# augmented hype in deus ex mankind divided a scenario: in which players consider deus ex: mankind divided another predictable continuation of the wrong / dead-end directions to take modern garmes. maybe you '#cantstopprogress' but you can certainly point out its flaws 0. perhaps the first ideological premise of garmes like deus ex: is that players - in order to have the 'fun(tm)' teh garme demands they enjoy - have to take ir laughable narrative premises entirely seriously deus ex: mankind divided directly follows the aftermath of the aug incident a day when mechanically augmented citizens all over the world were stripped of control over ir bowels resulting in the embarrassment of millions the year is now 2029 and the golden piss-filter era of augmentations is over. mechanically augmented inhumans have been deemed outcasts by other vacuous augs and segregated from the rest of artificial society. crime and acts of error by bland hair model adam jensen serve as a thin veil to cover up an overarching garmes industry plot aimed at controlling the near future of bad science fiction / cgi bullshots // video here 1. crimes against digital narrative; it's all right there in the trailer - good expressions of ripe (unfortunate) cheese - after all 2. the dawn engine: the triumph of needless immovable detail as many savvy players realize the plain fact that something is "technically impressive" is no longer automatically impressive in and of itself; only when it is tied more directly to codified systems of expressive meaning in teh garme do such needlessly fussy overly showy pointlessly expensive and ultimately static dead museum tech exhibit displays express something more than a passing hallucinatory resemblance to themselves if only all that hard probably underpaid and misplaced level design were put into expressing some clear much needed human meaning 3. adam jensen: hyper-enhanced idiocy a bully boy with really neat shades adam jensen understands little about ir tiny world sees nothing doesn't really stand for anything other than rich white (as a state of western mind) male ("mankind") power fantasy and will-to-techno-fascist domination; essentially just a serial killer for hire - consider adam jensen a single low-watt cog in a very big pathological wheel that only exists to self-perpetuate itself endlessly at the cost of everything else "so much pain" growls jensen in an act of raw anti-irony; well try not murdering everyone on sight for change adam at least with the first deus ex (2000) the no-nonsense get-the-job-done / go-home-to-polish-the-dog style of box-headed j.c denton was perfectly acceptable as a standard perfectly realized living cliche of pure hard-boiled cyberpunk badassery knocking bullets out of the air with ir private eye (dick) adam 'watch me fret about making tough manly decisions' jensen however with ir perfectly coiffed 'excited parrot' hairstyle ir pointy chin beard and ir pseudo moral / faux existential worries is merely a bit of a designer aiden pearce brand tosspot - an angel of oh-so-sensitive smart-material death without much of a single clue of what ey is; a friendless murdering thug and snappy dresser combined - and little else apart from being strictly 2-dimensional and near completely laughable as a character // image here it is hoped that people in/from the near future that look speak or generally act like mr. jensen are unceremoniously punched in the neck dennis leary style. no doubt this cool looking conceptually stunted garme will get entirely solid reviews across the board > what will a future of 'the chosen' look like? credit cards with legs? > ~ henry rollins // republic of bob