The Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Thread

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:25 pm

pinback wrote:It's about time this BBS finally had our own "always going on about cool he thinks Czechoslovakia is" guy.

We -- I mean -- don't you reme--

gsdgsd is into Czechoslovakia as well. We have three guys now, gsdgsd, Carp and this Jensen asshole.

by **pinback** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:11 am

FlyingCarp wrote:Haha you had a guy like that in the past, huh?

No, I was just making fun of you. Belittling our newest, favorite member. It's kind of my "thing".

by **FlyingCarp** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:30 am

Haha you had a guy like that in the past, huh? Well allow me to be the Vaclav Havel to his Klement Gottwald.

by **pinback** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:36 pm

It's about time this BBS finally had our own "always going on about cool he thinks Czechoslovakia is" guy.

by **FlyingCarp** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:34 pm

Oooh I didn't realize it took place in Prague. I want to try it now.

by **RealNC** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:20 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I think the problem for me is that it's always daylight in the initial city (WTF?) and I dunno, I just can't get into it. And this is coming from someone that loves Adam Jensen.

The second time you visit Prague, it's night. But time doesn't pass until you progress in the story, that's true. It's not Skyrim.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:32 pm

RealNC wrote:I've downloaded (aka PIRATED) Mankind Divided and gave it a try.

It's not that bad. As far as stealth games go, it's decent. Mouse controls leave a lot to be desired though; virtually impossible to aim with a sniper rifle, and there's input lag.

Performance is hit and miss. When I look one direction, I get 120FPS. I look the other, it goes down to 60...

Verdict: Good game, but bad console port.

(I will not be buying it though. It has Denuvo DRM. The pirated version is superior, *and* doesn't have micro-transactions. I hope the authorities don't read this forum.)

I think the problem for me is that it's always daylight in the initial city (WTF?) and I dunno, I just can't get into it. And this is coming from someone that loves Adam Jensen.

by **The Authorities** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:17 pm

RealNC wrote:(I will not be buying it though. It has Denuvo DRM. The pirated version is superior, *and* doesn't have micro-transactions. I hope the authorities don't read this forum.)

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by **RealNC** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:49 pm

I've downloaded (aka PIRATED) Mankind Divided and gave it a try.

It's not that bad. As far as stealth games go, it's decent. Mouse controls leave a lot to be desired though; virtually impossible to aim with a sniper rifle, and there's input lag.

Performance is hit and miss. When I look one direction, I get 120FPS. I look the other, it goes down to 60...

Verdict: Good game, but bad console port.

(I will not be buying it though. It has Denuvo DRM. The pirated version is superior, *and* doesn't have micro-transactions. I hope the authorities don't read this forum.)

by **Tdarcos** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:00 am

RealNC wrote:It runs fine. Unless you have an very old PC or don't know what a "visual c++ redistributable package" is.

Oh come on! Everybody knows what that is, it's a hosting platform for computer viruses.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:34 pm

Back to Mankind Divided:

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's OK. That is my review so far. Still love Jensen. The dialogue mechanics are poor. It's very lawnmower / CYOA-ish. In fact, lawnmower dialogue is overstating it. So many times you get three choices and you can do all three in any order and that's it.

They also continue to have no idea about introducing new mechanics. I'm on a side mission and the solution to it involves putting a biocell into a crane that is in its unextended form. I guess I could have wandered up to the crane and precisely seen that it was interactive, but I didn't.

At no point does the game do anything to hint that the crane can be interacted with.

You do have an "augmented vision" which is sort of like the thing I was trying to do with the third eye in Cryptozookeeper: an alternate / extra "look." It does occur to me that I didn't scan the thing with the augmented vision. If that does give you a reason to go over there then I take it back.

by **RealNC** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:00 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:sounds like an amazing two-hour experience that I'll buy once it dips below $20

I'm at about 60 hours of playtime. And counting. I think I'm addicted to the game.

Every time I start it up, it still feels like this:

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I don't think I've played any video game before that feels... magical. Maybe the first ever video game I played in my life felt like this. But I don't remember what the game was.

by **RealNC** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:42 am

I thought it was supposed to be a stealth game, where you go out guns blazing, you don't survive even for 5 seconds :-P

by **Billy Mays** » Wed Aug 31, 2016 4:43 am

Adam Jensen is clown shoes.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 8:55 pm

That doesn't make you a bad person. I got reeeeeeeeeeally smug after No Man's Sky blew up (a game that -- aside from the crashes -- sounds like an amazing two-hour experience that I'll buy once it dips below $20).

And then my boy Jensen is suffering through the same thing.

This is why you don't teach lessons!

by **pinback** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:49 pm

Am I a bad person that my greatest joys in life are when people I like and trust HATE $60 games?

Of course I am.

Whaddya want from me.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:55 pm

Not really, no. I haven't had any fun yet and Steam says I've been playing for three hours. Can you imagine making a movie and it's not fun for 3 hours and you expect people to keep playing?

Mankind Divided loves putting about 50 enemies on the screen at once, all of whom will instantly target you in the middle of gunfights while giving you absolutely no weapons or ammo to fight back. What a piece of shit.

by **RealNC** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 4:25 pm

Is it better than Invisible War at least?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:51 pm

The way to get past it is to get close to the helicopter and find a "hatch" and take the battery. Since this is made-up videogame nonsense, good design would have given the player some info about Helicopters in Deus Ex beforehand. Something, anything. Great design would mean that we would do this again.

About 20 minutes of cut scenes follow, but at least we get to hear what became of some of the characters from Human Revolution.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Aug 28, 2016 9:19 pm

This game is unbelievably terrible. Within 10 minutes the "mission" is to fight 20 guys all more powerful than you, without giving you any ammo or energy. If this didn't have the Deus Ex name behind it, I would have given up and asked for a refund.

What terrible fucking level design. Oh, and there's a "protect the hostage" component to the 30 enemies and a "disable that chopper!" piece, but if you shoot the chopper nothing happens.

What a pathetic joke. Probably the worst game I've ever played at this point.

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