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Deus Ex Human Revolution: The Missing Link

More zany adventures for augmented Adam Jensen.

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Looks good, except that I'm a little confused...

So this takes place during the boat trip to the Philipines in the main story, right? Because if it's supposed to be after the end of the main story, that certainly causes continutity problems for those people who chose the self-sacrifice ending to the story
 

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This is confusing indeed. Does that mean I'll have to play through again just to play this DLC? It would be better if it took place after the main story. I know they offered different endings, but there could be a common ending. For instance, in Mass Effect 2, it imported your save game from ME1. But, if you didn't load a save game from ME1, it had an ending from the fist game built into it.

It would be awesome if they released DLC's, one for each different ending choice and whatever ending you got (as if you only played and got a single one), you could then buy a DLC which continued that story.
 

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This is confusing indeed. Does that mean I'll have to play through again just to play this DLC? It would be better if it took place after the main story. I know they offered different endings, but there could be a common ending. For instance, in Mass Effect 2, it imported your save game from ME1. But, if you didn't load a save game from ME1, it had an ending from the fist game built into it.

It would be awesome if they released DLC's, one for each different ending choice and whatever ending you got (as if you only played and got a single one), you could then buy a DLC which continued that story.
They didn't even bother continuing the story with a cutscene, monologue or even a block of text after your choice. They basically just rolled some photos and Adam was talking in the background. Most of the photos even appeared in the other cutscenes.
 

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Avaholic03 said:
Looks good, except that I'm a little confused...

So this takes place during the boat trip to the Philipines in the main story, right? Because if it's supposed to be after the end of the main story, that certainly causes continutity problems for those people who chose the self-sacrifice ending to the story
Singapore actually. Also, it may be to make the final boss battle come less out of nowhere[/quote]
 

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Hm. I did notice that the setting was different at the beginning and end of this "Missing Link" section, however I had no idea there was anything meant to be there.
I just assumed that they lifted his cryotube out of the cargo crate, put it in a warehouse and then left.
 

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If your worried about having the "cannon" ending, just make a separate save file before you choose which ending you want. I think people will be doing this for a trophy/achievement associated with seeing all the different endings anyway.
 

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If your worried about having the "cannon" ending, just make a separate save file before you choose which ending you want. I think people will be doing this for a trophy/achievement associated with seeing all the different endings anyway.
I did. Personally this really should've come at the end of the game, but if it has to do with the final boss, then I guess it fits (though it makes little sense since we see Adam in one of the latter stages which is meant to be right after this DLC and he's just fine. Just a little groggy, not bloodied and beaten).
_Also, if this has to do with what I think it does, it kinda ruins the impact the final boss had. The reason it was so shocking was because we didn't see it coming, despite [villain] practically telling us we'd be shocked the minute we confronted it.
Seriously, fail the conversation bit with [villain] and you'll see them say something to the effect of, "Go! See for yourself the horror of my work!"
...Though I guess the DLC is really just for those who already bought and beat the game anyway, so meh.

You know what I really want, though? Some resolution. That would be nice. Don't care if I have to pay for it. I'd love some resolution to the story. You know, actual resolution, like what happened to the protagonist and the others afterwards. Did he ever meet Megan again? Character and narrative resolution. What should be at the end of the story, instead of
some random imagery of starving African children, some helicopter camera pans of the Arctic sea, and a rather pretentious waste of ten minutes no matter what ending you choose.
Fucking game was SO good up until those last ten minutes. Too bad.
 

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I do not condone pirating a game in any way for any other reason than: "I can't get it in my country" or "No demo, just wanted to see if it runs on my machine and if the gameplay is worth anything".

BUT when they cut content from the game and release it within a month or so as DLC ... well pirate away I say. First day DLC is wrong but so is first month DLC (still cut content, even if not 100% ready by release).
 

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Ian Caronia said:
Eclpsedragon said:
If your worried about having the "cannon" ending, just make a separate save file before you choose which ending you want. I think people will be doing this for a trophy/achievement associated with seeing all the different endings anyway.
I did. Personally this really should've come at the end of the game, but if it has to do with the final boss, then I guess it fits (though it makes little sense since we see Adam in one of the latter stages which is meant to be right after this DLC and he's just fine. Just a little groggy, not bloodied and beaten).
_Also, if this has to do with what I think it does, it kinda ruins the impact the final boss had. The reason it was so shocking was because we didn't see it coming, despite [villain] practically telling us we'd be shocked the minute we confronted it.
Seriously, fail the conversation bit with [villain] and you'll see them say something to the effect of, "Go! See for yourself the horror of my work!"
...Though I guess the DLC is really just for those who already bought and beat the game anyway, so meh.

You know what I really want, though? Some resolution. That would be nice. Don't care if I have to pay for it. I'd love some resolution to the story. You know, actual resolution, like what happened to the protagonist and the others afterwards. Did he ever meet Megan again? Character and narrative resolution. What should be at the end of the story, instead of
some random imagery of starving African children, some helicopter camera pans of the Arctic sea, and a rather pretentious waste of ten minutes no matter what ending you choose.
Fucking game was SO good up until those last ten minutes. Too bad.
[Note: the spoilers are SPOILERS, so don't read them unless you're already very familiar with the plot.]

One of the biggest problems I had with this game is that people were willingly cutting their limbs off in order to get artificial ones. That's just nuts. I can see implants, but as far as limbs go you could just build suits that mesh onto people, or implant artificial muscles and reinforce their already existing limbs. That way if the implants fail, you'd still have a freaking arm. I understand that SOME of them were amputees, but not most of them.

As far as how this fits into the original game:

This most likely takes place on the trip to Omega Ranch in Singapore. In the game they presented it as though he was asleep the whole time, but nothing says that for certain. However, I don't see how he could run around on the ship, make a ruckus, and get captured and yet still somehow end up in Omega Ranch by hiding back in a tube. You'd think that after alerting the ship to his presence that once he disappeared again they would check all of the tubes.

As with many other people, I also hated the endings and the final boss fight too. The final boss fight just came out of nowhere and it happened so quickly that I had very little idea what was going on.

I understood that the people in the capsules WERE the HYRON computer, that made sense given the mission you did for Hugh Darrow where the spy was obviously leaving something important out. It was made more obvious by the emails that had the creepy "I see it now, mommy" crap at the end of them in Panchea. However, I had no idea what the Dragon Lady was trying to accomplish by hooking herself up to the machine. I thought they just adjusted the building's structure in order to account for constantly changing sea pressures. But what's-her-face seemed to want to use them to send out a message. But why? You were able to do it from a console.

But then again, you were helped by Eliza Cassan, who is an AI herself (and the game hints that she has a ghost too, if one may forgive my GITS reference.) However, I thought that she had her own computers, but the way that she said that it's "been nice knowing you Adam" almost implied the she might die too. Was she being run off of the HYRON project too? If so, then why did she have that huge computer station in the bottom of PICUS? She must have just been saying goodbye to Adam.

So why did the Dragon Lady hook herself up to the damn thing? Was Eliza unwilling to help her? Why in the hell would she have all that crap installed in her back to interface with the thing and not know whether she would be rejected by it?

In addition to that, the endings were incredibly unsatisfying,

I think every reasonable person would agree that the rational choice would be to have augmentation technology regulated. But the only choice you get to have it regulated is to give control to the FUCKING ILLUMINATI!!! WTF!?!?!?!

The "pro-augmentation" choice wasn't to "let the world embrace the technology" it was to let the corporations have all of the power over it without answering to anyone! That's NUTS! The entire backstory of the game is that corporations are more powerful than governments and that they don't answer to anyone! Someone would try to take control again and the whole process would repeat itself.

The anti-augmentation choice was equally nuts. There's no way that EVERYONE would give up on the technology because some powerful assholes tried to abuse it. It would just lead to heavy regulation. Plus the illuminati are made out to be so powerful that they would probably still be able to cover it up by quickly moving Omega Ranch (which they were probably already doing), and by making Hugh Darrow out to be a mad-man, which is pretty easy when you consider A) the crazy shit he just did, and B) the fact that he's ranting about THE FREAKING ILLUMINATI.

And the suicide choice was the dumbest of all because it points out the flaw in all of the choices: the illuminati are still out there. The TYM lady and Taggert were low level puppets, so the organization still has all of its power. What makes you think ANY of the choices that Adam makes would be final unless he continued to go after the illuminati? Especially the suicide choice, IF HE DESTROYED THE FACILITY THE ILLUMINATI COULD MAKE UP WHATEVER STORY THEY WANT!!!! Eliza said that there wouldn't be anyone to spin it, but that is plainly false because the most powerful people are still out there.
 

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ReiverCorrupter said:
*snip*
[Note: the spoilers are SPOILERS, so don't read them unless you're already very familiar with the plot.]

One of the biggest problems I had with this game is that people were willingly cutting their limbs off in order to get artificial ones. That's just nuts. I can see implants, but as far as limbs go you could just build suits that mesh onto people, or implant artificial muscles and reinforce their already existing limbs. That way if the implants fail, you'd still have a freaking arm. I understand that SOME of them were amputees, but not most of them.
Okay, I can explain this. Basically the point was that humanity found a way to force evolution onto itself, and thus seeing the profit and benefits from this, corporations involved grew bloated and became major influences in the governments of their respective countries, excluding the UN.
Some countries, like China, had a social standing between augmented and not-augmented that mirrored what was going on in the USA. In order to rise in the corporate world, you needed to be a little augmented. The idea was that there were three types of people getting augmented:
1. Because they needed it
2. Because it was so unique and fascinating and had so many uses (your arm is now your PDA too) they found it to be a fashion statement
and more importantly: 3. Because they were being forced into it via their surroundings.

So the reason why so many people were getting auged up was because the higher-ups found it favorable to have employees who were augmented, and in order to get a job, you had to be auged to some degree. Hell, even hookers were being forced into augmentation.
All about corruption and societal issues and whatnot. Though, unlike Yahtzee, I agree with you.
Fuck that. I like my human arm. At least an EMP won't leave me with useless limbs.

This most likely takes place on the trip to Omega Ranch in Singapore. In the game they presented it as though he was asleep the whole time, but nothing says that for certain. However, I don't see how he could run around on the ship, make a ruckus, and get captured and yet still somehow end up in Omega Ranch by hiding back in a tube. You'd think that after alerting the ship to his presence that once he disappeared again they would check all of the tubes.
Okay, now this...
...Actually no, you just echoed what I said in my OP but clearer. I agree. It makes no sense and actually ruins the whole idea of how he made it aboard.

As with many other people, I also hated the endings and the final boss fight too. The final boss fight just came out of nowhere and it happened so quickly that I had very little idea what was going on.

I understood that the people in the capsules WERE the HYRON computer, that made sense given the mission you did for Hugh Darrow where the spy was obviously leaving something important out. It was made more obvious by the emails that had the creepy "I see it now, mommy" crap at the end of them in Panchea. However, I had no idea what the Dragon Lady was trying to accomplish by hooking herself up to the machine. I thought they just adjusted the building's structure in order to account for constantly changing sea pressures. But what's-her-face seemed to want to use them to send out a message. But why? You were able to do it from a console.

But then again, you were helped by Eliza Cassan, who is an AI herself (and the game hints that she has a ghost too, if one may forgive my GITS reference.) However, I thought that she had her own computers, but the way that she said that it's "been nice knowing you Adam" almost implied the she might die too. Was she being run off of the HYRON project too? If so, then why did she have that huge computer station in the bottom of PICUS? She must have just been saying goodbye to Adam.

So why did the Dragon Lady hook herself up to the damn thing? Was Eliza unwilling to help her? Why in the hell would she have all that crap installed in her back to interface with the thing and not know whether she would be rejected by it?
-The Illuminati wanted to make a machine powerful enough to control the minds of those who were augmented. It wasn't meant to be a kill-switch (what Darrow made it into), but a massive mind-controlling device. An AI, like Cassan, wasn't enough to do this, however, so they built a machine that ran off of human minds, thus tripling if not more the power of an average AI. Now they could put their international plan into action.
Why did they need teenage girls? Fuck if I know.
-Crazy ***** Chao went and hooked herself up to the machine because, thanks to Darrow, it was going apeshit. It needed a mind to focus it's attention. She was going to be the Illuminati's vessel and through her focusing the machine they would be able to control the minds of augmented individuals worldwide. Thing is, she was dumb to do this. If three human minds were going crazy, of course her own mind would fall victim. So she starts getting sucked into the lunacy of the Hyron and, as you kill the poor girls, all the power going to them goes onto her.
_With only one vessel to work with now, the machine went into overdrive to try to make up for the loss of it's other faculties (the girls). Like a computer overheating from running too many programs at once on a hardrive that can't handle it, Crazy ***** fried.
Why did you have to shoot her so she could fry? Fuck if I know.
-Cassan is dead anyway, or rather, soon will be. The Illuminati controls her, and since they know she's defected to Adam's side they'll be shutting her down too one way or the other. It's why by Deus Ex 1 Eliza isn't even in the game, and instead I think another AI has replaced her.
The following is what Escapist member TsunamiWombat, a Deus fan much more well versed in the Deus Ex lore than me, explained when it came to linking the events of Human Revolution to the original game:

"Right, that was the Council of the Illuminati (mentioned briefly by Chao at the end of DE:HR). Bob Page is a millionaire and the protege of Morgan Everett, a brilliant engineer and millionaire who is in turn the protege of Lucius DeBeers, leader of the Illuminati Council and a b-b-billionaire with a god complex. None of this is important for DE:HR but between the events of HR and the original Deus Ex.

DeBeers falls ill (post HR) and cryogenically freezes himself until such a time he can be cured so he can live forever- Everett, his protege, keeps him frozen forever even though the technoligy to save his life has existed for a while. Everett inherits the Illuminati from DeBeers, running things in a very passive slow and steady style - something percieved by his surrogate son Bob Page as a weakness. Page eventually betrays the Illuminati just before the events of Deus Ex and with other members of the Illuminati who found the groups 'do nothing attitude'- the Illuminati had been banking on the collapse of the US during the economic and social upheavels taking place in Human Revolution making it willing to join a One World Government with the European Union, but it is implied the actions of Adam Jensen prevent this and cause the country to right itself. This throws a monkey wrench into the Illuminati's plan, and the events of HR lead to a new explosion in global terrorism as small factions begin to guess that they are being manipulated.

The Illuminati (under Everett) decides to take a wait and see approach, deeming drastic action might expose themselves or further inflame the situation and resolve to subtly change the world. Bob Page doesn't like this approach and leverages his media control group, MJ12 - an arm of the illuminati established to control technoligy and communication (When you enter the Picus Building basement in HR and see the statuary of the Globe in the hand? That is the symbol of MJ12)- to sieze control from the illumanti and largely kills most of his opposition or drives them into hiding, then develops the Aquinas Cloud Processing system. The Aquinas system was a cloud processor based on the Daedalus AI (a newer version of the Picus system) which made bandwith free for everyone and provided internet to the world ostensibly as a humanitarian project, but in reality allowed MJ12 to monitor the internet which had previously remained a free zone. With this level of Data Control the Illuminati were crushed by Page, who then set in motion the events of Deus Ex: creating the even more powerful Helios AI and the Universal Constructor devices, used to manufacture the Grey Death plague and it's vaccine, Ambrosia - the supply of which is made in limited supplies and kept expensive both to reduce the worlds population and make them and the world leaders easier to control through control of Ambrosia, similar to Neuroprozyne in HR. Page plans to eventually merge himself with the Helios AI, controlling all world communication and information, then connect himself to the Universal Constructors which would allow him to create any matter he desired. Effectivly, he would become god, or Deus Ex Machina. This brings us up to speed with the start of Deus Ex, when the character J.C. Denton becomes entangled in the conspiracy and is require to stop Page.

It is strongly implied that the genetics of the main character of HR make the augmentation and Nano experimentation of Deus Ex possible, and that JC Denton is a test-tube baby son/grandson of his. This would mean that either the Sarif ending or the "Jensen kills everyone" ending are canon for Deus Ex."
I know what you're thinking: "Why the fuck didn't they say HALF of this?!" Well, this is all stuff that came out from years of Deus Ex lore. Thing is, Human Revolution has required reading. What I just posted is pretty much what the game expects you to know before you get into it.
_Contrary to what anyone says, the game is targeted mainly and solely for Deus Ex fans (despite the gameplay changes made to it).

In addition to that, the endings were incredibly unsatisfying,
I'll cut it short. Basically, they gave you "multiple choices" on an ending despite this being a PREQUEL. So, we know what's going to happen no matter what.
Self-Destruct Ending: Possibly Canon, though utterly stupid since it makes nearly everything done up to that point moot.
Why: Reference what TsunamiWombat said in my previous spoiler tag. Those events can happen with this going down.

Darrow: Possibly Canon, though not nearly as clear cut as the game says
Why: Because, as you said, Darrow's a fucking nutter and everyone knows it thanks to you spreading the truth. His ramblings will be known as ramblings, and the tech will become less influential, paving the way for the Illuminati's grand debut of nanomachines later on.

Pro-augmentation: Not Canon
Why: The Illuminati CRUSH Serif industries. Serif was the lone company that was gaining nearly as much power as the Illuminati, but the founder, Serif, wasn't a megolomaniac. He was a dick, but not a megolomaniac. He was also one guy with not nearly enough resources at his disposal as the Illuminati despite the power he was getting through augmentation tech.
So, helping Serif despite the fact that he turned you into his cyborg lapdog would give him an edge the Illuminati wouldn't have.

...BUT! No matter what, you need to realize the global effect Darrow's sick stunt had. No one, and I mean NO ONE would want to be augmented after seeing the possibility of anyone, be it Darrow, the Illuminati, or whoever they were blaming it on in that ending, ever messing with their brains.
Would you?

Pro-Augmentation Regulation: Possibly Canon, though it makes no sense for Adam to do so
Why: It gives the Illuminati power. ...That's pretty much it.

SO! In conclusion: Absolutely none of the choices you make at the end of Human Revolution mean shit. It's a prequel. Things are going to change a certain way no matter what. Of course none of the choices would matter. Deus Ex 1 already exists.
The Illuminati is in Deus Ex 1 and in power.
Nanomachines have become the new evolutionary tech and augmentation is outdated.
There's still conspiracy and such going on.
Technology is still around and in high gear.
Serif and Taggert's regimes are long gone.
There is only...Bob.

This is, in truth, why so many hate Human Revolution. Yes, the ending was shit no matter what with no story resolution, but it's even worse considering nothing you do post-final boss matters, since the game is a prequel to established canon.

Last ten minutes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution turns what was a really good game into utter crap.
 

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Ian Caronia said:
ReiverCorrupter said:
*snip*
[Note: the spoilers are SPOILERS, so don't read them unless you're already very familiar with the plot.]

One of the biggest problems I had with this game is that people were willingly cutting their limbs off in order to get artificial ones. That's just nuts. I can see implants, but as far as limbs go you could just build suits that mesh onto people, or implant artificial muscles and reinforce their already existing limbs. That way if the implants fail, you'd still have a freaking arm. I understand that SOME of them were amputees, but not most of them.
Okay, I can explain this. Basically the point was that humanity found a way to force evolution onto itself, and thus seeing the profit and benefits from this, corporations involved grew bloated and became major influences in the governments of their respective countries, excluding the UN.
Some countries, like China, had a social standing between augmented and not-augmented that mirrored what was going on in the USA. In order to rise in the corporate world, you needed to be a little augmented. The idea was that there were three types of people getting augmented:
1. Because they needed it
2. Because it was so unique and fascinating and had so many uses (your arm is now your PDA too) they found it to be a fashion statement
and more importantly: 3. Because they were being forced into it via their surroundings.

So the reason why so many people were getting auged up was because the higher-ups found it favorable to have employees who were augmented, and in order to get a job, you had to be auged to some degree. Hell, even hookers were being forced into augmentation.
All about corruption and societal issues and whatnot. Though, unlike Yahtzee, I agree with you.
Fuck that. I like my human arm. At least an EMP won't leave me with useless limbs.

This most likely takes place on the trip to Omega Ranch in Singapore. In the game they presented it as though he was asleep the whole time, but nothing says that for certain. However, I don't see how he could run around on the ship, make a ruckus, and get captured and yet still somehow end up in Omega Ranch by hiding back in a tube. You'd think that after alerting the ship to his presence that once he disappeared again they would check all of the tubes.
Okay, now this...
...Actually no, you just echoed what I said in my OP but clearer. I agree. It makes no sense and actually ruins the whole idea of how he made it aboard.

As with many other people, I also hated the endings and the final boss fight too. The final boss fight just came out of nowhere and it happened so quickly that I had very little idea what was going on.

I understood that the people in the capsules WERE the HYRON computer, that made sense given the mission you did for Hugh Darrow where the spy was obviously leaving something important out. It was made more obvious by the emails that had the creepy "I see it now, mommy" crap at the end of them in Panchea. However, I had no idea what the Dragon Lady was trying to accomplish by hooking herself up to the machine. I thought they just adjusted the building's structure in order to account for constantly changing sea pressures. But what's-her-face seemed to want to use them to send out a message. But why? You were able to do it from a console.

But then again, you were helped by Eliza Cassan, who is an AI herself (and the game hints that she has a ghost too, if one may forgive my GITS reference.) However, I thought that she had her own computers, but the way that she said that it's "been nice knowing you Adam" almost implied the she might die too. Was she being run off of the HYRON project too? If so, then why did she have that huge computer station in the bottom of PICUS? She must have just been saying goodbye to Adam.

So why did the Dragon Lady hook herself up to the damn thing? Was Eliza unwilling to help her? Why in the hell would she have all that crap installed in her back to interface with the thing and not know whether she would be rejected by it?
-The Illuminati wanted to make a machine powerful enough to control the minds of those who were augmented. It wasn't meant to be a kill-switch (what Darrow made it into), but a massive mind-controlling device. An AI, like Cassan, wasn't enough to do this, however, so they built a machine that ran off of human minds, thus tripling if not more the power of an average AI. Now they could put their international plan into action.
Why did they need teenage girls? Fuck if I know.
-Crazy ***** Chao went and hooked herself up to the machine because, thanks to Darrow, it was going apeshit. It needed a mind to focus it's attention. She was going to be the Illuminati's vessel and through her focusing the machine they would be able to control the minds of augmented individuals worldwide. Thing is, she was dumb to do this. If three human minds were going crazy, of course her own mind would fall victim. So she starts getting sucked into the lunacy of the Hyron and, as you kill the poor girls, all the power going to them goes onto her.
_With only one vessel to work with now, the machine went into overdrive to try to make up for the loss of it's other faculties (the girls). Like a computer overheating from running too many programs at once on a hardrive that can't handle it, Crazy ***** fried.
Why did you have to shoot her so she could fry? Fuck if I know.
-Cassan is dead anyway, or rather, soon will be. The Illuminati controls her, and since they know she's defected to Adam's side they'll be shutting her down too one way or the other. It's why by Deus Ex 1 Eliza isn't even in the game, and instead I think another AI has replaced her.
The following is what Escapist member TsunamiWombat, a Deus fan much more well versed in the Deus Ex lore than me, explained when it came to linking the events of Human Revolution to the original game:

"Right, that was the Council of the Illuminati (mentioned briefly by Chao at the end of DE:HR). Bob Page is a millionaire and the protege of Morgan Everett, a brilliant engineer and millionaire who is in turn the protege of Lucius DeBeers, leader of the Illuminati Council and a b-b-billionaire with a god complex. None of this is important for DE:HR but between the events of HR and the original Deus Ex.

DeBeers falls ill (post HR) and cryogenically freezes himself until such a time he can be cured so he can live forever- Everett, his protege, keeps him frozen forever even though the technoligy to save his life has existed for a while. Everett inherits the Illuminati from DeBeers, running things in a very passive slow and steady style - something percieved by his surrogate son Bob Page as a weakness. Page eventually betrays the Illuminati just before the events of Deus Ex and with other members of the Illuminati who found the groups 'do nothing attitude'- the Illuminati had been banking on the collapse of the US during the economic and social upheavels taking place in Human Revolution making it willing to join a One World Government with the European Union, but it is implied the actions of Adam Jensen prevent this and cause the country to right itself. This throws a monkey wrench into the Illuminati's plan, and the events of HR lead to a new explosion in global terrorism as small factions begin to guess that they are being manipulated.

The Illuminati (under Everett) decides to take a wait and see approach, deeming drastic action might expose themselves or further inflame the situation and resolve to subtly change the world. Bob Page doesn't like this approach and leverages his media control group, MJ12 - an arm of the illuminati established to control technoligy and communication (When you enter the Picus Building basement in HR and see the statuary of the Globe in the hand? That is the symbol of MJ12)- to sieze control from the illumanti and largely kills most of his opposition or drives them into hiding, then develops the Aquinas Cloud Processing system. The Aquinas system was a cloud processor based on the Daedalus AI (a newer version of the Picus system) which made bandwith free for everyone and provided internet to the world ostensibly as a humanitarian project, but in reality allowed MJ12 to monitor the internet which had previously remained a free zone. With this level of Data Control the Illuminati were crushed by Page, who then set in motion the events of Deus Ex: creating the even more powerful Helios AI and the Universal Constructor devices, used to manufacture the Grey Death plague and it's vaccine, Ambrosia - the supply of which is made in limited supplies and kept expensive both to reduce the worlds population and make them and the world leaders easier to control through control of Ambrosia, similar to Neuroprozyne in HR. Page plans to eventually merge himself with the Helios AI, controlling all world communication and information, then connect himself to the Universal Constructors which would allow him to create any matter he desired. Effectivly, he would become god, or Deus Ex Machina. This brings us up to speed with the start of Deus Ex, when the character J.C. Denton becomes entangled in the conspiracy and is require to stop Page.

It is strongly implied that the genetics of the main character of HR make the augmentation and Nano experimentation of Deus Ex possible, and that JC Denton is a test-tube baby son/grandson of his. This would mean that either the Sarif ending or the "Jensen kills everyone" ending are canon for Deus Ex."
I know what you're thinking: "Why the fuck didn't they say HALF of this?!" Well, this is all stuff that came out from years of Deus Ex lore. Thing is, Human Revolution has required reading. What I just posted is pretty much what the game expects you to know before you get into it.
_Contrary to what anyone says, the game is targeted mainly and solely for Deus Ex fans (despite the gameplay changes made to it).

In addition to that, the endings were incredibly unsatisfying,
I'll cut it short. Basically, they gave you "multiple choices" on an ending despite this being a PREQUEL. So, we know what's going to happen no matter what.
Self-Destruct Ending: Possibly Canon, though utterly stupid since it makes nearly everything done up to that point moot.
Why: Reference what TsunamiWombat said in my previous spoiler tag. Those events can happen with this going down.

Darrow: Possibly Canon, though not nearly as clear cut as the game says
Why: Because, as you said, Darrow's a fucking nutter and everyone knows it thanks to you spreading the truth. His ramblings will be known as ramblings, and the tech will become less influential, paving the way for the Illuminati's grand debut of nanomachines later on.

Pro-augmentation: Not Canon
Why: The Illuminati CRUSH Serif industries. Serif was the lone company that was gaining nearly as much power as the Illuminati, but the founder, Serif, wasn't a megolomaniac. He was a dick, but not a megolomaniac. He was also one guy with not nearly enough resources at his disposal as the Illuminati despite the power he was getting through augmentation tech.
So, helping Serif despite the fact that he turned you into his cyborg lapdog would give him an edge the Illuminati wouldn't have.

...BUT! No matter what, you need to realize the global effect Darrow's sick stunt had. No one, and I mean NO ONE would want to be augmented after seeing the possibility of anyone, be it Darrow, the Illuminati, or whoever they were blaming it on in that ending, ever messing with their brains.
Would you?

Pro-Augmentation Regulation: Possibly Canon, though it makes no sense for Adam to do so
Why: It gives the Illuminati power. ...That's pretty much it.

SO! In conclusion: Absolutely none of the choices you make at the end of Human Revolution mean shit. It's a prequel. Things are going to change a certain way no matter what. Of course none of the choices would matter. Deus Ex 1 already exists.
The Illuminati is in Deus Ex 1 and in power.
Nanomachines have become the new evolutionary tech and augmentation is outdated.
There's still conspiracy and such going on.
Technology is still around and in high gear.
Serif and Taggert's regimes are long gone.
There is only...Bob.

This is, in truth, why so many hate Human Revolution. Yes, the ending was shit no matter what with no story resolution, but it's even worse considering nothing you do post-final boss matters, since the game is a prequel to established canon.

Last ten minutes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution turns what was a really good game into utter crap.
Thanks, that was helpful. I had only played Invisible War before this. Though I wouldn't be as sure as you about the immutability of the canon, I can definitely see them remaking the original after this as a sequel while revamping some aspects of the plot. That is a fairly standard tactic after all. Will it piss off the fans? Of course. But it'll probably make a lot of money, and that's ultimately what matters in business.