Prey 2 looks great, this sounds great. Rage, er I havent seen much beyond shooting, so I doubt it will be worth ￡40 to me. Still a good shooter, but not enough for me to buy it, unless it has more rpg elemetns like bioshock.

Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic were great games, here's hoping to another classic gem.

I wonder what this game is about...

Looks like Hλlf-Life.

that's the developers' fault, not Bethesda's. they've said numerous times they don't tend to interfere in a game's development, unlike most publishers - they just fund and market.

New Vegas was inarguably a pretty good game, because Obsidian is a pretty good developer. Arkane has a proven track record as a good developer, as does id and Human Head.

From the beta, it can be said that it's basically the first Deus Ex with a bigger, more populated world and better graphics. Beyond that, it gives basically the same experience as the first game. At least, from what's been seen in the beta.

Anyway, the City 17 designer's influence is certainly quite apparent in the cover, and with the rest of the people involved it sounds rather interesting.

Arx Fatalis and especially Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was one of the greatest games I′ve ever played! So my expectations are very high, I hope Arkane will top this

Harvey Smith made some bad decisions on DX:IW. Blacksite was a mediocre game. However, his work at Arkane Studios was pretty good. Arx Fatalis had low production values but was a great RPG none-the-less. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic had excellent linear fantasy action/gameplay, but had a horrible story-line and poor RPG mechanics.

It sounds like Dishonored is trying to re-acquire what made Deus Ex so great; granted, we don't know much yet, but that snippet that they provided really caught my interest.

“Dishonored is the antithesis of a edge-of-your-seat roller-coaster ride. It's a game about assassination where you don't have to kill anyone. It's a game about infiltration where you can set up traps and slaughter the entire garrison of an aristocrat's mansion rather than sneak in. It's a game about brutal violence where you can slip in and out of a fortified barracks with nobody ever knowing you were there. It's a game about morality and player choice where the world you create is based on your actions, not navigating conversation trees.”

Tell me that doesn't sound awesome?

For someone (like me) who absolutely loved Half Life 2, STALKER, Deus Ex, and Hitman... this sounds like a dream come true.

"Playing the story" = is a term we use to describe a game where the player navigates the narrative and story not through gimmicks like conversation trees, but by making choices through the same actions he uses to play the game. This was what Deus Ex did. There was no break in the immersive simulation. The most poignant example of "playing the story" is the infamous "Paul in the apartment" choice. The player can save Paul, not by saying, "Paul, I'll save you", but by staying with Paul and helping him fight out the front door. If the player goes through the window as Paul suggests, then Paul dies; not because the player said, "Paul, I'm going to leave you to die.", but because, for whatever reason, thinking whatever, the player decides to go through the window and leave Paul behind... perhaps even unaware that that is what he was doing (like me on my first play through.)

He didn't work at Arkane when they developed Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah.

Oh, I agree. It does sound awesome, hence why I said I'm very interested in the game and that it sounds very promising

true. i highly highly doubt that RAGE will be considered a mediocre game and im pretty sure it will meet higher standards than ''decent''