Deus Ex

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Deus Ex, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Stunning enemies works in a counterintuitive spot, so players struggle to figure it out2025-09-26
Environments look so cluttered and busy that it is hard to parse2023-05-29
UI gets stuck in states requiring restart; new UI is terrible2022-10-26
Stealth mechanics are so finicky that players must retry the first level many times2020-06-22
Game feels clunky to play compared to modern games2020-02-02