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Boiled Water posted:You know those people who were let go from IO Interactive? Turns out it's not a small bit of firing, but 40% of their staff. 
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Discendo Vox posted:Absolutely not. Yeah, Absolution is a loving terrible game that just makes me embarrassed for whoever thought it was cool, do not play it. Its seriously one of my biggest purchasing regrets in videogames and the defenses here boil down to 'its not that bad if somehow ignore the horribly bad stuff the game shoves in your face every ten seconds, it even reaches the dizzying heights of total mediocrity for a stealth game that waters down most of the stuff that makes Hitman interesting if you manage to ignore the awful, awful plot and aesthetics!' khwarezm fucked around with this message at 15:03 on May 26, 2017 |
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May 26, 2017 14:57
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khwarezm posted:Yeah, Absolution is a loving terrible game that just makes me embarrassed for whoever thought it was cool, do not play it. Counterpoint: it's literally 5$. Play it, if you don't like it, stop playing it. Life can be very easy.
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May 26, 2017 15:04
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shut up blegum posted:Counterpoint: it's literally 5$. Play it, if you don't like it, stop playing it. Life can be very easy. Counter-counterpoint, its literally not worth your time, get a better game like one of the old Thief games, one of the other Hitman games or MGSV.
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May 26, 2017 15:06
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quality bar of absolution: they tried to fire david bateson
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May 26, 2017 15:16
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Yeah unless something really lucky happens the only question is "how long will they keep the servers on" Also a Hitman movie would basically just be a heist movie
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May 26, 2017 18:04
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khwarezm posted:Counter-counterpoint, its literally not worth your time, get a better game like one of the old Thief games, one of the other Hitman games or MGSV. Counter-counter-counterpoint: What if you already played the poo poo out of those games? Absolution exists and it's cheap even if you can't find someone to bum a key off of. Anyway, news on the grapevine is that Squeenix is "negotiating with prospective external investors capable of ensuring that these titles carry on". It looks like an IP sale might be on the table. Certainly sounds like they'd at least be willing to license it.
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May 26, 2017 23:28
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I enjoyed Absolution a great deal once I began pretending it was a Kane and Lynch game.
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May 26, 2017 23:33
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poptart_fairy posted:I enjoyed Absolution a great deal once I began pretending it was a Kane and Lynch game. God knows they showed up enough in it.
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May 26, 2017 23:35
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StashAugustine posted:Yeah unless something really lucky happens the only question is "how long will they keep the servers on" I dunno, HITMAN was so well received that I think it will get picked up somewhere. If IO still has 60% of their staff, at the very least they'll probably unlock the game. We are for sure not getting a season 2 this year or possibly ever though, which sucks.
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May 26, 2017 23:43
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Tumble posted:I dunno, HITMAN was so well received that I think it will get picked up somewhere. If IO still has 60% of their staff, at the very least they'll probably unlock the game. It might not be up to them depending on who has the Hitman IP/responsibility and right for keeping the servers going. Sounds like bad times over there. A colleague who recently left our place to go and work for them lost his job, pretty lovely for him. Moved countries and everything.
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May 26, 2017 23:46
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/hitman-may-survive-sale-of-developer-io-interactiv/1100-6450365/ This sounds they are willing to part with the IP. If not, they certainly sound like they'd be open for a licensing agreement. This does not appear to be a "sit on an IP doing nothing with it while at the same time preventing anybody from using said IP by refusing any reasonable licensing deals" situation.
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May 26, 2017 23:54
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thebardyspoon posted:Sounds like bad times over there. A colleague who recently left our place to go and work for them lost his job, pretty lovely for him. Moved countries and everything. God that sucks so much, poor bastard
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May 27, 2017 00:26
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gently caress the other day I was like "Oh there must be some new hitman levels coming out soon... let me google it" gently caress
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May 27, 2017 07:14
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Tumble posted:I dunno, HITMAN was so well received that I think it will get picked up somewhere. If IO still has 60% of their staff, at the very least they'll probably unlock the game. Hitman season 2: the anime years. Developed by cap on
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May 27, 2017 10:00
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Do the Professional Mode rewards transfer over to Normal Mode once earned? I'm wondering whether I should rush through Pro before we're stuck just playing offline.
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May 28, 2017 14:54
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99 CENTS AMIGO posted:Do the Professional Mode rewards transfer over to Normal Mode once earned? I'm wondering whether I should rush through Pro before we're stuck just playing offline. Yes. All equipment unlocks are unlocked for all modes and maps. The only unlocks you don't get between normal and pro are the starting and pickup locations.
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May 28, 2017 15:02
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Possible hope? quote:"Our decision to withdraw from the IO Interactive business was the result of a review of our portfolio that we conducted as part of our effort to concentrate our resources in order to strengthen our development capabilities," Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda explained. "Because the firm is engaged in the development of Hitman and other renowned titles, we are negotiating with prospective external investors capable of ensuring that these titles carry on."
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May 28, 2017 22:29
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hope is a lie
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May 29, 2017 00:02
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double nine posted:hope is a lie Rebellion is built on hope.
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May 29, 2017 00:15
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Holy gently caress the tension. C'mon season two, you can do it.
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May 29, 2017 01:01
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It's so weird to me that Hitman season 2 was like the one game on my radar I was absolutely, definitely going to get at full price the instant it was available and it's the one game that might not get to that point. I hope I don't kill any other good franchises by wanting to give them money... 
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May 29, 2017 01:24
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Even if I get just 2 more episodes a year from now with no other content....c'mon Hitman. I can't have my second favorite stealth series die in a pauper's grave like my favorite one did.
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May 29, 2017 01:25
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Even if I get just 2 more episodes a year from now with no other content....c'mon Hitman. I can't have my second favorite stealth series die in a pauper's grave like my favorite one did. I was just trying to think of what stealth series you could be talking about, and realized none of them are doing that well: Deus Ex, Thief (at least they finished the original trilogy), Splinter Cell, Metal Gear. I heard Dishonored 2 also didn't sell as well as its predecessor, hopefully the series keeps going. Outside of Splinter Cell, which I haven't played, and Thief all of these series have had pretty solid entries too, so it seems like the genre just has a lot of trouble.
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May 29, 2017 01:41
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Metal Gear, but I guess I could have just as easily been talking about Deus Ex or Thief 
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I guess we have... Styx?
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May 29, 2017 03:45
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The Professional One Save Only thing on Colorado is going to cause some rage I can already tell. I actually cleared through SASO on it just to have that out of the way, but having four targets just creates so many opportunities for things to go wrong. Maybe I should do basic kills on the first three targets, save and then reload to get all the challenges associated with the surviving target, then rinse and repeat for the other three. No fast way to do this, really. Nice Van My Man posted:I heard Dishonored 2 also didn't sell as well as its predecessor, hopefully the series keeps going. This really disappointed me, because I thought Dishonored 2 was excellent and just assumed that everybody loved it and it was a giant hit  But I had the same thought about Hitman too 
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May 29, 2017 04:20
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Dishonored 2 was excellent, Bethesda just gave it the same marketing as an infinitely replayable Elder Scrolls/Fallout game and then acted shocked when that didn't work. My first go at New Game Plus with all the powers unlocked at once is some of the most fun I've had with a game in years.
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May 29, 2017 04:39
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Also wasn't there massive problems with the PC port on release?
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May 29, 2017 05:31
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Here's an extremely off topic (and probably extremely stupid) question. In Situs Inversus, if you destroy the heart, couldn't they just chuck in a normal heart? But like, backwards? Or just like a normal heart transplant but connect it to the right arteries etc.? I don't know why, but I thought about this last night
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shut up blegum posted:Here's an extremely off topic (and probably extremely stupid) question. In Situs Inversus, if you destroy the heart, couldn't they just chuck in a normal heart? But like, backwards? Or just like a normal heart transplant but connect it to the right arteries etc.? I don't know why, but I thought about this last night IIRC you can actually give normal organs to someone with situs inversus, it's just harder to perform the surgery. Makes for a cool level though
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May 29, 2017 07:19
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Some poking at the medical literature suggests that a situs inversus heart transplant has been performed a handful of times. If you're looking for a way to justify the plot, the following are also possible factors that might necessitate the use of a reversed heart: 1. Soders has one of the rarer subtypes of situs inversus that do, simply put, weird things to orientation of other organs. 2. Soders is very old and has already had one full heart transplant.
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May 29, 2017 07:43
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Reasons why Soders can't get another heart: 1. It makes throwing the heart in the trash slightly less cool, which wouldn't be right
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May 29, 2017 13:52
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May 29, 2017 14:23
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The hospital director will have to offer his own heart, honour demands it.
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HORMELCHILI posted:dudes on the op table, cut open, theyre taking out his heart for a new one. if you destroy the new one, theyre not gonna be able to put the lovely old one back in or get a new one in time No, he's getting some pre-surgery stem cell treatment or something.
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StashAugustine posted:Also wasn't there massive problems with the PC port on release? Yes, for some God forsaken reason they hosed up the pc port.
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May 29, 2017 23:43
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Mondian posted:Nakar come back and make more fun Hokkaido contracts tia  Nonlinear Mathematics (Sapienza-PC): 1-03-2591296-02 Technically a freeform contract but with a puzzler element to it. Four targets are spread far and wide throughout Sapienza, so use all means at your disposal to take them down any which way you like. NOTE: No portable accidents were used in creating this contract or setting my own time.
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If this truly is the end of Hitman 2016, then at the very least "Toss the final bosses' extremely rare transplant heart into a garbage bin" can go down as one of the greatest final levels in history.
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Nakar posted:You asked for it. Well not exactly because it's not Hokkaido, but you know what I mean. No, not what I asked for, but nice. Also, not fair to shave 30sec off your time while I'm figuring out the run  At least I'm fairly certainly I know exactly what you did!
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