Sorry for not taking the high heels and skin tight leather silhouettes seriously.
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New Hitman: Absolution trailer [By Visual Works (Final Fantasy CG), out now]
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Sorry for not taking the high heels and skin tight leather silhouettes seriously.
As i said about 95%
Revolutionary
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Play the Christmas party mission in Blood Money, it might change your tune.
Edit: actually, there was one in the Heaven-themed party too, wasn't there?
But yeah, I can see this being some kind of The Ship/Assassin's Creed type of multiplayer with the female assassins. Interesting...
dark_inferno
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Hitman fans : WTF is this shit?
All the others : Fuck yeah. Nuns in PVC overknee boots
Every good series goes to hell.
All the others : Fuck yeah. Nuns in PVC overknee boots
Every good series goes to hell.
I don't know, Deus Ex was pretty awesome.
I did not trust R*.. and I was right. So, we will see.
AHA-Lambda
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Closer to about 70 I'd say not 95. I can speak personally that I was very disappointed in it.
Even if I wasn't a fan of the series I'd still groan at the image because it's completely ridiculous.
female character? better dress them in thigh high boots and a leather catsuit.
Invisible War was so bad that people forgot about it over time.
Even you apparently!
Next you're going to tell me that was a Devil May Cry game inbetween 1 and 3.
If I was ever gifted this game on steam, I would consider playing it, just to see what the hubbub is aboutInvisible War was so bad that people forgot about it over time.
Even you apparently!
Demoncarnotaur
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Wtf is this?
If you haven't played 1 first then make sure you do that. This is one of those situations, I guess like Splinter Cell Conviction, where if you didn't play the older games then you won't realize what was stripped away and dumbed down. You'll just be playing a decent game in its own right, but won't realize it's not a *insert franchise here* game.
I have played both DX and DX:HR, tried the original out because of GAF, avoided IW for the same reason.
Must say I have grown to love this series thanks to GAF, can't say the same about some other recommendations
Magic Mushroom
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Well, Blood Money was filled with half-naked hookers and waitresses, so if anything this is an upgrade.
lol, I guess.
Ventilaator
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I cannot comprehend how people can say that this theoretical multiplayer mode theoretically compares to AC.
That lady has a rocket launcher, you guys. That's not what sneaky people use.
Assassins Creed multiplayer wasn't all that sneaky either. People spent more time in a full on sprint from my experience.
Ventilaator
Banned
So much fake outrage! Don't you guys remember the Hitman 2 trailers for the original xbox that featured ANDREW W.K's 'Get Ready to Kill' track? The entire marketing run was based on that track and non stop action footage of 47 killing people with automatic weapons and explosions
'omgggahhh mai super stelh serious gaime is compromised by maketing! damn you squrenix! modern gamine AaaaaAH!'
gaffers pls!
edit: 'omg mah artistic integrityy'
edit2: 'why u corrupt my serious game why SE'
'omgggahhh mai super stelh serious gaime is compromised by maketing! damn you squrenix! modern gamine AaaaaAH!'
gaffers pls!
edit: 'omg mah artistic integrityy'
edit2: 'why u corrupt my serious game why SE'
Ventilaator
Banned
You would have a point if the outrage was based on a trailer. We were shown a bad trailer, the developers went: "No, it's cool" and then showed us gameplay footage that looks terrible, and then did it again showing several different levels. None of them looked like they featured anything that makes this a Hitman game other than the lead character.
Still being all "No, it's cool. It's just marketing" is a sign of being blind. Fans of the game being upset about this is common fucking sense and the logical reaction, and they are not being jaded/hateful.
You're comparing tv commercials with previews and internet announcements that this has had the whole time. This game looks really bad so far, more than a TV trailer will show.
Works for me.
Invisible War was so bad that people forgot about it over time.
Even you apparently!
What is this 'Invisible War' you speak of? There were only two Deus Ex games, the original and Human Revolution. Just like there were only two Alien movies, Alien and Aliens (and possibly soon to be a third, if you count Prometheus). And two Terminator movies.
This is how I retain my sanity.
Previews are very positive so far.
Did you expect anything else? Are you new to the games industry? Previews are just hype pieces, always focusing on the positive aspects, while excluding any negative or critical assessments of the previewed product.
EDIT: By the way, this is not a comment on Hitman: Absolution, but on previews in general.
Haunted
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To be fair, we haven't seen a whole lot.
AHA-Lambda
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Have you ever seen a bad preview?
How is that mishandled? Dude, at some point you need to step back and realize that you're projecting your own hurt over an entire population. The original had a minigun that you could use to mow down the masses. Every one of them has had massive machine guns at your disposal. As much as you liked to go through the game with nothing but a knockout syringe, there was an entire arsenal available, and others aren't "playing it wrong" if they use that arsenal. It's there for a reason.
Hitman has always offered a great variety of options and this looks no different. It's also always played up the violence in trailers, because slowly memorizing guard patterns is not exciting and never will be.
At this point, there's no reason to repeat the same things every time they release an image or say anything. It's not going to change. Talk about a vocal minority...
Ventilaator
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This is a common defense people have. "Slowly memorizing guard patterns doesn't make for an interesting trailer" That defense also makes me wonder if people who use it have played Hitman before. They have shown footage of levels where you have to slowly memorize guard patterns, and people aren't still happy. That's because the shooty stuff they show in the trailers isn't Hitman, but the sneaky stuff they show in the gameplay STILL isn't Hitman.
Meccanical
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Yep.
You guys have fun with this.
You guys have fun with this.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I... what?
I'm looking forward to this game a lot, but even I have to admit... this looks iffy.
Still excited... for the single player. Curious about this. Maybe this isn't what we think it is.
Gareth Bale
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It really does. Their marketing campaign is doing the opposite of what they intend (or what I hope they intend!). I was more interested when the only thing we knew about it was the title.
Meccanical
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Only believe what you see, and what you see ain't what Hitman is supposed to be.
Strategically placed Gas cans in an orphanage?
C'mon son.
Yep, and after the Kane and Lynch games I have zero faith that they will turn this one around. Everything so far looks bad.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I have faith. At the end of the day, if IO provides a great game with a good story, it's enough for me to overlook a lot of the crappy PR and marketing stuff done so far. The Sniper Challenge they released was pretty fun. The videos make the game look pretty fun.
Max Payne 3 turned out great. And I really liked Conviction even though it wasn't much like the old games. As long as the end product turns out to be good, turns out to be fun, I'm good. And it seems like myriad of ways to play the game is still in there. I'm chalking a lot of what they're doing to just not doing great PR for the older fans of the franchise. Pretty sure the end product will be good.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Kotaku posted this image (originally from the Metro):
http://kotaku.com/5913925/what-does...fetish-nuns-have-to-do-with-hitman-absolution
http://kotaku.com/5913925/what-does...fetish-nuns-have-to-do-with-hitman-absolution
Meccanical
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It's a shame because I really like how the game looks visually.
But they are losing me on everything else.
But they are losing me on everything else.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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The game's visuals are pretty spectacular, especially the lighting and use of colour. It's gorgeous.
Yeah, to the gaming media. If that's ever a warning sign...
But to a Hitman fan the previews have not been positive. The content of what's written I mean. They may make a games journalist cream his casual pants but all I see is "invisible war...conviction"
Meccanical
Member
Well if they dropped the Hitman name and instead called it Pulp Fiction:The Game I would be down.
Kotaku posted this image (originally from the Metro):
http://kotaku.com/5913925/what-does...fetish-nuns-have-to-do-with-hitman-absolution
Fetish Nuns with machine guns?
Hmm, so that new Hitman game is probably about a monastery trying to take over the world. Nuns with rocket launchers. And hitman has to stop them.
Still sounds bad.
So we just use common sense. It looks like a duck. Swims like a duck. Quacks like a duck. It will get multiplayer with sexy nuns with machineguns + rocket launchers. There I said it.
I can see Square Enix marketing team right in front of me:
- "Hey, that new Hitman game, well, the stealth is boring and the singleplayer has no long-lasting appeal - we should add multiplayer"
- "Great idea. But multiple hitmans would look really stupid."
- "Yes, oh well - we could add nuns with rocket launchers"
- "Make them sexy nuns. That's it. That will sell the game. Definitely."
And when it doesn't sell, they won't even take the blame. They will say that "Hitman franchise isn't wanted anymore" and kill it.
Baron_Calamity
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I'll give you AC Brotherhood but ME 3 was terrible. The single player really needed those extra resources.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Sexy nuns armed with rocket launchers and machine guns is actually a fucking awesome idea. What world do you live on where none of that is not cool? It might not be all that workable here (though Blood Money gets pretty zany at times, so it's not that far off the mark), but on it's own, that is an amazing idea.
How is it anything like Pulp Fiction?
It's a HITMAN game. There is no place for freaking sexy nuns and rocket launchers.