Robinson VR, Dishonored 2, Tyranny, Playing in Evil Worlds, Your Emails and More!
This week Sean Sands and Julian talk about playing in an evil world in video games. Can't imagine why ...
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Dishonored 2
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Thread of The Week:
Did you learn anything about yourself as a player this year? - ClockworkHouse
Music credits:
Golden Hour - Broke for Free - http://brokeforfree.com/ - 33:27
XXV - Broke for Free - http://brokeforfree.com/ - 49:22
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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.
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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:
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.
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.