# Dishonored - The bastard love child of a Bioshock, Thief and Deus Ex Menage a trois

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**Created:** [October 8, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishonored-the-bastard-love-child-of-a-bioshock-thief-and-deus-ex-menage-a-trois/637093 "2012-10-08T15:04:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishonored-the-bastard-love-child-of-a-bioshock-thief-and-deus-ex-menage-a-trois/637093/41 "2013-07-10T16:15:00Z")

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It must be a setting, because I played it on the Xbox, and had absolutely no trouble with the text. I have a great big TV, but not obscene by today’s standards or anything.

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**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishonored-the-bastard-love-child-of-a-bioshock-thief-and-deus-ex-menage-a-trois/637093/42 "2013-07-11T03:03:55Z")

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> [@Kinthalis](#):
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> Never finished this game, and I think my title WAY oversold this thing. It ain’t no Bioshock. Thief and Deus Ex feel insulted being used in the same sentence too.
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> The world had a lot of promise, but it hang, like a painting in the background. Lifeless and still. I Didn’t care about it or anyone in it enough to bother going much further than the second or third mission.
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> I believe these are the same guys working on the Thief reboot, which has me a bit worried.

It improves mechanically a lot after a few missions. The level design gets a lot more interesting towards the end of the game, and gaining a few powers makes the mechanics feel much better.

That said, the setting disappointed me throughout. The aesthetics are cool, but Dunwall is extremely lifeless and didn’t really feel like a “real” place in any way. And the plot is really predictable, never twists (except in very obvious ways), and the supernatural elements never paid off. I was expecting some sort of third act involving whales and The Outsider and saving the world. Nothing of the sort.

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