Dishonored: Reviews are in, it's good! Completion hours equivalent to penis length.

TychoCelchuuu

This was sitting in my Green Man Gaming cart for 15 minutes at $43.99 between their coupon and the tiny amount of trade in money left in my account. After 15 minutes GMG takes the game out of your cart, but I have a feeling I'm just going to end up buying it at some point today.

Astale

SoundsPlush wrote: »

I can't wait to see what "surplus of NPCs" means. I'm guessing 10-15.

Given that a lot of reviewers have attention deficit disorder it could be anything north of five, maybe six.

Here's hoping they have a journal that tracks all those people because hell if I can be bothered to remember so many peoHEY LOOK SHINY

Morninglord

I'm bummed.

My trailer choices got me killed.

Suriko

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Computer and Video Games accidentally posted their review early then yanked it, but someone grabbed this before it was gone (score is out of 10):

Why are there red arrows next to those positive points?

Morninglord

Okay my girlfriend just went through the trailer and beat the level without killing anyone but the target or causing an alert.

I feel outmatched here guys.

SoundsPlush

I didn't even know you could die in the trailer, but I only tried it twice.

101

I'd like to see some context from the whole review. It's entirely possible that the game spreads itself too thin in the character department, and that's what the reviewer was getting at.

Though 'surplus of NPCs' is an odd phrase. I've assumed they meant characters otherwise idk

e: on the trailer, i spent some time going through the different options, and i encountered some deaths

Two, in fact:
After climbing up to the window, if you immediately enter the guards get you.

Opening all the cages in the kennels is (unsurprisingly) a bad idea

mere_immortal

Is this UE3?

Trying to gauge how well it might run.

101

Yeah its UE3

Aumni

Has there been any word on the game's length? This definitely looks interesting.

Morninglord

SoundsPlush wrote: »

I didn't even know you could die in the trailer, but I only tried it twice.

If you go through an entrance too quickly instead of waiting you get spotted and die after a big fight.

She waited there.

I didn't tell her what to do.

Then she went in and everything was gravy.

Instincts of the assassin.

TychoCelchuuu

Aumni wrote: »

Aumni wrote: »

Has there been any word on the game's length? This definitely looks interesting.

12 to 14 hours if you don't stop to smell the roses, 20+ if you're the kind of person who sneaks around instead of stabbing everyone in the face.

darunia106

Morninglord wrote: »

SoundsPlush wrote: »

I didn't even know you could die in the trailer, but I only tried it twice.

If you go through an entrance too quickly instead of waiting you get spotted and die after a big fight.

She waited there.

I didn't tell her what to do.

Then she went in and everything was gravy.

Instincts of the assassin.

In the dog kennel there's an option to open the cages so of course I chose that one.

Unfortunately the vicious attack dogs seemed to prefer the guy that feeds them over the weird creep they're trained to maul and kill.

Lesson learned.

cooljammer00

That was a silly trailer. What sort of person releases the hounds and then doesn't get to a safe spot to watch?!

edit: Also, a 16 digit code pops up in the video. I presume it's a digital code for the game, but apparently the commenters have already redeemed it.

SoundsPlush

Why would anyone think that unleashed dogs would suddenly attack their handlers, especially when it already shows you a person talking to an obedient and free hound?

Also the codes were apparently for PSN avatar/skin trinket things.

cooljammer00

Yeah, it felt odd when I saw the guard not abusing his animals, a la Chief Wiggum.

TychoCelchuuu

A TV producer for Jimmy Fallon doesn't quite understand embargoes and says that Dishonored is freaking amazing so far and that you want to buy Dishonored.

cooljammer00

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

A TV producer for Jimmy Fallon doesn't quite understand embargoes and says that Dishonored is freaking amazing so far and that you want to buy Dishonored.

I guess it depends on how big a deal Fallon is, but I doubt they won't be getting copies of whatever Arkane/2K does next.

edit: Remember when WSJ broke that Activision/COD embargo?

Dragkonias

Nice to hear the game is getting positives so far. I might pick it up afterall.

programjunkie

I've still never really understood embargos for good games. 9.5s translate to, "You foolish, imperfect being, why haven't you preordered yet?"

cooljammer00

It's the same reason why these companies have PR people and carefully thought out information release plans that they refuse to deviate from in the slightest, like Sony pretending all those All Star characters weren't leaked months ago.

august

CVG review reupload may get pulled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUfe67noLcY

Maddoc

Pretty sure they'll let that little breach slide.

Jungleskye

Hmm very interested in this. Especially if that review is true.

TychoCelchuuu

Shacknews review got uploaded and then pulled, but they absolutely loved it too.

cooljammer00

This would be the time, right? 9 PST being confused for 9 EST?

ultimakay

cooljammer00 wrote: »

This would be the time, right? 9 PST being confused for 9 EST?

Its 9pm PST so still a few hours before the embargo lifts.

TychoCelchuuu

Well I just went ahead and preordered this from GMG for a little less than $45. Now to wait the interminable wait of the Dishonored-less.

Redlance

cooljammer00 wrote: »

This would be the time, right? 9 PST being confused for 9 EST?

Giantbomb has their quicklook going up at 9:01PST so I would say 12:01AM EST for the embargo.

M-Vickers

OK, so this may now get promoted to Day One purchase, on the 360.

A Thief-style sneak em up with great combat that rewards exploration ? It's about bloody time.

Now I just need find time to play this AND Xcom. I think I can feel some sick days coming on.

Cough.

BionicPenguin

The reviews begin pouring out.

SoundsPlush

IGN: 9.2, "Amazing." Plus:Gorgeous art style, Gameplay freedom, Sweet powers Minus:Story pay-off

And here's links to some other reviews. 4/5 Giant Bomb, 8/10 Eurogamer, 4.5/5 Joystiq, 9/10 Polygon, 9.5/10 CVG.

Looking pretty solid.

Dragkonias

I may still have to wait a bit on this one. Just bought RE6 and Borderlands 2 and I plan on getting AC3 at the end of the month.

That being said it does sound like a fun game to just tool around it. Though one thing I'm wondering about its the storyline, the review says that it has a nice world to it can it didn't say much about the plot.

Edit: And just then someone posts a review that comments on the story.

Jungleskye

The reviews on all the sites are very good.

SoundsPlush

Quick Look is up.

THESPOOKY

ugh can it be this time tomorrow already

TychoCelchuuu

Quotes from Rock Paper Shotgun:

Dishonored is a work of rare imagination and skill, the sort of thing that can’t simply be copied and repeated.

That’s why Dishonored is important right now. It feels like a game from another timeline, one where Thief and System Shock set the bar for what first-person games could be, leading to designs that were built around intelligent use of space and world-building

Suddenly I'm 100 times even more hyped about this game. It can't come out soon enough.

Alucard6986

huh, didn't know shit about this game until 5 minutes ago, but it looks pretty compelling

Sagroth

Have had this preordered for a while.

I may be back logged, but I want this to succeed, so day one for me.

Heck, even my wife wants to give this one a whirl.

Dranyth

I've definitely been interested in this game for a while and was kind of curious about the new X-Com too, though I never played the old ones. What with the stuff with Thief happening lately I've been thinking of the style of game again anyway so... bought. And I'm even more anxious after the info from the lifted embargo. So excited...

Also, I just noticed on twitch that this guy is streaming Dishonored right now... no idea who he is or how he got an early copy but...

I may watch a little bit anyway, but I don't want to spoil too much. Steam says 23 hours till it launches.

Edit: Or, I would watch, but I'm preloading the game now and the stream is lagging like crazy for me because of it.