Dishonored 2

How is it possible that after Dark Messiah Arkane actually went BACKWARDS in terms of gameplay?

you really think the quality people stayed? they were chased out by unreasonable bullshit and replaced with college drop outs, shit's just in name only like every other place

i had no question that dishonored would go backwards in terms of gameplay after i played it for the first time.

it was too good for a modern AAA title.

Even the first Dishonored sucked. The combat was shit-tier just like in Dishonored 2 (worse), and there were maybe 4 powers that weren't shit - Blink, Possession, Stop Time and Whirlwind. Devouring Swarm is what developers come up with when they run out of imagination.

The story sucked, the art style was an eye-sore, the characters were mostly one-dimensional caricatures, except for maybe the Outsider, and they wrecked him in Dishonored 2 anyway.

It's a fucking shame what happened. Arkane used to be the guys that were on the cutting edge with stuff like The Crossing, now they are lazy hacks like everyone else.

I gave up playing the first one half way through not because it was difficult, I was just bored to tears. I never understood why people liked it so much, but perhaps I'm just hard to please, what's this second one like?
I looked at the price of it, and it's already at Battleborn prive levels even though it only came out last December. So did it fail? What happened to it?

Bethesda

the powers were the only fun thing about the first dishonored, why would you opt out?

Came out, was an unplayable piece of shit with Denuvo cancer. Arkane brought out a few patches, but if my experience is anything to go by, it's basically at the same level as Batman: Arkham Knight - it's way harder on your hardware than it should be, particularly since the visuals are nothing particularly special. At least Arkham Knight looked visually stunning. Gameplay is, in reality, more or less the same as the first one. Aside from non-lethal drop assassinations, kicks and chokes, it's really more of the same shit.

Really, the only reason I'm playing it is because it was a birthday gift from my girlfriend. Why she thought I'd like it is a mystery.

I already played it once with powers as Emily, and decided to go no-powers the second time as Corvo just to see if it would still be fun. Turns out, the powers are basically a crutch for Dishonored.

Bethesda.

Everyone left after the first Dishonored.

The only fun way to play dishonored is no-powers no-violence. If you complain about the shitty combat you're doing it wrong.