Yeah it was a very welcome addition. I used it countless of times. I found it was very forgiving because it didn't mean you were forced to have to kill them or run away and hide. Always nice to have more options like this one where you can give em a little love tap and start choking them to sleep.
Recently played Dishonored 1-2 and enjoyed them. (Went on an Arkane kick and played Prey as well, which has a lot of design similarities, waiting for Deathloop to go on sale.) What an enormous amount of creative inspiration went into the Dishonored games! Comparing the two, I feel like the first had more of a dark, mysterious atmosphere. As you mentioned in the video, the specifics of relationships are only hinted at, as is the identity of the heart, the Outsider’s comments are strange and vaguely threatening, and the whole thing feels kind of veiled and odd and artistic, like a dark impressionist painting. Part 2 just sweeps this veiled aside, like wind clearing fog, and bluntly tells you everything right at the outset. It’s like the dev team was running low on inspiration this time, but improving their development skills, so they just made technical improvements. Still a great game, but lacking some of what made the first so intriguing.
Playing it for the first time, too, right now. A really gorgeous game with so much detail in it. And good news: The recent Microsoft leak documents also confirmed the development of Dishonored 3. :D
Glad you are enjoying it. I also was super excited when I saw the leaked stuff from Microsoft confirming there was a third dishonored game in the works. Can't wait to see where they plan on taking the franchise.
Hey mate, sorry I forgot Death of The Outsider existed. I also wasn't sure if that was a spin off or technically the third mainline entry of the Dishonored series. The recent leaks from Microsoft just said they were working on a new Dishonored game. Exciting times ahead.
Corvo was beautifully voice acted by Stephen Russell, the VA for the first 3 Thief games, Nick Valentine from FO4, many many characters in Skyrim ect. ect. Talented man 😊
The first game pretty much confirmed corvo was Emily's dad, even if it wasnt directly said. It was simply mentioned so many times, and The empress never had a relationship with anyone. Delilah was also introduced in the first game of the DLC, and we knew relatively what they wanted.
I would be so down for that too. If they did like a Dishonored and Dishonored 2 remaster editions and I'd love it if Fallout 4 gets the same treatment. Granted on PC you can always mod it or play these games at those higher framerates but it would be awesome to see the textures get an overhaul in all those games.
Brooooo I literally searched for dishonored on youtube and found this video because I have fantasized about the franchise since 2017. I have played Dishonored 2 the most but honestly, I think the Death of the Outsider DLC is criminally underrated and overshadowed! The map level design in that DLC is super good in my opinion. Will you be making any more videos on Dishonored? I'd love every type of dishonored content lol
Hey mate, thank you so much for your wonderful comment. I know what you mean about having this franchise ingrained in your mind. I remember playing Dishonored when it first came out all those years ago and it definitely left a lasting impression. It's kind of wild this Dishonored 2 video is doing so well long after it went up. As I did the Dishonored in 2023 and then Dishonored 2 in 2023 videos and they both flopped when they were first uploaded. I think the leaked news of there being a new Dishonored game in the work has started pushing this video more to folks or as you said people are searching for more Dishonored content as a result of the news. I would definitely be keen to cover more Dishonored related things in the future. Especially if there is a new game for the franchise in the works.
i was able to tweak my PC and my old ass GTX 970 card to run this game at 85fps in most areas of the game, however when the game loads up lots of city assets from a distance is where it struggles the most, there are some control panel adjustments you can tweak to make the game run better, but i also had to drop the textures and other things in my graphics settings to achieve that speed.
Yeah I was a little confused about Emily and Corvo's relationship too, but in it's pretty much confirmed in the first game in a high chaos playthrough on the last level when Trevor Pendleton taunts you by saying "We all know you were screwing the empress, so you like noble women, huh?" It does seem kind of weird they would be way more clear about it from the get-go in dishonored 2 tho
Yeah I think for all the times I played Dishonored I never did a high chaos playthrough so I missed that line. That is why when I played Dishonored 2 and they confirmed Corvo having a relationship with Jessamine and that he was indeed Emily's father. My mind was indeed blown.
i thought the same exact thing with her relationship to him, in the first game i thought he was just a solder protector and there was the queen and he was fond of her, but i never had the idea that he was her husband and the little girl was his.
Yeah that was something that really threw me. Like I kind of thought maybe something was happening in the original dishonored but glad to see it confirmed in the second game. Now I can't wait to see what they do in the third game that was just leaked. Exciting times ahead.
you can have low chaos ending even if you want to play combat. I have fun with non lethal combat a lots. you can use both pistol and crossbow for nonlethal take down.
Wait what?????? How did I miss this. Aside from using sleeping darts I couldn't find a way to use the pistol or sword without killing folks and ruining my low chaos run. Please tell me how you can do this as I'd love to replay it using all the tools I can. I would get into fights and knock them out during combat after parrying the enemy but I didn't know there was a way to use the pistol in a non lethal capacity.
One thing that stuck like a thorn in my side was the opening. It made it hard to like the game for some time. The scenery is beautiful, level designs are phenomenal. New powers, two protagonists, new enemies made it enjoyable. But that opening really hurt. Hi everyone. I'm the new queen. As queen I demand the old royal family, my relatives be executed immediately. Don't mind my magic, I know it's usually kill magic users on sight but I'm the queen so it's cool. Like oh are they gonna make it to where the protagonist has to find allies like in the first game, doesn't the kingdom like the actually queen are they really just gonna let some witch run everything no questions asked? Easy fix, make me think people are under some kind of spell and that's why they betray you. Make me think the kingdom doesn't like the current administration. Literally that's it. As is it feels half assed. Like I killed Delilah, but according to the story I spared her and some witches brought her back and now she's up to the same old sheet. If I kill her in this game will the next game say I went non lethal and she comes back again because some witches released her?
Thank you for your comment. It has now unfortunately lifted the veil from my eyes and your points about the start of the game's story has now made me rethink the entire thing. I will admit I took it all for face value but the points you have highlighted makes me realise how nonsensical the whole idea of Delilah overthrowing Corvo and Emily actually was.
@@FailedQuest getting past the lazy writing, or possible need to make a new story the game does have it's shining moments. Karnaca is a beautiful well designed level. Hypatias hospital/ laboratory was a conglomerate mess. Then immediately after jindoshs mansion is one of my favorite levels. Right up there with the Boyle manor. Everyone's favorite is the time traveling mansion for good reason, it's well designed interesting in mechanic and overall enjoyable, only to be stabbed by the silly story where Delilah knows your observing her even from the past. Just because I didn't enjoy dishonoured 2 as much as the original and it's dlc I wouldn't want to take away from slivers of joy it gave me from time to time and I guess I forgot to add the things dis2 got right. I appreciate you replying to my comment, it's a bit long winded but well thought out and a decade in the making 😂 I had forgot what I disliked about it until I recently replayed it on the PS5.
I dont know if anyone mentioned it, but your aspect ratio is off. Everything looks horizontally smooshed. Idk 16:9 is the default and 4:3 looks ok, but as it stands it looks weird. Edit: actually I realized everything is vertically stretched.
Hey mate, you have a very keen eye. I was playing some of the dishonored 2 on a mix of my ultrawide monitor and some of it on my 4k 160hz monitor. Seems a lot of the footage used was from the ultrawide recordings where it is squished from ultrawide 21:9 to 16:9 so probably why it looks funny. You are very good for picking it up as no one else has yet. I could definitely see it myself but wasn't sure if it's just because I knew it was recorded from footage on an ultrawide or if it was indeed squashed. I did also try to do the Baldur's gate video actually in 21:9 ultrawide format and no one seemed to mind but I think going forward I'll retire the ultrawide and stick with my other two monitors which are 1440p 144hz and 4k 160hz both being 16:9 it just is what is more universally accepted and what folks like. Thank you for watching the dishonored 2 video and hopefully it didn't distract you too much the squished video. 👍
yeah I think you really do have potential but if you want to get more famous and earn more money with your talent you will need to discuss topics that are popular at this time(games/movies/drama)@@FailedQuest
No unfortunately I have never played the OG Dishonored's DLC. It has since come to my attention after putting this video out that witches were in DLC for the original game. I sadly have only ever played the base game.
@@FailedQuest You should give it a try, there are many ideas introduced there that made it to Dishonored 2, plus Daud is an interesting character (and fully voiced)
Maybe its improved and you never experienced it because you got to it late, but I bought the game at launch because I was really into the first game, and couldn't even get 30 frames with it crashing constantly on a GTX 1070ti. The card is outdated now, but you have to realise the 1080 was only just released that year, so it should not have performed so badly. Because of this, I'm a little insulted you summarised the performance issues with "you're never going to get 200fps" but again, maybe it has improved, so I am downloading it again on newer hardware
Yeah I can't speak for how it performed at launch but I did play on my 4090 at 4k with everything maxed out and in the cities with a bunch of the NPCs about it was still struggling to get a consistent framerate. That is why I just capped it as I personally prefer a locked 60 or 120 or whatever over it jumping around from 144 suddenly down to 70 fps or what not. If that makes sense? When it's locked at a framerate it is able to maintain it makes the overall experience feel smoother. That was all I meant with my comments in the video. 👍
@@FailedQuest Ignore my saltiness. I was bitter someone enjoyed something I wasn't able to experience. I have been playing it though and while it does perform better, it really does struggle with the large environments and amount of NPCs like you mentioned. I have it capped at 30 frames myself just to avoid stuttering as much as possible. It's really unfortunate because the environments and new powers are really cool.
@@FailedQuest Yeah, having only 3 Campaign slots for a game with 4 possible ending sequences seems like a massive oversight for a game series I would otherwise consider perfection. And somehow the modding community hasn't made a work around for this yet. I always just go into the installation files and rename the save slots for each character, but it's a pain that shouldn't have to be necessary.
gameplay wise i think its more fun, just bc of new powers, and superior level design(jindosh mansion alone beats all of dishonored 1 in my opinion), but the story was meh compared to the original
I agree. Dishonored 2 definitely was an improvement in a lot of ways but nothing can beat a good ol fashioned revenge plot like the original and that late game twist was brilliant.
No not really. It's addressed super early on in the game and it's also a game that came out 7+ years ago so presumably by now most people would have played it.
Its crazy to me to think corvo never had a voice actor in the first game i played through the untire first game and never realized
I found being able to chokehold someone in the middle of a fight a welcome addition. Mainly due to the reason I suck at stealth and always get caught.
Yeah it was a very welcome addition. I used it countless of times. I found it was very forgiving because it didn't mean you were forced to have to kill them or run away and hide. Always nice to have more options like this one where you can give em a little love tap and start choking them to sleep.
Recently played Dishonored 1-2 and enjoyed them. (Went on an Arkane kick and played Prey as well, which has a lot of design similarities, waiting for Deathloop to go on sale.) What an enormous amount of creative inspiration went into the Dishonored games! Comparing the two, I feel like the first had more of a dark, mysterious atmosphere. As you mentioned in the video, the specifics of relationships are only hinted at, as is the identity of the heart, the Outsider’s comments are strange and vaguely threatening, and the whole thing feels kind of veiled and odd and artistic, like a dark impressionist painting. Part 2 just sweeps this veiled aside, like wind clearing fog, and bluntly tells you everything right at the outset. It’s like the dev team was running low on inspiration this time, but improving their development skills, so they just made technical improvements. Still a great game, but lacking some of what made the first so intriguing.
Playing it for the first time, too, right now. A really gorgeous game with so much detail in it. And good news: The recent Microsoft leak documents also confirmed the development of Dishonored 3. :D
Glad you are enjoying it. I also was super excited when I saw the leaked stuff from Microsoft confirming there was a third dishonored game in the works. Can't wait to see where they plan on taking the franchise.
are you talking about death of the outsider??@@FailedQuest
Hey mate, sorry I forgot Death of The Outsider existed. I also wasn't sure if that was a spin off or technically the third mainline entry of the Dishonored series. The recent leaks from Microsoft just said they were working on a new Dishonored game. Exciting times ahead.
Time to fight more bald black female soldiers and bald ugly witches. How fun
Corvo was beautifully voice acted by Stephen Russell, the VA for the first 3 Thief games, Nick Valentine from FO4, many many characters in Skyrim ect. ect. Talented man 😊
The first game pretty much confirmed corvo was Emily's dad, even if it wasnt directly said. It was simply mentioned so many times, and The empress never had a relationship with anyone. Delilah was also introduced in the first game of the DLC, and we knew relatively what they wanted.
1:08 lmaoooo :D yeah I was surprised too!
finished this part ricently! now playing in Death of The Outsider :3
4:51 actually witches are in dishonored one but they are in dlc the brigmore witches
Oh awesome. I never played the DLC for either dishonored game but I might pick it up now if there are witches in it. Thank you for letting me know. 👍
The dishonored games are some of the best well crafted, and detailed video games made.
I'm hoping Dishonored 2 and Fallout 4 get updates for current gen soon.
I would be so down for that too. If they did like a Dishonored and Dishonored 2 remaster editions and I'd love it if Fallout 4 gets the same treatment. Granted on PC you can always mod it or play these games at those higher framerates but it would be awesome to see the textures get an overhaul in all those games.
Cedric Peravernay is an inspiration for my art and he is the master behind the Disnhonored character design series! It's INSANE what he deliver.
Brooooo I literally searched for dishonored on youtube and found this video because I have fantasized about the franchise since 2017. I have played Dishonored 2 the most but honestly, I think the Death of the Outsider DLC is criminally underrated and overshadowed! The map level design in that DLC is super good in my opinion. Will you be making any more videos on Dishonored? I'd love every type of dishonored content lol
Hey mate, thank you so much for your wonderful comment. I know what you mean about having this franchise ingrained in your mind. I remember playing Dishonored when it first came out all those years ago and it definitely left a lasting impression. It's kind of wild this Dishonored 2 video is doing so well long after it went up. As I did the Dishonored in 2023 and then Dishonored 2 in 2023 videos and they both flopped when they were first uploaded. I think the leaked news of there being a new Dishonored game in the work has started pushing this video more to folks or as you said people are searching for more Dishonored content as a result of the news. I would definitely be keen to cover more Dishonored related things in the future. Especially if there is a new game for the franchise in the works.
@@FailedQuest definitely there's a future of dishonored content! I'll put your channel notifs on so I can watch your next vid asap 💗
i was able to tweak my PC and my old ass GTX 970 card to run this game at 85fps in most areas of the game, however when the game loads up lots of city assets from a distance is where it struggles the most, there are some control panel adjustments you can tweak to make the game run better, but i also had to drop the textures and other things in my graphics settings to achieve that speed.
Yeah I was a little confused about Emily and Corvo's relationship too, but in it's pretty much confirmed in the first game in a high chaos playthrough on the last level when Trevor Pendleton taunts you by saying "We all know you were screwing the empress, so you like noble women, huh?" It does seem kind of weird they would be way more clear about it from the get-go in dishonored 2 tho
Yeah I think for all the times I played Dishonored I never did a high chaos playthrough so I missed that line. That is why when I played Dishonored 2 and they confirmed Corvo having a relationship with Jessamine and that he was indeed Emily's father. My mind was indeed blown.
i thought the same exact thing with her relationship to him, in the first game i thought he was just a solder protector and there was the queen and he was fond of her, but i never had the idea that he was her husband and the little girl was his.
Yeah that was something that really threw me. Like I kind of thought maybe something was happening in the original dishonored but glad to see it confirmed in the second game. Now I can't wait to see what they do in the third game that was just leaked. Exciting times ahead.
you can have low chaos ending even if you want to play combat. I have fun with non lethal combat a lots. you can use both pistol and crossbow for nonlethal take down.
Wait what?????? How did I miss this. Aside from using sleeping darts I couldn't find a way to use the pistol or sword without killing folks and ruining my low chaos run. Please tell me how you can do this as I'd love to replay it using all the tools I can. I would get into fights and knock them out during combat after parrying the enemy but I didn't know there was a way to use the pistol in a non lethal capacity.
One thing that stuck like a thorn in my side was the opening. It made it hard to like the game for some time. The scenery is beautiful, level designs are phenomenal. New powers, two protagonists, new enemies made it enjoyable. But that opening really hurt.
Hi everyone. I'm the new queen. As queen I demand the old royal family, my relatives be executed immediately. Don't mind my magic, I know it's usually kill magic users on sight but I'm the queen so it's cool.
Like oh are they gonna make it to where the protagonist has to find allies like in the first game, doesn't the kingdom like the actually queen are they really just gonna let some witch run everything no questions asked?
Easy fix, make me think people are under some kind of spell and that's why they betray you. Make me think the kingdom doesn't like the current administration. Literally that's it. As is it feels half assed. Like I killed Delilah, but according to the story I spared her and some witches brought her back and now she's up to the same old sheet. If I kill her in this game will the next game say I went non lethal and she comes back again because some witches released her?
Thank you for your comment. It has now unfortunately lifted the veil from my eyes and your points about the start of the game's story has now made me rethink the entire thing. I will admit I took it all for face value but the points you have highlighted makes me realise how nonsensical the whole idea of Delilah overthrowing Corvo and Emily actually was.
@@FailedQuest getting past the lazy writing, or possible need to make a new story the game does have it's shining moments. Karnaca is a beautiful well designed level. Hypatias hospital/ laboratory was a conglomerate mess. Then immediately after jindoshs mansion is one of my favorite levels. Right up there with the Boyle manor. Everyone's favorite is the time traveling mansion for good reason, it's well designed interesting in mechanic and overall enjoyable, only to be stabbed by the silly story where Delilah knows your observing her even from the past. Just because I didn't enjoy dishonoured 2 as much as the original and it's dlc I wouldn't want to take away from slivers of joy it gave me from time to time and I guess I forgot to add the things dis2 got right.
I appreciate you replying to my comment, it's a bit long winded but well thought out and a decade in the making 😂 I had forgot what I disliked about it until I recently replayed it on the PS5.
It is a masterpiece
Indeed it is. The original dishonored is too. 👍
The level design is much better in 2
Yeah I would definitely agree with that sentiment. There are a lot more unique set pieces in the second game.
I dont know if anyone mentioned it, but your aspect ratio is off. Everything looks horizontally smooshed. Idk 16:9 is the default and 4:3 looks ok, but as it stands it looks weird.
Edit: actually I realized everything is vertically stretched.
Hey mate, you have a very keen eye. I was playing some of the dishonored 2 on a mix of my ultrawide monitor and some of it on my 4k 160hz monitor. Seems a lot of the footage used was from the ultrawide recordings where it is squished from ultrawide 21:9 to 16:9 so probably why it looks funny.
You are very good for picking it up as no one else has yet. I could definitely see it myself but wasn't sure if it's just because I knew it was recorded from footage on an ultrawide or if it was indeed squashed.
I did also try to do the Baldur's gate video actually in 21:9 ultrawide format and no one seemed to mind but I think going forward I'll retire the ultrawide and stick with my other two monitors which are 1440p 144hz and 4k 160hz both being 16:9 it just is what is more universally accepted and what folks like.
Thank you for watching the dishonored 2 video and hopefully it didn't distract you too much the squished video. 👍
Great game!! Great channel!! Just bad topic at this time
Thank you for your kind words. Glad you like the channel. May I ask why it's a bad topic at this time?
yeah I think you really do have potential but if you want to get more famous and earn more money with your talent you will need to discuss topics that are popular at this time(games/movies/drama)@@FailedQuest
You didn't play Dishonored 1 DLC? Witches are introduced there
No unfortunately I have never played the OG Dishonored's DLC. It has since come to my attention after putting this video out that witches were in DLC for the original game. I sadly have only ever played the base game.
@@FailedQuest You should give it a try, there are many ideas introduced there that made it to Dishonored 2, plus Daud is an interesting character (and fully voiced)
I played before dishonored 2 and then dishonored 1
Maybe its improved and you never experienced it because you got to it late, but I bought the game at launch because I was really into the first game, and couldn't even get 30 frames with it crashing constantly on a GTX 1070ti. The card is outdated now, but you have to realise the 1080 was only just released that year, so it should not have performed so badly. Because of this, I'm a little insulted you summarised the performance issues with "you're never going to get 200fps" but again, maybe it has improved, so I am downloading it again on newer hardware
Yeah I can't speak for how it performed at launch but I did play on my 4090 at 4k with everything maxed out and in the cities with a bunch of the NPCs about it was still struggling to get a consistent framerate. That is why I just capped it as I personally prefer a locked 60 or 120 or whatever over it jumping around from 144 suddenly down to 70 fps or what not. If that makes sense? When it's locked at a framerate it is able to maintain it makes the overall experience feel smoother. That was all I meant with my comments in the video. 👍
@@FailedQuest Ignore my saltiness. I was bitter someone enjoyed something I wasn't able to experience. I have been playing it though and while it does perform better, it really does struggle with the large environments and amount of NPCs like you mentioned. I have it capped at 30 frames myself just to avoid stuttering as much as possible. It's really unfortunate because the environments and new powers are really cool.
2 characters with 2 endings each... ...only 3 save slots... :'(
Good point. I didn't even think of that. It sucks if you are trying to see all four endings. Would have to make a sacrifice.
@@FailedQuest Yeah, having only 3 Campaign slots for a game with 4 possible ending sequences seems like a massive oversight for a game series I would otherwise consider perfection.
And somehow the modding community hasn't made a work around for this yet. I always just go into the installation files and rename the save slots for each character, but it's a pain that shouldn't have to be necessary.
I admire your ingenuity. Gamers always find a way.
Bro i swear the same shit for me
I’m just not into the theme
gameplay wise i think its more fun, just bc of new powers, and superior level design(jindosh mansion alone beats all of dishonored 1 in my opinion), but the story was meh compared to the original
I agree. Dishonored 2 definitely was an improvement in a lot of ways but nothing can beat a good ol fashioned revenge plot like the original and that late game twist was brilliant.
Is that a massive spoiler? I have it on PS4 still haven't played it
No not really. It's addressed super early on in the game and it's also a game that came out 7+ years ago so presumably by now most people would have played it.