Spector Comments On Deus Ex 2 Demo, Game Now Gold

Thanks to VE3D for pointing to an Ion Storm forum post containing Warren Spector's comments on the reception of the Deus Ex: Invisible War demo, which was released a couple of days back, and has garnered considerable controversy over perceived console-centric design and over-simplification. Spector, the project director on DX2, and creator of the original Deus Ex, comments: "We're as dedicated to the PC as we are to the Xbox", but agrees: "We've heard the comments about some of our UI choices on the PC side and we want to address them, whether through an updated demo or a PC game patch or both." He concludes with a clear message: "We stand by our game design choices... We honestly feel we've delivered a more focused, purer version of the game we set out to make the first time." Meanwhile, Blue's News is reporting that the game has officially gone gold, and is due in stores December 3rd for both PC and Xbox.

Re:I'm confused

[SamSim]

"Go gold" means "the game is finished and ready to start being sold". You're confusing the term with phrases like "go platinum" from the music industry.

Re:Headshots...

[Lightwarrior]

It would be less funny if you knew that shooting a guard once in the face elicits a confused cry, the second time prompts a stern warning, and only on the third time do they attempt to set you on fire.

Throwing large steel drums at a guard only results in a stern talking to, no matter how many times you do it.

In the world of Deus Ex, those are the two chief concerns - a totally nonsensical damage model and an absolutely abysmal AI (it's worse than the first one).

There are no silent stabs in the back, no sharp-shooting headshots. But it doesn't matter, because the AI doesn't quite achieve the competancy of a brain-damaged dog.

-lw

I couldn't run the demo

[TerryAtWork]

And I have a geforce mx 440 card with 64 MB - didn't like my pixel shader....

To the naysayers

[gmhowell]

Athlon 1800+, GeForce3Ti500

Demo ran 'fine'. No tweaking, straight out of the box. If people are honest about the game not running for them, then I will admit that there must be some problems somewhere. What they are, who knows?

the UI problems can be tweaked. Surf around, and you can move the HUD out to the border of the screen a bit.

The controls are a little floaty. Again, surf around, things can be tweaked.

Have a little bit of faith. The dude says they'll patch. With any luck, it'll be a day and date patch, with at least the two .ini changes I've mentioned.

I've preordered, and have every intention of picking up the game next Wednesday.

Re:I'm confused

[mausmalone]

Gold as in gold-backed CDR, not gold record. The final version of the game has been burned to a CDR and given to the publishing house.

Re:I couldn't run the demo

[mausmalone]

Congratulations! You have one of the most popular cards on the market, a GF4 Mx! The game doesn't run on your card at all!

I did get to see it on a GF3 Ti, though... and it got a solid 5 fps at lowest detail in 640x480. Good going ION storm, nobody programs as well as you!