What order should I play the Deus ex games In?

[Lukejr0123]

I bought the collection and I have
Deus Ex Game of the year
Deus Ex Human Revelution
Deus Ex The Fall
Deus Ex Thhe invisible War
So what Order should I play them in? I know Human Revulution is a prequel but does it matter if I play it first or last?

[Loterus™]

play the games in this order: deus ex: human revolution, deus ex (1), deus ex: invisible war.
The fall is not that good

[SandDude]

Originally posted by Nerd House:

Here's the game order, since no one really mentioned it:

Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Deus Ex: The Invisible War
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: The Fall

I read all of theses comments and you are the first one that actually answered the question lol. Thank you.

[SundownKid]

1) Human Revolution 2) Deus Ex: GOTY Edition
(Considering chronological order)

Everything else: Don't bother, they're bad.

[Sir Fluffykins]

I played Deus Ex when it came out, back in the dark ages where 2100 cellphones were just appearing, 32inch CTR televisions were huge/heavy monsters and the internet was 32kb dial up modems that disconnected if you picked up your lan line phone and I loved Deus EX 1.

So frankly, I hope people can understand where I'm coming from when I tell new-comers that Human Revolution is a great starting point.

I can't speak for the other games as I just bought the full collection and I haven't played 1 in near decades, didn't buy Invisible War after playing the demo on a stone age Demo CD and didn't even know The Fall existed. With this collection I've finally gotten the Directors Cut so I can see the difference from the core game I already own.

[Erenussocrates]

The first one is definitely the best one.

[Zackman]

If you want to play them in chronological order;

Deus Ex:Human Revolution
Deus Ex:Mankind Divided
Deus Ex:Game of the Year Edition
Deus Ex:The Invisible War

if you want to play them by order of release;

Deus Ex:Game of the Year Edition
Deus Ex:The Invisible War
Deus Ex:Human Revolution
Deus Ex:Mankind Divided

Avoid Deus Ex:The Fall. If you really want to understand the lore for that game I'd recommend you look it up online. It's not a very well made game but if you REALLY want to play it to get the full experience, it... /puts on sunglasses ...falls between Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. YEAH!!!

[Mr. Whiskers]

I would recommend playing them in the order they came out simply because HR assumes you know what's coming rather than explaining some things. But the originals really aren't very good games, especially by modern standards. so don't expect anything incredible. If you're not determined to play them you could get all the useful bits from a wiki and save yourself the hassle.

[Erenussocrates]

I played HR first, and then I'm playing the original right now. I'm halfway through the game, and even from now I can confirm that the original beats HR a mile and back. People who say otherwise OBVIOUSLY have no idea what makes a good game.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

I played HR first, and then I'm playing the original right now. I'm halfway through the game, and even from now I can confirm that the original beats HR a mile and back. People who say otherwise OBVIOUSLY have no idea what makes a good game.

I disagree. Some of us were playing DX on and off for well over a decade before HR was even announced to be in production. HR is a far more competent game overall. DX is full of self-defeating trash mechanics that weren't even acceptable back in the bronze age when the game came out. It also fails to incorporate meaningful stealth, which is strange, since thief was actually on shelves back then.

[Erenussocrates]

HR is not a competent game compared to the original, it is a watered down and easy stealth game for me. It doesn't even have melee combat system. When I first played HR I thought that other than being a stealth game, it was also a very intensive resource management game, but original took that definition up to eleven. The missions in the original were more dangerous, and it felt like it was way more realistic overall. No NPC awareness indicator nor anything. In HR going lethal or non-lethal was definitely up to you, but that's not very possible in the original, you could neither go full non-lethal NOR full lethal because of those resource restrictions. Also the dialogue and the story in the original was far more better as well. On the other hand, I've found Jensen's story a little bit pointless to be honest, and they went on and exhausted it even more than how it was with mankind divided. The only thing that I can think of in HR that was superior to the original is those occasional speech minigames. That was good.

[Vassago Rain]

No, HR is in fact a far superior game to the original.

Here, let's compare.

DX
-skill system that accomplishes very little.
-weaponskill and aiming completely nullified by laser sights
-voice acting is TERRIBLE. This game was made during the era of Strife, Thief, and the system shock series. It's not cute, and wasn't cute back then, but low quality, zero effort trash.
-graphics were, are, and forever will be awful.
-endless resources. If you don't have 30 batteries and 15 medkits, you're doing something wrong.
-regeneration is a mandatory aug, yet the game isn't really designed for such a powerful ability. Most fights are impossible without, but trivial with it.
-there's roughly 20000000 weapons, but only 3 are actually worthwhile. You can ignore any and all weapons that aren't the sniper rifle, dragon's tooth, and stealth pistol.

Only someone wearing rose colored glasses would claim that the WRITING, STORY, and dialogue of the original even compares to Thief, let alone a contemporary big budget production like HR, with real voice actors and a director.

I've been here before. You're gonna say that the two lines with Morpheus totally makes it better, right? Yeah, man, I was 15 and loved fight club and the matrix, too, at one point, but I grew out of it.

[Erenussocrates]

No, HR is no way superior to the original, and infact it is quite objectively an inferior game to the original:

DX
-how does it accomplish very little? You obviously didn't pay attention to them, or played it wrong, or didn't play it at all. Skill system is one of the things that make the game more indepth than HR and adds actual RPG elements to it, which HR, wasn't. Not only that, but actually the skill system makes really sense. You don't actually aim like a pro with every weapon if you don't know how to properly use them. Meanwhile HR? Feels like a reskinned FPS.
-it is allowed to and there's no saying that it shouldn't. It actually makes sense that it should override skill. And laser mods are not found everywhere.
-voice acting of main characters is actually pretty good and suits their character. I don't care about the side characters or inconsequential NPCs. While jensen all the time sounds like he has throat cancer or he couldn't get out of puberty. It's so stereotypical, it sounds even kinda goofy and immersion breaking.
-graphics never define a game, and anyone who doesn't know that can go and have fun with their call of duty infinity and star wars battlefront stuff. Their input is irrelevant. Plus there are tons of mods that make Deus Ex even better than how it already is.
-You cannot even hold more than 10 medkits nor batteries in game, and they drain out quicker than you think. You get to restock them only if you are actively looking for them.
-There are definitely more weapons that are worthwhile to use than those 3.

Only someone who doesn't understand what makes a good story find HR's story better than original Deus Ex, and the comparison is actually so absurd it makes me laugh. Neither the characters nor the story were better in HR.

What does even matrix and fight club have to do with deus ex? They don't have anything to do with deus ex, that's just a baseless rhetoric lmao.

[Vassago Rain]

Most of the skills are worthless. Lowtech is pointless to invest in. Dragon's tooth does enough damage to kill anyone in a single hit, and back attacks with the baton and prod take down everything except commandos and MIBs at untrained. Swimming is laughable. Computers is pathetic. Lockpick, electronics, medicine, and rifles all cap out at trained, and gain very little at higher levels. Pistols is the only skill that benefits properly from a high level.

You people get hung up on the skills, period, instead of the skills mechanic. HR and MD feature better skills, and more useful ones, but they're all merged into an aug tree. Adam gets to level up his guns, too, but it falls under the cybernetic weapon affinity, which was fleshed out even further for MD.

One does not simply throw more choice in for the sake of having choice, or you get DX's 200000000000 weapons/3 useful ones. This was always a poor design decision in every DX game, though, and it's not only the first game that's guilty of it.

So for DX, you have the billion weapons, and only a tiny handful are useful. In IW, they cut the total weapons by a lot, but added some 'unique' variants, like the SMG that shoots spider robots instead of flashbangs. Unfortunately, because they didn't address the core problem of how combat works, once again, only a select few of the weapons are useful. In HR, most of the terrible picks are gone, but some silly designer felt that the pistol should be silenced, have the second highest rate of fire, common ammo, ignore armor, have sniper rifle range, laser sight, no recoil, tight bloom... MD finally got it right by ripping off crysis 2 and 3.

As for graphics never defining a game, don't make me laugh. Truly great titles all have excellent graphics. Maybe the 16-bit graphics in Terranigma and final fantasy 6 aren't the most cutting edge by today's standards, back then, they were, and the time and effort put into the art and world design means those great titles from forever ago hold up well to this day.

Even games like Thief and strife look good, while deus ex never looked good. The one thing everybody could agree on when it came out was that it had awful graphics. The original unreal has more impressive textures and lighting than DX, and they're on the same engine.

You can hold 15 medkits and 30 batteries, dude. Are you senile? There's also a doctor in Paris who'll sell you infinite batteries in case you're low for some reason. The game throws resources at you worse than a final fantasy game.

The voice acting isn't good. Give it up. I don't even need to comment on this. You should know what an absurd claim this is. DX is on par with the CD-i Zeldas.

Laser mods ARE found everywhere. You get your first one before you leave the first level. It's almost like they realized at the last second that their aiming system is terrible, and no one was gonna sit behind a bush for 6 seconds before they started shooting.

[Erenussocrates]

Literally all of your complaints are completely purged with the use of GMDX which is the best deus ex enhancement mod, which is the thing that I'm playing.

[Vassago Rain]

Originally posted by Erenussocrates:

Literally all of your complaints are completely purged with the use of GMDX which is the best deus ex enhancement mod, which is the thing that I'm playing.

Deus ex has been reliant on mods to fix its shoddy gameplay and awful balance and systems since it first released.

Literally.

Which only further proves my point. The base game isn't that great, and compared to a contemporary shooter, it's little more than a joke.