It looks like Bethesda is publishing an interesting-looking game that isn't based on Elder Scrolls or Fallout.  Dishonored appears to be a sneak-and-kill type of game in a very similar vein to Assassin's Creed, albeit with magical elements, bullet time, and a heavy steampunk theme.



What do you guys think?


-b0b
(...thinks it looks pretty darn good.)

MMO's are cash cows.  You will have a hard time convincing Zenimax this is a bad idea with a name brand as big as The Elder Scrolls.

  I hear you, I said the same thing about World of Warcraft, I was so mad they were going to ruin my favorite RTS game.

  As you know, I was I wrong =p

Some people are having a hard time owning the game but forced to wait for hard copy deliveries. I really want to play but my time for gaming has diminished so much.
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/05/09

I had a chance to play Diablo 3 for about an hour before work this morning.  I'm chomping at the bit to get back to it tonight!  As expected, the game seems to be incredibly polished, and it's the good ol' Diablo hack-and-slash sweetness that we've all come to know and love.

I started off with a male wizard and I'm going to focus on a nuke build.  It looks like there are a ton of excellent nuke abilities at higher levels.


-b0b
(...squeeeeeeeeee!)

I just came here to complain about the same thing.  I tried playing on my lunch break, but the game was in the middle of a two-hour service outage.  I managed to get in this afternoon at about 4:45pm and I played for a whopping 30 minutes before the servers went down again, this time for a (scheduled) 75 minute outage.

I understand that incredibly popular games will often have intermittent issues on launch day, but this game has been out for fifteen hours and it's been unplayable for a good portion of that window.  It's not just overcrowding, but apparently some sort of systemic issue that is requiring patching from Blizzard.

This is particularly egregious because I'm playing a single player game.  I could understand if I was playing a multiplayer game or if I gave a damn about achievements, but I'm just trying to complete a casual single-player run through the game.  It's made worse by the fact Diablo 3 has been in development for eleven years, the last two of which have been dedicated to "polish".  Moreover, Blizzard runs the single largest MMO in existence, so you'd think they'd have this whole network management thing figured out.


-b0b
(...enjoyed his 45 minutes of game time, for what it's worth.)

Hopefully this encourages companies to dispense with the "always connected" anti-piracy BS.

But it won't.