Human Revolution vs mankind divided?

[clop1000]

If my memory serves me right - mankind divided had mostly bad or mixed rating at the date of the release.
how is it now?
How does it compare with human revolution or for that matter with the first deus ex?
What is better, what is worse compared to hr?

[Kai]

Its just a little shorter, and has occassional optimization bugs. Thats about as far as the drawbacks go for MD

[Tobar]

I just beat MD again after not playing it for 4 years. I played this playthrough with a mixed of nonlethal and lethal on the 3rd hardest difficulty before starting the 1 life mode. Playing a lethal style in MD isn't fun compared to how it was in HR.

I did all the side missions and most of them are boring and have little substance to make me care about what I was doing. The most memorable side mission has to be the Harvester one (which is one of the last Side missions).

I think I was more upset that I had to watch the same 10-20 second cutscene every time I used the train. Also I hate how you can't used the human cart without get a 20 second cutscene asking for your damn papers. Overall I think the game is a fine 7 out of 10 and the DLCs are better than the base game. I wish the game was longer too. I finished it in about 16 hours (that's also with me leaving my computer on while I was eating and doing other things).

[Vassago Rain]

It's vastly superior to the rest of the series, and an order of magnitude more detailed and complex than anything else in its supposed genre.

[asheer150]

Human revolution and the first Deus ex are golden. Invisible war was average, MD was ok.

[Water]

Beat MD a few years ago on Xbox. The game felt more polished than HR, but more disappointing as well. MD is a relatively short game that feels like it was cut at about 75% production.

HR was more fun IMO, but still a let down if you're expecting something close to Deus Ex GOTY Edition.

I really hope they abandon Adam Jensen and figure a way to get back to a JC Denton storyline, but likely will not happen.

[magritte]

I preferred it to HR because it didn't have the frustrating boss battles that were totally incompatible with my play style and augmentations. It's shorter and doesn't have as much variety in its environments, but it's fun.

It's such a long time since I played the original, but it was groundbreaking at the time, which the newer ones aren't. Invisible War was OK, but probably the weakest of the lineup.

[Ez Duzit]

Loved both HR and MD. Recently got a new pc with a 3060ti and decided to play MD again. Runs great on either DX 11 or DX 12 with everything maxed out, but will sometimes crash after 2-3 hours of playing but usually it runs fine. Other then that, no real problems and enjoying it as much as ever. One of my favorite games and an easy 9/10. The only game I enjoyed more then MD or HR was The Witcher 3 but that's just too long to replay.

[B]

I remember playing HR fighting the first boss. He ended up killing himself because he was standing too close to one of the concrete pillars as he trying to launch missiles at me. I preferred MD.

[Lunethreks]

As far as how it compares to HR, it is behind in story but vastly superior in terms of gameplay. The levels are well made and most of the abilities are fun and useful (with a couple exceptions). The gameplay is extremely smooth and whether you are doing combat or stealth, lethal or nonlethal, you'll have a good time. Unfortunately, the story had the potential to be excellent, but lost said potential because of the game's length. The game ends right as things are starting to reach their climax.

[t]

MD has better gameplay and the side quests are much better. I disagree with people saying it is shorter, because it takes me about the same amount of time to finish both games if I do everything.
HR has a better story and better characters. Pritchard and Malik are better than MacReady and Alexa by a longshot.

[Lupin III]

I'm playing this right now, and I'm running into a lot of console-port related problems with the game that I didn't have in Human Revolution and it's making it difficult for me to enjoy the game.

The good: They fixed the UI scale problem from HR. I can use scoped weapons on my 4k monitor and I can actually see the radar and read ebooks and pads and newspapers now.

The bad: I use the left/right buttons on my trackball for forward/backword movement. The movement keys are hardcoded into the entire game's menu navigation system. Everything from inventory, to the main menu, and the options menus, the augment menu, the customization and crafting menus, the hacking minigame... all of them are hardcoded with these movement keys and are not disconnected from the normal function of the left/right click. When I click on something in any menu, the cursor moves. It makes navigating the menus a nightmare.

More bad: I keep getting stuck in things... not geometry, but in dialogues and menus. I got stuck on the option to turn on the TV in Jensen's apartment, and was unable to get out of that dialogue, it would just keep opening it up again as soon as I closed it. I also get totally stuck in the weapon customization menu if I try to add a laser sight to my weapons. Once I add the laser, all the buttons used to exit the menu stop working. Click on the back button just flashes the button and ignores me. The only thing I could do to get out of these situations was alt-f4. This is probably related to the previous problem with the hardcoded keys.

Even more bad: Directx12 is completely broken and causes the game to crash with out of memory errors. I've got 8gb vram, 32gb ram, and plenty of room on my SSD for as much virtual memory as my system could possibly need. My system exceeds the recommended specs, but that doesn't seem to matter... this DX12 problem is pretty common for people.

[Vassago Rain]

It's not a console port.

[Lupin III]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

It's not a console port.

Well then that makes it even worse.

[Kai]

Ive played this since release and within the first 2 3 years, i never came across any bug, glitches or crashes. But i was playing it on moderate settings, medium-high.

But recently i tried playing it again on max because my hardware is better now, and got into a couple crashes. I was using an old 2018 save too, so not sure if its because of that or playing it on max. Even though i could get a constant 60fps, the physics and complexity of the maps in this game is so high, that i think rendering it takes a toll on performance.

So for newcomers id suggest keeping the visual quality just enough that it looks decent. There might be other issues like compatibility with modern hardware that might hinder your experience. And for the love of the machine god, dont use dx12.

[Deadeye]

There both good.