Talk:Dishonored: Death of the Outsider/@comment-16533050-20170613095227/@comment-1500935-20170615172740

@Geist

I understand that the episodic format has its advantages, but I still feel that KoD and BW, taken individually, were too short. This feeling was even more reinforced by the fact that each DLC had at least one mission based on a location of the main game, and The Surge could have been executed better. My main point on a standalone game: it gives developers plenty of time to work on a large ensemble and rectify any part of it when needed.

Talking about all the series' tie-ins (novels and comics), I agree with you. I find odd that even the comics has ties to DotO, even though it was designed as a contained story. I enjoy too contained story arcs without the necessity to tie everything together, it helps highlights some characters instead of some grander scheme. I guess the developers were not giving much thoughts at first.

As for the third novel, I'm not sure either what they intend to do with it. Maybe continuing the stories of Corvo and Emily as they track down the remaining witches? I would actually like for it to be a story of the two of them touring the Isles to restore her claim to the throne. It wouldn't even be linked to DotO except perhaps their track of Billie in Karnaca.

Still, the date and description were removed. Either the novel was canceled, or they're keeping it for something else and will push it back for later than February. Speaking of which, Harvey Smith said in one of the E3 interviews that DotO will be some sort of conclusion to an arc which debuted with Dis 1. In his words, what we've been served so far has been linked to Jessamine's murder. Whatever comes next (book or game) may not be a direct sequel.