Deus Ex: The Fall Domain Registered

Movie tie ins are generally bad anyway, but I don't think there's even hope for one called Human Defiance.

Deus Ex: Human Speculation.

How are they going to do this with the way the ending the first game?

A prequel to the prequel.

The Fall would be a good name for something between Human Revolution and 1. To date the three games have all taken place in the islands of relative stability between periods of out-and-out chaos.

I'm thinking they should probably just retcon Invisible War. Even ignoring how mediocre of a game it was, the plot just wasn't good.

To be precise, it was schizophrenic. A lot of design elements and world-building were ultimately decided by focus-testing feedback (the same process which gave us some of the worst controllers on consoles and some of the worst endings in movies) and between a game which had been stripped of much of the elegance of its predecessor (the interface was modified in one of the first patches for the game due to this) and a desire to explore high-brow philosophical themes the results were just not that good. You had a shooter where the shooting was awful, a plot-driven game where the plot was half-baked and made no sense, an RPG with almost no mechanical or spiritual elements of an RPG, etc. There was too much compromise and the lack of central vision really hurt it. Thief: Deadly Shadows proved what that same studio could pull off on the same technology with a solid vision guiding them.

You sure know your Deus Ex.

I'll blog a response.

I hope you do, that was super interesting and I didn't know any of it.

It's up now.