The irony with the Human Revolution "racism" controversy, is that the character wasn't written to speak that way. It was the idea of the black voice actress who wanted to portray the character that way. But some big fat white guy said its offensive to black people.
For someone who rages on Hentai and anime so much, you have a disturbingly large folder of hentai themed images... ...something you want to tell us, Mr.Fist? :D
***** That is quite true. Also I do hope you got that I was being jovial here :) It does create a funny paradox though that you point out your opinion on anime at regular intervals, and yet it's richly used through your reviews, that got a good chuckle out of me.
***** I get your point, however, I did not say anywhere that Fist hated anime, I cracked a joke about his position about anime not matching the imagery being used in his video's and so on. Course, he's not the one editing, and I did not remember that at the time.
The gameplay footage that was used to describe the game as Paranoid, Morose, Morally Ambiguous, and Atmospheric made me laugh my ass off. Double thumbs up to you good sir.
Everyone and their mother knows of BF, COD and TLOU but I get blank stares if I ask about Deus Ex. That and Invisible War was a brief but fantastic xb classic that did not get the love it deserved IMO.
For real, man. Invisible War was pretty damn good despite the environmental tone being a little too distant from the first. Great soundtrack too. I'm currently playing it again. I notice it's got a claustrophobic, hyper futuristic cheese happening while the first had gritty Y2K familiarity. Cool vid
Invisible war was so fucked up. I've attempted to play that game about 5 different times on 5 different platforms and computers. All of them had trouble getting the game started. The game really needs a reboot with the software.
+Paxton Gilmore I loved Invisible War. Sure, the tone was different but the gameplay and story was a continuation of the original, through and through. However... it had really tiny levels and long loading times between each to be able to squeeze it in on the XBox and that, I think, is what people remember the most from it If the PC version hadn't had those limitations then it would have been a great game.
Would it though? Even if I could get over what you said and that fucked up universal ammo system, the useles augmentations were kind of deal breaker. I'm intriqued to try again for story, but every time I remember that ruined augs , it makes me too sad to try..
He isn't going to actually hunt you down if you don't play it-- [door bell] Hang on, someone's at the door... [long pause] RazorFist here. Don't repeat the mistakes made by the singing corpse that used to be GammaWALLE. God fucking speed.
GammaWALLE Then find plenty of time to play it. My former classmates had opportunities to play the game on their own, but they were foolish by saying "no."
Tony Chang -wow, that was fast.- I've been prioritizing buying the stealth games recommended by Razorfist and what I've personally liked what I saw with playthroughs. As a result, I'm debating as to whether I should play my newly purchased copies of Splinter Cell (chaos theory and double agent), Deus Ex (GOTY edition and human revolution), and -don't judge me- MGS HD first. So far, the first two choices are the more likely as I'm not touching Metal Gear until I have at least the first (which I haven't bought yet), but on the other hand, Metal Gear's obnoxious cartoonyness might be just what I need to make my introduction to M-rated games as smooth as possible. Not planning on playing 4 or 5 though. Or any of the non-numbered besides Revengeance. I should not be saying this on a Rageaholic video. Sorry, Razorfist :(
Deus Ex is gaming's strongest series. Serious. _Deus Ex:_ Masterpiece. No question. 10/10. _Invisible War:_ Spectacularly underrated Cyberpunk noir, with a killer twist. 9/10 _Human Revolution:_ Directors Cut gives all the brilliance of the original, and irons out the awful bosses. No excuse to not play now. 9.5/10. _Mankind Divided:_ The densest, most elegant actioner in ages. 9/10. Give the Call of Duty shit a rest, or whatever Sony are belching out this month, and hunt down these games. You won't regret it.
I'm a youngion who was born in 1995, so I originally missed on Deus Ex. However, during my last year of high school I went through quite the conspiracy phase and came across the scene where Sarif tells Adam about the Illuminati. That fascinated me and made me eventually buy Human Revolution. After beating that game (and loving it) and owning it for a couple years I came across some videos that talked about the original Deus Ex. Embarrassingly, I didn't even know HR was the 3rd in a series and after finding out how easy it would be to run Deus Ex on my old PC I ventured into what would be one of the best games I've ever played.
I remember playing Deus Ex when it was released. I still can’t decide between it and Metal Gear Solid, which is my all time most loved game. Really appreciate this video Razorfist.
I like Invisible War. A Lot. In addition to the boss fights, one of my biggest criticisms of Human Revolution is that it is weighed greatly in favour of stealth gameplay. Not only do you get much more experience by taking down enemies stealthily, but also the difficulty levels have a negligible effect on a stealth playthrough.
Haven't played Deus Ex, bring it the fuck on man! I'll take you the fuck down! ... Also while your hunting me down, would you mind bringing over a copy of Deus Ex so I can play it?
ИX Gangrel Ah, Valve doesn't need the money so much, GoG gives you refunds, has no drm, you really should give them your money whenever possible. Valve needs the competition.
holythirteenx1 You're very right. I'm only familiar with Steam, hence why I mention it. My copy of all the Deus Ex games are actually retail. As with most of my other games.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on Invisible War. I enjoyed the hell out of it! I loved the music, atmosphere and I'm just a sucker for anything in the cyberpunk genre. I don't know if that's a character flaw on my part, but I don't really care.
Thank you!! I thought I was the only one who loves Deus Ex: Invisible War 💞 I played the game so much that I figured how to play different factions against each other to maximize the amount of money and Augmentation Canisters. I also love the soundtrack and you can see the prophetic nature of NG Resonance on Social Media. Love the Music too!! Viva and Barnes sent me here! Great vid!
What are you smoking? 😂 it’s shit. You dorks are hilarious. This guy is such a cheesy cornball of a CZcamsr, no wonder people doxxed him. They should call him Relic, not Rageaholic.
I remember it was one of the first games I got with my Xbox (gen1) as my PC was on the edge of outdated (loved playing Diablo, Starcraft and Starfleet Command, but Battlefield 1942 was a nightmare and that wasn't because of the bullshit default control settings when you plugged in a controller) The game was better looking and ran faster than most of my Friend's Rigs at the time, plus it was too much for their Computers. (Highschoolers aren't going to shell out $600 for the necessary upgrades when we got free shit from Coding Class) It was around that time that PC Mastercard (TM) Apes were engaged in the unending Trolling campaign we know today.. Good going guys, I was a PC gamer with an outdated Rig who manged to streamline enough processes to keep it viable one year longer than it should've and You pushed me into the Console Crowd. Anyway, I spent four years putting Devastating Viruses into critical files on Free Download Sites and I think we managed an actually "Trusted" site for I think it was a Diablo "Complete Edition". Judging from Comments left by Angry Users.. we made an impact on some folks. Seems that trend didn't die down cause basically nobody trusts a free download or Pirate Game without Quarantining the thing for 24hrs.. You can thank the Coders they pissed off by being Basement Dwelling Elitists, we were kids with no money and a cheaper alternative you decided to shit on.. Hope they liked getting a Rig Bricked
Fucking hell man, my ribbs are hurting so much any minute now I'm expecting them to crack and leave me a fucking pile of broken mass on the floor! *Soooo* fucking funny, and that jab at Jim Sterling has me rolling on the ground in laughter even today!!!
THANK YOU!!! I thought I was the only one who liked Invisible War. I mean it's my least favorite in the series but still packed with way more solid content than most games on the market. I dumped a lot of time into that game and don't regret a single second. I even spent hours in the Tarsus Facility basketball court using a glitch on the unconscious bodies of the Order Church raid team to freeze them midair and make it look like they were in the middle of an NBA dunk contest. ...man I had way too much time on my hands when I was a kid.
Thank the Rageaholic for dry-humping one of the most influential video game franchises ever even though he'd rather go to town with the equally awesome original Thief from the late 90's. To this day I still remember Deus Ex because of the story, the music, and the decent set of solutions to whatever was in the player's way. Even the game's bugs and glitches made the franchise fun. Here's hoping that guys like the Rageaholic will merge with Helios someday because perhaps they might do a better job at running the world. I could go on, but others have already done that.
I played Invisible War before the original and could not see the huge differences folks insisted existed between the games, making the sequel so much worse. Folks were impressed greatly by the original because it had no predecessor and their standards were raised for the sequel so it struck them less. The only other complaint might be how the 3 endings are fused together but I found that solution elegant. Otherwise you'd need three shorter IWs.
Deus EX aged well, and so did this review. What would be a word that describes an 8 year old retrospective? For that matter, what would be a word that describes playing a game in 2020, from 2000, that envisioned the cyber-dystopian 2020's?
Very entertaining retrospective, I wouldn't rate Invisible War quite as high as you did but I still enjoyed it and as an added bonus discovered one of my now favourite bands Kidney Thieves.
New coming to watching your videos, and I gotta thank you from the bottom of my heart that you didn't rip Invisible War to shreds. I was one of the few that didn't hate it from the start and to this day I still hold it on grounds as "Not as good as the first but still pretty good on its own merits", again there was no way it was going to be Deus Ex 2: The Return of JC Denton. But it is no where near one of the worst games or the worst sequels of all time that some say it is. Granted it is only one other person on the planet besides me that holds that belief but hell I will take that.
When I first played Deus Ex Human Revolutions when I was 14...I fucking hated it because I had no Idea what the fuck I was doing... Fast forward 2 years I decided to give it another shot... Nearly split my skull open from how stupid I was 2 years perviously. Thank god I didn't sell it, nearly impossible to find a physical copy in Australia now days.
I have been a fan of yours for some time, and glad to have found your channel again after a large absence. A glitch I remember being present on the original Deus Ex was when the scientist/hacker dude gives you an augment canister later in the game, if you have a full inventory when he does so, they keep stacking up. Dragging with a right-click would put a 2nd layer to your inventory over the first, and allow you to carry more. I'm not sure if right-clicking and dragging outside the inventory was an actual method in the game or a fortunate consequence of having a full inventory at that part of the game. As Mankind Divided approaches I hope the series matches the heights that Human Revolution restored it to, although the epilogue chapter of that game was a massive letdown after an amazing beginning, middle, and less so climax... Mankind Divided's story seems to be getting the precursory knowledge of transhumanism well out of the way and focusing more on the dystopia following a possible singularity, but I am glad to see them continuing Adam Jensen's storyline. (possible SPOILERS from Human Rev / Deus Ex:) The allusions to Icarus in previous trailers of Human Revolution had me thinking the story was going to head a different direction than it ultimately did, and after seeing early footage of Mankind Divided I think they will continue that story arc (as far as Jensen possibly becoming AI (Icarus) of the original, perhaps as a digitized consciousness of some kind. I was thinking they were going to have Adam Jensen ascend as a conscious AI in a satellite or something hence the aerial allusions of the AI's name as well as the footage of Jensen in an early trailer rapidly ascending. I always confused Warren Spector as being the composer of the original, not the creator. I applaud Mccann's soundtrack to HumanRev quite a bit for several of its tracks. I have very limited experience with the second entry or the series, but didn't even play it until much after its release and thought it showed more signs of age than not. All this "TL:DR" aside, I'm a big fan of the series and stoked to see them continuing it one way or another, though as more entries are tallied onto it, I fear it may head the way of MGS / Star Wars in becoming too prevalent to remain as a singular set of classics...
Jim Sterling didn't let the black stereotype affect his opinion of the game overall,he gave it a 9.5 for christ's sake.i enjoy your stuff very much man but there's no need to attack him about his weight of all things,just because he had a different opinion than you did.
"Some people speak like a Zatarains commercial fucking deal with it" haha first video I seen of your work and its delightful. You have my subscription. 👍
Played it, beat it. Loved every second of it, right down to the locals and an item management system that more games need, the way levels can handled in multiple ways, and even the hacking which thankfully wasn't some "hold X to hack" but an actual fleshed out minigame.
The original Deus Ex is one of the greatest games ever made, never will we see a product written and produced in such a way in this modern gaming market and culture.
Ever since RazorFists's Deus Ex: Human Revolution review I have wanted to play Deus Ex. Thanks to the other comments and Steam I now know that Deus Ex is on sale until June 25. I can't wait to try out the series. Yet another great retrospective by RazorFist, as always.
42,788 people have re-instaled this game. It is a shame why more people don't play these games as much as Call of Duty. Now YOU can't say that Call of Duty is bad, because you don't like First Person Shooters. I have played them, & compaired to Old-School FPS like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein & PAAAAAAAAINkiller: I think that Call of Duty is Fun. They're STUPID AS *HELL*, but their Fun, & as long as the Fans & audionce is having FUN, then the game will Sell & continue to make MILLIONS. It is just a shame that Deus Ex can't have the same audionce as Call of Duty.
Invisible war was very bad considering our expectations at the time. We were hoping for more of the same from the original Deus Ex - but better. To our great dismay, we found that Invisible War had become a casualty in the ever growing trend to "consoleize" our beloved games to a market that quite simply didn't belong. Even in 2003, Console gaming was less than 10% of the market share. Why studios ever thought that this was a good idea back then (it makes *a little* more sense now), I'll never know. As a result we were stuck with very piss poor environments and even fewer creative approaches to our objectives than the first game. We saw dumbed down mechanics, a shorter list of tools at our disposal (no lockpicks), no leveling or skill point mechanic, loading screens on Ellis Island (of all places), a completely missing inventory system, limited button controls, (both of which were constant reminders that this game was made for consoles) and a mediocre story successor at best that managed to present oddly similar end game experiences and choices before us as it's predecessor. We could definitely feel the spirit of the Deus Ex franchise but the entire game felt like the game itself was obscuring most of what we wanted from it.
Thank you RazorFist. I had no idea what I was going to do this weekend, but I found this video and noticed that the Deus Ex collection is on sale on Steam right now. I bought Human Revolution along with the DLC ( bought the other two last year) and it's brilliant so far. Keep up the good work man!
First game is amazing and more deep than HR....But it's also really clunky. As much as I think the first game was the deeper game, I prefer HR just because it smoothed out all the kinks.
I played Deus Ex 1 a few months before DXHR was released, and I was blown away by how well DX1 aged; not because of graphics, but because of gameplay. If you thought DXHR was awesome (and it totally was), you'll be pleasantly surprised by how open and customizable DX1 is. And then when I got around to playing DXHR, I was overall very pleased with the improvements they made, like streamlined combat. I did miss the GEP Gun, though...
The plot of HR was shoddy as fuck. "Here we have one of the philosophically rich games ever made. What should we make the prequel about?" "How about the influence of AI on ethics? The increasing power of the upper class, the growing gap between the rich and poor due to augmentation? The risk of electronic systems with so much power?" "Our audience is too stupid for those. Lets pick the last one and dumb it down a bit." "Alright, so we're talking cataclysm?" "No. Computer zombies."
I know a magazine that rated the first Deus ex just 8. The reason? "This game looks cool just because once the player goes on, he recognize elements that he saw in the past connecting them". This is named: Fucking good storytelling! The rearers went mad until the release of the sequel.
Oh man, this made my day today! And xRazorFistx, I LOVED your review style. I agree with every tiny bit of that review. Keep headbanging and keep pwning.
Deus Ex 1 was a fantastic game. I had so much fun killing the Illuminati's ultimate death machine, Simons, by literally putting a ton of bombs on the door and just luring him past it.
You should go out and buy the directors cut for HR. Commentary, improved boss fights( different ways of going about them rather than just being shooty) and all the dlc is enough for you to buy it. It's only like 20$ so if you haven't bought it yet, just go out and buy it now.
Hey Razorfist I've been wondering. I've seriously been considering buying the GOTY edition of deus ex 1 off of steam. I'm really intruiged by the permice and I'd really like to play an openly approachable FPS game. But I've heard some people talking about how the old engine barely runs on new computers. Did you have any problems playing this game or did it all check out for you?
I did enjoy the sound track of Invisible War. It seemed like a legitimately interesting game. I got a bit out of amusement out of finding out I could change the ammo usage amount for each difficulty in a darned text document. Although, I think the resource hog is even worse on modern computers. Shit when I tried to play the god damned game after buying it on Steam and GoG, I had to lock the game to a single core cause it flipped out over the fact processors could have more than one. That and every load change the game locked up, took ages to load the level and on top of that opened a brand new process instance of the game for the level being loaded and didn't have the concept of killing the previous one. I just wish the sentiment that its a good but flawed game spurred people to create an Unofficial Patch to fix these kinds of issues like the games Vampire the Masqurade: Bloodlines got and on top of that every god damned Bethesda game starting from Oblivion onwards.
Xbox was the first Console Developers realized (or Microsoft informed them) could Run an overtaxing program more efficiently then a common PC (not some $X,000 supercomputer) This meant out of the Box performance was better than most PC's at the time.. This pissed off PC players who were used to being babied and the focus of Devs. With Gen 6 coming out I predict massive time differences between the First Console Release and the Backburner PC releases. (partially due to bad exposure from Game Journos over Porn Modz.. Well done, played yourselves and forced the path of "Approved" Modders. Basically Fuck the PC Basement Dwellers who fucked all us gamers over)
I'm very interestend in what you could say about Valkyria Chronicles - my favorite game of all times beside HL. Did you play it? Despite being my favorite, I know you would do a great review
Your Jim Sterling stabbing is always hilarious, but I must say that he actually highly praised Human Revolution. He, for example, named it "a step above its mundane peers" and a game that "truly deserving of the name Deus Ex". It was a pretty good review, man.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who liked Invisible War. Sure it's not as good as the original but that's like saying your banana split wasn't as good as your smoked ham. They're both still pretty god damn fucking good! With that said, Deus Ex is my favorite game/series and I was really happy when I heard in another video's comment section of yours that you were doing a retrospective. Bravo for making use of mods and such. Was that the Malkavian mod early in the video?
I'm a first time viewer and it is the first video I saw from you so I have to say I dig the esthetic of the visuals and the rythm of voice. Speaking of the visuals take a shot every time you get a reference in the pictures then take a alcochol test and the result is how many internets you won.
Presentation Hello, my name is Raul. I think computer games are powerful tools to understand ourselves. I love them so much and I want to discover little by little their magic potential. I would like to create a computer game, but I have no skills for that. Despite this, I want to give my contribution to games. This little essay is about just simple thoughts and observations about classic RGPs already distributed and played, some newer, some older. But first, I want to thank you all the people that create these games: programmers, game designers, musicians, sound designers, graphic designer, artists, artificial intelligence programmers and everyone else involved, thank you! LITTLE ESSAY ON RPGs Morrowind, Skyrim, Gothic II, Dark Souls 2, Fallout 3, Daggerfall, Baldur's Gate 2, Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines, Planescape Torment and many more...(please tell me your favorite one and I will add it to the list). All of them are fantastic games, some of them masterpieces. What makes these games great games? I believe that the great games and in particular masterpieces have the power to go inside our mind changing us forever, not just as individuals, but us all. What it is that remains in our mind and stays with us for the rest of our life? the gameplay? the graphics? the sound? the story? the characters? the concept? It is hard to say, maybe is a combination of all of them, but playing games I realized that some of these elements are far more important then others. My thoughts (I'm sorry if I repeat some concepts, maybe I need to explain them again and better or with a different nuance): 1) A beautiful and original story can go inside us much more then great graphic or gameplay mechanics. 2) The sound and music can give life to the game and enhance the experience to higher levels, put a lot of thoughts an efforts in this part; there are still a lot of developers that don't understand the importance of sound. 3) A face that speaks but does not show emotions is a big mistake, is better in this case don't show the animated face at all. 4) If the acting voice is inconsistent, is far more better just using the written dialog. 5) A less detailed world in terms of graphic allows to make it much more bigger. 6) More realism does not mean more immersion, I actually think that is less interesting. 7) A game is not a book, so I think that the dialogs and written words should be kept at a minimum. 8) A realistic sky is beautiful, but not interesting. Is far more better to give some character to the sky with original clouds shapes. 9) Bidimensional sprites sometime can have more character then 3d models, why not for example, animate a face with a sprite animation. 10) A world with a interesting architecture is far more memorable. 11) Sometimes low quality sample sounds can have more charm then high quality samples. 12) I suggest to developers to simplify the world so to be able and dedicated resources to make it more interesting. 13) I suggest to developers to use an old engine for concentrating on gameplay, story and characters. 14) A memorable character will never be forgotten. 15) Even the most sophisticated AI will repeat itself, so use simple scripted technology to create unexpected situation and behavior. 16) Surprise the player is one of the most important thing in a Game. 17) Scripting is time consuming but worthy as just the fantasy of a person can create beautiful unrepeatable things, events, stories, characters; this is why simplify the world can be a smart thing to do. Developers now have huge resources that can dedicate over this task instead of realistic graphics or realistic physics. 18) I think multiple choices are a non-sense, or at least not powerful. The feeling of fake options dispels the sense of immersion; the feeling is that someone wants to tell me where I'm going. 19) Steer away from realism, it drains a lot of energy and does not serve the purpose to immerse the player in something magical. 20) The world is always in the mind of the player not inside the monitor, leave the space to his imagination, in this way it is more powerful. 21) Mods are fantastic and one of the biggest reality of gaming, congratulation to all the modders that put their love in this new reality. all modders can use freely my music, just contact me if you like it and want to use it. 22) Instead of using expensive full orchestra music, hire few different unknown composers/players that can produce a lot of different music, or even more simple use very old music out of copyright and then transform it by changing the pitch, instruments, speed, scale or isolating just few parts and repeat them; few notes from Bach repeated over and over can be surprisingly wonderful. 23) The faces of NPCs are very important, give them a lot of charisma, make them memorable. 24) It is not necessary put the voice to all the dialogs, just few memorable voiced sentence are enough to give the presence to a character. 25) Usually developers make something happen in every location, I think is a mistake; I prefer to have plenty of places where nothing happen and then when I found a place with some kind of event, it will be far more enjoyable. 26) Use a voice or writing that sometimes describes and add details to the scene, a character a place, a situation: this is a powerful tool for immersion; for example we cannot have smells or odors in a games, so the developers can add this perceptions with a txt or voice descriptions. 27) Stanley Kubrick used the enviroment, the architecture of a building, the layout of a room, objects as a way to communicate; it is really a powerful way to express emotions, thought, feelings with shapes, colours and objects. 28) The presence of an NPC is much more important then his/her animation, there is no need of lip-sink or fancy movements because just the appearance can give strong feelings. 29) What an NPC says is very important, he/she has to say something that will be remembered, so use little txt or voice, but it has to be always memorable. 30) A realistic sky is beautiful, but not interesting. Is far more better to give some character to the sky with original clouds shapes. 31) Pointing the direction to find someone or something with an arrow or highlighting it in the map is a non-sense and shatters the feeling of free exploration; the players are not babies and if the developers are using these tricks to help the player in finding the way, is an utterly failure and they do not understand the concept of free world. 32) Real time maps are not good, the pleasure to use a virtual paper map is much greater. 33) A beautiful and engaging combat mechanic gives a strong satisfaction, but is a short taste, what remains in the player's mind is the feeling of the place, the story, the NPC characters. 34) Everything and everyone the player will see during the game, has to be special, everything and everyone has to remain in the memory of the player, otherwise there is no point. 35) The game will succeed if the player will be not able to understand what comes next, not even a bit; it has to be a journey of surprises. 36) A masterpiece needs inside multiple layers of meanings. 37) Draw mountains with a structure that suggests meanings, emotions.
Finally! A Deus Ex fan who liked Invisible War, you sir have taste. Also, did you take off your sunglasses because this was a positive retrospective? Or because you just felt like it? Your facial expressions without them make your material a LOT funnier for some reason.
It's hard but with the right skill point allocation and augs you can breeze through the most difficult areas. Radar transparency + move silent + x-ray vision thingy + pistol skill and mini-crossbow + max computer/lockpicking/electronics makes you godlike in stealth.
It's really too bad that Invisible War won't work on most modern computers, and THANK YOU for being one of the only people to agree with me about Invisible War being a great game and the Deus Ex series as a whole being a masterpiece
I bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution because of your review, recommended it to a friend as well. We both loved the game. So yeah, he's right here, play these games or else you may as well not live anymore.
I want to like this video multiple times. Hell, all the likes I've ever given anything, I want to give to you for STANDING UP FOR INVISIBLE WAR, AN AWESOME GAME THAT IS TRULY UNDER-APPRECIATED.
Razorfist, are you going to buy a Wii U for Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's cut? I heard they improved the boss fights and there's developer commentary
So I started playing Invisible War, after re-watching this retrospective and realizing I had it installed via Steam. I honestly don't know why people hate on it. Yeah, the small maps are a pain, and universal ammo is a bit annoying....but so far I'm loving it. It's got most of the charm and quirks of the first game, with a lot less clunkyness. I like it. :D
Welp, finished invisible war. Definitely a worthy sequel. And I like how they actually gave us the whole picture for the endings this time. Definitely a worthy conclusion for the story.
+fwwaller you can play deus ex 1 on a mac with a simple wineskin port (paulthetall site to download it). you can also play deus ex human revolution director's cut on a mac because there is a native version on steam. you could also play invisible wars with a wineskin port but IW is shit.
***** morrowind is a walking simulator... also I only said loading time because is the first thing I can think of, there are more (universal ammo, really small area with few exploration, etc...). there are many good stealth like hitman, but deus ex is one of the few stealth rpg with really good story line, no kill stealth path and really funny and really good characters. deus ex 1 is not the best stealth, it's not the best RPG, but it's more than the sum of the part. if you like IW more good for you... but lots and lots and lots of people just like deus ex 1 more... and many consider it the best game of all time (for a reason). For me IW is shit because it just don't run well (even on modern pc), it's really small and it's not a good sequel of deus ex saga. Deus ex human revolution is a good prequel, it has the same feeling of the original... it's not perfect and it's not better than deus ex 1, but it's good.
***** I'm playing morrowind right now... I just walk, and walk and run, and walk... it's really boring (for now). the world is huge, but it's a little empty. there are some mob, some little and boring quest, and it's really difficult to find where to go... and since the world is empty you just walk or run... sure you can teleport to a town but in the town there are really few people that are related to some interesting quests. I think many D&D RPG, Fallout 1 and 2 and Pillars of Eternity manage the world better with much more plot related quests. I've played IW just 2 weeks after I finish deus ex 1 (2015). It was boring because of loading time, and very few area to explore (and when I start a game where explore it's not a mechanic usually I just go to the end as fast as you can). the problem is that you can have a shitty or a great computer but IW loading time are the same (SSD or not SSD, great or shitty cpu/gpu... you stille have to wait a lot), IW close and restart itself every time there is a loading screen, it's just a really shit way of program a videogame. I also think the plot of deus ex 1 is hilarious, that's why it's great.
Wow it's weird to see people liking Invincible War, I personally liked it. What I also liked was the universal ammo. UA means you use the weapon most appropriate for the situation, not the weapon that happens to have ammo. UA does mean less rewards for lock-picking and other such stuff as in the original DX, that was the way to find more ammo for your more powerful weapons.
Just picked up Human Revolution for 2 bucks from a local game store. This is my first playthrough of any Deus Ex game and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I almost feel bad for paying only 2 dollars for such an engaging game.
>implying I haven't already played Deus Ex 6 times >implying I haven't played Invisible War once and cry in the shower every day >implying Human Revolution wasn't saved by atmospheric/level design and improved graphics and the rest of the game wasn't mediocre.
I rented Human Revolution and returned it within the first two minutes because I got killed my the VERY FIRST two enemies in the beginning. Should I give it a second chance? Even though entire color pallet is gold, I feel I was a bit too harsh.
There actually was going to be an option to stay with unatco. There if you input a series of cheats in paul's apartment then talk to him you get a conversation with JC talking about how unatco isn't perfect and stuff. The video is called "UNATCO isn't perfect"
For the second boss all you need to do is get the EMP immunity upgrade, then shoot the electric generators, plugging her full of holes in her head while she's stunned.
Hey Razorfist, I was hoping either you or any strapping rageaholic can help me. I got the Deus Ex sale bundle not too long ago and whenever I try to launch Deus Ex or Invisible War I get an error that says "Failed to find Steam." Is this simply a matter of uninstalling and re-installing or is it a matter of my computer having a certain processor or what? I'd really appreciate any feedback. Thanks.
The irony with the Human Revolution "racism" controversy, is that the character wasn't written to speak that way. It was the idea of the black voice actress who wanted to portray the character that way. But some big fat white guy said its offensive to black people.
These issues would continue, for years to come...
Just remember that the people who scream the loudest about racism are always more racist than the people they're screaming at.
The legend goes: Every time you mention Deus Ex someone will install it. The original is my favourite game of all time
See, I found a way around that legend. I just never uninstall it. :P
come on now, you know you want it
Aegix Drakan But that implies you've already installed it. The legend lives on.
The same goes for System Shock 2. :)
Anders Kjeldgaard Nielsen And Vampire the Masquerade bloodlines. ;)
I kinda want a 2020 re-re cap of this game from Razorfist.
For someone who rages on Hentai and anime so much, you have a disturbingly large folder of hentai themed images...
...something you want to tell us, Mr.Fist?
:D
...the fact that five seconds spent looking at the credits of this video will confirm that not I, but Terran Gell, edited this together?
***** That is quite true.
Also I do hope you got that I was being jovial here :)
It does create a funny paradox though that you point out your opinion on anime at regular intervals, and yet it's richly used through your reviews, that got a good chuckle out of me.
+Tomas Ragarin "So having learned this about me, would you say I like or dislike bread?"
LOL. Awesome.
***** ... congrats. you lost me. Clarify? :P
***** I get your point, however, I did not say anywhere that Fist hated anime, I cracked a joke about his position about anime not matching the imagery being used in his video's and so on. Course, he's not the one editing, and I did not remember that at the time.
The gameplay footage that was used to describe the game as Paranoid, Morose, Morally Ambiguous, and Atmospheric made me laugh my ass off. Double thumbs up to you good sir.
that Jim sterling burn tho!
What a shame.... He was a GEP gun....
Deus ex is unforgivably underrated.
Underrated?lol its been rated by most outlets as near pefect,dont know what you mean
Everyone and their mother knows of BF, COD and TLOU but I get blank stares if I ask about Deus Ex. That and Invisible War was a brief but fantastic xb classic that did not get the love it deserved IMO.
Hell yeah. I have played only the original and Human Revolution, but this fact pisses me off so badly nonetheless.
I agree fucking nobody I know has even heard of Deus Ex, not even Human Revolution!
A game considered by many to be the best PC game of all time, how could it practically be underrated
For real, man. Invisible War was pretty damn good despite the environmental tone being a little too distant from the first. Great soundtrack too. I'm currently playing it again. I notice it's got a claustrophobic, hyper futuristic cheese happening while the first had gritty Y2K familiarity. Cool vid
Invisible war was so fucked up. I've attempted to play that game about 5 different times on 5 different platforms and computers. All of them had trouble getting the game started. The game really needs a reboot with the software.
+Paxton Gilmore I loved Invisible War. Sure, the tone was different but the gameplay and story was a continuation of the original, through and through.
However... it had really tiny levels and long loading times between each to be able to squeeze it in on the XBox and that, I think, is what people remember the most from it
If the PC version hadn't had those limitations then it would have been a great game.
I will admit I like Invisible War, Not as much as the first one or Human Revolution but still its a great game
Would it though? Even if I could get over what you said and that fucked up universal ammo system, the useles augmentations were kind of deal breaker. I'm intriqued to try again for story, but every time I remember that ruined augs , it makes me too sad to try..
remake time!
He isn't going to actually hunt you down if you don't play it--
[door bell]
Hang on, someone's at the door...
[long pause]
RazorFist here. Don't repeat the mistakes made by the singing corpse that used to be GammaWALLE. God fucking speed.
JC Denton: _"He was a good man. What a rotten way to die."_
I've at least bought the game, so I'm partially back from the dead.
GammaWALLE Then find plenty of time to play it. My former classmates had opportunities to play the game on their own, but they were foolish by saying "no."
Tony Chang -wow, that was fast.-
I've been prioritizing buying the stealth games recommended by Razorfist and what I've personally liked what I saw with playthroughs. As a result, I'm debating as to whether I should play my newly purchased copies of Splinter Cell (chaos theory and double agent), Deus Ex (GOTY edition and human revolution), and -don't judge me- MGS HD first. So far, the first two choices are the more likely as I'm not touching Metal Gear until I have at least the first (which I haven't bought yet), but on the other hand, Metal Gear's obnoxious cartoonyness might be just what I need to make my introduction to M-rated games as smooth as possible. Not planning on playing 4 or 5 though. Or any of the non-numbered besides Revengeance.
I should not be saying this on a Rageaholic video. Sorry, Razorfist :(
+GammaWALLE Razorfist: _"Your funeral."_
Deus Ex is gaming's strongest series. Serious.
_Deus Ex:_ Masterpiece. No question. 10/10.
_Invisible War:_ Spectacularly underrated Cyberpunk noir, with a killer twist. 9/10
_Human Revolution:_ Directors Cut gives all the brilliance of the original, and irons out the awful bosses. No excuse to not play now. 9.5/10.
_Mankind Divided:_ The densest, most elegant actioner in ages. 9/10.
Give the Call of Duty shit a rest, or whatever Sony are belching out this month, and hunt down these games. You won't regret it.
I'm a youngion who was born in 1995, so I originally missed on Deus Ex. However, during my last year of high school I went through quite the conspiracy phase and came across the scene where Sarif tells Adam about the Illuminati. That fascinated me and made me eventually buy Human Revolution. After beating that game (and loving it) and owning it for a couple years I came across some videos that talked about the original Deus Ex. Embarrassingly, I didn't even know HR was the 3rd in a series and after finding out how easy it would be to run Deus Ex on my old PC I ventured into what would be one of the best games I've ever played.
This is exactly me except im from 93 lol
Dues Ex Human Revoultion is one of my favorite games of all time.
Same here bro
Youve made me want to try and play the second game again, I may even give it a recording whirl ;)
Deus Ex 1 is still my favourite game of all time. Must have played through all the way 10 times.
I remember playing Deus Ex when it was released. I still can’t decide between it and Metal Gear Solid, which is my all time most loved game.
Really appreciate this video Razorfist.
I like Invisible War. A Lot.
In addition to the boss fights, one of my biggest criticisms of Human Revolution is that it is weighed greatly in favour of stealth gameplay. Not only do you get much more experience by taking down enemies stealthily, but also the difficulty levels have a negligible effect on a stealth playthrough.
Deus Ex is not a stealth game _solely_. It's an RPG that has different ways to approach a given situation, such as stealth and combat.
Yeah even the first deus ex you could totally run-and-gun or you could stealth but human Revolution it's just so much easier to stealth
Haven't played Deus Ex, bring it the fuck on man! I'll take you the fuck down!
... Also while your hunting me down, would you mind bringing over a copy of Deus Ex so I can play it?
If you're a PC gamer I'd suggest getting the first (and probably the second game) on Steam.
ИX Gangrel
no
gog.com
why get stuck with drm when you don't have to?
holythirteenx1 Good point. Usually I recommend games through Steam.
ИX Gangrel
Ah, Valve doesn't need the money so much, GoG gives you refunds, has no drm, you really should give them your money whenever possible. Valve needs the competition.
holythirteenx1 You're very right. I'm only familiar with Steam, hence why I mention it. My copy of all the Deus Ex games are actually retail. As with most of my other games.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on Invisible War. I enjoyed the hell out of it! I loved the music, atmosphere and I'm just a sucker for anything in the cyberpunk genre. I don't know if that's a character flaw on my part, but I don't really care.
Same page, man. Sure I don’t think IW is as good as the first game, but no other game is! I’ve always loved it regardless.
Reviewing Invisible War without playing the clip "I would love to be your chamber boy." I expected more out of you, Razor.
I'm back for round 2 of the upload lol
Thank you!! I thought I was the only one who loves Deus Ex: Invisible War 💞 I played the game so much that I figured how to play different factions against each other to maximize the amount of money and Augmentation Canisters. I also love the soundtrack and you can see the prophetic nature of NG Resonance on Social Media. Love the Music too!!
Viva and Barnes sent me here! Great vid!
Absolutely brilliant articulation. Im very pleased to see humor hasn't died at the upper IQ levels. You just earned a subscriber.
I like how even nine years ago, you had a good motto at the end of every video. God fucking speed indeed.
What are you smoking? 😂 it’s shit. You dorks are hilarious. This guy is such a cheesy cornball of a CZcamsr, no wonder people doxxed him. They should call him Relic, not Rageaholic.
Invisible war was my introduction to this stellar series of games i loved it and yet remrmber being told that it was a pile of ass
I remember it was one of the first games I got with my Xbox (gen1) as my PC was on the edge of outdated
(loved playing Diablo, Starcraft and Starfleet Command, but Battlefield 1942 was a nightmare and that wasn't because of the bullshit default control settings when you plugged in a controller)
The game was better looking and ran faster than most of my Friend's Rigs at the time, plus it was too much for their Computers. (Highschoolers aren't going to shell out $600 for the necessary upgrades when we got free shit from Coding Class)
It was around that time that PC Mastercard (TM) Apes were engaged in the unending Trolling campaign we know today.. Good going guys, I was a PC gamer with an outdated Rig who manged to streamline enough processes to keep it viable one year longer than it should've and You pushed me into the Console Crowd.
Anyway, I spent four years putting Devastating Viruses into critical files on Free Download Sites and I think we managed an actually "Trusted" site for I think it was a Diablo "Complete Edition".
Judging from Comments left by Angry Users.. we made an impact on some folks.
Seems that trend didn't die down cause basically nobody trusts a free download or Pirate Game without Quarantining the thing for 24hrs.. You can thank the Coders they pissed off by being Basement Dwelling Elitists, we were kids with no money and a cheaper alternative you decided to shit on.. Hope they liked getting a Rig Bricked
Fucking hell man, my ribbs are hurting so much any minute now I'm expecting them to crack and leave me a fucking pile of broken mass on the floor! *Soooo* fucking funny, and that jab at Jim Sterling has me rolling on the ground in laughter even today!!!
Man, I was not around for Razorfist this far back. 2012 was a different time.
THANK YOU!!! I thought I was the only one who liked Invisible War. I mean it's my least favorite in the series but still packed with way more solid content than most games on the market.
I dumped a lot of time into that game and don't regret a single second. I even spent hours in the Tarsus Facility basketball court using a glitch on the unconscious bodies of the Order Church raid team to freeze them midair and make it look like they were in the middle of an NBA dunk contest.
...man I had way too much time on my hands when I was a kid.
This is one of the best videos I've ever watched of yours. That ending. Oh god.
2:10 Was that a pregnant lady or was that amy schumer
love the dokken shirt and i really enjoy the fact that you've been constantly shitting on jim this whole time
Thank the Rageaholic for dry-humping one of the most influential video game franchises ever even though he'd rather go to town with the equally awesome original Thief from the late 90's. To this day I still remember Deus Ex because of the story, the music, and the decent set of solutions to whatever was in the player's way. Even the game's bugs and glitches made the franchise fun. Here's hoping that guys like the Rageaholic will merge with Helios someday because perhaps they might do a better job at running the world. I could go on, but others have already done that.
I played Invisible War before the original and could not see the huge differences folks insisted existed between the games, making the sequel so much worse. Folks were impressed greatly by the original because it had no predecessor and their standards were raised for the sequel so it struck them less. The only other complaint might be how the 3 endings are fused together but I found that solution elegant. Otherwise you'd need three shorter IWs.
Skedar Ending is Best Ending
The problem with Invisible War was the design of the game box art. I mean it's horrible.
I got into Deus Ex less than a month ago, and it immediately became one of, if not my absolute favorite game of all time.
I will never tire of razor's jim sterling insults
Deus EX aged well, and so did this review. What would be a word that describes an 8 year old retrospective? For that matter, what would be a word that describes playing a game in 2020, from 2000, that envisioned the cyber-dystopian 2020's?
This got recommended to me in 2020. Wasn't disappointing
Very entertaining retrospective, I wouldn't rate Invisible War quite as high as you did but I still enjoyed it and as an added bonus discovered one of my now favourite bands Kidney Thieves.
New coming to watching your videos, and I gotta thank you from the bottom of my heart that you didn't rip Invisible War to shreds. I was one of the few that didn't hate it from the start and to this day I still hold it on grounds as "Not as good as the first but still pretty good on its own merits", again there was no way it was going to be Deus Ex 2: The Return of JC Denton. But it is no where near one of the worst games or the worst sequels of all time that some say it is. Granted it is only one other person on the planet besides me that holds that belief but hell I will take that.
Compared to "the fall" "invisible war" is excellent
+ironwolf113 THANK YOU!!! My thoughts exactly
When I first played Deus Ex Human Revolutions when I was 14...I fucking hated it because I had no Idea what the fuck I was doing...
Fast forward 2 years I decided to give it another shot...
Nearly split my skull open from how stupid I was 2 years perviously.
Thank god I didn't sell it, nearly impossible to find a physical copy in Australia now days.
I've had games where I went from not liking them to loving them. It took me awhile before I ended up loving Fallout 1&2.
Man the nostalgia for this video
I have been a fan of yours for some time, and glad to have found your channel again after a large absence.
A glitch I remember being present on the original Deus Ex was when the scientist/hacker dude gives you an augment canister later in the game, if you have a full inventory when he does so, they keep stacking up. Dragging with a right-click would put a 2nd layer to your inventory over the first, and allow you to carry more. I'm not sure if right-clicking and dragging outside the inventory was an actual method in the game or a fortunate consequence of having a full inventory at that part of the game.
As Mankind Divided approaches I hope the series matches the heights that Human Revolution restored it to, although the epilogue chapter of that game was a massive letdown after an amazing beginning, middle, and less so climax... Mankind Divided's story seems to be getting the precursory knowledge of transhumanism well out of the way and focusing more on the dystopia following a possible singularity, but I am glad to see them continuing Adam Jensen's storyline.
(possible SPOILERS from Human Rev / Deus Ex:) The allusions to Icarus in previous trailers of Human Revolution had me thinking the story was going to head a different direction than it ultimately did, and after seeing early footage of Mankind Divided I think they will continue that story arc (as far as Jensen possibly becoming AI (Icarus) of the original, perhaps as a digitized consciousness of some kind. I was thinking they were going to have Adam Jensen ascend as a conscious AI in a satellite or something hence the aerial allusions of the AI's name as well as the footage of Jensen in an early trailer rapidly ascending.
I always confused Warren Spector as being the composer of the original, not the creator. I applaud Mccann's soundtrack to HumanRev quite a bit for several of its tracks. I have very limited experience with the second entry or the series, but didn't even play it until much after its release and thought it showed more signs of age than not.
All this "TL:DR" aside, I'm a big fan of the series and stoked to see them continuing it one way or another, though as more entries are tallied onto it, I fear it may head the way of MGS / Star Wars in becoming too prevalent to remain as a singular set of classics...
Jim Sterling didn't let the black stereotype affect his opinion of the game overall,he gave it a 9.5 for christ's sake.i enjoy your stuff very much man but there's no need to attack him about his weight of all things,just because he had a different opinion than you did.
"Some people speak like a Zatarains commercial fucking deal with it" haha first video I seen of your work and its delightful. You have my subscription. 👍
I started with Invisible War. I liked it too.
Played it, beat it. Loved every second of it, right down to the locals and an item management system that more games need, the way levels can handled in multiple ways, and even the hacking which thankfully wasn't some "hold X to hack" but an actual fleshed out minigame.
I've been replaying Deus Ex and then you make a video about it. It's like you can read my mind!
I work as loss prevention in Southern California and I know for a fact that many African Americans talk like that.
The original Deus Ex is one of the greatest games ever made, never will we see a product written and produced in such a way in this modern gaming market and culture.
Ever since RazorFists's Deus Ex: Human Revolution review I have wanted to play Deus Ex. Thanks to the other comments and Steam I now know that Deus Ex is on sale until June 25. I can't wait to try out the series. Yet another great retrospective by RazorFist, as always.
42,788 people have re-instaled this game. It is a shame why more people don't play these games as much as Call of Duty. Now YOU can't say that Call of Duty is bad, because you don't like First Person Shooters. I have played them, & compaired to Old-School FPS like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein & PAAAAAAAAINkiller: I think that Call of Duty is Fun. They're STUPID AS *HELL*, but their Fun, & as long as the Fans & audionce is having FUN, then the game will Sell & continue to make MILLIONS. It is just a shame that Deus Ex can't have the same audionce as Call of Duty.
Invisible war was very bad considering our expectations at the time. We were hoping for more of the same from the original Deus Ex - but better. To our great dismay, we found that Invisible War had become a casualty in the ever growing trend to "consoleize" our beloved games to a market that quite simply didn't belong. Even in 2003, Console gaming was less than 10% of the market share. Why studios ever thought that this was a good idea back then (it makes *a little* more sense now), I'll never know.
As a result we were stuck with very piss poor environments and even fewer creative approaches to our objectives than the first game. We saw dumbed down mechanics, a shorter list of tools at our disposal (no lockpicks), no leveling or skill point mechanic, loading screens on Ellis Island (of all places), a completely missing inventory system, limited button controls, (both of which were constant reminders that this game was made for consoles) and a mediocre story successor at best that managed to present oddly similar end game experiences and choices before us as it's predecessor. We could definitely feel the spirit of the Deus Ex franchise but the entire game felt like the game itself was obscuring most of what we wanted from it.
You're right that Invisible War does not "define mediocrity". However it is the definition of a "disappointing sequel".
razor, why has it taken so long for youtube to recommend your videos to me? you are absolutely among the best video game channels on youtube.
You could be a top 10 CZcamsr if you sold out. But you have your dignity. You the man! Great channel.
Thank you RazorFist. I had no idea what I was going to do this weekend, but I found this video and noticed that the Deus Ex collection is on sale on Steam right now. I bought Human Revolution along with the DLC ( bought the other two last year) and it's brilliant so far.
Keep up the good work man!
Thoroughly enjoyed this, the 50th of episodes. Congratz and keep up the good work.
God I cannot believe it, your 50th episode, and like all others, this was fucking awesome. Congrats, and here's to 50 more episodes Razorfist.
Thank you!!! Deus Ex Invisible War was a great game finally someone is giving it the credit it deserves!
I finished Deus Ex HR 6 times, godlike game. I still havent played the first and second game, I'll do it sometime in the future.
The first game is one of the best of all time, right up there with Thief2 and Half Life. Human Revolution pales by compare.
Ezra Silvershekelstein I love Thief 2 such a great game. I haven't played the original Deus Ex yet though.
ShiroKreuz Play it.
I finished the game about an hour ago incredible in every aspect ever,exept graphics.
First game is amazing and more deep than HR....But it's also really clunky.
As much as I think the first game was the deeper game, I prefer HR just because it smoothed out all the kinks.
I played Deus Ex 1 a few months before DXHR was released, and I was blown away by how well DX1 aged; not because of graphics, but because of gameplay. If you thought DXHR was awesome (and it totally was), you'll be pleasantly surprised by how open and customizable DX1 is. And then when I got around to playing DXHR, I was overall very pleased with the improvements they made, like streamlined combat. I did miss the GEP Gun, though...
The plot of HR was shoddy as fuck.
"Here we have one of the philosophically rich games ever made. What should we make the prequel about?"
"How about the influence of AI on ethics? The increasing power of the upper class, the growing gap between the rich and poor due to augmentation? The risk of electronic systems with so much power?"
"Our audience is too stupid for those. Lets pick the last one and dumb it down a bit."
"Alright, so we're talking cataclysm?"
"No. Computer zombies."
I know a magazine that rated the first Deus ex just 8. The reason? "This game looks cool just because once the player goes on, he recognize elements that he saw in the past connecting them". This is named: Fucking good storytelling! The rearers went mad until the release of the sequel.
Oh man, this made my day today! And xRazorFistx, I LOVED your review style. I agree with every tiny bit of that review. Keep headbanging and keep pwning.
Deus Ex 1 was a fantastic game. I had so much fun killing the Illuminati's ultimate death machine, Simons, by literally putting a ton of bombs on the door and just luring him past it.
Here is clearly a man who knows how to contain his anger and yet, still erupt in such words of might and strength.
People disliked it the same reason some people disliked Resident Evil 4: It wasn't because it was bad, it was because it was different.
You should go out and buy the directors cut for HR. Commentary, improved boss fights( different ways of going about them rather than just being shooty) and all the dlc is enough for you to buy it. It's only like 20$ so if you haven't bought it yet, just go out and buy it now.
Hey Razorfist I've been wondering. I've seriously been considering buying the GOTY edition of deus ex 1 off of steam. I'm really intruiged by the permice and I'd really like to play an openly approachable FPS game. But I've heard some people talking about how the old engine barely runs on new computers. Did you have any problems playing this game or did it all check out for you?
"Random access memory of a concussed Alzheimer's patient", lol fucking brilliant.
I did enjoy the sound track of Invisible War. It seemed like a legitimately interesting game.
I got a bit out of amusement out of finding out I could change the ammo usage amount for each difficulty in a darned text document.
Although, I think the resource hog is even worse on modern computers. Shit when I tried to play the god damned game after buying it on Steam and GoG, I had to lock the game to a single core cause it flipped out over the fact processors could have more than one. That and every load change the game locked up, took ages to load the level and on top of that opened a brand new process instance of the game for the level being loaded and didn't have the concept of killing the previous one.
I just wish the sentiment that its a good but flawed game spurred people to create an Unofficial Patch to fix these kinds of issues like the games Vampire the Masqurade: Bloodlines got and on top of that every god damned Bethesda game starting from Oblivion onwards.
Xbox was the first Console Developers realized (or Microsoft informed them) could Run an overtaxing program more efficiently then a common PC (not some $X,000 supercomputer)
This meant out of the Box performance was better than most PC's at the time.. This pissed off PC players who were used to being babied and the focus of Devs.
With Gen 6 coming out I predict massive time differences between the First Console Release and the Backburner PC releases. (partially due to bad exposure from Game Journos over Porn Modz.. Well done, played yourselves and forced the path of "Approved" Modders. Basically Fuck the PC Basement Dwellers who fucked all us gamers over)
I'm very interestend in what you could say about Valkyria Chronicles - my favorite game of all times beside HL. Did you play it? Despite being my favorite, I know you would do a great review
These reviews are awesome, it's obvious you guys put a lot of work into them.
Have you played the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series? For some reason, watching this kind of retrospective makes me think it'd be right up your alley.
Currently I fear for my death, so the first thing I'll do in March is buy Deus Ex and IW, for I already have HR Director's Cut.
Your Jim Sterling stabbing is always hilarious, but I must say that he actually highly praised Human Revolution. He, for example, named it "a step above its mundane peers" and a game that "truly deserving of the name Deus Ex". It was a pretty good review, man.
WOW back in 2012 raz0rfist wasn't doing political commentary? WHO ARE YOU?
Back at a time where games were worth a shit.
I am glad to see I am not the only one who liked Invisible War. Sure it's not as good as the original but that's like saying your banana split wasn't as good as your smoked ham. They're both still pretty god damn fucking good!
With that said, Deus Ex is my favorite game/series and I was really happy when I heard in another video's comment section of yours that you were doing a retrospective. Bravo for making use of mods and such. Was that the Malkavian mod early in the video?
I'm a first time viewer and it is the first video I saw from you so I have to say I dig the esthetic of the visuals and the rythm of voice. Speaking of the visuals take a shot every time you get a reference in the pictures then take a alcochol test and the result is how many internets you won.
Presentation
Hello, my name is Raul.
I think computer games are powerful tools to understand ourselves.
I love them so much and I want to discover little by little their magic potential.
I would like to create a computer game, but I have no skills for that.
Despite this, I want to give my contribution to games.
This little essay is about just simple thoughts and observations about classic RGPs already distributed and played, some newer, some older.
But first, I want to thank you all the people that create these games: programmers, game designers, musicians, sound designers, graphic designer, artists, artificial intelligence programmers and everyone else involved, thank you!
LITTLE ESSAY ON RPGs
Morrowind, Skyrim, Gothic II, Dark Souls 2, Fallout 3, Daggerfall, Baldur's Gate 2, Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines, Planescape Torment and many more...(please tell me your favorite one and I will add it to the list).
All of them are fantastic games, some of them masterpieces.
What makes these games great games?
I believe that the great games and in particular masterpieces have the power to go inside our mind changing us forever, not just as individuals, but us all.
What it is that remains in our mind and stays with us for the rest of our life? the gameplay? the graphics? the sound? the story? the characters? the concept?
It is hard to say, maybe is a combination of all of them, but playing games I realized that some of these elements are far more important then others.
My thoughts (I'm sorry if I repeat some concepts, maybe I need to explain them again and better or with a different nuance):
1) A beautiful and original story can go inside us much more then great graphic or gameplay mechanics.
2) The sound and music can give life to the game and enhance the experience to higher levels, put a lot of thoughts an efforts in this part;
there are still a lot of developers that don't understand the importance of sound.
3) A face that speaks but does not show emotions is a big mistake, is better in this case don't show the animated face at all.
4) If the acting voice is inconsistent, is far more better just using the written dialog.
5) A less detailed world in terms of graphic allows to make it much more bigger.
6) More realism does not mean more immersion, I actually think that is less interesting.
7) A game is not a book, so I think that the dialogs and written words should be kept at a minimum.
8) A realistic sky is beautiful, but not interesting. Is far more better to give some character to the sky with original clouds shapes.
9) Bidimensional sprites sometime can have more character then 3d models, why not for example, animate a face with a sprite animation.
10) A world with a interesting architecture is far more memorable.
11) Sometimes low quality sample sounds can have more charm then high quality samples.
12) I suggest to developers to simplify the world so to be able and dedicated resources to make it more interesting.
13) I suggest to developers to use an old engine for concentrating on gameplay, story and characters.
14) A memorable character will never be forgotten.
15) Even the most sophisticated AI will repeat itself, so use simple scripted technology to create unexpected situation and behavior.
16) Surprise the player is one of the most important thing in a Game.
17) Scripting is time consuming but worthy as just the fantasy of a person can create beautiful unrepeatable things, events, stories, characters; this is why simplify the world can be a smart thing to do. Developers now have huge resources that can dedicate over this task instead of realistic graphics or realistic physics.
18) I think multiple choices are a non-sense, or at least not powerful. The feeling of fake options dispels the sense of immersion; the feeling is that someone wants to tell me where I'm going.
19) Steer away from realism, it drains a lot of energy and does not serve the purpose to immerse the player in something magical.
20) The world is always in the mind of the player not inside the monitor, leave the space to his imagination, in this way it is more powerful.
21) Mods are fantastic and one of the biggest reality of gaming, congratulation to all the modders that put their love in this new reality.
all modders can use freely my music, just contact me if you like it and want to use it.
22) Instead of using expensive full orchestra music, hire few different unknown composers/players that can produce a lot of different music, or even more simple use very old music out of copyright and then transform it by changing the pitch, instruments, speed, scale or isolating just few parts and repeat them; few notes from Bach repeated over and over can be surprisingly wonderful.
23) The faces of NPCs are very important, give them a lot of charisma, make them memorable.
24) It is not necessary put the voice to all the dialogs, just few memorable voiced sentence are enough to give the presence to a character.
25) Usually developers make something happen in every location, I think is a mistake; I prefer to have plenty of places where nothing happen and then when I found a place with some kind of event, it will be far more enjoyable.
26) Use a voice or writing that sometimes describes and add details to the scene, a character a place, a situation: this is a powerful tool for immersion; for example we cannot have smells or odors in a games, so the developers can add this perceptions with a txt or voice descriptions.
27) Stanley Kubrick used the enviroment, the architecture of a building, the layout of a room, objects as a way to communicate; it is really a powerful way to express emotions, thought, feelings with shapes, colours and objects.
28) The presence of an NPC is much more important then his/her animation, there is no need of lip-sink or fancy movements because just the appearance can give strong feelings.
29) What an NPC says is very important, he/she has to say something that will be remembered, so use little txt or voice, but it has to be always memorable.
30) A realistic sky is beautiful, but not interesting. Is far more better to give some character to the sky with original clouds shapes.
31) Pointing the direction to find someone or something with an arrow or highlighting it in the map is a non-sense and shatters the feeling of free exploration; the players are not babies and if the developers are using these tricks to help the player in finding the way, is an utterly failure and they do not understand the concept of free world.
32) Real time maps are not good, the pleasure to use a virtual paper map is much greater.
33) A beautiful and engaging combat mechanic gives a strong satisfaction, but is a short taste, what remains in the player's mind is the feeling of the place, the story, the NPC characters.
34) Everything and everyone the player will see during the game, has to be special, everything and everyone has to remain in the memory of the player, otherwise there is no point.
35) The game will succeed if the player will be not able to understand what comes next, not even a bit; it has to be a journey of surprises.
36) A masterpiece needs inside multiple layers of meanings.
37) Draw mountains with a structure that suggests meanings, emotions.
Finally! A Deus Ex fan who liked Invisible War, you sir have taste. Also, did you take off your sunglasses because this was a positive retrospective? Or because you just felt like it? Your facial expressions without them make your material a LOT funnier for some reason.
It's hard but with the right skill point allocation and augs you can breeze through the most difficult areas. Radar transparency + move silent + x-ray vision thingy + pistol skill and mini-crossbow + max computer/lockpicking/electronics makes you godlike in stealth.
that guy has the worst mic and the worst webcam, and yet make better video that those "youtubers" with fancy equipment.
It's really too bad that Invisible War won't work on most modern computers, and THANK YOU for being one of the only people to agree with me about Invisible War being a great game and the Deus Ex series as a whole being a masterpiece
What's he talking about? There is only one Deus Ex game :P
On another note, Steam's selling the whole series in a pack for about $15 until the 26th, so if you don't own them hop on that fast.
I bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution because of your review, recommended it to a friend as well. We both loved the game. So yeah, he's right here, play these games or else you may as well not live anymore.
I want to like this video multiple times.
Hell, all the likes I've ever given anything, I want to give to you for STANDING UP FOR INVISIBLE WAR, AN AWESOME GAME THAT IS TRULY UNDER-APPRECIATED.
Invisible War was my first Deus. You don't realize how ugly your first was till you meet your wife. 😂😅
Razorfist, are you going to buy a Wii U for Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's cut? I heard they improved the boss fights and there's developer commentary
So I started playing Invisible War, after re-watching this retrospective and realizing I had it installed via Steam.
I honestly don't know why people hate on it. Yeah, the small maps are a pain, and universal ammo is a bit annoying....but so far I'm loving it. It's got most of the charm and quirks of the first game, with a lot less clunkyness.
I like it. :D
Welp, finished invisible war.
Definitely a worthy sequel. And I like how they actually gave us the whole picture for the endings this time. Definitely a worthy conclusion for the story.
"You either play Deus Ex, or you die" I'd love to, do you have a spare PC? I'm stuck with a Mac.
+fwwaller you can play deus ex 1 on a mac with a simple wineskin port (paulthetall site to download it).
you can also play deus ex human revolution director's cut on a mac because there is a native version on steam.
you could also play invisible wars with a wineskin port but IW is shit.
***** keep telling yourself
***** keep telling yourself while waiting the loading of IW, while I play a stealth RPG that is deus ex
***** morrowind is a walking simulator... also I only said loading time because is the first thing I can think of, there are more (universal ammo, really small area with few exploration, etc...).
there are many good stealth like hitman, but deus ex is one of the few stealth rpg with really good story line, no kill stealth path and really funny and really good characters.
deus ex 1 is not the best stealth, it's not the best RPG, but it's more than the sum of the part.
if you like IW more good for you... but lots and lots and lots of people just like deus ex 1 more... and many consider it the best game of all time (for a reason).
For me IW is shit because it just don't run well (even on modern pc), it's really small and it's not a good sequel of deus ex saga.
Deus ex human revolution is a good prequel, it has the same feeling of the original... it's not perfect and it's not better than deus ex 1, but it's good.
***** I'm playing morrowind right now... I just walk, and walk and run, and walk... it's really boring (for now).
the world is huge, but it's a little empty. there are some mob, some little and boring quest, and it's really difficult to find where to go... and since the world is empty you just walk or run...
sure you can teleport to a town but in the town there are really few people that are related to some interesting quests.
I think many D&D RPG, Fallout 1 and 2 and Pillars of Eternity manage the world better with much more plot related quests.
I've played IW just 2 weeks after I finish deus ex 1 (2015).
It was boring because of loading time, and very few area to explore (and when I start a game where explore it's not a mechanic usually I just go to the end as fast as you can).
the problem is that you can have a shitty or a great computer but IW loading time are the same (SSD or not SSD, great or shitty cpu/gpu... you stille have to wait a lot), IW close and restart itself every time there is a loading screen, it's just a really shit way of program a videogame.
I also think the plot of deus ex 1 is hilarious, that's why it's great.
This guy is hilarious and awesome
Wow it's weird to see people liking Invincible War, I personally liked it. What I also liked was the universal ammo. UA means you use the weapon most appropriate for the situation, not the weapon that happens to have ammo. UA does mean less rewards for lock-picking and other such stuff as in the original DX, that was the way to find more ammo for your more powerful weapons.
Just picked up Human Revolution for 2 bucks from a local game store. This is my first playthrough of any Deus Ex game and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I almost feel bad for paying only 2 dollars for such an engaging game.
>implying I haven't already played Deus Ex 6 times
>implying I haven't played Invisible War once and cry in the shower every day
>implying Human Revolution wasn't saved by atmospheric/level design and improved graphics and the rest of the game wasn't mediocre.
I rented Human Revolution and returned it within the first two minutes because I got killed my the VERY FIRST two enemies in the beginning. Should I give it a second chance? Even though entire color pallet is gold, I feel I was a bit too harsh.
You have a way with words.
Well done, this video looks like it took quite a bit of effort.
There actually was going to be an option to stay with unatco.
There if you input a series of cheats in paul's apartment then talk to him you get a conversation with JC talking about how unatco isn't perfect and stuff. The video is called "UNATCO isn't perfect"
For the second boss all you need to do is get the EMP immunity upgrade, then shoot the electric generators, plugging her full of holes in her head while she's stunned.
Hey Razorfist, I was hoping either you or any strapping rageaholic can help me. I got the Deus Ex sale bundle not too long ago and whenever I try to launch Deus Ex or Invisible War I get an error that says "Failed to find Steam." Is this simply a matter of uninstalling and re-installing or is it a matter of my computer having a certain processor or what? I'd really appreciate any feedback. Thanks.