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  • 5 years ago
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    Holy shit, what a rollercoaster the last few days with this game have been. It's on offer in the current Humble Monthly Bundle, but I decided to have a go with the free opening levels on PS4 (since my PC is hurting for hard drive space). It's a fucking blast, the finest stealth game I've played in years. It has all of the best elements of stealthing in MGSV, but further expanded on. I've always found Hitman's controls rather cumbersome, but here they're quite serviceable.

    Then I discovered what playing offline costs you. I knew the gist of the notoriety this game had attracted, but was foggy on the details, so I tried playing the first bit offline. The game seemed to work perfectly fine, and I greatly enjoyed myself. The next time I sat down to play I let it log me in. It wasn't immediately apparent what had changed, but I eventually figured it out. Each mission has "escalations," new conditions that force you to alter your strategy and further test your skills as you get more familiar with the level. They're insanely fun, but only available if you play online. Furthermore, you can't unlock any new gear for 47 unless you play online. They patched it so that you can play with already unlocked gear, but expending effort on such a half-measure almost feels more insulting. That's to say nothing of the Elusive Target missions that involve content that is only accessible for a single week before being scattered to the wind. Without online this is half a game. This is a single-player game that locks certain players out of certain content so they're pressured to participate in its garbage "live service" business model. It's absolutely grotesque and I refuse to give it any monetary support, and I'm glad the game sold poorly, despite how much talent the developer exhibited.

    The entire game is free on Steam for the next three days so I suppose I'll enjoy what time I can with it. Since the sequel is coming out in a couple weeks I've been keeping my ear to the ground trying to find out if IO will be using the same tactics again, now that Square Enix are no longer calling the shots. The fact that I haven't found any concrete info with the game only weeks away does not bode well in my opinion, but if IO winds up doing the right thing I recommend everyone consider picking it up. If you're not sold on the quality of the sequel, give the free content for this entry a whirl since there's nothing to lose.
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    • Sandvich
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      Editing … Oh FFS, near as I can tell it's not the whole game that's free for the next few days, just the "Halloween Pack!" Every update to this game is so confusing. And why not just call it the Colorado pack? Because you can disguise yourself as a scarecrow? That's as much Wizard of Oz as it is Halloween themed. Let me assassinate Jack Skellington dressed as Michael Myers, that would be a Halloween pack.
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    • Husky Wing
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      Editing … It's really only freely playable for a limited time? With episodes 1 and 2, they had limited free giveaways that lasted forever once you'd claimed them.
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    • Sandvich
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      Editing … Yep, until Nov 2. Steam and publishers really need to make it more clear when they're only making a portion of the game playable. Sometimes you get access to the entire game for 2-3 days and other times like with Doom you wind up putting a bunch of energy into freeing up hard drive space and burning through several GB's of your download cap only to discover you can only play an hour's worth of content.
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  • Erektionsite wrote his opinion about Hitman
    5 years ago
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    A good game actually but the always online-requirement is a joke.
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  • Chris Elliott wrote his opinion about Hitman
    6 years ago
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    One of the best examples of the stealth shooter genres that gave you a wide variety of ways to complete each mission by leaving the map open for the player to use
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  • 8 years ago
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    Jim Sterling just brought it to my attention that hitman 2016 needs an always-on connection in order for you to be able to play it.

    nope, I'm outta here. Bye
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … Nope, not interested. I'll get the game once all episodes are out and printed on a Blu-ray, thank you very much.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … As will I, but that will be a while, so I'll give the beta a shot and try it out
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  • 8 years ago
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    So fluffing excited! It takes fantastic stealth gameplay and challenges from Absolution and brings back sandboxy mission based gameplay from Silent Assassin and Blood Money. I hope they give you option to turn instinct off, at least stuff like show enemies through walls etc.
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    • Husky Wing
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      Editing … fluffing
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    • Tomi Valkonen
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      Editing … It would be fluffery if they dont give us option to turn instinct off like they did in Absolution.
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    • Husky Wing
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      Editing … I think a video I saw mentioned that it can be disabled. Maybe it's part of a higher difficulty setting.
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    • Tomi Valkonen
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      Editing … Absolution had option to turn certain aspects of instinct off (no matter what difficulty level I think) like see enemies through walls, see interactive objects, visible enemy predicted course etc. There is no reason to not have this option but you never know when game devs decide to force current gen features to you. Glad they already mentioned it then. God bless!
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    • Husky Wing
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      Editing … I wouldn't know too much, the only Hitman game I've completed was Absolution. I enjoyed it!
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    • Tomi Valkonen
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      Editing … Yeah, it's a treat. My favourite or second favourite in the series. Gameplay overall and storyline is above earlier games. In my mind only thing missing was sandboxy missions and propably more exotic locales.
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