Arkane's Dishonored

ahrezmendi wrote:

It's probably been linked already, but I just read RPS' Wot I Think about Dishonored, and it completely sold me. Then Certis' video re-sold me. Then the Quick Look sold me a 3rd time. I really can't afford another game right now, but this looks so awesome!

Sounds like you are buying 3 copies! Just buy one, then you can afford two other games!

The atmosphere looks amazing, damn you system requirements, DAMN YOU! I hope this style really takes off.

Does anybody know of any other GMG codes going on right now besides their 25% off one?

Caved! $45 at Greenmangaming, and the key given activated on Steam without an issue. Pre-loading now.
I think that's the most I've spent on a new game since purchasing Skyrim (which was also $45). That's my gaming budget for a while, so sadly XCOM will have to wait for a sale.

I notice that the recommended specifications list a quad core; I wonder how well the game takes advantage of multiple cores? I've seen very little commentary on the framerate performance from the various reviewers.

I'm pretty close to the minimum processor listed, but my video card hits the recommended category.
3.16 ghz Core 2 Duo
4 GB Ram
1 GB Radeon 5850

I'm going to try and play mostly non-lethal, unless I judge anyone to be exquisitely naughty. Then, a little bit of the old "hide the grenade in the pantaloons" party trick may come into play.

Puce Moose wrote:

I'm going to try and play mostly non-lethal, unless I judge anyone to be exquisitely naughty. Then, a little bit of the old "hide the grenade in the pantaloons" party trick may come into play.

I like the cut of your jib.

I preordered XCOM a couple weeks ago and said I'd skip Dishonored until later, but the reviews and GMG's 25% off coupon won me over. So I'm preloading this now to play a little tonight and I'll download XCOM overnight. Did I mention I've also got Guild Wars 2, Torchlight 2, and Borderlands 2 on the go?

I've got a problem.

soonerjudd wrote:

I'm so excited for this game. I haven't read any of the reviews or watched trailers or other videos because I don't want anything to spoil the experience. I love going in to a game with a blank slate.

Aside from the GWJ video I don't know much about the game either. My wife and I are going to play this without help from the internet for the first week.

They said the pain will increase the next few days.

That's actually a legitimate reason to game. I barely even register even fairly significant pain if I'm playing something. Either X-COM or Dishonored may be excellent analgesics.

Seriously. I'm not kidding.

I've seen both 3G and 4G of RAM listed as the minimum requirement to run this game, can anyone confirm what's correct?

Caved. $45 on GMG, now preloading on Steam with no fuss. Consumerism!

Just reading the pull-out quotes from the reviews on Metacritic, and it looks like Arkane hit this one out of the park—critically at least—and deservedly so. It seems like they finally got everything firing on all cylinders—clear on the IP (Arx Fatalis was supposed to be Ultima Underworld III, and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was supposed to be Arx Fatalis II), publisher confidence, a boatload of marketing—and were able to make the game they've had the talent to. Hopefully they get the sales out of the gate that they deserve. Not from me, of course, I need to check out of this thread until Dec. 25.

Certis wrote:

As promised, here's a walkthrough on Dishonored Sean and I did! It's a side-quest and there's no really concrete main plot details in here other than some general things. Hopefully it'll be a good video for people on the fence!

Excellent video. Really disconcerting at first to hear your voices in a game but I got accustomed to it pretty quickly.

I HAVE THIS

It's in my hand and the DVD is in my drive and f*cking Steam won't let me install it because it hasn't been released yet. So I have to wait for what, Friday, because the internet has oceans?

I am a towering wall of frustration right now.

Floomi wrote:

I HAVE THIS

It's in my hand and the DVD is in my drive and f*cking Steam won't let me install it because it hasn't been released yet. So I have to wait for what, Friday, because the internet has oceans?

I am a towering wall of frustration right now.

VPN, keep steam offline until Friday.

Yeah, it's active here, so it should work.

I thought my copy was going to arrive today, but it looks like Amazon botched it.

Scratched wrote:
Floomi wrote:

I HAVE THIS

It's in my hand and the DVD is in my drive and f*cking Steam won't let me install it because it hasn't been released yet. So I have to wait for what, Friday, because the internet has oceans?

I am a towering wall of frustration right now.

VPN, keep steam offline until Friday.

Is this known to work? I've heard mutterings of this earning you an account deactivation. I might just acquire it via other means.

It worked for me with DE:HR.

The stuff that presumably has a risk of banning is towards the black end of the grey market, keys bought with stolen credit cards, or keys from the wrong region (deliberately priced low for Russia, etc) might get deactivated at the publisher's request, which I think happened for one of the CoD games. That's as far as I know anyway

I think it would be worrying if it became routine to take major action against people playing games they've paid for, and aren't pushing the rules waaay too far for.

Malor wrote:

Yeah, it's active here, so it should work.

I thought my copy was going to arrive today, but it looks like Amazon botched it.

Apparently they botched it on all platforms, not just PC.

SallyNasty wrote:
Malor wrote:

Yeah, it's active here, so it should work.

I thought my copy was going to arrive today, but it looks like Amazon botched it.

Apparently they botched it on all platforms, not just PC.

my copy from Amazon is out for delivery... hoping that its not some mistake and It actually does get delivered today.

People still buy boxed PC games?

Gumbie wrote:

People still buy boxed PC games?

I prefer them.

TheHipGamer wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

People still buy boxed PC games?

I prefer them.

I'm not being a smartass I'm just curious why? It was $45 dollars digitally, plus it's a Steamworks game. If it came with something collective I could understand it but this one is plain jane I thought.

TheHipGamer wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

People still buy boxed PC games?

I prefer them.

There's gotta be a hipster joke in there somewhere...

For some games, I can see the sheer size of the download and having it as a backup media as a decent reason to go retail. Rage at 22GB or SWTOR coming up towards 40GB makes me think twice about getting them online, or in the case of SWTOR is a hurdle to jump for when it goes F2P. Obviously that's going to depend on the internet connection/cap, and how much storage you have to throw around.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:
TheHipGamer wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

People still buy boxed PC games?

I prefer them.

There's gotta be a hipster joke in there somewhere...

I'm so hip that I suspiciously cling to physical media, not trusting digital distribution to still let me play games I like in 10 years? I think I've veered into "curmudgeonly old man stashing cash under the mattress" territory, rather than hipster.

TheHipGamer wrote:
Chumpy_McChump wrote:
TheHipGamer wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

People still buy boxed PC games?

I prefer them.

There's gotta be a hipster joke in there somewhere...

I'm so hip that I suspiciously cling to physical media, not trusting digital distribution to still let me play games I like in 10 years? I think I've veered into "curmudgeonly old man stashing cash under the mattress" territory, rather than hipster.

Choose your tag? hipster hoarder!

I prefer boxed games for no reasons I can properly articulate.

I like my games on vinyl.

Vector wrote:

I like my games on vinyl.

Huzzah! I'm NOT the hipster.

Vector wrote:

I like my games on vinyl.

That's got me thinking, seeing as they used to store data on analogue tapes, has anyone ever stored data on a record.

Gumbie wrote:
TheHipGamer wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

People still buy boxed PC games?

I prefer them.

I'm not being a smartass I'm just curious why? It was $45 dollars digitally, plus it's a Steamworks game. If it came with something collective I could understand it but this one is plain jane I thought.

Exactly, steamworks is a detriment, why would you do that when you have a choice? Impatience?