I wanted to start a new thread for the two DLC expansions released for Dishonored, as I feel they deserve their own thread. I just finished the second one, Brigmore Witches, not five minutes ago, and it's really, really good. The two DLC packages are part one and two of the same storyline, and for anyone who thought that the story of Dishonored was kind of, well, shitty, this is something way better. You get to play as Daud this time (voiced by Micheal Madsen, so that's a bonus right there) and the storyline this time around is just so much more intriguing than the main campaign's save the world bullshit. It's like they took a cue from Obsidian and made the story personal rather than epic, which is so much more fitting for a universe like Dishonored's.
The new levels range from decent to very good as well, with the first, second and fifth missions easily the best, with some pretty damn good level design and many, many ways of completing them (both in terms of how they're navigated and how you solve the various objectives). And if nothing else, it's almost all worth playing for the deliciously evil and poetic non-lethal way you can despose of the expansion's main villian. I'm serious. If nothing else, go watch a video of it, it's great. Spoiler alert
Having the whole storyline play out like an almost noir-ish detective story (with Madsen's great voice overs serving as mission briefings almost ala Garret in Thief) rather than what we got in Dishonored proper really added that last something to a game I already consider pretty damn good, so if you liked Dishonored (which I'm thinking maybe 15% percent of you did, optimistically), go get this DLC (Knife and Witches both, obviously. They tie together so well I can't help but consider them just one package even though they are sold separately). The price for both is pretty steep considering they amount to somewhere around 10 hours of gameplay, but what else can you expect from modern DLC, right? If nothing else, get them from alternative sources.
Anyway, that's my fanboy rant over and done with. Have any of you guys played it? What did you think?
EDIT: And before I forget, I've been meaning to advertise this difficulty mod that I've been playing with since I got Dishonored in the first place. It increases the ai quite a bit, which is very, very welcome: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141188
The new levels range from decent to very good as well, with the first, second and fifth missions easily the best, with some pretty damn good level design and many, many ways of completing them (both in terms of how they're navigated and how you solve the various objectives). And if nothing else, it's almost all worth playing for the deliciously evil and poetic non-lethal way you can despose of the expansion's main villian. I'm serious. If nothing else, go watch a video of it, it's great. Spoiler alert
You turn her into an inanimate object that remains conscious (and completely paralyzed) forever.
Having the whole storyline play out like an almost noir-ish detective story (with Madsen's great voice overs serving as mission briefings almost ala Garret in Thief) rather than what we got in Dishonored proper really added that last something to a game I already consider pretty damn good, so if you liked Dishonored (which I'm thinking maybe 15% percent of you did, optimistically), go get this DLC (Knife and Witches both, obviously. They tie together so well I can't help but consider them just one package even though they are sold separately). The price for both is pretty steep considering they amount to somewhere around 10 hours of gameplay, but what else can you expect from modern DLC, right? If nothing else, get them from alternative sources.
Anyway, that's my fanboy rant over and done with. Have any of you guys played it? What did you think?
EDIT: And before I forget, I've been meaning to advertise this difficulty mod that I've been playing with since I got Dishonored in the first place. It increases the ai quite a bit, which is very, very welcome: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141188