DEUS EX REMAKE

[EBass]

If someone were to faithfully recreate Deus Ex as a roguelike, would you say the same thing? I really doubt that you would. Graphics matter. They don't matter as much as most other things, but they matter; it's why I can go back and play HL2 again, or even Doom, but can't stick with the original Quake. No amount of nostalgia will make Quake pretty again - at least Doom's sprites looked organic.

This effect is more pronounced when you're dealing with an IP you never played. I didn't play Deus Ex when it came out because I was too busy with Diablo 2 and Starcraft, when I wasn't at school. It's more than a decade later now, and as much as I'd like to go through and experience the magnificence of the original, I can't. I simply can't. It's motherfucking hideous, and no amount of humanity can turn those block-people into people. I don't know if you're a GTA player, but I'm willing to bet that if you were you'd choose -any- of the iterations that came after GTA3 over GTA3 itself.

Whilst I actually agree with you Bento Box (I wouldn't want to play I dunno, Half Life in monochrome vector graphics) I would still advise you to make an exception for Deus Ex. I couldn't play Quake again even though I loved it because its just a basic manshoot which doesen't retain what made it "Special" for the time. Deus Ex still retains all of that, I replayed it about a year ago and after a couple of hours you don't even notice the crudity of the graphics anymore.

You don't find any other game which has so much consensus within our community as being the "greatest ever". You're missing out on so much if you can't get over the graphics.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

I never understand people who complain about graphics. Seems to be the newer generation of gamers who find graphics as a deal breaker.

If the gameplay/story/level design etc are great it doesn't matter if its photo-realistic or if it looks like shit.

No need to remake Deus Ex it's brilliant as it is.

If someone were to faithfully recreate Deus Ex as a roguelike, would you say the same thing? I really doubt that you would. Graphics matter. They don't matter as much as most other things, but they matter; it's why I can go back and play HL2 again, or even Doom, but can't stick with the original Quake. No amount of nostalgia will make Quake pretty again - at least Doom's sprites looked organic.

This effect is more pronounced when you're dealing with an IP you never played. I didn't play Deus Ex when it came out because I was too busy with Diablo 2 and Starcraft, when I wasn't at school. It's more than a decade later now, and as much as I'd like to go through and experience the magnificence of the original, I can't. I simply can't. It's motherfucking hideous, and no amount of humanity can turn those block-people into people. I don't know if you're a GTA player, but I'm willing to bet that if you were you'd choose -any- of the iterations that came after GTA3 over GTA3 itself.

I just can't comprehend how a game with a great story, characters and gameplay can prevent anyone from playing it by the small fact that it looks ugly. The game, if you play it and stick with it, regardless of the graphics is fantastic and you will realise in the course of playing it that the graphics matter little in respect to everything else.

I mean I recently just bought FinalFantasy VIII off of the PSN (and alot of other PS1 titles before it) and it has even worse graphics than Deus Ex yet I'm having a huge amount of fun and it's keeping me interested as much as, if not more so, than alot of newer triple A titles.

Besides there are enough texture mods/patches for Deus Ex to bump it up a little. If you are avoiding playing the original because of the graphics you are doing yourself an extreme disservice.

 

[Coathangerjay]

It would not be profitable.
Deus Ex was a lot longer than HR, remaking all the unique locations in the shiney new engine would cost a fortune.

I don't know man. Games like fallout 3 and RED Dead Redemption are a lot bigger than HR and they have about the same level of graphic detail I'd say as Deus Ex HR.. I think.. I mean i'm not mad the HR was so short.. I mean the protagonist in this game isn't all that epic of a character. he's just a security guy.. the game just didn't need to be that long. But I think they could make a longer game if they had the patients and the right people helping out, and if they learned from the mistakes they made with HR. No boss fights.. deus ex levels are epic and sprawling.. not linear.. ect.

 

[Saviordd1]

Yeah I can agree with this, sort of like Halo is going. I'm not saying it should be changed, just given a face lift and minor fixes. Just something to make it playable.

 

[Pinkamena]

Short game? I spent 25 hours on DE:HR!

 

[somonels]

NO thanks, they'd just make a shooter with tacked on "RPG elements."

 

[SimpleJack]

Why the fuck does everything need a remake? Because it does not look shiny and pretty? So what, it still plays a bazillion times better than Deus Ex: HR and is no freakin lie about freedom ingame.

No, Eidos Montreal should let their fingers from anything Deus Ex related and give the job to people who do not outsource parts of the game to other companies, make bad cutscenes or sell a cut product (I did not preorder it so I don't have the "bonus" (or better: taken away from customers) mission).

If you want to play Deus Ex: Do so. If you want looks over gameplay, play anything else.

Jesus, someone is angry about the boss fights...

 

[SimpleJack]

Why the fuck does everything need a remake? Because it does not look shiny and pretty? So what, it still plays a bazillion times better than Deus Ex: HR and is no freakin lie about freedom ingame.

No, Eidos Montreal should let their fingers from anything Deus Ex related and give the job to people who do not outsource parts of the game to other companies, make bad cutscenes or sell a cut product (I did not preorder it so I don't have the "bonus" (or better: taken away from customers) mission).

If you want to play Deus Ex: Do so. If you want looks over gameplay, play anything else.

Jesus, someone is angry about the boss fights...

Oh, the bossfights were only the obvious part I did not like about this game.

The game wasn't perfect, but neither was the original. I could barely play it to tell the truth because of a myriad of reasons, most of them revolving around the engine...which was terrible.

So I agree with the guy who made this thread.