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Basic Chunnel posted:Gamers haven't been this wrong about a VA regime since Deus Ex I spill my drink
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FYI, if you haven't played the Hitman mobile games, Hitman GO and Hitman Sniper, you really should. Especially Sniper, which just got a nice Christmas update/reskin. They're both $0.99 at the moment. Way worth it.
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WindyMan posted:FYI, if you haven't played the Hitman mobile games, Hitman GO and Hitman Sniper, you really should. Especially Sniper, which just got a nice Christmas update/reskin. They're both $0.99 at the moment. Way worth it. I haven't played Hitman Sniper but I can vouch for Hitman GO being great. Both the mobile and PC versions.
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CJacobs posted:I spill my drink you made a big mistake homeboy
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I need to use the bathroom. Hitman VA owned since forever. Also when I was killing everyone in the hotel with a cleaver a guy i was chasing started going "it's just a game it's just a game it's just a game" 
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Sniper is pretty good for what it is at a dollar. Aiming is a bit clunky though.
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FadedReality posted:I need to use the bathroom. Also  at that VA. I was replaying Sapienza last night and didn't knock out a guard right away. I got the "is that my phone or your phone?" line.
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God I forgot about that. Didn't Bateson find out he wasn't in Absolution from talking to a fan after the first trailer dropped? IO didn't even tell him. What shabby treatment, both of him and of the lady that plays Diana. Were IO deliberately trying to look like a bunch of dicks at that time? At least they seem to have learned from their mistakes.
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marktheando posted:Were IO deliberately trying to look like a bunch of dicks at that time? At least they seem to have learned from their mistakes. Iirc about half the team was fired after Absolution.
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Discendo Vox posted:Iirc about half the team was fired after Absolution. Seems like this was a good decision. Except for letting Jesper Kyd wander away. Also if you're into David Bateson and Vivian McKee have a look at what they do all Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5oIsivv6qc&t=107s.
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marktheando posted:God I forgot about that. Didn't Bateson find out he wasn't in Absolution from talking to a fan after the first trailer dropped? IO didn't even tell him. What shabby treatment, both of him and of the lady that plays Diana. Was it IO, or was it Square Enix? They had a mandate of the owner to make it a bigger IP, even if they had to 'reinvent' Hitman in the attempt: make it more linear, more cinematic, less hardcore, more story driven, more gritty. It was the same as the 'reinvention' of the Tomb Raider games (much more casual, cinematic and story driven than the originals) and the Thi4f game. Two other games from, surprise surprise, Square Enix too!
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Turin Turambar posted:Was it IO, or was it Square Enix? In SE's defense, I'm not sure classic Tomb Raider formula is something that would work in today's industry, especially after Uncharted . The reboot was definitely the right move for them there. Obviously this doesn't excuse changing Hitman, a series that has always had its niche.
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Turin Turambar posted:Was it IO, or was it Square Enix? It's not clear that SE was responsible for any of those changes- note that IOI was also responsible for the generally execrable Kane & Lynch games, and that the problems that came to a head in Absolution had been prominent in the design of previous hitman games. Grindhouse themes, a focus on cinematic, scripted kills, bullet time...Absolution looked an awful lot like what IOI had always wanted to make. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Dec 12, 2016 16:30
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I got all the Sniper challenges except for Over-Scoped in one single mission! drat I feel good.
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Does Overscoped not count targets killed on escalation missions? I've definitely killed more than 10.
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Mzbundifund posted:Does Overscoped not count targets killed on escalation missions? I've definitely killed more than 10. You gotta do 10 different targets. Killing the same poor bastard over and over counts as one.
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Turin Turambar posted:Was it IO, or was it Square Enix? Well, you are probably correct about the publisher mandate. But they still should have given Bateson a phone call or something. Just basic common courtesy when you have worked with someone for like a decade.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I got all the Sniper challenges except for Over-Scoped in one single mission! drat I feel good. Maybe a little late, but I made a contract on PC that makes it possible to get three of the Master Sniper challenges in one go. If you had killed eight previous targets via sniper rifle, you can even get them all at once. ID is 1-03-1283755-99. 
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marktheando posted:God I forgot about that. Didn't Bateson find out he wasn't in Absolution from talking to a fan after the first trailer dropped? IO didn't even tell him. What shabby treatment, both of him and of the lady that plays Diana.  " Cue a lot of hollering from fans (rightfully) and whomever was responsible realizing it would be a huge loving mistake and secretly getting him onboard and then releasing the bathroom trailer.
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Would you link that trailer?
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Boiled Water posted:Would you link that trailer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpJYM6rvJE
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When I first heard Bateson wasn't hired for Absolution that's when I decided not to buy it. 47 is modeled after him after all. I didn't know until much later they'd hired him after an outcry, but I'm still glad I skipped it. I'd be more interested to know if Contracts or Blood Money still hold up. Even though I played the gently caress out of them and 2 in my teenage years and SA'd everything, I get the feeling they probably didn't age well. It amazes me how Jesper Kyd managed to nail the tone of each game. Hitman 2 has a score worthy of a Bond film, and Contracts' score is sinister as gently caress with tracks like "Hong Kong Underground." I did my first run through of Colorado yesterday and really loved it. Starting in a hostile area where literally everyone is armed was a nice touch. I liked having a squalid environment after lots of glitz and glamor, and as always figuring out some of the assassination methods on a blind run is always fun. I was kind of bummed you can't impersonate Berg after killing him, but oh well. On replays I had some really serendipitous stuff like Graves just happened to be by the grandfather clock while I was upstairs waiting for Rose to leave his room. Free chandelier kill! MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Colorado is also probably the most fun to do a psychopath kill everyone run in as well. It's basically a John Wick simulator.
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I really like Contracts and think that almost all of the missions hold up very well, with the big exception being Bjarkov Bomb Most of the missions are limited, but decent, playgrounds, and the SA unlocks/gunfinding are fun to work towards. I don't like Blood Money- it's got a lot more spectacle, but many of the missions are more constrained/linear, with the areas where content was cut really obvious.
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themrguy posted:Colorado is also probably the most fun to do a psychopath kill everyone run in as well. It's basically a John Wick simulator. …especially if you brought equipment to do the WIcker Man challenge, at which point you can kill everyone without giving them any fair chance of retaliating or even spotting you. 
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SubponticatePoster posted:IIRC somebody tweeted or emailed him and he said "y'know, they haven't even asked me to do it I remember reading a post-mortem for absolution, I want say it was in pcgamer? not sure, that specifically blamed Bateson for most of the problems in Absolution and spent the article bitching about his performance. I thought it was really stupid and unfair, especially since Bateson's buttoned-up, professional delivery contrasted so ridiculously with everything that was going on in the game it was actually really entertaining, probably the best part of the game. I just loved the implied 'uggh, I can't believe I'm stuck in this nonsense' that 47 seemed to betray whenever he talked, it seemed fittingly in-character.
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Jack Trades posted:
You missed one. 
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I don't even know why they even care about collateral damage in a terrorist training camp. Kind of reminds me of a Splinter Cell level.
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WindyMan posted:You missed one. I accidentally pacified one guy on my way to getting the Wicker Man super power and put him in a dumpster and the game won't let me kill anyone while they're in a dumpster. 
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Restrained Crown Posse posted:Is there a usual time the updates drop on patch days? 14:00 GMT has been popular in the past.
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yup, steam just kicked over with a 1.3GB update e: the update also shows the next ET, The Guru, coming in 72 hours 
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Is this game good yet? After the first level came out and the reviews were mostly disappointing, I completely forgot about it.
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KillHour posted:Is this game good yet? After the first level came out and the reviews were mostly disappointing, I completely forgot about it. It was always good. I can't think of a better game that came out this year.
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marktheando posted:It was always good. I can't think of a better game that came out this year. I mean, that's a bit of hyperbole in a year that has DOOM and Titanfall 2, but yeah, it's a drat good game.
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KillHour posted:Is this game good yet? After the first level came out and the reviews were mostly disappointing, I completely forgot about it. The game has been good since the first level. It only received bad reviews due to a mixture of gaming journalists being completely out of touch with what is good as well as people getting mad over the DRM, which is slowly being phased out anyway and the most vocal complainers probably planned on pirating the game anyway.
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algebra testes posted:I mean, that's a bit of hyperbole in a year that has DOOM and Titanfall 2, but yeah, it's a drat good game. As good as DOOM was, I've gotten a lot more fun out of Hitman. I can't recall what else came out this year, but it blew DS3 out of the water for me even.
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So for someone that always loved the old Hitman games and related non-linear Hallmarks like Thief and DX, I should pick this up?
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