Gingerbread Man on 15/5/2007 at 23:21
Quote Posted by Papy
Gingerbread Man : This is from a press release somewhere
As for "if this is accurate", although it's obviously not official, I don't think the managing director of Eidos France will say a baseless rumor on a TV interview. If you doubt
Briareos H post, I watched the video and I speak French.
I speak French just fine. ;)
What I was meaning to imply was that there is still a lot that can get between the
intention and the result. I wasn't saying "this might be inaccurate" so much as I was saying that things may change or already be subtly different.
As far as the development goes... I wasn't aware that there were Eidos-brand dev houses. So that clears that up for me.
New Horizon on 16/5/2007 at 02:38
Quote Posted by Twist
A few months ago there was a bizarre tease at (
www.deusex3.com). I came here to post about it, but when I tested the link in my post preview, it just redirected me to Eidos.
I haven't seen the teaser up on that domain since (it just redirects to Eidos). I swear I saw something! :sweat: Any chance anyone else saw it? :erg:
It was a flash-based design with a slow dark blue swirl and some random bits of text that faded in and out at different positions. The text made little sense to me so I don't remember it. I remember thinking it had a sort of Deus Ex-like conspiracy flavor, but the specifics seemed like gibberish to me. At the time I wondered if it was a tease for a soon-to-be announced sequel.
But when I couldn't get it to load again, I... well, I was very confused. :erm:
And don't get too excited about Eidos having registered the domain. They registered it back in 2000.
You could check your temporary internet files. Quite often, flash .swf files will get saved in there. Then you could watch it at your leisure.
Twist on 16/5/2007 at 05:38
I wish I'd thought of that back then. :tsktsk: Unfortunately I've long since cleared my browser cache. :erg:
Briareos H on 16/5/2007 at 05:45
Could have been a teaser for the time Project Snowblind was still supposed to be a Deus Ex sequel.
demagogue on 16/5/2007 at 17:55
I just independently stumbled into this news just now and was taken aback ... holy shit how did I miss this news!? But leave it to team ttlg to already have the scoop.
So, putting aside whether the rumor will come to pass or not, does anybody have any thoughts about what it means for the francophone-side of Eidos to be handling this kind of project if it turns out to be true? Is there any reason to think the development will be handled differently than DXIW, or just the same, or does it not really tell us much of anything at this point?
What I'm wondering is if games coming out of francophone studios might have a different flavor, like you could try to argue Crytek's games have a German flavor (I'm not sure whether they really do, it's just the first example I thought of), although Crytek is an independent developer and not as Americanized as Eidos.
Or, the other option, maybe it won't really make much difference where the development is at, since the gaming market is so globalized these days. They'll still be targeting basically the same demographic. This is my intuition.
Either way, at the least I hope they learn from DXIW's preventable (I believe) mistakes, and not - for one thing - get bulldozed into working with such a crap engine!
Pyrian on 16/5/2007 at 19:28
Even just aiming high is an improvement, really. :cool: If somebody wants to make the next Deus Ex, I'd rather them try that than try to make the next Doom.
rachel on 16/5/2007 at 21:21
I don't think the studio being French is really relevant, considering Ubisoft et al., whose games that I've played did not have a particular "French" or "European" feel in my opinion. (YMMV)
As long as they give the dev team enough time for polish and, most importantly, QA, they should be good. Rushing for an early release was a major cause for IW being a disappointment as far as I remember (bugs, bad physics, etc.) and the game ran "well" only after they had to release a patch.
And if they do get the rights and start working on it, it would be all kinds of awesome to have someone here to keep in touch with the community, like IG/2K are doing with BioShock.
New Horizon on 17/5/2007 at 15:26
Well, the studio wouldn't really be totally french, Montreal is bilingual. Fascinating that they're going to be making the sequel here in Canada. Even more fascinating that they're making the sequel at all...did IW sell better than TDS?
Malygris on 17/5/2007 at 17:29
They're not french, they're just greasy.
demagogue on 17/5/2007 at 19:13
Whether or not DXIW sold better than TDS (I'm pretty sure I recall that it didn't), from what I understood the word of mouth vitrol against it following the demo did a lot to hurt it.
What I mean is, it seems that with DXIW they sort of shot themselves in the foot by committing to a bad engine and all the problems that blossomed out of that, etc, which situation could have been prevented. So I'm thinking that they realize that the DX franchise has the potential to sell well as long as it's on a level playing field and it at least isn't hurting itself. If they can just get organized and get good technology behind it, they've got the cards in their favor.
