Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution

Accursed Farms · 1M views · 2016 · 42:53

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it as a witty critique of the game, and cite it in discussions of the yellow filter in games.

What it is

Ross Scott's Game Dungeon episode critiques Deus Ex: Human Revolution, looking at its design, politics and visual style. It is part of his series of opinionated game reviews.

Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2022.

What Hacker News said

Strong rec unixhero · 2020-06 · on “Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game”

I have to mention Ross' Youtube channel Accursed Farms' review [0] [1] [2] of Deus Ex. I would highly recommended watching them: "I came for a game review and left with a better understanding of the economy and politics. Ross you blow my mind" [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]

Recommends bmn__ · 2020-04 · on “Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut”

You never asked for this, but Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution is a delightful critique of the subject matter (a.k.a. lemon blast mode): [this video]

Recommends laidoffamazon · 2022-11 · on “Panoramas of Deus Ex Human Revolution”

He's absolutely correct on comparing it to the first game, but he may even be a little too warm towards some aspects of it. I also enjoy this video by Ross of "Freeman's Mind" [0] [0] [this video]

Cites rasz · 2022-01 · on “Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?”

Good old Piss Filter, also popular with games. From 'Ross's Game Dungeon: Deus Ex - Human Revolution' [this video] conclusion - art directors are Lizard People. >The first movie to use digital color manipulation in the way we’d think of it today — i.e., shifting the colors within a film image to meet a digitally achieved palette — is generally considered to be the 2000 Coen brothers’ Great Depression picaresque O Brother, Where Art Thou? and not 1999 green tint Matrix?