haha, it is such a fucking retarded feature, innit?

Hjernespreng Not really. It's meant to add challenge while not being overly demanding, as you are never forced to do it.

The Addiction 2 it still makes me feel like shit, i think yahtzee was right to put it in when you do a second run through or at least give people the option to disable it

Sounds like my father

@@DecisiveZoom you'll eventually have to talk to him, heart to heart if you ever want to find peace with him

Wait, so both Batman and Superman are scared of theme park mascots?

The Nightcorien Geek Might as well be.

I KNEW IT THEY BECAME FRIENDS NOT BECAUSE THEIR MOTHERS SHARED THE SAME NAME. THEY WERE JUST IRRATIONAL IDIOTS SCARED OF MASCOTS

He also called the new death star with 3 lasers and basically jinxed in Bayonetta onto SSB. It's unbelievable.

except noy

Well that went downhill fast...

huh

Nate Richards Silent Assassin?

Blue Shell Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Basically the disguises in that game are so bad and glitchy i've lost count of how many times I walked into a room in a disguise acting normal only to hear either "OPEN FIRE" or to have everyone run away

Nate Richards Oh, I see. So basically how the TF2 disguise should work?

Blue Shell It's like the disguise system in TF2 if when disguising yourself, a huge text appears saying "HE'S A SPY" hovering over your head

Blazer Ashbringer That sounds like it could work, I'll give it a try. Cheers

***** So does spice

no

not to mention.. your a killer.. killing should give you points.. if you kill all, no one talk.. idk, maybe its just me.

***** the point of being an assassin is you go in undetected, kill your target and make him 'disappear', and leave before anyone realizes that the dust has moved

assassins come in their own way.. some kill only the target.. some wipe out the block.. i sir, wipe out a 2mile radius, so i feel as though it should not be deducted. as long as i dont get caught i dont see the issue. =D

aproved

Then why call it Hitman anyway? When people are not interested in a certain game with a certain playstyle, why change of just for that audience? That makes no sense, its like saying "duh Splinter Cell is a Stealth game but its too difficulty for the Call of Duty audience so lets make it CoD with Splinter Crll slapped on it duh"

Suwat Saksri You know why? Money.

borko3fkovixAC exactly

I don't think Hitman is hardcore, well maybe the first two, but Contracts and Blood Money are not hardcore, to justify that, I should say that I spent dozens if not hundreds of hours in Contracts and Blood Money(definitely hundreds of ours with Blood Money). I also don't think Hitman should be like splinter cell, where you must ghost through and not be seen by anyone. The best part about Blood Money and Contracts is that social stealth aspect, instead of being unseen you got to blend in, get a disguise, explore the level, plan out your assassination and then try and execute your plan, that was fun. In Absolution, you just go in and kill your target, levels are too small and closed down to allow for any kind of planning, exploration is gone, now you cannot be seen for more than 5 seconds, it's basically Splinter Cell. Which is to say, it's not a bad game, it's just a bad Hitman game. I've seen some news about the next installment, as much as I remember, the developers said they are bringing back the sandbox, proper big sandbox, which is good, if they stick to their word and go through with. Damn, I wish for another Blood Money type of Hitman game, because by this point Blood Money's been completed many many many times, most if not all interactions discovered, would be good to get a new real Hitman game.

the other problem with purist mode is that the stealth is heavily broken and the disguise system is fucking pointless since u get spotted slower in ur suit than the actual uniform you just put on to disguise yourself with.

Except you still have instinct. You just don't have the gui element mana bar for it.

"Absolution forces you to kill everybody IT tells you to" Which, incidentally, would be the main targets, and no one else. It is possible to have a clean run in every mission. Killing others, or leaving them alone is your choice.

Christoph Brinkmann There are 4 people in the first mission that you must kill in the bullet time tutorial but other than that your definitely right.

Jimmy De'Souza I'm to awful at playing stealth games on high difficulties so I never knew that. Huh.

Jimmy De'Souza I wasn't a big fan of Absolution, but following around that guy for the first time, trying to find good spots to kill him and then realizing, "Shit, there's no one around, let's just kill him now", snapping his neck, and tossing him into the dumpster he was peeing on, was the first time in the series where I felt like a badass assassin. Maybe it's just how I played Blood Money, but half the time when I got through the mission I was like, "Well, I did it, I guess. That was pretty sloppy."

Christoph Brinkmann I think hes talking about the broken stealth mechanics and disguise system that 99% of the time forces you to shoot through some sections.

A lot of people say his reviews is just bashing, so I guess your worry is very well justified. I love his reviews, he is very insightful. The grindhouse remark, for example, is pretty clever. It explains many of the choices they made for the story that just didn't make much sense to me before.

Klamath2046 Yes! that is a distinction that seems lost in videogame journalism.

For me personally I weigh the pros n cons when he reviews a game and decide from there wether I think the game is worth my time and money believe it or not I've been generally pleased with the outcomes

He presents his biases pretty well, so it's not like he claiming to be absolutely right when he talks about a game. DWarren's strategy of weighing the pros and cons works because Yahtzee usually doesn't give an overall rating. He just gives you an idea of whats in it and how he feels about it

Mac Yeah but the flipside of that coin is the few games he actually recommends are probably going to be fucking awesome and almost always are in my opinion.

do you have any evidence for that? that's what I thought.

No it is shit.

@@Cosimia reason?

yup

He did not cut it off, it was just symbolical.

McAkkeezz there is a scee in the game where he takes a knife to the back of his head and he throws a flap of skin into the sink as well as blood. he cut it off.

+blockhead134 He did not cut it off completely, he just disfigured it.

+blockhead134 +McAkkeezz He only cut off 2 numbers the 47 at the end (hence the blinky red icon at the start of every mission). It does not help the fact that there is still a huge fucking barcode on the back of his head.

blood money made you think a ton more, walk into a room disguise as a guard but carry the wrong weapon and BAM you're dead, you couldn't really fight your way out of a situation and one more thing... YOU COULDN'T HIDE A SHOTGUN IN YOUR SUIT

4 syringes is hardly a medicine cabinet, and how exactly do you have to plan ahead when the game gives you free wallhacks that show where everyone is going? Blood Money required in-depth study of guard patrols and lines of sight, whereas Absolution was just a linear killfest in comparison.

I don't think you can but Assassin's Creed in with Hitman besides "assassination". They have their own styles. Assassin's Creed is assassinating like a swooping eagle, jumping in abosolutely flawless ~maybe~ avoiding guards. While Hitman is assassinating as the man behind the curtain, you kill your target while your not even in the room because you've set up a deathtrap.

blood money was soooo much better than absolution,,,, just because of the amount of handholding found in absolution.... giving you a small linear area and saying "which of these 4 methods will you use to kill 'this guy'"... whereas blood money gives you a huge open area and says "here's your target, do whatever" only graphics whores would prefer absolution and its COD style -on-the-rails- type of gameplay typical of this inbred generation of casual facebook gamers who need onscreen prompts to be able to do ANYTHING.

TheTwistedbeaver I been gaming for over 30 years and hate games like COD so keep your BS assumptions to yourself. Also, I never said Blood Money was bad and still stand by the fact that Hitman is one the few series that hasn't been ruined by modern gaming yet. Hitman is great and you aren't, now move along little boy.

***** Yeah, but the demo is supposed to show a game at its best.

***** well yeah, but I wasn't talking about the storyline. The gameplay for the demo just didn't click for me.

***** I accept the fact that your belief of my opinion being incorrect cannot be proven in a court of law.

***** If you feel bad for the people you kill, do you even play video games at all?

***** You do realise that they aren't people, right? They are just a clump of code represented as pixels on a 2d screen. They don't die, their health points just reach zero and their models ragdoll.

guys he had a tracker under the barcode and he cut it out

Terrorstanius Terror you've commented on every person who didn't know there was a tracker. A+ for effort, mate.

Kalo Kertesz gotta help inform my niggas