justanotherfan wrote:I think it's a good title. Intellectual. Interesting. Political and big-picture. It could have been Deus Ex: Cyborg Gunblaze, but this gives me some hope that they'll have a good story. Every game targets that audience, but I don't like DX being a generic shooter. It could have been more catchy, and shorter, but I like the word "Human" in there.
I don't really see much of a way to make the title make sense.
If we're talking about revolution like the French Revolution then who are the humans rebelling against? If it is the Illuminati then it might as well be called, "The Failed Revolution" because they've got a few more years of easy sailing, and when they are overthrown it would be more accurate to call it the MJ12 Revolution.
If we're talking about something like the Industrial Revolution then that would imply that the humanity didn't exist in a significant world shaping form before it. Which they kinda sorta did.
If I go through other values of revolution I'm still not finding anything that makes sense.
Was just thinking, there was a backlash against mechs, maybe their story includes an actual "revolution". The NSF could have begun then. I'm sure ChrisTheCynic has the details on their genesis
Yes I do. The NSF got their official start as a result of the Sporting Weapons Act of 2042. This pissed off a lot of people who, united by Leon Woods, eventually formed the NSF. (This can be found in the game in the helpful bulletin entitled "Know Your Enemy - NSF.)
This should also be understood in the context of the 2030 West Coast earthquake, which caused more or less the entire West Coast to be declared a disaster area and left the US teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. The government focusing all of its attention of the West Coast left the rest of the country feeling neglected. In 2031 Utah said it intended to secede from the US and declared independence, claiming Arizona and Nevada (what remained of them at any rate) as their own. Then fringe groups in Texas declared independence, that was "followed shortly thereafter by a group made up of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming -- the Northwest Secessionist Forces, antecedent of the NSF (National Secessionist Forces)." (Most of this is from the Deus Ex Bible)
There are two ways of reading this and I shift between them.
On the one hand you could assume that the Northwest Secessionist Forces were founded in response to the 2042 law. This view can be supported by the bulletin saying of those united under Woods, "Their intended goal: the "liberation" of Washington, Montana, Oregon, and Northern California."
On the other hand the description in the bulletin says that splinter groups from every state joined in and were united by Leon Woods so it could be argued that the National Secessionist Forces were formed in response to the 2042 legislation and thus Northwest Secessionist Forces were formed earlier. If that is the case we don't have any indication on when exactly the Northwest Secessionist Forces were formed, but it would have to be some time between 2031 and 2042.
