Can someone explain why Deus Ex: HR is so great?

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krazykidd

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So i just finished Deus Ex: HR , and i am not impressed to say the least. This game has been praised to heaven and back but almost everyone, so i am assuming it is I who is missing something , and that is what i would like explained. Just why does everyone love this game?

To start i have never played a Deus Ex game, this is my first. This was my first ( on possibly only ) playthrough i went through of Deus Ex:HR. I started on hard mode ( Give me deus ex ) as i usually do with games with serveral difficulty , and honestly , it was challenging at all ( outside the boss fights).

The enemy A.I is TERRIBLE to say the least. I didn't put any points in anything stealth ,so i was not undetectable. Enemies could walk right past me, and as long as i was crouching they would never see me. If i put a silencer on the pistol ( most OP weapon ever ) i could take out dozens of enemies in one room, without getting detected if i managed to headshot everyone that i saw ( which isn't hard to do once you have the laser sight).

The Story was meh . Nothing really happened. Adam was basically the Go get guy .You would think he would wize up after the dozenth time someone asked him to do something just because.

The character models and animations were terrible. The world was lifeless and small . The overall look of the game made me think of Perfect Dark on the N64. The cities, buildings and cars look like they were taken out of Perfect Dark, i was seriously not impressed, especially since Square enix was a publisher.

The characters all seemed pretty bland , and the dialogue was just a drag. Alpha protocol had better dialogue and characters than Deus Ex HR , yet people bashed Alpha protocol to death .


This is all my opinion ,i know everyone cannot be wrong, so i aknowledge that i must be missing something. Can someone people tell me what i am missing and why this game is so great?
 

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I adored the story. It was less to do with what happened and more to do with why it was happening. I thought the ethical questions it brought up were awesome and it really made me think about how I personally would react in a world like that one.

Also, I had hours of fun running around in the air ducts. Really. They were the best thing ever.
 

Tohuvabohu

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I could explain why Deus Ex: HR is my personal best game of 2011.


But. I don't see the point. You clearly didn't like the game, and didn't see it the same way I do. That happens. I sometimes dislike games with lots of critical praise too, and no amount of explaining can turn my opinion of a game I do not think is great.
 

krazykidd

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Somonah said:
You need us to explain to you why your opinion is different to everyone elses?
Yes? I am clearly wrong . There has to be something i missed . It is physically impossible the i looked at a game that is praised by everyone and found it to be terrible without some sort of bias .
 

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krazykidd said:
So i just finished Deus Ex: HR , and i am not impressed to say the least.
Same here. I feel it's one of those products that suffer from "Costner" syndrome. They are great for the first time, but you don't want to replay them again. Seriously - there's no point in replaying DX:HR other than some missing achievement or maybe missed subquest or two that won't affect main storyline... :|

krazykidd said:
The world was lifeless and small .
Guilty !
DX:Invisible War at least allowed to side with some faction... :|
 

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For me it was exactly what I'd want from a sequel (or prequel), enough like the original and fixing the problems of Invisible War (ammo/inventory being the main things I remember).

I loved it, but then again Deus Ex 1 is my favorite game of all time and I'm incredibly interested in it's world.

I wish there were some Greys in it though, not that it would fit with the timeline.
 

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Well, if you got some like-minded friends around and treated it like Plan 9 from Outer Space, you'd enjoy it a lot more. Not in the way the designers intended, but that's life.

As for me, I thought it was better than the sum of its parts. On their own, the dialogue is average, the voice acting makes it worse, the shooting and the stealthing could both be a lot better and let's not even go near the boss fights, but all of them together in a single package somehow came out with something awesome. Probably one of the most immersive games I've ever played - but also why I compared it to Plan 9.
 

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I don't know, I'm rather enjoying my playthrough of Human Revolution. It reminds me a lot of the driven Goldeneye-esque N64-era of shooters, which appeal to me very much. I'm not sure what it reminds me of them, but it does all the same. I like the stealth elements and the open nature of which you are able to achieve your missions. The story I can't make heads or tails of, but that's probably because I'm not very far in.

[sub]I think the last time I played, I was stuck in an air vent with alarms going off all around me in the police station. Needless to say, I fucked up.[/sub]
 

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totally heterosexual said:
I always find it funny when one forum member tells another forum member to "get out".

As if it somehow is supposed to accomplish anything other than making the person who said it look rude and their argument cheap.
 

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krazykidd said:
Somonah said:
You need us to explain to you why your opinion is different to everyone elses?
Yes? I am clearly wrong . There has to be something i missed . It is physically impossible the i looked at a game that is praised by everyone and found it to be terrible without some sort of bias .
If you played through the whole game, what could you have possibly missed? It is possible to dislike critically acclaimed games y'know...
 

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It wasn't bad IMO it wasn't great. I HATED the ending, but, as someone pointed out to me (and I should have thought about) the ending was already set in stone since it's a prequel. There are parts of it that were meh, and the Pistol is OP as hell. The story was ok.

Someone else has already said why I liked it and why it got high reviews. It wasn't modern battlefield of war 3. We've been getting bland shooters for years now. I can't wait til the new Hitman comes out or something else that's not a CoD clone. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, another fear, (not anything like fear 3. that was terrible.), Bioshock Infinite, Metro Lastlight, etc. At least is was something with a story you could somewhat follow and even cared a minute bit about.

Maybe i'm way off, but, that's my feelings on it.
 

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Really enjoyed it when I played it honestly, but I can't really say why. Not saying that it didn't have issues (Bought the PC version after renting and beating the PS3 version, and the PC port wasn't great) but I got over them. I rather liked the cities though, have to disagree on that. Sure, they weren't filled with people, but they were pretty detailed and had a lot of interesting secrets and side paths through them.

That being said, I haven't really felt the need to play the game a second time.

I like Alpha Protocol, but people didn't bash Alpha Protocol because of it's dialogue/characters. They bashed it because it was rather buggy and the combat got pretty clunky at times as well.