Dishonored - computer game

http://youtu.be/E1HlYTukh9A

I thought it looked lovely. More info @ E3 parentlee.

steampunk/magic HL2 ?

City in lockdown, tall walking things to avoid/take-out.

wow

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Bethesda must start off every brainstorming session with ""theres a guy in jail..."

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bethesda do like their prisoners don't they

hah

New Assassin Creed looks good.

But seriously this is a blatant rip off.

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The game is being developed by a talented team that includes lead designer Harvey Smith, known for his past work on the Deus Ex franchise as well as Thief: Deadly Shadows, Arkane founder and co-creative director Raf Colantonio, who worked on Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, while Viktor Antonov, the man who designed Half-Life 2's iconic City 17, is lending his talents with Sebastien Mitton, Art director, to Dishonored's world.[5] The game blends inspirations from a pantheon of modern classics: The oppressive atmosphere and paranoid politicking of BioShock, the graceful bloodletting of Assassin's Creed, the murky morality of Deus Ex, the stealth and shadow of Thief.

 

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Lead designers Harvey Smith and Raf Colantonio have described the game world as a "simulation"; if the player encounters thugs harassing an innocent passerby, they can be fought off, but the thugs themselves exist within the game world prior to the event, rather than simply spawning in at a designated time or place. If the player encounters the thugs ahead of time, they can be defeated and the mugging will never take place at all.

I wonder if you kill all the rats you see whether eventually there will be less rats in the game. Although they breed faster than humans. But how about say taking out all the crows. I doubt though that atmospheric elements like the birdlife and rodents inhabiting the levels will have any sort of in game thread beyond the immediate encounter.

Getting some of Thief's stealth and Dark Messiah's melee combat into a cool environment would be cool. Looking at that CG trailer and the first screenshots it seems to have high production values. Seems to be a source engine game? So it's probably quite linear. Edit: Unreal Engine 3 and "open world" apparently. Seems ambitious for this studio.

And yeah there's certainly a bit of Half-Life 2 in the art direction.

I wonder if Valve are now going to go back and re-write HL3 yet again, this time to make it open world. Push back the release date another 5 years. heh.

imma gonna need to buy a new graphics card (or play it on my bros pC. And def. on the 60 inch in the living room.

This looks awesome. I love third person most of the time but parkour stuff in first person is cool beans.

Brand new gameplay trailer:

[media=]http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-dishonored/730754[/media]

The textures, fire, blood, water, amount of polygons, post processing, lighting etc. etc. look really console-ish. I thought this was going to be a cutting edge PC game. Gameplay and story looks promising though.

im just gonna vent a random opinion here and say that the asylum level in thief three scared the shit out of me playing it in the dark

yes, yes it did. For a brief moment in time, Jordan Thomas was the rising star of level design. After Ion Storm imploded he went over to 2k to work on Bioshock. Talented fellow.

Why do games never look like the trailer dammnn EF EF EF EF* EF*

Yeah, those graphics are kind of lackluster. Modern Warfare 2 looks better. Still looks like an interesting game, though. Bethesda makes good games.

dang, people are spoiled. Although those trailers were edited poorly. Less is more, etc. Should have been about 1/4 the length. Arkane are more or less an indie studio, even if they have Bethesda bucks behind them, should cut them some slack in the visuals dept...

It will definitely look better on PC, the trailer looks to be 360/PS3 footage. Higher resolution, AA etc.

  On 6/1/2012 at 10:21 AM, Kanakori said:

Why do games never look like the trailer dammnn EF EF EF EF* EF*

Yeah the difference in quality between to the two trailers is pretty considerable - It's like they're from two different generations of console ... I mean good graphics do not a good game make, but it is quite surprising how worse the second video looks compared to the first one.

  On 6/1/2012 at 9:15 AM, Gravity said:

Brand new gameplay trailer:

 

[media=]http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-dishonored/730754[/media]

This trailer seems to have been made with console graphics levels. Also, had to play with sound down. heh.

or this ..

  On 6/1/2012 at 10:36 AM, Gravity said:

It will definitely look better on PC, the trailer looks to be 360/PS3 footage. Higher resolution, AA etc.

They don't want to disappoint a chunk of their sales which is to console ppl. So many trailers get low rez graphics because of the fucking stone age console market.

  On 6/1/2012 at 2:17 AM, delet... said:

http://youtu.be/E1HlYTukh9A

 

I thought it looked lovely. More info @ E3 parentlee.

Apparently this isn't what the game will look like even on the PC which nowadays could support an engine that looked like that. Look to the ugly second video for a real view of what the game looks like.

FUCK i hate what those two consoles have done to game development. pissa me orf.

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but the art director on HL2 is the art director on this game as well.

It doesn't matter if it's gonna look like a crappy blocky xbox game.