Current Events > finished mankind divided. what a mixed bag of a game

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Prague as a hub is mixed for me. At one side it is crafted very beautifully, with alot of secrets, passages and discoveries. At the other side, very little of the characters are even actual characters. There are potential but no. Only few characters are involved with sidequests really interact with jensen and most of them are one time only.

Take the booze store lady who ask jensen for neuropozyne. You find her involved in neuripozyne smuggling to help augs then it stopped. Plus it seems to be bugged that EVERY characters you can speak with reset their dialogue every chapter and it is fucking annoying. Everytime you return to prague everyone's memory are wiped and they forgot jensen (thanks illuminati) there should be named NPCs that interact with jensen that isnt involved with sidequests or plot, just like NPCs in trails game. Make them have their own little plot of how they live in prague and have their dialogue progress every chapter. That would add so much into the game without actually spending resources designing real sidequests.

As for the "dungeons " themselves are better than in human revolution but the lack of other neutral hubs with NPCs and sidequests really hurt the game. But prague is decently dense. I like the actual sidequests contents too.

The plot is okay. I like the sariff characters more than sf29 people. All the similar role characters are better in HR like Sariff > miller, helicopter girl> helicopter guy . etc. The characters are overall really weaker and you spend alot less interaction and they seem to react less to Jensen's actions in game.

I actually dont have problem with the ending itself and the main story is ok. An obvious sequel bait, but would be fine if they are making a sequel but since the franchise is shelved then all those plot points is pretty much in the shadow realm. I was kinda hyped when bob page and manderley are mentioned but in the end that's it.

Deus ex: game divided and the other half tossed into incinerator

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Honestly I couldnt force myself to finish it. I really enjoyed Human Revolution once I brought the difficulty down due to those incredibly awful boss fights. With Mankind Divided I got about 5 hours in and just never felt like going back.

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you can play the next game in the series when cyberpunk comes out

Kaiganeer posted...

you can play the next game in the series when cyberpunk comes out

yes. i expect it pretty much be like open world deus ex with custom char.

also the game would crash on my Pc until i figured out game doesnt work with 16 threads of 8 cores CPU so i have to turn off 8 threads manually in app setting

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Is this the Deus Ex game where you infiltrate some gigantic refugee city in the desert? That's the only DE I played, and it was enjoyable, albeit short.

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It's much better with the dlc chapters, but its still a mixed bag of a game.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

it's pretty weird to have played MD without having played HR though, cuz it's a direct sequel, and also because HR is a really really freaking good game.

I got it on Black Friday one year, I think, so that's probably why.

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yeah. some parts is definitely well crafted but you can see signs of troubled development. it's also buggy af. my game would often crash in loading screem until i figured out the game isn't designed to run on 16 threads 8 cores CPU so i had to turn off half my CPU trough task manager

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