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I see they still use blu ray in 2029.

If the game looks that good imagine how good it looks on PC!
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The smelly PC gamers who are poor and kill game franchises by forcing them to go to consoles when the sales are shit, couldn't save this franchise. (Hopefully they consider a definitive edition on the nintendo switch similar to what happened with Dues EX Human Revolution for Wii U)

game sold like shit and now square enix are going to concentrate on Marvel crap from here on out:
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By Tom Phillips Published 30/01/2017

There won't be another big Deus Ex game in the foreseeable future.

Square Enix's shift in focus to its recently-announced multi-game Marvel project, combined with underwhelming sales of last year's Mankind Divided, mean the Deus Ex franchise has been placed on hiatus, Eurogamer understands.

This, despite Mankind Divided leaving the series with a number of hanging story threads. These plot points were intended to be resolved in a third game, which would also complete the trilogy of Deus Ex titles begun by predecessor Human Revolution.

Much of this remaining story was once intended for Mankind Divided, Eurogamer has heard, until the game grew too large in scope and had to be curtailed. (Even with this, Mankind Divided's development took five years). It's unclear if this untold story will now be left unresolved - or tied up in another medium, such as a graphic novel.

Mankind Divided's DLC, meanwhile, focuses on standalone stories. One final pack from the game's season pass - A Criminal Past - is set for launch on 23rd February and acts as a prequel to the main game.

All of this marks a dramatic climbdown from the much-trumpeted "Deus Ex Universe" project announced prior to Mankind Divided back in late 2013. "An ongoing, expanding and connected game world built across a generation of core games" was promised.

"It's a commitment on our part to deliver meaningful content that expands the franchise on a regular basis," Eidos Montreal boss David Anfossi said, "and to deliver a deep conspiracy that will span several connected Deus Ex games, creating a more immersive and richer experience than ever before."

But three years later, when Mankind Divided did finally arrive, it failed to spark the sales needed to grow the series into a mainstream franchise as Square Enix had previously hoped.

So, when could we now see another Deus Ex? All signs point to it being a long wait.

The bulk of Deux Ex studio Eidos Montreal is currently at work on the next Tomb Raider, the existence of which leaked online last November when someone left a "Shadows of the Tomb Raider" PowerPoint presentation open on the Montreal subway. There's no word yet on when this might launch.

This is while the Tomb Raider team over at Crystal Dynamics works on the first game in Square Enix's Marvel deal, which is based around the Avengers. Square Enix has already said it will not reveal anything more of the project until 2018. Could it also see release in 2018? It seems unlikely, considering how fresh the ink is on Marvel's deal.

Back at Eidos Montreal, a small team is currently aiding Crystal Dynamics' Avengers project and, Eurogamer has heard, in the early stages of production on the second Marvel game based around Guardians of the Galaxy. This project will be lead by Eidos Montreal.

With its collaboration on Avengers, the full production of Guardians of the Galaxy and a big new Tomb Raider game to finish first, it sounds like the studio will be kept busy - and away from Deus Ex - for quite a while.

Eurogamer requested comment from Square Enix for this article, and received the following response from Eidos Montreal:

"While we are still working on expanding the Deus Ex Universe, along with creating new content and updates for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, we're also devoting our talents towards working with Crystal Dynamics and Marvel on The Avengers project."
It didn't help that the game was cut in half to make the game a trilogy.
Just like Shenmue they will probably never go back to the series to finish it. And fans will have to get some kind of spiritual sucessor game that reboots Dues Ex but under a name that isn't controlled by the big publisher that hates to take any more risk.

This is capcom's chance to meld megaman with a Dues Ex style shooter.
There is a gap in the cyberpunk genre for a action/stealth/rpg/conspiracy game involving robots that have gone nuts and want to kill people because they are not robots and corporations that want to sell robots for self defence that are just as bad as the robots that attacked non-robot people who abused them as slaves, thus enabling them to profit over the clashes of robt on human and human on robot wars.

Looks like the whole game industry is going to collapse.
-No more megman games
-no man's sky being shit but having huge amount of hype
-games like Alien Isolation selling like shit while Aliens Colonial marines gets huge hype and causes everyone to preorder
-nintendo going back to waggle even though the fad died out
-titanfall 2 poor sales causing the titanfall series to be canned (face it dicks, EA doesn't care about respawn)

I told you guys people are stupid. They would rather play pokemon go on mobiles than good triple a titles. Eventually the big publishers will kill console game platforms and just make every game a mobile game with free to play/pay to win business model. urgh. Think then I might quit gaming except for nintendo games.

related:
Why the suits shoe-horning modes into games that don't need them is killing good franchises:
Square-enix need to stop killing my games...
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GameHED wrote:The smelly PC gamers who are poor and kill game franchises by forcing them to go to consoles when the sales are shit, couldn't save this franchise.
How much do you earn, you smelly bus riding peasant? Obviously not much if you can't afford to back games on Kickstarter :)
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GameHED having another argument with himself again.
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Rorschach wrote:
GameHED wrote:The smelly PC gamers who are poor and kill game franchises by forcing them to go to consoles when the sales are shit, couldn't save this franchise.
How much do you earn, you smelly bus riding peasant? Obviously not much if you can't afford to back games on Kickstarter :)
You dirty drunken bums have forced EB games to put it on sale for $36:

https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps4-218701-D ... yStation-4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hopefully a Switch port can save this series. (nintendo could pay them to give us the finished version with the whole trilogy wrapped up neatly in one title) :up:
Call it "Dues Ex pack"
includes:
Human Revolution (same as Wii U release)
Mankind Divided - complete edition. (definitive version of this game)

Sell the game at $100 with amiiibo which lets you play as the main character in Smash Bros. :up:
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So, how much was that again? Still not enough to back games on Kickstarter?

I bet you supplement your disability pension with Nimble payday loans and think 50% interest on the dollar is a good repayment rate. You must be if you seriously think re-selling better optimised games elsewhere on an inferior hardware platform for nearly double the price is a good idea :)
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When a game has already reached it's goal you should not back it anymore. Any game that is going to reach its goal you are better backing it AFTER the product is created and proven to not suck by buying the product instead of donating.

This is how most sensible people reward the developer. You get your money AFTER THE WORK IS DONE. Not BEFORE.

It's not CHARITY. You have to produce something that isn't shit and then you can get the money.

Otherwise it is like you are rewarding people for making shit games.
We covered this topic many times. Look at games like Star Citizen. It has been backed way to much and the game isn't out because they are just going to drag the release on for ever and ever and ever. Better to give them LESS money and they make better content. Because they are under pressure to perform.

It happened with M.Night Shalaman with his latest movie. Sometimes giving LESS money actually improves a game. It sounds crazy but it's true. The creators are forced to think about ways to do things efficiently and cut down on wasted money.

Look at all the triple A titles today where the only reason they sell is because of the hype and marketing. This is slowly killing confidence in games as a hobby. You guys ended up hyping stuff like aliens colonial marines and what happened? many people bought it and predordered it and the bad guy got his money and laughed about it. Do you think people with no morals care if you waste your money? No. They just see you as chumps. So to pay them back, we put the fear of death into them by not giving them shit and forcing them to deliver before they get a cent. The way all other businesses have to operate to survive. It seems mean but it has the effect of toughening up the developers so they can become less dependent on fans and more on surviving because of merit. If the general buyers like it and pay you, then you won't need to only make games for fanboys and can just make good games without sucking up to them too much. (ie the wider your appeal of your game = bigger profits. Niche audience won't be enough for big budget titles with larger ambition)
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Square Enix currently have a sale on steam, can pick up DX:MD for cheap.
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