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#1  Edited By DanteTheRoman

Ten years ago, Ion Storm incorporated created a game published by Eidos entitled Thief: Deadly Shadows. It was a stealth based games that was set in a first person perspective. I was only eleven at the time myself, but I was able to get my hands on a copy of this game through a simple garage sale up the street from my home. At the time, I was overwhelmed by the mechanics and found the game far too complicated for me to enjoy. Soon after, it was packed away in a moving box as my family found a new place to call home. Over the summer my need to clean everything up grew overwhelming enough that I thought I'd try to tackle some of the moving boxes that never really got opened. That's when I pulled out this game, replayed it, and found the potential it was actually holding. It was able to get me to jump a few times, and I was able to grasp the mechanics that seemed to fly over my head when I was younger.

Some readers are totally confused by the title at this point, and are perplexed as to why I'm sitting here talking about a game that's almost a decade old. Well, Dishonored and Thief: Deadly Shadows share a lot of similarities. Not only do they have an eerie, first person steam punk style, but a lot of the weapons are the same. I even feel like stealth in Thief is just a little easier because of things like water arrows. The intelligence of the enemies seems to help me out a bit as well.

The coolest thing about Dishonored system centered around the magical powers that a story character grants you. Upgrading them throughout the game, it almost feels like cheating if you couldn't tell the game was designed for it. Early on, you enter an area within a mission and it stops you with a prompt, actually letting you know that there are a multitude of different paths that you could take to reach any of your objectives. That same area held at least five points of interest for the same mission too, which made it a stealthy playground in a way. It is still rather linear, like Thief. You still much stealth from point A to Point B and do something bad ass to continue the story line, but what you actually do depends on what sort of player you are. I actually felt bad for one of my targets. Instead of killing them, I had their tongues removed and they were sent away as slaves in one of the coal mines they owned. It made me wonder if death was the nicer option.

Advertised that you could go through the entire game without killing a soul seems to hold up. I've played the first three missions myself. Getting the 100 gamerscore achievement is a great incentive for players, if the added challenge to mess around with the game mechanics and try something unorthodox and new isn't enough to get your gamer going. The whole game just has this added charm of, "I'm a bad ass in a port town with a vendetta and it's dark out. Okay, let's go do something cool." Though the whole political story line doesn't seem to really pop out very well, the world will reel you into playing more and more of the title, just the hear more about the enigma that is The Outsider and see more of the crazy mechanical aspect of the world. Wishing there was more of both, I wouldn't say Dishonored is for everyone, but if you're a fan of Thief from back in the day, or want a stealth game that you can just mess around in, this one is definitely worthwhile. The stealth itself is what has me ready to see this one through to the end myself.

*Soon I'll have something else up. If it's not tonight or tomorrow morning, I may wait one more week. I've gone down the Pathfinder Dungeons and Dragons style of games' rabbit hole recently, and I've been wanting to write something comparing it with RPG gaming, if not video gaming in general. I might wait a week just to get one more session in for when I write. We'll see.*

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It's okay. I probably would have 'chickened out' myself. I put my YouTube post up, but I'm not going to link it or anything, since even with many recordings and editing I still hate how nervous I was through the whole thing. For me, it wasn't the fact that people were watching, but that I my professor was going to grade it.

It's a very unorthodox class. He has made us purchase a textbooks he has written himself, and we don't have to necessarily apply for a job, as I said up top, it could be an internship or something, but he does want us to apply for something towards our 'dream job'.

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Many eons ago, a length of two months, a junior in college walked into his first journalism class. "Different!" The professor said. This class was going to be entirely different than any other class he had taken before. Journalism 101 was going to revolutionize the way he believed the world to be.

That was cool since he didn't believe the world to be anything than stressful and entertaining at times. He was excited to learn how to write articles and to improve his writing skills past a dinky creative writing high school diploma. All of this came before the student had laid his eyes upon the syllabus. The student's dreams came crashing down around him like a glass ceiling had caved in. Never in all of his life was he forced to produce a YouTube video for a grade. Never in all his life was he assigned to publish an article. Never in all of his life had he even fathomed the idea of starting a blog.

Yet here I am. Dante has finally given in. My grade depends on it. That same professor has asked me to start a blog, explaining my dreams and aspirations, and what they mean to me. I feel as if he's not going to like my views by the end of this segment, but here goes. If you can't tell by now, whether or not it's any good, I love to write. I've wanted to write things since I learned that you can get paid for writing things. Being a hardcore GiantBomber, I've seen lots of their stuff. I've been a regular reader and view of the site for over two years. I've seen most of their Quick Looks, I've sat through every episode of their endurance runs and have read every article I mouse across. Though I grew up following the amazing Adam Sessler, these gentlemen are what made me decide to become a video game journalist of my own someday.

It seems as if the part where the professor won't like me has reached us finally. That's all about my belief on what journalism is, and what it means to me. Journalism is writing a story, it just happens that the story is about real things, people and is completely true. You don't have to make a profit for it. Though profit is nice, we can't all be the elitist anchor for 60 minutes who is able to cover all the brand new, hard hitting news. You have to just write an article you enjoy writing, and just put it out there. You shouldn't skip any steps though. You should edit it, and make it amazing to the best of your ability, but you should just do an article you enjoy and throw it out there. If you can find someone who wants it, great! Otherwise, just make sure people can read it. You need to make whatever skills you do have known as you have a good time practicing them.

All those eons ago, my professor also assigned me to use this blog to keep people up to date with my efforts as I look for an internship or apply for a job of some sort. So I'm going over to gamejournalismjobs.com and try to find someone to write for sometime this weekend. Until then, I'm going to post a few sort reviews here on games I've been playing recently, starting with Dishonored. News on my efforts will be posted after that review tomorrow, and any critical, positive advice and help would be appreciated, but I'm certainly not going to ask for it. For now, I'm busy revolutionizing this professor's revolution.

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This is fabulous! Now come February 7th we'll have a bunch of slightly happier nerds who have more money in their pocket, and possibly a renewed or restored faith in the Resident Evil series! It may only be marginal, but margins are bettering than absolutely nothing, am I correct? Honestly, this game sounds kinda cool.