Rate Human Revolution vs. other LGS-inspired franchise games

heywood on 6/11/2011 at 01:11

Time for a poll. Now that our impressions have sunk in, how do you rate Human Revolution compared to the other LGS-inspired games which have come out in the last decade? I'm mainly thinking of Invisible War, Deadly Shadows, and Bioshock 1&2.

For me, it's better than IW in almost every way, except maybe IW had more variety in the levels. I also liked it better than TDS and Bioshock. I'd give Bioshock points for art, style, creativity, and being more ambitious in what it was trying to achieve. But take away some for excessive hand holding, arcade shooting, and an uninspired last 1/3 of the game. By the end I has happy to be done with BS, whereas I enjoyed HR enough to be contemplating the DLC. All of the above are weak on RPG elements, and that's probably the thing I miss the most about DX (and SS2).

june gloom on 6/11/2011 at 06:56

I feel like this thread is useless, and when I saw it I was honestly expecting it to be from one of the Thiefgen escapees. Your poll is also missing a crucial choice- "Just as good as Deus Ex." No need to qualify with "for different reasons" or whatever. I doubt many people would pick it- I probably wouldn't- but someone would, if they could.

We already have several threads to gather opinions from; what's more, I fail to see the point in comparing this game to any other game other than DX1 and IW. The plain point of fact is that the era of DX1 is long gone; that Human Revolution manages to achieve 90% of what made the original great, especially when Invisible War failed so spectacularly badly, is an out-and-out miracle in today's climate. Instead of the pointless exercise of rating how it compares to other games in the LGS lineage- which, I want to point out, includes at least the original Dead Space- we should be thankful that the industry today not only allows games with that pedigree to be made, but in some cases, as with DXHR, celebrates the dusty, decade-old, doesn't-always-run-on-modern-hardware games that only a select few remember and even fewer have played, from an era when PC and console were firmly separate. As I've said before, God forbid we have another game even remotely like System Shock, let's all have a wank and play Battlefield 3.

Could it be better? Sure. It could also be a lot worse. And, at the risk of sounding like Koki or any of the other useless nostalgia whores and brandy-snifting elitists, worse is always more likely.

Thirith on 7/11/2011 at 08:42

I have to say, at least for now (first playthrough, just returned to Hengsha) I like it as much as Deus Ex, and pretty much for the same reasons.

There are some things I miss, e.g. large *open* areas for sniping (I'm happy with the size of the areas, but so far I miss stealth-assassin bits like infiltrating the castle in the original game). I also think the game suffers from samey environments - while I like their art design, they didn't particularly come up with very varied environments.

I very much prefer the writing in this game, though. I was never too keen on the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach the original Deus Ex took - that sort of thing can work, but I'm not sure it can work in a game whose tone is as po-faced as Deus Ex'. You'd practically need a more tongue-in-cheek, Pynchon style to pull it off.

froghawk on 7/11/2011 at 16:26

About on par with Deadly Shadows, but I think at the end of the day I actually enjoyed Deadly Shadows more.

Koki on 11/11/2011 at 14:47

Quote Posted by "Koki"

It's like Bioshock all over again.

Also, I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS D:<

Slasher on 12/11/2011 at 03:34

"I never asked for this." l:<

Shadowhide on 13/11/2011 at 11:51

who voted for " Better than anything LGS put out" ?
what a shame.

june gloom on 13/11/2011 at 19:38

Just for that, I'm going to actually cast a vote in this stupid thread.

Shadowhide on 14/11/2011 at 11:45

I never asked for this.

Dia on 14/11/2011 at 13:16

Actually, I did.

And the Great Goddess of Gaming heard my prayers.

:p :p :p