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It's another from Aspyr Media who were responsible for Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered, STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter, STAR WARS: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles, STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection, Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered and others.
Check out the brief announcement teaser below:
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From the press release:
- EXPERIENCE A WORLD ON THE BRINK: Explore real-world locations in a thrilling cyberpunk tale of conspiracy and intrigue, including post-crash New York, the neon alleys of Hong Kong, shadowy Parisian strongholds, the clandestine Area 51 and more.
- PLAY YOUR WAY: Customize your character to fit your playstyle. Every challenge has more than one solution – breach locked systems, hack firewalls, cloak and vanish, deploy raw firepower and more. Your choices ensure no two playthroughs are ever the same.
- NEW! VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS: Explore expansive environments with improved lighting, dynamic shadows, water physics, particle effects, and fully updated textures that breathe new life into our dystopian future.
- NEW! REBUILT CHARACTER MODELS: Immerse yourself in Deus Ex’s rich character development systems like never before, with brand-new character models featuring smoother lip-sync animations and ragdoll physics.
- NEW! QUALITY-OF-LIFE ENHANCEMENTS: Autosaves, faster loading, achievement tracking, and cloud saves on supported platforms.
- NEW! CONTROLLER SUPPORT: Experience a new control scheme optimized from the ground up for modern controllers, designed for fluid weapon management and streamlined navigation.
- NEW! MULTI-SCREEN SUPPORT: Enjoy 4K-ready UI with ultrawide and multi-monitor display support.
The reception so far doesn't exactly seem too positive, the YouTube comments are filled with complaints about how it looks. Same with the Steam forum, although that's not surprising, the Steam forums are often a mess on a lot of games. You're probably going to be unimpressed with me at this point, but I actually haven't played the original. I know, I know - there's still so many classics I haven't found the time for. Big fan of the modern games though, shame we won't see a proper conclusion.
Worth noting that the original Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition is currently less than £1 on Steam until September 29th. And, if you pair it up with the Deus Ex: Revision mod, you're already getting a pretty good looking and much loved community remaster.
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I mean....it looks fine to me. Then again, I am not a graphics whore, never was.
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That's gonna make choosing one version even harder. I haven't played Deus Ex either, and I was conflicted between choosing vanilla, Revision and GMDX. Now comes this.
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Deus Ex is the greatest game of all time. Anyone with a computer device and can understand English should experience it. This remaster appears more or less worthless, maybe it's good for modern console players, as the ported PS2 release of the game has a few differences from the original PC game, I heard.
Obviously vanilla for first time playthrough. You're out to start with the actual game, not someone else's version of it.
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I haven't played Deus Ex either, and I was conflicted between choosing vanilla, Revision and GMDX. Now comes this.
Obviously vanilla for first time playthrough. You're out to start with the actual game, not someone else's version of it.
Last edited by Pyrate on 25 Sep 2025 at 12:19 pm UTC
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Arehandoro 2 days ago
I got too late to the game, and vanilla didn't do it for me. Revision was better, but also felt outdated. I hope I can finally get hooked with this version.
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walther von stolzing 2 days ago
This looks fine to me; looking at some of the comments I was fearing it was going to be like the badly lighted, lumpy upscaled abomination that was on the GTA III 'definitive editions', especially when they first came out.
If they make the controls a little less floaty, and non-lethal gameplay a little less impossibly difficult (?!), that would be improvement enough, IMHO. Also eliminating the need for Kent's launcher, which has done great service over the years making the game playable on newer systems of course.
DX was an imbalanced game when it came out with branches in the skill tree that didn't make sense, very strange damage points for the weapons, and even stranger upgrade paths -- but IMHO, all of that contributed to it feeling less like a homogenized playground experience and a bit more like a sim. So I hope they don't go around over-correcting too much.
edit -- oh, and the ridiculously over the top accents for the locals in Hong Kong & Paris -- don't ever change them; I mean, they were so funny no one ever got offended by them, I don't think.
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If they make the controls a little less floaty, and non-lethal gameplay a little less impossibly difficult (?!), that would be improvement enough, IMHO. Also eliminating the need for Kent's launcher, which has done great service over the years making the game playable on newer systems of course.
DX was an imbalanced game when it came out with branches in the skill tree that didn't make sense, very strange damage points for the weapons, and even stranger upgrade paths -- but IMHO, all of that contributed to it feeling less like a homogenized playground experience and a bit more like a sim. So I hope they don't go around over-correcting too much.
edit -- oh, and the ridiculously over the top accents for the locals in Hong Kong & Paris -- don't ever change them; I mean, they were so funny no one ever got offended by them, I don't think.
Last edited by walther von stolzing on 25 Sep 2025 at 1:44 pm UTC
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Ugh, Aspyr. My hopes for this just plummeted. This should have been done by Nightdive. I agree that the Steam forums are a mess. It's a serious cesspit of some of the worst people I've ever encountered. It's honestly shocking that Valve lets it be like that. They should just shut it down, IMO.
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I mean....it looks fine to me. Then again, I am not a graphics whore, never was.
Remasters always have a tightrope to walk on where they want to improve the technical graphics quality, but need to preserve the original's aesthetics.
In this case I do get some of the complaints that poetically describe some elements as looking like doom 3 rather than something that was originally powered by the first unreal engine.
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Linux_Rocks 2 days ago
This: http://bsky.app/profile/dogwithakolibri.bsky.social/post/3lzmensdkys24 [External Link]
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R Daneel Olivaw 2 days ago
My number 1 game of all time!!
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walther von stolzing 2 days ago
My number 1 game of all time!!
-- and I'm sure you're familiar with this little homage to Friend R. D. Olivaw, at the Area 51 terminal:
Deus Ex Wiki: Area 51 Computer Terminals [External Link]
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R Daneel Olivaw 2 days ago
whoa I was not!!! That's so cool!!! Thank you for sharing :)
Now I REALLY have to go fire up another replay
Now I REALLY have to go fire up another replay
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Molton Brown 2 days ago
Nightdive would have been the dream studio for this but oh well, spent today playing Revision on Steam probably just as good as this will be
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I was excited when I saw the announcement but woof.. this looks bad. The high poly human models look really wrong, especially when contrasted with the UE1 environments. IMO they should have kept to the more stylized art style of the original. I'll be interested to see if they make any changes gameplay-wise but I doubt I'll pick this up anytime soon (especially when Revision exists).
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I just finished playing the "Revision" mod version a couple months ago. It was the fun having not played the base game for probably 15 years. I'm probably not in the market to immediately play it through again, but otherwise I would have been all over this!
I'm sure there is going to be grumbling about if it's graphics-ed enough, but it looks like a nice upgrade I guess. I think the bigger issue will be that it looks like the original game code running underneath. The gameplay and animations are still all going to be very 1999... You can see it in the trailer too. I wonder if it will be well received as a result.
I'm sure there is going to be grumbling about if it's graphics-ed enough, but it looks like a nice upgrade I guess. I think the bigger issue will be that it looks like the original game code running underneath. The gameplay and animations are still all going to be very 1999... You can see it in the trailer too. I wonder if it will be well received as a result.
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I really have no opinion on Aspyr, but why all the love for Nightdive? They haven't thrown Linux a bone in half a decade and most of their catalogue have source ports, making remastering them worse than pointless. And them having the gall to outright alter Heretic. Not a fan.
Last edited by Technopeasant on 25 Sep 2025 at 9:21 pm UTC
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walther von stolzing 2 days ago
why all the love for Nightdive
I find this a bit odd as well, not just here but on reddit too (yeah I hate myself); partly because around the time of the System Shock remake's delay, and engine change, they were dragged through the ground in online spaces with all sort of allegations of fraud, incompetence, etc. Since then, of course, the SS remake redeemed itself, and they've recovered their reputation, and I'm seriously glad that they did -- but have their remasters been SO well received, that by now no one else is deemed worthy for a DX remaster?
And the System Shock 2 remaster isn't even out yet, is it?
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Apparently GOG has Revision and GMDX mods. Revision is a bigger redesign and GMDX is more of a remaster.
That prompted me to install Revision and to try it (never played these mods before).
* https://www.gog.com/en/game/gmdx [External Link]
* https://www.gog.com/en/game/deus_ex_revision_mod [External Link]
Yeah, I enjoyed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. I wish there was a sequel.
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That prompted me to install Revision and to try it (never played these mods before).
* https://www.gog.com/en/game/gmdx [External Link]
* https://www.gog.com/en/game/deus_ex_revision_mod [External Link]
Big fan of the modern games though, shame we won't see a proper conclusion.
Yeah, I enjoyed Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. I wish there was a sequel.
Last edited by Shmerl on 26 Sep 2025 at 3:14 am UTC
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the ported PS2 release of the game has a few differences from the original PC game
I played it on the PS2 years ago, and I was surprised how much less environmental detail the PC version had in comparison (at least for the beginning of the game, around the Statue of Liberty). The PS2 version did have long loading times in between sections, though.
Ugh, Aspyr. This should have been done by Nightdive.
Dunno if they have ever cooperated on anything, but I think they have the same owner these days? Anyway, I think both of have done some good work, though neither of them have been doing any native Linux for a while now. :(
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