Sly Reflex

First sticking point for me. The Mantis fight. I am having a time with it. The wall hanging move gets me every time. God knows what it'll be like when I have two of them on me. I need to go in with no intention to win and just learn to read that one attack. I feel like the rest of the move set is down and punishable, but that boomerang bullshit really is my Achilles heel. The rest of the game is pretty easy for now though. I'm one of two tapping most bosses and mini bosses or encounters no problem. For some reason I thought this game had a reputation for being hard as fuck, but I'm not seeing it, unless there's some nightmare bosses worse than the one I am stuck on are on the horizon.

"This Bentley I have doesn't go fast enough"

They would do better on focusing making W11 not a hot bucket o' shite first.

I have done this, people will say "I discovered this game, I think we should buy it and play it" so I go and look how much it is and find out I already have it. This has happened numerous times.

I don't know what you're talking about.

That's impressive as fuck, it's nearly all there. I remember when I made that and having to make sure all the letters were there as well as all symbols. Some of it was designed to be filled in as an "unknown" because there was really no way to decipher it in a way via eliminating negatives from the cipher. Essentially you are using a few ways to decodes from different ends, some of them being process of elimination and others being knowledge on the subject matter. So for the AI to figure it out is mental really.

Started this. It's good, isn't it? Although I've not got to the bits that will infuriate me yet, so maybe my thoughts will change.

I don't know about D2 because I played it once. I am not sure the rat thing carried over as well, because as I understand it the plague that caused the rats has been and gone. You can pick this game up for a few quid on cdkeys. it's no big loss if you don't like it. You will have to piss about with the files when you download it, they altered something that means it won't boot until you roll back and update. Literally a drag and drop. Worth it though. This is Arkane firing on all cylinders.

I wish they would make the controller available at least. Someone asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told them to get me a steam controller so every time I see them they ask if it's out yet. The rate they are going it might be next Christmas' gift.

So that's Dishonoured 2 finished. I thought it was amazing personally. Each time I go back in my mind to think about it there's little touches that stand out or bits that I didn't realise at the time as significant, but thinking back tot he first game and how it contrasts with this game, man, what a bit of entertainment this is. I wonder what the narrative is for Emily since I played as Corvo and a lot of what he had to say was based on the previous game and bits that happened before that game, and the parts that happened between those games and I presume stuff that occurred in DLC? There was so much I didn't get to see as well, I feel like there's a racing line you can take in this game that most people will adhere to, but you can go right off it and right around if you really want to. It actually has me considering another playthrough with the explicit reason to play through as Emily to se how she perceives that is happening, and going out of my way not to play how I played as I did with Corvo. I have a feeling that each level has so many ways to get in and out that you could play it numerous times and not find every single way. It totally wouldn't surprise me if you spend the games running time in the Clockwork Mansion only you would struggle to find every single room and secret. How they even began to envision that and then put it into practice and make a game over the top of it blows my mind. That shit is such a flex, not just creatively, but logistically as well. There's so many moving parts (literally in this case) and all of it works flawlessly. I am thinking that Dishonoured 1 and 2 might both be 10/10 games.

I never saw the full cut of the cybergoths one, but lime green fur boots lady seems so unserious by the end.

The Thomas music goes harder than it had any right to.

Supposedly a 10% growth in the PC sector year on year. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/analyst-firm-says-the-games-market-is-expected-to-reach-a-record-breaking-usd197-billion-by-the-end-of-2025-driven-primarily-by-stronger-than-expected-performance-on-pc-and-mobile/ That's where it's going presumably. Only 1% between console and PC seemed unimaginable before. It's where it's going though, I have said it before and I'll say it again. PC is the future. PC gaming adopted all the attractive qualities of console gaming and console gaming adopted all the shitty parts of PC gaming and kept the insane pricing. Maybe the hardware stuff might derail that somewhat. Although after the insane increase in GPU's and other components and peoples willingness to pay, who fucking knows at this point? I still predict that consoles are very much on borrowed time. The single format draws closer, and it's going to pull you in even if you say it won't. The allure of games is too much for you to say no.

Division 2 was pure dog eggs. Ran fucking awful as well, was part of the reason I bailed on console games, among others. Lots of questionable design choices. I think legitimately the only good thing I can say about this game is the way they got the design for one of the factions with the roads is incredible. It might have had a larger scope than Div1 but once you had seen it, you had seen it. Saying that Division 1 wasn't exactly fantastic, it's easy to look back on it now and have nice memories of it, but that shit was busted for the longest time. It was a broken PoS that had schizophrenics at the table making decisions for how they were taking things forward, and as soon as anything was set it was changed almost instantly making playing the damn thing worthless. Such a wasted potential. I feel like Division was one of the first games to be like "Your end game is the other players, fuck off and cry about it".