Dishonored.

Anyone play the new DLC?

Last three posts = mainstream gaming in 2012

Started this tonight. Why the fuck do all the characters have american accents

dude, count your blessings. you get john slattery and brad dourif, not a bunch of assholes doing their british.

^this

Hmm, there is that.

Same half dozen phrases repeated ad nauseum suck in any accent.

"Things are going from bad to worse"
"Indeed I believe so"

"Shall we meet for whiskey and cigars tonight?"
"Indeed I believe so"

"Guard duty again"
"Indeed I believe so"

I do like all the Theif-y bits in this.

I love how dense the levels are in this- reminds me of Minerva: Metastasis (and Adam Foster's other maps for HL2). I'm still really, <i>really</i> fucking bad at it, though; even with Darksight I'm having problems finding holes in the guards' patrol patterns.

the new dlc is so good, or at least the first two parts are. after playing Bioshock Infinite it's so fun to interact with a world that feels fully realized. also i assassinated a whale.

wut!

Super sold on this game

i am getting way too reliant on blink lvl 2 and sleep darts tbh. which is making this archive level painfully hard.

spent probably way too much time on the kennels last night. digging the fact that the game def punishes you for doing stuff mindlessly, like pulling any lever you see etc. first time in the kennels i pulled all the gate switches thinking the dogs would fuck over the patrolling overseers, and then duh, just had a shit ton of wandering guard dogs to deal with instead. or the "hmmm i have a key to a pantry i should obv open it despite all the stuff here about starving rats OH FUCK STARVING RATS EVERYWHERE."

got this and borderlands 2 for my bday today o_O

solid birthday presents imo

yeah that should keep you busy for a while

i am so into this game at this point - doing the stealth playthrough vibe right now, and unlike every other game like this, i am actually really excited by the idea of going through it a second time going all killing lethal. also just figured out that grenades are awesome for getting rid of rat swarms.

weirdly small map imo though. end up retracing a lot of the same ground, but the little mods and changes (like these asshole assassins suddenly fucking w/me on rooftops and shit) make it feel interesting to roll through an area a second time. equipment upgrades seem mostly pointless though. blink + better jump + see through walls deal is the shit

it's pretty fun. i'm not that far in yet but i'm enjoying it. so far my mode is "stealth until i get frustrated and then i kill people"

i played for ten minutes and found lots to like
but the next chance i'll have to play a game of that AAA variety will likely be in the late fall
i hate being a grownup

i love this game so goddamn much

true story: i normally hate stealth mission shit, like really really hate it, but this seems to have gotten it totally right. honestly i think that comes mostly down to blink, if that wasnt there this would suck, but theres just an incredibly rich amount of pathways thx to that - like every mission has a ton of different ways to navigate the map, and a ton of different ways to do what you need to do. rat tunnels, underwater passageways, all the pipes and ductwork, rewire tools, etc. it's a pretty perfectly realized game.

SPOILER KINDA MAYBE
best example yet of this is the fact that you dont even need to lower the drawbridge at all if you don't want, despite that being a mission goal or whatever, just thread your climbing and cross the absolute top of the thing. thats awesome design imo, in the best tradition of letting the player do whatever the fuck they want to do.

i just started playing this finally and after having my expectations ruthlessly suppressed regarding the game itself and the stealth in particular, i have been delighted to find that it is unputdownable fun, kind of bringing into contrast how little i was enjoying the very putdownable bioshock infinite

i like this game but i feel guilty whenever i give up on stealth and just kill people. i feel like i should try harder to be stealthy.

Okay, I put in a few hours here. it is VERY deus ex. i like it a lot but it's making me feel like i'm in completionist mode. And yeah, i'm constantly restarting if I needlessly kill people. Even weepers!

n/a, stealth gets much more doable once you double upgrade blink, the see through walls thing and agility. the turning point for me was the archive level, which kind of works like a upper level stealth tutorial in a lot of ways, teaches you to kind of nail down your blink aiming while still keeping your head on a swivel thx to the multiple guard paths.

this was very good! they didn't do a lot wrong. it was an appropriate length and i was fully into it the whole way. were it any longer that might have changed, as for the back half of the game i had all of the powers etc that i wanted and i ran out of upgrades that i cared about, so it was just as you were from that point onwards, no development. i rooted out every rune and bone charm* just for the fun of it but i ended up with like 20 unused runes. they were so many upgrades and powers focused on killing ppl, but really not killing ppl was the key ingredient of the game, and if you just wandered through taking dudes out i can't imagine it being too much fun. great level design was essential to keeping things interesting and they did a really good job on that.

*i missed one bone charm, which was in the lord regent's gaff. it seemed to be right behind a wall that there was no way around? i am sure there was a cool secret passage i missed out on but i ended up choking every mofo on that floor and dumping them all in the toilet and i still couldn't find anything when i had a free run of the place

I found it pretty fun taking dudes out the whole game. I was a monster.

what happens when the world becomes more "dark and chaotic"? is it just a bunch more rat swarms and plague dudes? i was toying with burning thru in rambo mode to find out.

yup, more rats, more weepers. i think some of the ambient dialogue is 'harder', and the little princess gets bratty. it's kind of worth it.

ok cool thx, that is persuasion enough for me

protip: doing a violent playthru is still 95% a stealth playthru, cos the combat is legit difficult, esp against 3 or more dudes. the perk where you can backstab and make the body dissolve is key imo

Chaotic/Rambo playthrough thoroughly worth it for Sam the boatman's little speech in the last level

:/ i don't want samuel to be mad at me

reap what you sow bro

Whoa you can possess fish

yeah dude! i just used that in the mission where you have to rescue the princess from the bordello because i got the safe combo and then escaped to the outside then realized that i still had stuff i was supposed to do inside. so i possessed a fish and swam back in through the sewer. it was pretty awesome. they are hard to target though.

Lord regent tower was a total motherfucker going no kill

how much aiming is in this game? is it super precise or can someone completely hopeless at aiming play it?

It's not Aimless.

depends how you're playing it i guess? doesn't seem like aiming would be an issue unless you were going all-in commando mode, otherwise you could go no-kill or snipe or knife? but i'm not that far into the game yet.

there is a kind of soft auto-aim. required aiming skills are low.

i've barely used the gun/crossbow at all yet. i used sleep darts on the weepers in the sewer and i used the gun once when surprised by scary assassins but that's it. it feels lazy to use projectile weapons in the context of the game.

i used sleep darts all the time (and remember some tough spots near the end when i was out of them, it must have been in the flooded district), but was playing stealth so i had all the time in the world to carefully aim (which i think is the secret reason why i love stealth games).

there are a couple moments where you have to aim your blink power pretty quickly tho

I sure do hate these spitty oyster things

grenades and those spike bomb things were made for the krusts

stop time --> shoot with pistol

only time i used either of those things!

Ok just finished a super low chaos (fucked up and killed a weeper early on but I think that's it, although one dude might have gotten rat swarmed oops) run, and my only criticism is that the last level is just crazy crazy easy at that point. A little disappointing tbh.

Which of course means now I'm going through again murdering every dude I are.