Freddo on 19/5/2007 at 05:06
I doubt this will be as good as the first one, but hopefully it will be close.
After all the vocal complaints around the net regarding DX:IW (including an EIDOS survey on the official Ion Storm forums some months after the release), I think they have a pretty good idea what people didn't like with it. I found IW to be ok as a game, and I expect the new one to be more enjoyable than IW :p
Papy on 19/5/2007 at 05:35
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
In any case, do not go expecting a PC only release, it won't happen.
The problem is not having a version for console, but having the same version for different people. I really don't understand why developers seem to always try to create a one-size-fits-all game when it comes to gameplay. Why they are trying to implement what they conclude is the "best" compromise instead of implementing several ideas and letting me choose the one I like.
I'll take Oblivion as an example. The number one complaint about this game is the level scaling. From what I heard, several people working on the title really didn't like the idea. I guess there was a lot of brainstorming and a lot of fighting on this. And yet, there is no option to control this aspect of gameplay. By chance, there was an editor, and a few people quickly created some mods for those who didn't like the original design. That's nice, but is it really our job to make the games we buy ?
Anyway I think this implied segregation between console and PC players is far too simplistic. Although, obviously, there are differences, demographics between the two platforms certainly overlap. Also, I'm pretty sure there is a lot more differences between two PC players, one playing with an FPS and the other with a PopCap game, and two FPS player, one on PC and the other on console. I don't mind a console version at all, as long as they include gameplay options to satisfy my demographic group. I don't want to stop other people from enjoying their game, I just want to be able to enjoy mine.
Quote Posted by demagogue
IW would probably have been better off without the demo putting people in a very negative frame of mind by only allowing them to highlight its downers and giving no good platform for its uppers
It was the opposite for me. At first, I didn't care to buy IW (and a new video card) because of the extremely bad comments here and on other forums. When I changed my video card, I tried the demo, loved it, and thought all this bad mouthing was only a case of mass hysteria. I bought the game, played it and found those bad comments were appropriate.
Scrubking on 19/5/2007 at 06:08
I don't know how anyone can be excited about this. They killed Deus Ex, and there is no way they are going to recapture its greatness so let it rest in peace.
Cyborg on 19/5/2007 at 09:18
It's been a long time since I've visited these forums, but these great news just forced me to pay a visit here.
It really came out of nowhere to me, this DX3 thing. In a certain way I have some expectations for this project, as anything in the DX world will certainly be good to some extent. Hopefully something nearly as great as the first one.
Now we'll just have to wait and pray.
D'Juhn Keep on 19/5/2007 at 10:34
I for one wouldn't mind seeing a prequel, and having augmentations being entirely mechanical. Get extra armour plating, vision enhancers, etc clipped on and reflect on the loss of humanity. Or something :cool:
sad duck on 19/5/2007 at 13:35
as long as they are taking there insperations from the origional PC version im happy. i think the series needs some freash blood :)
Digital Nightfall on 19/5/2007 at 15:33
ION's DX3 was going to be a prequel.
Nameless Voice on 19/5/2007 at 16:09
I was thinking about where they could put the new game in the series the other day, and came up with the following conclusions:
As much as I thought they were poorly executed, all of the endings for Invisible War had a certain finality to them. Since this isn't the DX spoilers forum, I won't give them away here, but out of the four (five), I only see even the slightest sequel potential in two of them, and there's certainly no way that the endings could be 'combined' like the original DX1 endings were in DX2's story. The problem with those endings is that they show the world far into the future, giving no real room for anything else.
One place that a sequel could take place would be during the Collapse. This has some potential, though we already know, for the most part, what happened to the Dentons during this time.
The other place would be a prequel, but there would be no nano augmentation. Mechanical augmentation might make for a fun game, though. :) "Need a skul-gun!"
A prequel also has the opportunity to take place in a world similar to that of the original Deus Ex - a world that always felt much more 'real' and 'likely' than Deus Ex: IW, which was seemed to me to be more of a generic scifi setting.
Jeshibu on 19/5/2007 at 17:13
Yeah, I'd prefer DX3 to be set close to DX's time, just because the sci-fi seemed to be rooted a bit more in reality there.
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
ION's DX3 was going to be a prequel.
What's your source on this?
