Dishonored 3 leak met with trepidation by Arkane fans still reeling from Redfall

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News that Dishonored 3 is in development at Arkane has been met with trepidation by Arkane fans still reeling after Redfall. 

Leaked Microsoft documents (which also revealed evidence of a Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5/Xbox Series X release, Fallout 3 and Oblivion remasters, and a Xbox Series X refresh) featured a Bethesda title release schedule. It's a few years out of date, featuring release windows for titles like Starfield and the new Indiana Jones game that have already passed, but it also features evidence of new games in the Doom and Dishonored series.

Doom Year Zero and Dishonored 3 both appear in the schedule, alongside several codenames and unconfirmed licensed products. While you might expect news of a new game in the excellent Dishonored series to have ignited fans' excitement, however, some of them have been stung too recently to get truly on board with the project just yet.

In the comments under the news on the Dishonored subreddit, one commenter says that "I don't even know how to feel about this. I guess I am glad it's in development [...] no expectations though." That's not exactly the upswell of support I thought there'd be, and a common theme among these comments suggests why that might be: Redfall.

Even in this Arkane-friendly subreddit, several comments acknowledge that Redfall was not the game that anyone was hoping for. Several others do point out that these documents stem from before 2020, well before Redfall's very public failure, and that Dishonored has always been developed by Arkane Lyon, rather than the Austin, Texas team that created the co-op vampire game. That means that Dishonored 3 has likely been in pretty active development since Deathloop released in 2021.

Regardless of who developed what,