Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

its true. i dont quite get why, but it was enough to make one of the devs go on reddit to express his disappointment at the backlash.

his comment here

edited 24th Jun '15 6:21:32 AM by Tarsen

People do know this game has been in development for over 4 years, right?

And it's all a part of an established Deus Ex storyline. Heck, Human Revolution was already moving in this direction ("Hanzers", etc.)

...I think the concept deriving from the lived experiences of a developer is something that would help a lot if it was more widely known and marketed.

As I understand it, there was some complaining about the use of "apartheid", but it died down pretty quickly. Mostly all that's left now is a few leftover people complaining about how some people complained earlier. I'd complain about it, but then we might end up in an infinite loop.

edited 24th Jun '15 4:26:07 PM by Lavaeolus

i have to admit, ive seen more people complain about people complaining than i have actually seen people complain

like, maybe 3 people complain about the apartheid thing, and yet several dozen people complaining about the complaining.

I never asked for this complaining cycle... Sorry, the temptation was too strong

Yes, that does tend to be my experience.

I just heard about it and thought it was a rumor.

That said now that I have seen the comments some of them do seem to get a bit conspiracy theory and insane.

But, before we cause 5 pages of argument. Let's leave that and move onto other stuff.

Who here is excited for what in Mankind Divided? Me? Beyond the story and such, the variety of play options, the ability to go action hero if I want or sneak around stealthy hacking things is a big thing for me!

I didn't play Human Revolution, but the premise of this game kinda bugs me. They're treating the cyborgs like a minority race. Is there an actual reason in this setting to go cyborg of you're not a killing machine, or for those playing the non violent run, a beat people into unconscious machine? I can't imagine these abilities being so useful to the general public to become widespread enough as to create an apartheid.

At the end of Human Revolution, the Big Bad, in a successful attempt to discredit augmentation, emitted a signal that made almost every augmented person go on a violent rampage.

So the minority is just the remaining cyborgs, the people who were already augmented.

And there were reasons to get augmented, to replace lost limbs, better quality of life, or be better at your job. Some people were even forced to get augmentations to be better at something, like prostitutes being forced by their pimps to get augmentations to satisfy clients.

Or like Adam Jensen, who had a very carefully worded contract.

Time to vote. Sad the soundtrack isn't there but it'll probably be on Spotify right after launch.

However, augments are forced to be dependent on a drug that prevents their bodies from rejecting their biotics.

If you're a nice person you can get DE:HR for $1 by donating.

Or to draw an even tighter parallel, if they had to rely on passes from the central administration if they wanted to work. Like what happened in South Africa. See "Pass Laws" in google.

Not quite. It's more indentured servitude, more akin to drug dealers or, say, the Templars in Dragon Age.

Interview from RPG Site.

Let's Play Deus Ex with Warren Spector, Sheldon Pacotti and Chris Norden.

Just finished the first game and started HR again.

I just hope we get a chance to make Megan answer for her actions in HR. If that answer isn't satisfactory...that's what bullets were made for. I wonder if she is consciously working on the Denton project...or the Grey Death.

I kinda got the vibe that Megan is one of those kinds of people that while incredibly smart in the intellectual sense, she was gullible nor the most "streetsmart" when it came to dealing with others. Because Hugh Darrow was able to convince her to work on his project with the angle that prosthetics are outdated and her work on nanomachines would be humane. I'm not even 100% sure if she even knew about the Hyron drones or the human guinea pigs in the basement of the very building she was in, especially given how isolated the research team members are from one another.

Yeah, Rip.

God I love Elias and that that's his actual voice.