Ghostmaster
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Hm... this business model could be really great, but I just wonder what the initial price and content will be. Hopefully it's more than just two or three levels at release.
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Hitman Trailer (Sequel, PS4 has exclusive DLC, December 8, 2015)
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Falchion
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Can't believe it's so soon for this being the big reveal. I want to see some of the environments because I'm sure they'll cram hundreds of NPC's in there which is cool.
The game will be priced at $60. No idea if that's a "season pass", considering the way the game is flowing with content.
it was a damn well made trailer
Pretty sure all good functioning adult gamers would agree that exclusive contracts are rather detrimental to gaming. Let everybody enjoy their version to the fullest extend.
WelfareBurger
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What!? This year!?
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DirtyManos
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I usually don't like CG trailers, but fuck, that was super slick. Like a Fincher flick or something.
Actually it probably helps gaming given the increased cost marketing/development. It sucks but what it is...
Denton
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Uhhh, this does not look like 47. He looked perfect in Absolution, what the hell?
Anyway, from design perspective things do sound good, and it sounds like it is not a reboot, but a sequel with rebooted name, which I like.
Please IO do not fuck this up. Absolution was enough for experiments.
Oh and exclusive anything of any sort needs to die in a fire.
edit - oh I just read the "live" "DLC" approach to development. Well, fuck. I just want a complete game
Anyway, from design perspective things do sound good, and it sounds like it is not a reboot, but a sequel with rebooted name, which I like.
Please IO do not fuck this up. Absolution was enough for experiments.
Oh and exclusive anything of any sort needs to die in a fire.
edit - oh I just read the "live" "DLC" approach to development. Well, fuck. I just want a complete game
Wait, so what is going on? It's an episodic structure but for contracts/missions instead of episodes? A contract/mission usually lasts 45-90 minutes, going by Hitman: Bloodmoney. Does that mean they will sell each contract individually? I am curious about when the physical release is, if this has an episodic structure. Hopefully all questions will be answered tomorrow.
Yes.
I imagine this is something like Resident Evil: Revelations 2. That game was cut up into episodes and sold as "bites", and then when all of the "bites" were out, a retail copy was released. This Hitman game is following that idea, at least in blueprint.
It seems they might be taking a "evolve the game as players play it" idea to the game, which was something originally planned for Hitman: Sniper, but scrapped, as the game appears to be one area with 150 missions in it. Seeing as that's the most recent Hitman game, and some of its ideas seemed to migrate to Hitman 6 - the evolving of the game idea is exactly the same idea they wanted for Sniper, but there has been no announcement of new downloadable contracts or stages being in the works since last years E3 - I imagine each "episode" of the game will have an area and a core target, but you can replay the areas with other goals in mind. At least, they kind of have to do that approach if each stage is coming once every few weeks. They should not want a repeat of Contracts mode like in Absolution: that petered up really goddamn quickly after the game launched.
All of this is an interesting experiment, but they kind of have to show off that the game is worth a $60 purchase when we know upfront that the title may not have many areas and targets at launch. I would not like this to be a repeat of a game like ArmA III in that all of its main bells and whistles come trickling out at such a pace you were better waiting for the game months after it came out to just play the whole thing instead of little drops every month or two.
Show me a game that has more promise than Absolution and have David Bateson and I'm on board.
EDIT: Also, according to the IGN stream post-Sony's event, Hitman 6 is NOT a reboot. It's set after Absolution.
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Sounds like it basically intends to be the most ambitious, high profile episodic game to date. A full retail game delivered in episodes (full contracts, with some story) that will release physically after the core campaign episodes have been delivered over several months. I'm sure full details come tomorrow with the gameplay premiere.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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That was a fantastic and well cut trailer! One of the best of E3 for sure.
Huh, weird. I remember IOI explaining they wanted to focus on Agent 47's 'earlier' years with Hitman 6 - back when the first concept art was released, I think. And Agent 47 does look a bit younger in the trailer than he did in Absolution.
Ah well. Good to have him back.
By the way, David Bateson IS confirmed as 47. Thank Gawd.
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MidnightCowboy
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If it's next gen Blood Money, it's already one of the best games ever made. I stand by that.
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Chance Hale
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Terrible compressed steam screenshot but Agent 47's head was perfect in the last game so I'm not sure why they changed it again unless it's a prequel.
Oh well, can't have a new Hitman game without a face lift.
So round and perfect! Still think Absolution 47 has the best head modelling in gaming.
Oh well, can't have a new Hitman game without a face lift.
littleworm
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Trailer was cool, if this plays like a new gen blood money, i'll be all over this.
Miles Quaritch
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Yeah, I trust them about as much as I trust High Voltage to deliver a game that works properly....
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Happy to see the Glacier engine coming back. IO straight up had some of the best lighting and atmosphere of the last gen. Hell, current gen games a lot of them don't come close. Absolution just oozed mood and atmosphere. One of the top-tier PS3 games in that regard.
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It was nice stylistically, but it wasn't a graphical leader so I'm a little baffled by why Square even makes in house engines when none of them are the best looking or do anything too unusual.
Denton
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Yep, 47 looked perfect in Absolution. Really wish they kept the look, he looks terrible in the trailer.
But Bateson is good news. Nice to see they learnt their lesson there at least, after that fuck up with Absolution. Hopefully Bateson will do full mocap this time around.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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After Absolution, I'm definitely not blindly going along in the hype. Sorry IO, burn me once...
They've been saying all the right things though...
Yeah, but saying the right things and doing them are two different things, especially since almost none of the team that worked on the first four Hitman games are still working at IO. I'll see come December if they are actually able to deliver a halfway decent Hitman game.
Net_Wrecker
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Well that episodic release structure sure takes a lot of air out of this announcement after being excited by that really well cut David Fincher's Hitman trailer.
So excited! Absolution had great ideas, but it relied completely on scripts. AI's wouldn't lift a finger until you positioned yourself at certain points in most of the rather linear and small levels. This is supposedly going back to the roots which means open non-linear and most of all huge levels.
It's part and parcel of gaming now.
But as with most of these exclusive missions they never usually add up to much. Just a nice bullet point for the game box. As long as the main bulk of the game has good missions I'm all good.
This was the best presented trailer of the day for me. So damm slick. If the game retains that sleek but grubby feel. I'll be very happy.
jaundicejuice
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The platform exclusive content isn't even the core problem of what's wrong with this.
What is this, triple A early access? This is worse than asking me to blindly buy a season pass, now they want me to blindly buy parts of a game and trust them, after Absolution, to deliver on the rest? Nope, not how this works. I'm fine with Io Interactive restarting the series if they're actually true to the core of what makes a Hitman game but you don't go from Absolution (as well as both Kane & Lynch games) to a game as a service and expect everyone to blindly jump on board. The only thing that's happened since Blood Money came out is the decline in output of Io Interactive. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Kane & Lynch: Dog Days, and Hitman: Absolution has only spent what coin their reputation had for me.
What is this, triple A early access? This is worse than asking me to blindly buy a season pass, now they want me to blindly buy parts of a game and trust them, after Absolution, to deliver on the rest? Nope, not how this works. I'm fine with Io Interactive restarting the series if they're actually true to the core of what makes a Hitman game but you don't go from Absolution (as well as both Kane & Lynch games) to a game as a service and expect everyone to blindly jump on board. The only thing that's happened since Blood Money came out is the decline in output of Io Interactive. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, Kane & Lynch: Dog Days, and Hitman: Absolution has only spent what coin their reputation had for me.