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Deus Ex: Human Revolution Steam Preloads

Steam now offers preloads of Deus Ex: Human Revolution for those who have pre-purchased Eidos Montreal's upcoming action/RPG prequel so they'll be prepared to play as soon as the game unlocks next week (Tuesday in North America, Thursday in Australia, and Friday in Europe. Pre-purchasers receive a 10% discount along with eight new Deus Ex-themed items for Team Fortress 2. Thanks Bill.

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64. Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Steam Preloads Aug 21, 2011, 04:57 vrok
 
Jerykk wrote on Aug 20, 2011, 21:34:
I agree with some points, not so much others. First of all, how is the dialogue reminiscent of Mass Effect? There's no morality system and dialogue options aren't color-coded for your convenience. In addition, you can actually see exactly what you're going to say.
I didn't mean like that, my bad. I meant the style of the writing. The stereotypical personality exaggeration. The juvenile 'OMG this guy is so awesome I can barely keep from shitting my pants when he talks' style. I mean there's even the super obnoxious computer guy. That's why I referenced Mass Effect (juvenile writing) and wrote the ex-swat part that's from the intro. At times it feels like some Saturday Night Live sketch and I just burst out laughing.

As for the augs, yes, they are mostly passive but I don't really see how that's dumbed down. You don't have as much bio-electric energy as you did in DX and the active augs consume energy at a much quicker rate.
I feel the entire system together with energy is dumbed down because it removes choice. Choice of what to spend your energy on. I could rant on and on about how takedowns seem to have ruined the whole augmentation and energy system but whatever. Basically, augs that have potential like dermal protection and recoil reduction should be active augs. Playing with these augs should be notably different and in turn for their power they should require you to spend energy to excel in gunfights in order to balance out the use of takedowns. I've read a couple of previews that mention that the game feels very biased towards stealth and hacking and this would help balance it out more and at the same time it makes your choices more important and noticeable which in turn increases replayability. I can't think of a single reason why it isn't like that except that the current system is 'easier to use', aka shoot shit and press X to win if you get close and don't worry about everything else because it's always on. Maybe I'm biased, but I just can't think of another reason.

Hell, what's even the point of lethal takedowns at all? To me it's all just such a lame console win-button/band-aid excuse for not having melee that could actually be balanced. Oh, sorry. Some ranting slipped through.

And enemy patrols being in a straight line? Not sure what you're talking about. In the plant level, enemy patrols had quite a bit of variation. Some guards patrolled back and forth along a straight line, yes, but there were also guards that patrolled in circles, with momentary pauses to turn and do random activities.
That was just my observation. Haven't seen any guards patrolling in circles. To me it looked like it was mostly just: have scripted talk, walk to patrol path, start patrolling, in the middle of patrol path look to the left or right, resume patrolling. The end. Sure, it could be that I just didn't happen upon any more advanced patterns.

This comment was edited on Aug 21, 2011, 06:25.
 
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