The Old XBOX Megathread

[Maxx]

15 hour game, not worth $60, no matter how good the reviews are.

[Dan]

Rent it then

[apsham]

15 hours... says the Kotaku review where the guy stated that he rushed through the game?

Meh. I'll believe it when I see it. Besides, even if I do get through the game in 15 hours the whole point of it is replayability.

[Maxx]

It's got 9 missions. It sounds like it's going to be a Spider-Man 2 style sandbox game, where you have a whole world to explore, but not much to do besides the missions.

[EWB's Best Poster.]

I hear you can go the whole game not killing. I'd like to try that, sounds a way to triple the hours.

[Ruki]

I wanna try that!

[apsham]

Yeah - I watched a review. In an example, there's a mission where you have to kill these nobles who run a slave mine. You can do a workaround for a mob boss that sees them with shaved heads, brainwashed and forced to work in their own mine.

[Maxx]

I'm not saying it won't be cool, and I'm not saying it won't be fun. I'm saying that for me, it doesn't have enough in it to merit buying it at the full $60. Seems like it's going to be a lot like Bioshock, in the sense that it's a great game, but there's not much besides the main story, and you regret paying $60 after beating it in 10 days.

[Cactus Drags]

I took about two months to finish Bioshock, it was worth every penny to me. I imagine it'll be same with Dishonored, do a mission or two, play one of the other 8 million games I have to play this season, pick it back up in a day or two, rinse, repeat.

Either that or I'll get distracted learning to play Tarot games with the free pre-order deck.

[apsham]

That tarot deck is pretty awesome and the game so far.. kicks total ass.

[apsham]

Holy shit, Ruki have you been using the heart on people? Talk about story overload. I am more drawn into this game than any in a very, very long time.

[Your Mom]

Got Dishonored today too. Plan on trying it pretty soon

[apsham]

I'm still on the first mission - I've spent over an hour now just wandering around the first area and searching about.

I'm taking a chaotic good approach to the game - anyone who shows the want to actively murder someone else, I'll take out. The exception being the guards who I spare due to their likely family man nature. I have spotted an instance of the guards being bastards to civilians though, and have broken that.

[Ruki]

I'm still on the first mission - I've spent over an hour now just wandering around the first area and searching about.

I'm taking a chaotic good approach to the game - anyone who shows the want to actively murder someone else, I'll take out. The exception being the guards who I spare due to their likely family man nature. I have spotted an instance of the guards being bastards to civilians though, and have broken that.

I am trying to be as good as possible..I don't wanna murder!

...did the first mission, 28 kills >_<

[Monkey D. Lars]

I'm still on the first mission - I've spent over an hour now just wandering around the first area and searching about.

I'm taking a chaotic good approach to the game - anyone who shows the want to actively murder someone else, I'll take out. The exception being the guards who I spare due to their likely family man nature. I have spotted an instance of the guards being bastards to civilians though, and have broken that.

I am trying to be as good as possible..I don't wanna murder!

...did the first mission, 28 kills >_<

>_<

[apsham]

I took out the thugs who were trying to extort the old man, and I took out Granny Rags because.. well.. she's crazy and wanted me to mass murder an entire street. When she died she exploded into rats though.. which was.. odd.

[Ruki]

I took out the thugs who were trying to extort the old man, and I took out Granny Rags because.. well.. she's crazy and wanted me to mass murder an entire street. When she died she exploded into rats though.. which was.. odd.

I saved the old man, too. But no idea where he lives, I wanna buy stuff from him! And I did what Granny wanted because

The gang are bad people! And she was gonna give me a ruin

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Also, how do you craft in the game? I got a prompt for the tutorial, but didn't hit the back button...and I can't seem to find it.

[apsham]

The old man doesn't really live anywhere - if you go out the door where you saved him and turn.. right I believe, keep an eye to the left. There's a set of steps and he stands at the top. He sells some blueprints, but nothing too amazingly spectacular. Jacks up the prices huge too but if you need something in the middle of a mission.. I guess you need something in the middle of the mission. He's basically between where you saved him and where the entrance to the gang place is.

[apsham]

Still on the first mission. Broke my killing rule again with the Overseers.. bunch of loonies.

Also, I have to keep reminding myself this ISN'T a Thief game.

[Cactus Drags]

I forgot I am bad at stealth games. Loving it so far. I expect it's even more fun once you get your abilities.

Spent way too long in the first area because I took ages to work out that unbreakable door does not mean unopenable door.