[km]

Game delayed until after the end of this fiscal year. Square-Enix's fiscal year starts on April 1 though, so it may still be out in the forseeable future.

I worry that if they get tooo much more time with it, they'll be tempted to try and fix things that aren't necessarily broken.
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.

[Dracko]

I will laugh so hard if the Eidos division of Square was the only thing keeping the company afloat.
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[geinou]

Deus Ex will be rebuild into COD BLOPS EX, to appeal to the mainstream market.

We're Square Enix. We like to make video games. It's not just the people who like to play games, it's me as well. - Yoichi Wada (2012)

[Dracko]

Heh.

[Dracko]

Here's the E3 demo again, perhaps the best quality you can find. Does show off a couple more things from the last one, not least of which the tight-as-hell art design.



And here's some very minute tidbits of content we haven't seen before from a tech show:

[Sly Buccelli]

That ammo display is fucking annoying. I hope you can get rid of it in the options or is part of an optional augmentation.
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[Dracko]

I'm guessing it's part of an aug. It's contextually sound.

Though you're not alone in finding it annoying, but why is that?
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[Iacus]

The HUD in that demo was pretty minimal, so the ammo counter/radar etc can either be disabled or is an augmentation.
There wasn't an orange outline around weapons like in the last gameplay video so I'm guessing they're all augs.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

All this oppressive yellow brings to mind Bounty Dog.

[costel]

[Dracko]

Mind-hacking Ghost in the Shell style has been revealed as a social aug in order to force info out of people too, I believe. The catch being they'll be completely uncooperative afterwards.

Frankly, ripping off both that and Blade Runner might be the best course of action.

I do wonder if the plot will be going down the Illuminati/Knights Templar conspiracy stylings of its predecessors, since their seems to be very little hints to that effect so far and it seems more concerned with theoretical social issues relating to transhumanism. Again, this is probably not a bad call if true. Much like media based on Lovecraftian fiction, there's only so much you can do with sinister secret societies before it becomes too quickly tedious or loses all dramatic impulse.

[DJ]

Sigh.

Just been skimming this, I'm still at my folks' house and have a date with an old friend in an hour so gotta get ready for that, but I'm liking a lot of the discussion showing up; I also have a sense of dread that this game is going to just not work. Not because of any one particular thing I'm seeing, just the sense that the aspects that came together in DX1 are simply Not Done Anymore, kinda like how none of the metrovanias ever quite managed to do Symphony again because the experimentation process was over and a lot of the hanging chaff that made Symphony interesting simply doesn't materialize once the formula is down.

DX may well be the kind of game that only works when it's blazing a new trail, not following an established one.

Conversely, maybe they know this and/or maybe the change of staff and publisher is enough to send it in a new direction and we'll see it pull it off. I really hope so. I want this game to be good so much. I would almost rather it wind up being ungodly, Sonic 2006 level bullshit than just being mediocre.

I'm hopeful. I'm just also kind of wary.
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[Dracko]

What's the point in blazing new trails if no one is going to revisit them and hopefully build upon them anyhow?

May as well be within the same licence.
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[Dracko]

Haha, yes!

fear my gaygenda, nerds

[Levi]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

[Dracko]

The Deus Ex Bible.

So 90s.

[BotageL]

[Dracko]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Nitpicking, but the second Ghost movie's title is simply Innocence, further distancing it from SAC and the rest of the series (it's really Batou's story, rather than Makoto's, anyway.) They slapped the GitS name on it outside Japan so some people would actually care about it.

[Dracko]

I'm not sure I follow. Innocence is a sequel to the original animated film. I didn't say there were any links whatsoever with Stand Alone Complex, and drew a hopeful comparison that a similar approach is being taken with this reboot/prequel to Deus Ex.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Wasn't trying to refute anything you said, just wanted to bring to light a significant detail about the Innocence title.

[Mr. Mechanical]

Info blowout from RPS.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/03/deus-ex-human-revolution-impressions/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/03/dx3-we-didnt-want-to-go-black-white/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/03/deus-ex-3s-first-level-blow-by-blow/

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/02/03/deus-ex-the-protagonist-trailer/
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[Dracko]

[BotageL]

Come back in three weeks when they actually talk about the game

Multi-embargos is the dumbest shit and I'd like to thanks the games PRess for playing along
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http://www.mdgeist.com/

[Dracko]

[geinou]

Many previews will follow, probably by the end of February. At least I saw some embargo stuff for that period.

[negativedge]

I don't like how story focused all the press is for this game. I don't give a fuck about any love story in Deus Ex. Even if its fantastic. Which it won't be. I don't care how conflicted Mr. Protagonist is. Deus Ex is fucking no nonsense and its great.

and of course I remember how all the people flipping out about how great this is going to be are all people that think Bioshock Shifted Some Paradigms so I'm a little uneasy here.

[Dracko]

I'm hopeful that getting into gear with previews and tie-in material this month means they're close to announcing a release date.

Here's the new trailer embedded:


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[Dracko]

D:
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[Levi]

that's pretty goddamn ominous.

[negativedge]

translation: 80 hour weeks, then pack up your stuff

[BotageL]

Not Anime Enough
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[Dracko]

[Dracko]

The first issue of the Deus Ex comic was pretty good. You can tell it's from the 2000AD school of writing, but it's promising and I suppose was an apt choice for a cyberpunk comic, after all.

What it does establish as far as the game is concerned is that Jensen got Murphy'd (Arms and legs destroyed, shot in the head, left for dead, rebuilt in Detroit) and that he's about as broken as he comes (Was taken out of rehabilitation too quickly, refused counselling back in his SWAT days, can't hide his reservations too well no matter how hard he tries to bury his issues down, his on/off girlfriend didn't survive the hit on his workplace...) which makes for more interesting player characters usually, since you can be just as consistent trying to redeem your humanity as you are rejecting it, and even being completely schizoid about it. Oh yeah, and FEMA is going to be a villain again, which got a good laugh out of me and it channels Innocence with a Brecht poem recital during a helicopter ride.

Also for a laugh:

[Dracko]

Some new in-game snippets in this video:



And this is neat; I can't recall any other game since DooM III seemed to kick it off, but the computer screens you find are actual ones within the world:



Of course in DooM III it was more pronounced since you didn't zoom in on them, but there's a lot more information to digest here.

Best part about the previews so far: It's confirmed that you regain battery power by eating energy bars and such.

Maybe by the end of the game you fall prey to diabetes. :(

And here's the narrative designer Mary DeMarle being interviewed by the community manager:


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[CubaLibre]

[shrugtheironteacup]

you shut your goddamn mouth
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[negativedge]

yeah this whole game is giving me a bioshock vibe

[km]

Official release date is August 23
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.

[ella guro]

I'd like to be wrong, but I just cannot conjure any excitement for this game. I can't see how this won't shit on the original in some way.