Dishonored, main quest finished

So I finished the main quest recently, but I still have the DLCs to play. There is a lot to like in the game, and some things to dislike and the dislikes are more my personal opinion than objective faults.

The main attraction for me is sneaking around and either taking out your opponents one by one or just sneaking past them not even letting them know you were there. This is a choice; you can kill all your opponents if that’s your thing, but this is far less interesting and frankly it also makes the game too easy. That said, I still killed enough to have the dubious honor of getting the high chaos ending, which I half-heartedly tried to avoid. I was too impatient.

I don’t enjoy the game as much as Deus Ex: Human Revolutions, the game I can think of that Dishonored resembles the most, but they’re different enough to not really compete with each other directly anyway, the very different settings and stories. They end up feeling very different, but in terms of gameplay (sneaking, dealing with enemies, upgrading abilities and weapons, and so on) they’re similar, and if this is your thing you should absolutely play both.

I wasn’t entirely sold on the dark and grimy steampunk-ish setting of Dishonored. It’s right from the start striking and compelling in a twisted sort of way, but for me it gets old and depressing after a while, whereas the environment in Deus Ex remains attractive not only throughout the game but long after (to this day even, I’d like to visit that world again, but if I ever visit Dishonored again it’ll be for the gameplay and not the setting). I think I might have enjoyed it more if it was actual steampunk, although that would have made it less original I suppose.

The story is simple but good. It’s competently told, solid and fairly straightforward, which I much prefer to the convoluted unbelievable mess of so many other games. 

Don’t take my earlier posts on the game ai to mean it’s bad; it’s good as far as I can tell (the cheating I mentioned is rare).

Could write a lot more, about the character building aspect (decent but not impressive) or music (pretty good) or graphics (okay) and so on, but this is enough. 

Currently playing Bioshock Infinite, some hours into the game now. Expect a report.