Poll: Deus Ex: HR. Worth full price or wait for drop?

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SovietSecrets

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Buy it now. I can't remember the last time I have been left wanting to replay a game two more times.
 

Babitz

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The price is okay there. You're welcome.

And no, the game isn't better nor as good as the original, but it's still great.
 

2fish

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Story was a little weak (aka too easy to guess key points) but otherwise I got it to support this style of game. I have beat the game once and set up 2 new games (1 shooter on hardest diffculty and the other a no kill no alarm run).

So it can be replayed and it not a bad game but just fell short of my hopes (not enough RPG level up guns ect) and as I stated the story issue.

Also where are my melee weapons?

So yeah go pick it up or wait for a small price cut but it is a good game.
 

Sonicron

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I can't see any other game this year measuring up to Human Revolution. Not Space Marine, not Arkham City, not Skyrim, not the new Assassin's Creed - none of them. This game is worth every damn cent.
 

BanicRhys

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I voted "Chicken pot pie" because there is no "It's good but you should wait for its price to drop" option.
 

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smeghead25 said:
I paid the full $130 for the Augmented Edition here in Australia. I could have bought the game on it's own for $40 off Ozgameshop.

And I am not disappointed in the slightest. I haven't played the originals of course so I can't comment on how it compares, but as a game on it's own merits, it's brilliant. Shame about Skyrim, otherwise it would have a straight shot at GOTY. As it stands, it's gonna be the hardest decision in recent years for me.

I haven't played a game I enjoyed this much since the 2nd Ratchet & Clank. And before that, Abe's Oddysee. Human Revolution is my 3rd favorite game ever. BUY IT.

EDIT: I'm curious, does the red button still work? Click it...

<-- Go on. Click the Red Button.
Augmented Edition, or Collector's (with the Jensen figurine)? Because I got my Collector's for $140, and most places I saw were selling the Augmented for $90-$100, depending on platform.

Anyway, yes, it is worth the full price.
 

DirgeNovak

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Buy it twice. Then donate another 60$ to Eidos. You'll be glad you did.
 

CCountZero

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radioactive lemur said:
How is the campaign in Deus Ex: HR? To those who have bought it for full price, what are your impressions?
The campaign itself is a lot of fun, and makes for a very Deus Ex-y story.

Game-play is good, although probably a little too easy on the sneaky side.[Footnote]My non-lethal play-through especially was EPIC EASINESS.[/Footnote]
That said, it's miles better than the original, given how we have cover bases stealth, rather than blind opponents, etc. etc.

The hacking mini-game, surprisingly, hasn't gotten old yet, even though I've hacked 99.5% of everything in the game twice. Long as you set your mind to doing it with as few "help tools" as possible, it remains fun, and especially so if done under pressure.[Footnote]Hacking is done real-time; which means patrolling guards could catch you in the act.[/Footnote]

My first play-through lasted 31 hours, and was a combination of lethal and non-lethal take-downs, based on how I figured Jensen would feel about the people he was dealing with at the time.

Second play-through was non-lethal through-n-through, and lasted 27 hours. Felt a lot easier than the first, both because I already knew the layouts of maps and how to handle the bosses[footnote]Which can either be very easy or very hard, depending on how you choose to take them down. It's up to you in the end.[/footnote] and such, but also simply because, with a bit of timing, the non-lethal weapons can make getting past enemies incredibly easy.
Too easy, in fact, especially considering how you even get more XP for it.

The game does have some issues with crashing when running DX11. Personally, it crashed about 11 times during the first play-through, but vigorous quick-saving made it a non-issue.
I do however have a mate for whom it completely kills immersion, and thus the game, to be so abruptly ripped out, and so he chose to run it in DX9, at least until Eidos gets the issue fixed.
Frankly though, the game is no beauty, and really needs Tessellation from DX11 for the character models to in any way be considered humanoid.
But, on the other hand, Deus Ex was... well, ugly. Just straight up ugly. So I guess it's to be expected.

As for my experience with my purchase, it was very, very poor.
I'm one of those people who bought digitally, and didn't get the DLC from the Aug Edition.

TL;DR
I originally paid 33.96 UK pounds for the game, an amount which has gone up to 53.32, because I got my money back and bought a retail copy with working DLC code in GameStop.
I did that because I wanted the DLC, and even though that's a 60% increase in price, I'm still perfectly happy with the cost of the game.

So, overall, despite my poor experiences, the game itself is a must-play, and is definitely worth full price.
 

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It's long, well designed, well written, and very replayable. It's a good game on it's own, but there is another reason to buy it: if you want more games like it to be made, it must bring in profits.

Buy it.
 

Ed130 The Vanguard

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Waffle_Man said:
It's long, well designed, well written, and very replayable. It's a good game one it's own, but there is another reason to buy it: if you want more games like it to be made, it must bring in profits.

Buy it.
Pretty much this, but the game does have flaws, the main one for me was the boss fights. If you can get past a few niggles it will be the best game this year, at lest until Skyrim or Saints Row the Third come out.
 

NerfedFalcon

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I bought the Augmented edition of the game because of three hours of the original. And it's awesome. Except the boss fights.
 

nokori3byo

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2011 has seen me pay full price for the following games: Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, MK, Portal 2, LA Noire, and DX:HR.

Value-wise, I'd say Deus Ex is just about as good as anything on the list, so yes, buy it.

Hmmm, it really is turning out to be a year of sleeper hits.

(Edited to correct factual error.)
 

DarkhoIlow

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Deus Ex Human Revolution is the game that you've been waiting for ever since the end of Deus Ex 1.

If you enjoyed the first game back in the day and you are a fan of that,then most definitely you should purchase it now.
 

Scizophrenic Llama

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My vote would've been between the OMGOMGOMGBUYBUYBUY option and meh, but neither seemed appropriate so chicken pot pie it is.

It is definitely worth it's full price. A good amount of re-playability.
 

slavec

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This one is certainly worth the full price tag. Why? Because Deus Ex was great, Invisible War was good, and Human Revolution is really, really good.

But most importantly: Give me MORE Deus Ex!