Dishonored

How many missions are there?

How likely is it that this is an EA guerilla marketing smear campaign?

I seriously doubt that they would release a game that short in retail form. Then again unless it's an RPG most games aren't really that long. Playing nonstop I beat Modern Warfare 2 in about six or seven hours.

From what I gathered from the Golden Cat level they showed at whatever con that was I expected it to be entirely possible to beat the game really fast if you just ripped through the game shooting anything that so much as twitched in your direction. I think what will make or break the game is if there are not as many choices as they led us to believe and if the game is that short no matter how stealthy and patient you play it. If that made any sense.

@Nick, there are about 9 missions and 2 prologue parts (The death of the Empress and Corvo's jailbreak).

EDIT: And as for a smear campaign, no. /v/ is having a field day with he 4 hours thing, though. And now that I read into it more, I think it was even longer than that. Guy started at like 10 PM last night and beat the game at 7 this morning. He took a break to eat but still that's like 8 hours of game on Easy mode with no exploration and a violent style of play. Probably stopped the stream and then started a new session which took 4 hours.

edited 6th Oct '12 10:08:08 AM by Kev-O

That doesn't really tell us anything direly negative about the game, then. Not like you can't beat most FP Ses, even complex ones like Bioshock, in about eight hours or so, if you do an easy mode minimalist run.

Yeah, I concur. That's Kev-O! :D

Eh, like I said, I stopped watching at around 1 am. He was in the middle of the second mission (Golden Cat mission. First mission is the Overseer's Office level) at that time. I missed everything else after that, but I saw the guy pick easy and play like a flailing idiot who was only saved by the fact that he had the pistol. That pistol is more like a shotgun, man, and usually one-hits dudes.

And now I think it's time for me to drop the thread. See you in a week.

Have fun. See ya in about 3 days.

EDIT: Anyway, here's a stream for you spoiler hungry fellows detailing the first actual mission of the game, the High Overseer mission seen in the Choose Your Own Adventure trailer. This guy does it a bit stealthier, but I'm wondering if he's playing on easy because the AI seems to have problems with detecting people based on sound.

http://www.twitch.tv/dishonoredlol/b/334592437

edited 6th Oct '12 10:55:04 AM by Kev-O

Got my review copy. (Does a little happy dance.)

Have you played it yet, Jonah?

you lucky person you

^ He's a game jornalist, so no wonder there...I think he got review copy or some such...

Also: got meself a boxed copy! ($50 here instead of Steam's $60)

edited 8th Oct '12 12:36:11 AM by onyhow

• IGN video review.
• Destructoid review.
• Joystiq review.

So... fantastical steampunk sneaky-sneaky Thief-meets-Hitman-meets-Bioshock assassin game with Nightmare Fuel? I blame that title for me not becoming aware of this before now.

edited 8th Oct '12 3:14:32 PM by LE0Night

Watched a review of it on Youtube where it got an 8/10. The reviewer cited shoddy AI, bad textures, and that the world isn't really filled in all that well, but those are just little problems to me.

http://www.bethblog.com/2012/10/08/dishonored-launch-week-riding-the-midnight-train-to-reviewville/

Here's a bunch of different reviews.

Unless 8/10 suddenly means "bad" or even "average", those were apparently little problems to the reviewer too.

7 grade games are actually rather good from my experience Even some of 6 score ones, though those are rarer.

I'm thinking this one will be a rent. A rent that I really enjoy for being a rental, but not something I'll want to buy.

I was going to buy this game on release, but 12-14 hours seems a bit short for £40...

People buy Call of Duty for 60 bucks and that's like 8 hours, maybe.

They don't buy it for the campaign...

Something tells me I'll rent this, beat it then go buy it a few weeks later. Sort of how I still pick up deus ex every now and then just to admire the level design.

Eh, from everything I heard about it, I don't think you can properly call the game "finished" until you replay it once or twice.

I plan doing three play-through, at least: stealth, low-chaos precise assassination run, high-chaos "kill everything you see" action run and completion, pacifist run.