Deus Ex Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

[Tito Anic]

Under 300 000 copies sold in the first two weeks. It's looking like a flop, isn't it?

Would be good, this turd is as much Deus Ex as Jazzy Jeff is a jazzman Maybe in the future we will get proper Deus Ex 3 with

 

[Coma White]

I'm buying the OST

This. The soundtrack, as it was for Human Revolution, is cum-worthy.

 

[anus_pounder]

'd both the game and the season pass. Unfortunately my potato is unable to run the game without frequent crashes, but still I have no regrets. I would definitely purchase anything they made. Looking forward to the rest of the DLC and Nu-Deus Ex 3.

 

[AwesomeButton]

keeping the train running for a while with add on content that doesn't cost nearly as much

I'd wager the DLCs are included in that 50 mln USD budget to begin with. Selling parts of the initial game that have been deliberately cut off in order to be sold as DLC.

 

[Somberlain]

Prediction: this game flops financially and Squeenix concludes that it's because MD was too complex and deep for most gamers. So, next Deus Ex will be dumbed down so much that even Dragon Age 2 would be jealous. The game will probably have more pronounced multiplayer, survival, sandbox, crafting, FPS and f2p elements and an episodic structure. The game will flop even harder for obvious reasons and Squeenix will finally pull the plug from the franchise. Then, maybe 8-10 years later, they will make another reboot and the cycle begins anew.

 

[Coma White]

Prediction: this game flops financially and Squeenix concludes that it's because MD was too complex and deep for most gamers. So, next Deus Ex will be dumbed down so much that even Dragon Age 2 would be jealous. The game will probably have more pronounced multiplayer, survival, sandbox, crafting, FPS and f2p elements and an episodic structure. The game will flop even harder for obvious reasons and Squeenix will finally pull the plug from the franchise. Then, maybe 8-10 years later, they will make another reboot and the cycle begins anew.

 

[anus_pounder]

Prediction: this game flops financially and Squeenix concludes that it's because MD was too complex and deep for most gamers. So, next Deus Ex will be dumbed down so much that even Dragon Age 2 would be jealous. The game will probably have more pronounced multiplayer, survival, sandbox, crafting, FPS and f2p elements and an episodic structure. The game will flop even harder for obvious reasons and Squeenix will finally pull the plug from the franchise. Then, maybe 8-10 years later, they will make another reboot and the cycle begins anew.

This is the part that scares me the most.

 

[J_C]

Prediction: this game flops financially

And the sad thing is that Square Enix will consider it a flop despite it selling several millions of copies. Just like with Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider and Hitman. Because the shitty management of SE pours unrealisticly much money into these projects. So much, that the games can't make it back unless they sell 8 million.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

keeping the train running for a while with add on content that doesn't cost nearly as much

I'd wager the DLCs are included in that 50 mln USD budget to begin with. Selling parts of the initial game that have been deliberately cut off in order to be sold as DLC.

Not really possible to prove either way. But that budget including at least part of the DLC's development is very likely, since it's coming out so soon after launch. There's always the obfuscation there because there genuinely is down time when they freeze changes and focus on bug fixing + general technical polish. This is a phase that goes for months, and level designers, artists etc so on usually move on to new projects and / or DLC during this time. By developing the DLC as self contained levels outside of the hub world, it's a lot easier to develop in parallel to the main game without worrying about where it integrates into the hub. It wouldn't shock me if there were several people working on DLC in comparative isolation for the better part of a year. The question of whether or not DLC developed before the game comes out was "stripped from the game" is a little bit of an academic distinction - would the content have been funded if they did not intend to sell it separately? Impossible to say.

The only real way to evaluate it imo is the simple standard of whether the content is worth what they're asking for it. Will wait for the DLC to come out, find out how long it is, then decide whether it's worth the asking price. If it's not, then I'll wait for a sale. The core gameplay of MD is certainly good enough to want more content.

 

[Jick Magger]

Prediction: this game flops financially and Squeenix concludes that it's because MD was too complex and deep for most gamers. So, next Deus Ex will be dumbed down so much that even Dragon Age 2 would be jealous. The game will probably have more pronounced multiplayer, survival, sandbox, crafting, FPS and f2p elements and an episodic structure. The game will flop even harder for obvious reasons and Squeenix will finally pull the plug from the franchise. Then, maybe 8-10 years later, they will make another reboot and the cycle begins anew.

Counter prediction: I think if sales continue to underperform and their upcoming DLC (the ones they probably developed alongside the game) also underperfoms on top of low base-game sales, they'll probably ax any further DLC additions they had planned, ax whatever plans they had with Deus Ex Universe and whatever future games they had in store, and wrap things up as quickly as they can with the sequel (which'll also likely have a slashed budget) to try and wring out as much money as possible as cheaply as possible before torching the franchise and running.

 

[Jaedar]

Took me about 25 hours to finish this (steam says 30, but that includes some breach mode and idling). Think I was pretty exhaustive in terms of exploration and side questing, thought I may have missed a few secrets.

The ending feels like one huge trailer for the next game. Do not like.

 

[DeepOcean]

The ending feels like one huge trailer for the next game. Do not like.

Yep, the ending is very insulting, it is like "Do you want to see the interesting part of the story suckas? You will have to pay again for the priviledge."

 

[Metro]

Prediction: this game flops financially and Squeenix concludes that it's because MD was too complex and deep for most gamers. So, next Deus Ex will be dumbed down so much that even Dragon Age 2 would be jealous. The game will probably have more pronounced multiplayer, survival, sandbox, crafting, FPS and f2p elements and an episodic structure. The game will flop even harder for obvious reasons and Squeenix will finally pull the plug from the franchise. Then, maybe 8-10 years later, they will make another reboot and the cycle begins anew.

This is the part that scares me the most.

 

[Latelistener]

The more I read about this game, the more I wish someone made a proper cyberpunk RPG, with dark and nihilistic story, where a main character is more or less ordinary human (with several different backgrounds to choose from), rather than heavily augmented alpha male with model looks.

 

[Coma White]

The more I read about this game, the more I wish someone made a proper cyberpunk RPG, with dark and nihilistic story, where a main character is more or less ordinary human (with several different backgrounds to choose from), rather than heavily augmented alpha male with model looks.

 

[Latelistener]

Edgy, but not even close.

 

[AW8]

Have they removed the mouse acceleration yet?

 

[Jick Magger]

The ending feels like one huge trailer for the next game. Do not like.

Yep, the ending is very insulting, it is like "Do you want to see the interesting part of the story suckas? You will have to pay again for the priviledge."

It would be like if the first Deus Ex ended just as you get detained by UNATCO. It's just a great big middle finger by Square Enix.

 

[Junmarko]

 

[tuluse]

The more I read about this game, the more I wish someone made a proper cyberpunk RPG, with dark and nihilistic story, where a main character is more or less ordinary human (with several different backgrounds to choose from), rather than heavily augmented alpha male with model looks.

 

[Ivan]

 

[Latelistener]

 

[Urthor]

I thought CD Project were creating their own game, not taking umpteenth genre cliches, throwing them to a wall and creating an 80s scifi frankenstein. If that's their concept art I hope this is one of the one they just ignore.


Say what you like about Mankind Divided but it has at least been original, and the art direction isn't cartoony or super dark n edgy, more trending towards realistic.

 

[vean]

Nothing in this scene makes any sense whatsoever.

 

[Tito Anic]

The more I read about this game, the more I wish someone made a proper cyberpunk RPG, with dark and nihilistic story, where a main character is more or less ordinary human (with several different backgrounds to choose from), rather than heavily augmented alpha male with model looks.