Dishonored: Operation Layarteb

[CleverCover]

I'm pretty sure everyone saw the betrayal coming as soon as you joined them and realized the game had too many people vying for leadership of your party and it only reaffirmed it once you find out

Spoiler

Pendleton is willing to let you off his brothers. I'm upset dude couldn't do something about them on his own. And then he sends you to go after Shaw

You were just the worker from day one, succeeding in impossible shit until they didn't need you anymore.

Also, from the heavy Bioshock-esque feeling I was getting, I had a feeling my first partnership would turn sour.

 

[craddoke]

Name checking Longest Journey? Now THAT came out of nowhere.

 

[The_Darkness]

I was expecting a betrayal. I wasn't expecting them all to be in on it.

Actually, that isn't quite true. I wasn't expecting a betrayal. I was, however, expecting a twist - I knew we weren't at the end yet, and I knew there was still the Empress' Assassin to take care of. I was expecting an attack on the house, or something like that.

Anyway, put me down as one of those legitimately surprised - or at least, someone who only cottoned on after I'd drunk the drink and experienced a few of those weird blurring moments...

 

[Somebloke]

The ever pleasing cutscene railroad. :7

"Oh, Jensen; you men so stupid, teehee."

 

[l3o2828]

' all the self-preservation instincts of a cancer-ridden lemming with stocks in THQ.'

Oh god xD

Also yeah, i got very pissed at that scene...

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

So, what you're saying is that if you do not pay attention to the narrative, the narrative doesn't impact you as much? Wow, that blows my mind.

That's not what I'm saying at all. The most obvious signs of imminent betrayal come from exposition outside the narrative. It's completely possible to overlook them. And the rather lackluster characterization means that the subtlety among your 'allies' isn't particularly well done, so you either know immediately that, somewhere down the line, you're screwed, or you immediately disregard the possibility because it's too obvious.

That's what I'm saying.

 

[Arslan Aladeen]

Whenever a game character says stuff like "I'm the only one you can trust," and try to make everyone else I meet seem like they're going to stab me in the back, they're the people I know are going are going to betray me.

**Spoileresh Warning* The games that come to mind for me in that regard are BioShock and Dead Space.**

 

[Kurt Cristal]

TLJ reference. Brilliant. I was yelling at the screen. Stop, it's a trap, dammit!

 

[ColdinT]

That gribbler encounter was pretty stupid. In most cases, April Ryan comes across as pretty intelligent. But in that whole scene, it's so obvious what's going on. It really would have been a lot more believable if the "old woman" wasn't constantly giving it away with her mistakes.

 

[BrainWalker]

I just don't think the devs thought out that betrayal scene at all. I mean, even if you're completely unobservant, and ignore all the optional audio logs and whatnot, that mission where you go in for the Spymaster has absolutely none of the feel of a final, climactic mission. So you just know that there's more stuff coming, and since there aren't any high-priority governmental targets within Dunwall to take out, you have to start to wonder where the story's going.

Except that before that mission even starts they taunt you with the bait that Daud, the man who killed the Empress, is next. It made sense that he would be last because, as an assassin himself, he should be the most difficult target to kill, and they could afford to leave him for last because he's of little political significance.

Anyway, I wasn't terribly surprised that Pendleton turned on me, or perhaps more accurately, could be turned against me, and I was a bit wary of Havelock, but I was surprised that all three of the primary Loyalist conspirators turned on me. I figured one of the of them would turn on me at some point, but not all three. In retrospect, I'm not sure how much sense that makes, but that's what I was feeling at the time.

I was actually kind of hurt that overseer Martin was in on it. Maybe it's just because he seemed like the smartest and most down-to-earth of the bunch, or maybe it's because he won me over with his wit when I freed him from those stocks. And it was his idea to get me out of prison in the first place.

 

[Doug]

I'm actually wearing a "Curse your inevitable but sudden betrayal" Serenity shirt right now.

*scares for an uncomfortably long time at the awesome shirt before snapping back*

I have to agree with the message below the comic, as well as the comic itself. It was painfully obvious to me that they where going to try and kill Corvo, and I was like "Sigh, well, I guess I HAVE to drink up. Le sigh". It was a sad low point in the games otherwise brilliant story/world/immersion.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

And I never knew bars carried poison. I'll have to remember that for next time

It's for all the treachery.
Eventually, they realised why everybody was bringing their own drinks for seemingly no reason, so now every bar has a stock of poison for when patrons' lackeys 'outlive their usefulness'.

OT: I just imagine that Samuel told Corvo of the plan (or rather, confirmed it) on the way back to the Hound Pits, and Corvo drank the half-dose of poison, knowing it wouldn't kill him, to trick the Loyalists.
Samuel's explanation after Corvo collapsed was just him hallucinating the conversation the two of them had on the boat.

That doesn't make the way the scene is done any better, but it makes Corvo drinking the poison more believable.

 

[The Wooster]

I was warry of the bastards from the start, and doubly so once I figured out you could point the heart at people to hear their secrets. The whole situation had such an air of doom about it, and the way they used me to do THEIR dirty work.

BTW Cornvo is a former bodyguard Grey, not a spy.

He's also described as an "agent" and characters do refer to his exploits outside of Dunwall. Plus, look at the dude's skill set.

 

[themilo504]

The twist was spoiled to me when I was still busy with the first real non prison break level before that I didn?t think any of the loyalists were particularly evil not exactly trustworthy but it?s a grey and black morality kind of story I only just finished the second level and beside the heart pointing out there all amoral asshole I haven?t picked up any big betrayal hints.

 

[Darth_Payn]

The ever pleasing cutscene railroad. :7

"Oh, Jensen; you men so stupid, teehee."

I haven't played Deus Ex:Human Revolution in while, if you're referring to Adam Jensen. Which part of the game is that from?

 

[Somebloke]

The ever pleasing cutscene railroad. :7

"Oh, Jensen; you men so stupid, teehee."

I haven't played Deus Ex:Human Revolution in while, if you're referring to Adam Jensen. Which part of the game is that from?

Your first encounter with Zhao, in her apartment in Upper Hengsha.
It is kind of amusing, later, when Adam botches his turning the mockery back at her. :7

 

[Darth_Payn]

Wow. First off, spoiler warning, guys? Secondly, this kind of betrayal twist sounded crammed in at the last second of production of the game. Doesn't this make Corvo look like a chump? Think of how different things would be of he could talk and question what's going on around him. We can't all be Link or Gordon Freeman, pal.

 

[Draconalis]

I suppose this game might have given you the option to not drink... but in Heavy Rain, my friend and I drank the "clearly drugged" glass of whatever the hell it was. It amused us when the guy gloated over our stupidity and we were like "Nah chief... we knew... we just didn't care cause this ***** is annoying."

 

[Dondonalien44]

Now, including a Justin Bieber reference in the bottom text, THAT was a legitimately shocking twist.
Swag, swag, swag on, you!

 

[The Random One]

Either the "twist" comes out of nowhere or it's telegraphed so heavily it barely deserves the name.

Or, as I like to call them, Fontaines and Weskers.