OK, let's assume it's an RPG even if it isn't. Glad to have RPG Watch covering this game. Hooray.
Again, it's a hybrid. Just like Mass Effect 2.
You're welcome to keep on ignoring what a hybrid means, and I'm sure you're going to. This is obviously very important for you.
No I'm not obsessed with Bioware games. But Bioware on its worst day is better than this game, and gets way more criticism than this, and that makes no sense to me.
You still don't get it do you. YOU think Bioware games are better, and a lot of people don't. People criticise what they don't like.
Once again, Deus Ex is a hybrid game - and they've always been hybrid games. I don't know why you think that because you, being so ignorant of such an established franchise, expect others to be equally ignorant - but I guess it's possible.
The point is probably made by now: Ovenall doesn't think Deus Ex HR is an RPG. I think people got that message.
I don't expect anyone to take my opinion as gospel, but if ou're reading this just be aware that Deus ex ———— is not much of an rpg. If you think Bioshock is an RPG, then you might think this one is too. Otherwise it's an action game. Period.
If you think Mass Effect 2 is an RPG, then you might think this one is too. I don't even consider Deus Ex an RPG, but I'd stand by that.
I think one concept you're missing, is that Bioware deliberately and overtly moved away from the RPG genre for the sequels to RPGs. That's probably why a lot of people think their games have gotten worse.
Deus Ex HR moved TOWARDS the RPG genre from the last game, and they've held very true to the strengths of the original game. That's why the vast majority of people playing it like it so much.
You're coming here as a stranger to the genre, and you harp on the same message over and over: Deus Ex HR is not an RPG according to Ovenall.
It's like a Soccer player who took up Football and then told everyone else that Football isn't Soccer. Wow, the insight….
And it's pretty hokey. The main character voice acting is downright laughable at times. I can't even understand him as his sentences trail off into mumbles. And the silly sunglasses and facial hair. And the Boss guy's voice is really bad as well. This game is going to look silly in retrospect with all the huge amount of praise it's getting. It's a B-movie at best.
I like the main character voice acting a lot. Another thing you're probably ignorant of, is that it's meant to be a tribute to the original JC Denton, which is why he sounds partially "stiff and robotic". That's intentional.
As for the "silly sunglasses and facial hair" - I think that's pretty amusing coming from a fan of Bioware games. I mean, I don't think it gets more cliché or hokey than their stuff. Anyway, it's all subjective. I like the look of Adam Jensen, but I don't think it's particularly great. It's "just fine" to me.
The praise it's getting is probably mostly due to the gameplay. Something you've called good yourself. A balanced and thoroughly functional gameplay that plays extremely fair by the rules it has set for the player - apart from the admittedly silly boss fights. Something which Dragon Age 2 couldn't serve up if its life depended on it - which is probably a big reason why it's getting so much criticism. Need I bring up magically spawning waves of enemies?
Dragon Age 2 is a sequel to an RPG. It failed as a faithful successor, and it failed as a game according to most people here. Deus Ex is a stealth shooter with RPG elements, and Deus Ex HR is a sequel holding very true to that. It succeeded as a faithful successor and it succeeded as a game according to most people here.
I think that's pretty much it.