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[DalekFlay]

I guess I'm near the end because I got the "get all audio logs" and "read all emails" achievements. Not a huge achievements guy but damn, those types were a lot hard in other immersive sims iirc. Don't think I ever got them before.

Game's really good but I like Dishonored more.

 

[Zombra]

That's crazy! In other games those achievements are strictly for walkthrough hounds. Congratulations?

 

[Ismaul]

I guess I'm near the end because I got the "get all audio logs" and "read all emails" achievements.

Somehow I got those achievements before I even heard all the audio logs or read all the e-mails. I was close to the end but not that close, and there were a bunch left, more than a dozen. Might be the same for you.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I guess I'm near the end because I got the "get all audio logs" and "read all emails" achievements.

Somehow I got those achievements before I even heard all the audio logs or read all the e-mails. I was close to the end but not that close, and there were a bunch left, more than a dozen. Might be the same for you.

Yeah same. I’ve noticed Arkane cheevos tend to be borked. Never got a bunch of them that I qualified for for both Dishonoreds and I got the high chaos one for Knife of Dunwall despite ghosting the whole thing and getting low chaos ending. Not a big deal; if there’s going to be a buggy aspect to a game I think achievements are the most worthy sacrifice.

 

[DalekFlay]

That's crazy! In other games those achievements are strictly for walkthrough hounds. Congratulations?

I think it's borked, like Ismaul said. There are quite a few rooms I've never gone in due to lacking mimic powers, and I briefly glanced a walkthrough chapters list and I have 3 main missions out of 10 or so to go.

 

[Zombra]

Last night I found myself flying untethered in space, nothing but a leaky spacesuit between me and a million miles of hard vacuum, dodging around on attitude jets while a high tech military vintage side loading toaster shot lasers at me, thrusting towards it swinging a 20 pound wrench in my hands because this seemed authentically the most sensible way for me to address the issue.

I love this game.


--- Note to Flay, the

rating above is not for mental disorder but simply for broken technology.

 

[kangaxx]

I might fire this up later and settle in for a few hours of looting a beautifully designed spaceship/art deco hotel.

 

[Zombra]

Just finished, I started off 'not bad' but ended up loving the game. Great ending too.

 

[Darth Roxor]

this guy actually thinks prey is getting better with time

hory shieeeeeeeeeeeeeet

 

[JDR13]

I actually didn't care for the ending at all. In fact, I found it very disappointing.

Still a very good game overall though.

 

[Silverfish]

Just finished, I started off 'not bad' but ended up loving the game. Great ending too.

Which variation of the ending did you choose?

 

[kangaxx]

Yeah I thought the endgame was badly done, but overall a very good game.

 

[Zombra]

Which variation of the ending did you choose?

You mean the main story or the coda?

 

[Silverfish]

Both, actually. I tried sticking to my guns and blowing up the station, but that required about twice as much backtracking as the nullwave.

 

[RoSoDude]

lol, I think I remember choosing which ending to go for based on which one would get the game over with quicker. Hence nullwave.

 

[Darth Roxor]

real men take the escape pod the moment they see it and consider that to be the way the game is meant to end

 

[Average Manatee]

Real men realize its a simulation and accept that dying and getting a game over is a valid ending.

 

[Bad Sector]

Real men...

Real men do not spoil game endings.

 

[toro]

Real men...

Real men do not spoil game endings.

Real men don't play games ...

 

[V_K]

We're all imaginary here anyways.

 

[kangaxx]

Real men don't play games ...

 

[Naraya]

Real men...

 

[Zombra]

Which variation of the ending did you choose?

You mean the main story or the coda?

Both, actually. I tried sticking to my guns and blowing up the station, but that required about twice as much backtracking as the nullwave.

Spoiler

For the main story, I went with the nullwave ending because it was the most interesting and satisfied my own philosophies the best. I especially enjoyed the final confrontation with January.

I'm sorry to hear you didn't take the ending you wanted because "It made me play the game too much."

For the coda

Spoiler

I took the right hand option as my 'canon' ending, though I admit I reloaded and watched the other choice.

Although the coda was a very old trope that usually represents lazy writing, I thought it worked beautifully here and I genuinely wasn't expecting anything like it. I also greatly enjoyed the fact that it reviewed my behavior in some details over the course of the game and made moral judgements based on my actions. Really nicely done.

 

[Silverfish]

I'm sorry to hear you didn't take the ending you wanted because "It made me play the game too much."

Traversing the station two or three times to press interact on a few panels in different areas isn't playing the game, though.

 

[DalekFlay]

SPOILERZZZZ

Finished it, did the boom boom ending. I didn't know it took longer, it seemed pretty fast after taking care of the guy with the annoying robots. Knocked him out and escaped, which was nice and cinematic. I liked how after taking out that dude all the robots failed and there were barely any aliens around, so you could just sprint around and do story stuff without fighting anything. Definitely way too easy on "hard" though, ammo management was pretty much the only thing I had to worry about since I didn't use powers. I had 30 health packs at the end and had even recycled a dozen or so when I really needed ammo. Sneaking up on shit and one-shotting it with the shotgun was pretty fun throughout though. I found the zero-g sections annoying throughout, part of that being them giving me a headache. I spoiled the surprise ending by leaving on the escape pod early on to see what would happen, but it was neat how it was framed at the end. A sequel where you're a powered up alien fighting for the humans on earth would be neat.

All in all, it's a good game. Way better than most nowadays. Excited to replay it as a cuthroat sonofabitch who kills everyone and saves the station to take the credit. However I'll always prefer Deus Ex/Dishonored because of better stealth and more human interaction.