Comments on: Deus Ex 3 Pickytures

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:31:16 +0000

@Toby
Wait, you hope they go the Bethesda route, and not…the Bethesda route?

By: BigRocks McHugenuts

BigRocks McHugenuts — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:54:13 +0000

Its purely a response to claims that the render is the concept art, when it isn’t. That is unless the sneaky beggars got two concept artists to make extremely similar but different concept art just to wind people up.

Heh. When gamers think developers would waste time and money creating a second lot of concept art similar to earlier concept art that they can then try to pass off as screenshots, it’s no wonder developers feel the need to dumb down games.

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:56:57 +0000

Excitement with a heavy dose of scepticism, no doubt this is going to be made for consoles. I just hope they go the Bethesda direction, and make an awesome game that is equally good on PC and console, and doesn’t strip the complexity back massively as a design choice in ‘streamlining’ or ‘accessibility’

By: Muzman

Muzman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:35:01 +0000

I don’t dispute that they are in-game (although I’d expect concepts to look cooler actually, based on the earlier ones). It’s just that if they are in-game, it’s a funny looking game. The rendering is weirdly slick and cartoony like it’s been run through a watercolour filter, or they were print scans that have had heavy noise reduction (nb: not saying that’s what they are).

By: Donald Duck

Donald Duck — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:20:35 +0000

nabeel – it’s common to use a 3D render to start with when doing concepts. It makes it easier to nail the perspective. That the image started out as a 3D render doesn’t make it more believable to be an _ingame_ render, it just means it was rendereded in 3D at some point.

By: René

René — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:21:34 +0000

Hi all, yeah these are older images from some magazines that came out late last year. Larington had a good post where he compared the concept art with the in-game one.

By: Über Nerd

Über Nerd — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:15:21 +0000

I hope they play the colours as well in the game as they do in teasing shots. A rainbow farting unicorn arseploded in arcologies and labs and less colourful/16bit Quakeshitbrown in slums. As well as Normal places with, you know, the regular colours that fall in between…

By: nabeel

nabeel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:53:34 +0000

This is most likely a screenshot, because we have a reverse angle of the same room. I would advise you guys to browse the forum for other images, there are some extremely high-res versions of the concept art so you can tell those apart at least.

By: Donald Duck

Donald Duck — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:23:18 +0000

Bankscam: They all definitely look like concepts to me. But seeing how far games like the new Prince of Persia and Streetfighter 4 has come in terms of rendering something that looks like a digital painting, I might be wrong. My opinion is still that they’re all part painting, but we’ll see, I could well be wrong :)

By: Muzman

Muzman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:11:50 +0000

If they’re all in-game this is going to be one funny looking game.
I wonder when we’ll see some characters.

By: Icarus Tyler

Icarus Tyler — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:41:58 +0000

Has anybody noticed that the first one (inevtiable sewer-level) bears a striking resemblance to a similar shot released before deus ex 2?

By: aaron

aaron — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:05:07 +0000

The colors frighten and enrage me.