Here's the First 2 Hours of the Deus Ex Video

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

Richard Earley

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

swheatheart

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.

Gabriella Sands

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.

Geraint Luff

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.

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

Alana Tedmon

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.

Jonais Galindo Álvarez

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

Draexian

[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!

The Doom Merchant

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.

Colin Tougas

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

Draexian

We love you <3

Devon

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?

YEZzz

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

Jess

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.

Martin Petersson

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 🤷‍♂️

Axel Hunter

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?

Vitamin H Productions

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

Kaelyn Morrison

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!)

Dragon Cobolt

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!

Will Barker

The stuff you moved felt really seamless.

stompanie

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

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!

Bean Wilkinson

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!)

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.

Landon Kerouac

"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

willow H

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!

Cobalt

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!

Iva Marinova

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

Golderado

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

Glyph

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

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!

wirehaiku

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

Justice Hainsworth

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

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

Amelia

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

Kilo Lima Oscar

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

Tormuse

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.

Fox

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

Andrew H

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).

Pär Stern

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

swheatheart

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.

Howlcat

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

Wesley Jones

Gex remake is real

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

Ray Theon Technologies

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

Lee Aldowaldo

"Everybody's dead Dave" made my year

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

Stephen

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

GC

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.

Nik Pinski

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.

Daniel Leach

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.

Alexander Powers

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

The Beating of a Horse's Hooves

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

Amon

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?

Kristian Gregory

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.

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

Percy

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.

Christian Bikle

you got gex'd, hbomb!

Plague Daemon

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

Whitman Schorn

Really enjoyed it!

Millie

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/

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.

Marc-Olivier Goyette

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

Eric Englebretson

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

Kristopher Faeley

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

Dawn

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

Yeah definitely for real this time 😏

scubaghost

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

Wowie ! Also happy holidays 🎄

The Zara ☆

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.

Thanks for the content and have a happy holiday!

The Worm's Hole

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!

Niamh Keoghan

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.

Adam Greene

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

Jacob Freedman

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.

Delilah Xenith

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

Connla Lyons

(´ ಠ ◡ ಠ) ... 3:15:00

Yvonne  ̴ ̮͠ ̴

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

Joseph Dix

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

Daniel Treacy

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

cal tal

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.

Kae Hanrott

The FIRST 2 hours?? So excited brother this rules

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

Creamer

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.

Harro

The Longest Video [HBomb] Will Ever Do press x to doubt

Iridium

I'm DEFINITELY splitting that video up!

Hbomb

Merry Christmas Hbomb! Unless you plan on splitting the prequels video into several uploads, somehow I doubt this will be the longest lmao

Phoenyx Reid

Thank you so much for this! We love you too hbomb - sending you all the support this Christmas ❤️

Brilliant! Safe travels and take some days off!

dombadom

Thank you, have a good trip!

Yoav Fine

Hbomb aiming for Tim Rogers' spot for new Long Speaker-About-Videogames Good Boy

dixego

Definitely your longest, eh? Well I look forward to your 4-hour video on Morrowind :)

Cooper Lewis

Mary War on Christmas Hbomb, thank you for the early present!

Triscaleon

i feel your pain for adobe programs deciding not to work ahah. hope you have a great xmas and look forward to the rest of this video :D

adzie✨

Thanks for everything! I hope you have a good holiday season and hope we all have a better year next year!

The next one is gonna be four hours I’m calling it now

Chela Roppolo

Much love hbomb, your hard work is inspirational. Have a fantastic Christmas 💜

Rachel Wolfe