Greed. Instead of making a game that brings the money in, they chase after the money instead. It started with DX: The Fall, which clearly should have been a followup to HR or standalone expansion, but they see mobile gaming in 2013 made ~$16B, so they jumped on the bandwagon. I played the pc port it wasnt bad, but it was just wasted potential.

Now with MD they start off with a huge preorder controversy (tiered reward levels). And they still add micro transactions and hold/pull content for dlc. If they just made the best game they could, consumers would gladly hand over their money for it, but they continually try to cash grab, which consumers will not support.

I actually really enjoyed it. Maybe my favorite RPG of 2016, though the competition for that title was very light.

Nothing did. But Square.

I liked mankind much more than human revolution. But i learned, stealth is the way to go for deus ex,even though they attempt to bring in n ew thing

Nothing. It was a great game. Block sized with a lot of depth. I really don't have much for complaints here. Crap journalism bagged it for nothing, yet they'll give infinitely more shallow RPG's a pass.

This game is fantastic and I recommend it to any RPG fan. I guess the check wasn't big enough for IGN to give it a 9. From there people just copy the big kids and that's what we have here. The outright false reviews shafted this games sales.

I bought it half price in a xmas sale. Good game, but not as memorable as the previous instalment.
As for content..i put about a third of the hours into this as the human revolution. It just didn't seem as big. I wouldn't mind a decent sequel with more content.

The only thing wrong with it is that they were banking on an incomplete product. It should have been a complete story. The game was super fun, and for it to just finish like that? Come on. Just make a complete game and sell EXTRA stuff as DLC . That is what DLC is supposed to be!!! EXTRA!!!!! Why, why do you you guys have to cut off portions of a game and then sell a piece or leave it half empty so you can sell another half empty game to try and make a complete one.
It is a very good game but this stupid arrogance and greed of Square Enix donked it up. I hate it.

The whole "Clank" thing put me of, I have to believe in the past two years that all the super rich who could afford all these augments are now poverty stricken, oppressed and some how all homeless.

Also even bringing up the" people fear what they don't know/understand" narrative, why would you wanna piss of any augment when you know how dangerous they are in the 1st place.

it just feels like lazy writing all over the place, trying to be edgy and compare real life political views to the games story and it really doesn't fit in that way.

Gameplay and level design was great though

I loved the game and thought it was phenomenal. Some room for improvement, maybe, but many of the mechanics from HR received finesse in the follow-up. The story doesn't seem as vast in scope as HR, but the focus on Prague and the societal break between Augs and Naturals was well-executed, painting a bigger picture at large. HR focused on society's foray into augmented development, while MD focused on the ensuing segregation that followed after a cataclysmic technical sabotage.

N

SE's hilariously stupid marketing and greed went wrong. End of story.

I liked human revolution but when I tried mankind divided (ps4) the combat felt off, ran poorly and just sold the game after 5 hours. I guess I'm just not into it anymore. And the first deus ex is influential not the new square Enix version. The new games are just simply good. And don't blame squarenix, because they actually revived the dead series.

They can't keep making games that don't sell because the original was groundbreaking.

people were really might i say divided...

Nothing much. It was a really good game. For those who are on the fence about Deus Ex, I encourage you to watch this video. It has good counter arguments against those reviewers like Angry Joe and Jim Sterling who jumped on the hate bandwagon for issues like "it's ending was incomplete so that they could add in DLC's" "small open world" etc. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
(DOes contain strong language)

Problem #1
Big promises, small delivery

Problem #2
Ending on such a womp womp note

Just when you thought you were getting somewhere deep and the rug is pulled from under you with a classic, wait that's it kind of ending.

They could have tried you know, marketing it?

MD was a good game just not as good as HR before it.
The story in MD ends when you feel it's just started going somewhere.
The Prague setting was alright but they should of used two hubs like HR did to mix it up a bit.
Most side missions were pretty rubbish.
Progress seemed slow at the start of the game, I was tempted to trade it in after about 8 hours of play as it felt like the game was going nowhere, but I stuck with it to the end.

They blew 75% of the budget on the live action trailer so had to use dated animations (I would have willingly made them better ones for free myself), terrible voice acting, and rushed it so they couldn't put much detail into the story. From the games I've played this is my biggest disappointment on the PS4.

If it wasn't for the fact I came across not one, but two game breaking bugs in my playthrough, (one of which I had to wait over a week to be patched out before I could progress any further, the other glitched two of my save files and made me lose over an hour of progress. Luckily I had set up multiple saves besides the automatic ones) I would call Mankind Divided absolutely amazing. Those bugs are a sign that the devs were rushed to make it to launch date.

Square-Enix I put all the blame on them.

The gameplay was amazing, even better than Dishonored 2. The level design was very good, whereas Dishonored 2 level design was a master class. The stories of both were ok/good for video games. But I loved Mankind Divided as much as Dishonored 2.

I think the real reason is unrealistic sales expectations. It reviewed very well, has very good replayability, and sold in the millions.

That stupid augment preorder thing they did was equivalent of the Xbox One reveal in terms of leaving a bad taste in peoples mouth, bad enough that even after the fix the damage was already done in marketing terms. It really sucks to because Deus Ex was my fix when it came to stealth games with over the top story, Metal Gear series being my favorite. I really hope they reconsider.

Dues Ex HR was on of the my favourite games last gen. Haven't even picked up Mankind Divided even though it's been down to $15. It runs like crap on a most GPUs. Cheap or not, there's no point buying a game that so poorly optimized.

Of the author's list, items 1 and 2 are spot on. I love this series and I was hoping this would be my cyberpunk Witcher 3. Its wasn't and it is very true I found myself gravitating towards Dishonored 2 which in my mind is not only a better game but caused me to pre-order blindly Prey. I fear this may have been a case of better developers and talent found elsewhere AS WELL AS huge interference from S-E.

I'm sure we'll see a sequel at some point. Give it a couple of years.