Dishonored by Arkane

[Surf Solar]

I wrote a review for GameBanshee, should be up soon. Despite the complaints I've made in this thread, I really enjoyed the game. It is not perfect at all, but I think that Dishonored is still good enough to recommend along the likes of Deus Ex and System Shock 2.

Played and loved both Deus Ex and System Shock 2, yet I find Dishonored mind numbingly boring. I wonder if I do something wrong..

 

[sea]

Played and loved both Deus Ex and System Shock 2, yet I find Dishonored mind numbingly boring. I wonder if I do something wrong..

What can I say. I was a sucker for the art direction, the game world was fun and quite well presented even if a bit shallow, and I liked how the level design changed up as it went on, with some hub areas, some more focused on action, some focused on stealth, some more indoors and some more open, etc. The biggest flaws for me are the character progression, lack of depth to the game world and the underwhelming stealth.

Also, some thoughts:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EricSchwarz/20121027/180333/Dishonored_The_Missteps.php

 

[JarlFrank]

JarlFrank Ya still up for doing a review?

Yep. Probably gonna finish it tomorrow.

 

[JarlFrank]

Crooked Bee
I did not take any screenshots though so it would be bro sis of you to contribute some.

 

[Raghar]

I did not take any screenshots though so it would be bro sis of you to contribute some.

From what places do you need them?
Then again you can start each mission separately, and go to correct place relatively quickly.

 

[JarlFrank]

I'd like to have one or two from each mission.

One from the first mission
One from the pub
One from within the party
One from Dunwall Tower
One from the whorehouse
One from the Flooded District

Those should be enough. Thanks in advance
Preferably without any quest markers, of course.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I'd like to have one or two from each mission.

One from the first mission
One from the pub
One from within the party
One from Dunwall Tower
One from the whorehouse
One from the Flooded District

Those should be enough. Thanks in advance
Preferably without any quest markers, of course.

Gonna poach this from Raghar and DO IT RIGHT NOW.
SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

 

[Raghar]

Gonna poach this from Raghar and DO IT RIGHT NOW.
SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

Don't forget to create a screen shot with rat swarm at level 2. Also don't forget to create screenshot of second floor at the party, that part with artistic gallery in the darkness.

Also you might try for a shot of that funny conversation between overseer and the guard in the Sokolov mission.

Considering it would take you at least 3 hours to do it properly, I'd go playing some computer game, and look at results, and possibly add something.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Gonna poach this from Raghar and DO IT RIGHT NOW.
SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

Don't forget to create a screen shot with rat swarm at level 2. Also don't forget to create screenshot of second floor at the party, that part with artistic gallery in the darkness.

Also you might try for a shot of that funny conversation between overseer and the guard in the Sokolov mission.

Considering it would take you at least 3 hours to do it properly, I'd go playing some computer game, and look at results, and possibly add something.

Just finished, and I forgot all of those! I am worst pictureman. Though in my defense I never actually used rat swarm due to nonlethal so I didn't really think about it.
JarlFrank here are some pictures. At highest in-game settings, buddy was trying to get me to do INI tweaks and force shit in my drivers but I say no bullshots.

First mission:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814650874044/BE33AA00ACEC79E53168E943B4EE17DC582203D3/

Golden Cat:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814650974337/A6F42E1DB44FA16DD197772B533B8FE410709A5A/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814650978743/F190D004CE86E81F38450853AC63003CB1CE3A8A/

The Pub (Which you may not want to use but I thought it was amusing):
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651065514/DF8249695FDFD68A0AF65EA3E9B3A6EE9B149265/

Party:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651163081/7F7FEB23FC0124DA0F5E7B419699B49347536083/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651159024/FBBEEC97407076BC5DC4EF3F8F66C5AD0D182362/

Dunwall tower:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651242769/C17F33EABC864E2E73B5EA3AD3154E2F304F59D4/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651238491/15925169F250F78EBC741B9778164070E8D406BB/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651247633/931C93681667B2826C39976042FDE80F553C49DF/

Flooded district:
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651346474/5AF3364538A0BD4F3758D6558B078964BE0B9326/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651352542/A0A061024DA08EA0AED322C9046F58C704D56CB7/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651356758/330302238A408CEC26AA9779C6DCC3936E286B03/

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/920118814651348794/7BDA91AB3E785477D292AB6AB99B71E47D19E649/

 

[JarlFrank]

 

[Admiral jimbob]

The art style is pretty good and consistent but damned if there isn't something inexplicably ugly as fuck about those screenshots.

 

[Raghar]

There you have some images:

Actually I should keep them smaller.

And there is link to the album.

http://imageshack.us/g/1/9836215/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/clipboard12q.png/
This is actually funny.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/clipboard22.png/
Very nice gallery.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/clipboard24.png/
Rats behind the wall.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/217/clipboard25.png/
This is how it loos like when you look at them directly.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/clipboard26.png/
And beautiful rats. Look how theirs eyes are glowing in the darkness.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/152/clipboard09i.png/
This image is very fitting.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/clipboard07r.png/
Guess where is this.

 

[SoupNazi]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/194/clipboard07r.png/
Guess where is this.

Abandoned building in front of when you exit Boyle mansion. Pfft. Too easy.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

http://toucharcade.com/2012/10/10/d...-makes-finding-things-in-dishonored-a-breeze/

this is not an article... this is just... advertising...

 

[CreamyBlood]

Imageshack sure has become a horrible piece of shit. Video ads, cluttered screen and couldn't figure out how to view the pics fullscreen. (Even with the magnifying glass).

 

[Kimprime]

The game was fun for me, the art direction was a HUGE part of it. Blink made getting caught and running off actually pretty fun.

I did the stealthy-when-I-can business and ended the game with high chaos. It was great fun to clean house after getting caught.

I'm glad steampunk is becoming more popular nowadays, Bioshock Infinite looks pretty awesome too.

 

[sea]

I'm glad steampunk is becoming more popular nowadays, Bioshock Infinite looks pretty awesome too.

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[Raghar]

Imageshack sure has become a horrible piece of shit. Video ads, cluttered screen and couldn't figure out how to view the pics fullscreen. (Even with the magnifying glass).

Right click on image, select open in new window.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

The maid woman is speaking towards me. I have the knife held out before me, as always, but she does not seem to mind. We are in the resistance's headquarters, and she is explaining some potentially meaningful piece of information about the men that are leading the operation.

I shuffle forwards and backwards, my feet clopping loudly on the floor. To get around more quietly, I crouch. Spinning in place, I dart my eyes all over the room and occasionally jump. After a bit of experimentation I climb on to a bunk bed and make a dramatic leap to the top of a bookshelf. It's awesome. It's also a little dizzying. I'm not so good with heights. The maid keeps talking.

There, in the corner. A can of food! I brush past the chatty woman, focusing on the container. It's some sort of processed whale. I inhale the whole thing at once. It flies off the floor, spinning in the air as it enters my face. The sound that I produce is a comic and surprisingly brief *MUNCH*. The sustenance would have healed me if I had any injuries. That's nice to know, I suppose. Mostly, though, I just like to see the food get tractor beamed into my mouth and hear the noise that I make when I eat it up.

As the maid keeps talking, I run around room at a breakneck speed, eating everything. Someone left a fruit on a bathtub. What kind of fruit was it? Don't know. Didn't get a chance to see what it was before I greedily consumed it.

There are coins. Coins of five. Coins of ten. Give me all of them. Fwip-fwip-fwip they go as I snap them up in rapid succession. There's a pouch with money in it. Hmm. Probably important to someone in this ramshackle dump. It's mine now.

I come across a device that plays back audio logs. When I mash the button, a new voice emerges and drones on, almost drowning the woman out. Almost. I am in a different room now, but she is still standing where she began, speaking as though I am there.

This new room has books. Lots of books. I grab them all, glancing at each just long enough to commit it to my Mental Journal Of Things I Read. Everything must be read. All food must be consumed. All money must be hoarded.

I wander into the first room to find that the maid is winding down. Crouching behind her, I steal a key from her belt. Why? It was shining and I knew that I could take it.

I pick up a bottle of wine, but it is empty. I can not even eat the glass. The maid has finally finished speaking. She doesn't seem to know what to do next. I turn and throw the bottle at her feet. It smashes into a hundred little pieces. I nod to myself for being so thoughtful. The woman now has purpose in her life.

Moments later I am downstairs in the bar, roughly bumping against the boss guy to initiate his conversation at me. As he begins to tell me about the importance of saving a little girl and the empire, I attempt to walk away and scrounge up some food. I can't. I'm held in place.

What foul magic is this? A frantic whine sticks in my throat as he continues his speech, babbling on and gesturing with his beer as if I was not being held captive. But wait! Though I can not walk about, I find that I'm able to turn in place. I use this to my advantage, surveying as much of the room as I can observe. The general guy lays out his detailed plans. I ignore him, making plans of my own. Gonna grab those coins. Gonna throw all of those glasses. Gonna eat that bunch of grapes.

Twenty cans of whale meat and a short boat ride later, I arrive at my drop-off point. I'm supposed to kill some guy, talk to someone, maybe save a few innocents? Something like that? All I can think about is how many pathways are before me. How many mouthfuls of food are waiting behind dumpsters, on fire escapes, and on plates in front of the bodies of people who died from that mysterious rat plague.

Eager to eat, I sprint into the open and make my first mistake. A guard has spotted me. He shouts, drawing a sword and pistol. The fool. I call upon my mystic power to stop time. All of my training. All of the power granted by a god who visited me in my dreams. It all comes down to this moment.

While the guard remains frozen in time, I dash from dumpster to dumpster, eating everything I find.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

And why copy paste this?

 

[Raghar]

When you looked at characters in Dishonored, and settings, a lot of these are familiar from 19 century.

So who, or a character from what book, was an inspiration for these characters?

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Just reached the terribly shocking twist following Dunwall Tower. Struggling to keep giving a shit.

Such a shame. This game keeps almost being great and being let down by one tiny thing after another. Sometimes so many tiny things at once it comes together into a mountain of shit, sometimes just enough to stumble and spoil the enjoyment. There are no huge, huge problems, the base gameplay is solid enough, the controls are tight, the level design is good. But everything is just held back a little bit or just uninspired enough or needs to go a little bit further enough to come together into a damn boring whole.

What I'm saying is that this game isn't very good and has no reason not to be.

 

[Infinitron]

Errant Signal http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-errant-signal-thread.74564/page-9#post-2353054

 

[Black]

The game was fun for me, the art direction was a HUGE part of it. Blink made getting caught and running off actually pretty fun.

I did the stealthy-when-I-can business and ended the game with high chaos. It was great fun to clean house after getting caught.

I'm glad steampunk is becoming more popular nowadays, Bioshock Infinite looks pretty awesome too.

Dishonored isn't steampunk, it's like steampunk-lite, steampunk-inspired or... whalepunk.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

"shit" would suffice.

 

[Raghar]

When you looked at characters in Dishonored, and settings, a lot of these are familiar from 19 century.

So who, or a character from what book, was an inspiration for these characters?

I knew this should be in properly named thread, instead of moved by mod into general Dishonored thread. Majority of posters looked at this thread already, and it's basically a separate discussion anyway.