Deus Ex: Human Revolution Fan-powered Q&A, Continued

It’s nice to see a development team that doesn’t shy away from its fans’ questions, so it’s certainly with pleasure that we report on a new batch of questions and answers that appeared on Eidos Montreal’s Tumblr, predictably almost all centered around their only title released so far, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

What was the design decision behind making the Panchaea level pretty much a zombie level? As someone who played the game pretty much completely stealthily I think it ruined the flow of the game and made the level a chore to get through.

Game director JF says:

It’s all related to the story. Actually, we did run out of time to make them look the way they should have. They’re simply people with the chip, hallucinating because of what Darrow did. They’re not evil or whatever, they’re just in pure suffering seeing things that don’t exist and therefore acting unpredictably.

And it is totally possible to play the map in stealth mode.

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Adam Jensen – Revan from KoTOR.I want you to compare!

Game director JF says:

(Errr. Hard question. Jensen is blue collar that was saved by aug technologies making him more than human but he didn’t became evil because of that. We don’t know much about Revan (at least, I don’t). I just know he turned to the dark side, eventually redeeming himself, etc. So, for me, there are not much comparisons to make since our character never played with the 2 sides of the coin.)

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What would you say is the biggest flaw in todays consoles? What feature in he consoles would you guys add to have made Deus Ex: HR even better? Is it like all devs say: the lack of enough RAM?

Game director JF says:

(RAM is always something we struggle with (regardless of the console generation) and I’d say streaming (from the DVD).)

My question is only a yes-or-no question, but I have to know: when Darrow says he intends to tell the world the “unadulterated” truth, does that include the fact that it was he who was driving the mechanically augmented into a murderous rampage? I can’t help but feel he’d conveniently leave that out. If I heard his message and it confessed even that, I’d get really, REALLY mad at Darrow for betraying humanity. It would not have set me against mechanical augmentations.

Lead narrative designer Mary DeMarle says:

(Yes, Darrow’s (unadulterated truth) does include the fact that he was the one who had (pressed the red button,) so to speak, and by doing so, had sent mechanically augmented people into a murderous rampage. I am sure, though, that he would have worded this confession in such a way as to make it clear that the technology itself made it possible. Darrow was merely exposing the weakness to show people how vulnerable they had become. If not him, it would have been someone else. And that someone else might have chosen to exploit this weakness in far more devastating and dangerous ways.)

Additionally the team has been answering some questions with audio minisodes, and answered on the hotly debated title’s endings among other things.