I could imagine a time when NPC's are all sentient, use speech synthesis (instead of voice actors) to generate real-time conversations, and everything in an environment is physics-based like the real world. At that point, programmers could spend their time programming in each of the story arcs and their watercooler moments to create a close approximation of real choice and consequence. When will any of this be a reality though, 25 to 50 years maybe?

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I imagine a game in which real gamers decide something instead of NPCs, yes it'll be an MMO sort of thing, but just imagine, someone comes to you to for a favour, you reject him and later you come to know that you are in big trouble because he wanted to take revenge.

@TheCommentator

There's a "leak" of what half-life 3 will be like and it sounds very similar to what you're saying. Very organic and everything plays out in real time and dialog is constructed based on what's happening. Maybe be totally fake but I love the concept of that.

You mean Human Revolution? But..You're serious? That's the first time I've seen anyone say that. The boss fights were the only real downside of the game. They were pretty lackluster, and they know this. That's why it was address.

I agree the boss battles weren't great, but, as is often the case, people exaggerate how "bad" they are. I'm sure they will have improved the boss battles for Mankind Divided in any case.

what are you talking about, I've played dozens of 360 and PS3 games. Mass Effect 2 game out in 2010 and looks far better than Deus EX Revolution.I played the Witcher 2 enhanced edition on 360 (a 2011 game like Human Revolution) and it looked far better than Human Revolution also.

I'm currently enjoying the game; I have made it to the Montreal missions. However, I stick by my statements on the game's graphical and mechanical short comings (in my opinion).

I think of it like ME1 versus ME2. ME1 was more an RPG than it was anything else. Deus Ex is the same for me. The components from other genres were melded in fine and didn't detract from it being an RPG or make it into another genre.

For some, if it has shooting, it has to feel like a shooter. I disagree. It needs to feel first and foremost like an RPG, and the game did that without having poor stealth or shooting gameplay that also relied on RPG elements.