Dishonored.

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.

Heh are=see but I like that sentiment right there, very jaunty

i thought it was a possession joke

ok this game ruled, one of the best i've played in a while, but that last level was pretty dang anticlimactic. i was ok with no boss fight but i was expecting more of a challenge getting to the dude at least. also another game where i accrued a ton of money that i never really spent on anything.

anyone play any of the dlc? i'll probably go back and try to do some of the levels with no kills and never being detected.

love the dlc, can't wait for the witches one next month.

so psyched

oh yeah i need to download it. still have a lot of the knife of dunwall to play though

finished brigmore witches last night, pretty fun but anticlimactic (kind of like the main game). was hoping the void would be a full level but it was pretty much a one-scene thing.

same here, did stealth & didn't kill anyone as usual (well, i think i assassinated the guy that the shopkeeper wanted me to take out, just to see what would happen).

the main levels felt pretty meaty, especially the second one (streets/dock/hatter hideout). the old gang leader who wants you to put him out of his misery (although doing so will gas every one in the building) was a nice decision point. i'm sad there isn't any more to play.

i tell myself i'll go back and replay and try not to kill anyone at all but in reality i almost never replay games, even ones i love

2x, at least new games. every few years i'll still get the urge to go replay Res Evil 4 and old mario/mega man/metroid/etc games. i could actually see replaying the main Dishonored game at some point.

so i bought THIEF for the xbone but my wife saw it and now she wants to watch me play it, which is good, except that now i can only play it when she's around.

so i bought DISHONORED w/ all the DLC for the pc so i am going to do a HEAD 2 HEAD comparison as i never beat dishonored on console.

(thief is nowhere near as bad as reviews have it, i kinda think reviewers don't remember/never played OG thief games?)

played dishonored on xbox, liked it, got near the end but somehow lost interest (some escape-from-sewer level seemed real unfun). however i fancy checking out the dlc, but on my pc. am i screwed by not having my savegame available or do the dlc games start from scratch with a new character?

I stopped playing Dishonored a couple of hours in (it was great, but I'm shit at stealth games and I had important drinking and sleeping to attend to) but IIRC the DLC episodes start totally from scratch and have you playing a totally separate character with a different set of powers.

I always thought the strength of Dishonored was that you could play it even with shit stealth skills. Just remember to ice dudes one at a time, and you should be fine.

thanks TT

hmm maybe i'll have to try Thief after all

yeah its less about stealth and lots more about strategy and timing honestly. i hate stealth games but loved the way they did it in dishonored.

so far thief is very janky and obviously not the wide-open low-res low-poly-count playground of 1998 but it is a much better stealth game than dishonored. dishonored is better for creative slaughter but i still don't like its fingerwagging moralism or whimsical whale oil neil gaiman tapdance steampunk vibe.

thief's steampunk vibe is darker and somehow less annoying? i dunno. writing in both games is garbage, big surprise.

sounds like you didn't play dishonored as a stealth game!

giving me all these fun tools for murdering people and then fussing at me for using them is imo a weird way to make a game/make a point about video violence and the lust for blood that lives within us as gamers or whatever.

well that and a clever way to make you do a couple playthroughs

i am enjoying being sneaky and not killing ppl if i can help it (have still merc'd a few in a panic, tho), but tbh i am looking forward to the prospect of str8 slaughtering everyone on a second playthrough

giving me all these fun tools for murdering people and then fussing at me for using them is imo a weird way to make a game/make a point about video violence and the lust for blood that lives within us as gamers or whatever.

no it's a valid point, you're just a bad person, nbd. :)

really it was just luck that my play style (slow, not that good at combat, don't mind re-trying a section until i get it right) fit with the 'good' way of playing this game.

i can dig that. blink is really one of the most fun things in a game in recent memory.

it felt very limiting to go from playing dishonored to far cry 3 and not be able to blink around.

that first dlc (as daud) was great, prob more fun than the main game though much too short. 2nd dlc isn't as fun so far (2nd level in, in the streets where there's a war between two rival gangs) but still v glad i started this back up. is that the end of it all now or are they planning more dlc? i see dishonored 2 is being touted about so that's probably it, bah

http://www.polygon.com/e3-2015/2015/6/14/8776839/dishonored-2-release-date-e3-2015

yesss

Nice.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/16/dishonored-2-review-clockwork-world-of-exquisite-challenge

might get this in a few months when it's cheaper and i have finished slogging through ds9.

i loved the first one and am excited for this one but yeah i never buy new games so it'll probably be a while before i play it

this is pretty great. very similar to the first one but the level design might be even better. somehow it doesn't feel like 'fetch quests' when you're criss-crossing the same area for different objectives, and most of environments are so detailed.

also the tiny fonts on everything keep reminding me to make an appointment to update my glasses prescription.

yeah enjoying this. i am so bad at stealth tho. i get impatient or just press the wrong button and fire my gun, then all hell breaks loose. my character is already "high chaos". though on one level i did find a big pipe high up in the sky and strolled to the finish.

the tiny fonts thing is so fucking annoying and in every game. i have fairly good eyesight and don't wear glasses and it's maddening.

i'm going full stealth, no murders. at first i was constantly re-loading saves every time all hell broke loose. i still am, but it's happening slightly less frequently.

i feel like i generally don't have the time to play a game enough and get stealthy. it's also a bit emotionally/morally unintuitive - like in the second city by the docks i overheard some rotund jerk throwing his weight around at his workers, like threatening and hassling them, so far as videogame morality goes, i did the right thing by maiming him fatally and throwing him into the sea. but all the workers ran away screaming and i was the bad guy! sad!

haha. that's very realistic!

i definitely save it for when i have a decent block of time to get into it, but you can deal with rooms or scenarios as smaller chunks, and i love that you can save at any moment.

i was a bit unimpressed by how it looked, to begin with, possibly in comparison to witcher 3, but there's definitely some really nice character to the buildings and the cities.

looking forward to getting this, though i just dropped $$ for titanfall 2

plan to do one bloodless run-through with i guess corvo, and then a straight murderous run-through with emily