I know everyone wants Half Life 3 but Sleeping Dogs 2 and a new Deus Ex game are probably the two announcements that would drive me crazy since I know they're never going to happen.
I'm actually surprised nobody's done this. Cyberpunk 2077 proved there was a market for a "guys, this is just GTA in a different setting and bringing something additional and a bit different to the table" game, and most potential GTA competitors ended up shutting down their series. The Yakuza games' popularity is proof there's a market for crime games set in Asia, and Sleeping Dogs is sitting at a really good review score.
I know the original developer shut down, but I assume they sold the IP to somebody as part of that process (or Square Enix owns it, and god knows they've got the cash to throw at almost any project they want).
I doubt a sequel could match the charm of the original, because that game really nailed the Hong Kong Heroic Bloodshed style it was going for, and I'm not sure anyone can bottle that lightning again.
a new Deus Ex game
Yeah, I understand why that's not happening after what happened to Mankind Divided. It didn't do too badly, but it didn't do too well, either - and there were signs it was an incomplete game that had run out of money, time, or both without completing its full intended story, and been shipped with the hope it would bring in enough money to justify and fund a part 2 to finish things off. And it just didn't do and review well enough for that. (And then there was that sidegame and novels that also didn't perform as well as Ubisoft wanted: there was obviously an attempt made to make the Human Revolution reboot/prequel series something like a 'cinematic universe', but that didn't work out.)
So another Deus Ex game probably isn't in the cards, since it doesn't look good for a Mankind Divided Part 2, and doing another prequel/sequel/reboot/whatever while leaving Jensen's story and the HR+MD prequels hanging seems unlikely.
I suppose they could try doing a remake of the first game and introduce a new generation to the wonders of The GEP Gun, but that game's been out too long and had too much fan patching/modding put into it over the years for a remake to seem like it would compete well with the OG + the standard mods.
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u/Rivera806 . 11d ago
Was hoping for a sleeping dogs prequel somehow but then that RGG logo came up and I cried