Deus Ex voice actor Elias Toufexis bids goodbye to Adam Jensen and calls the games industry "a disaster zone"

rockpapershotgun.com:

Elias Toufexis, voice actor for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided's cyborg protagonist Adam Jensen, has bid a formal "goodbye, but hopefully not farewell" to the character, expressing hopes that somebody with a lot of money will buy the license and restore poor moody Adam to our screens. Toufexis also shared a few parting speculations about the unannounced Deus Ex sequel from Eidos Montreal that was reported cancelled last week. Toufexis wasn't involved with this one, and according to him, it likely wasn't a continuation of Jensen's story from Mankind Divided.

All that's from a Reddit thread in which Toufexis expressed gratitude to fans of his signature rasp and (by his own account) extravagant track record of getting killed in movies. "As for Jensen, we say goodbye, but hopefully not farewell," he added. "Maybe someone else will buy the license. Maybe we'll make an animated series or finish the game. Elon Musk is a big fan, I think he has some money. Someone ask him!" (Please don't.)

"As you guys all know, Jensen is one of the characters I've played who is near and dear to my heart," Toufexis went on. "It seems I will always be associated with him and that's just fine with me.

"Alas, his story seems done. I'm relatively certain the game that was cancelled was not an Adam Jensen story, so the cancellation angers me more than anything else because friends at Eidos got laid off. Videogame companies right now are in a weird place. I hope it gets straightened out."

Toufexis also revealed on TwiX that another game he's been working on has been cancelled, while a third project has been rebooted. He also touched on the industry's on-going mass layoffs - an estimated 5900 developers have already lost their jobs this year, as publishers trim their books after spending big during the boom period created by pandemic lockdown conditions. "It's the firing of hundreds that's hitting hard these days," Toufexis wrote. "Over and over."

Deus Ex got canceled. This other