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I miss Deus Ex

Gonzito

Gonzito

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I miss this so much. The stealth, the immersion, the music, the story, the atmosphere… and Adam Jensen. I hate what happened to this franchise

Nothing will ever fill this void for me





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One of my favorite franchises of all time, with Human Revolution being one of my Top 5 games

Mankind Divided was a disapointing sequel, but still a good game. And there's nothing quite like those games out there.

Considering the state of gaming today, maybe its for the best it's dead.
 
The og game from the 2000's PC era was amazing. I cant tell you how many runs I did back in the day. I think prolly 50+... The replayability and mechanics of the game for the time it came out were insane. There was nothing like it.

That year was special man. We got the original Matrix, and then Deus Ex I think shortly after. I was balls deep in my 'nerdy nigga in a leather trench and sunglasses' era during that time. I was walking to school dressed like walmart Wesley Snipes on the regular lmfao

The mdern games are not even close for me personally, I put maybe like 5 hours into human revolution before dropping it.
 
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Oh dude same I absolutely love... Fucking love immersive sims like deus ex. It's a crime that this series is no where to be found, one of my all time favorites ever. Just the stealth aspects alone, loved it.

It's why I eat up any immersive sims we get, atomfall was pretty fucking awesome and one of my favorite platinums.... But that style of play just damn, it hits so hard.
 
Hugare said:
One of my favorite franchises of all time, with Human Revolution being one of my Top 5 games

Mankind Divided was a disapointing sequel, but still a good game. And there's nothing quite like those games out there.

Considering the state of gaming today, maybe its for the best it's dead.
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Human Revolution felt like being in proper city. It was an amazing game,

Mankind Divided was terrible for giving that city feel. The city area of Mankind Divided was hostile to you from the get go, who hampered exploration as you now have to consistently avoid guards. That alone made me quit the game at the start.
 
Immersive sims just don't have mainstream appeal, hence the lack of them.
It's a real shame because they're definitely up there in my favourite game genres.
Judas might scratch an itch when it's finally released.
Also, Frictional's Ontos sounds really intriguing.
 
Success said:
Human Revolution felt like being in proper city. It was an amazing game,

Mankind Divided was terrible for giving that city feel. The city area of Mankind Divided was hostile to you from the get go, who hampered exploration as you now have to consistently avoid guards. That alone made me quit the game at the start.
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My man you dropped one of the best games ever made. Please go back to it and play it because the reason you are giving for dropping it its quite frankly ridiculous

Same goes for Nocty Nocty , go back and play Human Revolution from start to finish, you cant miss these games man
 
Cyberpunk and its sequel is probably the closest we'll ever get to a continuation of DE sadly. I still throw on the Unatco theme 1 hour loop and just let it soak in from time to time.
 
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Unforgivable that they cancelled the game they had in dev to redirect resources into the mismanaged black hole that was wildlands…only to then cancel wildlands after about 8 years dev and hundreds of millions spent without ever even fully revealing the game.

Industry is such a broken mess.
 
Deus ex is your typical PC franchise, a niche with too much options to end up in the same place to give hardcore tennis racket socks players what they think they want. What the studio didn't understand is that Human Revolution had soul. By accident or by a first time inspiration they released a banger with an unmissable ambient and one of the soundtracks that is already history of the medium. So obviously they decided to make it again but with a generic setting and worst soundtrack for no reason. The niche gamers that it was catering to loved it (save for the imposed fragmentation, that is Square's fault) and nobody else. It sunk the franchise. And, as always, no lessons were learned.

This was the fucking menu:


I have to give it another chance because it was generic in 2016. By today's standards it's probably the fucking Gioconda.
 
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It will take the fans or some indie developer to revive the franchise anytime soon, as the main studio with the I.P won't go back to it anytime soon...Adam Jensen could quite easily appear in Cyberpunk, the crossover would be great! ....but it is the state of the industry today, because had all the recent Deus Ex games been a smash hit then you would have got a new entry by now....but games cannot flop...which is why on a separate note the upcoming James Bond game has to succeed otherwise it'll end up like Deus Ex...
 
Original was one of my favorite games of all time. I'd preorder the highest tier or buy whatever console if it's exclusive next if we ever get a sequel that's faithful to the series.
 
Just started Human Revolution again for the umpteenth time brother, I know how ya feel. The series is, for me, simply one of the best of the medium.

Here's hoping someone that gives a shit buys the IP and gives us the sequel to Mankind Divided that we so desperately need, and then hopefully eventually a whole new entry that takes place after Invisible War, new main character and location, new gameplay mechanics, revive this hallowed series ya know? I kinda don't think it'll happen though. These games have never sold as much as their legendary status would suggest, and I don't think any publisher is likely to do right by them right now, though it's heartbreaking to admit.
 
poodaddy said:
Just started Human Revolution again for the umpteenth time brother, I know how ya feel. The series is, for me, simply one of the best of the medium.

Here's hoping someone that gives a shit buys the IP and gives us the sequel to Mankind Divided that we so desperately need, and then hopefully eventually a whole new entry that takes place after Invisible War, new main character and location, new gameplay mechanics, revive this hallowed series ya know? I kinda don't think it'll happen though. These games have never sold as much as their legendary status would suggest, and I don't think any publisher is likely to do right by them right now, though it's heartbreaking to admit.
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Yup one of the best for sure. Would love to see what they can achieve on current gen hardware. Sad as Strong single player games like this have a big fanbase and following. But publishers and Developers seem to chasing the wrong type of gamers.
 
poodaddy said:
These games have never sold as much as their legendary status would suggest, and I don't think any publisher is likely to do right by them right now, though it's heartbreaking to admit.
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"The original Deus Ex and its sequel Invisible War met with strong sales, and had sold a combined total of over two million units combined as of 2009.[110] Human Revolution ranked high in sales charts during 2011, going on to sell over two million units.[113] While no specific figures were given, Mankind Divided was stated to have seen commercial success.[114] All versions of Human Revolution and Mankind Divided have sold a total of 12 million units worldwide as of 2022."

In 2000, a 1mi pc game was a huge success.

The problem with both recent games was that Square allocated a 10mi units sold each for production and got a 6mi sales for each game. (I believe that HR sold close to 7mi and MD sold 5mi or something like it)

edit: Mankind is awesome, although they pulled the plug before the story was completed. Prague is miles ahead any hub in HR.
 
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Human Revolution came out of nowhere for me and was a transformative experience. The story and lore, the characters, exploring the hubs, the insane music, the sick upgrade tree, the secrets but most importantly the visual design of the game. The way it looked, the way the furniture was designed, everything was legit AAAA-tier.

Incredible experience. I'll cherish my first playthrough forever and I wish I could shake hands with every dev who worked on that game.

Mankind Divided is a different beast entirely. Better in some ways, worse in many others. It never had an impact on me the way Human Revolution did. Still has incredible design work though. Still have this awesome artbook:

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"Fun" fact: Mankind Divided is almost 10 years old...

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I just wish they finished the Jensen trilogy, it was supposed to tie right into the start of Deus Ex 1, I would feel a lot more content had the series been able to wrap everything up in a neat bow like that.

Also fun fact, my uncle in law is Jensen's VA's cousin (sadly I have never him, but he told me all about that last summer)
 
Eidos Montreal was a terribly mismanaged studio or was it simply Square Enix meddling with their developments aswell??

I can't believe a studio with IP like Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and Thief was sold for utter peanuts.

I loved HR and MD but damn was that ending brutally disappointing and the boss fights they could never quite nail them eh, I enjoyed the exploring in MD especially going into the bank and seeing that interesting body on ice!!!

Real shame the Jensen story was never finished 😔
 
I knew some peoples working there and I'm always sad to remember what happened.

This team only wanted to make the best Deus Ex. When Square-Enix started to manage, they wanted GAAS 🤮

Will always be the GOAT immersive sim imo.

On top of many memes

 
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