Look Who's Dishonored Too - Catch-All

Shadout wrote:
pyxistyx wrote:

As the name suggests, it also very neatly ties up the outstanding plot threads with the Outsider, Daud and Billie in a reasonably satisfying way. And WITHOUT a stupid boss battle, which is always a pleasant discovery.

Stuff like that should be on the box.
"This game features no stupid end boss battle" would immediately raise my interest for most games.

Really liked Dishonored 2. Will surely pick this one up at some point.

Good, I'm not the only one who dislikes end boss battles!

There's going to be a awful lot of awkward silences in the morning briefing tomorrow at the guardhouse..

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An awful lot...

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I just want to know why, despite zeros everywhere, I didn't max out the stealth graph?

If I recall right, suspicions (the white lightning bolt that fills up) count against the stealth graph but don't count against detections.

Hm. Interesting. You'd think I'd have caught that before the third game, but OK. That could explain it.

Death of the Outsider really hammers home how much I don't really want to accumulate upgrade bits to fill out upgrade trees anymore. Emily/Corvos upgrade menus are boring and unnecessary. Would the game get too easy if you just had all the powers? It's already easy, so I think I'd just end up with more Home Alone hijink options to mess with.

Having Billie's abilities present completely from the (near) beginning makes makes for a more fun game.

That depends, Danjo, what difficulty are you playing on? Because it gets trickier as you go up, they change their patrol routes and detect you a lot faster.

Ya but the parry-decapitate-heel-toe-heel-toe still works. I'd like to be sneaky, but I'd also like to not save-scum.
When they see me there's the question: What's more valuable; their virtual lives or my time (loading)? I put their heads in the nearest bin.

Makes me think some of the guards in Splinter Cell had it right when they saw the spooky techno ninja. "Maybe it was nothing."

Danjo Olivaw wrote:

Death of the Outsider really hammers home how much I don't really want to accumulate upgrade bits to fill out upgrade trees anymore. Emily/Corvos upgrade menus are boring and unnecessary. Would the game get too easy if you just had all the powers? It's already easy, so I think I'd just end up with more Home Alone hijink options to mess with.

Having Billie's abilities present completely from the (near) beginning makes makes for a more fun game.

New Game + in Dishonored 2 lets you mix and match powers, and starts you with all the Runes from your last playthrough, and they're cumulative across playthroughs. After my ghost and murder runs, had access to every one of Corvo's and Emily's powers, and like 47 Runes at the start. Insanely easy and overpowered.

I don't mind getting upgrades for abilities throughout the game (like linking three targets instead of two), but I do wish the basic palate of abilities were available from the start. That was one of the things about "The Knife of Dunwall" that helped me get into the series in the first place.

Anyone had issues with Death of the Outsider not launching. Screen turns black and then nothing helps other than resetting the PC.
Arkane seems to acknowledge the issue back at release, but then claim to have patched it immediately.
Feels like I was magically transferred to the 90s PC gaming or something.

Danjo Olivaw wrote:

Makes me think some of the guards in Splinter Cell had it right when they saw the spooky techno ninja. "Maybe it was nothing."

Man, this is a good game. About halfway done with my second(high chaos) playthrough and still loving it.

I just played for the first time. I ran through a low chaos with Emily and then an ULTRA chaos with Corvo. The latter went a lot quicker without all the "oops alarm better reload" time sinks.

My doppleganger was the one to kill Delilah in the very end.

That is how I am doing it too, did the emily/no powers/no kills/stealth play and now Corvo is on a murderous rampage.

Definitely play through again with Emily with powers, because she's got some good ones, and the skill points remain after you finish one game for you to use in the next. Can unlock everything at the beginning of the third run and mix/match her and Corvo's powers.

I wasn't really interested in a no-power run. My powered stealth run was slow enough.

That's why your gamerscore is garbage.

SallyNasty wrote:

That's why your gamerscore is garbage.

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My gamerscore is garbage because XBox Live for Windows is dead -- and rightfully so!

Just finished this for the first time. Went with Emily and Low Chaos. Really enjoyed it, especially the Clockwork Mansion and Ducal Palace missions.

I feel kinda conflicted about Low Chaos, since it kept me from using almost all the gadgets and powers. I pretty much only used Far Reach and Domino. I also picked up the super-vision power and the shadow-form power (the names escape me) but almost never used them.

Tempted to do a High Chaos run with Corvo. Maybe New Game+?

Math wrote:

Just finished this for the first time. Went with Emily and Low Chaos. Really enjoyed it, especially the Clockwork Mansion and Ducal Palace missions.

I feel kinda conflicted about Low Chaos, since it kept me from using almost all the gadgets and powers. I pretty much only used Far Reach and Domino. I also picked up the super-vision power and the shadow-form power (the names escape me) but almost never used them.

Tempted to do a High Chaos run with Corvo. Maybe New Game+?

I always try and kill fest gets boring to me. As much as I'd love to replay both 1 and 2 I get stuck. I think if Corvo had a different path I would.

Math wrote:

...Really enjoyed it, especially the Clockwork Mansion and Ducal Palace missions.

Really, both those levels should be in a Video Game Level Hall Of Fame museum. The Clockwork Mansion, in particular, reminded me that while everyone else wants a Half Life 3, I want a Portal 3 game.

Hobear wrote:
Math wrote:

Just finished this for the first time. Went with Emily and Low Chaos. Really enjoyed it, especially the Clockwork Mansion and Ducal Palace missions.

I feel kinda conflicted about Low Chaos, since it kept me from using almost all the gadgets and powers. I pretty much only used Far Reach and Domino. I also picked up the super-vision power and the shadow-form power (the names escape me) but almost never used them.

Tempted to do a High Chaos run with Corvo. Maybe New Game+?

I always try and kill fest gets boring to me. As much as I'd love to replay both 1 and 2 I get stuck. I think if Corvo had a different path I would.

I played in what I believed to be a balanced way...stealthing when it seemed appropriate, quiet assassinations when it seemed appropriate, and killing in a few cases where it seemed appropriate and I STILL got the high chaos ending (boo!), but at least I got to enjoy using the skills I wanted to use. The lesson learned is that unless you plan to specifically do the low chaos option and ignore most of the fun powers, you'll get the bad ending no matter what, so I suggest just playing however you want since it's not going to matter unless you intentionally go for low chaos.

You can murder every person in the game and still get low chaos. You just need to make sure you aren't seen doing it and that the body isn't found.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

You can murder every person in the game and still get low chaos. You just need to make sure you aren't seen doing it and that the body isn't found.

Sounds like a potential goal for my next playthrough

i've started these games before with every intention of FINALLY doing a high chaos run....but i can never bring myself to do it. I enjoy the sneaky minimal violence of the alternative too much.

Sorta like how you promise yourself this will be your heavy armor character in Skyrim... then you end up a sneaky archer assassin again.

So I've been doing it wrong all these years by wearing heavy armor and killing everyone I meet (in games)?

Taharka wrote:

Sorta like how you promise yourself this will be your heavy armor character in Skyrim... then you end up a sneaky archer assassin again.

yyyyyuuup.

Taharka wrote:

Sorta like how you promise yourself this will be your heavy armor character in Skyrim... then you end up a sneaky archer assassin again.

This is exactly my playstyle. Except I never try to be a heavy armor character.