375: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 222 minutes

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Summary

When they say nobody asked for this, that's Gary Butterfield erasure. I asked for this. I exist!

I mean, sure, Adam Jensen is a pretty tough pill to swallow. He shaves his beard in an extremely obnoxious way. Further, this is clearly the middle chapter of a prequel trilogy, which might be the most direct recipe for an unimportant narrative. However....however....

All of the above, plus a regrettable marketing campaign, basically eclipsed the entire conversation about this immersive sim that plays incredibly well. This number is worth your time for level design alone. Hear us talk about why.

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0:00.0	Hey there, listeners. Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week.
0:05.9	And by FEMA, I mean your appointment to thanking our patrons who brought us this episode.
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1:24.5	My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to Watch Out for Fireballs
1:37.4	It is a games club podcast. And this week we are talking about Deus X mankind divided,
1:44.2	which is an immersive sim developed by Idos Montréal and published by Square Enix for the
1:48.9	PC PS4 and Xbox One in 2016. My mankind divided in this economy. It has been divided.
1:57.9	Yeah. Yeah. Oh, or natural, baby. Yeah, big naturals or big hogs. Here it comes. And
2:08.2	thus we complete another franchise. I mean, we have not talked about Deus X the fall,
2:13.5	Gary. Yeah, I know. I couldn't play the fall.
2:18.0	And I tried, like I tried playing it on phone and I tried playing it the PC port. And
2:21.8	I literally could not play the fall. You call yourself a fan. I know it's that bad.
2:27.7	It's like literally that bad. It's like I've never beat the the fall out Baldur's Gate
2:32.7	Dark Alliance clone. Oh, yeah. It's just that bad. It's really horrible. It's as bad as
2:38.0	everyone says. So this game is a sequel. This is the second part of a trilogy that will
2:43.1	never finish. It picks up two years after the events of human revolution, which we covered
2:48.8	way back in the day. You continue as Adam Jensen, continue a story. The world has changed
2:54.4	after the climax of that game, the catastrophic hog incident, which everybody just calls the
2:59.7	incident. And it is very easy to forget that that is a proper noun. There's only one
3:04.6	incident that happened in the history of that game. Yeah. It's a nice to play a game
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