Deus Ex: Human Revolution: The Savior of the Immersive Sim
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Welcome to the 100,000 subscriber special! Today we're taking a look at the Immersive Sim that brought it all back: Deus Ex: Human Revolution! Human Revolution tells a story 25 years before the events of the Original Deus Ex where Augmentation is a controversial topic that Sarif's chief of security, Adam Jensen, never asked to be a part of. But after an attack on Sarif's Augmentation laboratory he's forced to undergo extensive cybernetic augmentation to survive and sets off on a quest to see who's really pulling the strings in the world of 2027
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Timestamps:
00:00intro
02:25 Part I - The Story so Far
07:40 Part II - Reception and gameplay
09:22 Combat
14:17 Stealth
16:22 Augmentations in Human Revolution
20:52 Hacking
25:03 talking and Social Boss Battles
28:01 Everything else - Emergent gameplay
35:55 Cooking segment - Cioppino and Garlic Bread
49:04 Part III - The Story and how it ties to Deus Ex
49:14 The world of 2027 Deus Ex
50:33 The Augmentation Debate
54:31 The Premise of Human Revolution
57:11 Plot Synopsis (SPOILERS)
1:05:54 The Issue with the Ending (SPOILERS)
1:07:09 Side Quests
1:08:30 The Missing Link DLC
1:10:14 Part IV - The Director's Cut
1:14:31 Part V - Sequel and Legacy of Deus Ex Human Revolution
1:15:01 The Early 2010s ImSim Revival
1:15:52 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
1:17:08 My severe distaste for Marvel Games
1:21:19 Part VI - Final thoughts
1:23:52 TRIPLE CAT VIDEO - Hry
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Every time you go to the gog store of Human Revolution DC, the top review is saying the game is spyware
U are a loser
top 10 game of all time
nooooooooo! You actually did the sponsorship! I thought it was a joke!
Should check out hbomber Guy's new Dues Ex: Human revolution video essay.
Sounds right up your alley. :)
It's almost like we should do another one of these.
Only if they use your voice! Loved some of your recent roles too by the way, I went berserk when I heard your voice in Blood Of Zeus
Oh shit big fan!
They did you wrong in the expanse tho 😂
Almost
I know you want to, and we the fans of deus ex want it, but who cares what we want anymore, Here have this shitty Avengers game
I remember playing human revolution as a kid expecting a regular ass FPS and getting smacked over the head with one of the most dense and complex gaming experiences a kid can have
Literally had the same experience Lmao. I somehow managed to finish the game being 11 years old without understanding absolutely anything about the game's complex story and unique mechanics it offered, Still, I had a blast and it deeply influenced my taste in gaming. Subsequent playthroughts and video essays analysing the game such as Charlatan's video opened my eyes and lend me a hand in actually understanding and appreciating Deus Ex and Immersive Sims in general
This was me with Oblivion. I thought I was going to play an fps but with swords. Months later I emerged haha
Literally same experience as well, I ended up dropping the game then playing the original years later, definitely coming back to the two modern ones eventually.
I remember being a kid and I was always reading best game of all time lists and looking for PC games with low requirements so I played the original Deus Ex first.
Same exact experience here too
One of my favorite memories of HR was actually the third Tyrant fight - I had hacked a turret and was just carrying it around the base with me, didn't even know there was a boss fight coming up, and had gotten the chip "upgrade". Stood in the corner baffled there was a boss fight going on and freaking out on how I was gonna fight him...once he walked past the elevator the turret was not only still loaded into the level but kicked on and made swiss cheese outta the boss. I just watched amazed that I'd accidently countered his ace in the hole with my own.
That's emergent gameplay for you - more developers need to build systems into their games that allow for such things to happen. I had several similar moments with the original DX more than twenty years ago.
Try Prey 2017 then, you'll like it too.
turrets really makes short work for bosses,
literally the quickest way to deal with all mobile humanoid bosses to stand poibt blank to bosses and spam stun g^n as the turrets shred them to pieces. i went through the whole game carrying only with 10mm handg^n and stunG^n quite a few times.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution takes the cake as #1 on my list of the coolest kills I've ever pulled off in a video game. Ever.
Near-ish the end of the game I was fighting through some base, and carrying a vending machine to toss at some poor sod, and as an impromptu cover. I was met with a group of guys, and as I was wading through their fire, one of them tossed a grenade at me. Immediately, I tossed the vending machine with the intention to run away from the grenade, without being slowed down by a heavy object... it turned out I didn't have to, because my vending machine collided mid-air with the grenade and deflected it back into the group, killing all of the enemies at once.
10/10 would perform a vending machine grenade deflect group kill again.
this game is so fkin fun.
i remember i carried a fridge/vending machine like a mobile cover lmao while going through a long
corridor/hallway popping headsh0ts in between (used the entrance on the other side as chokehold point to small bursts of incoming reinforcement teams, somehow unsilenced loud 10mm is better for faster stealth/ghost runs in this game lol) still maintained stealth
and the headsh0t only+ unsilenced 10mm pist0l only+ ghost+ gen0c^de playthrough was the most fun i had with this game
I see your name and immersive sim, I watch and like. I adore you.
34:50
"There's a choice you can make earlier in the game that is seemingly inconsequential."
This game is a conspiracy simulator.
How does anyone take the chip re-call surgery without question?
Especially one developed by Tai Yong Medical. They're one of the main enemies in game.
I didnt on my first playthru.. But only because I forgot.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm......... I wonder............................
@@worsethanjoerogan8061 IIRC by the time the chip upgrade is offered, Tai Yong Medical isn't really known to be in allegiance with the main enemy, they're just another corrupt but ultimately still functional company. But it is definitely a test of "Do you just blindly do anything you're told to?"
It fucking breaks my heart that ending of this story is so far away from us if it is even possible. And knowing that Eidos Montreal was making Avengers instead of third chapter of Jensen story is like knife through my already bleeding heart. I'm not even exaggerating. Your video is not the first time I've heard about it but it's just like "hitting me in the balls with, like, a tiny little hammer".
""hitting me in the balls with, like, a tiny little hammer"" - i would like to put out a better statement for that, flicking your balls with one finger and it's a flick that barely touches you
I still cant believe that one of the greatest franchises of all time got murdered for the sake of... eugh... Avengers. And not even a good Avengers game. Its a fucking travesty thats beyond words
At least they made the guardians of the galaxy game this year which is a pretty solid game
@@diecubo yes, a movie game
i think this game exposes many realities of our world, and maybe they crossed the line a few times even. That would do in their hopes to make a sequel.
He actually did it. He actually released it. Absolute madman.
Not to brag or anything (well, maybe a little) but I managed to pass most of the social boss fights without the augmentation. The characters are written and acted well enough that you can get inside their heads and figure out how best to speak with them.
I remember the first time I tried to use the augmentation the social upgrade I had to fail on me and I didn't understand it so I didn't use it for those social boss battles I just talked to the guys tried to be reasonable and honest it worked
I really really do want to replay this game but it's hard because once you know all the tricks for me personally it can't surprise you I really want a new one!
I heavily advise playing it again. Ive played the game like 4-5 times and I've found something new every single time. Like maybe a new location, a new path, a new outcome, its not possible to see everything in one run.
One issue worth mentioning regarding the Directors Cut is that it uses an older version of Human Revolution meaning some of the bugs that were fixed Human Revolution, are present in the Directors Cut (such as weapons having a yellow outline when looking at an object).
And everyone complained about gold filter being removed only to be modded back in, because everyone complained about the filter in the original without ever giving the option in the DE version to use it if you preferred it. Which I did, because without it, the game looked bland.
Also the lighting is a little broken. The mod that restores the gold filter also addresses that.
Aw yes Man-sized air vents, a staple of stealth gaming.
This is a random note but I love the designs of Jensen's apartments and the clear Blade Runner inspiration behind them. The yellow tint really adds to that
Unfortunately due to Guardians of the galaxy success Eidos will likely never be let out of the Marvel spice mines.
aparently it's good, so there's still that
We need the Muad’Dib to save the helpless spice miners and start a jihad against their Marvel-minded captors.
This may sound like "Damning with faint praise" but, I really liked this game, and I think the thing that impressed me the most was, the hacking mini-game left me wishing their was more to it... and my normal response to those type of things is, "Just make it a skill check"
I definitely need more Adam Jenshin Impact in my life.
HR was the game that first made me aware of the term "Immersive Sim" I knew of Thief and SystemShock 2 before then through a friend and had played Bioshock. Obviously HR hooked me (even with the horrible boss fights pre director's cut), ended up playing through it multiple times with different styles and 100% it. A couple of years later with the announcement of Mankind Divided I went back and played the OG Deus Ex, surprised how well it held up, moved to SystemShock 1 and 2
The office thief plot line was funny because I read the emails, started breaking into offices to find leads, only to realize “damn I’m stealing a lot of credit chips from these offices”
“Oh…”
“OH”
I was never stuck for as long during the boss fights as when I tried to figure out how to save Malik on my first run which I wanted non lethal, must have taken about 15 attempts.
that cooking segment was so good that i genuinely forgot i was watching a deus ex video
I remember when I was a child, seeing the game Deus Ex Invisible War, being sold in the market. I've always wanted to play it, and so far I haven't played it, just Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. But it's crazy how this series became not only so popular but created a genre that is still confusing today.
You are not missing much by not playing invisible war.
@@sup1602 I just wanted to play in that time because the art cover from the game looks cool XD
Skip Invisible War and embrace Deus Ex(2000)
Dues ex didn’t “create” the “genre” and immersive sim is not a genre. It is a design manifest that can be applied to any genre. The first game to adhere to this design manifest was ultima underworld.
You lucked out on not playing invisable war dude
It's not impossible to have the Casey on that first social boss battle but you do need to make getting it your focus and go nonlethal all the way up until that point.
It's totally worth it.
Gotta max out all the XP you can get upto that point; all non-lethal stealth takedowns, finding every alternate route, hacking everything. If I remember correctly you might have 100-120xp left to spare if you did everything correctly.
Take that meticulous approach to detroit where you farm every single weapon you find (ie: bring every single weapon to a weapons dealer), and you can easily make enough money so you won't have to worry about money ever again when buying the free praxis kits from a limb clinic. Figure out which upgrades you need when you need them and you can easily max out all your cyberware when you get to the end.
Fun fact: due to my absolute stubborn refusal to vary my plan in a game, I discovered you can, in fact, beat all of the bosses non-lethally, not that the cutscenes believe you. You just hit them like 50 times with a stun gun and they die (as, I mean, they probably would in real life to be fair)
Fun fact, it's super easy to kill anyone with the stungun in this game by complete fuckin' accident! At least in the original one, the thing seemed to have a one in ten chance of just killing the person. Fun if you're going for the no-kill achievement! Even more fun if you're playing on the PC which doesn't let you check if you've killed anyone, only to find that somehow in your ghost nonletal playthrough, you managed to kill someone, wasting a week of effort.
@@SheepUndefinedThe tranquilizer rifle also has a chance to kill people on headshot. Pacifist is stupid hard.
I think this will be a "one for them, one for me" type of scenario, where Eidos MTL couldnt say no to a profitable game like Guardians of the Galaxy after poor sales from Mankind Divided, but given their newfound financial security and success will allow them to finish the Jensen trilogy.
Hey, MD sales did Very well, it's just not up to square Enix StAnDaRd, which we don't know how much they expected. Especially, if only SE didn't fuck up with half ass content/story and in game purchase.
Everytime i played this game i found another way or route to complete the mission or missions inside the hub areas. One of the best games ever and i am a fan of the goldfilter. So much small detail in this game and the sequel too, shame that Square ruined the franchise.
The Gold filter was important to the aesthetics. Shame they removed it in the director's cut.
@@bigwavesun Don't worry, they put in the muddy grey filter instead.
I have completed this game 2.5 hours ago. The timing!!
Did you enjoy it? I remember playing it 5 or 6 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed the story and gameplay.
@@GetBonked I liked it a lot! It took me a while because I don't have much time to play games these days, and I like to play pacifist and be thorough in this type of games - but it was all very much fun, and very much worth the time investment (around 35 hours)
@@aver155 that's what's up man, I was very impressed at the time by the games gameplay mechanics and graphics for its era. Even today it holds up for picking up for story at the very least, if you don't care for the gameplay as much compared to today's standard. All games were slightly janky back then to a certain extent lol. Hell, there's still games today like that.
Me too, director's cut 100% achievements, once you did the Factory Zero achievement (doing Missing Link without upgrade and weapons) with the No Alarm and Pacifist achievements you basically become a god at this game xD
This is the second video of yours that I’ve watched (first one was the complete Bioshock timeline) and I’ve got to say, I like what I see so far. You’re very in depth with your explanations and breakdowns, but at the same time you’re not putting me to sleep. Keep it up, man!
While I didn't expect a cooking lesson in the middle of a video game essay I'm here for it and want to try making it
That was, by a margin, the best game review I've ever seen. Well done sir.
Congratulations on your 100k subscribers, Charlatan! You're one of a few in this hell of site that actually deserves that.
1:23:53 I believe the next Deus Ex installment could have Frisk playing an anti-Aug fanatic: He stands guard next to glass jars (because they're not mechanical), then is shown to be highly suspicious of a machine. He also looks stealthy and up to no good alongside those cardboard boxes. The Iluminatti employing secret cat agents makes total sense if you think about it. Awesome video! Keep it up, my man!
I finally watched this entire video and it’s fantastic. Thank you for making this!
About other games that also have some kind of Director's Cut commentary tracks: "Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay" also did this in an excellent way.
Strat-edgy video on Prey AND Charlatan's Deus Ex: HR retrospective? What a way to end the year. Merry belated Christmas and happy new year!
Im like a minute in and already like... entirely in. Hearing that you modified your channel to add cat pictures because your grandma liked them is just... its the best thing ever!
Merry Christmas Charlatan. Keep up the great content in 2022
Great analysis!
I didn't know half of this stuff was on Human revolution, I will replay it ASAP.
God bless everyone who does videos about immersive sims.
its a ok, kinda boring game, especially compared to prey or dishonored 2
Great video, and I totally share your pain about not having the third Adam Jensen game. Human Revolution was my first 'real' immersive sim, too. I only discovered it last year (better late than never, I guess). Now I'm about to finish my second playthrough, and I just can't get over how much I love this game :) One of the great things about it (and all imsims) is that you don't have to be thougher or faster than your enemies, you just have to be smarter. If you are, even the hardest difficutly is not a problem. Another great thing is that you can come up with challenges for yourself, which makes every playthrough a unique experience.
One of my favourite game series of all time. Just completed a no kills, no alarms playthrough and saw so many things I missed in other playthroughs. I really hope with Embracer Group purchasing Eidos Montreal, they are willing to revive this series. Mankind Divided ended on too much of a cliffhanger!
Bruv its a boring game, play prey or dishonored 2
DXHR is one of the best games ever made, no contest.
Nice. Just In time for Christmas. Merry Christmas lad !
This is one of my To 5 games.
I've played through Vanilla multiple times, I never knew you could use explosive rounds on the breakable walls. Great video!
Liking and commenting for engagement, and it is very well deserved. Awesome vid Charl
Really good video, and happy holidays to you and your family CW and your beatiful cat
Glad I took the time to really watch this and pay attention to it. It might actually get me to dig up and try HR again.
"Making a mainline entry to a game series feel like the games that came before and improve upon that." Oh how those days are long gone. Was fun, loved HR.
Came for the game analysis. Staying for the cooking segments.
I'd be very happy if there was a place I could go back and watch the cooking stuff in their own videos
Dude, both content and cioppino recipe is f..ing perfect! Thank's alot! More cooking!
My first play through was on the hardest setting and with no kills yet I didn't even notice the boss fights, yeah I died a few times but I don't get why they caused such a outcry. The first game had moments that put you out of your comfort zone and no one mentions them.
As far as I can tell, everyone who hates the boss fights hasn't been exploring thoroughly. There's easily enough XP in this game to spec into both stealth and combat. I only ever stealth through it and on the hardest difficulty the only tricky boss fight is Barrett, because of how early in the game he appears.
@@MrACABification Your not wrong.
I think the issue was with people who are nonlethal purists. When I fist played the game I was pretty confused that I had to kill the bosses when I was able to avoid killing anyone else for the rest of the game.
Great video homie 👌
Holy cow this is going to be a great video
Honestly, really like hacking, find it a fun neat breather from combat. Sure its a bit of a praxis dump but hacking gets you lots of XP to get even more praxis anyway so.
Hacking also gets you lots of good loot and exploration options so it's a pretty good thing to spec into, tho like in the video you can do just fine without it albeit inconvenient
I found it unavoidable if I wanted to go stealth.
Ok gotta say my christmas eve was not very holly nor jolly. But after coming home from my fast food job, I gotta say I'm fairly fuckin happy now. Thank you.
Excellent video
Unironically epic cooking section! You’ve inspired me (a pro-amateur home cook) to make some BIG SOOP
Wholesome Charles putting his cat for his grandma that watches his vids. That’s nice.
Merry Christmas bro
Have you ever considered doing a video on Kingdom Come Deliverance? I honestly see it as an immersive sim, and also one of my favourite games. Plus, it has an actual charlatan in the game
I think I finally need to give this one a try, loved the original. Thanks for the video.
Cheers for mentioning the magic silencer thing. Always found it funny that they suddenly become uber quiet.
Now that's a christmass gift ! Enjoy your evening everyone !
I also come for the cat
I was literally just thinking to myself how and why you got the idea to use your cat as your avatar, because I honestly love it so much.
Its pretty unique and your cat is cute. The varying pictures of still animation are more interesting than most "Avatar crosses their arms" or is "clasping their face in shock" or "doing a cartoonish angry gesture"
The talking heads are fine and all, but Frisk is the best
I just wanted to reminisce about this awesome game and now I have a new seafood recipe to try wow
LOVE this game. Have replayed it hundreds of times. It was there for me during a very rough time and still holds up well. DX:MD was solid also. Super excited to know that a new Deus Ex game will eventually be released!
I could never figure out how the social augment was supposed to work. I found it much easier just to use the normal dialogue options and pick the answers that seem to fit the situation than try and muddle my way through the obtuse rock paper scissor system of the augment.
You have to keep track of every time one of the bars lights up, and kinda just add every lit segment to a talley in yur head. By the end of the social battle, whatever talley has the most points added up is likely to be their personality type, and that determines what you use to instantly destroy their argument with fax and logitech. Iirc the game will let you know which option correlates to which personality type, but it's been a while, so I'm not certain on that.
Played this 6-7 years back, bought it for summer sale as the directors cut on steam,still havent played it..good time to play it now i guess
Really hope Eidos can come back to finish Jensen’s story. HR and MD were some of my best gaming experiences, and even got me to try the original Deus Ex game. It’s so sad we’ll never get to see the bridge between MD and the original game.
I doubt it will ever reach the Deus Ex timeline but I could see the NSF being a growing presence in the next game
The deus ex games' stories are so good and exciting (and they tell the near future in the real world ALOT) that I find myself as having the same excited feeling when watching suspenseful movies (think Uncut Gems and Good Time). An amazing series and Human Revolution is a special entry.
I, too, would like to see the Safdie Bros direct a film version of “Deus Ex”
I dont like cooking but i much appreciate the cooking part. Thanks for the distraction from the video! 😄
Have any of you ever grasped the true power of vending machines in this game? True emerging gameplay there.
yessss. an amazing game. favorite series of all time.
Robot/turret domination and then explore at your leisure in the middle of chaos was my usual play style.
"if Grandma wants more silly cat pictures grandma gets more silly cat pictures" truly is one of the sentences ever
Hugh Darrow pulling off that cloak thing like a mad lad.
Send Gam-Gam Wonder my best holiday regards.
I have to set aside time to actually sit and watch this
Was new to the concept of an immersive sim, but as it turns out, a lot of my favorite games just are that. Very cool
its one of the worst AAA immersive sims
Thank you for introducing me to cioppino. I really appreciate you did something nobody asks for. Im cooking it weekly now xD
DXHR is a more than worthy sequel to the original from 2000.
Prequel*
Its a prequel tho
'Advanced Vibe Check Techniques'
Im stealing that.
My strategy for boss battles on pacific-stealth was to collect a lot of grenades. The pattern to toss grenades, as far as I remember was to toss the gas grenades first - since the boss takes more time to react after coughing, and while they are coughing, toss more frag grenades, and toss another gas grenade right before the first one runs out. You could take down Yelena with a lot of stun guns when she comes close enough to you during the boss fights.
There are several grenade/mine combinations to take down the first boss, but you can do it with just one EMP greanade and use the barrels and cannisters in the room.
You can take down Yelena with one well placed EMP mine.
You can take down Namir , with a simple take-down.
For the boss in the body exhibition thing I randomly charged them when they leapt over the barrier and was able to take them out with one of the hand to hand take downs.
Great review! I've spent like 60 hours in this game and still learned something new from it. But we definitely need to learn more about your trip to Russia.
Dragging unconscious guards through lasers is one of my biggest pleasures and greatest pastimes!
Not going to lie I usually skip the cooking segment but I'm as fuck so watching charlatan struggle with a damn tilapia bag killed me
Mankind Divided is one of my favorite games of all time now, I really want to continue and finish Adams story. I'm gonna get HR at some point. Damn that stupid buyer company for cutting this series off.
I like the cat pics too. As a cat man i appreciate them as much as immersive sims.. Grandma does indeed get more cats if she likes cats..
I don’t think HR matched the original in terms of options, tools, and approach, but I do think it was a very well made and fun game. It is very rare I play a game I like so much I do a back to back replay and Deus Ex: Human Revolution is on that exclusive list.
I really love Human Revolution, it's my introduction to im sims, and later on I notice one of the soundtrack were sampling a Vietnamese song that I knew, it's nice.
Also ciopino.
Hey, out of curiosity, which song is this and which part of the soundtrack samples it?
@@control88able dunno why my previous comment didn't show after 6 whole months, but it's the Hive theme. czcams.com/video/s4_Ky7EQWlg/video.html
I noticed that VTM Redemption music during the hacking section.
For Boss Battles, one word Mines.
Regardless of what i am playing i always save mines to yeet at them.
Goddammit Charl, now I have to instal Deus Ex again!
Absolutely wonderful analysis! Could you please make a video on Mankind Divided?
That's gonna be next year's end-of-year show stopper!
I love the glasses on the cat
Holy shit that cooking segment made me hungry as hell. Need me some of that good soup
Merry Christmas
babe wake up new charlatan wonder video
Great memories on the 360 🥲
I come for the video games. I leave learning how to cook. Lol I freaking love you.