Dishonored

This is an extension of the backlog. Anybody besides me or Killa want to join? If not, what up, Killa?

Sounds good to me. When you plan on starting it up?

My birthday weekend is next week. That means I do absolutely jack shit for 3 days. Want to start then? To clarify, I aint doing a damn thing from May 16th to May 19th. But we can do it however. I mean, if we do it in tandem, I'm cool.

Let's do it this way: we need to finish it before E3 and discuss along the way. Sound good?

Works for me. I'm actually on vacation all of next week so I'll have nothing but time.

Awesome. Let's start next week. No trophies or crap. Let's play and talk smack and have fun. Deal? (Anyone can join in, it's fun goddammit)

As of right now, I plan on starting this up Thursday evening and hopefully finishing a first playthrough over the weekend. Sound good, Killa? I can hold off until Friday if that works better for you.

It also looks like just you and me doing this, so we can talk hella shit here

That sounds good to me buddy. Im looking forward to chatting it up with you soon.

When I started palying this game...man, I have not lost interest in a game so fast in a long time. It's not a BAD game I just felt no incentive for being sneaky. Couldn't get immersed.

Hope you dig it more than I did.

I already played it (not including DLC) and LOVED it. Not interested in replaying it at the moment, but I can harass you guys if you'd like

It takes considerable time and HDD space for the intial install of the game and expansions. Just a warning.

After over 5 gigs of installs, I played the first level. And boy do I suck. This reminds me of the original Thief. The only problem I've found so far is a point where I silently took out many guards only to have them respawn and ruin my difficult achievement.

The combat is pretty basic right now but not punishing a'la Thief. I was easily handling multiple guards on normal difficulty. I'm sure it gets tougher, but with how difficult it is to determine what exactly is hidden or enemy line of sight I'm glad it's not unfair.

I played through the first mission and a little bit after that when I first bought the game a while back but in order to refresh my memory I started completely over.

Hard to judge the combat to much so far. Its been pretty basic. Did not find it necessary to use the gun just yet. Blocking with my sword and countering seems to be working just fine at the moment. As for being stealthy I should probably just give up on that. I got spotted a lot and always ended up having to fight. There might have been one or two guards I was able to maneuver past. Looking forward to getting new abilities and seeing how they work.

Very rarely do enemies respawn. The only instance of this I recall is on the second level there's a courtyard where reinforcements will show up once you complete a particular objective.

Don't forget to peek too. As ridiculous as it is, enemies will never see you even if they walk right through your face.

I never got engaged in the combat. I was going for a no-kill / ghost run, but a glitch screwed me up.

Thanks for the tip, Ham. Every time I peeked around a corner I would get nervous and withdraw losing sight of the patrol. Then I'd just run my ass off hoping not to get spotted. As you may guess, this strategy did not work well. I may play through the first level again just to tighten my grasp of the controls.

I might pick this up and play through with you guys just so I can cross it off my backlog.

That's why I'm doing it so don't feel bad or anything. Plus, the more the merrier

I feel like I am terrible at finding collectibles and items. I hate seeing the mission recap and it being like, yea you missed pretty much everything. Has me doubting if I should replay it or just live with it.

If you've played Thief it helps. The way the items are "hidden in plain sight" reminds me a lot of that game. It takes some getting used to, but you'll figure out how the game operates. I've played Dishonored a ton and I have yet to get 100% items in more than 2 levels.

Here's the big question:

Can I play through like I want, or will I miss stuff? I'm unhappy with being set up and how those bitchfaces gloated about it, so killing is fine by me.

I usually try to do non-lethal playthroughs in stealth games but in this game it's kind of frustrating to so I kills all the peoples.

That's two great points because 1) the premise makes it easy to feel justified in having zero empathy, and 2) the Thief punishment for combat is not there.

Unlike Mass Effect, I don't feel the need to be all Jesus-like. That's usually my preference too. But so far I can't stand anyone but myself or "the people". I'm only on the boat so I don't know if the Guy Fawkes narrative sticks. It'll be relieving if it does. I'm sick of being nice

The game will punish you for being too lethal. The more people you kill, the harder the game gets, and it puts you on the path toward the "bad" ending.

That being said, it's a perfectly acceptable way to play the game, but just be aware that the game will basically treat you like a bad guy. The design team is a little weird in their own morality (seriously, look up Harvey Smith sometime) and the consequences of your actions are pretty weird.

For example, at one point you are tasked with taking out a woman. Obviously, you can just plain kill her, but the "non lethal" option (and the one the game treats you as a good guy for taking) is to drug her and put her on a raft in the care of someone who has been stalking her for years with his promise that she'll never be seen again. That sounds a little worse if you ask me...

That sounds so messed up. The reinforces my "fuck it" attitude.

Damn that kind of concerns me now. I didnt realized taking out the bad guys would lead to a bad ending. My only option is to run away because I seem to keep getting spotted. I could start over again I guess.

I wouldn't really worry about the endings, the games story is definitely not a strong point. A lot of the gameplay mechanics make lethal play more exciting and interesting whereas nonlethal pretty much blink your way to victory.

Right, Imma restart this game because I don't remember what was happening/how to play this. And I am going to go for the worst ending possible.

Play it however you want. Personally, like I said, I don't for the way the game weighs morality. You could always just YouTube the "good" ending. The only difference is how violent and infected the city becomes, and the cinematic that plays at the end.

Well I just ended up continuing on but now I got myself stuck in a certain area. Not sure how far you've made it pspiddy so I don't want to spoil anything just yet. I'm going to give it another go later tonight.

Out of curiosity what powers do you guys find the most useful? I still haven't even unlocked them all and I trying now to decide which ones I should bothering trying to go for.

Don't worry about spoilers. That's why we have the thread. I'm not very far along at all. I plan on trying to put in an hour or 2 every night until I finish. Which is why I haven't purchased Transistor yet...

Well I was having issues with the party mission. Once I alerted the guards by accident I was kind of screwed. The game checkpointed me right after I made the mistake too so there was really no turning back. At that point I just had to go all out and take down everyone I saw. Finally completed the mission and moved on though. I'm on what I believe is the 7th mission now. Feels like I'm nearing the end pretty soon. Probably another day or two at most.