User blog comment:Essie Essex/Arkane Studios Announces Dishonored 2/@comment-26134760-20150615133445/@comment-5174994-20150615162350

I do hope that they don't sacrifice plot consistency or make the campaign really short to accomodate these two. The original Dishonored was really short, even if you're doing a no kill none detection run like I did. I want to be able to spend at least 10 hours completing Emily's campaign & 10 hours completing Corvo's. And I feel that is perfectly attainable. They know what makes the franchise great, so all that's needed now is for them to build on it & make it larger.

That's why I also feel it should be open-world. Don't get me wrong, I still want contained levels to explore, but I feel that a small hub world could be created with side-missions to do & runes to find. And I don't mean the size of the pub. I mean similar to the size of a conventional open-world. Obviously it wouldn't be anywhere near as large as say Skyrim or GTA, but I think they can manage a decent size.