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At one point in Dishonoured you confront Michael Madsen's character, the assassin who killed the queen at the start. He's actually very guilty about it and he seems very world weary, he's willing to accept his fate. You can either kill him or spare him. You later play as him in these two DLC packs, following him from when he killed the queen to your final confrontation with him in the main game.
Now I murdered my way through Dishonoured. The only time I let people live normally was if I'd run out of everything except tranquilliser darts. However, I did let two targets live: One was a posh rich woman who I gave to a creepy stalker because I was playing as an evil dickhead and that seemed a fate worse than death. The other was the assassin who killed the queen because he was Michael Madsen.
So it surprised me when Corvo turned up and killed me at the end of the DLC. I started the first DLC pack as a pacifist because Madsen wanted redemption but that went out the window 5 minutes in because it's more fun to kill people (I do play it stealthily though). But it turns out that the DLC works the same way as the main game: kill everyone=bad ending, pacifism=good ending.
It would've been so much better if it used your Dishonoured save. Imagine playing it as a pacifist trying to achieve redemption only to be killed at the end because you were a dick when you were playing as Corvo. Or if you were like me and you spared Daud, then you play him as a character worse than any of the people you did kill. That would've been brilliant because now you know Madsen's side of the story but there's nothing you can do about it, your fate is sealed because of what you did in the main game.
The game itself is still fantastic though and I'd love a sequel.
You can get different endings, it's just like the main game really. Low chaos= Daud lives, high chaos= he dies, but I think this was a mistake. Like I said, they should've just used peoples original saves. That would've actually had an effect on the player.
Top man.
Top man. If you reach a million, you'll be exactly a million behind me.
Great game, though I enjoy Asylum slightly better. The point is: City has far more places to go, far more mobility to offer and far more characters from the Batman universe playing an active part in it. It's a lot fuller on content and requires a helluva lot more time before all Riddler's Trophies and whatnot have been found. But, Asylum, in its compactness, feels better written to me and it doesn't offer all that many parallel missions to divert my attention from the main storyline. I'm nitpicky, I know. ;-) In truth: they're both excellent games and I can't wait to get into Origins...
I have played Arkham City and I love everything about it except for the Joker. They made him out to be a comedy character instead of a dark deranged psychopath as he is portrayed in The Dark Knight. Everyone I know loves Heath Leger's dark portrayal of the character and since Arkham City came out around this time they should have known this is what fans want.
I couldn't disagree more, @Face. The Joker we got in TDK is but one incarnation amongst many. They brought in Hamil to voice the Joker in these games and since the early 90s his Joker really has been the clown prince of Gotham. The maniacal clown has, in fact, for the longest time been the Joker we got in comics as well. Ledger was great but it's written nowhere that his Joker should from now on be the exclusive template to model further Jokers on. Caesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Mark Hamil... they've all given us a Joker that combines dark comedy with death and terror. The Arkham games stay closer to the comics than to Nolan's universe and so Ledger's Joker would actually have felt a bit out of place in them.
To be fair, Mark has said he is retiring from the Joker several times before. I would hardly paint him as done just yet.
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Watch and listen to Baker's Joker monologue:
I care very, very much, considering I grew up on the Batman cartoons and the character himself is like a second father to me. Hamill IS Joker, and nobody else can ever dethrone him when it comes to that voice. Baker is good (I'll have to see how he is in Origins), but I think this guy on YouTube is just as great as him (if not better):
I could easily recognize. With Baker you have moments where he slips slightly out of the voice and is lighter toned when speaking, while the YouTuber is great, but doesn't have that magical timing Mark has to lay in the laughs and other things the Joker is known for. Mark has an unmistakable interpretation, and as he gets older it is easier and easier to tell him from others. His Joker has actually gotten better as the years have gone by.
I bought this the day it came out and it took me about 16 hours to beat. I kept it but haven't played it again until last night. It's one of my top five best games ever! It's rare that a video game actually makes me really care for our characters on an emotional level. The DLC for a new story comes out soon and I can't wait for it!
Death Stroke was a pain in the butt though
Whatever happened to playing cards?
While I'm really enjoying it, it is pretty similar to the last one. Best comparison would be the Ezio sequels in Assassin's Creed, it's a good game that takes what the last one did and built onto it. But it does just feel like something to play while we wait for the next proper game (the Rocksteady sequel).
Still, the story is intriguing, the city is nice (even if it is almost completely lifeless, and half of it is just Arkham City), and the combat is as good as ever. Voice acting is brilliant too, the bloke who plays Joker is the default voice in Saints Row and the new Batman was Ezio in Assassin's Creed but I'd never have been able to tell if I didn't already know.
I still play poker fairly regularly.