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The disjointed Prague of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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One of my favorite video games ever. The ambiance is top tier and hasn't been replicated IMO. It's criminal what Square did to the launch of this game. Crippled the launch with a huge dose of MTX right before the launch in an era of MTX-aversion.

And then the 3rd game was killed a year or two ago. It absolutely deserved a 3rd game.

Amazing game, but I was really shocked when it was suddenly over, at what felt like not even 50% of what I expected the duration/story to be. But truly amazing visuals, ambience and world building in general.

I felt the same. I think it's in part to just how long the first game was (somewhere around 27 hours). New York, California, Nevada, Hong Kong, Paris...and multiple areas within each. Cheateaus, military bases, Liberty Island, research facilities, corporate offices, at least one church, a large ship, and of course multiple sewers...the game really felt big. I can't say there are many action-RPGs that come close to both that scale and variety.

To me, Mankind Divided felt amputated. Like the story was just ramping up and then suddenly here’s the final boss fight out of the blue, thanks for playing! I feel like they intended to do much more but run out of money or time

I see it as a local story of essentially retired hero, so scale is not as huge as in prev iterations

I think it looks like City 17 from Half Life 2 - which I believe was supposed to be a vaguely European City.

I think I prefer the ambience of Deus Ex: Human Revolution better.

I'd love(? fear) to see a remake of the original Deus Ex in

City 17 is mostly based on Sofia, you can see a lot of Bulgarian signs in Half Life Alyx. Viktor Antonov designed it from his experience of communist (and later post Soviet) cities that were broken by lack of maintenance and useless megaprojects with no sense of community. It's not a vaguely European city.

Prague in DXMD is also broken, just by hate and social injustice instead of a brutal dictatorship. Makes sense that they look alike.

It's such a shame we never get more of this series

By far one of my favorite franchises

Great game! Almost captured the feeling I got playing the original Deus Ex that I pirated off Hotwire 25 years ago. But after watching a YouTube video of the OG Deus Ex, I think some of that feeling was just being a kid and seeing something that kind of amazing for the first time.

If you can look past the dated graphics, the OG Deus EX is by far the better game and one of the best games of all time. The writing and philosophy alone elevates the game to masterpiece status. They dumbed down down these core elements in sequels to focus on better graphics and simpler mechanics and these games are far worse for it.

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