Anyone feels Hitman sometimes seem like a massacre terrorist simulator instead?

[Amplifier]

the immensely large crowds, the freedom to play however you want... including being able to just stroll into the middle of 200 people and suddenly whip out a machinegun and go crazy rambo. Especially when you fail an objective, and then be like, ''what the f***', screw it''

It feels so wrong yet so satisfying.
Or perhaps it's the thrill of trying to shoot down everyone in your way as you rush to the target, like some third person action shooter, but with tons of civilians and smart AI to add to the fun.

Sometimes I wonder how Hitman gets away everytime from zero media controversy unlike GTA, when really, it's worse

[Artemyx]

Hitman is meant to be played as a silent assassin =)
For the right way, you must not kill anybody but the targets and you must not be seen by anybody... So hitman is no longer a terrorist if you play this way
Anyway, Hit man is a clone, so well, he have a few emotions, but he is merciless

In gta, killing people is the right way, or at least the way that the more people choose.
Hitman is a stealth game

[knighttime]

i read your entire post and what it seems your trying to do is attract unwanted attention from the media why would you do that? screw the media and what they "think" the media is a cancer. btw me and a lot of people love this game so instead why not just love it and enjoy it? like artemyx said hitman is a silent assassin not a terrorist so no worries.

[Time Crowdfunding for Elder]

The game encourages you to play like a silent assassin, not a crazed terrorist.

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by knighttime:

i read your entire post and what it seems your trying to do is attract unwanted attention from the media why would you do that? screw the media and what they "think" the media is a cancer. btw me and a lot of people love this game so instead why not just love it and enjoy it? like artemyx said hitman is a silent assassin not a terrorist so no worries.

there's a reason why games like GTA do what they do. For instance, GTA V's torture scene. Or CoD MW2's No Russian level.

Raising controversy gives the games free publicity and might attract negativity but also attract more people to want to play the game

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by Artemyx:

Hitman is meant to be played as a silent assassin =)
For the right way, you must not kill anybody but the targets and you must not be seen by anybody... So hitman is no longer a terrorist if you play this way
Anyway, Hit man is a clone, so well, he have a few emotions, but he is merciless

In gta, killing people is the right way, or at least the way that the more people choose.
Hitman is a stealth game

It is, and not saying I don't play it that way, but it just feels so amusing to go loud sometimes. I think they upped 47's hp this time round, so you can actually survive massacring everyone and getting away with it. I sure did.

Also another biggest unique point about the Hitman series I feel, is the sheer amount of civilian crowds the game is able to put out all at once. Remember Murder of Crows in BM? Oh man.

No other game does it, not even GTA can handle such sheer volume.

[cerebus23]

Hitman is meant to be played how the hell ever you want to.

Which is why i went for homicidal mainiac in BM. Cererfully staking around levels slaughtering everyone.

Hitman 2016 was the game that decided to encourage, "a proper way to play" silent assasin no bodies, suit only etc. And murdering everyone, because they all sinners and need to be punished, nets you a negative score you even divinely punish a few dozen people nm the 100 plus people on each map.

And while the score means jack all to your unllocks and etc, it does mean kill em all runs will never see you grace the top of the leaderboards, even if noone ever saw you murdering the whole map, Which should be praised that is a TON of work

[goka9696]

Because there is no controversy here.

All assassination targets are criminals or people that in one way or another deserve to die.

You are discouraged from killing innocent people.

There is no reason to murder innocents other than for kicks.

That's why Hitman is not in the media.

[Squeakret Squirrel]

Hitman is all about being a hyper adaptive assassian, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and have the game yell at you for being such a terrible assassian and rank you stright up zero on the score, Then have your target get locked-down or attempt to escape putting the mission at risk.

GTA is all about going crazy and getting money to do it, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and pick up the cash from their corpses, Then proceed to pick up a hooker and get laid before shooting her as well and getting all your money back.


You see the differnce is in the consquences, It's not that you CAN do it, It's that you really shouldent do it.

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by Kilo:

Hitman is all about being a hyper adaptive assassian, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and have the game yell at you for being such a terrible assassian and rank you stright up zero on the score, Then have your target get locked-down or attempt to escape putting the mission at risk.

GTA is all about going crazy and getting money to do it, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and pick up the cash from their corpses, Then proceed to pick up a hooker and get laid before shooting her as well and getting all your money back.


You see the differnce is in the consquences, It's not that you CAN do it, It's that you really shouldent do it.

actually funny thing is, for BOTH games, it is optional. You can avoid killing any innocent civilians in the street for GTA as well. Almost all the GTA missions are very specific in targets and bad people to kill (apart from guards but what the hell, you subdue random people in Hitman too). It's up to the player on whether they want to be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or not, even as Trevor.
The same even applies for MW2, where the No Russian mission is optional anyway. There's always a choice.

[SmithDoc]

Originally posted by lnconsequentiaI:

Originally posted by Kilo:

Hitman is all about being a hyper adaptive assassian, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and have the game yell at you for being such a terrible assassian and rank you stright up zero on the score, Then have your target get locked-down or attempt to escape putting the mission at risk.

GTA is all about going crazy and getting money to do it, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and pick up the cash from their corpses, Then proceed to pick up a hooker and get laid before shooting her as well and getting all your money back.


You see the differnce is in the consquences, It's not that you CAN do it, It's that you really shouldent do it.

actually funny thing is, for BOTH games, it is optional. You can avoid killing any innocent civilians in the street for GTA as well. Almost all the GTA missions are very specific in targets and bad people to kill (apart from guards but what the hell, you subdue random people in Hitman too). It's up to the player on whether they want to be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or not, even as Trevor.
The same even applies for MW2, where the No Russian mission is optional anyway. There's always a choice.

i think the difference he was getting at is that GTA has always incentivized killing -by letting you loot money from corpses. whereas Hitman penalizes you for it.

[goka9696]

Originally posted by lnconsequentiaI:

Originally posted by Kilo:

Hitman is all about being a hyper adaptive assassian, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and have the game yell at you for being such a terrible assassian and rank you stright up zero on the score, Then have your target get locked-down or attempt to escape putting the mission at risk.

GTA is all about going crazy and getting money to do it, You could whip out a gun in the middle of a crowd and shoot down about 15 people and pick up the cash from their corpses, Then proceed to pick up a hooker and get laid before shooting her as well and getting all your money back.


You see the differnce is in the consquences, It's not that you CAN do it, It's that you really shouldent do it.

actually funny thing is, for BOTH games, it is optional. You can avoid killing any innocent civilians in the street for GTA as well. Almost all the GTA missions are very specific in targets and bad people to kill (apart from guards but what the hell, you subdue random people in Hitman too). It's up to the player on whether they want to be an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or not, even as Trevor.
The same even applies for MW2, where the No Russian mission is optional anyway. There's always a choice.

That's like saying killing civilians in Postal 1 and 2 is optional.

Sure it is, but you'll probably end up doing it anyway for fun. Just like in GTA. In Hitman it can happen too, but is less prevalent.

[Mateo | XlV]

Honestly it depends on the person playing.

1- This game strongly incourages to only kill your target and avoid any casualties to other people.

2-You don't get anything from killing nps in towns or anything. No money, points, loots nada.

3-It's not like GTA where you live a criminal life almost in everygame, where you are incourge to kill anyone and everything. Because of the rush you get from it I guess?


PS- I have at time have gotten a (can't find the exact word) but some where like a high, maybe where when the missions fails. I just take out my pistol and slowly walk around killing everyone because some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ maid who was not suppose to be there saw me knock out a chef............ and it can at time be cool. but knowing 100% this is just a game.
But that's just me.