Deus Ex is being remastered

Deus Ex: Remastered has recently been announced, and has a current release date of February 5th, 2026. Weirdly enough, I found out through a meme posted to Bluesky after replying to someone else complaining about the remaster. (In my defense, the thread was about playing the original, and the comment had "remaster" in quotes. I assumed people were complaining about the Revision mod again.)

As a massive fan of the original game, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined, for many reasons.

Aspyr doesn't exactly have the best reputation when it comes to remasters (see: NWN2, Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection); I was hoping that a studio such as Nightdive would work on this, but apparently that wasn't an option.

The original had what could be considered dated graphics even for its release year of 2000. The looks like someone ported the game over to the Doom 3 engine and added "shiny realism", remastering the graphics from 1999 to the far-off year of 2004. $30 for a game with awful textures is the gutpunch, considering the original is usually on sale for like a dollar and has a lot of mods that make the graphics look at least a bit more decent. Hell, the remaster looks like someone slapped a beta version of HDTP onto the base game and tried to sell it for $30.

Other than that, most of the upsides are included in several popular mods already, so this seems to be integrating those changes into a mainline game (which is cool, I guess), but it's still expensive for what it actually is.

The only positive hope I have for this is the notion of multiscreen support. I wonder how that'll work and if it'll be of any use at all.

I was hoping for a proper remaster; this probably won't be it. Now, I'm hoping to be proven wrong.

I'm unfortunately probably going to buy it anyway, if it's on sale for super cheap. I give it until the 2026 Steam Summer Sale.