Trans-Financial-Man
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I dont get why ppl still cling on to this pile of shit and can't move on.
i can only speak for myself but if you're a cyberpunk autist like me who has been dreaming for an AAA open world cyberpunk game that's true to the genre for all his life this game is all we have
Mankind Divided is not open-world open-world and it's not flawless but it is AAA, it's well written, looks gorgeous and is 10x better as an RPG than CP.
I'm sorry but the two Deus Ex sequels were fucking trash. I liked the first one but subsequent playthroughs have me realizing it is really just awful. And the second was bad from the start. They completely missed the point of DX and instead of cool-guy, millennial flavored conspiracy theorizing and one-liners we got poorly written Canadian political propaganda complete with interracial gangs in Detroit. Oh, then we move to Prague for some reason, with shoe-horned in references to the Illuminati (again, they missed the fucking point).
Also the combat was easy.
I always thought a true prequel to Deus Ex would be 80's cyberpunk mixed with X-Files. You're some kind of investigator going through real world conspiracies and the writing drops actual red pills on you like sweets at a sweet shop just as the first Deus Ex did. If you're not even a little inspired by the real world shenanigans going on you're not making a Deus Ex game. Even if you don't believe in the conspiracy stuff it was fun to go through Area 51, seeing all those David Icke style Grey clones and MiB. They really did their research in that first game. It does what frankly no other game ever has actually done and transcends it's medium. Aging like wine not just on the basis of it's gameplay but for the real world facts and pulling of the curtain it does.
Cyberpunk was never going to do that. Neither were the Deus Ex sequels. Deus Ex actually pointed out that the Emperor has no clothes and that can never be allowed to happen again.
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