Yep... You can't even personalize the character. You never see his face either. At least not as far as I've gotten.

The Outsider is kind of hot though.

I only got to play about 30 minutes of it... basically the tutorial. I was hoping the main game would have some Assassin's style free roam.


Also: why don't you people trim down the quote stack??

Because no, that's why! XD

Elizabeth, I don't wish to sound rude, but you've done a pretty abysmal job of giving a good picture of the game, you know.

KoB; Dishonoured (I'm spelling it correctly) is probably, I'd say, one of the best games of 2012. It's flawed, at times it's messy, it's storyline is a mess of cliches, but overall? It's one of the most atmospheric, enthralling, well-designed and intelligent games I've played. You want a sense of that atmosphere then I recommend you go and watch the launch trailer.

The game builds a big, sprawling world for you to play in as the character Corvo, and while it isn't technically a free-roaming sandbox game calling it linear is a complete falsehood; every objective can be completed in multiple ways, using stealth, full-on combat, a dizzying array of arcane powers or an arsenal of gadgets and weapons, and it's even entirely possible to play the game without killing a single person.

It's setting, Dunwall, is superb (primarily the brainchild of Deus Ex's developer Harvey Smith and Viktor Antanov, the man responsible for Half Life 2's famous City 17); an oppressive, gloomy, quasi-steampunk dystopia, riven by plague, rife with poverty and social inequality and slowly and battling an encroaching zombie problem. It's packed with details, with dozens of in-game books and audio journals to read and listen to.

Gameplay is truly stellar; swordplay is fast, fluid and has a genuine sense of impact, while you can switch between a flintlock, a crossbow with various ammunition or magical powers with your free hand, allowing you to play how you wish. One of the best parts of the game is the arcane spellcasting you're able to use; you start out with Blink, a short-ranged teleport that can get Corvo into all sorts of areas of the level, but slowly but surely unlock more as the game goes on, including the ability to possess people and animals, summon swarms of rats (believe me, Dishonoured takes the common rat from being the easily-defeated cannon fodder of most games and turns them into a genuinely terrifying threat when they swarm). That in turn allows for a huge variety of gameplay. Want to evade a guard patrolling by nipping into the rafters? Sure, why not? Want to throw enemy's own grenades back at them with a gust of wind? Easy. Want to stop time as somebody shoots at you, possess them and then walk them in front of their own bullet? Yeah, that can totally be done.

The narrative is kind of predictable, the writing is almost entirely exposition or characters telling you what to do next and the characters are all rather flat, but despite these flaws, Dishnoured is still one of my favourite games of, well, ever. And to think you were turning a nice young man off such an experience, Elizabeth. For shame, I say, for shame!!

Shutup, Colonel Mustard, I ain't in the game review business XD

But seriously. I'm terrible at describing games. Along with driving and giving directions.

Currently playing Final Fantasy III, and falling in love with the series all over again...

Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga...

I've been getting increasingly disillusioned with the Lego games down the years...Including the LOTR one...Too complicated...

So I went back to the start and have loved every minute so far...

I used to play with Legos when I was a child.

I still do!

Me too!!...*Cough*...I mean, I join in when my boy's creating...Yes, yes that's it... ...

Nah, I love the early Lego games (Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the first Harry Potter one), but then they kinda changed somehow...Just felt like they were pushing it a bit...And then the glitches started creeping in...But, unlike Bethesda who seem to be trying to patch the games...Travellers Tales have never bothered, so if you do some things in the wrong order, the game will break and you have to start it all over again...

Recent discussion of Dishonoured has got me back into playing it once more. I'm going for a high-chaos stealth approach (so basically sneaking about whilst shanking every guard I see) and I'm having immense fun summoning up swarms of rats to eat my enemies alive like the Pied Piper if he went completely off the rails, and dropping off rooftops to assassinate guards with a yell of; "SPRING-HEELED CORVO HAS ARRIVED!!"

Damn, I love this game.

I don't think I've ever given a game such a terrible description before that it's made someone want to play it! XD

I'm going to start, from the beginning, the Mass Effect series. I'm going to import my character from one to two, then two to three, and I better see Thane. If not, I'm going to be very angry.

Well, there's a first tiem for everything. Plus I generally keep getting sucked back into Dunwall in any case.

And of course you see Thane. He's a major character in ME2 and 3, after all (provided he survives 2, of course). Why wouldn't you see him? I don't think that's actually possible...

Also, while we're on the subject of Dishonoured, here're some game-related giggles.


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I was thinking about getting this, as I love games like this, but I'm not sure. Haha

I'm still on New Vegas. I only have three games on my Xbox (New Vegas, Skyrim and Oblivion) as I let my brother take the others to University with him. In need of some new games! haha

Dishonoured is really fun. I enjoy it :]

No sir! Not if you don't import you ME2 character and start fresh on the 3rd one. I've started 3 games on the 3rd game and none of them have seen Thane. After a few missions you see his name on the Memorial Wall on the ship.

As you might well have gathered from my last few posts on this thread, you might well have gathered that, in my opinon, Dishonoured is the tits.

I had no idea!!

As well as the Lego Star Wars, I'm also dusting off the Space Marine game from th'other year...And it's Multiplayer thing...Kill many Orks? Oh hell yeah!!...

Dishonored was bland and boring IMO. I played for about two hours and took it back. I've been pleasantly surprised by a ton of games lately but this wasn't one of them.