Ive got tons and tons to play. Earlier people were talking about Deus Ex. Are those games any good?
Deus Ex is still amazing but naturally has all the trappings of a 20 year old PC game.
Human Revolution is one of my all time favs. I've played through it several times.
Mankind Divided took me four years to really get into, and I finished my first playthrough this year, but once I found a groove I ended up enjoying it a lot more than I did back at launch.
The cyberpunk genre doesn't aim to predict the future. It also doesn't aim to provoke grand revolution. Both of these values have been retrospectively applied to the genre and romanticised as essential. The Deus Ex series is largely very faithful to the core of the genre by taking ideas and accelerating them towards a dystopia. Human Revolution in particular is fascinating as it skewers the premise a bit by shifting the setting to the fringe of social collapse, like the calm before the store, the last and final moment of grandeur before it begins to tumble down. They tell a decent story of incredibly shlocky yet wonderfully entertaining conspiracy nonsense and the people trying their best to unravel the truth.
They're good shit. Deus Ex 1 is a bit more pulpy, as you'd expect of a game from the 2000s. It's very much a catch-all of late 90s/early-00's conspiracy theories, and how early internet allowed so many of these to propagate, squeezing them all into the narrative in some form. HR/MD, despite being prequels, are a lot more modernised in their tone and ideals, but retain the essence very well. MD fumbles a lot more than HR, but it's a damn shame Eidos Montreal seems to have shelved the franchise.
EM's presentation work is outstanding too. The art direction of HR and MD is genuinely stunning and wholly unique, and the OSTs are beautiful.
