{"id":19378,"date":"2013-04-11T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T02:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19378"},"modified":"2013-04-12T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T06:36:09","slug":"dishonored-ep13-bath-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19378","title":{"rendered":"Dishonored EP13: Bath Assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DgadMJmjcC0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DgadMJmjcC0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like the designers just wanted to establish that Piero was a creep, and it didn&#8217;t occur to them that the players would want to respond in some way. Once you catch him spying on Callista in the bath, you&#8217;re forced into a conversation with him.  But you can&#8217;t really <strong>do<\/strong> anything. <\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t blackmail him, even though he has something you need. You can&#8217;t wait until later and tell Callista that she ought to watch out for this sort of thing. (I talked to her later and didn&#8217;t get the option. I don&#8217;t know what your dialog options are if you barge into the bathroom.) You can&#8217;t even tell anyone else about the situation.  <\/p>\n<p>Even if you didn&#8217;t want to script a branching sidequest where the player might blackmail Piero and also might optionally betray him later once they get what they want, there&#8217;s still so much you can do with this setup. Just letting the player ineffectually tell people would make for interesting character development. Maybe Pendleton would think it&#8217;s just the most <em>delicious<\/em> gossip that such a brilliant man is taken to such base behavior. Maybe Havelock doesn&#8217;t like it because it shows Piero lacks discipline. Martin would be offended by the immorality of it and see it as a religious problem.  Maybe all of them would urge you against taking action now, suggesting that they&#8217;ll deal with Piero once you kill the bad guy.  There: A tiny sip of characterization, the illusion of player choice, and a foreshadowing of the coming twist.<\/p>\n<p>Like the torture, like your alleged fatherhood of Emily, and like your supposed relationship with the late Empress, this is an interesting set-up with no delivery. This is why the game often felt so detached and emotionally vacant to me. The gameplay is fun, but even the characters themselves don&#8217;t seem to care about what&#8217;s going on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) It&#8217;s like the designers just wanted to establish that Piero was a creep, and it didn&#8217;t occur to them that the players would want to respond in some way. Once you catch him spying on Callista in the bath, you&#8217;re forced into a conversation with him. But you can&#8217;t really do anything. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-19378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-dishonored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}