So, which one of the playable characters do you like the most?

I much prefer Daud over Corvo.

I prefer Corvo myself. Daud is a mercenary, reformed or no. He got his powers and used them to create chaos and earn a profit for himself.

Corvo (at least the one I consider to be my personal 'canon' (whatever the hell canon means in an open-ended video game )) got his powers, and used them to change a broken city and rescue an innocent girl (and several other innocents, at that) who may or may not be his daughter.

I'd like to vote, but I really think I should wait until the moment Daud actually becomes playable. I might not like what we do in the DLC.

That said, Daud is one of my favourite characters already, perhaps more so than Corvo, and I think whatever we see in the DLC missions is going to make him even more interesting. I think as a character, he already has an advantage over Corvo because the latter deliberately wasn't fleshed out too much.

So yeah, I'm rooting for Daud, but this will be more interesting to talk about after we've played him.

Yikes - plenty of 'evil' players who actually like Daud the murderous assassin better than Corvo?
Then again I played my Corvo as a good guy (low chaos, very first time through).
I found it so draining, I haven't been back, heheh...

I'm just like that.... I will love an evil character if he has an attractive voice. I liked Scar, for example

But seriously, on my first playthrough I saw him as "a murderous assassin'" for most of the game, but it changes a bit after the encounter. Since then I started perceiving him more as a champion turned bad. Or someone the Outsider screwed over. Or maybe someone who was too weak or mentally unhinged to do anything good with Outsider powers. The interpretations are manifold, but bottom line is that he's quite an interesting character.

I can't vote based on the existing game. Both are equally fascinating. It's clear that the Empress was only one of Daud's "jobs" so it will be interesting to understand more about him than the snippets given in the original game.

The Outsider said he was the best assassin, but he just got killed by me so what does that make Corvo? With that said, I cannot wait to be put in Daud's shoes.

If not "adopted" father if you catch my meaning. Corvo was probably there since Emily was a little squirmy balona loaf.
But yeah, Corvo is a far better character...perhaps because we can emote through him, rather than Daud who has an established personality.

Are the answers to this question even relevant if we know that everyone's Corvo is slightly different?

That's a good point. I'm intrigued to see whether we will be given 'another side' to Daud too. Arkane have hinted at it (player choice). We saw evidence of his mercenary ways, but what if his main role was simply to dispatch people in the way Corvo did - by fair means or foul? Unfortunately, there are still a million-trillion weeks to April 16th!!!!!

Oh certainly - I let him live.
(He seemed surprised.)

You should ask this after the DLC is released, we still don't know much about Daud.. ill have to play the DLC to decide but i don't think i'll prefer one over another.

Listening to Daud's conversation before encountering him gives SOME snippets (the 'nobody should have to kill an Empress' talk) that this wasn't a killing that he would morally have made, which makes me wonder what hold the Lord Regent might have had over him beyond 'coin'. PC Gamer has given some coverage to the upcoming DLC(http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/dishonored-the-knife-of-dunwall-hands-on/) and they add further weight to the fact that Daud was mainly used to killing the corrupt.

And that makes him equally perfect for the moral decisions about good or bad.

Well know we know what those big machines are used for..

One (sort of minor) thing I wonder about in the upcoming DLC is the note that can be found in Daud's storage room on the case containing sleep darts. It says that the poison is only supposed to be used in order to kidnap targets, and that using it simply to spare lives is a waste. Sort of predisposes Daud to being violent, doesn't it?

But Daud apparently, only went after military targets and corrupt nobles.

Maybe, but those corrupt nobles and military targets have guards and servants who (I felt as Corvo, anyway) didn't deserve to die.

And Empresses

Don't forget the benevolent Empresses

That's what broke him, the fact that he murdered someone who was trying to do good.

So he clearly has a conscious if he was affected that badly by murdering someone good.

Yes, and the upcoming DLC apparently hints at this too - that the Empress was not Daud's usual kind of target. I suppose that's what he got for being on the payroll of a corrupt Lord Regent.

Honestly I would have to say that Corvo is my choice for the best assassin as he is the one trying to make a difference. Daud, when he was first given his powers, tried to change the world but ultimately chose the money option due to his greed. He resorted to killing people just for the money aspect rather than making a difference, which is exactly what Corvo is trying to accomplish (of course this depends on what playstyle you have, but I usually run through as a pacifist so that might explain my POV on this subject).


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So far Corvo seems more interesting: his goal are more complex. Daud used his supernatural abilities only for money - what a waste, I'd say. He could have changed the world but instead he became just an assassin.

I like Daud a lot more than Corvo.
Admittedly, Corvo starts with a disadvantage as a silent protagonist but even throughout the story, Daud is this complex person who has had his powers for a long time. He's an assassin for hire, but that's what he's good at (and I find that to be a pretty cool job). What career is he supposed to take up with these abilities, the Isles' greatest courier? If Corvo wasn't the royal protector of the Empress then he would most likely be just like Daud. There's also the fact that Daud is the most interesting and complex character in the game, in my opinion.

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Corvo just felt too bland to me, his goals were to find the Empress' daughter and put her on throne. Nothing else, sure it's an important goal for the entire Empire but it's nothing complex and we don't know how he feels about the whole affair because he's a blank slate.

My opinion (as all are) is biased because more and more I'm starting to like the idea of voiced protagonists in FPSs to help you feel like you're in the middle of events without making you either a mute. Far Cry 3 and Bioshock Infinite are the two recent games that changed my mindset.