Teaser Trailer

I really don't know what to think about this. I love the first Deus Ex, and I still liked the 2nd one but it wasn't as good as the original.

Now the third...hmm, I don't really know what I can say. Especially since it is a sketchy trailer.


What's everyone think?

How good are they?

Deus Ex's success, in my opinion, is a huge fluke much like Fallout.  When you actually look at the games in a non-biased viewpoint, you begin to notice they have incredible flaws (really buggy and ugly being one of the biggest although Deus Ex 2 was less unattractive) but when you actually play them, all the features add up to create a really immersive experience.

Deus Ex 1 was like a super fanboy homage to Blade Runner and System Shock with lots of conspiracy theories running wild.  It was a fun game, pretty open ended, had a good plot, but was marred by bugs, an old graphics engine, incompatibilities with random cards, and all three endings could be achieved by making a decision in the last 5 minutes of gameplay which pretty much ruined the "your choices affect shit lol." 

Deus Ex 2 was much different.  They tried to streamline the game by removing the somewhat broken RPG stat rules from the first game (a blessing and a curse because a lot of people liked that factor), they streamlined the annoying damage system by making a single unified health bar, and they toned down the inventory by making ammo universal.  Personally, I thought DE2 was miles above the first game.  The voice acting was actually good (Tom Hall didn't voice 60% of the characters this time although he left the company to make Anachronox anyways), the storyline was 100x better (not to mention darker; the children academy side story actually disturbed me a little), there was a lot more emphasis on the characters themselves (there's three specific characters you develop a relationship with), and the game's combat system was dramatically improved so you didn't suck with every gun regardless of how high your skill was.  The new biomods were also infinitely better and more useful.  I barely bothered with mods in the first game.

I can't watch the trailer right now, but I'm excited.  Project Snowblind was a decent action spinoff but if the game's action and exploration takes after BioShock (and with it's success, I know it will) and the storytelling follows the cinematic flair of Mass Effect, then I can see Deus Ex 3 being a fantastic game with a style of it's own.  Deus Ex is still one of my favorite game franchises and I've beaten both 1 and 2 once a year since they were released.

good news indeed! i love the deus ex games. definitely one of the best FPS RPG's ive ever played. I was only disappointed with the multiplayer, but i easily enjoyed single player multiple times for both games. very half life-esque attention to atmosphere.

Considering that the original Deus Ex is my favorite video game of all time, I must say that I am pretty excited about this.  I did feel (along with a lot of other people )that the sequel was very pale in comparison to the original.  There was just something about the atomosphere, the story, and everything in the original Deus Ex that I just fell in love with.  I'm kind of leary, as I worry it might turn out like the second one (which I didn't like at all, although it could be because of my rather high expectations from the original), but I am also kind of excited about this as well.

i can't really think of a reason i should be excited about this game, beyond the fact that i do generally like games of this sort. which i guess is more than i can say for most games.

also am i the only person who thought the trailer felt much, much more like THE DAVINCI CODE II than deus ex 3?


everyone would have been better off if project snowblind had been deus ex 3. they hired richard gaubert to write the game, the guy who wrote anachronox, probably with the pitch of HEY IT'S DEUS EX 3 which ended up not being true at all. regardless, he's a great game writer(one of the few i know by name) and it would have been interesting to see his take on that kind of game. i sincerely doubt eidos montreal actually has any writers on staff that are of his caliber

ultimately, i think that's what this game is going to come down to. objectively speaking, deus ex 2 WAS superior to deus ex 1 in most aspects, but the story was really boring and uninteresting. all of the areas of the game failed to be very interesting, because you just couldn't bring yourself to really care about the things happening in the game. the first deus ex really lucked out in that the situations were interesting for the most part, because the game is really, really poor from a technical perspective.

but you know, regardless of how good of a job they do with this, i see the whole deus ex story as being pretty spent. the first game really said all the things that needed to be said in the deus ex world. unless they find some dramatically new way of approaching the story, it'll just be some moldy rehashing of the same story. augmented soldier rebels against corrupt system and decides the fate of humanity. yawn. that worked in the first one because the world was pretty vivid and was really easy to relate to, and it was a story that hadn't really been done before in that way. but nobody that comes and picks up the franchise is going to have the guts to throw the whole damn thing on its ear and invent a fresh way of looking at the concept. game designers get really brutally handcuffed when a game is called a SEQUEL(mostly because of their own stunning lack of creativity), and i really can't think of an exception to this. sure, you see some games get better over the course of many sequels, but those are always games that had some massive place to improve. as flawed as deus ex was, it really didn't have that much room to improve beyond the technical aspects of it, which really wasn't what the game was about anyway.


so yeah, i'll bet you 1.38USD that this is a generally unrewarding game experience.

i'm not expecting this to be anything like the original deus ex. that game was a total fluke like someone said, it was just this incredibly lucky mish-mash of various ideas which put together became great. deus ex 2 was a good game - i liked it's atmosphere and everything, the story was pretty good i think, but it didn't strike me anything like the first one did. i still play deus ex 1 on a regular basis.

so anyway all i expect from this is a decent rpg-shooter which will hopefully let me explore some cities and do various sidequests involving zyme junkies, disgrunted newspaper vendors, drug dealing chefs and pimps called jojo.

the trailer definitely didn't seem anything like what i think deus ex was supposed to be (like this goes for anything). first of all, it was orange and also they used that 24 font. i liked that the opening synth of the original theme song came in at the end there, that was kind of nice, but it was probably just something they threw in to appease the stupids fanboy of the original game like me.

i think the main reason that i liked the first game was that the whole thing - the story, the gameplay, the sound, the graphics - was this big , amazing, kind of gross and convoluted mess. i don't see that happening again. this will probably be even tidier than deus ex 2, and probably less interesting. i mean, i'm definitely going to play it, anyway. i know i will at the least enjoy it.

DON'T buy the ps2 version, I can't stress that enough.

Do anything you possibly can to play it on the PC.

yeah, get them.

You could just get them off steam.

The first Deus Ex was so badass, I'll have to buy this​

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3164708

no information about the game itself really, but this guy says triple A title way too much for me to be that excited about deus ex 3 now.

Im pretty psyched about Deus Ex 3. The first game was amazing. The second was ok. I was irriated by the universal ammo of the second game though. But all in all I'm excited what they come up with for the third game.