Deus Ex Human Revolution Pre-Plot Analysis: Marketing

Before I jump in, I thought I'd look at the various marketing campaigns that Eidos Montreal setup for it's magnum opus prequel, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

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Gaming

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• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Plot Analysis
• Marketing

[AARONMACKENZIE]

At the risk of being tangentially off-topic, the failure to discuss how machine changes man is perhaps one of the greatest thematic failures of Mass Effect 2/3. Shepard is brought back to life and turned into the most advanced cyborg in the galaxy, but neither he nor the Collectors/Reapers/Geth have much to say about it. Having Harbinger or Legion question Shepard about his role and place in the perceived "organics vs. AI" galactic war seems a rich narrative vein to mine.

[smudboy]

@AARONMACKENZIE

Quite. Also the upgrade options of strengthening ones bones and skin.

But I'm sure Shepard's pulling all his punches in the fight scene with Vega in ME3. And can make his nose bleed on que.

[Venim85]

Puts volume to hear smudboy.

Volume is too high during Deus Ex parts.

Puts volume down.

Now I can't hear what he's saying.

FFFFFUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!!

[Havoxfire]

Audio level consistency got me.

[DinoJake]

Oh Smudboy. When will you learn?

Never trust a marketing campaign.

[AARONMACKENZIE]

@noseman79 Omnitools aren't augments any more than a cellular phone is an augment. Augmentation in and of itself is not the point of contention, either- it's that Shepard was literally brain-dead for weeks or months and was brought back to life as a cyborg. Questions of identity in a universe where this sort of thing is NOT commonplace (there was a the President Huerta case in the Cerberus News, but he was nowhere near as far gone as Shepard) would be the smart thing.

[noseman79]

@AARONMACKENZIE That's the point. For some of us, augmentation and artificiality aren't controversial. There's been more than enough anti-technology neo-luddite bias in hollywood films and mainstream games as it is. Making cyborgification be a huge deal in an age where people regularly interface with technology using mildly augmented hands and zooming around the galaxy with a dozen sapient species would be a break with the rest of the universe.

[Crebralassassin]

@sth128 barret! .......and yuri? og fuck i think you got me

[gehennastotem]

@FeydTheRonin this isn't coherent, it posturing and condesention substituting for an actual point. Bashing on marketing just paints him as an idiot contrarion trying to point why any form of embelishment or change is some mortal sin against integrity.

[FeydTheRonin]

Obviously stop whatever your current job is and just get paid to do analysis. Coherent, entertaining, informative...watching these are probably some of the best couple of hours I've spent on Youtube.

[anubite001]

Pretty much agreed. Eidos had all the right ideas - if the trialers are anything - but somewhere during development it just all got lost. There's a great game somewhere in Human Revolution's development, but we only got the mediocre/okay parts.

[ThekaiserXD]

man oh man i cant wait for ME3 to come out!...You know so smud can post more analysing vids :P