Dishonest

Over the weekend, I made the seemingly rational choice to purchase an new game to play, to break the monotony essentially. The mistake however was that I purchased Dishonored [sic](yes, that is not how you spell it). I was sold on the promise of player choice and the opportunity of engaging in a stealth based game - something I've not really seen or tried since Thief: The Dark Project. This is not a stealth based game, this is a serial killer training simulator.

Hyperbole aside, one might think that in a stealth game where there is an achievement for not killing anyone and for remaining undetected, that one would be able to actually do either of those things. Without resorting to swear words, let me just say that in this instance, it actually is an achievement to accomplish these. Because you will spend a ludicrous amount of time replaying short sections and quick loading or reverting to the most recent auto save. I used one restart and a couple of auto saves in the first sequence (escaping from prison) and that gave me a sense that perhaps it wasn't beyond my abilities - limited though they may be sometimes. However after spending 4 hours attempting the first mission trying to be undetected and non-lethal, to be told that I was detected, even though I'm certain I wasn't and moreover that it won't even tell you when you were detected so perhaps it was in the early stages, perhaps it was during the constant retries of sneaking past the 10 or so guards in a tiny section of the map who were looking for me even though they hadn't seen me, I've decided to use swear words:

Fuck this game. Fuck the people who made it so shitty. Fuck the people who sold it as something that might be enjoyable. Fuck you for every time I had to slaughter those who spotted me even though they didn't and fuck you for charging people money for this frustration-fest.