Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- Who's buying it?

The first Deus Ex got great reviews, but people were playing that before I learned to tie my shoelaces. The gameplay video on Steam doesn't particularly impress me, and I'm a bit wary of paying $54-$60 for what could turn out to be a cheap money grab for Square. I won't be pre-ordering myself, but even so, Human Revolution might be a worthy purchase at some point. What are your thoughts?

 

I made a prediction a while ago that it was going to be delayed, and it was, so now I'm going to make a prediction that it's going to be buggy and shallow. Gut instinct.

 

Isn't that like how 99.9% of games go?

 

This and BF3 are my most anticipated games of this year. But I am extremely worried about Deus Ex being bleh. I am glad it is a Steamworks game cuz that means I can prolly get it some place cheaper if I do decide to pre-order. Right now the bonus copy of Deus-Ex aint quite doing it for me; perhaps a $20 Amazon credit would persuade me.

 

Yeah, I really hope they don't botch it. The original was such a classic. I do hope they keep an open world type environment like with the original.

 

First day buy for me, the previews on review websites kicking around are mostly good and they say its nothing more then a updated version of the first one, suits me fine.

 

Problem is Deus Ex isn't due out until August and BF3 maybe October. Long wait!

 

This game looks pretty deep, lots of different paths (Hitman style), Dynamic Gameplay, RPG elements, how could one go wrong?? This, BF3, Skyrim, just a short list of the must haves, but there are plenty of wants this year.

 

I loved the first Deus EX but never played the second one due to bad reviews. As much as I'd love to preorder this game, I will wait for the reviews to come out first. Gameplay videos don't impress me too much right now, but it is still several months away from being released so things can still change.

 

I think the worst part about it is the 3rd person camera, totally takes players out of the experience IMO (Good example is Rainbow Six Vegas). I know Eidos takes alot of crap over at their forums over the 3rd party cam. Also I heard their website and source code for the game has just been comprimised by anonymous...

 

Its a shame Eidos gets lumped in with the reast of ubisoft, they do put out some very good games, Hitman, Thief, Timesplitters, Tomb raider(the older stuff) just to name a few. And actually taking a look at eidos's wiki, they are now actually part of Square Enix, which means ubisoft is just a means to publish their titles.

And actually one more edit to clarify, Eidos isn't even using ubisoft on deus ex , soley Square enix as publisher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex:_Human_Revolution

 

I'll wait for reviews. If they say the game is anywhere near as good as the first..........I'm in !

 

I will eventually get it, but like many have pointed out: reviews first and purchase later.

 

Yep, once the reviews are out I'll make a decision.

 

I'm actually just playing through the original Deus Ex for the first time...I bought it in a Steam sale last year, never got around to it until now.

It's an awesome game so far, but the necessity of manually saving, combined with my poor memory, is annoying I got about an hour into the second level and died, and realized my last save was the very beginning of the level, just getting off the boat >_<

 

that's why you hit the + and - keys (or well = and - technically) to quick save and quick load a lot.

 

I'm a huge fan of the first, I've probably played it ten times, sometimes taking different paths, sometimes rehashing the same. It's always a great time.

That said, my current setup wouldn't run DX3 anyway (bad GPU, waiting to return to the States for a warranty replacement), so I'll be waiting until I can get it cheap - probably a 50% off winter sale or something like that. In the meantime, my backlog of games that I should have been able to play on this computer isn't going anywhere until the summer anyway, including Fallout 3, which I have been waiting to play since I was a junior in high school, so it's not a big deal to wait a bit longer.

Fallout 3, Deus Ex 3, and Max Payne 3 - three long-awaited third games - if they can all manage to live up to their predecessors, I'll declare utter and ultimate faith in the supersequel.

Haha, yes and yes. Quicksaving every 30 seconds or so is the hallmark of a turn-of-the-century PC gamer - I always hated the hardest mode in Max Payne because it limited your quicksaves on each level, I think I only bothered to play through it once because of the limitation. Of course, then I started playing semi-legit with MP2, where I would see how long I could go without quicksaving. That's the turn-of-the-century PC gamer's idea of moral development.

 

Here are my impressions after playing the demo:

Graphic is meh, although I'm betting the graphic is only locked in low-medium setting for the demo

AI is pretty smart, they know how to take cover and flank positions

Combat is interesting

Interactivity with the environment is rather poor.

The game is NOTHING like previous Deus Ex

Too much yellow

Stealth is way too easy

Hacking is fun

 

WHAAAAAA-? Is there a Deus Ex HR demo? If so, can you link me to DL please?

 

There is a DX HR "10 hour journalist review beta leak"

it's on the usual locations and requires a crack or else it tries to log into steam (and then yeah)

 

i am reluctant to preorder games anymore, though this one is very tempting. deus ex has influenced a lot of games that i like... nevertheless, i am going to wait for more user reviews. too many companies are better at marketing than gaming.

 

I am very interested, but I'll hold out for reviews too. Seems remakes / sequels of classics usually end up to be very disappointing.

 

Im buying this, biggest knock IMO is the 3rd person cam, should have kept the game conpletely first person.

 

well it's pretty good imo.

has issues on my laptop (beta..or 5650 mobility being bad) but yeah. Definitely feels like Deus Ex level design wise

 

I'm hoping, and praying, that this will be more Deus Ex than Invisible War. Because we all know how that one turned out.

Looks pretty good so far, and I'm a real sucker for anything cyberpunk. Hell, I even enjoyed Johnny Mnemonic just because it was in a cyberpunk setting. So I'll probably get Human Revolution just for that.

 

I dunno, I quite liked Invisible War. Just watched a few videos of Human Revolution and looks phenomenal. Looking forward to it. So far August release date, but already have system specs listed. That's impressive:

Minimum:
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 1 GB RAM (Windows XP) / 2 GB (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series or ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or better
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive: 8.5 GB

Recommended:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 or Intel Core 2 Quad or better
Memory: 2 GB
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 5850
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive: 8.5 GB

 

I stopped reading right here.

Heh. Seriously, though, I tend to just ignore developers' system specs. They don't usually seem to tell you very much. Looking at what's in the market when a game is released seems to be a better indicator of what you should run it with, though you might not be able to tell whether you can run it at maximum settings or only at medium.

I'm guessing that a currently top-of-the-line single-GPU card like a 580 or a 6870 would be able to play it smoothly without any AA at settings in between High and Maximum, give or take a little.

 

Looks pretty much like The Witcher 2's requirements.

Good luck to anyone with less than a 460M.

 

Should be fine if you lower the resolution to 720p or 900p. :3 1080p might not be as stellar...

Still I think it is a bit ridiculous of those specifications when looking at the actual gameplay where the graphics looks like high-def textures in otherwise an UE 3.5 looking-environment.

Don't forget most of these specification now a days assume 1080p hah!

 

Nope it runs MUCH MUCH better than TW2. People who are getting 12 fps in TW2 are getting framerates in the 30s and 40s in DE:HR.

 

That is great to hear! ^_^

 

"People" is too general.

 

well.

kay.

me and my 5650 mobility get 30ish fps at 1600x900 except when it stutters while loading stuff up (textures, other things I dunno) when you first enter some areas because it's a beta.

 

Here's an example. lol

DX3 has a really optimized engine.

 

Reports are that the preview build is running on low settings.

 

probably running at something around there.

 

The games graphics are pretty awesome, not gonna lie.

 

Nor really, at least the minimum. It says a 8000 series GPU, not an 8800 GT GPU like in TW2.

Of course this says very little because the developers happily tend to omit the resolution and FPS that a "minimum" or "recommeded" setting can be played with.

 

Manually saving? Are you serious ? I'll take manual saving over console-type check point saving any day.

Btw, your hero Gabe can kiss MY a$$ and my money goodbye until he gets off his dead a$$ and completes Episode 3 !

 

+1 on both points.

Although it would be nice to have an occasional auto save.

But bring on Episode 3! This will be another Duke Nukem Forever I think.

 

Invisible War was fine, just because it wasn't released in 2000 and didn't match the novelty and relative-to-era greatness of the first one doesn't make the game a flop. It wasn't a negative review garner -- it wasn't a bad game in my opinion, and that of others. It just became a hot point of contention for those that wanted something to wow them the same way the first game date when it came out.

Having all that said, I will buy Human Revolution, but once the price drops a bit because I plan on supporting the franchise through its good and bad days. It does seem like this one will be streamlined, signficantly. I don't mind this, but I know it won't be the game to silence the 'OMG! L0L! U LIKE INVISIBLE WAR! TEH FIRST ONE IS TEH ONLY TR00 GAME!' rhetoric. It's all good. Heh.

 

Well 4 years and counting....

On topic: I also wish DE:HR features actual manual savings (not like Batman:AA where you could save anytime... but actually the save goes to the latest checkpoint...).

 

I don't think any game can beat DNF in the Vaporware records, but at this rate EP 3 might be close.

Come on Gabe! Don't bring Valve to all-time lows like 3D Realms did!

 

DE:HR does have manual saving.


and a lot of auto saves/checkpoints (but only 2/3 of those stick around)

the quick save doesn't seem to work properly though.

You have 20 slots total (in the leak)

 

Well been playing the leak at least i can enable tessellation around this time thanks to 11.4 and up now really happy because of that. I agree with kade storm totally rather buy it once the price is a bit down.

 

I, like many others, think the leak was intentional.

It was great. I would play the entire game in it's current state and think it would be the best game ever. It was supposed to be 10 hours of gameplay but it felt like nothing, and I've replayed it a few times.

The only thing that pissed me off was the load times.