Dishonored

Sheister. I still haven't beaten any of these. My saves got corrupted x years ago and I rage-quit, deleted everything, but didn't realize they just needed a software update.

I was playing Dishonored 2 and was up to "A Crack in the Slab." Now I'm back doing Addermire Institute for like the 6th time, having done playthroughs as Emily, Corvo, high, low, kill, no kill.

Still kind of amazed at how much freedom the game gives you - in a way I don't like it, because I'm trying to play "realistically" and not have Emily be a mass-murderer. At the same time my only reward for not doing that is a check mark that says "you killed someone" and "you killed no one."

Chaos system aside, mass-murderer Emily does start making hilariously evil comments on things in levels. 'There should be a seventh Stricture: obey your Empress, or be burned alive.'

Emily, it's only been a day! Makes you concerned about what she was like on the throne. They kind of go over-the-top with it; it's a little silly, really. And it does more forcefully impose a personality on your actions; I thought Daud's voicing in the DLC was a bit better about that.

Hey, since this thread got bumped, yesterday I got bored and tried to see if I could get all the coins in the first game's first level without knocking anyone out. That was kind of tougher than I thought it'd be, in the end! But mission success, happy to say.

I'm going through Dishonored 2 and instead of my Pacifist run with Corvo in the previous game, I'm going to be a little bit more liberal with lives. Mostly with actual assassination targets.

Well, except for the doctor.

I think (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong) that the looser rating system allows you to be a lot more liberal with stabbings in 2, which is good. I distinctly remember killing almost every enemy in the last level on purpose, and I don't know if that was because the level has a high Order-Chaos cap, because I'd been pretty pacifist before that, or because of who the enemies are specifically.

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Edited by jormis29 on Feb 13th 2020 at 5:32:37 AM

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Edited by Soble on Feb 13th 2020 at 6:06:22 AM

I'm back to Dishonored 2 once again. I hope I beat this game before my passion runs out.

How was Death of the Outsider? I'm going to finish 2, go back through on a no-kill run, no powers, and then go back to Dishonored 1, Brigamore Witches, and finish with DOTO.

Death of the Outsider was good. Though you should know going in that you aren't penalized for kills, just choices. There's one mission that is a huge pain if you're going for an (unnecessary) no-kill run.

It's only a pain because the solution to things is either make a trickshot with only one try (barring reloading) or do something counter-intuitive for stealth.

I am having a hell of a time getting through Stilton's mansion. Getting to his study is just like...

...this is the first part of the game where I'm genuinely having trouble. Usually it's become I waste time trying to be a ninja. But this is hard. My reflexes with this timepiece are just shot.

I bought Dishonored: Definitive Edition recently because quarantine is rapidly shrinking my backlog, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm not usually good at this style of stealth game, and the first real mission took me like four days to complete (Ghost and Clean Hands), but I think it's just open enough that I don't feel hopelessly lost like I do in something like Hitman.

Personally, I'd recommend doing a High Chaos run for your first time through. Take chances, make mistakes, get messy, and go nuts with your powers to kill whatever happens to get in your way.

I saved Ghost, Clean Hands, and Mostly Flesh and Steel (no powers besides the starting Blink) for a second run, and there was a lot less savescumming involved because I was familiar with the levels.

Edited by Eschaton on Apr 30th 2020 at 3:16:23 AM

I like being stealthy in stealth games.

But cool powers, tho.

I got Blink, and Dark Vision, and Stop Time, and Possession, although I haven’t had a chance to use that one yet (just unlocked it). I’m good for now.

I’m also only doing one play through right now. I typically don’t play the same game twice in a row back to back, even if it’s short.

I FINISHED DISHONORED 2. YEAH, BITCH. MAGNETS, OH.

I'm on DOTO and I don't care for Displace. Billie and the overall aesthetic are better, but I miss the old powers. Yet, if not for them it'd feel like a copy and pasted Dishonored 2.

I second doing a High Chaos run I'm doing one now as Emily and it is AWESOME.

Maybe don't kill everyone you meet but doing perfect stealth will make the game drsg quite a bit. Corvo and Emily are not Snake, they borrow more from Fisher and Ezio. Use your powers, get caught and fight your way out.

The only time stealth seems narratively valid is in Dishonored 2 if you choose to not have any powers.

da fuk is this fanfic.

• An excuse to have two characters fight each other to the death and a brief distraction from these ho-hum times.
• I was reading this magazine article that made brief write-ups of Western characters fighting Eastern characters, and decided to recreate that with old video game characters fighting newer ones.

I had 2 problems - Emily would kill Zelda with Doppelganger, and that would end the fight too early.

Then I thought - Emily has to use Doppelganger within a certain range, and B) nobody would be comfortable with just killing themselves right off the bat. Also, Zelda has "light magic/spirits" on her side that might repel the Outsider's magic.

Then I remembered she has a bow and long-range options, and a better teleport, so she'd probably get the drop on Emily even faster.

It wasn't supposed to be a totally reached 100% accurate fight though. More like, "huh, two royal figures with supernatural powers and assassin personas... wonder who'd win that."

Edited by Soble on May 25th 2020 at 7:05:56 AM

I loved it.

:)