HITMAN IS SAVED; HITMAN IS SAVED; HITMAN IS SAVED; HITMAN IS

>>376807498
oh cool another year of that piece of shit getting shilled on here

can't wait for more amazing explanations on how selling an unfinished game is just the best, locking people out of content is super cool and forced online is amazing

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Right
I've had enough

>>376807679
Wow, one bad example of the games systems failing, amazing

I tried the same and gut blasted by 5 emptying their mags at me, you got lucky.

So supposedly it was squeenix's idea to go episodic.
Next they'll announce some form of kickstarter faggotry for their season 2.
It will be episodic.
It's just like poultry

>>376808026
Episodic format worked for Hitman.

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good worked hard for this suit

>>376807592
Because who the fuck cares? You either trust the company to deliver the content and that you want the content and you buy it, or you don't and you don't. Why can't you just make your own decisions instead of acting like you're being tricked?

>>376807592

lmaoing @ how fucking poor you are

>bawww im locked out of content ;__;

you have to buy something to use it lmao

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>>376808096
Didnt work for its sales.

>>376807498
>reliable sources say that IO Interactive keeps the rights to the Hitman IP

I doubt it, even then it's not even a confirmation so I have no idea why was this thread even made in the first place.

The game needed weapon customization like in blood money, but for that they would to have had more missions to make money to buy weapons/accessories, no matter what making it pay to play missions was a bad move

>>376808345

you must be retarded if you think over half a million sales is bad

>>376808438
Who would buy IO if they werent allowed to make a hitman game?

>>376808345
Must have been good enough or the devs wouldn't have got a bigger office.

>>376808532
Probably to make a carbon copy of Hitman that's not called Hitman.

>>376808529
>>376808535
600k at 15$ remember. Not millions at 50$ like the previous entries in the series.

>>376808345
I'd contribute those numbers more the apprehension of customers buying into another Hitman game after how shit Absolution was.

What concerns me is, is this people who bought the entire game or does it include people who just bought the first episode then fucked off?

>>376808345
>pc sales
>relevant

>>376808724
its steamspy so it would be people owning episode 1 of the base product
doesnt check for dlc stuff

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>>376807679
The only way to get away with it is to remove this guard before strangling the model. He used to post the same webm but wearing the Santa outfit and made the mistake of looking down the aisle in the first split second of the webm and this guard was missing. He's the first one to catch up to you and try to arrest you, he doesn't post that webm anymore after it got pointed out.

>>376808228
Looks straight out of a James bond game.

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>>376809105
yeah its so much better on consoles

>>376809301
does this take into account people who bought the physical disc for consoles?

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>>376809207
Except the guard is there you fucking retard

I never remove the guard

The whole point is to indicate how awful the NPC response time is

>>376807498
Oh boy I can't wait to pay again so I can play the second half of the game

>>376809383
You got your money's worth

If it's going to be liekt he first season then no thank you.

Out of all those episodes only Sapienza and Hokkaido were good. The price was really too much for the content that was released.

Besides I really really miss the darkness that older hitman games used to have.

47 used to feel like Grim Reaper wearing human skin, now he feels like Jason Bourne.

>>376809370
its from vgchartz,
its only physical copies doesnt account for psn numbers since sony doesnt release that
still, gives you an idea

>>376807592
REEEE WHY CAN'T I GET TF2 BETA BADGES UNLESS I PAY A MILLION BUCKS+ GIFT WRAP

>>376807592
I legitimately can't wait for another year of shitskin pirates sobbing into their keyboard because they can't play it.

>>376809373
So you made a webm of the same place twice instead of doing it in another area?

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>>376809373
Except he isn't there, you've been asked so many times to make a new webm and actually look behind you as you walk away but you won't do it because you know your little secret has been uncovered. You have the time to make the same webm three times in different outfits and difficulties but can't give us one tiny little webm to solidify your point.

>>376808624
>"Killer dude"
You play as the shadow client who's not copyrighted

>>376808651
It's hard to know how successful a game is just based on units sold. You would need to know revenue generated and what production + marketing costs were.

A game could be a multi million seller but if it sells most of those units at a deep discount it's not going to be as successful as a title that sound less but kept it's price longer.

>>376808651
Ye, and Absolution got 80% of the team fired and SE binned hitman until they saw the interest in "leaked" alpha footage.

>>376809748
>>376808651
While '16 got 2nd season greenlit and got IOI a new office.

>>376809568
Doesn't really give you an idea since the physical version didn't come out until 9 months after the digital version

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>>376807498
Does that mean we can get an actual proper game rather than episodic shit?

Im not autistic so I'd rather a real game than being sold a single level tha't justified with padded out 'challenges' like lmao kill someone with a bucket

>>376809748
That's because Absolution was made by a completely different team

>>376809892
well shit you're right

>hitman
More like shitman

LMAO

>>376808228
The Bangkok suit with gloves is my favourite. You can just see his muscles bulging, it gets my totally hetero rocks off so hard

>>376809953
>Does that mean we can get an actual proper game rather than episodic shit?
>Season 2

>>376809683
That car cutscene was the best. He's a cool dude.

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>>376810243
>tfw no Shadow Client spin off game that's more like Splinter Cell

>>376809804
I wouldnt say greenlitting dlc is that impressive compared to greenlitting a sequel.

>>376810331
That'd be great.

Worst part of the game for me is that they are clearly dry on ideas for unlocks.

>>376807498
https://trademarks.justia.com/784/28/hitman-78428222.html

>>376810551
True. Needs more weapons that are distinct enough and the suitcase too.

>>376808345
That's just the effect of Denuvo

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>>376807498
You know it's going to happen.

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>>376809301
>>376808651

>tfw got all hitman games for a pittance from the multiple square enix humble bundles
>people seriously post steam sales and think people bought those entries for 50$ each

>>376811225
I'm into it

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>>376811506
>mfw no one thinks this and you're just a retard that didn't read the thread

I really hope this is true. Getting out from under Square's thumb and keeping this flagship franchise would be ideal for IO.

>>376807592
/thread

>>376807498
That's great. Though I'm just too much of a Hitman fan that I need Jesper Kyd & native audio languages in specific countries back in the game.

>>376811648
Its a shame EU doesnt publish shit and all the studios are funded/ownded by foreign entities.
Even when finnish company makes Clash of Clans they instantly sell it off to tencent.

>>376808529
This is IO we are talking about

Funny enough Hitman: Absolution sold decently but was still a failure because of the insane costs it had to produce it.

>>376807679
>>376809373
Holy shit you're pathetic and literally BTFOd, this is priceless.

>>376811616
>no one thinks this
>accusing others for not reading the thread
lurk more

>>376808228
>want to get the game
>remember it's always online
>remember that i've already missed out on loads of elusive targets
>remember i'll never get that suit even though it's a singleplayer game

Guess I'll never play it then

>best atmosphere
>best missions
>best OST
>most fitting UI and graphics in the series
Contracts is the best game in the series, try to prove me wrong.
Protip:you can't.

>>376807592
Fpbp

Fuck this whole elusive target bullshit. Let players start the timer themselves.

Im not giving these dumb twats money when they want to lock content out from me based on a time limit I cant even trigger myself.

i wonder if there's a possibility to get jesper kyd back. his scores were such an integral part of the hitman experience

>>376811941
it pisses me off so much dude. all these fucking missions and voice lines just sitting in the game files collecting dust because IO and squenix are shit

time gated content is such pointless shit, especially in a singleplayer game.

this is why we need modders etc. eventually we'll get a crack or something that unlocks the missions. perhaps once IO decides to shut down the always online servers and royally fucks the game.

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does this mean they can finally delete denuvo and i can finally buy this game?

>>376812351
Just pirate it.

>>376807498
>Single player franchise
>Content blocked online
No thanks, fuck off

>I legitimately can't wait for another year of shitskin pirates sobbing into their keyboard because they can't play it.

isn't it cracked?

>>376811917
Just pirate it and play the rest of the game for free. It's still pretty good without online content.

I'm not getting my hopes up, especially when it's
>reliable sources
coming with this news.

Fellow 47 fans, this is actually an opportunity. A different publisher, that's from the west and isn't greedy and focused on anime games, may see the true value of the series and provide IO with much more funding than SE ever did. Maybe in a year we'll be laughing about how bad the SE era of Hitman TM was. We might even get Kyd back.

>>376812506
Yeah but you can't do any challenges to unlock stuff.

>>376812804
>Yeah but you can't do any challenges to unlock stuff.

how much content is locked with pirated copies?

>>376812746
>New publisher funds IO to make Freedom Fighters 2
>success of Hitman and FF2 heralds trillions for the new publisher
>Squeenix commits sudoku over shamefur dispray

>>376811940
Just checking in to say I agree with you. I'm really glad to see that there's someone else out there who appreciates even the UI as much as I do. It's simply perfect and fits 47 really well. The aesthetic of the game is what Hitman should have always been.

>>376812932
>square enix releases another commercial unsuccessful final fantasy game and then sells eidos montreal next

>>376813157
Thank you my man, good to see there's more of us. What's your favorite mission from the game? Beldingford Manor, hands down, for me. Traditions of the Trade is a close second.

>Game is "hated" on /v/ because piratefags cant play it

hmmm

>>376813160
>Eidos Montreal also retains the Deus Ex franchise, releases a fantastic and fitting end to the Jensen trilogy which leads directly into a remake/remaster of the original

Please God, make it happen!

>>376813289
>ignoring the buyfags locked out of timed content

really sautes my salmon senpai

>>376812916
You unlock items, weapons, starting locations & disguise, pick up points, contracts which are user made targets and the elusive targets.
Not sure about the escalations though.

They lock quite a lot behind the online. Hopefully one day they just remove the online shit because it's fucking stupid and I say this as somebody who owns the game.

>>376809539
>Grim reaper wearing human skin
I need to use the bathroom.

>>376813373
Wasn't IO going to unlock all the timed content by the end of the season?

>>376813289
It has been cracked, retard. And if you want online stuff you can buy only the cheap base game on sale and them pirate every "dlc" via creamAPI.

>>376813237
Hm, pretty hard to choose. I suppose it'd be Meat King's Party. Do you have a favourite OST track?

>>376809225
Check the superbunnyhop review, he talks about how Hitman is vidya's 007.

>>376813646
>Meat King's Party
Great taste, although every mission in the game is so well-designed and atmospheric that you can't go wrong.
>Do you have a favourite OST track?
Hard to say, but if I had to pick one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeEMlr_bb0Q&list=PL9087047C1887C20A&index=7

>>376813569
No.

>>376813837
Forgot to ask - what's our favourite OST track?

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>>376807498
this episodic bullshit needs to die. i'll go to io int. myself and install ransomware on their pc's till they agree to stop with this cash grab episodic crap.

>>376813837
>>376814036
Yeah every mission is unique and well-crafted in its own way.

This track is my favourite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYPBFIlt40

In terms of a more atmospheric "exploration theme" it'd be this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWjVrlGjZ2s&list=PL9087047C1887C20A&index=13

I don't think anyone could compose a better track for an eery hotel during a rainy night, it suits the level so well

>season one didn't unlock everything/pirated copies are still gimped

well that was ratio wasted

>>376814385
Excellent taste, Anon. The game would have been my favorite of all time if it had two missions in Hong Kong less, or at least had a few more missions, a shame it was rushed in development. As it stands, is in my top 10, but that's already great enough.

>>376807498
I told you cunts yesterday.

I bet Starbreeze buy it.

>>376814497
Thanks Anon, your taste is great too. Yeah the HK missions weren't as good as the rest of the game, if they really had to do some missions from previous games, Silent Assassin had some much better candidates, imagine An Invitation to a Party remade with the Contracts aesthetic and style, for example.

>>376814776
I liked the HK missions, but they were too short. I wish there were more missions, or if the Hong Kong missions were replaced (save for Lee Hong's Assassination).
Silent Assassin is an amazing game, at times I think it's better than Contracts, purely because of the variety it has. It also contains some of the best missions in the series, Invitation to a Party, Basement Killing, Death of Hannelore etc.
What brings it down for me is how mediocre some missions feel in comparison to those best ones. Basically all the missions in Istanbul, and of course, Hidden Valley and At the Gates.

>>376815020

I don't remember any mission in Istanbul

>>376815020
Yeah when people think of 47 as a globetrotting assassin, SA is the definitely best example of that. It does indeed have a lot of filler though. They were clearly still experimenting with the idea of levels that don't have any proper targets, something which only happened once in Contracts (and even so Asylum Aftermath was a strong start to the game) and then died out with BM, only to return in a terrible way in Absolution (remember the Suit level?).

>>376814202
keep crying

i for one like the episodic nature of Hitman

>>376815486
I meant those missions in the desert, culminating with Tunnel Rat, which is one of the worst missions in the series probably.

>>376815538
I agree. Contracts was a smaller game, but with less filler. I enjoyed each and every mission (as short as they were). It also has the best AI, it's not too harsh like in Silent Assassin, but not stupid like in Blood Money. It was just the right way. Contracts is definitely the most balanced game in the series.

>>376815693
Yeah Contracts' AI took SA's AI and made it much more relaxed while still maintaining that feeling that the guards will fuck your shit up if you act suspicious. Blood Money just removed that sense of having to be cautious completely.

>>376816346
Right. Also, the camera was too zoomed-in, at least for my liking.
I just wish more people played other games in the series, they usually play Blood Money and leave it at that. Silent Assassin and Contracts are both better.

>>376809657
Jesus Christ do I have to get on the game right now and make a webm of him fucking standing there?

He was always standing there. It takes about 15 seconds for what is called the "alerter" NPC to run to the guard, interact in their little conversation and have the guard move to the area where you committed the crime. That's how this game works

>>376809631
The point of the first webm was that professional difficulty does not make the AI more intelligent like fuckwits on /v/ have suggested

>>376807498
>sources say that IO Interactive keeps the rights to the Hitman IP
how is this saved?
the last 3 hitman games have progressivly got worse, to the point of hitman 2016 being follow the quest marker to kill a hit all while being half a game.
it's a worser game than absolution. only redeeming factor it has is larger level design.
IO have fucked up the series and I guess the original devs who made the first 3 games are long gone

>>376815693
2016 is objectively the most balanced game though, since you can actually run without getting shot.

From a mechanical and scoring perspective, 2016's only flaw is that it has a "never spotted" system rather than a witness system.

>>376816543
Please do, as you can see in the webm I posted, the aisle guard catches up to you if you don't remove him and the prompt to surrender comes up before you can get through the first set of double doors.

>>376816743
It's hardly its only flaw, you fucking shill.
Refer to >>376807592
And Contracts is the most balanced game, because it has no bullshit that 2016 has, no matter how big 2016's missions are.

>take a solo playing game and gate it behind always online bullshit
>if you lose connection for even a second you lose all progress
>"why are sales so bad?"

yeah the game is good, but fuck always online shit.

Why does the Elusive Targets trigger you all so much? It's an event. Do you all start crying when you miss a Christmas event or some pish like that?

>>376816795
Because you waited in your fucking webm for him to catch up with you

The change in 21 seconds in the webm is obvious

>>376816837
>Contracts is the most balanced game
i agree, best game of the franchise too.
The AI was as unforgiving as 2 and nowhere near as shit as BM onwards

>>376816721
>quest marker
Turn them off, casual.

>implying that BM was worse than Contracts and SA
Now that is some shit taste.

>>376815570
>>376815570
>i for one like the episodic nature of Hitman
Good for you. The majority of the consumerbase doesn't and it proved to cost the developers a lot.

>>376816471
I think part of it is because people generally find it difficult to adjust to the older games of any series, after being used to (usually easier and more casual-friendly) mechanics of newer games. I personally never understood that though, I went from Blood Money to SA and then Contracts without once getting pissed off over how the mechanics are harder and more unforgiving.

>>376817362
Same here, although I first played Contracts and then SA.

Faggots posting that one webm and MUH DRM

Every Hitman thread is the fucking same

>>376807592
>selling an unfinished game is just the best, locking people out of content is super cool and forced online is amazing
I don't care whether the game was good or not but if people here are willing to defend these distribution formats then this board has hit a new low.

>>376811917
Elusive Targets don't mean much, don't worry about em. The only reason to whine is if you're autistic and need to have access to every cosmetic in the game to complete your collection.

Functionally you can get all the same tools from normal gameplay, and the best suits are from the non-elusive content anyway.

>>376817590
No one is defending those tactics though.

They're defending the game itself.

>>376817590
>if people here are willing to defend these distribution formats then this board has hit a new low
People here were willing to defend the on-disc content restrictions in the ME2 and ME3. This shouldn't be a surprise.

>>376817019
Look at the minimap, not a single dot moves when the webm stalls. The webm just ate shit when I converted it. Still waiting for you to make this webm for me.

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>>376807498
I really want to believe you, but fuck getting my hopes up just to have them crushed later.

>>376817654
I disagree about the best suits but otherwise yeah

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>>376807679
>>376809373
>>376816543
>>376817019
you should kill yourself right now
i cannot believe people buy games only to shitpost about them

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>>376819203

>>376817654
>Elusive Targets don't mean much, don't worry about em. The only reason to whine is if you're autistic and need to have access to every cosmetic in the game to complete your collection.

...content you paid for is forever locked until IO says otherwise.
That's not autism, but your dismissal is pure anti-consumer corporatism at its finest.

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>new elusive target is playing Kane & Lynch while complaining that the devs of the game are focusing too much on the Hitman franchise instead
>meanwhile one of the guards is on the phone calling him a manchild for playing video games all day

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>>376819779
now you're in trouble man
your IP is already tracking, there's no escape

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>>376820672
Take a sit on my futa dick, faggot.