History Trivia / Dishonored

* CareerResurrection: After Harvey Smith's reputation took a hit following the lackluster ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar''. He attempted to do it when he moved to Midway Games Austin but ''[[VideoGame/Area51 Blacksite: Area 51]]'''s TroubledProduction and ObviousBeta release only hit his career further. After migrating to Arkane Austin in 2008, he was able to make his dream game ''Dishonored'' and it performed well enough to rebuild his reputation.

* TheWikiRule: Gamepedia [[https://dishonored.gamepedia.com/Dishonored_Wiki Wiki]] and Wikia [[https://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Dishonored_Wiki Wiki]].

* OldShame: Harvey Smith and others are proud of the game on the whole but they did express regret about some of the choices made for representation, and especially the sleazy and gratuitous MaleGaze of Callista, the "non-lethal" fate of Lady Boyle, and the portrayal of women in general. [[https://youtu.be/1Q_FtVHK1W0?t=292 He specifically]] took it to heart for ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' which had a more fluid portrayal of gender and a playable female protagonist:

* AluminumChristmasTrees: A fantasy world where the entire economy runs on whale oil? It's not so farfetched: Up until the early years of the industrial revolution, whale oil was a highly valued commodity for its applications in lighting and lubrication. In some places, perhaps most notably Nantucket, whaling for oil was what drove the local economy. In the end, the whale oil industry declined both due to dwindling whale populations and the invention and development of mineral oils, meaning whale oil was essentially the predecessor to the fossil fuels which ran the global economy for the next two hundred-ish years.

* OldShame: Harvey Smith and others are proud of the game on the whole but they did express regret about some of the choices made for representation, and especially the sleazy and gratuitous MaleGaze of Callista, the "non-lethal" fate of Lady Boyle, and the portrayal of women in general. He specifically took it to heart for ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' which had a more fluid portrayal of gender and a playable female protagonist:
--> '''Harvey Smith''': "At first you take some criticism and you go, ‘Wait a minute,’ and then you go look and it’s like, ‘Wow, every woman in Dishonored is either a servant, a prostitute, a witch, a queen, a little girl, or a mistress. We had a mistress. That was not our intention..."

* OldShame: Harvey Smith and others are proud of the game on the whole but they did express regret about some of the choices made for representation, and especially the sleazy and gratuitous MaleGaze of Callista, the "non-lethal" fate of Lady Boyle, and the portrayal of women in general. He specifically took it to heart for ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' which had more fluid portrayal of gender and a playable female protagonist:

* AllStarCast: The franchise has a who's who of big-name actors in film and television, Let's see, we have Creator/AprilStewart, Creator/JohnSlattery, Creator/BradDourif, Ryan Cutrona, Creator/LenaHeadey, Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz, Susan Sarandon, Creator/MichaelMadsen, Creator/CarrieFisher, Creator/VincentDOnofrio, Creator/RosarioDawson, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/SamRockwell and Creator/RogerLJackson in big and small roles throughout the series.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.gamespot.com/events/gdc-2013/story.html?sid=6406136 The game was originally meant]] to take place in the [[RealLife real world]] in feudal Japan. The developers then realized they didn't know enough about feudal Japan, so they then [[WriteWhatYouKnow changed location]] to the great London fire of 1666, but then they decided that there had been too many changes to the setting to be realistic and set the game in an ConstructedWorld. Another significant change was removing the ability to throw random objects around at will because according to Arkane, this meant that players could throw an object, freeze time, and then hop on the thrown object in midair, which would have [[GameBreaker broken the game.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/CarrieFisher and Creator/GreggBerger are the Broadcasters.
** Creator/LenaHeadey is Calista.
** Creator/MichaelMadsen is Daud.
** Creator/ChloeMoretz is Lady Emily Kaldwin.
** Creator/AprilStewart is Empress Jessamine Kaldwin.
** Brad Dourif ([[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]], [[VideoGame/MystIIIExile Saavedro]], [[Film/LordOfTheRings Grí­ma Wormtongue]]) is Piero.
** Creator/SusanSarandon is Granny Rags.
** Anna Graves ([[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Duchess Satine]]) is Lady Boyle.
** [[MadMen John Slattery]] is Admiral Havelock.
** Roger Jackson ([[Franchise/{{Scream}} Ghostface]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Mojo Jojo]], [[AmericanMcGeesAlice the Cheshire Cat]]) is Anton Sokolov.
** Kristoffer Tabori ([[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic HK-47]]) is Hiram Burrows.
** Al Rodrigo ([[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Quinlan Vos]]) is Slackjaw.
** Billy Lush ([[Series/TheChicagoCode Liam Hennessey]]) is The Outsider. Who [[GenerationKill just wants to shoot some dogs.]]
** Creator/ChristopherCoreySmith is Guard Captain Curnow.
** Nick Jameson ([[WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars Palpatine]]) is the Royal Torturer.
** Derek Phillips ([[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Mark Jefferson]]) is Lord Pendleton.

** Anna Graves ([[StarWarsTheCloneWars Duchess Satine]]) is Lady Boyle.

** Al Rodrigo ([[StarWarsTheCloneWars Quinlan Vos]]) is Slackjaw.

** Nick Jameson ([[StarWarsCloneWars Palpatine]]) is the Royal Torturer.