Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

After around 7 hours with no issues the game becomes an unplayable crashfest. Found out too late I'm not alone with this.

Gorgeous game. Many scenes made you stop and admire the views from a distance, but also the clutter in tight spaces really gave a sense of the world being lived in. Had a real bladerunner vibe to it in terms of lighting and art direction. Gameplay only falters in terms of length as it only really has about 7 missions in it: Dubai, Prague, Golem, Prague, Garm, Prague, and London. The side missions are okay, but just felt like little backtracks here and there. Shooting was much improved over the rest of the series and most of the augs were interesting. Only wish they had slots this time, so you would have to choose armor vs cloaking or something to encourage role playing and multiple playthroughs like the original DX. Nothing really stood out to me in terms of the story. Compared to DXHR where the big bad had a great point about warning people of the dangers of tech oligarchies and their ability to push propaganda, I can barely remember what the point of this one was. Something about a plot to destroy the aug industry in order to corner the market. Straight up bad guy motivations left little to the imagination. The protagonist being manipulated to find Janus would have worked better if the story had more time to flesh that out, but it all ended too soon. Also, none of the characters had much of an impact on me. They had a great cast from DXHR and no reason not to bring them back. You had a jerk friend, a tragic mentor, a love interest, and several others that were made to work together. I never really got the same sense of cohesion from the new characters. In general sequels should carry over at least half of the cast from the previous entry for the sake of continuity, otherwise the new cast of characters will start off at a disadvantage. Overall better than most games on the market and definitely due to be given a sequel. Just hope the developers take another look at DX and DXHR, where the conspiracies were handled much better, before they start on the next one.

ROG Zephyrus Ryzen 9 6900HS + Radeon RX 6800S (8GB), Win11. Tried all combination of options for fullscreen/exclusive/dx12. graphics on low. To clarify: This is NOT GOG's fault. This is absolutely on Eidos.

Kind of short. Not as good as Deus Ex - Human Revolution. Spend lot of tme looking at loading screens. Mechanically ok. Visually ok, except what the frack did you do to Jensen ? his voice and facial expression is so dead compared to Human Revolution. Lacks real choice. Also not as many different approaches to problem solving as previous Deus Ex titles. Hardly ever used any weapon, even tranquilizer. Augs and aug system were MEH, energy system is poorly designed. .. and yet, it was ok ish and I did have fun while it lasted, but one playthrough was enough. Get it on sale or you will feel cheated. If you haven't played Human Revolution get that instead/also.

so was excited and got it on sale and am highly disappointed. i cannot get the game to run without major crashes and even cutscenes stutter and can crash. really wanted to play it but now all i want is a refund. don't waste your money or time.