Dishonored: Operation Layarteb

[5ilver]

A bit of a clearer Spoiler warning on the main page would've been appreciated.

It really isn't as much of a spoiler as you'd think. The game pretty much hits you over the head with a big "YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE BETRAYED" sign.

 

[Siege_TF]

Dead Space spoiler

An obvious twist is when you start receiving transmissions from your girlfriend with her saying incredibly odd phrases like "Make us who again Issac". OH come on lady, am I supposed to believe everybody on this f**king ship died but my weakling girlfriend, PL-EASE. This woman is obviously a concoction of my brains self denial.

Then the game did bullshit where she opened a door for me and im like 'Oh wait, she can interact with real things and the Necromorphs attack her? Well either this is a very complicated hallucination or somehow she is still alive, or evil, or something...' and I became confused.

Then the game ends by laughing in my face because it thinks I didn't figure out she wasn't real.
YES I DID YOU F*** C**MPET but you made it physically impossible for that to be the case! I hate developers pulling that nonsense.

*Spoilers*

You spend most of the game hot on the heels of a young couple who have managed to survive this far. It's the young woman singing 'twinkle twinkle' who is actually moving stuff, using consoles, etc, but Issac's seeing his girlfriend. A lot of the audio logs you find are theirs. Eventually her boyfriend is caught and killed by doctor crazy (it's the 'witness the conviction of a true believer! *stab*' bit), and that's when she finally looses it and shoots herself in the head in the room full of candles and bundled up corpses.

*END SPOILERS*

OT:
The game does start with him failing to protect the Empress. Has anyone considered the possibility that the only reason she survived as long as she did was becuase nobody had made a serious attempt to kill her until then? It's possible Corvo really is sharp as a bowling ball.

 

[Cenzton]

I actually think of it this way:
Corvo knew what was coming. He was well aware that he was going to get betrayed, but playing along was the only thing he could do in order to actually save Emily. He had resigned himself to death as he still blamed himself for the Empress' death, and it was only through the action of another that he was able to stand himself upright and take the next step in what needed to be done.

 

[DataSnake]

It IS possible to do that kind of twist well, case in point:

Spoiler: Would you kindly click here?

Nice work, boyo! Hahahahaha! Hahaha! Hahahaha! It's time to end this little masquarade. Someone in my line of work takes on a variety of aliases. Hell, once I was even a Chinaman for six months. But you've been a sport, so I guess I owe you a little honesty. The name's Frank Fontaine.

 

[Mr Companion]

(snip)

*Spoilers*

You spend most of the game hot on the heels of a young couple who have managed to survive this far. It's the young woman singing 'twinkle twinkle' who is actually moving stuff, using consoles, etc, but Issac's seeing his girlfriend. A lot of the audio logs you find are theirs. Eventually her boyfriend is caught and killed by doctor crazy (it's the 'witness the conviction of a true believer! *stab*' bit), and that's when she finally looses it and shoots herself in the head in the room full of candles and bundled up corpses.

*END SPOILERS*

So he mentally projects his girlfriend's voice and looks onto a survivor in self denial, then after that survivor is dead he keeps imagining her anyway? Fair enough, but wait I forget is the candlecorpse room before or after the scene near the end where your GF uses a control panel? Issac is a spaceship engineer he would probably know if that panel is needed for their goal and how it would be used. Also what audio log or dialogue proves this was happening? How did a woman with no weapon, armor or defensive position survive so long under the unrelenting onslaught of Necromorphs or avoid being infected herself? She doesn't have heavy duty space engineering armor like Issac so the virus would get to her sooner rather than later. Maybe there is an explanation for these things or maybe I am just being nitpicky.

 

[solemnwar]

Dead Space spoiler

An obvious twist is when you start receiving transmissions from your girlfriend with her saying incredibly odd phrases like "Make us who again Issac". OH come on lady, am I supposed to believe everybody on this f**king ship died but my weakling girlfriend, PL-EASE. This woman is obviously a concoction of my brains self denial.

Then the game did bullshit where she opened a door for me and im like 'Oh wait, she can interact with real things and the Necromorphs attack her? Well either this is a very complicated hallucination or somehow she is still alive, or evil, or something...' and I became confused.

Then the game ends by laughing in my face because it thinks I didn't figure out she wasn't real.
YES I DID YOU F*** C**MPET but you made it physically impossible for that to be the case! I hate developers pulling that nonsense.

*Spoilers*

You spend most of the game hot on the heels of a young couple who have managed to survive this far. It's the young woman singing 'twinkle twinkle' who is actually moving stuff, using consoles, etc, but Issac's seeing his girlfriend. A lot of the audio logs you find are theirs. Eventually her boyfriend is caught and killed by doctor crazy (it's the 'witness the conviction of a true believer! *stab*' bit), and that's when she finally looses it and shoots herself in the head in the room full of candles and bundled up corpses.

*END SPOILERS*

OT:
The game does start with him failing to protect the Empress. Has anyone considered the possibility that the only reason she survived as long as she did was becuase nobody had made a serious attempt to kill her until then? It's possible Corvo really is sharp as a bowling ball.

Um, no, dude. The lady who shoots herself in the head is another lady. The woman you're thinking of is killed shortly before the boyfriend, they find each other... only to die together.

From the Dead Space wiki:

The deranged doctor tied up Cross and Temple, then taped both of their mouths shut. Elizabeth was eventually murdered by Mercer when he stuck a metal spike into her forehead, killing her instantly. Shortly after the death of Elizabeth, Isaac Clarke makes his way to the scene, and watched helplessly as Jacob was murdered as well.

 

[mysecondlife]

I can't believe you didn't draw the mark on his left hand.

But yeah, Dishonored was bit of a letdown for its twists, ending and lack of characterization.

 

[Siege_TF]

Poe-tay-toe toe-mah-toe.

Let's not confuse the issues with facts. The important thing is that The Marker was making Issac see the wrong person doing things, but it actually was a person doing things rather than these things happening on their own.

 

[1337mokro]

TOO SOON!!

THQ's corps hasn't even been cut up and sold off and you're already making jokes about them? How tasteless!

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

Am I the only one who didn't realize Corvo was going to be betrayed until it actually happened? I honestly had no idea. It seemed really obvious on my second play though.