OT: Dishonored

[Danimal]

You guys seen this yet?

http://maximumpixelation.com/2012/04/17 ... t-trailer/

I would just link the video here but I still can't remember how to get the dang youtube tag to work.

[Teal]

FYI, I just got a 'malware' warning when clicking the link (using google chrome)

[Danimal]

Yeah sorry I had malware removed and Google blacklists the site and it takes up to 10 hours to clear. So only chrome will throw that warning.

Here is the youtube link

http://youtu.be/E1HlYTukh9A

f*** it this youtube tag is crazy on this site link above

[TCrouch]

[Teal]

Assassin's Creed meets V for Vendetta meets...the Matrix?

[RobVarak]

Nerdgasm.

Batman, Lovecraft, Assassins Creed, Victorian architecture...much to love.

[Macca00]

Nerdgasm.

Indeedy.

Edge magazine had a preview a few months ago - sounded great then, looks even better!

[webdanzer]

More evidence in the 'today's gamers don't like options' vein:

"One of the other games that’s not Borderlands that has my head spinning is Arkane Studios open-ended stealthy dystopian steampunk adventure, Dishonored. In my own time with the game at Gamescom, I was tremendously impressed at the many, many, many options available to complete just a single mission. In the Lady Boyle mission, I found that that at least one solution was practically handed to you – something that surprised me. Turns out it was for a reason.

In playtesting, Arkane found that people just weren’t all that able to go about finishing the mission using their own heads. without at least some sort of clue, people would just wander about aimlessly, hoping for the mission to complete itself."

"People would just walk around. They didn’t know what to do. They didn’t even go upstairs because a guard told them they couldn’t. They’d say ‘Okay, I can’t go upstairs.’ They wouldn’t do anything,” explained Arkane’s Julien Roby to Games.On.net

http://www.lazygamer.net/xbox-360/witho ... difficult/

[MizzouRah]

Might have to pick this one up next week.

[fanatic]

Might have to pick this one up next week.

It certainly looks amazing.

You might also want to look into pre-ordering it. Depending on the retailer (Gamestop/Amazon/BestBuy), a different pre-order skill/item bonus is available (3 different play styles).

[MizzouRah]

Might have to pick this one up next week.

It certainly looks amazing.

You might also want to look into pre-ordering it. Depending on the retailer (Gamestop/Amazon/BestBuy), a different pre-order skill/item bonus is available (3 different play styles).

Yeah I'm definitely thinking about that too. Of course, that would have me forgetting about FIFA 13 as I only have enough in store credit on Amazon for one game right now. Funds are tight!

[Pete1210]

Finally a promising game that's not another sequel. I am very interested, but will wait for a deal since I have a few games in my backlog right now. And I just picked up NBA 2K, which will dominate my game time with no mercy.

[fanatic]

Finally a promising game that's not another sequel. I am very interested, but will wait for a deal since I have a few games in my backlog right now. And I just picked up NBA 2K, which will dominate my game time with no mercy.

I'm waiting for the same reasons - I've still got a long ways to go in both Mass Effect 3/Skyrim (those are quick games right?), and have Skyward Sword waiting for me. Lately, the only sports title I've been into is The Show on my Vita, but NBA2K has me seriously tempted.

[vinny-b]

if anyone's interested, peeps on another board, have been picking up this title at Toys R Us stores (today)

[MizzouRah]

http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/10/07/di ... deo-review

[dbdynsty25]

So has anyone picked this up yet? I'm intrigued as hell, but I've got so many other damn games, it's hard to find time. But I still WANT to play it. All the reviews have been glowing for the most part.

[MizzouRah]

So has anyone picked this up yet? I'm intrigued as hell, but I've got so many other damn games, it's hard to find time. But I still WANT to play it. All the reviews have been glowing for the most part.

I'm itching too.. but like you, so many games. I think I'm going to give up on Madden and trade it in over the weekend for this game. They just opened up a gamestop in my town.

[RobVarak]

So has anyone picked this up yet? I'm intrigued as hell, but I've got so many other damn games, it's hard to find time. But I still WANT to play it. All the reviews have been glowing for the most part.

Nice box art and the manual is more than 2 pages long. Even features quotes from the characters.

What do you want, I haven't had time to play yet?

[TCrouch]

Shocker...I picked it up. Played it for a few hours and was pretty impressed. Early on it's not all that exciting since it's pretty much a stealth game, but they do the stealth controls a bit better than what I've played before. You're in first person and not third, so to be able to simply move around and mantle things with a press of the A button and move under tables by simply moving at them and you slip underneath, it's nice. The ability to simply aim toward a railing and press A and hop up onto it is perfect. Instead of trying to jump and land on it and missing, or doing any number of things that previous games have tried, you just press a button and sit up on it like a cat.

When you get into the combat, it's pretty deadly, pretty quick. You have to treat it sort of like Assassin's Creed. You wait for a guard to attack and then hit the RB to parry it, and counter with an insta-kill normal attack while they're staggered. The trouble is the guards surround you pretty quick, and they don't wait for each other to hit you like in AC...so you generally get chopped down unless it's 1 on 1 or you can get them in a corridor. I tend to stay away from combat as much as I can.

Sneaking around and killing/knocking out people is very similar to other games, but now after you kill or knock them out, you can immediately hold the X button while still holding them to quickly just flip them into a fireman's carry and take them with you. In a stealth game, those precious seconds wasted between the time you kill them to the time they fall and you can then pick them up are no longer wasted. If you need to get out, finish a dude off, and get him back out of sight, it's much quicker and more manageable now.

But what I've been most impressed with is the exploration. I know I read a lot of clips about the freedom and whatnot, but I didn't expect what I've seen so far. I tried to get past a wall at one point, and the teleport (called "Blink" in the game) didn't get me far enough to get over it. But going around it, I found a ventilation pipe I could reach. Maneuvering along that, I got to a catwalk. From there, across an alley to another building's ventilation, up to the roof, and from roof to roof. I found some easter eggs and crap up there, and while I was hopping around, I realized I was so far past my goal that I had to double-back.

One of the assassination missions I had, I was actually able to teleport across the hugely populated main square by hopping from light pole to light pole. Then up across vents, and onto a ledge that ran around the building. I didn't expect it, but some of the windows were open, so instead of going through the front door, I found myself sneaking up right next to the guy's room through a window that I found by accident.

All in all, I'm very impressed by it. The fact that it released on the same day as X-COM is criminal.

[dbdynsty25]

Awesome, thanks for the info Terry...happened to win 190 dollar NFL pick'em week this past weekend, so the money is burning a hole in my pocket. It sounds badass. It's either this or ACIII. Seems like they would overlap quite a bit.

[TCrouch]

Yes, but this has things that ACIII won't have. One of the trickiest things to do well in any sort of stealth/assassination game is how to sneak up on an opponent. This has that whole "magic" element into it, so it's pretty amazing to be able to hide in a corner, watch people come in, and teleport directly behind them and kill them, then teleport back out in a blink. The other guy turns around and it's like one of those scenes from Batman or something where suddenly one thug figures out the other is missing and he was just there a second ago.

That turns the whole stealth game into a sort of superhero stealth game. When I got discovered by a group of guards, I turned the corner and teleported to a rafter. They come into the room going "Where'd he go?!?!?" and start searching. I did a drop assassination on one, then teleported away again. It's funny to hear them start screaming "he disappeared into thin air!!!" like frightened little school children before you pop up in front of them and finish them off.

I don't know, I know there's room enough in my library for both, because I highly doubt AC3 will give me the whole Bioshock aspect of superhuman powers. But I can see some people only wanting one 'assassin' game this month, and I can't fault them for that.

[fanatic]

I just finished watching a developer walkthrough where the player possessed the guy who was shooting at him and then stopped time so he could position the shooter to get hit with his own bullet. Unreal!

[TCrouch]

Exactly. That's the kind of stuff that sets it apart. Freedom seems to be limitless from my experience so far. It could all be smoke and mirrors on some level, but I've felt like I can approach any situation however I want so far. I extended my jump ability, my teleport ability, I can slow time and possess people. It's fun to possess a dog and turn it on its masters, then teleport in and finish the master off after he killed his own dog.

Or possess the master and have him jump out of a 5th story window.

It's a pretty crazy game.

[dbdynsty25]

Dammit, sounds better and better. Thanks Terry. Will have to go grab it even though I don't have time to play it. LOL.

[MizzouRah]

Traded in Spec Ops the Line and Madden 13 and they had some deals, so I paid $4 for Dishonored. Will dig into it tomorrow and Sunday.