Finish the game without purchasing any supernatural powers o : Othor Games

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:35 am

Achievement: Finish the game without purchasing any supernatural powers or enhancements, besides Blink

Only 0.3% have done this achievement, have you? :biggrin:

Are you doing it?
Or will you be doing it today? Or soon? :biggrin:

(Stupid question: What counts as enhancements?) D:

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:06 am

littlerayl everything except the first blink, cause you get that automatically... So, dont's spend money&decorate your room at the pub with runes &bonechrams

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:53 pm

You can use bonecharms, just don't buy ANY powers (even passive ones or Blink II).

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:49 am

You can use bonecharms, just don't buy ANY powers (even passive ones or Blink II).

What about Pier's gear upgrades?

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:28 pm

Nah, I don't plan on doing this, ever. I don't prioritize achievements just because they're achievements - I like doing the ones that sound fun or interesting, but I ignore any that don't add to my gameplay experience, and this is one of them.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:10 am

littlerayl everything except the first blink, cause you get that automatically... So, dont's spend money&decorate your room at the pub with runes &bonechrams :wink:

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:28 pm

Nah, I don't plan on doing this, ever. I don't prioritize achievements just because they're achievements - I like doing the ones that sound fun or interesting, but I ignore any that don't add to my gameplay experience, and this is one of them.

To me it sounds like a challenge to me. This can be fun and interesting because it will make me think of other ways to go forward and make me try even harder to master the art of stealth.
It will for sure make the game more fun and challenging.

If you add playing on Very Hard plus ~~not killing any targets and~~ be a Ghost, that is a fun challenging in my eyes.
But I see this is as a challenge most people won't do - just me! :biggrin:

I like to make the game harder.

I still need to know if buying Pier's upgrades count as enhancements! D:

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:22 am

I did this. It was one of the first achievements I went for. But it wasn't really fun. I very much prefer being a bad-ass and putting on the hurt with all my fancy powers.

:sigh:

Such is the life of an achievement seeker.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:47 am

I did this. It was one of the first achievements I went for. But it wasn't really fun. I very much prefer being a bad-ass and putting on the hurt with all my fancy powers.

:sigh:

Such is the life of an achievement seeker.

It's more of, how to make the game last a bit longer. It's not that hard to be a bad-ass and hurting people with Stop Time, etc. And if you play this way, over and over. It's no challenge in that, sure it's fun but it's also fun to try challenge yourself with a much harder playthru, as it would be a "Thief" game where you had to sneak, no supernatural powers. But you know, your opinion is your opinion, it's not wrong or right. It is what it is, and what others do with their time or wish to do, is what they do, not wrong or right. Just is what it is.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:15 pm

Blink is already stupidly overpowered and you can pretty easily ghost the game if you don't care about side quests or runes/charms to find. On a second play-through I suspect you could get through the game in just a couple of hours using Blink alone. What makes the game even remotely challenging for stealth are all the optional things you will miss otherwise.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:48 am

I'm planning to make my second playthrough without using any of those supernatural powers. Thief style

I find it quite annoying that today in so many games player must have some kind of special abilities or powers. It's ok for some games, but why must every single game have them today? I really like how Dishonored was designed so that you don't even have to use them most of the time.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:47 am

I'm planning to make my second playthrough without using any of those supernatural powers. Thief style :biggrin:

I find it quite annoying that today in so many games player must have some kind of special abilities or powers. It's ok for some games, but why must every single game have them today? I really like how Dishonored was designed so that you don't even have to use them most of the time.

Awesome!

But yeah, I know what you mean. I really like how Dishonored was designed so you don't have to use all these supernatural powers. You can make the game real challenging if you want and it's kinda the point as so many 'cry' that this game was so easy, completed in 4 hours, of course, if you use all the powers and go for target a without exploring and using "here is where you go HUD" insted of playing without any huds at all, for the very first time (as I do).

Blink is already stupidly overpowered and you can pretty easily ghost the game if you don't care about side quests or runes/charms to find. On a second play-through I suspect you could get through the game in just a couple of hours using Blink alone. What makes the game even remotely challenging for stealth are all the optional things you will miss otherwise.

I'm sure you have messed up by only using level 1 Blink on Very Hard difficulty setting.
It's a difference between failing and getting thru it with just Blink compare to 'pause' &--#62; 'reload a previous save' .. I think many of us do this .. Reloading as fast as we mess up real bad if you want to be a 'Ghost'.

And if you do that! You can't claim it's easy-peasy! Try without ever dying, not reloading if you fail or mess up. And get out of that mess with just Blink before you get your head slashed off, because you die preeeetttyyy fast if you get hit in Very Hard!

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:50 am

I'm sure you have messed up by only using level 1 Blink on Very Hard difficulty setting.
It's a difference between failing and getting thru it with just Blink compare to 'pause' &--#62; 'reload a previous save' .. I think many of us do this .. Reloading as fast as we mess up real bad if you want to be a 'Ghost'.

And if you do that! You can't claim it's easy-peasy! Try without ever dying, not reloading if you fail or mess up. And get out of that mess with just Blink before you get your head slashed off, because you die preeeetttyyy fast if you get hit in Very Hard!

True, save scumming has some impact. However, Blink almost always lets you escape without much trouble if you don't care about your detection statistic... just find the nearest lamppost and bam, suddenly guards are oblivious to you.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:53 am

I just did this on a high chaos playthrough and it was really fun. You can buy equipment upgrades; I did and got the achievement.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:41 pm

I'm going through right now on Normal, buying nothing, using nothing but save scumming (now that I know that term I desperately want to stop), non-lethal and stealth...it is a sufficient challenge for a relative stealth newb. Plus I don't avoid guards. I need to have loot, which most of them carry. It can be alternately frustrating but fun when you wiggle out of your own straitjacket. Do it!

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:39 am

So you can still use bone charms for this achievement and use Blink 1 as much as you want?

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:19 am

So you can still use bone charms for this achievement and use Blink 1 as much as you want?

Yes.
Think of it this way: Don't get anything you need to spend runes for.

» Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:29 am

Im gonna do this on one of my play throughs. Im on the 2nd ill probably play this game another good 4 times.