Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Cinematic Trailer
Big scores with small sales usually means you're in for a treat! A few hours controlling Adam Jensen, however, made something abundantly clear: I was really bad at this game. DE:HR focuses very heavily on stealth... you can shoot your way through the game, but the amount of extra experience gained from being silent and non-lethal was far more fruitful than going Rambo on everyone. That said, there was a lot of surveillance and timing needed to be successful at the stealth part, the AI was surprisingly competent in becoming alerted if you made the wrong move into their vision cone.
This made enjoying the story of the game extremely difficult, but that's completely on me. Could I have talked myself into focusing and digging into the deep story to create interest? Absolutely. Would I have pulled more and more hair out every single time I had to backtrack? You bet your behind. I gave up after about ten hours, there's only so much the body can withstand.
Dues Ex: Human Revolution - Stealth Trailer
Gamers are a tough crowd, and admitting weakness to a mass amount of super nerds is a message board's equivalent of a shark smelling blood in the water. A cruise through reddit will quickly show just how seriously they take their games. Say the wrong thing, and you're offering yourself as tribute to a ruthless slew of insults and curses. But the reality is we're all human, and there might be a game every now and again that really just stumps you.
Phew, that felt good to get off my chest. We'll be hopping back onto the bucket list train this week, along with the introduction of weekly trailer wrap-ups! Oh, and this whole site may look different soon. Big things happening over here!
Have something you want to ramble about? Have a game you wanted to love but couldn't because you were god awful at it? Leave it in the comments below!