I've been having a great time revisiting Mankind Divided on PC having previously only played the console version. 60 fps, short load times, improved mouse and keyboard controls, it's been a real treat. PC really improves the experience, so I bought the entire series bundle on Steam since it's super cheap when it goes on sale.

Just fired up Human Revolution and.... yikes, so much worse than I remember, and I've always held it in much lower regard to pretty much everyone else. Much uglier than what I remember with sterile, flatly lit environments. I keep thinking I have some shadow quality or SSAO slider set to minimum, but as far as I can tell I have everything maxed. Toggle only iron sights are a goddamn tragedy, and I had to do some tweaking to remove a stupid stuttering glitch when aiming or using a computer or keypad. A small aspect from Mankind Divided I sorely miss is unsticking from cover. In MD it's fairly intuitive. If you hit a key to move away from cover you'll unstick and return to first-person view, but in HR your only option is to hit the cover button again, THEN move away. And then there's having to use the movement keys to peek out of cover rather that hitting the aim button like every other game with a cover system. It just feels clunky and dated. And I haven't even gotten to the game proper with it's overly cramped city street environments and broken exp rewards. I'm bamboozled that so many people prefer Human Revolution to Mankind Divided.