, it's mentioned a few times

>>388847969
This isn't the real Jensen

>>388849019
>all these items
>that unique combat rifle
>Picus is literally CNN

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I'm bummed out that things turned out this way, but with the direction they were taking the series what with the focus on the retarded racism parallels that didn't work over globe trotting conspiracies, maybe it's for the best.
>muh augs
pls no

>>388849343
Well yeah, but the game doesn't tell you that - and you certainly didn't know from the pre-release information

>>388849363
Augs was fine for the first game if they wanted to get their feet wet doing a noted Franchise, bringing it back for MD was retarded

>>388849363
>>muh augs
>pls no
Explain what is wrong with presenting non-augs being distrustful of augs, who went crazy and attacked them in the previous game.
It's the logical step to take for a sequel. Would you rather everyone just went "this is fine"?

>>388849410
Tbh I learned about that on /v/. Still, the main menu gives a hint, then it's confirmed when looking into the Versalife vault, though it's hard to notice, I didn't. Maybe it would have been explained later in the plot if the game wasn't cut in several parts

>>388848084
>I can imagine
Yes

>>388849732
Well, it could have just been teasing for what's coming in the sequel, rather than being cut out.

>>388849496
Bringing it back wasn't the problem at all. It should have been brought back, it's an obvious component to that society however it just shouldn't have had such a dominant focus.
Just an entire fuckup of direction and interest.

>>388846470
Also it pretended Montreal was worth a shit

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>>388849847
I guess we'll never know. Or maybe in 7 years. Thanks SE.

>>388850035
You'll buy deus ex outfits in final fantasy and you will like it white piggu

It was pretty doomed the moment they went with microtransactions + denuvo route.

>>388850147
I will crack FFXV

>>388836250
>>388844415
why are the models in these games so ugly

I try hard to overlook it but damn they look like 7th gen material

>>388849581
If it was more of a background thing in addition to other in-universe global issues and conspiracies it wouldn't have been that bad, but making it the absolute focus of the game and being so in your face about it was a bit much. Especially since none of this was really touched on or even a part of the first game which this is supposed to be a prequel to.

Also considering cyborgs their own "race" is a stupid concept. They're amputees with mechanical limbs and some neural augments. Lumping a guy with a prosthetic leg in with someone like Jensen is a bit much.

>>388836250
>Somehow prequel does well enough to warrant a followup
>Has even less to do with the original game

I take it you didn't actually play Mankind Divided?

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>>388847859

i wrote my own story for a future deus ex game.

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>>388850248
>implying best girl is ugly

>>388850271
But it didn't matter what augmentations you had - as long as you went to the clinic with an augmented ring finger you'd have gone crazy.

>>388850529
>not Aria

>>388836250
I thought HR was doing well until the end where it basically tripped on it's feet, forgot what it was going for gameplay and story wise and you got a shitty ending'o'tron 3000 which I think was on par with ME3's horrid ending.

When MD came out and I heard it was cut to all shit I decided not to buy it. I'll probably get it sometime later when it's cheaper and with all the DLC bundled, but while the game seems to have gameplay improvements the story is...well, let's say I'm not holding out for anything great.

Never going to play the game, can someone give me a factual rundown on the theory of him being a clone?

>>388850824
the theory is centered around the idea that the game is just a futuristic mario game with adam being luigi

>>388850552
I'm just gonna say I think the whole cyber racism thing is just a dumb idea from the start, even before the whole aug incident thing in HR it just seemed really artifical and silly. Them doubling down on it in MD didn't really help with that.

>>388847686
Just because they're planned doesn't mean they'll succeed. I'm sure in the 90's they had a bunch of superhero movies lined-up until they realized the audience had grown tired of it.

>>388851054
But it's rational though, how is it dumb or 'artificial'?
Sounds to me like you might have let irl current events impact your enjoyment.

>>388849581
The "logical" step was also the most boring. A more interesting thing to do would be to set it in the 2030s with a new protagonist and use the fallout of the incident as a background. We know that in the early 2030s the United States is in chaos, with massive earthquakes and secessionist movements on the rise.

>>388850824
Did you know that breast implants have unique serial numbers in them and that police can identify a body based on those serial numbers?

>>388847534
Except companies do pay for your education, like accountancy exams or apprenticeships or lorry licenses.

>>388844146
pizzagate was real and even trump covered it up.

>>388850824
>Adam has lost some of his memory - especially the events of HR's ending, and his rescue + time in hospital
>Sarif can't find information about him
>you can see a clone of Adam in Versalife's vault

>>388851228
Not really. The whole thing is based on augs taking jobs and normal people are freaking out, but beyond military and industrial work, augs wouldn't really make much of a difference in anything so it shouldn't be a big deal, but it is because that's the thing they wanted to focus on. Another thing is the drug they need so their implants don't get rejected by the body, which isn't a thing since the body doesn't work that way and it's only there to have a downside to being an aug beyond everyone hating you because reasons.

If the body rejecting foregin artificial objects was a thing and as much of a problem as they make it out to be in these games, half of Korea would be hooked on this shit right now.

>>388851006
>adam being luigi
Nonsense. Adam is clearly Waluigi, have you even seen the proofs ?

>>388837318
Bankers are like the most hated people on Earth why don't game devs get this?

>>388852113
t. brainlet that watches Ross's Game Dungeon

>>388852917
They're not wrong though

>>388852109
>>you can see a clone of Adam in Versalife's vault
Post screenshots.
>inb4 it's that webm that just shows a torso with generic male face that doesn't even look close to Adam

>>388852994
He is though
>augs don't make much difference
They make you more qualified and more preferrable. You know employers choose people who have a car over those that don't right? Augs give yo uan advantage. Not to mention you could have neurological augmentations that imrpove your senses (maybe they can even make you smrter, or remmeber information more?). Many jobs involve communication - imagine having the augmentation that let's you figure out the best way to take conversations as a salesman.

>the body doesn't reject foreign objects
Blatantly false.

>>388848965
Yeah, illuminati boys in cutscenes and that's it. How about meeting dentons and introducing nanoaug prototypes or other stuff?

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>>388853182

>>388853427
But there's talk of nano technology in the game. There's references to the activities of the members of the illuminati.
There's talk about developing a virus - quite possibly the Gray Death.
I'm sure others can go on, I certainly don't remember them all.

>>388844146
>any post about that subject (photos, infograph etc) are automatically censored on 4chan outside of a single board
Wew

>>388840308
>walking through flea market with friend (must have been around 2003)
>theres one seller who sells discounted pc games
>friend shows me his routine of buying 18y+ games by putting 12+ stickers on them, buys next best game which was deus ex
>week later i borrow it, never give it back

i have to say it was mind blowing how complex this game was back then. i replayed 2 years ago and still found it pretty good.

>>388853861
Well shit. What happens when you search it?

>>388855146
You can't interact with it, it's just there to look at.

>>388854749
Fuck topical boards and their communist rules amirite?

>>388855404
>rules against speaking the truth

>>388855615
You can't talk about cars or tranny midget porn either. What does that mean?

>>388855615
lmao like those obese loud black women who call people names and give their unwanted opinions constantly and when told not to are like "I AM JUST SPEKIN DA TRUF"

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>>388855725
But I can.

The Enzo Ferrari is a 12 cylinder mid-engine berlinetta sports car named after the company's founder, Enzo Ferrari. It was built in 2002 using Formula One technology, such as a carbon-fibre body, F1-style electrohydraulic shift transmission, and carbon fibre-reinforced silicon carbide (C/SiC) ceramic composite disc brakes. Also used are technologies not allowed in F1 such as active aerodynamics and traction control. After a downforce of 7600 N (1700 lbf) is reached at 300 km/h (186 mph) the rear wing is actuated by computer to maintain that downforce.

See? I was able to post this.
My post about the other subject was rejected 15 times and it didn't contain links, personal names or anything.

>>388856056
Now try tranny midget porn.

>>388837318
A game can't go and change metaphors after one has already been established in the prior title without looking stupid. In Human Revolution, Augs were an allegory for unrestrained free market capitalism. The few who could afford augs would be able to fully realize their potential and allow them to control their own life. The trade off is that augs were leaving behind those who couldn't afford them, as well as fucking over people who were pressured to get augs, but couldn't really afford it long term and got hooked on neuropezine, or couldn't afford them at all and allied with dangerous criminal groups in order to get them.
>Sarif is the globalist free market advocate who doesn't see all of the harm it does
>Darrow is the pro-regulation liberal who thinks that stability is more important than individual freedom
>Taggart is the military industrial complex agent pretending to be a populist, in order to help his men make a power grab

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>>388856205
You can post porn, but if you dare posting a picture containing a 16 years old quote by Hunter Thompson, you get muted.

>>388856474
Go ahead, post tyranny midgets getting fucked. Or are you pussying out?

>>388856640
Unlike you, I don't masturbate to it, so I don't know where to find it.

Also, unlike you, I started posting a decade ago. That don't mean I simply know the rules and have nothing to prove to you, it means the shit I saw on this very board was much more disgusting than mundane midget porn.
It also means your next post will be extremely predictable.

>>388857037
Okay, something simple then. How about titfucking picture? Maybe a picture of naked kids? Or hell, black cocks you guys obsess over. Let's have it. Or you gonna run with your tail between your legs? Make more excuses because you know I'm right?

>>388847254
>They should have done what every other DX game did which was create a new time period and protagonist to start fresh.
Oh yeah, all two of them.

>>388857410
*all three of them. Or four if you count that shitty mobile game Vega was introduced in, but nobody cares about that.

>>388837841
If they ever revisit the license, I hope they don't shoehorn it in with some trans lives matter shit or whatever the mainstream media globalists will be promoting at such time.

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>playing MD a few months ago
>have to choose between saving Allison or raiding the bank
>drop it, haven't touched the game since

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>>388857313
>Maybe a picture of naked kids?
Anon covering pedo's asses online is now asking for child porn

>>388836520
I still think the obvious answer to quell the nervous shareholders without canning the fanchise entirely is to give the first game its much-needed remaster.

Simple money to get the fanchise out of the rut.

>>388858450
What do they mean by "blowing open a larger ring" apart from the obvious easy jokes, it sounds like a good thing or does it mean they were trying to bring more people into it?

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>tfw all your favourite game franchises are being turned into context sensitive button pushing simulators with telltale-tier "choices"

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>>388858450
>Thomas Katsiantonis, 44, a New Hampshire State Representative and Manchester Ward 8 alderman, was arrested Thursday on four counts of tax evasion and theft charges involving $423,000 in state meals and rentals tax payments

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>>388859029
Lucky you

>>388843057
I miss the days that you could walk into an office store like Staples or Office Max, see a bunch of computer games and browse in comfort without some neckbeard oogling 10 yr old video game characters close enough that you could smell the Doritos on him.

>>388859228
Better to die good than live and stagnate.

>>388852109
So Adam in HR is the real one and the one in MD is a clone?

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>>388858876
Criminals tend to associate with other criminals.
They were hoping that arresting that particular person was enough to lead to a bigger human trafficking ring.
>>388859173
It's a coverup, my firend.

>>388853397
So why does HR set it up like it's an economic issue, then clumsily pivot to it being a race issue? Augmentation as an allegory for a bunch of different things is retarded and the game collapsed because they pushed it too far

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Can we have a comfy transhumanism thread?

>>388860119

Honestly, the game ending in the middle of the story and what story story we got being mostly irrelevant bothered me more than their shitty attempt at being topical.

>>388860302
Did they end up getting this artist to do the promotional art for the dlc for MD? The style is pretty much the same.

>>388836718
>>sequel abandons anti-globalist themes, embraces black lives matter and other soros globalist cabal crap

MD plot was finalized way before BLM nonsense started. In this case SQEnix was fucked over by political circumstance.

MD failed for its own reasons.

>>388847686
Inhumans got cancelled though.

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>>388862019
You're damn right it did

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