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Deus Ex Designer Making 'Immersive First-Person RPG'

by Blake Ellison, Sep 17, 2008 8:00pm PDT

Related Topics – Deus Ex, xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC

Harvey Smith, lead designer on Deus Ex: Invisible War (PC), is at work on an "immersive first-person RPG" title.

Speaking at the Austin Game Developers Conference, Smith commented that his studio "Arkane ... is very focused on immersive first-person experiences," giving players an idea of what to expect from the Austin, Texas, office's future projects.

"My focus is very much around games like Deus Ex," said Smith in the speech as noted by Gamasutra. Smith worked on the original Deus Ex under famed game designer Warren Spector in addition to Thief: Deadly Shadows and System Shock.

The true continuation of the Deus Ex series, on the other hand, is in the works at Eidos Montreal and should be revealed soon.

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This will either be pretty good or pretty bad, with no middle ground possible.

Sep 18, 2008 8:17am PDT

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This will either be pretty good or pretty bad, with no middle ground possible. : zehh
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- Exactly. As far as my tastes go, I see no reason for games to not be ripping off Deus Ex constantly. : ZaldronGG
- yeah, he could succeed in making an awesome game, or he could fail miserably like most of his recent titl... : dancingpolkabear

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He's going to have a lot of trouble convincing all of the people who detest Deus Ex: IW that he knows what the fuck he's doing.

Sep 17, 2008 8:20pm PDT

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He's going to have a lot of trouble convincing all of the people who detest Deus Ex: IW that he knows wha... : freshyk
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  Yeah and his last game was hardly quality stuff. : K1Bond007
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    It was good but the guy just got it wrong. He did not understand what DX was. : ifallible
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      Blacksite was his last game... : deathofrats
      
      uh oh... : BorenKets123
      
      yeah, he even made a whole speech about how his development team was terrible and prevented him from maki... : dancingpolkabear
  - Blacksite, right? lol : pyide

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Before ALL the shit talking - yes DX2 was disapointing....but I'll welcome ANY game in this style

Sep 17, 2008 8:08pm PDT

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Before ALL the shit talking - yes DX2 was disapointing....but I'll welcome ANY game in this style : Mondo
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That's not really fair to say, considering he was responsible for lots of how Deus Ex turned out to be. He made a lot of bad decisions for the sequel and I'll be the first to declare that Invisible War was an utter disappointment, but give the man credit where it's due. A lot of Deus Ex's awesomeness is still down to him. I for one am going to cross my fingers and hope that this game is going to be Harvey's return to form, his way of saying, "let me prove once and for all that I can make another Deus Ex". That's what I'll be hoping for, anyway.

Sep 18, 2008 6:11am PDT

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That's not really fair to say, considering he was responsible for lots of how Deus Ex turned out to be. H... : Dabs84
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  A developer is only as good as their last title. It's like giving Romero a pass because he worked on D... : deathofrats
  - I don't believe it's as black and white as that. Deus Ex showed real promise, promise years ahead of its ... : Dabs84
  - Except that Garriot did Ultima 1 - 7 (I don't count 8 and 9) and Ultima Online (the first few of which we... : Gwyndion

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Warren and Harvey both take a lot of slack these days, but let's not forget that they, more than anyone, were responsible for Deus Ex -- one of the very best games, if not THE best game, ever made. It can't be easy trying to live up to that. All I can do is hope...

Sep 17, 2008 9:55pm PDT

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This story should really mention he was also the lead designer on Midway Austin's Area 51: Blacksite which received poor reviews. I think he slammed the publisher before the game was released or some employee?

Sep 17, 2008 9:37pm PDT

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  Yup, which is why I am surprised anyone here in Austin picked him up as their spokesperson. He's got a t... : deathofrats
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    I thought Arkane was not a development studio also but more research studio who then would outsource idea... : JasonReece
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      Oh that's Armature, another Austin based developer. : JasonReece
      
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      Arkane, as far as I am aware of, is rather dormant here in Austin. They haven't announced much of anythi... : deathofrats
      
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      Arkane is based in Lyon, France and has a studio there as well. : mockery
      
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      and they made Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah.Are we talking about the same Arkane? : omwibya
      
      I loved Dark Messiah. It has the best, and most interactive melee system to date IMO. I played it again r... : Skyburst101
      
      I quite enjoyed both those games but whatever 'touch' Smith once had clearly was short-lived after witnes... : ECMIM
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  This game is going to be super fucking subversive man! : Vorlonesque
  - Yep, which is what we all play games for, right? Right?! No? Oh, never mind then. : ECMIM

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If it's a bioshock that won't be too bad, I can play games like that, but they just make me sad in the end :(

Sep 17, 2008 9:43pm PDT

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- I wish DX2 would at least have been on Bioshock's level but I think it was far, far worse... : razorblade79

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I'm giving up video games, Harvey. You win.

Sep 17, 2008 9:51pm PDT

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I'm giving up video games, Harvey. You win. : tomservo
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- I know I won't stop watching BSG because of the nth season of Big Brother... : razorblade79

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I wonder if it will fit on two DVDs on the X360?

Harvey- the best thing you could do is to develop the game without any thought of consoles at all. Make a superior PC game and then let some other slubs convert it a year later to consoles. Otherwise, we're looking at another IW fiasco.

Sep 18, 2008 7:05am PDT

I wonder if it will fit on two DVDs on the X360? Harvey- the best thing you could do is to develop the... : dlr(2)

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please not be fantasy dragons and orcs, but please also not be all duststorm post-apocalypse, since we are getting a good dose of that sort of thing soon despite how cool it is.

Sep 17, 2008 10:31pm PDT

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  - i agree six thousand percent with everyhting you said. having only discovered neuromancer within the pas... : kemical

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Mentioning system shock in this context is overdoing it a wee bit, he was a tester, or at least note that it was as tester.

yeah yeah I'm picky, but I'm over protective when it comes to system shock :) Harvey worked on other games, in bigger roles, which would make more sense to use if the list felt too short.

Sep 18, 2008 4:07am PDT

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- If you're going to be picky you should have mentioned he was the Lead Tester : Jonathan

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When is Arkane going to deliver that crossplayer mumbo jumbo?

Sep 17, 2008 8:12pm PDT

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- It's not multiplayer, it's CROSSPLAYER! : InflatoMonkey
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  Arkane has two studios, one in France and one in Austin. The French one is working on Crossover. : Blake Ellison
  - If the french studio was doing it then I would get excited. at least they have a good track record : omwibya

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Is it going to have unified ammo and be really fucking subversive?

Sep 18, 2008 1:15am PDT

Is it going to have unified ammo and be really fucking subversive? : tcs

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After the Area 51/Midway fiasco, how is this guy still getting work? I thought he'd be treated as a radioactive hot potato at this point.

Sep 17, 2008 8:45pm PDT

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- Maybe people in the industry see it more of a Midway screw up than a Harvey screw up; considering Midway ... : Cihte

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(my thoughts on seeing the title, but before clicking the link) please don't say Harvey Smith, please don't say Harvey Smith...

(my thoughts after seeing the page load) DAMNIT!!

Sep 17, 2008 8:43pm PDT

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- I was thinking: Warren?? Oh My Warren! Then I see Lead Designer on Invisible War. Then I backtract an... : rougeknife
- See this post: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17961897#itemanchor_17961897 : Kristian Joensen

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If this isn't super fucking subversive then I'm out. Game over, man. Game over.

Sep 17, 2008 9:22pm PDT

If this isn't super fucking subversive then I'm out. Game over, man. Game over. : Afterglow

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