Hmmm. Glitched achievement? Or he is just stupid. Got achievement Silence. So I won't need that save I did earlier to go back and try and get the achievement. I thought he got alerted when I was seen by soldiers.

Ooohhhooohhoo wait till you see the next level.

Dh1 suffers from the same issue where it's much much more fun if you play everything by ear. Cheevos and an easy quick save system do it harm.

Dish2 is merely a great game on paper. Everything in the description of the game would be great but just kind of soulless.

Just got to that last night. 20 hours so far. I think I may be scouring every nook and cranny a bit too much. Mission 6 is easiest to ghost.

Hadn't thought of that. I guess it would change things.

I've been going through it all far too slowly as well, plus abusing quick save/load too much. Looking for runes and bone charms and trying not to kill anyone. Actually irritated myself sometimes with my inability to just get on with it. It's not like I've ghosted every mission either, and even got lumbered with a fatality in one mission for killing one of those demon dog things - didn't think that would count.

A bit of both maybe. Sometimes I'm reloading because the game rules aren't transparent enough and things go wrong in ways that don't seem to make sense. Plus it's worth finding quite a few runes, which does involved scouring the areas quite thoroughly.

But there's also some OCD and perfectionism on my part, which is definitely me fault.

I went lethal on both of the dudes on Mission 6 after already having cracked the code. Just wanted the achievements.

Bollockoff wrote:

I recommend knocking out Stilton when you meet him in the garden just because it's the catalyst for something pretty cool you otherwise would'nt see.

Great shout. For definite. The game is much much better played in a stealthy way.

Well isn't Mission 7 lovely. Thanks for tip Bollo. Pretty sure I would've done that anyway as it's what I doing to everyone! Yes, even civilians. The world is asleep.

I refuse to believe anyone can just leave the game at Mission 7.

Burnout may be. It's genuinely one of my fav games I've played over last 5 years. I don't really know why I stopped. Too repetitive? Poor story? No connection to characters? I honestly don't know. Game play wise, bugs and flaws considering, it's great. It's fun. And I feel like I've just got to one of the most interesting points in the game. I already can't wait to play again with other character and different play style. I'm pretty sure I love it.

I just can't quite be bothered to start playing it again.

I started NG+ but only did the 1st mission again and decided not to bother. I want to piss about with different powers and effects but I just find it too difficult too often. There's so much there but the mechanics aren't quite slick enough.

Guards turn around too quickly and suddenly, or the button prompt for takedowns doesn't appear when I expect (if a guard is sitting down or leaning against something it refuses to let you take them out non-lethally most of the time). Then it's have a fight or reload or run away and wait. Also, the L2 button is doing far too much work, having all the items and powers assigned to it. Not sure what the solution is to that, but it makes things quite fiddly.

Then again, I've never really been comfortable with first person perspective in games - find the area of vision too narrow and control imprecise - so maybe I'm just not good at it.

Restarted last night as Corvo.

Got the trophy for no alarms first level... there's actually quite a straight forward path but it did take a lot of reloads.

Not sure how long I'll last softly softly but it's better now I'm more familiar with the gameplay.

Imo it'd be a better/more fun game if you had all powers from the start and runes were just for upgrades. The first had the same issue.