One of my favorite pieces of music for programming: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSpsAauvEXU

Looks like I am not alone in this. A youtube playlist consisting of the entire soundtrack of the game used to be my go-to for programming/working/studying during undergrad.

Same for the DX:HR game that weaves the song in! Before the shine wore off as you play through the whole game.

100%. DX:HR soundtrack was very much fitting the game, and tracks built upon variations of the tracks from the original DX worked so well there. The aesthetic was perfect as well.

Shame what happened to the series after DX:HR (with Mankind Divided feeling rather unfinished and ending on an abrupt cliffhanger with no follow-up on the horizon, despite the game itself being great otherwise). But at least we got some really good crumbs (HR and MD) out of it, and I am very much thankful for that.

I felt like MD was kinda the refined version of HR. Most things felt just a little bit improved, polished. Story was great, but I very much want to know what's next and I don't know, if we will ever get another great one in the series.

It's funny, I appreciate DX and HR because they are still obviously video games at their core, jank and affordances galore. MD just felt like they wanted to go all in on realism and inverse-kinematics and cover mechanics and such so it felt like any other hyper-realistic modern shooter.

I loved the gold filter for HR, for another example. I know I am probably in the minority.