Look Sir Droids posted:

it locks you out of Silent Assassin.

Look Sir Droids posted:

I'm assuming it's one map with several assassinations on it. Seems like more content than MGS Ground Zeroes. At half the cost.

Look Sir Droids posted:

I paid $5 and put 30 hrs in to it. At $15 I still would have been happy. The Hitman pricing doesn't concern me. I plan on buying the full version.

Look Sir Droids posted:

Is that deal still going?

Moartoast posted:

My only real concern with the release model for Hitman is the actual support for it. I'm a weirdo who genuinely enjoyed the new SW Battlefront enough to get its season pass (at a deep-rear end discount, obv) but holy good gravy have they done almost nothing to motivate continued interest in that game, even if the DLC packs poo poo diamonds, they'll land with a wet thud, because there's next to no momentum to keep the interest flowing.

The challenges and contracts and all that in Hitman seem designed to keep things moving, but if it takes more than like, a month (and a half, at most) for each new map(pack?) to come out, interest is going to probably die down fairly quickly.

Mierenneuker posted:

The video a goon posted earlier showed a straightforward save-load system, as in you return to the exact state you were in as you load a game. Just like it was in Silent Assassin, Contracts and Blood Money.

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

Other studio? Does IOI has multiple studios?

Mr. Fortitude posted:

There's not really much to the storyline in any of the games.

Codename 47: You're some clone who's been trained to kill since a kid who escapes during routine training, falls in with an agency who puts hits on people and then find out all of your major targets were part of the French Foreign Legion who were the genetic basis of 47. 47 gets called back to the asylum he escaped from, murders his clone brothers and then the professor who created him.

Silent Assassin: The brother of one of your targets in the first game kidnaps some priest and 47 comes out of retirement to perform hits and retrieve parts of a nuclear missile for him, his identity gets blown and he tries to kill 47, you kill him and save the priest.

Contracts: It was literally all a dream except for the final level.

Blood Money: Some FBI guy is the head of a rival agency who really wants 47 dead, so his death gets faked so he can kill the FBI guy at his own funeral.

Absolution: Turns out the Agency is corrupt and is training a little girl to be a supersoldier killer and 47 doesn't want her to go through the same things he did.

The series works best without much of a story. When the story becomes the focus of the game, like in Absolution then problems arise.

Mr. Fortitude posted:

Well yeah, but it was still mostly a dream.

Mr. Fortitude posted:

I'm pretty sure those kills were from past games. The fugu fish was from the first Japan level in Silent Assassin, the drowning was from C47/Contracts in the hotel and the strangulation was from the first real level of Blood Money I believe.

Discendo Vox posted:

You're right- I'm not sure which mission from Codename 47 is the basis for the sniper rifle scene at the start, though. It's one of the chinese ones, going by the sign. None of them gave you a silenced sniper rifle, I think.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

So i gambled and bought alekhines gun from gamestop. its crap. it plays like blood money on a budget but so much worse. the controls are overly complex and stiff. the frame rate is poo poo, the shooting and the stealth are bad. hell you cant even go postal because the aim retical and recoil and cover system are poo poo and wont allow it. i am so loving returning it.

I am posting this as warning for any bored hitman fans who want a hitman clone.

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

A proper Hitman film is an INTERPOL agent globetrotting to various crime scenes and getting stumped/making brilliant deductions before showing us the hit. Similar to Boondock Saints but with more focus on the mystery and technical prowess of the hit.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Just finished blood money, those last two levels were wank, and did the game just end with agent 47 getting his end away in a Chinese brothel?

Dandywalken posted:

Killing Diana was unacceptable.

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

Didn't they have something for Blood Money involving toasters and bathwater that got them poo poo for being A Bad Idea?

Discendo Vox posted:

Nckdictator posted:

That does raise a interesting question though: How do you market a Hitman game without coming off like a psychopath?

the black husserl posted:

Maybe, but not as easy as this. Blood money didn't have any tools that were remotely as strong as the new "chuck object at head instant KO" move. You had to sneak up behind someone and syringe them and that wasn't always easy.

Discendo Vox posted:

I've realized something important.