Escapist killed Dishonored!

[Kellogs Fried Chickn]

And no, I'm not put off of dishonored. I borrowed it from my friend and oh my god, It is downright amazing.

I hope to borrow one again as it becomes available, but I find it unfair - can't think of a better word - that escapist gives warnings for what they consider condoning piracy and not for something which is effectively piracy. I'm not bashing the habit but the Escapist's - and plenty of gamers' - logic.

I'm interested to see whether we get a warning or not

 

[AngryMongoose]

First time I saw the adverts for Dishonored (they kept disrupting a stream) they looked really, really lame. "Revenge Solves Everything?" Really? Now I'm actually playing the game and it's pretty fucking cool.

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Aww man, Tesco were running a deal to get twin packs (2x350g) of Cathedral Cheddar for £1 each! As a flat we got some 10 KGs of cheese. I got 2 packs myself. In the end they had run out of twin packs, so they sent us twice as many normal packs and matched the price. Eating cheese with everything now.

So I'll probably hate it in a few weeks.

 

[Woodsey]

Sleeping Dogs is 50% off right now on Steam...

Don't bother.

OT: No, I don't see how an ad can burn you out on something so much you lose all interest in it. Either you see the ad and you become interested, or you see it and feel it doesn't appeal.

At any rate, here's an excuse for me to plug my Dishonored review: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.391371-Woodsey-Weviews-DishonoUred

[sub][sub]Someone comment, anyone at all. Get your gran to do it for goodness sake![/sub][/sub]

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Dishonored is an amazing game, Sleeping Dogs was phenomenal and if you don't like advertisements, ya might as well get used to it. If you were a PubClub Member like us cool kids, you wouldn't have to deal with them. ;D

Also I'll take some nice Colby-Jack.

[sub]Also, post #1337 whooooooooo![/sub]

 

[devotedsniper]

I played it up to just after leaving the resistance pub place after escaping prison, haven't touched it since.

I don know why it just didn't grab me (normally a game will make me play it all in one time if i like it), I don't particularly like the combat and there's nothing really new from what i played it.

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

I pre-ordered, because sometimes I just want to be a part of the hype zeitgeist for a game. Also, I'm in the Pub Club, so to answer your pointless thread, no. Sleeping Dogs was good too.

And in the spirit of pointlessness, a rant:

What I want to know is how someone got a 51 hour first playthrough out of Dishonored. Someone claimed that on the Steam forums. Now, I've really enjoyed the game, but I've still only clocked 27 hours with two playthroughs (one mostly stealthy, one really lite stealth, but mostly stabby stabby). What is this person doing?! It's not like I blew through the game. My second playthrough I only ran across about 8 fairly minor things I'd missed the first time (like a few rooms I'd missed, saw the top of the whatsits bridge and I missed an improvised prison cell).

This 51-hour freak must have stopped to roleplay smelling the flowers or written a 5 paragraph essay three times per mission. Did they stop to inspect every single texture in the game? Did they roleplay as Sokolov and paint of portrait IRL of every character they encountered in the game? I went pretty darn slowly through my first time--spent 5 hours on the first mission. But still, only clocked 19 hours. There were also several people on the aforementioned forums who said they were at 20 or 25 hours at the High Regent mission. Even if you're hearting every person you meet, it shouldn't take that long, surely? Oh and don't call me Shirley.

All those people are weird and I'm normal. Why can't everyone be normal and correct like me?!

 

[Jfswift]

I actually want to buy it still. Did I miss something?

 

[Jynthor]

What ads?
It's called Adblock Plus, people. Get it.

 

[Alssadar]

I'd like to pick up a copy of it, but, alas, I have no rig that could run it.
When the time comes, hopefully there'll be a Steam sale to purchase and let it sit in my files for the next decade.

 

[Netrigan]

Maybe because Borderlands 2 has me in high-octane mode but I'm having a hard time getting immersed in Dishonored. I just finished the second mission and while I'm digging the level design, I'm just not hooked yet.

The stuff that kind of niggles at me.

1) Getting locked into conversations. Unlike Fallout 3 where you can control the conversation, I'm being forced to spend face time with NPC or risk missing out on some important bit of exposition. I'm not a fan of Half-Life's system, but at least I can continue to explore the area while the NPC drones on forever.

2) The voice acting isn't very good. At one point I saved someone's life and they thanked me without an ounce of emotion in their voice. It was like I had just held a door open for them. Doubly deadly when you're locked into some over-long one-sided conversation as you await the next mission objective.

3) Stealth first person game. Everything about this game makes me want it to be a third person game. First person is great if you're pointing guns a lot, but there's none of that here. Even when you use a gun, the third person view would be just as good if not better.

4) The auto-save. Okay, so this one is really just me. Over the past few years, I've gotten into the habit of not saving and I find it immerses me into games a lot more than Save Whoring. So I'm constantly finding myself back a couple of more steps than I want after dying.

Which is not to say the game isn't good. As I said, I love the level design and I especially like how they don't draw attention to alternate paths. If there's a rooftop entrance, the game doesn't have a conspicuous ladder nearby. The rat vents are much less noticeable than the oddly man-sized vents of Deus Ex. And I appreciate a stealth game that is perfectly happy to let me kill everyone, but doesn't make killing so unbelievably easy that I wonder why anyone would bother with the stealth thing.

But I don't love it so far. We're just good friends and I call them up whenever I've not got my hand down Borderland 2's shirt.