#DE:HR

[socknerd]

Somehow, playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and getting somewhat tipsy turned into Having Feelings About Viktor Hargreeves Umbrella Academy again

Deus Ex -> Bicentennial Man (bc "what makes a human" and clockmaking and shit) (then !! trans allegory alert lol) -> Umbrella Academy (and 😭 and a need for a hug from massive puppy dog Luther lol)

[mornemire]

I think I've found Athena.Finally ^^

[walterkov]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution » Seafloor Laboratories, Rifleman Bank Station

[mornemire]

:DD

His hair... Impeccable

Please I want more Deus Ex games I want a conclusion to Mankind Divided pleaseeeeee

[thingamajik]

Icarus

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[nerdnag]

Needed a fitting lockscreen for my work PC (and since I work in IT security, a Deus Ex: HR pic made a whole lot of sense :D)

[bestvictima]

i keep thinking about the ‘m.othman is a disaster lesbian’ post and honestly?  accurate.

[justintaco]

Oh wonderful, another DE:HR fan! It's probably my favourite game I've ever played; I think I've played it about five times, much more than any other favourite, though not in over a year. I really should pick it up again. I don't even know why I like it so much, but it has stuck with me as such a cornerstone of my taste in games. I still have yet to play Mankind Divided, even though I've owned it since it released. Anyway, you have incredible taste in games and I hope you have a good day.

Play Mankind Divided! It’s good!

Huge gameplay and graphical improvements, absolutely amazing side missions, and amazing environment work.

[redheadrecon]

tagged in shenanigans.

NAME: “Kami Littlebird”

ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo

HEIGHT: 5′ 6.5′‘

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, a few words of French

NATIONALITY: Canadian

FAVOURITE FRUIT: nectarines

FAVOURITE SCENT(S): The air after it rains in the summer, campfire, roses. There are a lot of smells I like.

FAVOURITE COLOUR(S): Beige, dark blue, dark red, orange

FAVOURITE ANIMAL: Pet: my lovebird, Petrie. Or fancy rats. Non-pet: grey wolves, red tailed hawks

COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Hot chocolate

FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER(S): Do you wanna be here for an hour ‘cause that’s how we’re here for an hour. Actually for several, this was the longest part for me to come up with. TOP 10 9, NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Captain Reynolds, Firefly. John Wick. Agent 47, Hitman (the earlier games, 2: Silent Assassins - Absolution. The new stuff can take a hike), Adam Jensen, DE:HR/DE:MD. The Medic, TF2. Handsome Jack, Borderlands. Red, Transistor. Naija, Aquaria (more people should play that game. So good). Larten Crepsley, not the movie version of Cirque du Freak.

DREAM TRIP: I’m not much of an adventurer but I would like to gather some dirt from each province someday. Little jar of gradient dirt.

WHEN WAS YOUR BLOG CREATED: uhhh 2012 sometime, probably in the summer?

LAST MOVIE SEEN: tbh i don’t remember.

SONGS YOU’VE HAD ON REPEAT: played loudly because I don’t do the repeat-it-til-you-hate-it as much as I used to. Still do. Just not as much.

SONG ONE: Feel the Same - Battle Tapes

SONG TWO: All Eyes On You - Smash into Pieces

SONG THREE: Santa Monica - Theory of a Deadman

FAVOURITE CANDY: chocolate covered almonds, though pretty much any Nestle chocolate is good too.

FAVOURITE HOLIDAY(S): Halloween! I also like Christmas, but less for the family thing and more for the friendliness that shows up in people.

TAGGED BY :  @thx-lost-yxars, what a nerd. ;)

TAGGING : No u

[sidunderplanet]

Ждём, надеемся и верим... Что Vampire the masqureid: Bloodlines 2 будет не меньше чем в своё время был Deus Ex: Human revolution

Если смотреть на Маскарад через призму игрового опыта в DE:HR  то хуже уж точно быть не может.  Похоже что разрабы сами понимают с насколько хрупкой материей играют, и поэтому бережно относятся ко всему что было в оригинале и осторожно переносят её на новый движок и текстуры со всеми механиками Уже за отсутствие диалогового колеса вопреки новомодным трендам хочется сказать спасибо. А уж если хорошенько оптимизируют свою игру даже для слабого железа, то цены этой игре не будет

[kaihime85]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Questo videogioco sì che mi ha spiazzata. Non sono abituata a giocare in prima persona, senza vedere costantemente il personaggio davanti a me. Però ho resistito, e mi sono quasi abituata a questo titolo, ormai vecchiotto, ma che ho comprato un paio di anni fa (mi pare) a prezzo stracciatissimo su amazon. Preso quasi a "scatola chiusa", insomma non sapevo la trama, il genere di gioco in modo preciso (appunto), mi sono lasciata trascinare dal prezzo ridicolo e dalla cover dove i colori dominanti sono nero ed oro. E sì. Anche dal fascino del tizio in copertina. Comunque... ci gioco da due giorni, e devo dire che non è male. A parte le fasi di hacking... quelle mi fan proprio salire la noia mortale. Spero di poter potenziare questo aspetto, perchè non ho voglia di ripetere trecento volte una fase hacking (come in questo momento). Il protagonista, Adam Jensen è un povero ragazzo che è stato praticamente martoriato durante una missione di salvataggio, e poi salvato per miracolo, ma diventando un mezzo cyborg. Ed ora deve scoprire chi c'è dietro tutto questo, e far fronte anche alla rivoluzione degli umani che si rifiutano di ridurre la razza umana in esseri metà umani e metà cyborg. Mentre affrontavo delle fasi stealth (è una cosa che adoro fare), sentivo i nemici chiamare Adam: lattina o apriscatole, che m'ha fatta un po' ridere. C'è il doppiaggio italiano e la cosa mi aggrada. La voce di Adam mi piace, e quella di Malik, visto che è la stessa doppiatrice di Elena Fisher (Uncharted saga), c'è anche Zanotti, il doppiatore di Nathan Drake, ma affibbiata a un collega di Adam che il più delle volte lo prenderesti a sberle. Questo titolo comunque mi sta ispirando parecchio, negli Assassin's Creed, nella saga Uncharted, e in Tomb Raider (i reboot naturalmente), mi sono allenata tanto con le fasi stealth senza farmi scoprire, che sono abbastanza bravina pure in DE:HR. Scelgo quasi sempre l'approccio silenzioso. Unico problema: lo schermo. Pur avendo preso una televisione più grande (24 pollici), vedo le scritte non proprio chiaramente nel menù, e nell'insieme appiattisce un pochino la visuale. Ma il gioco è stato creato per una console ormai fuori produzione, il gioco stesso è del 2011, quindi mi devo solo rassegnare. Almeno ho l'HDMI. Chissà... magari metterò in wishlist anche Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, almeno quello è per PS4 e non avrò problemi di visualizzazione.

[mornemire]

[kapanbenernya]

Deus Ex -- The First One

I’ve been slowly but steadily running out of single player games lately, the story driven, rich with character arcs, 30 hour campaign kind of single player games. And by the time I’m writing this entry, I’m really really REALLY scraping the bottom of my barrel. But this barrel scraping condition might be the push I needed to finally go retro and explore the legendary PC games our forefathers played. One of them was available on my steam family sharing list, which is Deus Ex. 

Yes, THAT Deus Ex

Now, of course I never played the original Deus Ex when it first came out. It was 2002, I wasn’t even 10 years old yet and might have still pissed my own pants. I didn’t even knew there was a game called Deus Ex that was available on PC. My first exposure to Deus Ex was Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The Adam Jensen one, of the “I never asked for this” fame.

I remember playing DE:HR for a while, I went with the shooty-shooty bang bang style because that’s what I’m familiar with. Of course I got shot to death every time, because being an augmented super soldier means you’re still weak to bullets. I then took it as a kind of subtle hint from the game telling me to be stealthy. I proceed to fuck right off because I used to hate stealth tactics in FPS RPGs. It’s not until my second playthrough of Skyrim and Fallout 3 that I started to favor stealthy approach in these kind of games. By the way I can already start feeling the death stares of old timey purists that comes from me comparing Deus Ex with Bethesda RPGs, so I’m gonna stop.

yeah, kinda like that

Look, point is, all I’m saying is that I used to dislike stealth approaches, but now I kinda like it. So that’s how I plan on approaching this game.

Now that I’ve spent two paragraphs justifying why I haven’t played the game, time to actually talk about it.

The moment I booted it, it truly feels like early 2000s PC game, with the really boring main menu and a thousand controls that you can remap freely. There’s even keys for you to look using the keyboard. This makes me google to find out if mouse-look simply wasn’t a thing in the early age of PC FPS games. To my surprise, it wasn’t. Holy hell, old people are fucking hardcore. Well maybe it’s just leftover from the age of DOOM, but I can’t imagine a fully 3D FPS without mouse-look. But all of those is managed by simple remaps. Let’s see if I can handle everything else.

On my first play, I fucked up. A lot. The training session ended with me crawling in fear behind a box after my limbs got shot to hell by the robot. I couldn’t reload an older save because there is no auto save or checkpoints. The fact that I didn’t bother saving manually didn’t help either. I decide to power on through, wriggling my way over the bridge and to the next area. The hologram man then proceeded to nonchalantly compliment and brief the bleeding torso, and send me off to the first mission.

My first try on the first mission ended with me getting poisoned to death by the first two enemies. Thing is, I didn’t know what gave me the poison status nor did the training prepare me for it. All I know is that my guy is coughing and the screen is flashing, and then he keeled over in pain. Hell, I’m not even sure it was poison that killed me. I just concluded that from the fact that you can invest some training in poison resistance, which means there is poison damage in the game. I could’ve died from some augmented Avian Flu for all I know, those damned augmented seagulls.

Science HAS gone too far

The next try ended with me getting shot by two guards because my prod was out of charge and I ended up patting the guards with a puny stick. OK, I was careless, that was fair. The next try ended because I got ROFLstomped by a robot shaped like a photocopier, although this one is armed with two machine guns instead of overpriced ink cartridges. So much for me trying to be stealthy.

After doing the equivalent of free-style faceplants, I decide to get back to my roots. To the good old-fashioned shotgun diplomacy. Good thing I am supplemented with a pistol and a badass sniper rifle. I then went in, confident as hell, and I die anyway because the photocopier is gun proof. But at least I learned that enemies from far away didn’t hear the gunshot rumble happening out front, so I can combine stealth and non-stealth approach next.

Third approach, I shot and prodded a few guards, made it to the gate, hacked it open, only to find out that the photocopier is already turning my ass into Swiss cheese. I rushed in and hid behind a cardboard box, and the photocopier says it’s lost my track. Thankfully the training session has prepared me for cowering behind cardboard boxes from killer robots. The photocopier then decides to go back and disappoint all the office workers by jamming on A4 papers. I was breathing free for a while, I even had the time to patch up all the extra anus on my ass. The moment lasted until I saw a guard had spotted me and ran towards the alarm. At that point, I just gave up and let the guards shoot me back to the main menu.

I then gave up on playing the game, and decide to reflect on the lessons I learned

This experience got me thinking; have I really taken all modern gaming features and simplicity for granted? I’m so used to autosaving everytime I go through a door. A checkpoint before and after a tough encounter. UIs that explains everything that’s happening. Big great objective indicators floating on the horizon. Now that I played a game from the pioneer era, I’m really feeling all the crutches I had all these time, yanked violently, and left me falling flat on the face.

But is that all there is to it? Did I truly dislike it because of all the clunky old tech this game was built on? To seek the answer, I have to imagine this game, built on the marvels of modern technology and renewed design principles. Oh wait, I don’t have to, they’ve made two of those already! So I just have to remember my experience of playing DE:HR which I actually already discussed on an earlier paragraph. And if you remember it, you’ll know that I also didn’t like it that much. I might try it again one day, but I guess I can’t do stealth unless it’s the Bethesda brand of stealth. You know, where everyone has cataracts as long as you crouch and think it must’ve been the wind responsible for the 27 arrows on their neck

In Brief

Whatever legendary depth and complexity and RPG elements this game had, I couldn’t enjoy it because I couldn’t get into the game. It’s not the game, it’s me. Everything is too clunky or complicated for me. This truly got me thinking if all the hand holding and railroading is a natural evolution of gaming. Maybe it was needed to make gaming easier and more accessible, and all around more comfortable. Maybe the current gen has pushed it too far and made things too simple, losing all challenge in the process, but I wouldn’t know. The evolution crept so gradually that only after jumping 18 years back that I truly notice such significant difference.

I think all the people who protest too much about these modern linear ways need to play this kind of old game to straighten their viewpoint. For those of you who found out you disliked the old ways, come join the club. For those of you who preferred and excelled in the old ways, come beat the club with a stick.

8/4/2018

[macgyvertape]

Deus Ex MD is free on steam rn

First bit of my playthrough of Deus Ex Mankind Divided. It’s free RN on Steam and the beginning of the game seems promising.

Within the first minute of the tutorial it gave me a triangle code I could scan with a phone app. I fucking hate this trend of modern AAA games for wanting me to add apps to be more “immersive”  and have me engage more with the game.

I like Macready. Just like his F04 namesake, I bet he has a tragic backstory to explain his grumpyness. I really just like the BANTER Jensen has with him.

I miss Dishonored abilities to carry bodies.

The chopper part was easy, I Icarused down, ran around the chopper then pulled out the battery in the middle of the fight.

These opening credits are GR8

Seeing that original DE nano-tech augs with Page. I also forgot most of the original DE conspirators.

The writers/cutscene directors are GOOD with using Adam’s sunglasses to drive a point home, like him hiding from the world.

This JC welcome packet will be useless if there is no HUD markers. Unlike Dishonored, there are so many high def textures and intractable items, it can be hard to tell what are pick ups and what is a throwable box.

DAVID SARIF IS SHITTY AND SHOULD STOP CALLING ADAM SON. I’m not gonna fucking call him.

Adam still has his watch hobby

This apartment stuff is so chill, I love i can just watch shirtless Adam drink his coffee and listen to Illuminati propiganda

The interiors in DEHR are NOT intuitive, I’m spending far too much time trying to figure out how to take the back door way to the aug doctor

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS: the verticality, esp in the prague streets, that’s something I enjoy from Dishonored. Also, my ability to do takedowns right when someone is startled. That didn’t work in DE:HR and it was awful.

Jensen is so emotive in this game. Like I could see his eyebrows fly up when dude say 35k credits for papers. No wonder he keeps those sunglasses on, this good robocop boy wears his heart on his sleeve.

I comforted Milena because I honestly believe she’s in over her head. Then I said I’d help her keep making forgeries once Drahomir is out of the game because that’s the moral thing to do. Like this game is SO UNSUBTLE about discrimination, that I don’t know how anyone could support the system. You don’t even have the excuse of being a cop, international anti-terrorism taskforces are different. (Actually there’s a lot to the point about the anti-authority themes of Deus Ex, and how Jensen is very pointedly NOT still a cop).

I dislike how the first gun you pick up is a gun, and then after it’s all ammo. Makes it impossible to buy the 10k praxis kits.

I saved Edward, cause I just felt super bad about his family.

UUGH DEUS EX MD HAS CRAFTING!!!! FUCK THE CRAFTING SYSTEM FUCK THESES CRAFTING PARTS I’m goddamn tired of this trend.

fuck it I’m going to bed

fuck crafting

[dedsecdaddy-a]

Adam Jensen Aesthetic: 1/???  

( Do not tag as Kin / Me ) 

[yourskatinghobbit]

Here's the most recent post I've written, also kinda personal to me (although not as personal as the previous one).