R.I.P. Hitman

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I had some problems with the game, but it was still my favorite game of 2016. Over 600 hours of playtime on it. I was looking forward to Season 2 so hard.

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F, you magnificent bastard.

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>>376674886
If you played it for 600 hours them you didn't have one issue with the game...really 600 hours?

rotate the left analog stick

what happened?

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SEASON TWO WHEN DAMMIT
This can't be happening.

>>376675896
SquareEnix basically told IoI to fuck off.

>>376674801
F
Maybe somebody will make a spiritual sequel called Hired crossdressing Killer

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I'm not gonna pay respects here. Hitman ain't dead. Our God wouldn't allow that.

Forget about season 2 for the time being. What happens with season 1? How long will server support continue?

Question is, will Square keep the Hitman license or sell it with IO?

I just got home from class and saw this news. Very depressed now and glad I poured myself a drink.

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>>376674801
Best game of 2016 by a huge margin, nothing has managed to surpass every single one of my expectations as hard as this game and Season 2 was my most hyped thing for 2017.

All this means is that it's time for a new hitman successor.

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>We will NEVER get the sniper briefcase in Hitman 2016.
pls no

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i dont want to let go

>>376675827
What?

So Squeenix has killed 2 of the 3 large stealth series' now.

>>376677737
And the other one is either kill or will just be a franchise zombie or pachinko machines.

>>376674801
fuck i just bought the game

>>376677908
I don't know what Splinter Cell has to do with pachinko.

isnt deus ex canned as well
ive also heard rumors that mass effect has been put on ice as well granted it needed to die anyways
with all these game series dying out will devs finally be forced to be original and make new games

>>376678198
No. They'll just reanimated dead franchises, making them into games that barely resemble their predecessors. Or they'll double down on the franchises that haven't died yet.

>>376678093
I'm thinking of Metal Gear, but Splinter Cell is kill too.
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THREAD THEME:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVXrBXGCYk8

>>376678307
fuck theve turned into hollywood

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>all my favorite series are dead

Is time to say goodbye.

I'm sorry guys, it's probably my fault. I'm kinda like Turin in that I bring misfortune to everything I like, and I just got into Hitman last year.

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>>376674801
>Thief is dead
>Deus Ex is dead
>Hitman is dead
>Kane and Lynch dead
>Mass Effect dead

In a single fucking day, 5 game series that I loved have been officially killed.

And we will never get Hitman Season 2.

>>376678663
dont go yet anon we still have bannerlord

>>376678719
surely next year right?

>>376678317
Blacklist was okay, but I doubt we'll see another game in the series. Ubisoft has gone full retard and doesn't even know what it's doing with its series anymore. Maybe they deserve this buyout.

I'm just another kind of girl
And I'm leaving for another kind of world
Shiny sky above inviting me
Don't be sorry 'cause
Tomorrow never dies

>>376678689
and whats worse is that most were killed off by sheer lack of quality and care
they just wanted to make money and by doing so they lost money because people are tired of their shit
and i guess that means that no one wants these games anymore so fucken can them

>>376674801
>It feels very incomplete, I said.
>At least they'll release more episodes, I said.

And now this shit comes along mere weeks after finishing the game, and now I can't help but notice the ridiculously small number of chapters compared to Blood Money, that will stay a small number possibly forever.

Is this what buyer's remorse feels like?

Square still owns the hitman brand some people have said. So even if IO finds a new publisher they won't be able to continue making hitman of any kind. As of now, unless square changes their mind the hitman series is officially dead.

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You guys can whine and complain when someone like EA buys IO. This doesnt mean anything just yet.

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>>376678458
>tfw the unlockable sniper from doing Porfessional Colorado plays that exact theme when you zoom in with it

>>376674801
F

>>376679165
it cant be good
nothing these days is good

>>376674801
>Agent 47 laid out with dual pistols
Isn't the point of being an assassin that nobody knows that you are a killer?

Haven't been keeping up with the series, can somebody explain the context?

>>376678689
Nothing lasts forever.

>>376679438
Spoilers for Blood Money.

Play the game if you want to know the context.

>>376679438
47 pretends to die, so he can kill the people that were looking for him on his funeral. Or something like that, it's been some time since I played Bloodmoney.

>>376679438
It's his enemies putting him to rest at his funeral, but he's not actually dead, just incapacitated by an ally who pretended to betray him. I think she's even the one who gives his "corpse" the guns.

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>>376674801
Wait, what is going on?
What happened?

>>376679438
He's being laid to rest by Assassins who took it as a chance to gawk over the corpse of the greatest assassin to have ever lived.

He's actually not dead, just paralyzed with a toxin, and given the guns and antidote by his old employer during the funeral.

If you press the buttons in the "credits", Agent 47 wakes up and murders a room full of a hundred assassins and a journalist, and successfully covers his tracks.

This all leads to the shitty plot of the incredibly shitty Hitman Absolution.

>>376680084
Use Google you braindead faggot

>>376680084
SE doesn't want to fund the studio anymore. No one knows if S2 is still going to be a thing or not.

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>>376674801
F

>>376680084
Square Enix wants to sell off the studio that makes Hitman, so apparently they don't want to support the franchise anymore

>>376680084
Square Enix laying off a bunch of its IPs, among them the Hitman team and a great deal many others.

Square Enix gets to keep the Hitman license, but lays off the company making the newest Hitman game after having promised at least two more Episode packs. Which means we are stuck with a cliffhanger and a 7-stage Hitman game when previous ones had at least 16.

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Isnt there a chance that someone buys IO and they save the studio? Like Sega did with Atlus, right guys? haha, please respond

>>376680202
fuck, that sucks.

>>376674801
We aren't even going to see the end of HITMAN's story.
Fuck me.

So does Square Enix still own the Hitman license or does IO?

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>Metal Gear died
>Hitman died
>Deus Ex died
>Thief died
>Metroid died
>Silent Hill died
>Mass Effect died
>Dead Space died
>Dark Souls died

>>376680367
Squenix i think.

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>>376680486
>Mass Effect died

That's a good thing.

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How did Square Enix even get its hands on so many western IPs? I mean, wasn't that the Final Fantasy only company? Who the hell let them put so many eggs in one hollowed basket?

>>376680486
at least dark souls died when they wanted it to

>>376680486
Don't forget.

>Warhammer Dawn of War died.
>Total War: Warhammer died.

Fuck Games Workshop for what they did with the license. Came the fuck out of nowhere.

>>376680486
>Dark Souls died
Who cares? They're just going to keep making Not Dark Souls, and we'll all enjoy it.

>>376680614
*they* wanted das to live forever
Miyazaki probably wanted for it to die after the first.

>>376680707
>Total Warhammer died
But the first expansion is coming out soon?

>>376680580
it didnt have to be though but there never was any hope to begin with

>>376680580
>implying Mass Effect wasn't a great game
That's how I know you are underage

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>>376680486
>>Dead Space died
it didn't deserve to go out in that way.

>>376680882
It also had an ending, even if it was a bad one.

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>>376680793
Games Workshop took away the license on many developers just this morning, came the fuck out of nowhere, due to complaints on several low-quality adaptations and the lack of control on the IP. So someone decided to fuck everything and take a bunch of licenses by force.

As I get it, this probably means the expansion isn't coming out at all.

>>376679162
Square is selling the IO studio only, not the Hitman IP. This means Hitman is dead or Absolution 2.

>>376680486
>Resident evil still somehow, somewhat alive
If REmake 2 is a fuck up then its dead tho

>>376680929
Post bigger boobs on this woman. Nipples too, if it's subtle.

>>376680975
Can I get a source my man?

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>>376681041
ill post what i got.

>>376680975
What? But Total Warhammer was selling like hotcakes and Dawn of War 3 at least had the chance of being bettered through expansions like Company of Heroes 2 did. What about those other games that were set to come out like Inquisitor Martyr or more teams for Blood Bowl 2?

>>376674801
what WHAT HAPPENED
>THAT PICTURE
>that res
>that quality
what happened to hitman and which game is this?

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RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPo5wWmKEaI

>>376681213
he died

>>376681213
That's Blood Money you idiot.

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>>376680486
you forgot Street Fighter
and Megaman
and Castlevania

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>>376681213

see
>>376680313
>>376680316

pic is hitman blood money.

>>376681213
That's Blood Money from 2006. Square is selling the developers of Hitman, so the newest Hitman game is probably being discontinued and the franchise as a whole is probably done for some time, if not ever.

>>376681334
amd lost planet
and dmc

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>>376681338
Hmmm. Thick, milky thighs. Is she an alien?

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>>376681392
Sim City
we forgot Sim City

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>>376681334
>>376681549
With so many franchises dying was there any decent new franchise to look forward to?


>>376681521
Peridot from steven universe, she is much better in fanarts than in the show, especially with their retarded size scaling.

>>376680156
>Diana goes through all that trouble to make sure he survives
>first thing he does next game is kill her

What the fuck were they thinking with that mission anyway?

>>376681213
Someone playing Blood Money on a toaster.

>eidos closes LGS during thief 2 gold development
>square selling IOI during hitman season 2
IT'S NOT FAIR

>>376682134
Diana and 47 stage her killing in absolution because the agency or whatever is being headed by some fat guy who is in cahoots with a cowboy to kidnap teenage girl version of 47 or something.

>>376682303
Oh, that makes it a little less shitty. Just couldn't bring myself to finish it to find out.

>>376682271
>Arkane makes a Hitman clone
I don't even know if this would be a good thing or not

>>376674801
Reminder that SE is literally murdering their western division to cover for Nomura.

>>376682303
He shot her for real though

>>376682565
Arkane hasn't proven they can make an actual stealth game yet. Dishonored is good but it's more Deus Ex with multiple play styles than a stealth game.

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>>376682303

>tfw absolution had all the elements to make a perfect Old man 47.

>ends up being a clusterfuck with all the characters designed and written by a hipster faggot and are all a bunch of morons.

>No Hitman set where 47 gets old and busted, trying to hide from people hunting the agency.

>No Hitman with 47's final quest to protect Diana and his baby girl clone.

>47 will never face an agent 48.

>>376680156
>This all leads to the shitty plot of the incredibly shitty Hitman Absolution


How so?

>>376682571
You guys should have bought FF XV :^)
You could have prevented this.

>>376678689
I'm the most pissed about Kane and Lynch.

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>>376680486
Can't wait for another collapse.

>>376674801
The business model fucked it. It shouldn't have been intro pack and full upgrade, each episode should have been equally priced.

>>376674801

Today I randomly decided to look up season 2 online to see if there's any new news then I find out about this. I've been a huge fan of the series since silent assassin and this is just depressing. The game has a special charm you don't see in other games. I love the dark comedy and how the game doesn't take it's self too seriously.

R.I.P. my nigga.
>>376678458

>>376680486
Welcome to Trump's Amerikkka

>>376683069
do you not remember contracts? he murders like 47 of himself

>>376680486
>>Metroid died
>Got a new fun game just last year
????

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>It went out with a bang
I mean, not really. Game is absolute shit.

Not sure why you nigs give a fuck about this franchise. One above-average entry in a sea of mediocrity.

>>376674801
>Sqaure Enix kills more Eidos games

Why did they even buy Edios?

not sure if i'd call it a bang, but just more of a decent note

Wait what? Am I being trolled?

Say it ain't so, I actually liked HITMAN™ and I was hoping they would expand the contract creation with season 2.

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>>376674801
>Metal Gear goes out with a whimper and becomes cash cow
>MD tanks and they put it on the shelf
>Andromeda is the final nail in the coffin of ME
>Now Hitman
Just burn it all down man
burn it all

Series should have ended with Blood Money

I guess I won't be buying any games from SE then.

RIP EIDOS.

>>376678689

Wasn't kane and lynch dead a long time ago? Fuck it wasn't even good, 1 was okay and 2 was shit.

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I SAID IT. I SAID IF FUCKING MONTHS AGO. SQEENIX IS THE FUCKING EA OF THE EAST, ANYTHING THAT'S NOT THEIR PRECIOUS FINAL FANTASY IS GOING TO GET BURNED TO THE GROUND. They don't want to make games anymore they want to make movies, but they're fucking shit at doing that so they'll gut everything in a vain attempt to make more films.

>>376687193
The multiplayer was fun and had a lot of potential.

Why is Squeenix cutting ties with IOI if Hitman wasn't a flop? Squeenix as a whole has been doing pretty well lately, between FF15, FF14, Tomb Raider, etc. The only relative "flop" lately was Mankind Divided.

yall are fucking idiots
theyve already made the content for season 2, its not going to just get thrown away, its gonna be released regardless to recoup losses

>>376687598
They have to recoup capex from the FF flop.

>>376687689
Wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.

>>376687598

FF15 got absolutely btfo P5, it was a flop.

I hate every single homolust faggot that bought a Final Fantasy game in their lives.

>>376675896
Didn't sell as well as they hoped. It seems I/O also took some expensive risks. Squeenix is saying they lost something like 4 million dollars because of the studio. So they're selling off I/O but they're going to keep the IP.

If there's ever going to be a Hitman again, it won't have anyone who worked on Blood Money or TM.

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>>376680486
Thanks Trump....

>>376688024
>they're selling off I/O but they're going to keep the IP.

Fucking zipperhead faggots.

>>376678317
but anon, Metal gear is Konami not SE

>>376674801
If only.

Square probably holds the rights to the IP. Expect them to dig it up at some point and turn it into a cover based shooter or something.

>>376688024
It didn't sell one billion copies so it's a "failure". Large publishers are fucking trash.

Can't IO just make definitely-not-Hitman if they get a different publisher?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Im7jh6Jh8

>>376688247
They could. They probably won't though. There's already a not-Hitman called Death to Spies anyway.

>>376688024
>4 million dollars

47 million dollars

>>376688398
I just read about it. Squeenix had a $43 million dollar loss last year, but not specifically because of Hitman. Probably has more to do with the complete fuckup that was FFXV and the ongoing fuckup that will be the FFVII remake.

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>all these delicious westacuck tears
Glorious

>>376684041
I would replace Early Access with roguelikes.

>>376688332
I hope they make Pin and Rod.

>>376688880
>celebrating when one of the few good Western games dies

>>376687193
Fuck you, I loved both.

>>376688251
That video completely misses the point. Hitman isn't about slick animations and pretty views. It's not fuckin Agent 47s Uncharted. Hitman is about the joy of exploring and exploiting the environment. The game is like a playground, and actually assassinating a target is just the last step in some kind of Rube Goldberg Murder Ritual.

You don't feel awesome because 47 looks cool and scowls a lot, you feel awesome because you get to set up the perfect kill and it goes off without a hitch and for a moment you feel like a goddamned genius.

>>376688982
>western
>good

>>376686979
Naw

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>>376688106

That's Square Enix's MO. It's also why we'll never get another fucking Ogre Battle or Tactics Ogre game. First Yasumi Matsuno left Quest Corporation with a few key people (Yoshida and Sakimoto if I remember right) and then later Square just straight up bought Quest and thus all of their IP. Then Square burnt Matsuno out on Final Fantasy 12 and pretty much fired him, which leaves exactly zero people capable of making a new Ogre game.

Fuck Square Enix.

>>376688238
So wait
By failure do they mean "we gained money overall but it didn't sell like we wanted so we're chopping your dick off" or "we actually lost money from this so we need to shut it down?"

>>376688024
>but they're going to keep the IP.

source for this info?

>>376674801
So did they released a full game yet?

>>376689061
>>376688880
>i dont like video games

then why the fuck are you here, shitposter?

>>376674801
F
Farewell Agent 47
U will be sorely missed by the ICA

>>376678830
>but I doubt we'll see another game in the series.
It will be at E3, just a hunch. I predict it will take some ideas from MGS V(Grim stops talking and puts on a sexy bikini) and Zelda(your guns break after 5 shots).

>>376689248
In January, where have you been.

>>376689185
The former. Though I'm of the opinion that they're selling IO Interactive because other projects tanked and Hitman isn't seen as that important to them so they can afford to sell the dev studio to make back on their losses

>>376689185

It's probably the latter, but I can guaran fucking tee that the expenses were in marketing. They expected to dump millions of dollars in advertising and recoup that on a... niche stealth game. That marketing isn't going to scale $1:$1 like a dudebro FPS that every 12 year old will play if they knew about it.

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>>376689276
I play GOOD games fucboi

>>376689185
The first one. Large companies do it all the time. Disney Infinity was making Disney money as far as I know but not MAHVEL MOVIE MONEY so they fired an entire studio.
Why make a little money when you can potentially make more money is their reasoning.

>>376689387
go away you reaction image loser

>>376689185
the first. remember when they were mad that Tomb Raider the reboot didn't sell some insane amount of copies?

>>376689197
they bought IO, why wouldn't they have bought the IP alongside them.

>>376689248
the full thing has been out for well past 6 months.

>>376688606
>Probably has more to do with the complete fuckup that was FFXV

FFXV has been an ongoing sinkhole in their pocket, not just last year. If you wanted to look at the true cost to SE you'd have to go back like a decade of Nomura's idiocy. It's not reflected just in 2016

>>376689589
It is really Nomura's fault? The game didn't even enter full production until around 2011 or something. That has to be the decision of a suit and not Nomura.

>>376681334
>Street Fighter
http://shoryuken.com/2016/11/25/capcom-planning-support-for-street-fighter-v-until-2020-main-focus-is-esports-presence/

I want it to die so goddamn much.

>>376689647
You can't put the blame on a single person when it comes to a huge project like that but them constantly making Nomura work on several different projects while several other FF directors were doing the equivalent of putting Milton in the basement or some phone shit probably didn't help.

>>376680580

I've never seen a snek drink before.

>>376689647
>That has to be the decision of a suit and not Nomura.

Nomura is basically a suit now, anon. It's not 1997, he's not making character designs anymore. He's a producer, manager, director.

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>>376689762
Three more years, cuck!

>>376674801
F
Silent assassin, Codename 47 and Contracts were my childhood. Such a brilliant bunch of games.
Haven't got to play the 2016 Hitman yet after I dropped Absolution about halfway in.

F for fuck SE and their terrible management.

>>376680486
add Half-life to that list as well

>>376690097
Half-Life died a LONG time ago.

>>376678689
>>376678663
>>376680486

Why do y'all want series to just continue forever? Isn't it ok for a series to end at some point? It still exists, you can always go back to it.

This mindset is the reason for the lack of creativity and originality in modern games, and why they keep rehashing the same shit over and over.

>>376674801
so franchises that are dead (or dead to their original fans) in the last couple years

THIEF

Hitman

Deus Ex

Prey (new one is good but unrelated to originals)

Thief

Dark Souls

Just Cause

>>376690295
Prey only had one previous game, though.

>>376690295
Glad i'm not the only one to think that DaS died after the first game, i mean, DaS2 has the "muh b-team" excuse, but the third game is just a fucking mess

>>376690423
Yeah it's on the list because the sequel was highly anticipated and was nearing completion when bethseda killed the studio making it. The demo sure as hell looked good and was a legit demo, not scripted or fake.

>>376690234
They're proven good series even if some of the newer ones were a let down or bad. Of course people are going to want more of them when newer games coming out aren't giving them what they want. Thief for instance only had 2 games that were similar. The third one was the start of the downfall and Thiaf might as well not even be a Thief game. There also aren't any good clones of it either. Dishonored isn't close enough to fill the same void.

>>376689340
>>376689521
oh

does it have event missions with Gary Busey in it

>>376690520
At least DS2 redeemed itself with the DLC a bit, and it also had a lot of production troubles aside from the "B team".

DS3 clearly had some development shenanigans as well, just look at how much the game changed in between the leaks and the final release. Where the fuck did the sacrifice bonfire/invasions mechanic and the world tendency mechanic go?

And don't get me started on the ""story""

>>376690612
I never played the original thief games but I'm a big fan of all the first person action/stealth exploration games that have come out recently

Deus Ex, Dishonored and Prey all sort of feel like games in the same subgenre to me. And I really love all those games, so I hope we either see more games like them or for the franchises to continue. Dishonored in particular I'd like to see more of the world and play as someone other than corvo/emily.

>>376690881
You should play Thief 1 and 2.

>>376690735
fugg i didn't even know about the world tendency thing, loved that in DeS.

Story is legit only in the first title, even if i found the nameless king to be pretty nice

>>376690935
This. played them last year and i've never seen a stealth game with such good sneak mechanics

>>376680486
Good, I hope the industry collapses.

>>376690935
>>376691043
This.
Thief beats out all the modern games that attempt to do stealth

>>376691043
nameless king is the only good addition DS3 made to the story of the series. Even the endings were shit, at least DS3 had Aldia's ending.

As for the world tendency there was a planned sacrifice mechanic where you impale the bodies of enemies and could use them to create bonfires, summon phantoms/invade other worlds and this would change the world in a couple of ways. It could change bosses, it could change enemy placements, and it could change the color of the sky as well I'm pretty sure

>>376690935
I don't like the stealth so much as I like the exploration and the freedom to approach situations creatively

Like in Prey today, I came across a locked door with a barred windos and I haven't been using any of the typhon brain mods so I figured it was blocked off because I was supposed to turn into a small object and jump through

then I had this crazy thought about using my nerf gun to touch the buttons on the computer screen and unlock the door

it fucking worked, I was flabberghasted for a couple minutes

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>tfw don't care when a series dies because it either had a good run or was going to turn to crap eventually

Nothing lasts forever, so all that matters is whether you enjoyed yourself.

>>376691317
You should play them anyway. Especially in the first game, tomb raiding is in quite a few levels. So you'll be running around dodging undead while trying to find what you're trying to steal. The maps are also fucking massive and it's amazing just exploring the levels looking for what you need to get. There's also an endless supply of fan missions. Both stealth and not stealth. Though if you liked stealth it would be even better.

>>376674801
TM had some issues but they were generally related to the shit surrounding the game and the way it was structured than the game itself which was solid as fuck.

F

So we all agree SELLING a fucking level just one as the full game was full retarded on io's part

>>376691623
Yes.

>>376691623
Came here to post this. When you give people a taste of your game's varied open levels, you don't restrict their ability to progress to new ones.

>>376678689
>cut a game into multiple entries on the assumption people will suck it up
>game bombs with a major complaint being the story ending halfway

I'm glad that such an abhorrent business practice got shat on but man why did it have to be DE?

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>>376680486
>top lel CoD 11 when will they stop LOL xD

>muh metroid 10, muh metal gear 5, muh silent hill 7 etc died WTF the gaming industry sux!!!!

>>376691813
Call of Duty is more mocked because an entry comes out every year (AssCreed too) more than there just being a lot of them.

>>376691623
>>376691637
>>376691716
I came here to see if people are just going to forgive and forget this

I don't care if the game is GOTY the business practice is anti-consumer so I give fuck all if it gets canned

>>376691623
>one as the full game was full retarded on io's part

It funded their development cycle, so not really. You got a good idea of what the rest of the game would be like from the first level (so basically, whether or not it was a piece of shit like Absolution) and then Steam refund it if you didn't like it.

It honestly speaks more about how IO was poor as a pauper and how Square Enix failed to do its job as a publisher (you know, giving studios money).

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>>376674801
>episodic releases
The series ended with Blood Money

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>>376678458
>>376678663

>>376691889
Assassin's Creed isn't annual any more.

>>376692052
It has been for quite a while though. And we don't know if they're going to stick with the longer cycle or not.

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>>376688024
>So they're selling off I/O
Good. Now I/O can make Hitman games under a hopefully better publis-
>but they're going to keep the IP.

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>>376690295
>Deus Ex
It still hurts.

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>>376676175
>good actor

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I haven't played anything after Blood Money. Anything else worth playing?

>>376680882
>Any ME was great besides ME1
That's how I know you're underage

>>376691623
It works for Hitman.
Play through a single level a lot, explore everything in it, taking a break and then coming back to a new one worked out pretty well for me personally, and being able to pick and choose what levels you what to buy isn't a bad thing in itself, I feel.

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>>376692869
Play Death to Spies 1 and 2.

>>376680329
I furiously masturbate while thinking about your broken dreams and hopes.
t. God

>>376675827
Are you retarded?

>>376692998
played them both, they aren't bad if you are a stealth type, but they don't even come close to the myriad of possibilities the hitman games had.

>>376674801
This literally isn't real. I'm literally going to kill myself if we literally don't get season 2.

F

This wasn't the worst ending for a series. I would have liked whatever story this one had to be finished and maybe some gigantic truly beyond anything we've seen mission at the end as a bang, but eh.

Honestly Blood Money was a better point to end the series, 2016 never really outshined Blood Money, just reached it at certain peaks.

BUT HEY! Hitman had it better than most serieses, most of the games are revolutionary for the genre in some way and are good.

>>376690295
3 of which come from the same publisher.

Square Enix is trash

>>376675987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

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Well that's enough of this game. What a piece of shit.

>>376693618
i know that feel senpai

such wasted potential, even rehashed old levels would have been fine, literally anything, but no, just "fuck you"

>>376693754
JC3 is square too, and it didn't sell good afaik, so make it 4 dead franchises.

>>376683069
>>376686556
And one of the missions in Hitman: Silent Assassin involves you killing agent 48 who is camping by a window with a sniper.

>>376693839
>LOOK MOM I POSTED IT AGAIN

>>376693851
Why can't Square Enix get their shit together?

kek at all the people saying that it was a great business model and the future

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>>376674801
>make GOTY 2016
>Get fucked
F

>>376693839
What's your point?

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>>376693851
>I need to know where the story leads
>I need to assassinate high profile individuals in exotic locations to get better killing utensils
>I need more of my bald labeled husbando
>I need to look for some of the best easter eggs in gaming

I need hitman season 2.

Well, i was eagerly waiting for season 2. I was wondering on what levels we'd get. Maybe one on a plane, maybe one in Rio de Janeiro. I guess i'll be waiting forever now. It was so good. It was so on the right path. Fucking retarded publishers with their astronomically high profit goals and studio meddling. Fuck this gay world.

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>>376674801
Whatever, no big deal, they'll just make...
>SE owns Hitman IP
fuck

>>376690234
Because nothing new gets made anymore.

>>376694224
The series is dead for a reason that's what

Coming soon form IO interactive: new IP called "Bald killer man"
Any similarities to the Hitman franchise are purely coincidental

>>376694589
What you're saying and the webm don't correlate like you want them to. You're only speaking nonsense.

>>376691317
>I don't like the stealth so much as I like the exploration and the freedom to approach situations creatively
Then you should still play Thief, because it puts those games to shame with that sort of game mechanic for creative exploration.

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>>376674801
Why didnt they let us have a safe house?

Everyone on their forums and everywhere was asking for it to see our gear but the devs refused to do anything the past games did.

>>376694589
Yeah, and that reason is because Square Enix is shit. When multiple titles coming out from the same publisher are shit maybe it's because of the publisher's meddling and incompetence rather than the developer's.

>Deus Ex MD
Shit port that went on sale for half price less than a year after launch
>JC3
Shit port with memory leakage issues that didn't meet sales expectations
>Thief
All around shit game that didn't meet sales expectations and made fans of the originals angry
>FFXV
Didn't meet sales expectations
>Hitman
Didn't meet sales expectations

The problem is SE. They're a shitty publisher. That's why they lost almost 50 million last year.

F
I really really enjoyed Hitman TM
Sad times

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>>376678689
>Kane and Lynch dead

Kane And lynch died because Square gave into angry parents and censored all the violence pixelating it like they do on the news.

Aint nobogy buying that stupid shit!

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>>376678830
>Ubisoft has gone full retard
How is that possible when ubisoft said their main focus in games is promoting Diversity and LGBT rights like games are supposed to do?

Watch Dogs 2 even taught tolerance of Islam to help get Hillary into the white house with an anti-Drumpf level, hard to believe she lost when Ubisoft one of the biggest AAA studios was behind her.

>>376680975
>Games Workshop took away the license on many developers just this morning, came the fuck out of nowhere, due to complaints on several low-quality adaptations and the lack of control on the IP. So someone decided to fuck
>everything and take a bunch of licenses by force.

>As I get it, this probably means the expansion isn't coming out at all.

I haven't found a single news link to back this news

>>376694927
/tg/ must know something about this

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>>376681334
add Dead rising to the list, when western devs make games, count on it destroying a franchise. Its literally never not happened.

>>376686970
they can still make metal gear games, noone needed Hideo kojima to make them with all his drama anyways.

>>376694646
I figured they'd want to make more of their kane & lynch style movie games instead.

>>376695062
Metroid?

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Well this blows.

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>>376687598
>Tomb Raider
That flopped anon, they literally had to give copies away free at release with video cards to get the numbers higher making it look like they were sales.

Noone gives a shit about crybaby croft written by an uber feminist who said her goal was to destroy everything men liked about the original character because the writer is a Jew.

Square Enix is shit and cancer, and always have been.
Literally EA level but of the east.

I truly despise them.

F for Hitman

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>>376694772
>>Deus Ex MD
>Shit port
Deus ex supported Black lives matter the only people who didnt buy it were racist nazis. The devs even said they didnt want white people buying their games on twitter.

>>376695312
>The devs even said they didnt want white people buying their games on twitter

Is this real? can't believe i missed that, now i'm going to buy their game at two bucks instead of five.

>posted a documentary of how well the game is
>how well they did overall and how happy they are about the game
>gets kicked out by the publishers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0SWaGIio_U

Fuck you squeenix. Give ioi the rights so they can finish the game we all want.

>>376695312
why did Serj join isis
I thought he liked armenians

>>376679636
Stick your one-liners far up your ass so that they can reach your head.

>>376695312
The game makes AUG LIVES MATTER people look like retards. It was a game about normal people paying the price for extremist cunts starting fights with each other and everyone else caught in the crossfire.

It's possible that whoever purchases IOI will purchase the rights to Hitman along with them.
Sadly, even with Hitman being as much of a slam dunk as it is, it doesn't pull more than 1000 players at once on Steam.
Given how unprofitable Hitman is, it's very unlikely we'll be seeing the next 2 seasons we were promised.

>>376695912
>Given how unprofitable Hitman is, it's very unlikely we'll be seeing the next 2 seasons we were promised.

IO did so well from Hitman they where able to buy a new office, and the game was considered by them to a be a roaring success. What does concurrent players matter in a single player game in the 'off-season' anyway?

>>376695684
you worry too much
you make yourself sad
you can't change fate
but don't feel so bad
enjoy it while you can
it's just like the weather

>>376696058
It was a "games as a service" game so not many people playing means that less people are likely to keep shelling out for whatever shit they're selling.

>>376680882
>>376692881
ME1 was the least shitty but it was still shit.

>>376674801

What you get for making a shitty "episodic" game.

Hopefully Final Fantasy 7 will go the same way

>just got the game
>elusive target
>fucked up

fug this sux man

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>>376676175
>Kojima purchases IOI and Hitman rights
>Starts his new reign as creative deity and publisher
>New golden era of gaming is ushered in
>F2P games are rounded up and gassed
>Hitman season 2 drops, first level is a fully detailed royal carribean-esque cruise ship, equipped with suitcases and dual silverballers Hitmans target is the Clintons on vacation
>50% of the US population buy both seasons of Hitman
>Kojima personally becomes the worlds first trillionaire and chink to get laid
>Second level is Square Enix office where you assassinate the CEO with a large dildo for horses
>Square Enix employees from CEOs to janitors commit seppuku due to dishonaru
>Each consecutive level released is so good global birthrates skyrocket and economy booms
>Final mission of season 3 is released
>Mission is to assassinate agent 48 in busy Times Square with most buildings having fully fleshed out interiors
Agent 48 is another player who is also hunting you
>Humanity is united under Kojimas Hitman
>Trips to mars are affordable as plane tickets
>Africa is still full of niggers
>Civilization is completely automated and the first game for the brain in a jar is Hitman VR


There is still hope...

>>376696668
>Kojima personally becomes the worlds first trillionaire and chink to get laid
mighty heh

>>376696209
> less people are likely to keep shelling out for whatever shit they're selling.

Like what? They weren't selling anything the season was over, literally nothing was being sold. It was just some elusive targets and incredibly minor and free content updates to provide something resembling content during the wait.

>>376689387

>weeb games
>good

>>376690295
You forgot MGS and Silent Hill(s)

>>376680202
it sounds like there is still HOPE

>>376696920
Never give up hope anon.

All these games underperformed and sold poorly which is in part the dev studios' fault marketing not withstanding (se not doing their job WELL here either). They simply all had shitty aspects that deserved and got flack for it.
On the same note Square Enix needs to be crucified for murdering all the Legacy of Kain new game attempts alone.

>>376680975
Somebody bamboozled you lad, new TWWH trailer just came out

>>376693754
>>376693964
i miss squaresoft
squenix a shit

>>376689387
>Nep/Senran player

Take all the BBC Mugi devours in and die.

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>>376674801

>>376689387
you mean: i am a pedophile and a loser

>>376689420
Fucking kikes

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>>376674801
2017 fucking sucks and we're barely halfway through.

>>376692471
I'll miss Diana and 47, but I still want a game about killing assholes without anyone noticing.

Can't wait for 47 to get his 2funny4u meme spouting, women agenda pushing prodige who's going to take over once he dies.

>>376700953
It's been pretty good for me 2bh

>>376692954
This.

>waaah I'll never buy it because it's Episodic
>w-wait, what the fuck, don't sell it out

You brought it upon yourself, /v/, shitposting left and right about a good game.

As someone who was really hopeful with the return to form Hitman™ was, I was so sad to hear the news.

Yeah it had flaws but I was really looking forward to season 2 addressing those issues.

>>376702787
hitman didnt do anything to promote any of the 68 genders like Mass Effect Andromeda did, its no wonder it failed since its made by nazis.

Ubisoft should take over the Hitman franchise, hopefully they'll be able to work out a deal with the Square Enix gooks who are destroying one of the best franchises in gaming history.

F

https://youtu.be/th6VQ7H3VZ0

>>376689647
It's mainly FFXIV's fault, it sucked SE's teams towards its fixing for its re-release as ARR so much that they didn't even have enough workforce left to develop their FFXIII sequels themselves.

>>376689929
>he's not making character designs anymore
Is this a bait?
Guess who designed MCs of WoFF, literally a last year title?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKeJKCelO1Q
Goodbye Hitman, at least you went out with a bang.

>>376680584
They bought Eidos.

>>376702958
>Mass Effect Andromeda
Ded

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>>376674801
Time to put 47 spices in the pasta.

>>376676053
Holy shit that looks like LOL, bamboozled me

>>376689326
This. They'll remake MGS V, only without the Japanese autism.

>>376690234
You can always tell a post is gonna be shit when you see "y'all" in it

Just so we're clear, the stuff about keeping the IP is complete speculation, right?

It's possible that Square Enix sell IO and the Hitman IP at the same time.

>>376680975
bullshit, there is even TW: Warhammer thread on /tg/ right now

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>>376674801
F, I hope Japan gets hit by two new atomic bombs for ruining a fine western company like IO.

>>376681549
At least you got cities skylines

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RITORNA A ME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5GnEFC-CnY

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We will never see the conclusion to this motherfucker's story.

>>376680580

cute snek

>>376704886
Very much likely since Squeenix realized they can't pump out their obscene money goals with the franchise.

>>376678663
fare thee well helper

>make absolution
>surprised when the next game doesn't sell well

More proof that Japgook publishers are fucking retarded. First they shat over Sleeping Dog's potential, now they shit over Hitman.

>>376678307
>They'll just reanimated dead franchises, making them into games that barely resemble their predecessors
What does SE has left from Eidos side?

Eidos used to be big so probably there's something... there's Anachronox that's waiting for part 2, project IGI, I believe Commandos games, Legacy of Kain and maybe Freedom Fighters. Tons of others as well but I don't think you can resurrect some of those and on top of it I'm not sure whether SE still holds rights to every single one of them.

Seriously after they kill Hitman and Deus Ex the only actually big title their western studios will have will be Tomb Raider.

>>376705784
mahvel

RIP suitcase, never ever.

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>last elusive target is released
>it's the CEO of SE

>>376705839
Mahvel may be big name in making blockbusters but it isn't a big name in videogames. When was the last time good marvel-based game was released, anyway?

>>376678689
>"The consumers are mouth-breathing brainlets, they will buy whatever! Look at CoD, look at the movie industry: Young Adult crap, superhero pieces of shit. They just print money!"
>"Just make a piece of shit. We will call it a trilogy/expanded universe. Cut it up for dlc. We pay for one story and split it in 3 pieces."
>"Trust me, I'm a genius. We are going to make a lot of money."

The fundemental mistake of the industry was not knowing who their customers were. They all wanted to target the lowest common denominator mass-market audience. The wanted the retards to buy their game. And everyone is trying it.

>Anime moe shit cancer
>Movies superhero/YA/remake
>Videogames...

The end result? Crash and burn, for all of them. All of these industries are making more money than ever, yet all I read about is one monumental failure after another.

>>376676334
>Forget about season 2 for the time being. What happens with season 1? How long will server support continue?
Fucking hell guess I gotta pirate the game I paid for just to be sure.I don't lose it forever

>>376706613
Why would you need to pirate it?

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F
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBXp0z4ETWI

>mfw Sony buys IO and Hitman.

wtf I thought season 2 was coming out soon

>>376695723
>It was a game about normal people paying the price for extremist cunts starting fights with each other and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
Can you maybe see why /pol/ wouldn't like it then?

>>376706829
I'd be pretty pissed. That would actually make me become a consolecuck.

This is the worst news

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>>376688251
>Those comments

is there even a point to picking up hitman 2016 at this point? i just look at all the elusive targets i missed out on and i feel like there's a lot i've missed

>>376678689
>K&L
Fuck, don't remind me. Even though second one was a weird game and ended abruptly from what i remember we still had a blast, especially that scene where you get caught and wake up naked in some kind of a fridge room all cut up and shit.

>>376708526
The elusive targets are 100% irrelevant, aside from giving you nice suits. The actual core missions is what the game is all about.

>>376688251
so blatantly crowbcat lite

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>>376674801
s-season 2?

Video games are dead.

IO will get a new investor, Christ, calm down you little bitches

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>>376709081
But will they keep the Hitman IP? Will we get Season 2?

So what happens when the servers go down?

>release the literal GOTY for last year
>your publisher drops you

square enix is looking even more retarded than usual.

also hitman isn't dead you retards. unless the new investors drop the season 2 plans that were already announced.

>>376694224
Original hit man you could never get away with that

>>376695312
Black lives matter isn't any less racist than nazis

>>376709349
Or Square Enix keeps the rights to the IP

>>376709306
;^)

This is why piracy is necessary

>>376709464
Yeah, you could. He's not showing you the part where he gets rid of every armed bodyguard before he starts recording that webm.

>>376709349
Not retarded this time - this makes sense.

- They can't fire Nomura due to Japanese culture
- They can't admit failure on their part due to Japanese culture
- FFXV bombed, really badly and cost over USD$500m to make (total figure, including remaking the engine twice and switching from Crystal Tools, the cost of Crystal tools is not included, but is also a heavy burden on SE.
- Eidos Montreal has had 2 bad games in a row, has a successful but currently 'bad news' IP and isn't in a 'hot' area - so selling them would make no money.
- IOI is close to several new Nordic publishers who will probably buy them, they have a successful series and a recent successful launch - they're prime sale material and SE will net the biggest return.

IOI isn't being sold because they failed, on the contrary, they're being sold as they can fetch a pretty penny compared to the rest of SE and they have to sell something to make ends meet (not really, just making investors happy, they're fiscally sound)

>>376708526
>i just look at all the elusive targets i missed out on and i feel like there's a lot i've missed
you didn't. The main game is the best part.

>>376674801
>R.I.P. Hitman

What exactly did I miss?

No I won't Google anything or read this thread, I'm already busy enough playing three games at the moment.

One of them is Tetris

>>376709796
Future Of Hitman Uncertain As Dev IO Interactive Put Up For Sale By Square Enix
IO Interactive and Square Enix to part ways; Hitman Season 2 in jeopardy.

>>376709306
uh? You can play it offline, or at least I played the prologue offline.

>>376674801
wait what happened

>>376674801
RIPman

>>376680580
that is a qt snek

>Done 11 Elusives
>Missed the last four or five due to laziness and feeling burnt out on the first season
>Need the signature suit with gloves but keep pushing it back
>Oops sorry no more elusives after this one
Well fuck

>>376709983
Not playing online apparently locks you out of a lot of content or something.

>>376678689
>Thief is dead
you fucking wish >>376698181

>>376683069
>punished 47

That would be cool

>>376710451
>>376710451
surely there will be some kind of crack that will unlock the signature suit right?

IT'S A FUCKING SINGLEPLAYER GAME, WHY ARE THEY LOCKING CONTENT LIKE THAT