Dishonored

Getting spotted could lead to a ton more enemies spawning on the map. Play stealthy pacifist? Expect little resistance. Shoot your way in while setting guards on fire? They'll beef up security.

Possession looks broken. Couldn't you just possess a guard, walk in, stab your target then walk out?

edited 4th Jun '12 6:50:04 PM by thatguythere47

Your mana drains faster if you're in a guard than if you're in a rat. And once you run out, you exit the guy's body and the other guards are left wondering why a guy in a skull mask just leapt out of their buddy.

edited 4th Jun '12 6:53:35 PM by Kev-O

Presumably there will be various balancing effects for the more overpowered seeming powers.

Like that.

edited 4th Jun '12 6:53:33 PM by Mukora

I'll probably play this like I played Deus Ex: Human Revolution; by jumping and sprinting to get to good vantage points and then knock out all the guards from said vantage points. Those were good times. Hopefully the AI in this game is better though. DX:HR's AI fell apart when it came to things like distance; sniping with a tranq rifle was easy if you were far enough away, because then the AI couldn't find you even if you dropped their friends in the most obvious way.

I preferred to avoid guards if at all possible. The cloak made that game laughably easy.

"Hey bob, did somebody just sprint past us?"

"Probably"

-does nothing-

edited 4th Jun '12 8:16:03 PM by thatguythere47

'What was that? Probably the wind. Yeah, that's definitely the sound that wind makes.'

"But the wind doesn't wear a skull mask!"

"Okay, stop and think about it, mate. If I'm wrong, and its not the wind, but the skull-masked assassin whose been going around kicking up shit, and we get in his way? He's gonna kill us. However, if I'm right, and its just the wind? Then there's a chance the wind will just pass us by and *not* kill us."

". . .okay, right. Just the wind."

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-dishonored/731268

Another video, in which Geoff Keighley gets too much face time and interrupts Raf with bad jokes about fish possession.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V6PgQMZziY And in this video, we get to see some action footage. Looks pretty good.

Blink looks like the most awesomely fun skill.

It'll be awesome to see the different routes you can take using it.

Apparently, your mana regens only for enough mana required to blink once, in case you want to make a quick escape. Guess it's the devs favorite power too.

Should be two more demos later today on Gamespot and IGN. Hopefully they do a different route for those demos and hopefully they don't have annoying shithead interviewers who interrupt the devs like on Game Trailers and G4.

So basically Mana Regen is pretty minimal?

How does a game like this still get made!

Bethesda is a lenient publisher. Granted, that means lots of bugs AND THEY FUCKED OVER OBSIDIAN, THOSE BASTARDS, but they're not too bad as far as publishers go. But anyway, here's some new footage. This video's half stealth and half combat. Apparently, your first power is Blink and you only have 5 slots for powers, so you can't have them all. It takes multiple runes to upgrade powers. Neat shit.

http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6380963/dishonored-e3-2012-stage-demo

Have they said whether double-jump is a power or an innate ability?

^If I had to guess I'd assume it's like DXHR's jump upgrades where you need to purchase the upgrade first but once you have them you can just use them without the need for activation or mana consumption.

^^That just looks even more awesome, melee combat looks really fun and clears up a lot of doubts that it won't just be take downs and instawins like DXHR.

The skills and abilities look really fun to use.

I think double-jump is an innate ability, along with your sprinting, sliding, and mantling. Guess it comes with blink. Not all your powers are active, though. There was one mentioned on IGN called Ash which makes all your stealth kills disintegrate the body, eliminating the need to hide them. Also, here's some info I found on 4chan. Some guy translated a French PC magazine article on Dishonored.

http://forum.canardpc.com/threads/58597-Dishonored-Premier-trailer-premiers-aigris.?p=5525026&viewfull=1#post5525026

-"There is no real "mana regen", only the top of the bar, and with that quantity all you can do is one "Blink". Blink is the only obligatory power and the levels have been designed for Blink. Also, what could confuse you in the latest videos is that the potions' "auto-drinking" is activated so it sort of gives the impression that the Mana auto regens. This option can of course be deactivated.

-The player needs to spend runes (runes he needs to find before) to buy powers… There're active powers (that have to be "equipped" on the left arm and that cost mana if you use it) and passive powers (always actives from the moment you buy them). Each power has 2 levels and each level costs some runes. It is impossible to buy all the lvl2 powers through the game.

-The "Wall Hack" is the Dark Vison power, and as it's an active power that uses Mana, it's difficult to use it to excess.

-There' are no "random passive powers". The only random magic effects are whale bones charms (generally highly hidden in the maps). Each of these attributes gives a lil passive bonus (see the bone charms announced for US pre-orders), and you can activate a limited number of charms at the same time.

-Yes, the PC version will have better textures, adjustable FOV, an uncapped framerate, the possibility to turn off every UI element, and an interface based on customizable hotkeys."

I think this could be game of the year material right here. I mean, it doesn't exactly have that much competition this year. All there is to compete with are bad third and first person shooters.

edited 7th Jun '12 5:40:39 AM by Kev-O

Holy shit. I have never been this hyped for a game before.

This has to be GOTY for sure.

edited 7th Jun '12 5:43:59 AM by ShadowScythe

Probably will be. Like I said, not a lot of competition this year, plus the fact that journalists eat up stuff like this.

Well, we have a page on Dishonored now. Anyone want to help set the thing up?

Are there *any* notable FP Ses coming out in the next six months? I literally can't think of any.

( not that Dishonored is really an FPS, but you know the surface comparisons will be inevitable )

Would Borderlands 2 count?

edited 7th Jun '12 12:51:42 PM by BleiddWhitefalcon

I never played this sort of game before (I played Thief once but I was really young and don't remember anything) but I will give this a try. It sounds really tempting and creative.

Bioshock Infinite. (Oh wait, that was delayed. Nvm).

edited 7th Jun '12 2:16:28 PM by Psyclone

Here, have a crappy interview.

Also, is there anything for this to compete with so far?

There's Mass Effect 3, obviously, but with the whole ending controversy thing, it's probably out of the running, as unfair as that seems to me at least. But is there anything else?

edited 7th Jun '12 2:19:49 PM by Mukora

Isn't Halo 4 coming out in November?

It's the kind of popular juggernaut I could see snatching the attention even without approaching Dishonored in quality.

edited 7th Jun '12 2:25:30 PM by BornIn1142

If it is, yeah, that could do it.

Why do the really great games never win GOTY?