HR dev here, i did animation work for the weapons and cover mechanics. I was temporary and only worked on the game for a few months before my contract was terminated. I remember at one point one of my co workers was talking to our supervisor about the intro and some potential changes for gameplay purposes, the supervisor turned around and straight up said that would be difficult because most of the main designers of the intro had since been laid off or their contracts terminated and so couldnt be referred to for any assistance. Just another reminder that on AAA projects, most of the staff who do the actual work are laid off as soon as their specific work is "completed" according to producers, so if any of that work needs to be changed they will need to use other people who didn’t personally do any of that work which is why some parts of the game dont seem to fit with others. Well, this and following the design doc to a t.

I find it very funny that the slow fall mod is called the Icarus Landing System when Icarus, quite famously, did not land safely.

i love that guy who either calls you attila the hun or ghandi based on whether or not you killed people in the mission because he's just mad at you no matter what you do. if you didn't go to the mission because you had the flu, you'd come in and he'd be like WELL WELL, IF IT ISN'T TYPHOID MARY. I GUESS YOUR ROBOT ARMS CAN'T ACCEPT A FLU SHOT, CAN THEY? DON'T ANSWER THAT. I DON'T WANT TO BE EXPOSED TO COVID-38

You know, looking at current events, the main antagonists effectively wanting to ban medicine is probably the most realistic part of this game's plot.

Gonna be completely honest here, Mr. Bomberguy: In my opinion, the worst part of this video was where I had to explain to my family that I couldn't hang out because I was too busy watching a three and a half hour video about how a game I've never played, and that came out a long time ago was FINE. Otherwise, I enjoyed every second!

Messed up that they make u watch this whole video as a cut scene before u get to any of the gameplay in Mankind Divided imo

One of my favourite Mark Rober videos is the self-playing piano, because when he tries to simplify the key mechanism, he finds that every part of it is essential, and nothing can be removed or altered without preventing the whole system from working properly.

“A building full of human beings… and the cops interrogating them too” is easily one of the best lines in a video ever. Instant top 10 greatest lines ever.

Didn't even play this game, but I'm interested in this 3 hour hbomberguy video

People who want his videos to be shorter are wrong, this is the ideal hbommerguy video length

Fun fact about the Shadowrun comparison: the Humanity stats is actually relatively new, and in the original incarnation of the game it represented the degree of control that corporations could exert over your life through their control of resources you need to live. It was changed to Prosthetics Make You Evil when the original company writing the game was bought out by a much bigger company lol

I can't believe I just watched a 4 hour long review about a game I'd never heard of, that I don't care about, that came out more than a decade ago and that I will never play...but I was fully invested, immersed and entertained. I'm not even a real gamer. I just play sims 3 and Last Day On Earth on my phone. You are one hell of a storyteller Mr Bomber.

What I learned from this video: - Making video games is hard. - Making great video games is incredibly hard.

Gee, it's almost like a game made by a massive corporation isn't going to distinguish between "robot arm tied to a subscription service that will kill you if you stop paying=bad" and "robot arm=bad"

Wait, you don't understand, as a Ukrainian, I need that 2-hour STALKER essay

I fell asleep to this video yesterday and dreamed I was in an office building in Montreal and Hbomb was following me around wearing a suit explaining how that building had bad level design

"We don't know he owns the boat. That's not in the Wiki." Makes me chuckle every time.

You have to respect the thoroughness of the man. Most people say “fine” because they don’t want to go into any detail. He needed to take some extra time to explain why it’s not ‘great’ or ‘bad’.

"Conceal- carry Buster sword" - It's been a nearly two years and that line still slays me.

"Is it good? I don't know, but it's definitely THE MOST" is a line that always makes me laugh. I don't care what I do for a living, if this isn't how my work is described I haven't done a good job

Key takeaway: Elevators need to have a mini-game

Petition to have Deus Ex: Human Revolution is FINE, And Here's Why: Directors Cut Edition with the 2 hour Stalker rant intact.

Welcome back everyone for our 17th rewatch of this video which for some reason can be watched again and again and it feels fresh everytime.

Playing this in the background and hearing Shaun's voice out of nowhere was so jarring. I thought I'd passed out and missed an auto-play skip where Shaun was coincidently also talking about Deus Ex.

"Fat-fingered my way into twelve consecutive life sentences" is quite possibly the best phrase ever written in English.

Explaining how a game is "ok" in 3 and a half hours was the funniest thing I've seen on my home page

I'm studying design for games and I'M THAT BITCH WHOSE WHOLE LIFE WAS INSPIRED BY DXHR. Thank you so much for this very fascinating and useful revisit. I never knew MD2 was going to be made and finding out it was cancelled just filled me with a profound sense of grief ;(

not now kids, i need to watch this year old, 3 and a half hour long video about a decade old videogame ive never played

Honestly I feel like if augmentations were real, radical groups who hated “all augmentations indiscriminately” while wearing glasses feels all too real.

"12 more videos are gonna start this way" hey, that's at least 12 more years of hbomberguy videos! ♥️

On a side node: i cant believe that people dont see the stupid irony of the Icarus Falling System and similar things. I never want to use something that is named after something that is only known for to needlessly crash and burn.

1:43:00 - Don't think about it *_too hard_* but also notice that when you pick up a spare weapon you get the ammo in the weapon *_and the weapon itself disappears_* you _don't get a duplicate in your inventory_ If you were like me and wanted to horde credits that meant functionally you had to *_walk back to a merchant with every individual spare gun_* to sell them without them *Disappearing into the ether* 2:49:30 - Honestly I think that, for a game seemingly designed around being played on the original Xbox, Invisible war wasn't *_that_* bad, for the most part it still managed to keep a lot of ideas from behind Deus Ex but unfortunately got rid of a lot of key things that should have stayed. Still played it and enjoyed it thoroughly.

I like to imagine a world where a game dev accidentally gets Hbomb to play test their games and gets a 6 hour roast in return

Why is nobody talking about the incredible voice actors he got for the recreation of the opening walk around where Adam just annoys his ex about anime

I heard Tommy Talarico worked hand in hand with Deux X himself

I feel like the silent killer of that entire era of RPGs were endings that were three options you pick in the very last moments of the game

2:19:48 The vent that leads *DIRECTLY TO HIS OFFICE* leads you there from the *BATHROOM*. It's like the level designers are making fun of their own design. That vent can ONLY exist to make that guy's office smell like piss. There's no other explanation.

“Please don’t make fun of how long this is” as if long, comprehensive deep dives aren’t why we love this channel.

Oh my god i JUST got the euthanasia joke in the medical clinic bit, like nearly the exact same joke from the Ali G movie "Have you considered euthanasia (youth in asia) as a way to relieve suffering?" "I don't want that Chinese crap, i want real medicine." 🤣🤣🤣

The Icarus metaphor for augmentations IS actually pretty clever if you think about it: Icarus had man-made wings attached to his body that allowed him to reach heights never before thought possible, but the way those wings were crafted also had a key weakness, as the wax holding them together could melt off, trading a great ability for a certain risk Augmentations are man-made objects attached to one's body that allow them to do things never before thought possible, but the way they're crafted means they can be hijacked, trading a great ability for a certain risk They didn't have to hammer in that point a thousand times, but it's a clever metaphor

It's kinda dystopian to hear someone say "it's great to work with them, because their IP portfolio is very rich"

3 hours and you didn't answer the biggest question. How many awards did Tommy Tallarico win for his work on Deus Ex: Human Revolution?

I'm terrible at playing stealth-encouraged shooters with inventory systems. It took me years to finish the first Metal Gear Solid games without dropping the difficulty down where they give you more item capacity and easier enemies. When I was younger I'd just completely freeze up in "panic" about whether I'd come out of the next encounter with enough bullets/supplies to not be stuck. A little older, and, well...I run out of supplies and get stuck. All three times I've played the original Deus Ex, I've _completely_ run out of weapon ammunition in Hong Kong. So I've experinced the first three DE games pretty much exclusively through longplays and text-commentary-only walkthroughs (I started watching one of Mankind Divided and just...stopped). Needless to say, those don't linger long on the game's news articles and text dumps if at all and breeze through non-plot-critical branches, and...today I learned Sanders and Sandoval are related.

The loss in control in deux ex over time represents the loss in control we have all collectively experienced since the original deus ex was made till today

As a developer, I appreciate that in the first 20 minutes you really tackle the "Couldn't they just" argument head on. A lot of the time people think studios can still wave magic wands and solve problems the way they used to. Games have reached a level of fidelity and complication that that's slowly become more and more impossible.

This video is so interesting to drop right after that story about people who got prosthetic, electronic eyes implanted by a company that no longer supports the technology. Basically, the robot eyes allowed people with certain types of blindness to see varying levels of shapes and shades of black and white, which for many people allowed them much greater freedom in navigating the world. But the technology wasn't sufficiently profitable so the company just... stopped supporting the technology. People's eyes began breaking down and there's essentially no way to have them repaired. If they break, they're just broken: you don't get to see anymore. So I think there's a possibly rich story here about what happens when you choose to be augmented but have very little control over what happens to that technology once it's actually implanted in your body and the sort of inherent terror that your body might just stop functioning and there's nothing you can do about that. Feels like something people might have a lot of rich and complex feeling about that could be explored very effectively by a protagonist who is heavily augmented but not by choice, since he has to live with that or die, idk tho...

This is a very fun video to revisit after spending over 400 hours in Baldur's Gate 3, and see how well Larian did on parts that are talked about here

This video is great, but the one thing I remember most is the amazing delivery of: Jack: Oh my god! JC, a bomb! JC: A bomb! The delivery isn't bad for the time, but something about it and the dialogue itself is just immensely funny to me.

I’m not going to make fun of how long this is, I am going to say how impressive it is that you got it to be perfectly 3:33:33

I imagine that someday I'll be explaining to someone's grandchildren, "You don't understand. HBomb was so good at the craft that I sat through and actually enjoyed a three and a half hour takedown of a game I've never heard of and would never play."

After recently playing Deus Ex for the first time, the main thing that stood out is complete lack of objective markers. Having to use actual maps, compass, and the directons you were given was such a difference from ANYTHING in modern games. That also adds to the exploration and freedom, since when you don't have an objective marker, it means that there doesn't have to be an "intended way" of doing something or getting somewhere. Having objective markers is likely my biggest issue with HR and MD.

Game publishers never fail to underestimate immersive sims.

"Like twelve more videos are gonna star like this" - that's great, let's have one for another decade of Hbomberguy videos!

Not making fun of the video length but at the fact that there are subtitles ON A 3 HOUR VIDEO. Massive props!

1:51:03 oh the euthanasia line KILLED me. Thank you for including it 😭🙏✨

Sanders ripping out his prosthetic eye also could've played into hbomber's idea for that faction really well. Rather than him ripping out the eye because of some puritanical ideologies, it could've something he gave up so that someone else could have the ability to see again. A moment of compassion that could draw more people to his side and allow him to take extreme measures for his goals while still maintaining an image that would realistically draw people to stand alongside him, whether that's a calculated move on his part of just sincere care for another.

My favorite and most memorable experience in HR was non-lethally taking out every single cop in the police station as stealthily as possible (so that nobody outside of maybe one or two near me that were swiftly dispatched) were alerted in any way, then packing them all into a single small vent, only to discover that the physics engine doesn't like that and having the bodies explode everywhere, getting stuck in walls, and killing many of them. Later did the same thing at the hive, seeing how many could be packed into a bathroom stall before critical mass was achieved. Still got the pacifist achievement that run im pretty sure. A hell of a good time to be sure, but says something about the game's depth.

The best part about an Hbomberguy video is thinking "Oh man it sounds like he's reaching a conclusion, guess it'll be another 6 months until a new video" then realizing you still have 2 hours left in this one

Watching this made me realise how Cyberpunk 2077 is just a more refined version of human revolution but ultimately falls into a lot of the same pitfalls HR did.

"The end result is like playing a fairly simple cover shooter while being lightly choked from behind by a game designer. Even when it's straightforward, it's still a little tense. And that's what makes it fun." - Harris "Sonic Lore Analysis" Bomberguy

The "are you guys talking about ghost in the shell?!" part felt like a direct attack on me. I've been that guy. I *am* that guy.

the fact that hbmomber can jus drop a video thats longer than a full length feature film about a decade + old video game once a year and get 2.7 million people to watch it is fucking mindblowing sorcerer shit. thisnis my 3rd time through and ive never played the game

I played DE:HR a couple of years ago, first on PS4 and then again on PC, and I had never played a DE game before that. Seeing the comparison between older DE games to now is astounding, especially because I ended up having so much fun in the modern titles. I think the title of this video is perfect, because now all I want to do it try the older games and get the full freedom of choice experience.

Hey hbomber-nerd let me tell you something, at the beginning you said to use the chapter select to skip around the video and I absolutely will not you fool! I start this video from the beginning every time I watch it and there’s nothing you can do to stop me!!

"Who takes out their company keycard and lays it on the coffee table like this?" Stares next to me at my company keycard sitting on my side table

“He’s a sigma male! Jensen get out of there!” I watch this at least once a week and that is always my favorite part lol

As a big fan of Mass Effect, I wanna hear the big HBomb take on Mass Effect

oh in a hindsight, dan olson, a canadian, imitating a french (Quebecer?) accent is very funny

Okay the assumption that I don't want Gex to show up in Kingdom Hearts and kiss Goofy is utterly inaccurate! If society needs to crumble to see that happen, it was weak to begin with.

HBomberguy is probably the only video essayist i know of who would create, and then upload a video twice the run-time of a feature length film, discussing in excruciating detail why a game released over a decade ago, that no one else really cares about anymore, was just pretty ok.

Yep, they should've added a dedicated "I never asked for this" button in the game, but sadly, it was probably not in the original design documents.

55:40 an easy cool change could have been: saving Sandervals brother and talking him down causes his brother to turn non-hostile when he shows up again, or even allows you to pass through a room that would normally have a tough combat encounter.

Cool vid, i look forward to finishing it over the next 4 weeks

I used to work in a lockshop and the majority of the door hardware and locks we sold/installed were from brands that were all owned by assa abloy (yale, schlage, mul-t-lock, etc). All of these brands almost directly competed with each other too. So technically all the door locks in the game being made by the same company isn't actually that unrealistic

I credit this video with getting me interested in trying Deus Ex, and I knew the game really was all it was cracked up to be when I crowbarred a pimp to death, got a lead on a warehouse in the local tiny hub area, clumsily stealthed my way through the abandoned warehouse, whacked all the guards to death because I didn't dump any points into gunplay and blew up the generator from up on the rooftop, only to walk down into the mess and find a whole other route to the damned thing I had no idea existed.

Slightly unpopular opinion: I fucking love hacking minigames. Like, close to all of them. It's silly, but it genuinely makes me feel more like I earned the successful hack when I do some dumb little timed puzzle to get it. Instead of pulling me out of immersion, it enhances it for me. Same deal with Elder Scrolls-style lockpicking.

My main issue with the game was that i was going for a full stealth playthrough.Jensen was a master infiltrator and hacker when controlled by me, who was never detected and left a trail of unconscious hostiles in his wake. Yet as soon as the FEMA cutscene started Jensen, who up untill then crouched more than walked, suddenly decided walking into a room, without even trying to hide, in the middle of hostile territory was a good idea, and just got caught by Barrett.......

"If we're not careful, Gex will be in the next kingdom hearts" Somewhere out there videogamedunkey just had a heart attack

The biggest thing that always bothered me about this game was the third person takedown animation. Why does player control need to be taken away in order to perform a basic attack? It runs blatantly counter to the original's philosophy of being as first-person as possible.

Ya know something I don't see said here is how the ending line, "Please, call me... Bob," makes no sense in the context of WHY it's there Like they make him say he's Bob cuz he's Bob Page, the guy what from the first game, it's a little easter egg tie in thing for people who know. BUT the people who know that would most likely already GET that "Mr. Page" is the same Page as being the main fuckin' antagonist of Deus Ex?? So the only reason to have him for "Blease, ball be Bbob" is for people who WOULDN'T know the name Page on its own, so that's, people who the reference has, zero meaning to???

My favourite part of Human Revolution was committing to the non lethal run achievement and finishing the game then remembering I killed the guys in the tutorial because I didn't have non lethal weapons and didn't sneak past them.

Finally, the Long Night is over. Time to start the journey of watching and rewatching another hbomberguy video game essay a million times.

You forgot to mention that augmented limbs required the user to take Neuropozyne to prevent their bodies from rejecting the augments in painful ways, the drug was also deliberately very expensive meaning most poor people with augments couldn't afford it, Adam Jenson was also Patient X, a heavily augmented human who did not require Neuropozyne, he was essentially a prototype experiment for what would become a standard augmented human years down the line.

3:10:49 the robot eye being branded with a company logo actually illustrates a real-life problem of disabled people being forced into becoming walking advertisements for the company of their prosthetic. Kinda funny how you can gleam more commentary from an in-game ad compared to the entire of the anti-augmentation organisation.

Me when a movie I really want to see is 120 min long: awghhn that is too long 😭 Me when Hbomberguy releases a 200+ min long video about a game I have no interest in ever playing: MY GOD THIS IS THE IDEAL LENGHT I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH IT A MILLION TIMES

I don't know what's weirder: a three and a half hour video about how a game is "fine" or the fact that I'll probably watch every second of it.

2:04:05 "Fun fact, I was born and raised in West Yorkshire" Yorkshire represennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt!!!

2:33:00 Also throwing stuff around IS a meaningful interaction. It's used in stealth to distract people, toss a physics object away from yourself to make guards turn around. Literally the *only* interaction in Deus Ex that doesn't interact with other systems are billiards tables (I mean, it makes noise but that's barely anything).

Update: Square-Enix is now selling Eidos Montreal and the Deus Ex intellectual property to Embracer Group AB, which was previously known as THQ Nordic AB (not to be confused with its subsidary THQ Nordic GmbH or the original owner of the THQ trademark THQ Inc.) THQ Inc. went bankrupt in 2012 and sold their trademark to Nordic Games Licensing AB in 2014, which is when Nordic Games Licensing AB changed its name to THQ Nordic AB and changed the name of its subsidary Nordic Games GmbH to THQ Nordic GmbH. Does that make sense to everyone else?

This is really interesting actually, when my kid sister got addicted to Uncharted developed the exact same vocabulary for blaming "Cutscene Drake", like he was a separate entity, whenever the game showed her the main character doing something cool she didn't get to do herself, or when he went down to the kind of hit she'd learned he'd have been able to shrug off while she was controlling him.

I am a simple man, I hear a home alone soundbyte in a video, I like and subscribe. I hear someone shit on a game I really enjoyed growing up, I like and subscribe harder. Then I realize I mixed up my viagra with my anti-psychotics and have an awkward visit to the hospital.

I will say: the redeeming feature of the melee cinematics is that I remember it being very easy to hit the button by accident. So my thumb would slip and suddenly Jensen would, apropos of nothing, cinematically manhandle or punch a random NPC on the street

It seems they forgot that the Icarus myth wasn't about the danger of making wings, it was about the dual danger of complacency and hubris and considering for a moment that your dad, Daedalus, one of the most intelligent people alive, and the inventor of those wings, might know what he's talking about when he tells you not to be stupid with them. After all, Daedalus made it out fine on identical wings. Applying the actual Icarus myth to the solitary malnourished theme of Human Revolution ironically gets us a completely different message: "When presented with the invention of augmentation, don't be so complacent about the concept that you reject it entirely, like the puritans, dooming countless lives to suffer fates that could easily be averted. Equally do not be so ambitious and thoughtless in your implementation that you end up with people augmented on a whim, like the cheating couple that irreparably scarred their bodies due to a passing fancy. Instead, use the technology responsibly to help people and allow humanity to soar to new heights. After all, the wings of Daedalus lift you into freedom, they are not shackles binding you to the earth.

It's FMV cutscenes all over again! Everyone thought it would be so awesome if the game looked like a movie, but it didn't really work because there was no real way to make the FMV sections interactive, so they were only used for mission briefings and stuff. Now these cutscenes cost millions of dollars to make and they have to limit interactivity and make us just sit and watch them for the same reason - there's only one (or, if you're really lucky, 2 or 3) versions of each scene, so you can't give the player control beyond maybe one or two binary choices.

On multiple watchthroughs of this video, I wonder if the vents were developer shortcuts that were kept in.

You know, not enough credit is being given to whoever closed captioned this beast! Well done.

My absolute favourite Deus Ex moment: I was in a level where I was sneaking though some multi-level warehouse. Made a bit too much noise. "What's that!?" So, I run, I dash, I duck into an office and hide behind the open door. Guard walks in. I wheel around the door, pull out my sawed-off shotgun, fire it off right in his chest. He spins a full 180, says "Enh... probably just some homeless guy," and casually walks off, the alert officially over. Now, THAT is player agency. This game allowed me to perform a lobotomy with a shotgun. 14/10

I would love to hear the 2-hour Stalker Clear Sky lecture.

Gex is back

I can't believe Hbomb failed to praise this game's excellent soundtrack from Tommy Tallarico.