How will you play Dishonored?

[Erttheking]

Well, dishonored is coming out this week, and it's pretty clear it takes the Duex Ex route of gameplay, with there being multiple ways of approaching the game. The four main ones that I can think of with Dishonored so far are

1. Kill anyone who gets in your way and kick down the front door
2. Kill anyone who gets in your way but sneak around and try and avoid conflict
3. Only kill your targets and make it look like an ancient (IE the Hitman playthrough)
4. The total pacifist playthrough (albeit you still need to take care of your targets by torturing them, selling them into slavery, giving them to people to use them as sexual toys...esh, the PC is a bit of a physco no matter how you play him huh?)

But there are probably a lot more

So what are you going to do? Personally I'm going to only kill my targets. I mean, how do I know the guards deserve to die? Maybe they're just trying to provide for their families, maybe the military was the only way out of the slums. So yeah, I will only knock them out, but the aristocrats...the ones that made things the way they are...they will know no mercy. I'll try to make it look like an accident, but I won't hesitate to leave them on the ground with a hole in their neck.

So what are you going to do?

 

[hazabaza1]

Won't bother. Bethesda doesn't seem to want the money of PS3 players anyway, so ain't giving it to them. Besides, not like we'll get any DLC for the game anyway.

The argument "we won't get DLC so I won't get it" seems really dumb to me when people seem to complain about DLC existing.
OT: Probably stealthy assassin type, have some combat skills as an "oh shit son" backup.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

The same way I play all games of its type. No kills except those required by the plot, pure stealth and hardest difficulty.

 

[Erttheking]

Won't bother. Bethesda doesn't seem to want the money of PS3 players anyway, so ain't giving it to them. Besides, not like we'll get any DLC for the game anyway.

The argument "we won't get DLC so I won't get it" seems really dumb to me when people seem to complain about DLC existing.
OT: Probably stealthy assassin type, have some combat skills as an "oh shit son" backup.

Uh, that argument would only make sense if this person in particular complained about DLC existing.

 

[hazabaza1]

Won't bother. Bethesda doesn't seem to want the money of PS3 players anyway, so ain't giving it to them. Besides, not like we'll get any DLC for the game anyway.

The argument "we won't get DLC so I won't get it" seems really dumb to me when people seem to complain about DLC existing.
OT: Probably stealthy assassin type, have some combat skills as an "oh shit son" backup.

Uh, that argument would only make sense if this person in particular complained about DLC existing.

Oh, I know it might not exactly be relevant here, but I hear people doing this kind of complaining.
Plus, don't you know? People are a massive hive mind and if one person thinks something so do all the others.

 

[kyogen]

I'll go for an all-stealth, no-kill run on hardest difficulty. In this case it's less about the challenge (though that's important too) and more about seeing the best ending.

After that I'll do an emo run and kill all of my targets with as much "collateral damage" as I can manage because I would also like to see how dark, narratively speaking, the game world gets. Arkane says it's dynamic; I want to see it.

 

[ThePuzzldPirate]

I will probably play on normal and wing it, explore routes and what not. Then switch to the hardest difficulty and go on a pacifist run...

 

[SajuukKhar]

Won't bother. Bethesda doesn't seem to want the money of PS3 players anyway, so ain't giving it to them. Besides, not like we'll get any DLC for the game anyway.

Bethesda Game Studio the company that makes the Elder scrolls series, and sucks at making PS3 ports, are in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM involved in the making of Dishonored.

Bethesda Softworks is a publishing company, that is AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE ENTITY then the game development studio, and they publish both Dishonroed and the Elder Scrolls series.

Bethesda Softworks isn't making the game, nor do they determine if the DLC makes it to the consoles or not, and Bethesda game studio's inability to make ps3 ports of thier games is not in any way caused by Bethesda softworks.

Stop trying to superimpose the actions of one company onto an entirely separate company and them use it as an excuse to not buy the game.

This is really as dumb as when people say Bethesda make Fallout: New vegas, they did not, and Bethesda had literally zero hands on New vegas.

 

[SajuukKhar]

The money would still go to them, so I'm not giving them my business. Snub me, I'll snub you right back.

Umm no, the money goes to Zenimax the company that owns Arkane, and both Bethesda companies.

Try harder

 

[SajuukKhar]

I don't complain about it existing.

My anger with Beth is the mealy mouthed, passive aggressive, and incredibly transparent way they've snubbed PS3 owners over Skyrim.

That's like not buying a Id software game, or a Obsidian game, because Bethesda snubbed you on the PS3.

Your logic makes no sense because you a snubbing an entirely different company that in no way shape or form was related to the actions of the company that snubbed you.

 

[hazabaza1]

The argument "we won't get DLC so I won't get it" seems really dumb to me when people seem to complain about DLC existing.

I don't complain about it existing.

My anger with Beth is the mealy mouthed, passive aggressive, and incredibly transparent way they've snubbed PS3 owners over Skyrim.

Yeah, I know you didn't but your complaint just reminded me of it.

 

[SajuukKhar]

No, it isn't, and by the by, I wont' buy another Obsidian product either since they're connected to Beth. Screw them.

Obsidian isn't connected to Beth.......

Obsidian is a wholly separate company, not owned by Zenimax, or any other company.

Obsidian had Bethesda publish ONE of their games, but Obsidian gets different publishers for all their games.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

definitely type 2 for me. Ultimately I'm pragmatic, which lends itself to avoid conflict if possible, as I want to get to my target undetected. However, if I'm spotted, or otherwise in a situation where I'd have to go out of my way not to kill, I don't care how much the guard's family are going to miss him.

For some reason, when playing a stealth game, it just seems like the only character trait that fits is a creepy, predatory sociopath with no respect for conventional interpretations of morality. I mean, why would a friendly, charitable person choose to skulk around in the shadows on their own for a living?

 

[Erttheking]

definitely type 2 for me. Ultimately I'm pragmatic, which lends itself to avoid conflict if possible, as I want to get to my target undetected. However, if I'm spotted, or otherwise in a situation where I'd have to go out of my way not to kill, I don't care how much the guard's family are going to miss him.

For some reason, when playing a stealth game, it just seems like the only character trait that fits is a creepy, predatory sociopath with no respect for conventional interpretations of morality. I mean, why would a friendly, charitable person choose to skulk around in the shadows on their own for a living?

Fair point. Not to mention it really seems like that's the type of character they're going for with the main character of Dishonored. Seriously, even in the pacifist run you put people to work in mines as slaves (which apparently is short staffed because people keep DYING) kidnap a woman and give her to a creepy stalker, and torture a guy, and that's the lightest shade of gray that he can get, in all other approaches he takes out the knife and goes nuts...well look on the bright side, at least the main character's personality will be consistent throughout different play throughs. At least it won't be like prototype where they try to portray the guy as misunderstood when he eats people to regain health.