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Deus Ex Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Pre-Release Thread

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UPDATE - ANNOUNCEMENT HERE: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...rom-eidos-montreal.90701/page-14#post-3848178

Unconfirmed: Square Enix Files Trademark for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided


A NeoGAF user spotted a "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided" trademark being filed by Square Enix in the United Kingdom, and after a quick check on trademark search tool TMView I confirmed it exists and matches Square Enix's past filed trademarks. On top of that, the subtitle "Mankind Divided" meshes well with the information Square released about the as of yet unannounced upcoming Deus Ex title for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One:

I want to leave you with a piece of concept art from our next-gen Deus Ex game that shows trans-humanism segregation, which is a backdrop to our vision for the next Deus Ex. It represents a "ghetto-city' voluntarily built in order to separate the classes. The people in this segregated class have reshaped their environment, nostalgic for their ideal of Cyber Renaissance. This dark and dystopian vision sets the tone for things to come in Deus Ex.
We've seen fake trademarks popping up with disturbing regularity at the end of last year, so you should probably take this with a grain of salt, but going from what I noted above I'd say it looks genuine. If it is, I'd expect an official announcement at E3, if not earlier. I personally hope that the title improves on Deus Ex: Human Revolution and moves it a bit closer to the systems-driven, more interactive and interconnected design of the original, but even just something on the same level would make me very happy.
 
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Make it a proper sequel to Human Revolution with no dumbing down, refine the systems, add in more player choice (maybe have some areas and missions that only appear if you go a certain route), make the ending not just a "Press this button to derp" ending and I'll be very happy.
 

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Deus Ex: Mankind buttfucked. I can only wonder how the next generation of nextgen consoles will affect the technical side. Because it's hard to get the plot any worse than in Human Revolution. Still the piss color filter, absolute lack of shadows and graphics looking good only when compared to Quake 2? Unwashed howling fucks. I hope Squeenix will soon close this pathetic show.
 

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Make it a proper sequel to Human Revolution with no dumbing down, refine the systems, add in more player choice (maybe have some areas and missions that only appear if you go a certain route), make the ending not just a "Press this button to derp" ending and I'll be very happy.

You're asking for a lot.
 

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Deus Ex: Mankind buttfucked. I can only wonder how the next generation of nextgen consoles will affect the technical side. Because it's hard to get the plot any worse than in Human Revolution. Still the piss color filter, absolute lack of shadows and graphics looking good only when compared to Quake 2? Unwashed howling fucks. I hope Squeenix will soon close this pathetic show.

Other than characters looking too plastic I think Human Revolution looks more than fine. WTF at graphics whores on the Codex in general, really. Hopefully they use all that RAM for larger levels, not endless textures.
 

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They should use orange&blue filters for this one because:
  • it would be symbolic and represent mankind divided
  • it would smoothly pave way for blue filter in their Deus Ex remake reboot
  • orange & blue lighting is popular in Hollywood
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Deus Ex: Mankind buttfucked. I can only wonder how the next generation of nextgen consoles will affect the technical side. Because it's hard to get the plot any worse than in Human Revolution. Still the piss color filter, absolute lack of shadows and graphics looking good only when compared to Quake 2? Unwashed howling fucks. I hope Squeenix will soon close this pathetic show.

Wow you are so edgy you might actually cut yourself

:edgy:
 

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Deus Ex: Mankind buttfucked. I can only wonder how the next generation of nextgen consoles will affect the technical side. Because it's hard to get the plot any worse than in Human Revolution. Still the piss color filter, absolute lack of shadows and graphics looking good only when compared to Quake 2? Unwashed howling fucks. I hope Squeenix will soon close this pathetic show.

Wow you are so edgy you might actually cut yourself

:edgy:

The whingeing about the graphics doesn't merit a response (graphics are not that important), but I can't let his comment about the plot slide. What was wrong with the plot in Human Revolution?
 

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Did human revolution do well enough that there's even a chance it won't be popamolized in a desperate attempt to make more money?
 

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(graphics are not that important)
If you, in 2014, don't demand from the game requiring a 2014 hardware to look like it's 2014: FUCK YOU.

What was wrong with the plot in Human Revolution?
Game about nothing. The only positive is the fact it did have the beginning and the end. And some forgettable relatively logical chain of events between.
 

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The plot in HR was kinda dumb.

  • The ending was entirely too forced, like they were trying to recapture the DX moment of really having to choose between the Illuminati, Daedalus, or burning it all down.
  • It was preachy in that special Canadian way of being super annoying
  • Apparently neropozyne (or whatever) is the magical must-have drug that all augmented people need, but there is no plot devices to actually support this. Where are the people who cannot afford it, rioting in the streets? Big ball drop there.
  • The bosses were dropped into the story with practically no explanation. They're just there. Probably the worst part of the story.
  • Belltower Security is the epitome of a mook producing machine. They might as well have been Darkspawn. You could just mow them down.
 

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The whingeing about the graphics doesn't merit a response (graphics are not that important), but I can't let his comment about the plot slide. What was wrong with the plot in Human Revolution?

Is the "be natural" vs. "cybernetics rule" stuff supposed to be the main philosophical issue of the game or is it eventually revealed to be some kind of false dichotomy by a sage NPC character? Cause the way the dialog is written about that shit is terrible (like hearing two atmosphere PCs have the most excruciatingly dumb conversation about it) and it isn't in itself philosophically interesting.
 

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What was wrong with the plot in Human Revolution?
1. Bosses were completely pointless and didn't add anything to the plot.
2. It sort of lost track of whatever it was all supposed to be about towards the end - it's evident that they wanted to end it somehow, make it culminate in some way after lengthy (and pretty good, TBH) build-up but didn't know how.
3. It dropped the ball on the whole transhumanism issue, mostly exploring the wrong and excessively shallow end of the debate
 

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The overall plot did have some problems and the ending-o-tron did suck. However the world they built was great and the smaller stories within it were quite on-point. The debate between "what I can do with my body" and the "if everyone else gets modified I have to" stuff was good, with parallels to abortion, socialism and whatever else. A lot of the dialog was very well written.

Depends on your priorities I guess.
 

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Maybe they will ditch the shitty art director and I can actually SEE the game this time around?

The whingeing about the graphics doesn't merit a response (graphics are not that important), but I can't let his comment about the plot slide. What was wrong with the plot in Human Revolution?

Is the "be natural" vs. "cybernetics rule" stuff supposed to be the main philosophical issue of the game or is it eventually revealed to be some kind of false dichotomy by a sage NPC character? Cause the way the dialog is written about that shit is terrible (like hearing two atmosphere PCs have the most excruciatingly dumb conversation about it) and it isn't in itself philosophically interesting.

It would have been much more effective to have an argument about early adoption vs waiting for superior technology. 1: It ties into the original 2: it hasn't been done to death 3: it's actually pretty relevant in the current world (why buy a graphics card/phone/TV/car/whatever now when there will be vastly better ones for cheaper next year?)
 

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Also, the idea of struggling with transhumanism was pretty much dropped since Jensen had no choice but to augment. Like, they give you some perfunctory dialog choices about being pissed that you got augmented against your wishes, but then you could go and murder someone with your elbow chisels. So which is it? Do you dislike augments or not?
 

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The plot of Deus Ex HR started with very good intent and looked promising. Unfortunately, it turns out to be told via the "talk to A who knows nothing bt sends you to B who might know someone if you help him with C, himself being frie d with D who is in the conspiracy but will refer you to E who will say that F might know more... All the way to Z plotline.

They had a good idea but no meat to fill it with.
 

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What was DXHR about?

I just finished the game. Beat the main boss in dialog option fight. Watched the horrible outro glued out of youtube videos, mixed with meaningless philosophical rubbish talk.

And I'm still not sure what exactly this all was about. Maybe someone can explain.

So, there was the Tyrants group... and they solely goal of existence was to provide the player a set of characteristic bosses to shoot at.
Okay, in popamole world it actually makes sense.

Also the anti- augmentation terrorist group... which was just dicking around for no real purpose...
I don't know what was it for. Guess to show some miserable pitful morons. To make player feel intellectually superior or something.

Don't forget about FEMA, the top dog of all modern conspiracy theories. So they have a crap ton of criogenic coffins, put there people, ship them to another continent... and... uh... nothing?
FFS! There are no conspiracy theories in DHXR. If it was any reference towards it, then it's out of place. I rate the responsible people as incurable idiots.

There was the conflict between humans and transhumanism movement... which is laughable, as "transhumanism" is all about drug addicts with limbs chopped off and replaced with cheap tech....
And actually nothing goes out of it. The most forced and undeveloped conflict ever.

There was the kidnapped scientist girlfriend. Almost entire game was about getting to her... and it's pointless beacause at the end she's all OK about it all... and she's just doing her research which leads to Deus Ex in some way.
FFS

Then there was the chinese chick, the cheapest rip-off possible of original Bob Page and Maggie Chow... and she wants to rule the internet... or something.... so she squeezes into tight fetish BDSM suit... and plugs herself to a supercomputer which then starts to rape her and her colleagues WHAT THE FUCK

Finally, at the end, confrontation with crippled millionaire... who spends all his wealth to burn brains of augmented people... because morality something his feels something WHAT THE FUCK

Press button to have an ending WHAT THE FUCK
 

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