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Yep, if the vision cone is a solid, bright white, rather than hollow, or gray-ish, it means they're on the same floor.

@oursin_360: Only one real time part, and I thought it was fine, in an interesting side mission. All you do is hack a few things, open a door and turn a timer off. Time isn't a huge thing from what I've played. In the final part of the tutorial, Jensen started choking or something, so I booked it to the helicopter and finished it. That's probably what you're supposed to do, but for a few seconds when the cutscene happened, I wasn't sure if there was another way to go about it. Playing more, the stealth is good. The only thing I didn't like in the training part, was that I felt exposed in some cover, and I was still getting used to the controls: not used to L1 as getting in cover(I set the controls to standard). It feels natural now. The cover system is hardly unique, nor is it better than Splinter Cell: Conviction's, which it's most similar to, but it's works well. It feels good to tranq a guy, then use the line that shows up to push forth up on a guy that noticed his friend get shot, to take him out with a takedown before he goes on alert. To me, it makes me feel more like Jensen, or a stealthy person than in HR.

@tennmuerti: I'm finding that there's more money than needed in this. In HR, through both exploring, and going to shops, you find upgrades and praxis kits; that's not really the case in this as much. I find myself selling a lot, and buying little. Plus, some upgrades that you can buy, I either already have for the weapon, or you can't insert it. There has only been one time that I could buy a praxis. As for exploring, yeah, I explored as much as I could with the upgrades I had at the time. I didn't venture into areas that had gas then, and I didn't have the upgrade to smash the wall open, otherwise I tried doing everything I could. So far, there's not much reason to do it for items, but I don't want to miss any side missions, which is why I explore first and foremost. Also, there are parts in the main missions, the more linear ones if you will, where you can go about getting through the stage in more than one way, I'll venture back through a bunch of guys, taking them down, ending back to the first part just so I don't miss anything.

@conmulligan: Honestly, for me, all I really would have liked to put it that step above, where I'd feel it was major, is just the animations, from facial to body. That was an issue in the last game, and it still is here. Having more realistic NPC's would have impressed me, and made not just the conversation moments slightly better, but just walking around the hub areas more immersive. Something this game does, that happened in HR as well to some extent, is that bodies can get stuck on objects, and that's somewhat annoying, because it'll make it harder to move them, and sometimes impossible, where it may even kill them. One time I took a guy down, and started dragging him out of sight, and what happened was that when Jensen let him go due to the environment not letting him cross it, he flew across the room, and when I checked him out, he was dead so I had to reload.

@wemibelec90: Yeah, HR is one of my favorite games of last-gen as well. I played through it a few times, and bought the Director's Cut on the Wii U and Steam. I played it for a while last month. The game is similar, but better in some instances. I don't yet know how I'll feel about it overall since I hadn't finished it, but it's pretty much what I wanted out of it. The load times are exclusive to the train; and they don't feel that long to me. You compare it to HR, and HR was load every time you go into specific buildings, like Sarif, or VersaLife. If Mankind Divided was the same, it'd have you load every time you enter the bank and what have you. As for the city being livelier, I don't know. There seems to be more going on, and people walking around more in Prague than in Detroit or Hengsha. Those had rather static A.I. That said, the color had a more distinctive hue, which could give that feeling of it being more impressive. The new augs minus the hack and dash aren't really necessary for me, so I haven't put anything into them. I have pretty much put everything into what I want, so now it's just to finish it up. As for side characters, I am actually to a liking to them right off the bat, similar to Malik in the last game, and I like that Manderly is in this. It helps that the voice work is better too. It's always cool to see the characters from the past games being shown in the new. As for the story, I don't know really, I feel like I've hardly touched it, but I'm intrigued right now, and want to see where it goes.

Edit - I said VersaLife, but I'm thinking of the Limb Clinic.

I've played perhaps 15-20 hours of it so far? Not sure, but I'm on the part where you (and not to go into too many spoilers or anything since this is for those that hadn't finished the game yet) have to go into Jim Miller's computer after I did the final Dvali mission in the Red Light District. First off, I just wanted to say, I just beat Deus Ex: The Fall last month, and though I remember it clearly, I didn't connect the name to the characters, because there's a pilot in it that helps you near the end, and that's a prominent character in this, which is Alex Vega. I also didn't connect Janus to the entity you talk to in The Fall either. Anyways, I'm really liking the game so far. It's what I expected, but really what I wanted out of it. It's more Human Revolution, but better in ways. The first ten or so hours were a little slow to me in Prague, because I am one to explore everything possible before going into the main mission, and walking back and forth to see if I did everything became somewhat tiresome as it doesn't really consist with that much action, be it shooting dudes or sneaking past.

I'm silently knocking everyone out here, and only killed one guy with heavy armor. By and large, the quests are a lot of fun. While I like Prague, Detroit, Hengsha and all the places you go to as the bigger hub-like areas, it's the more story-driven areas that I love and find this game and HR to have as strengths. They feature the best music in the game, and the funnest gameplay moments as well as, at least to me, the best settings that I find most intriguing. Also, I'm not sure if it was the intention, but in the first Deus Ex game, the UNATCO theme was really good, and in this, I feel like they did their own with Task Force 29, which is somewhat similar, and to me, similarly great (also, the group is led by the same person!) Yeah, I'm really enjoying it a lot. I want to play it soon. It's probably my favorite game of the year already. You can definitely look at it and think, okay, this is a new generation of console, and it's been five years since the last, the game should be much more improved over the last, but the game is good enough to me that it doesn't really bother me.

I could say that I should be disappointed considering it's not more than what I expected in most respects, but right now, I'm just not.

The Last of Us, and maybe second would be Bioshock.

Of the ones listed, I'd say Gears of War 4, then Titanfall 2, and then Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. I consider COD4 part of the IW package though. I really want to experience all of them. Though I'd say Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is the 'shooter' I look forward to most. I would say Battlefield 1, but that depends on how good the campaign is, because four's wasn't good in my opinion (I did enjoy three's some though), and I'm a bit concerned with the accuracy of things. Using an historical event should be a way to teach and for players to learn in some way in my opinion instead of just being about killing. If you're going to make a gun function differently, or use a tank in a scenario that really didn't happen, explain it somewhere in the game. While I'm curious enough to go online or something to read about certain things, I find it great when a game itself would add information. Valiant Hearts was good at doing that I thought. I say Gears of War 4 over Call of Duty or Titanfall because I love Gears of War over the majority of COD games, and especially the first Titanfall, but I also think Gears of War 4 looks a lot like Gears of War, so it's kind of disappointing to some degree, even if when it comes out it's more enjoyable than ever. I'm excited to see Marcus Fenix is back, though I wish I didn't know it before the game was out.

Super excited. I've played and enjoyed all Deus Ex games, but I don't really have any desire to play Go. A lot of games I'm excited about this year still, but I think when it comes to new games, Mankind Divided is the game I'm most excited about.

I personally liked Six. That said, if you loved four and want more of that, five is the way to go. It took me time to get into it, but I finally realized (in the same year it was out mind you) that it was a great game. The thing that took me away from it initially was that I wasn't as fond of the environments, the less myriad of weird characters, and the length of the game is much shorter. Though it may take around ten hours on a first go, you can eventually beat the game under five; there's even an achievement/trophy for it. Five is good solo, but it's also a bit more challenging on the first go since Sheva isn't the smartest A.I. and she can die. It's a fun co-op game. Friends never got into it with me, but my brother and I had a blast with it. When it comes to the original trio of games, with the tank controls and what have you, I think three is probably my favorite to play. I do however feel that it was the one that made the least impact of the three; it seemed people didn't talk that much about it, other than making Nemesis a well known enemy. I really enjoyed that games mercenaries. I should say though, if you play Six or Five on the Xbox One, and want to play local co-op, you cannot (as of currently, and I'm not sure if it'll ever be fixed) play with two profiles. If you have a sibling or friend that wants to earn achievements/trophies, as well as have their own items and upgrades on their own solo play time, they won't be able to get any of that as it's attached only to your profile, which is unlike the last-gen versions on 360. The PS3 had that issue with RE5 that I know of as well.

The first MGS.

I wouldn't put the first Mass Effect in my top ten games, but I have beaten the game four or fives times, three of those times doing everything you can. When the news came out that they weren't going to make a remaster because they wanted to do new things, I went back last year and bought all the DLC I hadn't for the series, and went through it all again. It didn't really change my perception of the series one way or another, but it was nice to finally play it all again, and more. Mass Effect is my least favorite of the three, and as a standalone game, I'm not sure I love it, but over subsequent playthroughs, I had become to really like it a lot, and the last time I played it, last year, I liked it the most I ever had. I bought it on Steam in 2009, but got to Noveria, and when you start fighting the Rachni, the game froze, so I never beat it on PC. I never tried it on this PC though, but I probably never will now since I'm done with Mass Effect. I would have loved a remaster of all of them, where they all look and play the same, as if one large game.

I'm pretty excited for the fourth. I spent around 500 hours playing the Mass Effect trilogy. Something I actually never did though in them was play as female all the way through any of them, play anything but a soldier, nor played renegade. I always tried to paragon as a male soldier, doing everything in the game in that sense. I just wanted to perfect that one character. Though I wasn't a huge fan of the ending of three, I simultaneously had a certain fondness for it from the tone it gave, as well as not having as much of an issue as those that complained about it. The last time I went through it, I realized my issue wasn't really an issue, because what I initially wanted was a better conclusion that changed stuff depending on my actions in that universe, but I realized what really mattered to me was the story of the characters I met along the way, and that was all said and done, so I was actually satisfied.

That said, playing through them as many times as I did, knowing what happens throughout, I wasn't as attached to it all as I was when I went through it before, minus stuff in the first. I beat it four or five times, but some stuff I may have just not paid enough attention to, like near the end, about the Prothean world, and the cryo pods.