Citing Lackluster Sales, Dishonored Franchise Is Being Shelved

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HoloDust said:

COKTOE said:
Well, that sucks. I really don't like Bethesda, so I decided a decade ago to never buy anything that had their name on it, even if they weren't the dev. I got Dishonored as a PS+ game, and played it last summer. Loved it. So much, I plat'd it and bought 2 of the 3 DLCs. Shortly after, I bought Dishonored 2, and plan to but it's DLC as well. It brought me around on at least buying games Bethesda merely publishes.

Arkane were good devs from the get go - Arx Fatalis is quite loved in CRPG community and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic was really fun game. I don't think that Bethesda put many creative constrains when they acquired them, though I personally don't find any of titles under Bethesda to be as good as when they were independent.

I looked up their body of work and it's smaller than I expected, which explains why I'm not familiar with them beyond Dishonored. They contributed to Call Of Duty: World At War ( my fav COD game ) and Bioshock 2, which I also enjoyed, but they've only made 5 full sized games, plus the dlc's for Dishonored 1 and 2. Dishonored came out in 2012 on last gen platforms, but it was probably my personal 2017 GOTY.