Harvey Smith Has Mixed Feelings About Whether There Should Be A Dishonored 2

12 responses to “Harvey Smith Has Mixed Feelings About Whether There Should Be A Dishonored 2”

1. 

   wisp

   October 13, 2012 at 11:37 am

   Please. Just enjoy the game you have. Just because its good doesn’t mean it “needs” a sequel. I think the gaming industry would be far more healthy if there were less of them.

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   puck

   October 13, 2012 at 12:03 pm

   Sequels are an awesome way to continue enjoying a game world, refining all the things that worked and cutting all the things that didn’t. Here’s some awesome sequels that I’m glad exist:

   Assassins Creed 2
   Mass Effect 2
   Half Life 2
   Borderlands 2
   Just Cause 2
   Saints Row 2
   Torchlight 2
   The Witcher 2
   Portal 2
   Left 4 Dead 2
   Team Fortress 2
   Trine 2
   Batman Arkham City
   Doom 2

   Those are just from the top of my head, I’m sure there’s heaps more. Yeah sequelitis can be a problem, but I’ll take the bad with the good.

   As far as Dishonoured goes, I just played through the first hour of the game and I’m already smitten, the art style and complete realisation of this world has enchanted me and I hope to see more of it in the future.

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      sammi

      October 13, 2012 at 1:10 pm

      I actually thought 5 of those sequels were inferior to their predecessors. see if you can guess which!!
      regardless, no one is arguing sequels should never happen, just that not every game that does well HAS to have a sequel. for every good sequel there’s multiple horrible ones.

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      1. 

         puck

         October 13, 2012 at 1:16 pm

         Doom 2
         Mass Effect 2
         Left 4 Dead 2
         Portal 2
         Batman Arkham City
         ?

         I actually had Portal 2, Doom 2, and Left 4 Dead 2 in a separate list of “games which are awesome in their own right, but not necessarily ‘better’ than the originals”… but then I thought I’d just collapse it as I like all those sequels at least as much as the first games.

         edit: Are there really lots of horribad sequels? I’m sure there are heaps which don’t expand or improve on the first, but if I loved the first, I’m usually up for more of the same at the very least.

         Not great sequels I can think of off the top of my head :
         Force Unleashed 2 (terrible)
         Bioshock 2 (I didn’t mind it, but it was just more of the same).
         Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (Sands was just so amazing at the time).

         …and Duke Nukem, but that’s a whole different world of bad.

         edit 2: I liked Crysis 2 and FEAR 2… 🙂

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      2. 

         Corval

         October 13, 2012 at 8:22 pm

         Batman Arkham City (it was just an overblown version of the much more atmospheric first, now with a ridiculous comic book storyline)

         Portal 2 (the portal concept was amazing the first time)

         Mass Effect 2?
         Saints Row 2?
         Doom 2?

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3. 

   A Random

   October 13, 2012 at 12:15 pm

   A sequel would be a fantastic way to re-experience the world and setting, but also provide a more engaging story. It kind of depends what you want the sequel to be and whether you want it to be powered by the brand name or the world itself. There could be any other number of stories to tell in that universe and have nothing to do with what happened in Dishonored. There are ice and jungle themes continents that a potential sequel could take place in. Or, it could simply be set in Dunwall with more emphasis on character interaction. Instead of sneaking through the shadows to assassinate people you could instead talk to people and solve mysteries, like Sherlock Holmes.

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      wisp

      October 13, 2012 at 1:34 pm

      whats wrong with aiming to have that all the fist time round though eh?

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         A Random

         October 13, 2012 at 7:26 pm

         Realistic scope and ambition, hindsight, artistic/narrative focus etc

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4. 

   login

   October 13, 2012 at 5:10 pm

   Well of course not every game MUST have a sequel but to say you just shouldn’t have one because there are too many is just as ignorant as deciding to do one for the sake of it. Frankly, I’m just pleased they’re thinking about it. Actually questioning whether one is necessary. Whether there is or isn’t one doesn’t really matter, as long as they actually thought about it enough to come to a real decision.

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5. 

   scatterlogical

   October 13, 2012 at 8:28 pm

   C’mon Harvey, you can’t give us a taste of such a brilliantly conceived and realized world and not offer more! Dishonored is one of the most brilliant games I have played in my 20+ years of gaming, and it would be a great disservice to such a wonderful IP to not give us a sequel (or more!)

   Since Corvo’s story seemed pretty much closed at the end of the game, perhaps with a new protagonist, to show another facet of Dunwall?

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6. 

   germinalconsequence

   October 13, 2012 at 9:53 pm

   It seems silly to me when people spend years coming up with an entire, living world and then lock it away after the first run. You don’t need to make a sequel, just create new games set in the same universe.

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7. 

   Stalk747

   October 14, 2012 at 2:16 pm

   ‘DISHONORED’ WHAT CAN I SAY, IS THE 2012 STEATH ACTION SUPERB GAME, THE BEST GAME OF THIS GENERATION, HOPEFULLY THERE WILL BE A SEQUELS, THE BEST GAME EVER YET, A UNIQUE GAME & HIGH LEVEL OF REPLAY VALUE, SO FOLK GO GET THIS GAME NOWWWWWWWWWWW, ANY PC OR CONSOLE, ALL HAVE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE,I LOVE DISHONORED, THANK DEV, SUPERBBBBBBBBB GAME OF 2012…………………………………………..

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