Post "Here's the First 2 Hours of the Deus Ex Video" by "Hbomb"

Richard Earley

"The Longest Video I Will Ever Do." Teeheehee.

swheatheart

I'm so excited I think I might watch this again

Gabriella Sands

I hope the ‘rocket launchers on the train/is this game good? I don’t know, but it sure is the MOST’ jokes make it back in, those were my favorite from the first draft.

Geraint Luff

I feel like your Prager U diatribes have primed me to notice hand-drawn un-labelled graphs, so the one of "immersive sims over time" feels like I missed a joke. 😛

Geraint Luff

The delivery of "Adam gets knackered by some bastards" still gets me every time.

Hey I know its late but of you knew références in 3d at this time in Montréal I could be helpfull. Im a software engineering candidate and my dad is a pioneer in 3d animation in quebec at this time.

Alana Tedmon

I humbly request that we get the kazoo cover of the main theme at some point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVo3VqjL0Q

Jonais Galindo Álvarez

I love hacking in Deus Ex, but I love it more on Vampire. It's like, if you know how the character's computer you are hacking ticks, you could find also the answer by yourself.

Draexian

I get why you removed the clip of Denton burning that random dude, but it was the funniest beat in the last version.

The Doom Merchant

[catching up on watching a bunch of patreon-exclusive videos i've missed over the last few months across misc. creators lol] MAN, I was so Into It™ that I forgot this was a preview and thought my internet had gone out when you cut off in the middle your joke at the end. Really looking forward to the full video when you're ready to release it. True story about the old "every time you mention Deus Ex someone reinstalls it" gag, though; not even five minutes into this video, I thought, "man, when I'm done replaying Morrowind [which I'm replaying atm], I should replay Deus Ex..." And I'm gonna!

Colin Tougas

Always looking forward to these videos and wanted to note that you're the first person I've decided to support on Patreon. I realized how much I love your videos this last Christmas as I realized it's become an annual tradition to re-watch all your videos, this time starting from The War on Christmas. While others may be watching "It's a Wonderful Life" or "A Christmas Story," I'm binging HBomb's YouTube Collection.

Draexian

Harry, you're a ray of light through an overcast sky. I'll wait as long as I can, assured of no ill returns.

Devon

We love you <3

YEZzz

I dont want to spoiler myself with the video, which games do I need to play in the Series to be up to date with the video?

Jess

that "setting the pillars" slide with the importance arrow putting "social" as least important HURTS me

Martin Petersson

Dope, looking forward to watching the whole thing. Reminds me, recently watched your QA video where you talk about making a sort of response video to Noah Caldwell-Gervais' Bloodlines video. Is that still on the table? Sounded like a great video idea.

Axel Hunter

Is that high pitched screaming used in this and the NV video from Daniel Stern? Always makes me think of him, but maybe that’s not an uncommon scream 🤷‍♂️

Vitamin H Productions

Sorry to be pedantic, but I'm pretty sure Id Software's also based in Texas. I'm not sure if they'd really count as "big" though?

Kaelyn Morrison

great video so far. the lack of acknowledgment of the character's fit at 32:26 is making me go insane, though. genuinely looks like a pewdiepie shirt and dont even get my started on the hat

Dragon Cobolt

You refer to the TOS Von Braun as a "space station" when it's actually a space ship...but you could also just say that all space stations are just space ships because they actually do need engines to keep their orbits stable (it's called station keeping!)

Will Barker

wow, this is already such a great video, i can't wait to see it when it's finished! one suggestion to make the gamer bros big mad: show female commander shepard instead of the default male shepard ;) happy new year!

stompanie

The stuff you moved felt really seamless.

never subscribed to any patreon but this one, never comented too, but, happy ̶c̶h̶r̶i̶s̶ hollidays hbomb and community :)

Bean Wilkinson

Love the current abrupt end of the draft! To second Jordan, the lack of sound on title cards. I primarily listen to your videos and really noticed their abscence on this current draft. Hope you have a good Christmas!

Really enjoying the video! I don't know if you actually see feedback, but a minor editing thing (if you haven't already noticed) was the lack of sound on the title cards? Just something I thought was done fantastically on the New Vegas video, and helps smooth transitions (and which you've probably already fixed seeing as this is a draft video anyways so nevermind, good job!)

Landon Kerouac

Hey bharryguy, love the video. I just wanted to point out two things i super duper liked! 1) I loved when it transitioned to your face the audio was the same. most videos have a weird disparity between voiceovers and camera audio. 2) I know your mirror segment is a bonus video, but perhaps the cover of DXHR, with all its broken glass, is saying something about that?? I dunno just something I noticed.

willow H

"is it just me or is bioshock 2 the best one by a wide margin" never have i felt so vindicated ive been saying this for almost 10 years now

Cobalt

Hi Hbomb! Gave it a watch through and compiled some of my thoughts. Great video as usual, it's really coming together! I skipped a bunch of feedback here about the jokes, suffice to say they landed well...extended cut of "robot arms" where you stare into the camera uninterrupted for 20 minutes when? Section 1: Something that might play well into your "you get playing immediately" point about DX1 is that it's suggested there are different forces at work (and that you might need to question which you agree with) right from the beginning - Paul tells you your orders are to be non-lethal and to stun the NSF; Alex tells you your orders are to shoot on sight and wipe them out. Twenty seconds into your playthrough and you're being given conflicting points of view! Section 3: Love the parts about Cutscene Jensen and player agency (especially the bomb gag). I'd genuinely never considered these angles of the game before! Section 3: The Maggie Chow sequence for me was slightly spoiled by the way the subtitles work. "MAJESTIC 12 SOLDIER: Coughs" is a hell of a way for that story beat to miss. Section 3: On the Isaias stuff - any notes on the CASIE upgrade? Considering there are multiple random paths for every dialogue "battle", requiring you to actually pay attention rather than always picking dialogue X, getting a "win-the-puzzle-o-matic" seems...brute-forced? Could tie into the wider point about how they wanted to make a game with choice consequences but chickened out and gave you all the answers at the last second. Section 4: If you hack every single console, find every book, explore everything, and take everyone down non-lethally in the first mission (i.e. farm every point possible), you actually CAN get the CASIE system before the Zeke encounter - you just barely clip the 5000 needed on top of the point they give you for free. It doesn't actually do anything besides give you flavour text for Zeke (for the reasons you explained), so the main point still stands, but it is possible! Section 4: The best part about the hacking minigame is you CAN skip the horrible, meaningless hacking game...IF YOU PREORDERED! You get a gadget that does it for you instantly! ...to be fair you do use one in the video so maybe that's not relevant Thanks for getting this up for Christmas, hope you're having a fantastic holiday!

Iva Marinova

Harry, you keep doing it again and again! It is so fascinating to see the first 20 min you posted get even better!?!? Your editing is so good, it makes your videos so rewatchable, i’m yet to get tired even from your oldest works! I hope you manage to rest these days and take care of yourself! There’s a lot of people out here that care about you!

Golderado

i was crying laughing at the cop bit, jesus what a way with words

Glyph

Your work is a joy, I love the game criticism that isn’t actually about games so much

The segment about why big studios like making sequels was quite valuable and I think it should be added back in.

wirehaiku

A little note: you say "when I said DXHR sounds like the first few ideas of a brainstorming session, this is what I mean", I don't think you actually said that in the beginning? Or I don't remember, but it did strike me as a new concept when you "repeated" it for emphasis. Other than that, amazing!

Justice Hainsworth

“No seriously, Travel back in time, call GameStop—“ and what? and what??? [bends head towards the heavens in frustrated agony] AND WHAAAAAT???????

i really like it! id love a video on dishonored in the future.

Amelia

You took out the Invisible War bit (my fav part of the first 45) so when you mention later that this is a prequel it's a bit like, "wait this is a prequel? not just another story in approximately the same world?" maybe thats just cause im focusing on what's not there

Kilo Lima Oscar

Please put back the jokes about greasels and Boris Johnson please and thank you

Tormuse

I have no negative criticism for this video. I just wanted to share that I laughed my butt off, particularly at the scenes of goofing around during gameplay while the narration was relatively serious. :D

Fox

I noticed you look away when Isias shoots himself in that one mission, but earlier there is no censoring when the hacker shoots himself. In the hacker scene the camera isn't focused on the actual point of impact but there's still a long take of the hacker's dead bleeding face. The scenes are presented differently in the game, but you may want to consider affording the same visual treatment to both suicide scenes in your review.

Andrew H

Write out the full "Hell Proven Real" article, you coward. Don't just use Lorem Ipsum.

Pär Stern

Love it superhard and I've seen it three times already. The only thing I felt that was a bit too brief is why the boss fights were such an issue. I mean, I know from having played it, but a slightly deeper dive into the mechanics of the boss fights might have been illuminating for those not in the know. Also 100% agree about Kermode (the reviewer, not the bears).

swheatheart

It's great so far, can't wait to see it finished! Have a safe trip! Merry Christmas

Howlcat

Look forward to watching the final cut :D Re: your lost Resident Evil 4 footage. Sophie from Mars recently played thru RE4 and i remember her selling everything to the vendor to purchase an RPG, leading to a very satisfying easy boss kill. You could ask them if they'd be happy for you to use their footage to fill in for the one you lost.

Wesley Jones

Quick question about hacking mini games: What do you think of 9S' hacking sequences in Nier Automata?

Gex remake is real

Ray Theon Technologies

Just got to the bit about deciding to do the 100% Dead Cops run Laughing too hard

Lee Aldowaldo

First rough cut: Hm there's definitely room for improvement but this is gonna be a good one This one: Wow this fucks [dopamine]

"Everybody's dead Dave" made my year

Stephen

Now I have the “your boggle” scene from Demolition Man stuck in my head

GC

inb4 "deus gex" In all seriousness this is proving to be a masterwork of the highest order. Can't wait for the full final! Travel safe and well

Nik Pinski

BTW, the earlier 45 minutes you posted had a section about DX2 Invisible War. Did you cut it for narrative reasons? Probably a good call. I do wish there was a video about the entire series (especially interesting to talk about how Mankind Divided fixed a few of the issues from Human Revolution), but i don't see what else you could cut from this, and 3 hours is already umm a lot. So good cut, I think?

Nik Pinski

Absolutely tremendous. When I heard you were making a HR video, I was nervous because I wanted an original DX video more, but this is clearly a love letter to it, and the contrast with another GOOD game just illustrates how GREAT DX1 was. Love your work, can't wait to see the rest, but please take a break over the holidays - everyone deserves a mental break and the ability to disconnect. You don't owe us this video before the end of the year.

Daniel Leach

By the time I've watched the first preview, this preview, and then the final video, I'll have watched six hours of it! Which is just about the right amount of time for one of your videos.

Alexander Powers

Merry Christmas hbomb, make sure to get some rest over the holidays! I have to ask, did you alter the bit where you explained what immersive sims are? I left a minor criticism of it on your 45 minute preview, and this time through I felt like it was much more clearly explained but I can't precisely remember if it's actually different or if maybe my criticism was just due to bad processing on my part.

The Beating of a Horse's Hooves

Hacking minigames are probably the main reason I stopped playing HR when I did. I was an impatient little gamer boy and they scared me away with what was effectively a chore in disguise

Amon

FALLOUT HACKING MINIGAME should remain as is. This is my opinion and also a fact.

Kristian Gregory

Liking a lot so far, you're helping me piece together why Deus Ex was so engaging to me, and how games that appear similar aren't working for me. Also seems to have a lot of overlap with tips for engaging DnD play, which is interesting. I understand the stream of consciousness that leads to such comments, but worry that the reveal at 1:47:00ish about Lapicus' pronounciation of scarcity reads as joking ABOUT their pronunciation of English?

Thank you Harry. I played every looking glass game and loved Thief Dark Project to death. Always looked for the ultimate emersive sim experience. I too saw the short comings of the new Deus Ex but accepted it as the new culture of video games. But having the experience of reminiscing about these times is great and I have to thank you for this christmas present. I too wish you happy holidays and relaxing times with your family. I will see you in 2022 wit other batshit crazy stuff.

Percy

A proper amount of time to cover half of the games in the series. Happy Holidays, Harry

Christian Bikle

Alpha Protocol might be worth comparing on some of these points. Perhaps most trivially because it's actually possible in that game to buy a sufficient number of tranq rounds to knock out every enemy. More importantly, darn near every choice has some sort of consequence—different dialog from NPCs, more or less security guarding objectives, easier or tougher boss fights, etc.

Christian Bikle

The word "knackered"—meaning "worn out, broken, inoperative"—is derived from from the phrase "ready for the knacker's yard", derived in turn from "knacker"—“one who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides” (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/knacker%27s_yard#English). While you are correct that "knacker" can be used as an offensive term for Irish Travellers or Roma, I contend that that's clearly not the etymology of "knackered" and also clearly not what's intended. But, then again, I am not Irish, Travelling or otherwise, nor Roma, so I will now butt back out.

Plague Daemon

you got gex'd, hbomb!

Whitman Schorn

Fantastic to see so much progress on this ambitious project since your last update, thanks for getting it out before your trip. Happy holidays!

Millie

Really enjoyed it!

So um... Hey. Regarding Gex? That might be happening. First you predict COVID with your pathologic video, now you might have predicted a Gex remake/reboot with this one. And yes I believe those two things to be of equal significance. https://gamerant.com/square-enix-gex-trademark/

Marc-Olivier Goyette

Some really cool stuff yet again man! Can't wait to see the additional, uh, *hour* more there's to add to this video before it's finished, but what's there is great even by itself. Also - no idea if you check your DMs here (or can't/won't because of volume) but if you want I can contact people like Dugas and get them to then contact you! Would be neat if you could get their insights directly for this.

Eric Englebretson

Oh god. I actually laughed out loud at the stupid Praxis joke. I am ashamed, and I'm admitting it here as penance.

Kristopher Faeley

This is the best Christmas since the last Christmas video ;-;

Dawn

I hope you dont forget to put in the Fallout Hacking Footage at 1:16:30

I choked reading "2 hours" and realizing that was not the whole video. Happy holidays and thank you for your work!

scubaghost

Yeah definitely for real this time 😏

We appreciate you Harry. Happy Holidays to you and yours as well.

The Zara ☆

Wowie ! Also happy holidays 🎄

Good luck in keeping your future videos shorter ;) To be honest, I don't mind very long videos, I'm more worried about you overworking yourself.

The Worm's Hole

Thanks for the content and have a happy holiday!

Niamh Keoghan

Great stuff, 1 small note that I think you'd appreciate before setting the video off into the world: around the 11:30 mark you use the word 'kn*ckered'. This word is actually derived from a slur used against Irish travellers. Similar to 'Gy*sy' against Roma people. I would reccomend removing that word from the review. Really enjoying the review so far though!

Adam Greene

Loving it so far, obviously. BUT.... If they do put Gex in Kingdom Hearts, it's because you spoke this evil into the world, and thus manifested it.

Jacob Freedman

Genuinely above and beyond. Thank you so much and have a good holiday 😊

Delilah Xenith

3hrs. Hell yeah. Whitelight still takes the cake with his 7hr review of Death Stranding. Though I thinks more of a review over a playthrough.

Connla Lyons

looking forward to the 3 hour epic. but to be fair I watch company of heroes 2 tournament finals that are that long so i'm fine with 3 hour long deep dives

Yvonne ̴ ̮͠ ̴

(´ ಠ ◡ ಠ) ... 3:15:00

Joseph Dix

Even though I love this game, I'm looking forward to watching this!

Daniel Treacy

Thanks for the early holiday gift. Hope you and everyone that reads this has a lovely and safe holiday season.

cal tal

can't wait to watch! im sure the next video will come with the tag [full audiobook] hahaha

Kae Hanrott

Safe travel and hope you have a good Christmas! Your videos have given me much needed dopamine this year, which I'm really grateful for. Please don't stress out if you actually take a break for the holidays. (please take a break - it's OK.) You're allowed to ignore the capitalist shouting in your brain. We all need to stop listening to the capitalist in our brains 24/7. Take a break. We've got your back.

The FIRST 2 hours?? So excited brother this rules

Creamer

thank you so much. even if its not the final version i just love watching yr content during the holidays somehow it always gets me in the jolly mood so something new is something fun yay

Harro

Harry, you're the best. Thank you for this post. I hope you have a great christmas and you and your family stay healthy and have a great holiday season.