I loved Deus Ex and its still in my top 5 best games ever list.
However Dues Ex 2: Invisible War was no where near as good and with development currently taking place on a third iteration I am extremely worried. However the supposed remake of the first could be way awesome or even worse.
How do you feel?  

I don't think there's anything wrong with being both excited and worried simultaneously. I hope it's great, but simultaneously there's every chance it wont be. Like with anything.

You know Ive always been tempted to go back and replay the 2nd game, many people seem to over criticize it for being in the first ones shadow. The game isnt so bad up until the abysmal endings, but Im not sure I could care enough for another one at this point. Alot has been done in terms of FPS/RPG hybrid games, with games like Bioshock and STALKER to stand up to now, or even upcoming Fallout 3. Still, it would be cool to play the role of JC Denton once again.

I don't see how you couldn't be worried about this game.  There hasn't been a single hint of what the gameplay will be like (there's only been the one trailer).  It's no longer in the hands of the original creator Warren Spector.  The last Deus Ex that came out was a shallow shell of it's former self.  Yes, my expectations are rock bottom for Deus Ex 3 but that leaves tons of room to be pleasantly surprised.

I hope that the amount of time they've been working on it is proportional to the quality. Deus ex was amazing, heres hoping 3 can bring the series back.

I have a feeling that this game will be my favourite in the series.

I think that the devs who are making know that they have a legacy to live up to, and are taking the time to really flesh it out best they can. I mean, with no release time period mentioned, it could push well into 2010, but that would be the best thing possible, since that shows that the developers are serious about making the best follow-up possible. Fallout 3 is a great example of how to update a classic game.

Yeah, I have to say excited and worried

I don't think it'll be quite as good as the original seeing as how the key developers have since then left Eidos. I've been very concerned for the Deus Ex as a franchise ever since Invisible War, which was simply disappointing.  I remember when the game was being demoed and it promised "ground breaking physics" -- and to demonstrate that, they gave you a basket ball in your starting room, which you threw and it basically stopped dead on the ground.  Physics, indeed.  Still, I'd love to see DX revitalized.  NeoTheta: I totally thought the same way for Invisible War. I just wish Eidos would give it the love and attention it deserves.  For my money, however, the next BioShock is more promising than DX3.

worried, i gurantee they will screw it up simple as that deus ex was amazing, invisible war was a black hole of suck.

my main beef with the 2nd one is the story but the game play was ehh too i mean i guess if you never played deus ex but its a good game

Im worried, i'd expect it to me more like invisible war than the first game, uninspiring story, characters and none of the more advanced rpg elements that made the first game so engaging, but you never know.

Worried and excited.

Worried and excited.  But I think we should hold our breath until we at least see some footage/game mechanics.  (But in all honestly... I foresee suckage...)

Im both, gotta read more info on it first

"Im both, gotta read more info on it first"

I'm worried. 2 wasn't so great.

Deus Ex is still today one of my favorite games of all time, and I really disliked the second game to a level where I gave up after about three hours (something that is rare for me), but I'm really interested in DX3. The main reason for this is the short teaser trailer they released for it. The music sent tingles down my spine and it sounds that they want to go back to the first game and learned form the second games huge flaws.

I still think things could be changed, but what I want to remain is the same type of well written story narrative we saw in the first game. The second is the ability to play the game your way, as a ninja, through total pacifism or like your Duke Nukem. And they need to keep the atmosphere and the continuity of the first game intact hopefully. But I hope they add things we have seen in other modern games as change isn't a bad thing. Fix the physics engine ideas they tried to use in the second game as that would allow you to make use of the strength increasing bio-aug for example and add new weapons to take advantage of new hardware (not necessary by copying Half Life 2). And something less important that i would like to see but wouldn't be a big deal would be to add usable vehicles like mecha and helicopters for example.

I would love to think that Deus Ex 3 will be amazing.  THe teaser certainly made me tingle when the original music started playing!

The third game needs to return to its focus on RPG and mods.  And have a strong story to back it up.

New screen for DX3

If it comes out on the 360 I will be excited. I liked Invisible War a lot, unfortunatly my memory was mysteriously erased on the last level and I never finished it. :(

The second game wasn't that bad, but no where close to being as good as the first one. I  always get excited about Deus Ex and Deus Ex 3 is no exception.

Well I never played the original so there were no shoes to fill for me.

The original is one of my favorite games of all time, but I'm also one of the few people that also really liked Invisible War. I just loved the atmoshpere, the characters (Omar FTW,) the progression, etc.... so I have high hopes for this game.

"i would like to see but wouldn't be a big deal would be to add usable vehicles like mecha and helicopters for example.
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Heavy customization would be nice.

"Lance_McCloud said:

"i would like to see but wouldn't be a big deal would be to add usable vehicles like mecha and helicopters for example.
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Ugh, I don't like that idea that all."

I've been reading the DX3 forums and I think they really did learn from the mistakes of DX2.  The "Facts" sticky there really opened my eyes to the plans for DX3 and so far it looks like they're throwing back to DX's XP system, which is a huge relief for me.  I think the whole team knows why DX2 went wrong and they're avoiding it like the plague.  For me DX2 wasn't terrible but it was a failure at its attempt to continue the DX legacy. 

The biggest problem, in my opinion, was that the entire game was more focused towards the console market.  This made the interface simple to the point of failure and the game shorter, which severed its possibility for developing into a really interesting plot. 

Also, your main adversaries were uninteresting and simple in DX2, the inverse of which made DX so cool.  They upheld feasible, appealing, and morally complex ideals that different players could aggree with.  In DX2, these 'ideals' became shallow and transparent.  Another disappointment for me in DX2 was the focus on religious zealots, rather than logical, however diabolical, meglomaniacs who really believed that their ideas were best for everyone.  The uncomfortable choice  you're forced into making at the end of DX really presented itself as important and world-altering, whereas its pale counterpart in DX2 seemed to me that it really wouldn't make a bit of difference which zealots you chose to aggree with, the world was effed anyway you chose because the guy who gets to choose (me) didn't give a damn.  None of the 'final solutions' resounded with real-world issues.

The last real complaint I had with DX2 was its departure from the noir.  In DX, everywhere was in shambles and no one was optimistic.  The NPCs all knew that the world was terrible, and each one had their input to offer.  In DX2, someone had actually succeeded in pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and most NPCs had ascribed to one or another utoptian, idealistic, impractical ideology.  I think this was intended to help the player think that he or she was unveiling a well hidden secret, but it really just made me feel like I was surrounded by idiots.  Seriously, with government-minded Britney Spears and the rogueish Justin Timberlake as my possible choices of role models, I felt as though I were drowning in a sea of idioc.  An intelligent, open-eyed Paul Denton was fully missing from DX2 and I missed him sorely as a source of wisdom and sound council.

Hopefully the devs picked up on these mistakes and will avoid them, if so, DX3 should be awesome.  The custimization factor is there, the genre of the shoooter/RPG hybrid is now tried and true,  and the life of a pre-Denton mech should be really interesting if he gets to make discoveries about the inner workings of world politics as JC did.

"I've been reading the DX3 forums and I think they really did learn from the mistakes of DX2.  The "Facts" sticky there really opened my eyes to the plans for DX3 and so far it looks like they're throwing back to DX's XP system, which is a huge relief for me.  I think the whole team knows why DX2 went wrong and they're avoiding it like the plague.  For me DX2 wasn't terrible but it was a failure at its attempt to continue the DX legacy.  The biggest problem, in my opinion, was that the entire game was more focused towards the console market.  This made the interface simple to the point of failure and the game shorter, which severed its possibility for developing into a really interesting plot.  Also, your main adversaries were uninteresting and simple in DX2, the inverse of which made DX so cool.  They upheld feasible, appealing, and morally complex ideals that different players could aggree with.  In DX2, these 'ideals' became shallow and transparent.  Another disappointment for me in DX2 was the focus on religious zealots, rather than logical, however diabolical, meglomaniacs who really believed that their ideas were best for everyone.  The uncomfortable choice  you're forced into making at the end of DX really presented itself as important and world-altering, whereas its pale counterpart in DX2 seemed to me that it really wouldn't make a bit of difference which zealots you chose to aggree with, the world was effed anyway you chose because the guy who gets to choose (me) didn't give a damn.  None of the 'final solutions' resounded with real-world issues.The last real complaint I had with DX2 was its departure from the noir.  In DX, everywhere was in shambles and no one was optimistic.  The NPCs all knew that the world was terrible, and each one had their input to offer.  In DX2, someone had actually succeeded in pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and most NPCs had ascribed to one or another utoptian, idealistic, impractical ideology.  I think this was intended to help the player think that he or she was unveiling a well hidden secret, but it really just made me feel like I was surrounded by idiots.  Seriously, with government-minded Britney Spears and the rogueish Justin Timberlake as my possible choices of role models, I felt as though I were drowning in a sea of idioc.  An intelligent, open-eyed Paul Denton was fully missing from DX2 and I missed him sorely as a source of wisdom and sound council.Hopefully the devs picked up on these mistakes and will avoid them, if so, DX3 should be awesome.  The custimization factor is there, the genre of the shoooter/RPG hybrid is now tried and true,  and the life of a pre-Denton mech should be really interesting if he gets to make discoveries about the inner workings of world politics as JC did."

I'm curious about it. i never played Deus Ex 2 so i don't have that as a basis for worry (...from what i have heard). From the bullet points i read on the GB wiki it definitely doesn't sound like it'll have the depth that the original had. actiony games are fun and all but usually you feel more distant from those characters then you do in RPGs which kills a lot of the enjoyment i get out of'em.
 So, after reading the bulletpoints and not really having much faith in Eidos Interactive i don't see much to get excited about.

I yet to like a Dues Ex game so I am neither excited or worried but it would be nice if this game was good.