Dishonored 2

I love this game. Everything about it. I think everyone should try it once

I can't speak for combat -- since I don't play that side of the game -- but Arkane seems to have really upped stealth

tl;dr: -Awesome music, atmosphere and world building -Amazing mechanics and gameplay systems -Simple plot -Clumsy writing and voice directing -Horrible performance issues *Get on sale. This game is fun and the systems in place are great to screw around with (StealthGamingBR showcases this). But this doesn't excuse the poor optimization issues that plagued this game since launch. The patches since then has remedied this issue to an extent, but it hasn't made the maximum system requirements list any more justified. WITH a gtx 1060, your rig will suffer trying to run the Void engine, which is just an "enhanced" version of idTech 5. GTX 1080 recommended. With performance issues aside, the atmosphere of the locations you visit in this game are excellent. The music fits well with the kind of culture they are trying to get at here, and I'd say it's flawless if the people residing in these places had European accents or something. Suspension of belief is barely needed despite that. The plot is simple and effective. Blamed for murders that you didn't do, you become victim to a coup planned by a crazy witch who claims is of royal blood. You take revenge on the people who were a part of the coup throughout the game, either violently or not, and set the score. The writing for the characters' dialogue is a bit on the uncanny side. The main thing that does the writing injustice is the fact that the main cast (Meagan, Emily, Corvo) do not emote. For Corvo, its understandable, he's been through some sh**. Emily has been through **** too, but being less experienced than Corvo, I think she could've had a bit more character to her rather than have her be another deadpan assassin. Meagan is just deadpan, and some lines she says seem to be written playfully sarcastic, but she delivers them like any other line she says.

first off the story DOES seem to "retread" the same path as the first one, but thats not nessisarily a BAD thing, and given how you have the option to play as emil or corvo, the emily path is a bit more reasonable that the retreading takes place. the myriad of options you have to take on any and every situation is just staggering, and EVERY encounter just feels utterly unique. secondly the game runs AMAZINGLY i have a crappy ass laptop with a 1000 series QUADRO card, that couldnt play dishonored 1 outside of medium settings, with light rays and ambient occulsion off at a steady framerate, yet i can play dishonored 2 in ULTRA with lightrays AND ambient occulsion ON, at an amazingly smooth framerate, so long as i can keep the damn computer cool, which i do by having it open, vertical, and i have a fan blowing on it, LOL, if i drop it down to high, and turn AO off, it runs MUCH cooler......so i HONESTLY have NO IDEA what the people complaining about its "crappy optimization" are even talking about. my only real gripe is the new color scheme for emilys night vision power makes the pickups almost impossible to see, once you level t up to have that ability anyway.

A great history that makes you want to explote it. all the gameplay and all the killing options but at the same time, you choose to dont, cause that its bad, i guess? its a damn tease, dont buy it