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The UE3 engine. Which I assume DX3 will use.
I'd much rather holler "retcon!"
Not as catchy, but it has a heck of a punch. Kudos, good sir.
For a while there Eidos had no respect for their more popular franchises and were more than happy to run them into the ground with shoddy sequels and just make a new franchise. I'm glad this behavior has punished them to the point that they are a much more marginal player in gaming than they were or, certainly, could have been.
Let's just hope that someone worthy picks up the Legacy of Kain franchise and starts from scratch. They jumped into Soul Reaver far too soon and drove the series into the ground there.
Sure, you could go for the strength aug that lets you juggle dumpsters and crush people with your bare hands, but people would freak the fuck out when they see you. Radar transparency may not be as useful, but at least it doesn't get in the way of your social skills.
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Conversely the near normal augment might have a bit more trouble fighting the goons, but he can still impress the shopkeeper, and operate normal human size devices. He can get on the roof and interface with a crane to drop a tonne of bricks on them, and use pheremone enhancers to bluff his way past the survivors into the research lab.
Although he too might have trouble if someone spots his implants, and how will he then defend himself?
I just hope that gameplay is dramatically impacted by character development, both in terms of the way the game plays (stealthy, brute force, cunning, ranged, bluff) and in the way the story develops.
Also, me likey the art direction in the teaser. Can't fucking wait.
...and SO many ways it could fail.
What do I want to see?
Fuck the RPG 'points' progression from 1. It made me bloody ANGRY. It was stupid and frustrating.
Wipe the simplified Aug system from your Invisible War face, please.
The entire game should be a combination of Elder Scrolls style ability levelling(based on your use of weaponry and negotiation AND augs at the END of every level, thereby avoiding the stupid uncontrolled leveling of Elder Scrolls,) and a complex aug system, with various basic augmentations with different upgrades you can slot into each aug(similar to the weapon upgrade system from DX:IW,) so your Skul-Gun could be modded to an EMP weapon, or to shoot a laser beam, Cyclops style.
Oh, and make sure that each aug you pick up is different, too. Say you beat a big-ass nano-boosted bio-tank, and you pick up his shoulder cannon... you should be able to plug it in if you want, but you're never going to find one again if you leave it there.
So yeah, dynamic levelling... if you shoot everyone, you aren't going to be able to buff diplomacy skills, and you won't gain the stealth points for guards successfully evaded. If you talk your way through, you obviously won't get better at gunfights, but you might learn a piece of information to help you bluff through the next commanding officer(diplomacy +2!) If you talk through the door guards, slip through a vent to the enclosed SECRET NANO LAB, then blow the inner sanctum guards away with a shotgun, you're going to get more balanced stat boosts. See what I'm getting at?
That way, you get better at your chosen playstyle(never getting SO good that it's no-effort, mind you. We have upper limits,) without having to worry about it. I mean, if you shoot a single guard in the face, that's not going to affect your stealth rating, but learning a bit of pistolry or sniping skills might just save your ass later, right? As long as stats aren't god, but merely a bit of a boon, there'd be no powergaming worries... which puts the main focus on how you build your augs, like it SHOULD be.
I can't describe how happy I am. Reservations aside, this could be so awesome. And maybe they'll hire good voice actors (I love Deus Ex, but some of the voice acting is abysmal, even if the writing is excellent. Even if the quotes are pretentious, all three endings gave me chills).
I don't hate DX2. In fact, I played it before I even played DX1. It's just that it's such a shadow of DX1 that people who have played DX1 are disappointed.
other than you have AIDs
DX2 kind of combines aspects of all of the possible endings of DX1.
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Well I can kind of understand. I mean, it doesn't make much sense that you could stealth all up ins to get better at shooting heavy weapons.
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Nope, sorry.
List is here for future reference
But it wasn't really a big deal if you didn't put all your points in the good skills anyway, so I don't see what the problem is.
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Getting better at firing a pistol because you crawled into a corner of the subway does not make sense.
... getting better at ANYTHING because you crawled into a corner of the subway does not make sense. Considering that the bulk of skill points were given as tiny exploration bonuses that already rewarded you by giving you desperately needed equipment... it seemed stupid.
Leveling, as a whole, does not make much sense. However, faced with the DX:IW 'never get any better at ANYTHING' proposition that made the sniper rifle so damn retarded to use, I'd much rather have a well-designed dynamic level system. As long as it works.
Well, it IS possible that I begrudge skillpoints after I played through the game the umpteenth time... and crawled into the same corners of the sewer every time, and made a different character every time. It just seems silly, is all.
really?
You're dumb and ridiculously unbalanced.
It definitely was fun and interesting at the time. Though I'm afraid to go back to it for fear of tainting my rose colored memory.
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So their options are pretty much limited to prequels, or not involving JC.
Fuck making sense.
Deus Ex's skill system may not have made sense, but it worked perfectly from a gameplay perspective.
And newsflash, reality-man: Gameplay is more important than making sense
Yeah but that would be a much stronger point if a system like Oblivions or a hybrid system like WOWs didn't work in gameplay. I mean, it's not like those games suck ass and their experience system is terrible. The systems are good, and they make more sense. Gameplay trumps making sense, but making sense is nice when there are two equal possibilities from a gameplay standpoint.
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Also, consider that being able to shoot every gun with the same amount of skill from the word 'go' makes even less sense than crawling around in a sewer to learn how to fire rockets more accurately.
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To be honest, if Deus Ex used a system like that, it would make it more of an RPG, and I probably wouldn't play it.
Don't get me wrong, I love WoW and Oblivion and their skill systems, but I don't want them in a game like Deus Ex.
Games are games.
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I hardly see how skills leveling up based on use makes it any more of an RPG than choosing which skills to level up based on experience earned regardless of which skills were used to get the experience.
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Come to think of it, combat in the early game would've been a lot better if not for the fact that it took an hour and a half to aim a weapon you had anything less than advanced skill with. Removing the skill system would've actually made the game better.
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OR SOMETHING.
They did that with Invisible War.
It didn't.
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The problem I have with levelling through use is that then, if the player so wished, they could grind up their pistol skill early in the game.
Whether or not the grinding is boring or not is irrelevant. The problem is that in ANY game where grinding is possible, it inevitably becomes the best way to play.
They could go with the ending where Alex kills all the factions in DX2. Did the Omar take over in that ending? I don't remember. I'm pretty sure it was Leo's idea, and he was against the Omar at that point.
No JC, but I don't think he's really required for the series to go on. In fact, post helios merge, his character was pretty boring.
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well damn