GWJ Conference Call Episode 527

Robinson VR, Dishonored 2, Tyranny, Playing in Evil Worlds, Your Emails and More!

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This week Sean Sands and Julian talk about playing in an evil world in video games. Can't imagine why ...

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Music credits: 

Golden Hour - Broke for Free - http://brokeforfree.com/ - 33:27

XXV - Broke for Free - http://brokeforfree.com/ - 49:22

Comments

00:01:22 Playstation VR
00:08:40 Tyranny
00:17:35 League of Legends
00:21:01 Dishonored 2
00:32:49 Titanfall 2
00:33:40 Playing in Evil Worlds
00:49:22 Your Emails

Great! Now we have it on record. Elysium really likes tyranny. The facial hair was a dead giveaway.

I'm a bit disappointed to hear that there's so little difference between Corvo and Emily's campaigns. On the one hand, that's an impressive display of writing capability to make a lot of the content and context versatile for two very different characters. At the same time, I was hoping for each experience to be slightly different.

But, given I'm 20 hours in and closing in on the end myself, I can certainly see that they just wouldn't have the capability of doing so much content. There's a lot of interesting ideas at play here.

Oddly enough, though, I feel like all the changes in Dishonored 2 are more or less subtle. It's actually not as vertical as I would have preferred, and there are moments where it feels like they bottleneck you to a small choice of routes. But, it's still been a huge blast going through.

The difference between the two campaigns are more in perspective rather than gameplay. Other than the main story beats (IE save the world) Corvo has a completely different experience than Emily. Lots of little details set the two apart. For instance:

Spoiler:

- Corvo's crossbow looks like the one he had back in Dishonoured 1, Emily has a different design.
- When Corvo picks up his mask he says "I wonder how many people remember this", Emily has a spyglass instead.
- When you encounter bloodflies for the first time Emily just says "hmm, I should be careful" whereas Corvo goes on a little tangent about throwing rocks at them when he was a kid.
- When Emily write a letter it's to her boyfriend, when Corvo writes it's a condolence letter to the parents of the woman captain who died in chapter 1.
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I quite like the little callbacks to Dishonoured 1. And the game has SO MUCH LORE. Up until now Serkonos was just a blurb in a flavour text that you knew as the place where Corvo was from. and now we get to see it first hand. Lots of fun.

Not a big fan of the new Outsider look and voice actor though. The old one did a much better job at being ethereal and mysterious.

Tamren wrote:

Not a big fan of the new Outsider look and voice actor though. The old one did a much better job at being ethereal and mysterious.

I had just finished Knife of Dunwall before picking up D2, it's a really jarring change. The previous voice actor had a smooth, inviting tone to his voice I miss.