"Play tests did flag the boss fights as a problem, but they didn’t flag the severity of it."

I hope I'm misreading this comment, but it almost sounds like he's trying to blame the testers for the boss fights not being all that great.

Regardless, it was an excellent game!

Boss fight in the DLC pack was amazing, so we know they can do it right with the proper effort.

i don't see what's the problem with the bosses.

the only time i had a hard time was the first boss, but i didn't bring alot of lethal guns besides a magnum.

only when i defeated him after a few trials i notice there were tons of weapons at the back -________-

i hope the next deus ex hr will allow us to play in full 3rd person or first person. that way we could play the game the way we want.


*SPOILERS


as for bosses look no further than in MGS games as well as the original Deus Ex(being able to kill bosses using a computer death device are awesome)

after watching the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex series i feel they could lear alot with the anime in terms of story and pacing.

oh you know what??? i think a Deus Ex game made by square enix japan could work out!!!

of course picking the right people to do the job. basically hire the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex team, follow what Deus Ex HR did but more open and tons of unique bosses and NPCs.

Miscommunication.

Unbelievable.

Regardless, they made a hell of a memorable game for their first effort as a studio.

It was still a great game.

Tbh the problem with the straight up boss fights was that we didn't get to KNOW the bad guys at all. A couple encounters with dialogue before the face off would have been good. Or a conversation tree before the fight where you could try to talk them down somehow- even if you couldn't "win" by conversation, it would have made your interactions more dynamic and let you know them a little better... before you killed them or incapacitated them.

The only real issue with the boss fights were how they ripped away choice, but sometimes that's how life goes. I guess the spike in difficulty is bs, but I remember older games doing the same thing. You face the trial, surpass it and feel accomplished. It worked well.

The only flaw in an otherwise amazing game.

flea friend:
I think he's saying that the testers told them the boss fights weren't good, but the fan community's reaction was much more extreme. Which is UNBELIEVABLE!

Boss encoutners should've switched to a space channel 5 dance combat formula. I'd be sold-sold-sold!

Hello, Captain Obvious!

"oh you know what??? i think a Deus Ex game made by square enix japan could work out!!!"

Anything but that. Though I do also feel a Deus ex game with direct influence from ghost in the shell would be beneficial to the narrative.

OLD, ... this was admitted months ago by the developers.

Meh it was not a "severe" problem. I wasn't geared for the first boss but I soldiered through with ingenuity. Gamers just don't appreciate a challenge these days. That being said, they could have been better.

I heard Maurice Tan really liked those boss fights, so I'm glad they were in there for his sake BECAUSE I LOVE HIM.

They've already proven they can do interesting boss fights with the DLC, so no worries. And the game itself is still an amazing 25-40 hour (depending on playstyle) masterpiece.

The crappy boss fights were worth it for the great cutscenes afterwards. Just a big black eye in an otherwise very well-received game.

i don't think you can say that gamers don't like the boss fights cause they don't appreciate a challenge. those boss fights were very easy and extremely bad. and it is very annoying where that is the only time where you have to kill someone, it is way more satisfying to play completely non-lethal.

God are these people STILL getting grilled about Deus Ex's boss fights? I mean they were mediocre, but this is nowhere near as bad as most of the gaming atrocities that crop up in the industry. I think it is time to move on.

We forgive you Eidos, put the gun away.

I accept their apology. Human Revolution was so damn good minus the boss fights

Fuck that noise! The boss battles were great! Deus Ex: HR> Everything Else. q:

The issue with the boss fights wasn't the difficulty; they weren't especially hard, unless you were only able to get through the entire game by constantly saving and loading whenever anything went wrong. The problem was that they were too much of a break from the normal style of gameplay.

I think that many players failed to take into account how easy the bosses became with a little exploration, with the exception of the 2nd boss fight. There were lots of tricks buried in there, and the ability to hide from the bosses pretty consistently, but because it jarred players out of the norm they didn't really know what to do.

Stick? Meet dead horse. Dead Horse? This is stick. Enjoy your rendezvous.

There was a problem with the boss fights?

Cmon guys this was said ages ago nobody cares anymore...

Unless you do then , well yeah have fun with that

Wow, um... calm down. They weren't that bad. I'd rather have seen Eidos work harder on the writing, especially the ending(s).

Please, there were so many issues with Deus Ex: Human Revolutions, the bosses were hardly the worst part. How about the completely dead areas that were supposed to be so "alive", or the awful recycling of interiors. I haven't even bothered to complete it because it got so samey after a while. A game that was definitely rushed out the door way too soon.

Hmm why an article on this again? Dtoid have already many article and interviews on this...

Boss fights were shit? Yes. Why? Because you muppets outsourced them by my understanding, why would you do something that monumentaly stupid in the first place?

@Pinhead.

Your username succinctly sums you up.

Hey, at least the developer produced a sincere mia culpa over an obvious criticism. It's really refreshing when a developer does that rather than rationalize their mistakes (the biggest example from last year being Mike Laidlaw's defense of the lacklustre DA2).

OMFG.. people bitched and cried WAAAAAAY too much over this. The boss fights weren't hard, if you had such a problem that you were trying 20 times to beat one of them, you just plain suck at video games.

1st boss: throw explosive barrels, done in 10 seconds.
2nd boss: use typhoon ability 3 times, done in 10 seconds.
3rd boss: use typhoon ability 3 times, done in 10 seconds.
Final boss: Laser rifle, goes thru barrier to hit boss. Done in 5 seconds.

@DasPooch

You don't really get it. The reason they sucked was exactly why you think they were easy. All the bosses could be beat with a stungun and ample ammo. They sucked because they where incredibly grindy, easy and anticlimactic.