Producer of the game here. Your video just popped in my feed, made my day. I can confirm that we had a team of talented and dedicated devs who cared deeply about creating an immersive and rewarding experience for our players. We knew we had something special in our hands when the Palisade bank was staking shape. I had many arguments with our game director about the fact that one of the best levels we’ve ever produced was optional, off the critical path. His answer was always something along the lines of “that’s what Deus Ex is all about”. Knowing that many players will miss the content, but those that do find it will have an unforgettable experience Lots of hard work and years of our lives went into this game, always great to see videos like this appear years after the game was released. Love the jacket analogy!
Thank you for yours and your teams hard work and dedication. HR and MD are gems to be forever cherished. And I have to come back to these games every few years because they are like fine wines whose taste in experience needs to be savored. Thank you. I wish you and your team the best and every success in life.
I played the game during the COVID lockdown. It was so much fun to discover all the nooks and crannies! I wish there was a new game on the horizon building on this principle. Anyways, thank you and your team a lot for the experience!
And the saddest thing is that it's part 2 of 3, ending on a cliffhanger we'll never see resolved because Squenix couldn't cram enough microtransactions in to it. Although maybe that's for the best, seeing Jensen fail would have been heart breaking.
well we know how it's resolved, even though it wasn't - and I like all the bits and pieces about Bob Page being spread around the game, down to suggesting he is the one using Adam Jensen to do his bidding by removing the competition (and suggesting he was the one who "upgraded" him after HR). Granted you can miss A LOT of tie in lore if you go for a certain choice late game.
When the game came out, no one who purchased the game had to buy an MS at all. They're perfectly optional, the game didn't deserve to be review bombed because of it.
I would definitely say that Deus Ex Mankind Divided is the proof that bigger does not mean better. It’s better with a few city blocks with every building and apartment accessible filled with easter eggs, collectibles etc then a complete city with barely anything accessible
this is the case with like any game that take that approach devs need to understand that we don't need a game where we grind for 1000 hour another good example would be the yakuza games you play in a very small street blocks but the amount of rich side content is crazy
true, the Night City does nothing to be memorable, if anything areas outside of it are a lot more characterful. A small chunk of Prague has a lot more to remember than large neon boxes you have to walk around to get to your quest marker.
@aligmal5031 I started Yakuza 0 and found the side content to be nothing more than shallow distractions. I also couldn't enter 99% of the buildings. There is barely any interaction with the environment outside of vending machines. I don't know how this came up in a discussion about the depth of cyberpunk immersive sims. Maybe the other Yakuza games are better..?
Let's take a moment to appreciate Michael McCann's god-tier music for DXHR and DXMD. It adds so much to world, making just standing around looking up at the night sky and metal walkways such an experience.
Dishonored got a lot of press and hype, what killed it was Bethesda adding as they do for 90% of their titles to the £10 discount bargain bin when it didnt need to be there.
Finally I see someone appreciated the masterpiece of level design in this game. There’s so much thought and love put into how this game is made it’s just sad that generally people have missed it.
I'm actually busy playing this game at the moment and am totally blown away by the freedom of choice on offer. You literally have 'Aha" moments when working your way through scenarios and I haven't experienced that in a long time playing a game.
It really is a good game. I like what it is but the game could have been so much better if they had given it more time, I love the stealth in the game but the ending is what I hate the most.
If you haven't played it already, I recommend the last Prey game that came out if you like this type of games, is an immersive sim like Deus Ex Mankind Divided and the freedom, discoveries and level design are also top notch, I think most probably you will like it as much as this one There's more games of this style like Dishonored 1 and 2, maybe you played them, the immersive sim genre has some awesome games is a shame they don't get more attention ;_;
Things like this is why i'm ok with the GTA 6 map being as big as gta 5 if not even smaller, as long as the amount of content is raised. MORE enterable buildings, MORE npc diversity and interaction, MORE liveliness to the cities and small towns.
funny thing is that games back in the 2000 era were exactly like this. it was commonplace for games to have elements that mankind divided has in it. the technology wasnt as forgiving back then so they had to think tall instead of wide. games were designed with density and worldbuilding in mind. assassins creed valhallas werent commonplace back then.
FINALLY! someone acknowledging the beauty of this masterfully crafted art!! one of best games I have ever played. Screw you 2024 AAA titles. 2016 was on whole another level!
Bc at the time SE wanted to make 2 games and we all see how that turnt out. Embracer owns eidos now and they canceled all deus ex development and laid off the devs.
yeah it ended all of a sudden but at the same time do realise creating a game like this with so much options and densely packed means the story time will be lesser but yeah hated how they treated the game through corpo greed and also hated how cyberpunk couldnt come close to the worldbuilding of deus ex
@@xiAlpha_Zero Right now, you and I prefer no Deus Ex to woke Deus Ex, if I'm feeling you right. So keep your hopes up, the franchise will be back in good time.
Based as hell. Completed this game + dlcs several times with 100% achievements and total playtime of ~260 hours and even then on my last playthrough I managed to find a secret arms dealer selling a grenade launcher in the Red Light District that I didn't know about before. I haven't seen any other game that would have so much detail in it.
@@georgkeller3225Yep, I did. Really wanted to complete everything. Maybe it was easier because I had a ton of in-game currency (around 400 000) and I don't know how I got so much lol. Maybe a bonus for deluxe edition, idk.
@@SolidSnake240 I have read the book. It is clearly hinted that OG Adam died at Panchea and his consciousness/memories transferred to a clone body. Plus in MD there are all his clones in the VersaLife bank vault.
gothic games had the same mindset about density instead of creating a massive world with repetitive stuff each chapter made the world change so it is the same sand box world but new enemies and npc fill it every chapter
I played MD on my Xbox when it came out and probaly hadnt really played it since like 2017 but started playing it again on PC and my favorite parts of the game are how rediculusly good the game still looks by todays standards despite being 8 years old, a game using 13+GB of vram from an era where 8GB was already a ton is insane and the other thing the level design is so good you can turn off the minimap, quest markers and interactive object outlines (and other options but thats what I did) and the game not only still holds up, but honestly makes for a more engaging game
Great commentary here. This was such a stellar franchise. I bought the first game on the PS3 and spent hours upon hours on it exploring every nook and cranny. Loved every minute of it. Bought this 2nd game on Xbox One and also spent oodles of hours on it as well, inching through and discovering all I could about the world and environment. It was a well deserved and well done continuation of the story. Waited for a part 3 that never happened and forgot all about it til now. Been so long, I'll have to go back for a revisit.
I’ve always loved Human Revolution and Mankind Divided! Brilliant games. I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 too recently and I can’t stop thinking about how similar it is to these Deus Ex games.
The jacket analogy is brilliant. The game is pure art. When I entered the van for the first time. That was a shocker. Seeing the modern tones combined with that tree, it was like artificial and organic aspects both found a synergy.
great video, unironically i listen to the deus ex human revolution and mankind divided OST every few weeks because its unmatched immersion wise. wish you the best!
Great video. I thought I 100%'d Human Revolution and Mankind Divided with all DLCs, but even I learned a bit more. Not the three corporate storages nor the clone theory of course, but a few different routes and one side mission I missed. Have been constantly checking Deus Ex twitter and news for the past several years only to be morally destroyed by the recent news...
Still one of my favorite games, they need to make another one. Kind of like we also need a new splinter cell, but I cringe at the thought of what Ubislop would do to that game for “modern audiences.”
Well…SE sold off the devs to Embracer and Embracer owns them now Apparently in their rounds of layoffs, they sent everyone who was working on a deus ex sequel packing
@@icebough4191 thats so fucking criminal??? wtf! deus ex human revolution was my favourite game when i was 11 years old. im 26 now. im so bummed. gosh. nah bro i gotta release a mod for the game or something. but i dont know dick about game design or modding.
I loved reading the deus ex books. The author James Swallow has a few short stories free on his website that dives deeper into Alex Vega and Malik’s stories bringing back known characters. Always wished we got more of ShadowChild and Adam😢
I was so hyped when this game came out. Never have I ever been so engrossed with a game's world like these games. Eidos Montreal didnt deserve the Embracer treatment.
Yeah, except the "boss" is just a mercenary, a pawn. The game really needed at least another level, where you make some real change, or at least try to, with some deeper consequences.
@@tomaszsotysik9438 all the more relevant. It combines the Just World Fallacy with cynicism/realism. It's a near-dystopian prequel that is setting up the hellish Deus Ex setting of JC Denton's New York. It would be out of place to have some sort of grand justice in this series. Human Revolution knew this, as did D.E. 2000. The post-credits of M.D. pay homage to the reality that the ones pulling the strings will always have a pawn to play.
This game came out when i was a teenager and its only now that i understand why i loved it so much. I was rarely overwelmed in a good way such as this game. Even 10+years later i still listen to the soundtrack. Wish there was a current gen remaster or remake. I would totaly replay it a third time.
I remember buying it on steam for 1.57$ and it was the first time when I thought I stole the game from developers, like this strange feeling when you know they deserve much more money from you for the great game they made. It really shows how great they did that I just was ashamed to pay so less for such great game
When I walked into the bank, that was pure art. Seeing the tree and the futuristic features coming together to a form of synthesis was truly the moment for me to realise that this game was indeed art. Plus the soundtrack. I think it was from the man Jesper Kyd himself. Bloody brilliant.
2:45 thats the problem its so packed. Its almost like everyone lives in the same building. For example ur boss, head of interpol’s tf29, a drug dealer, a mafia goon lives in the same building and none of them knows about each other lol
Yes and yes. It's weird how prey and Dishonored and personally for me Deathloop are great examples and I wouldn't even argue that they're not the best isim. But there's something about DX where the entire focus is on the level design. Prey has it and it's probably broader. For whatever reason the goals in Dx translates a bigger cohesive experience.
I loved this game when it came out and finally got around to replaying it and its still one of my favorites. Devestated we'll probably never see more from this universe
No, it's not. DXMD is a painfully average game. It's a sequel that fails to advance the story at all and the only advantage it has over DXHR are improved graphics and animations.
There is so much depth, I remember getting into an apartment and getting into a trap, gassed by a gangster... I was just exploring... the Divali theather, so many things can happen... If you fusion DE with CP77 you make the best game ever
Just beat MD, and I thought it was one of the most immersive games I've ever played. I know the ending was kinda rushed, but I think the story was really good, especially with that end-credit scene
I have always said that developers should focus on a small area that is just littered with detail and life and things to interact with rather than making an open world. Deus ex was just amazing for that. This was the same reason I was obsessed with Shenmue back in the day when it first came out.
I agree….. when I discovered the first game on 360, I played and manipulated it a hundred different ways, like almost a new game every run through (I even hacked a specific computer, saved and repeated until I had plenty of praxis kits. When I heard about the new game, I actually bought the Xbox One for it. It’s the only game I play over and over from the start, to this day……. which is how I found this video so many years after the launch, haha! Semper Fi!
Totally agree. One of all time favorites. I get both extremely mad and super sad every time I recall it and realize, cause thanks to stupid executives there won't be a sequel.
After watching the Hbomberguy video on Mankind Divided I figured I would never play that game. I still probably won't, but this video helped nudge me towards the possibility. Also enjoyed the Tree of Life snippet for artsy fartsy, haha. Subbed.
@@andypantsgaming I'm all over the place, like all kinds of stuff. imsims like Arkane games, mmos like osrs and swtor, indies like outer wilds (maybe my all time favorite) and stardew valley. oh and btw based on this video i think you'd like alpha protocol, if you're not already aware of it. also outer wilds for the discovery and secrets aspect, but i recommend that game to everyone
@@Mr_Spaghetti I actually tried playing alpha protocol and it was tough to get through! Some of the shooting mechanics felt so old I just couldnt do it But apparently the game is really good as an RPG
@@andypantsgaming yeah it’s a mess, but it’s a very fascinating mess. so much content that most players won’t see, maybe the truest “your actions have consequences” game ever made. if you’re on PC there’s a modding scene that improves some of the gunplay and difficulty stuff, haven’t tried it myself tho
Mankind Divided was a huge letdown for me. I had such high hopes after Human Revolution but unfortunately it was not in the same league. Not even close.
I always loved these immersive sims and completed Mankind Divided twice with the DLC. I got it for cheap long after the release of the game anf never understood the hate. Pity we won't see the resolution to Adam's story. Most likely someone is thinking of the way to remake the original now.
The fact that I spend multiple hours checking every corner of this game and then when I watch this video I realize that I haven't been on 30% of the places that you're showing proves your point.
Long term fan of Deus Ex. So gutted the series is on hiatus, and / or recent rumours suggest a game in development for two years was cancelled :-( Amazing graphics too. Reinstalled recently to find that it still hammers a modern PC build at 4K :-)
Nothing will beat the OG Deus Ex IMO. I wish it they would remake it with todays UE5 graphics and animations but everything otherwise left the same. Maybe some more fleshed out areas and such. That game was so special because it was unique with it's story. That conspiracy unfolding was so cool the locations you went to. It's one of my top games of all times. I played it back when it first came out. Funnily I stopped playing at first because the Statue of Liberty intro wasn't actually a good mission. But as soon as you got to the UNATCO HQ and started to see some of the conspiracy and when eaves dropping on that holo-meeting it piqued my interest and it became so cool. All the different conspiracy factions. The music was iconic to. I also actually preferred Deus Ex Human revolution over Mankind divided. Mostly because I wasn't into the old world Europe setting and the game didn't have an ending. It just stopped on the first mid-boss kind of deal. Like they ran out of money. I know they wanted a part 2. But that is really bad move to make when you don't know how well a game sells and also if you don't have a proper ending, people are less likely to buy it. So it's a catch 22.
I'll say for my part that I have trouble getting into Deus Ex 1 because there's a sort of clunkiness to the gameplay. This is part of why I'd like to see a remake of DE1, if you modernized that game I'm sure it'd be fantastic.
But if i remember well people were, for good reason, super pissed because for full price you didnt have the full game and had to pay more for the rest of the story so it was review bombed. then they gave the game full but the gried was already done.
The same feeling i had towards old iOS which had skeuomorphic style, filled with intricate details absolutely unnecessary for usage, but making those iOS so beautiful
Watching this made me nostalgic. Actually I found out new secrets that I didn't know :) I believe the atmosphere of the game was spot on, also because of the smaller game area. I also loved the game because you could finish the game without killing anyone and without being seen, and still have a lot of fun trying that.
In my most recent playthrough, I decided to hack the robots and have them kill all the guards. It’s pretty freaking savage. As you’re sneaking around the back rooms, you just hear gunfire and panic.
After watching your video i tried deus ex. First i went for human revelation didn't enjoyed it much then went for mankind divided. I am gonna say i fell in love with this game. This game is really amazing.
While I think that this is a fantastic video with very valid points I am amazed that so many people here are so satisfied with DE:MD… as a long time fan of the series I was incredibly disappointed in the story of mankind divided and the horribly lazy and shortcut ending with so many threads left unanswered. I felt robbed and cheated by getting an incomplete game. I didn’t see the final level coming, didn’t see it as a climax - I felt like there was so much more that needed to be told in the story and ultimately as it’s such an important element in the series, that’s what I played it for. Deus ex was one of my favorite series and they broke my heart with mankind divided.
Producer of the game here.
Your video just popped in my feed, made my day.
I can confirm that we had a team of talented and dedicated devs who cared deeply about creating an immersive and rewarding experience for our players. We knew we had something special in our hands when the Palisade bank was staking shape. I had many arguments with our game director about the fact that one of the best levels we’ve ever produced was optional, off the critical path. His answer was always something along the lines of “that’s what Deus Ex is all about”. Knowing that many players will miss the content, but those that do find it will have an unforgettable experience
Lots of hard work and years of our lives went into this game, always great to see videos like this appear years after the game was released.
Love the jacket analogy!
Thank you for your work on this fantastic experience!
Thank you for yours and your teams hard work and dedication. HR and MD are gems to be forever cherished. And I have to come back to these games every few years because they are like fine wines whose taste in experience needs to be savored. Thank you. I wish you and your team the best and every success in life.
Thank you!
I played the game during the COVID lockdown. It was so much fun to discover all the nooks and crannies! I wish there was a new game on the horizon building on this principle.
Anyways, thank you and your team a lot for the experience!
all of you make 2 amazing games
We didn't deserve Deus Ex Mankind Divided……because
" I never asked for this"
-Jensen
Came here just to say that, just a shame I got the quote wrong.
@@nineonine9082 "what a shame"
-JC Denton
Well done
The worst thing about this game is that I just want more. So much more.
The second worst thing about Mankind Divided is the follow-up.
That is exactly it. Literally the only con of this game is the lack of content.
And the saddest thing is that it's part 2 of 3, ending on a cliffhanger we'll never see resolved because Squenix couldn't cram enough microtransactions in to it. Although maybe that's for the best, seeing Jensen fail would have been heart breaking.
well we know how it's resolved, even though it wasn't - and I like all the bits and pieces about Bob Page being spread around the game, down to suggesting he is the one using Adam Jensen to do his bidding by removing the competition (and suggesting he was the one who "upgraded" him after HR). Granted you can miss A LOT of tie in lore if you go for a certain choice late game.
@@wrmusic8736 they bob-page'd the game anyway, so yeah...
When the game came out, no one who purchased the game had to buy an MS at all. They're perfectly optional, the game didn't deserve to be review bombed because of it.
I would definitely say that Deus Ex Mankind Divided is the proof that bigger does not mean better. It’s better with a few city blocks with every building and apartment accessible filled with easter eggs, collectibles etc then a complete city with barely anything accessible
this is the case with like any game that take that approach devs need to understand that we don't need a game where we grind for 1000 hour
another good example would be the yakuza games you play in a very small street blocks but the amount of rich side content is crazy
true, the Night City does nothing to be memorable, if anything areas outside of it are a lot more characterful. A small chunk of Prague has a lot more to remember than large neon boxes you have to walk around to get to your quest marker.
@@wrmusic8736Cyberpunk def needed moe interior environments
@aligmal5031 I started Yakuza 0 and found the side content to be nothing more than shallow distractions. I also couldn't enter 99% of the buildings. There is barely any interaction with the environment outside of vending machines. I don't know how this came up in a discussion about the depth of cyberpunk immersive sims. Maybe the other Yakuza games are better..?
@@Mal_Freeman0451I’ve only played Yakuza: Like A Dragon and the amount of content they packed into the maps is very surprising. Great humor as well
Let's take a moment to appreciate Michael McCann's god-tier music for DXHR and DXMD. It adds so much to world, making just standing around looking up at the night sky and metal walkways such an experience.
FR!
Frfrfr
DXHR is my favorite soundtrack EVER.
Deus Ex soundtracks is a whole another style of electronic music on it own
Mankind Divided came out in 2016, same year as Dishonored 2. Two underrated stealth gems.
Dishonored got a lot of press and hype, what killed it was Bethesda adding as they do for 90% of their titles to the £10 discount bargain bin when it didnt need to be there.
Dishonored series at least have a full story.. And DLCs. Well i wish there were more games , of course, but at least there a complete chapter..
The second Dishonored was garbage.
This is the reason why I will always love Deus Ex as a cyberpunk game 1000 times more than Cyberpunk 2077
yup
2077 is the most overrated mid game of all time
@@Nomad-bl4yw no it's not
Deus Ex and Cyberpunk are not even the same genre
@@Nomad-bl4yw nope
This is a really well structured and paced essay. Relevant examples. No rambling. Straight to the point.
Subscribed.
Finally I see someone appreciated the masterpiece of level design in this game. There’s so much thought and love put into how this game is made it’s just sad that generally people have missed it.
I'm actually busy playing this game at the moment and am totally blown away by the freedom of choice on offer.
You literally have 'Aha" moments when working your way through scenarios and I haven't experienced that in a long time playing a game.
It really is a good game. I like what it is but the game could have been so much better if they had given it more time, I love the stealth in the game but the ending is what I hate the most.
@@chillyman7340say thanks to the greedy sqaure enix... it would be the best game for me ever made but that cut in the mainstory was too much
If you haven't played it already, I recommend the last Prey game that came out if you like this type of games, is an immersive sim like Deus Ex Mankind Divided and the freedom, discoveries and level design are also top notch, I think most probably you will like it as much as this one
There's more games of this style like Dishonored 1 and 2, maybe you played them, the immersive sim genre has some awesome games is a shame they don't get more attention ;_;
Finding the secret entrance into Palisade through the parking lot...before actually getting any quests about is one of my fondest gaming memories.
Still can't kill a mid-game boss at the start of the game, though. Nothing beats ORIGINAL Deus Ex, I'm in to say by this.
That jacket metaphor was great, thanks for your analysis
Things like this is why i'm ok with the GTA 6 map being as big as gta 5 if not even smaller, as long as the amount of content is raised. MORE enterable buildings, MORE npc diversity and interaction, MORE liveliness to the cities and small towns.
I'm glad that some people still appreciate the quality of this underrated game. Great video!
funny thing is that games back in the 2000 era were exactly like this. it was commonplace for games to have elements that mankind divided has in it. the technology wasnt as forgiving back then so they had to think tall instead of wide. games were designed with density and worldbuilding in mind. assassins creed valhallas werent commonplace back then.
FINALLY! someone acknowledging the beauty of this masterfully crafted art!! one of best games I have ever played. Screw you 2024 AAA titles. 2016 was on whole another level!
More like... 2000 was on whole an even other level, as far as the Deus Ex franchise is concerned.
this game was so good that the main problem with it was that it was too short
Bc at the time SE wanted to make 2 games and we all see how that turnt out. Embracer owns eidos now and they canceled all deus ex development and laid off the devs.
yeah it ended all of a sudden but at the same time do realise creating a game like this with so much options and densely packed means the story time will be lesser but yeah hated how they treated the game through corpo greed and also hated how cyberpunk couldnt come close to the worldbuilding of deus ex
@@xiAlpha_Zero Right now, you and I prefer no Deus Ex to woke Deus Ex, if I'm feeling you right. So keep your hopes up, the franchise will be back in good time.
But Human Revolution was also ridiculously long irrc.
@@panchaea421 "But Human Revolution was also ridiculously long"
>> WUT? 🧐
Based as hell. Completed this game + dlcs several times with 100% achievements and total playtime of ~260 hours and even then on my last playthrough I managed to find a secret arms dealer selling a grenade launcher in the Red Light District that I didn't know about before. I haven't seen any other game that would have so much detail in it.
Whaaat, you did the breach levels too? They are impossible ;(
@@georgkeller3225Yep, I did. Really wanted to complete everything. Maybe it was easier because I had a ton of in-game currency (around 400 000) and I don't know how I got so much lol. Maybe a bonus for deluxe edition, idk.
@@JohnnyBrown yeah breach plays with your luck... i dont had any of that :D. Only got c and d weapons
If you read the Deus Ex Black light book it disproves the fan theory about Adam Jensen being a clone in Mankind Divided
i think there is enough clues that confirm he is a clone even the main menu has a mirror clone of him
@@aligmal5031 I mean there is two sides to this both have valid arguments but no no clear defined answers from the writing/ Development teams
@@aligmal5031Dude literally cites a source/proof of why he's not a clone. You: "Nuh uh"
Why does it disprove the theory? I haven't read it
@@SolidSnake240 I have read the book. It is clearly hinted that OG Adam died at Panchea and his consciousness/memories transferred to a clone body. Plus in MD there are all his clones in the VersaLife bank vault.
gothic games had the same mindset about density instead of creating a massive world with repetitive stuff each chapter made the world change so it is the same sand box world but new enemies and npc fill it every chapter
It just didnt feel the same without the Pritchard banter.
Human Revolution is among my top 10 favourite games ever made the atmosphere and immersion is incredible
Firstly, subbed! Secondly, DE:MD (& HR) are so underrated it's crazy. I hope we get the conclusion to the story one day 😢
Also, I bought and played this game last year and I simply cannot move on from it. This is my favorite game of all time now.
I played MD on my Xbox when it came out and probaly hadnt really played it since like 2017 but started playing it again on PC and my favorite parts of the game are how rediculusly good the game still looks by todays standards despite being 8 years old, a game using 13+GB of vram from an era where 8GB was already a ton is insane and the other thing the level design is so good you can turn off the minimap, quest markers and interactive object outlines (and other options but thats what I did) and the game not only still holds up, but honestly makes for a more engaging game
I'm still so sad deus ex is cancelled. I loved every single game in the series
Honestly this and Human Revolution are masterpieces.
Great commentary here. This was such a stellar franchise. I bought the first game on the PS3 and spent hours upon hours on it exploring every nook and cranny. Loved every minute of it. Bought this 2nd game on Xbox One and also spent oodles of hours on it as well, inching through and discovering all I could about the world and environment. It was a well deserved and well done continuation of the story. Waited for a part 3 that never happened and forgot all about it til now. Been so long, I'll have to go back for a revisit.
I’ve always loved Human Revolution and Mankind Divided! Brilliant games. I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 too recently and I can’t stop thinking about how similar it is to these Deus Ex games.
It. Was. A. Masterpiece. Forever in my heart. That haunting yet beautiful music.
The jacket analogy is brilliant. The game is pure art. When I entered the van for the first time. That was a shocker. Seeing the modern tones combined with that tree, it was like artificial and organic aspects both found a synergy.
I so wanna live in an apartment like Jensen's.
great video, unironically i listen to the deus ex human revolution and mankind divided OST every few weeks because its unmatched immersion wise.
wish you the best!
Great video. I thought I 100%'d Human Revolution and Mankind Divided with all DLCs, but even I learned a bit more. Not the three corporate storages nor the clone theory of course, but a few different routes and one side mission I missed.
Have been constantly checking Deus Ex twitter and news for the past several years only to be morally destroyed by the recent news...
Played this game like 60 times on its hardest hardcore you die you lose your save difficulty and still love it.
Just listening to this makes me want to play it again. Accessing different parts in the environment depends on your build.
Still one of my favorite games, they need to make another one. Kind of like we also need a new splinter cell, but I cringe at the thought of what Ubislop would do to that game for “modern audiences.”
This game was so good but SE have the stupid idea to make the devs split the game into 2 parts. And here we are still waiting for part 2...
Probably won't be another Deus Ex game, Embracer made sure of that.
Well…SE sold off the devs to Embracer and Embracer owns them now
Apparently in their rounds of layoffs, they sent everyone who was working on a deus ex sequel packing
@@icebough4191 thats so fucking criminal??? wtf! deus ex human revolution was my favourite game when i was 11 years old. im 26 now. im so bummed. gosh. nah bro i gotta release a mod for the game or something. but i dont know dick about game design or modding.
@@iamusdamma2637Human revolution had not yet been released 15 years ago..
Played it recently and sometimes I forget I'm not playing Cyberpunk, this damn game was ahead of it's time. Man how i wish it was longer
Bro this game is my Jam
My favorite side quest of this game was the serial killer quest. The killer was not who I expected and i was mindblown. Great acting on both parts.
I knew Palisade was going to be the highlight of this amazing video. Most enjoyable and memorable level out of any game ive played.
You're making me appreciate this game more, a lot of things that made the game good I took for granted but couldn't explain why.
I loved reading the deus ex books. The author James Swallow has a few short stories free on his website that dives deeper into Alex Vega and Malik’s stories bringing back known characters. Always wished we got more of ShadowChild and Adam😢
Not to mention that Palisade is an optional location on it's own.
MD is top 5 games of all time. Its breathtaking in every way, hopefully one day we will see a true quality conclusion to the Jensen series
Not to forget, the music underscores the atmosphere very well and contributes to a deeper sense of the game.
Very good video, thank you a lot.
Really solid video for 3k subs. great work. Hope you take off.
One of the most underrated games of ALL TIME.
We didn't deserve this game, and we never got it.
Where is the REST of it!!
I was so hyped when this game came out. Never have I ever been so engrossed with a game's world like these games. Eidos Montreal didnt deserve the Embracer treatment.
A story about finding terrorists, ends with finding them and defeating their boss.
Games journalists: "tHis gAmE dOeSn't hAve aN eNdInG"
Yeah, except the "boss" is just a mercenary, a pawn. The game really needed at least another level, where you make some real change, or at least try to, with some deeper consequences.
@@tomaszsotysik9438couldn’t have said it better myself, the story feels inconsequential
@@tomaszsotysik9438 all the more relevant. It combines the Just World Fallacy with cynicism/realism. It's a near-dystopian prequel that is setting up the hellish Deus Ex setting of JC Denton's New York. It would be out of place to have some sort of grand justice in this series. Human Revolution knew this, as did D.E. 2000. The post-credits of M.D. pay homage to the reality that the ones pulling the strings will always have a pawn to play.
Great video! Deus Ex is so underrated.. Hopefully more people will discover it! 🎉
Shadows of Doubt is an immersive sim I highly recommend to check up, many, including me, consider it the definitive immersive sim.
This game came out when i was a teenager and its only now that i understand why i loved it so much. I was rarely overwelmed in a good way such as this game. Even 10+years later i still listen to the soundtrack. Wish there was a current gen remaster or remake. I would totaly replay it a third time.
I remember buying it on steam for 1.57$ and it was the first time when I thought I stole the game from developers, like this strange feeling when you know they deserve much more money from you for the great game they made. It really shows how great they did that I just was ashamed to pay so less for such great game
When I walked into the bank, that was pure art. Seeing the tree and the futuristic features coming together to a form of synthesis was truly the moment for me to realise that this game was indeed art. Plus the soundtrack. I think it was from the man Jesper Kyd himself. Bloody brilliant.
We need a sequel to this gem
2:45 thats the problem its so packed. Its almost like everyone lives in the same building. For example ur boss, head of interpol’s tf29, a drug dealer, a mafia goon lives in the same building and none of them knows about each other lol
Where is the normie doomer guy who just works doing rideshare and Uber eats?
Yes and yes.
It's weird how prey and Dishonored and personally for me Deathloop are great examples and I wouldn't even argue that they're not the best isim.
But there's something about DX where the entire focus is on the level design. Prey has it and it's probably broader. For whatever reason the goals in Dx translates a bigger cohesive experience.
I loved this game when it came out and finally got around to replaying it and its still one of my favorites. Devestated we'll probably never see more from this universe
This video is so criminally underrated.
No, it's not. DXMD is a painfully average game. It's a sequel that fails to advance the story at all and the only advantage it has over DXHR are improved graphics and animations.
There is so much depth, I remember getting into an apartment and getting into a trap, gassed by a gangster... I was just exploring... the Divali theather, so many things can happen... If you fusion DE with CP77 you make the best game ever
People acting like 83 isn't good?
Just beat MD, and I thought it was one of the most immersive games I've ever played. I know the ending was kinda rushed, but I think the story was really good, especially with that end-credit scene
I have always said that developers should focus on a small area that is just littered with detail and life and things to interact with rather than making an open world. Deus ex was just amazing for that. This was the same reason I was obsessed with Shenmue back in the day when it first came out.
I agree….. when I discovered the first game on 360, I played and manipulated it a hundred different ways, like almost a new game every run through (I even hacked a specific computer, saved and repeated until I had plenty of praxis kits. When I heard about the new game, I actually bought the Xbox One for it. It’s the only game I play over and over from the start, to this day……. which is how I found this video so many years after the launch, haha! Semper Fi!
Totally agree. One of all time favorites. I get both extremely mad and super sad every time I recall it and realize, cause thanks to stupid executives there won't be a sequel.
Also dont forget this game got little but badass DLC's wich tied to main game lore.
After watching the Hbomberguy video on Mankind Divided I figured I would never play that game. I still probably won't, but this video helped nudge me towards the possibility. Also enjoyed the Tree of Life snippet for artsy fartsy, haha. Subbed.
thanks brotha. What are your favorite kinds of games?
@@andypantsgaming I'm all over the place, like all kinds of stuff. imsims like Arkane games, mmos like osrs and swtor, indies like outer wilds (maybe my all time favorite) and stardew valley. oh and btw based on this video i think you'd like alpha protocol, if you're not already aware of it. also outer wilds for the discovery and secrets aspect, but i recommend that game to everyone
@@Mr_Spaghetti I actually tried playing alpha protocol and it was tough to get through! Some of the shooting mechanics felt so old I just couldnt do it
But apparently the game is really good as an RPG
@@andypantsgaming yeah it’s a mess, but it’s a very fascinating mess. so much content that most players won’t see, maybe the truest “your actions have consequences” game ever made. if you’re on PC there’s a modding scene that improves some of the gunplay and difficulty stuff, haven’t tried it myself tho
Mankind Divided was a huge letdown for me. I had such high hopes after Human Revolution but unfortunately it was not in the same league. Not even close.
I always loved these immersive sims and completed Mankind Divided twice with the DLC. I got it for cheap long after the release of the game anf never understood the hate. Pity we won't see the resolution to Adam's story. Most likely someone is thinking of the way to remake the original now.
I liked the point about realistic world density. That's one of the reasons I love RGG games so much, the level design is so dense and intricate
Despite my gaming backlog, I still always come back to DXHR and this. Features were very well pointed out
The fact that I spend multiple hours checking every corner of this game and then when I watch this video I realize that I haven't been on 30% of the places that you're showing proves your point.
i adore the series, shame its gone the way of the dodo
Too bad kids of today will never know greatness
Long term fan of Deus Ex. So gutted the series is on hiatus, and / or recent rumours suggest a game in development for two years was cancelled :-( Amazing graphics too. Reinstalled recently to find that it still hammers a modern PC build at 4K :-)
This is ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES OF ALL TIME!!!!!! I still talk about a conclusion to Adam Jensens story 😞
Been saying all these years this was an exceptional game!
The original Deus Ex pioneered everything described here, from multiple ways to complete an objective to a highly interactive world.
The music of this game is something else
*if the NPC's had a schedule like Fable and Skyrim, this would be a perfect game* 🙌
You appreciate something when you lose it.... How much it depicts Deus Ex .....
Its the best Deus Ex in my opinion.
The DLC was amazing. Replayed it so many times and still find different things each time.
One of the games that got unique atmosphere. Very underrated.
“Los Angeles takes at least 30 minutes to drive across.” You gotta love the optimism
Maybe at 3am you can
My old man introduced me to this series when I was young but he has 1.2k hrs in mankind divided
Your pronunciation of "Koníčky a Hračky" killed me :D I figured what you said only from the sign showed in the video second later.
DEATH BATTLE: Jensen vs Predator (From the first movie with Arnold)
Nothing will beat the OG Deus Ex IMO. I wish it they would remake it with todays UE5 graphics and animations but everything otherwise left the same. Maybe some more fleshed out areas and such. That game was so special because it was unique with it's story. That conspiracy unfolding was so cool the locations you went to. It's one of my top games of all times.
I played it back when it first came out. Funnily I stopped playing at first because the Statue of Liberty intro wasn't actually a good mission. But as soon as you got to the UNATCO HQ and started to see some of the conspiracy and when eaves dropping on that holo-meeting it piqued my interest and it became so cool. All the different conspiracy factions. The music was iconic to.
I also actually preferred Deus Ex Human revolution over Mankind divided. Mostly because I wasn't into the old world Europe setting and the game didn't have an ending. It just stopped on the first mid-boss kind of deal. Like they ran out of money. I know they wanted a part 2. But that is really bad move to make when you don't know how well a game sells and also if you don't have a proper ending, people are less likely to buy it. So it's a catch 22.
Totally
I'll say for my part that I have trouble getting into Deus Ex 1 because there's a sort of clunkiness to the gameplay. This is part of why I'd like to see a remake of DE1, if you modernized that game I'm sure it'd be fantastic.
But if i remember well people were, for good reason, super pissed because for full price you didnt have the full game and had to pay more for the rest of the story so it was review bombed. then they gave the game full but the gried was already done.
The same feeling i had towards old iOS which had skeuomorphic style, filled with intricate details absolutely unnecessary for usage, but making those iOS so beautiful
I personally prefer the first game and I really love that game and was surprised to find out how short the sequel is
Watching this made me nostalgic. Actually I found out new secrets that I didn't know :) I believe the atmosphere of the game was spot on, also because of the smaller game area. I also loved the game because you could finish the game without killing anyone and without being seen, and still have a lot of fun trying that.
the palisade bank was one of the greatest levels all of time, criminally underrated
square enix ruined it with their weird monetization schemes and so i steered clear of it
In my most recent playthrough, I decided to hack the robots and have them kill all the guards. It’s pretty freaking savage. As you’re sneaking around the back rooms, you just hear gunfire and panic.
After watching your video i tried deus ex. First i went for human revelation didn't enjoyed it much then went for mankind divided. I am gonna say i fell in love with this game. This game is really amazing.
While I think that this is a fantastic video with very valid points I am amazed that so many people here are so satisfied with DE:MD… as a long time fan of the series I was incredibly disappointed in the story of mankind divided and the horribly lazy and shortcut ending with so many threads left unanswered. I felt robbed and cheated by getting an incomplete game. I didn’t see the final level coming, didn’t see it as a climax - I felt like there was so much more that needed to be told in the story and ultimately as it’s such an important element in the series, that’s what I played it for. Deus ex was one of my favorite series and they broke my heart with mankind divided.