Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut

It's peak, pretty much mirrors the og game in it's story, gameplay wise it's a-ok, visually it's a game from piss filter era and sounwise it's good.

A true prequel to Deus Ex, they understood what made the original great and built on it, tweaking it to their own vision. Absolutely part of my top favourites, have gone back to replay it several times now. Very easy to get going, works out the box on 4k but the ui doesn't scale, might need the DXHR Exe Patcher mod to get it looking the same again.

I really loved this game. Super basic. Linear, sure, but with an open world feel. The level design rings of Fallout 3/4, where the level designers make brilliant use of very limited space. I recommend this game VERY highly. I'm told it's not as good as the original version, but most folks who say that seem to be focused on graphics quality, which is something I don't really care at all about. The difficulty curve can be intimidating, but it can be changed mid-game. If you feel a rage-quit coming on, take a break... Or just turn down the difficulty for 5 minutes. It's worth swallowing your pride to get to the end. I am on an old Acer Nitro, and I had very few technical problems. The game ran smoothly, and the two freezes I experienced on my ratty old rig self-resolved in a few seconds. This game heralds back to a day when storytelling was actually a respected element of game design. It is thoughtful, full of well written characters, and crammed with the kind of moral ambiguity that modern audiences despise. This is one of a tiny handful of games that I've played since I started gaming that actually deserves five stars, and my gaming career started when I put a Pyramid 2000 cassette tape into a TRS-80 almost half a century ago. I've been at this for a long time. Get this game. Period. Especially if you're fed up with the way modern games keep reskinning the same-old, half dozen, boring, politically correct, hackneyed games over and over and calling them "new titles."

i played it when it was released and playin it now in 2025 and it still very good game and is better than 99 perecent of modern games

I was originally disappointed with this game compared to the first 2, but once I went back and played the Director's Cut I realized it was probably my favorite in the series. The polish and changes to the boss battles really made a difference. Also the removal of the yellow filter by unchecking post processing is great. Never liked the original look of the game, but without that it's actually aged really well. I've heard the game received a facelift since the original release, and I could believe it. I don't remember it looking this good. Get the Casie Aug early and use it to see your dialogue options, but don't use the phermones to force conversations. You can see the impact of your dialogue options and it actually makes sense like if you were having a real conversation with someone. There are multiple ways to get people to do what you want through conversation, not just right response / wrong response gate keeping. It feels like an actual detective story. With Sgt Haas at the beginning for example, you can bulldoze him to get what you want, leaving him hating you, or reconcile your past getting him to want to help you, or tick him off in a way where he won't help you at all. It needs to be played on Give Me Deus Ex difficulty. With so many options, the enemies need to be able to mess you up if you make mistakes and it makes more sense if you aren't OP compared to everybody else in the world.