とりあえず、レジストリをいじらないと快適にプレイできないっていうのは製品としてどうかと思うよ…

DC版は通常版においてパッチで改善されたバグやグリッチが軒並み復活しているらしく、そのせいかはわからないが、普通にプレイするだけでも端々に挙動の怪しい部分が目につく。また序盤のデトロイトでメインクエスト＆サブクエストが同時に進行不可能になるという、ちょっと有り得ない事態にも遭遇した。
操作体系も不慣れというか、いまいちマウス＆キーボード向けに最適化されていない部分が目立ち、本作がコンソール主導で開発されたことを強く自覚させられるとともに、初代作のほうがキーレスポンスが圧倒的に良いってのはどういうことなんだと思わされもする。開発者はコメンタリーとか入れてる場合じゃねぇだろ。
今後パッチが出ることはないと思うので、可能であるなら通常版を購入するか、あるいは有志製作のデバッグメニューを使って無制限にテイクダウンをキメまくりたい！などという不埒な思考を持つ人間（俺のことです）でもない限り、素直にローカライズされた家庭機版を購入しましょう。調整が甘いせいで、PC版のほうが快適とかそういう感じではまったくないので。
でもDC版はいろいろ追加されてたり、難易度が調整されてるんでしょう？通常版よりプレイが快適になってるんでしょう？と思うでしょう？いや、別に？

肝心のボス戦について、開発者はメディアのインタビュー等で根本部分から改善を図ったかのような発言をしているが、実際は通常版のマップにほんの少し手が加えられているだけで、付け焼刃にしかなっていない。何も変わっていないのと同等のレヴェル。

たぶん、これ、片手間仕事で作ってます。
なんでこんな雑に作り直したの。新生Deus Exは間違いなく素晴らしいゲームだったと迷いなく断言できたDC版プレイ前の俺を返してくれ。

日本語入ってない上に日本語化不可
さすが、スクエニさんですね

以前のDeus Ex（2001）より前の物語となっているはずだが。。。何か非常に浮いた作品のように感じられる。以前の作品では世界の陰謀、それを補うリアルな人物像を描いたサイドストーリーなどいろいろな視点から楽しめたゲームだったが今回はそれらはすべて放棄されサイボーグのことしか語られていない。前作と比べると内容がやたらに薄っぺらい。
グラフィックは総じて整っているが金色と黒の主張が強すぎる。
あと、避けられないボス戦は必要なのかなあ、キルフレーズとか戦闘をさせる方法はないの？いたるところでDeus Exらしくないように感じられた。

Let's get it out of the way : Deus Ex Human Revolution is a masterpiece, easily one of the 10 best games ever made in the history of video games. If you can get your hands on a NON director's cut version, by all mean do yourself a favour and play that.

However, I do not recommend the Director's Cut edition, for a simple reason : technically, it's a mess, one of the worst botch job ever.

I heard they somehow managed to lose the code of the proper Human Revolution PC game with its updates, and had to work from the WiiU version to create the DC edition. True or not, it certainly is believable considering how blurry the textures are compared to the original game, how inferior the lighting and bloom are, and generally speaking how the whole game feels like playing an almost finished beta version of the original instead of an upgrade. Honest, I had to check my settings because I thought I was playing at a lower resolution. It's murky, and not just slightly so. Oh, and of course there are some stuttering issues, even on a rig far more than capable of running it.

Even worse is the fact the game was abandonned the moment it was out. DC edition has the version number 2.0.0.0, meaning it was NEVER updated. You have bugs that didn't exist in the original game, or at least had been fixed. And then you have bugs pertaining to the content that was was added, as it should have been in the first place, but poorly so.

For instance, The Missing Link used to be standalone, so there was no question about what gear you had when you arrived there and what gear you would have when leaving. With it streamlined into the main game, they included the possibility to recover all your weapons shortly after escaping, and the rest of your stuff later on. ALL your weapons ? Not quite. Apparently the job was done by an intern on their first week of coding ever. The silenced sniper rifle isn't included in the recovery list. Gotta love upgrading a weapon only to lose it forever.

There are also some issues like guards ALWAYS knowing exactly where you are even though you shot their buddy from a mile away with your silenced sniper, body glitching through the environment and thus being impossible to hide, and so on. And if you try to launch the game while offline, it will not tell you you can't, it will just crash at launch with a runtime error.

Then, the boss battles. They were the ONE flaw in the original game, they remain a wart. First boss seems even more stupid as he doesn't seem to know how to climb a ladder or check what's going on when a door mysteriously opens. Second boss "workaround" to avoid fighting her directly involves VERY long and VERY tight corridors in which you can't really dodge. She always knows where you are, and she's invisible. In the original game I beat her on first try, even though I was playing a stealthy character. There, took me about 10 tries, because I insisted on trying the alternate method, wich ended up being FAR more dangerous. No idea what the third boss is like, I didn't have the patience to get there.

I never asked for this. Gonna replay the original instead.

I want Japanese localization.

(日本語化してちょ)

このイチローゲームは日本語化できると思って買ったんです。
どうやら確かに日本語化できてたようなんです。過去には…ｗ

Director's Cutになって日本語化できなくなっちゃったようで、
どうしても日本語でプレイしたいならバニラ版を他所で買うしかないようです。

大安売りに安易に飛びついたらエライ目にあっちゃった～
カード抜いたら、積みゲー決定なのだｗ

あのー、言語。

バイオスキャン何回もやらされる終盤が本当に糞

2017年現在ストレスフリーな良ゲーをやってきた人にはただ苦行に思う場面が多い

A pale shadow of the original, DX:HR's troubles aren't its mediocre gameplay or poor game design. It's the story, and the story's presentation. The original game introduced the villains quickly, and always kept them -- and their motivations -- just inside the shadows, giving players a delight in discovering the depths of their schemes. HR's villains are either so deep in the darkness that their motivations, even at the end of the game, are inscrutable and their methods obscure, while others are so front-and-centre that they border on the comical. Even the cast of protagonists flail about like marionettes, their strings being clumsily pulled to and fro by the writers with no idea of how to tell a compelling story.

The out-of-touch boss fights are the most direct merging of the bad story-telling with the poor gameplay, and the "alternative stealthy solutions" to those fights in this Director's Cut edition boil down to nothing more than some hackable turrets or sentries with which to gun down the bosses, clumsily added to levels without even bothering to update the minimap for the new level areas

It's true that you can choose to shoot, hack, subdue, or sneak, but the game clearly favours sneaking, hacking, and subduing, with massive XP loss if you fail to hack every terminal (even when you know the password!), search every vent, and knock out every guard. Do all this, and the XP rewards ensure you will be a veritable God by the endgame, invulnerable to the pathetic attempt at shock and horror in the final level.

No matter how you choose to play Adam Jensen in the game, he will never be as stupid or as incompetent as he is in the cutscenes, which serve to ham-handedly enforce idiotic plot twists. And whereas the original gave three interesting solutions to humanity's future, with different, equally valid reasons to select, presented by different, generally equally likeable characters, offering differing mission challenges, and brief, direct, and meaningful conclusions, this game gives us a choice of four buttons to press in the final room, followed by vague philosophical meandering to a vague montage that wouldn't look out of place on a YouTube conspiracy video.

Long story short: The gameplay is disappointing and the story is not compelling. It's a mediocre ride at best, and does a disservice to the Deus Ex name.

!!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME !!!

Director's Cut is a scam. The game uses an old version of the original game, which means it has all the bugs that were patched years ago in THE ORIGINAL GAME! Only handful were fixed in DC. In addition to the new bugs players have found, this version also seems to have downgraded graphics, such as low quality SSAO, broken Post Processing, streched textures, missing colors etc.

Game's forums on Steam and on Eidos site shows no one in the company - including moderates - care about this game. Steam discussions page shows at least 144 unfixed, missing features/bugs for this game.

The only "enhancement" in this version is the toned down yellow tint a.k.a. piss filter, which IMO was too much in some areas of the original game. It's an artistic question. I personally prefer it off just because I have finished the game and found it hiding details in otherwise dated looking game. I also like more vibrant colors in general. They could've just toned it down in the areas where it was too much, not in the whole game. There should've been at least an option to turn it back on if desired.

If you like the toned down yellow tint in DC, you are better off with the original as you get far better results by trying out different SweetFX profiles.


To people who own the original and TML:

Play those instead. You save HDD/SSD space, have the best bug-free experience with less chance to get graphical glitches. Yes, the boss battles were questionable, but you are only missing slightly more open areas in boss battles that were probably done by some trainee in one weekend anyway.


To people who don't own the original nor TML:

Find a boxed copy on your local store's bargain bin or get an activation code for Steam from a legitimate cd-key market site. Don't worry about TML (The Missing Link). It's like the fourth episode in Duke Nukem 3D. Unnecessary. Just a nice extra. TML only explains "three days in statis" and is attached to the main story in DC.

There was no need for explanation really. I didn't even notice days were passed at that point of the game. You can get a key for TML online, e.g. Amazon if you really want.