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« on: May 28, 2024, 10:08:58 am »
18. Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut
Playing this was really strange for me. Except for the opening area (Sarif lab and Detroit hub) I had no recollection of this game. I remembered the UI and some of the characters, but basically none of the levels, the story, the interactions. Strange considering that Steam says I played the original game for 30+ hours. Even the ending seemed alien to me, for I thought that the original game ended with killing a bunch of people like setting off a nuke or something. Also I will say the ending cutscenes were not really expected and weren't really endings. No video showing the choice and the response/future events type thing and instead it was just Adam talking about his feelings over archival footage.
No technical issues with the game except one time. There was one instance where a sound effect got stuck and looped. It was a low frequency sound so it wasn't distracting, but when this happened I heard no dialog. So I may have missed about an hour's worth of audio from either the communicator, environmental audio (people talking in other rooms) or talking to NPCs. Cutscenes played fine and other game sounds including guns worked. It did eventually get to a point where an in-engine cutscene needed to play and the game crashed.
Like the original, I can't see how it would be possible to do a no-alarms run, or perhaps even a no kill run. Maybe it can be done on New Game+ since you can keep your praxis and probably use the stealth options better.
19. Lego Marvel Superheroes
This looked interesting to me, at least these modern Lego storytelling games alltogether such as the Star Wars version, from watching some videos. I tried it out but it really was not something I could get into. The controls were weird. The tutorial messages were too big on the screen, showed too much info too fast and made the controls appear generally confusing. I don't mind a game of this perspective, but I really don't care for having to use fighting game combo system to do things. There was a QTE very early and it was not at all satisfying. Knowing I was just going to be frustrated by these things, I decided to uninstall.