Release: August 23, 2011 Developer: Eidos Montreal Publisher: Square Enix Link: eidosmontreal.com
There have been times in my life I’ve tried to convince myself I didn’t like something because it wasn’t ‘hardcore’ or PC enough. For almost a year in high school, I pretended to not like BioWare games – to no one else in particular, just in my own mind palace – because I watched a loud man on YouTube say they were quite bad indeed.
So too, more recently, with the Deus Ex series. I played the hell out of Human Revolution, Eidos Montreal’s 2011 prequel/reboot, in high school. I must have rolled credits on it at least twice before ever making it past the halfway point in the OG classic, and yet for a long time I think I’d subconsciously talked myself into looking down my nose at it: too dumbed down, too different. Give me Deus Ex? Yeah, that means Dentons and GEP Guns, I never asked for Jensens or explosive revolvers!
I was definitely still feeling that trepidation when I reinstalled the Director’s Cut of on my Steam Deck and loaded into its opening
