This game has already failed. R.I.P Hitman.

[JOHNNY SEALION]

Before some of you Whiteknights come to defend your precious game, read the entire post.


Right, where do I start? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ performance, episodic content, Online DRM, bugs, glitches, how can you defend this?! Now, the servers are offline, thus, people can't even play a single player game w/ progress. And, it's been what, 2-3 months since the release, and two contracts!? Are you kidding me? This is like a $60 Early Alpha. Shame on you, developers.

By the way, I'm ignoring any white-knight replies, so, don't bother.

[mastaflex]

引用自 Gavrilo SRB：

What do you mean, "their", my nation has the 4th highest IQ in Euroope, and 6th in the world, lol

lol

[moleface237]

引用自 Gavrilo SRB：

引用自 Cireme：

Hilarious, because Star Wars IS episodic.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

Star Wars: 7 two-hours long episodes in 38 years.
Hitman: 7 twenty-hours long episodes in 1 year.

Are you fu.cking disabled? You're comparing a move series, to a video game. God, people like you are so harmful to the gaming industry.

It's not far off to compare Hitman to a movie - there's a cast of voice actors, millions of dollars are spent on set design, both run at 24fps, etc.

[[N7] Sr. Chalice a.k.a Covid 5G]

Online DRM is actually an understatement here. I went and trie dto play the game Offline and basically you only get 20% of the actually game if you play it offline. The game failed and the publisher did it. There is absoluetly no reason for this game game to be always online. I don't know why they hate their consumers so much. Square enix has went way off the reservation and manage to out do Ubisodt and EA combined. I didn't think that was possible for squae enix of all companies to be worse than UbiSoft and EA. AND I HATE UbiSOFT. No i hate Square Enix even more.

[Am1r007]

actually this game is pretty good maby its just you get a better pc

[Credne]

引用自 Am1rAcle：

actually this game is pretty good maby its just you get a better pc

I bet you think Absolution was good too.

[moleface237]

引用自 N7 Sr. Chalice a.k.a Elven 40：

Online DRM is actually an understatement here. I went and trie dto play the game Offline and basically you only get 20% of the actually game if you play it offline. The game failed and the publisher did it. There is absoluetly no reason for this game game to be always online. I don't know why they hate their consumers so much. Square enix has went way off the reservation and manage to out do Ubisodt and EA combined. I didn't think that was possible for squae enix of all companies to be worse than UbiSoft and EA. AND I HATE UbiSOFT. No i hate Square Enix even more.

I know it's douchey to quote myself, but I kinda went on a long tangent in a different thread earlier that I think sums up what's going on re: DRM, and I don't feel like typing it again. I snipped some of the more rambly stuff. I've been... uh.. "out of it" today.

引用自 moleface237：

The escalations are fun enough, but they seem like a halfass attempt to justify the always-online model. Remember all those Elusive Targets and "live events" the official hitman FAQ promised? Boy, those have sure been awesome, haven't they?

I doubt SqEnix cares about preventing people from using cheating mods- the crazy DRM is just an attempt to squeeze every last drop of potential profit off the thing while they still can. They underfunded this game (and it shows, though the concepts and core game are amazing) to make up for the overblown budget of the action-reboot-wannabe Absolution.

Anyway, about the DRM - they considered Absolution to be a failure cuz it was insanely high budget. SqEnix took huge hits on several really great huge-budget games like the Tomb Raider reboot that actually sold really well, but apparently not well enough to turn as much of a profit as they'd like. I think they're using this draconian always-online stuff coupled w/ Denuvo as a failsafe to prevent piracy until they've managed to put out a physical disc.

Plus, you just know that they've gotta be mining straight up our *ss for data. I wouldn't be surprised if the game submitted crash reports, the hardware configuration, play style, etc. This would be a great way to crowdsource the bug testing. This isn't outlandish at all if you just look at what Rockstar did with Red Dead Redemption - they had that awesome list of all the specific crimes, the most animals killed, etc.

[Dr Poocrumbs]

Go back to bloodmoney, import to better graphics engine, add more maps, add more crap you can spend your money on, add more animations, I could stop here and alot of people would be happy with that. But you guys ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it up didn't you???

[moleface237]

引用自 N7 Sr. Chalice a.k.a Elven 40：

Online DRM is actually an understatement here. I went and trie dto play the game Offline and basically you only get 20% of the actually game if you play it offline. The game failed and the publisher did it. There is absoluetly no reason for this game game to be always online. I don't know why they hate their consumers so much. Square enix has went way off the reservation and manage to out do Ubisodt and EA combined. I didn't think that was possible for squae enix of all companies to be worse than UbiSoft and EA. AND I HATE UbiSOFT. No i hate Square Enix even more.

It's pretty crazy that when I was a kid obsessively nerding out over masterpieces like Chrono Trigger on my SNES, one day I'd associate Squaresoft OR Enix with this kind of bullsh*t.

It's kinda like how Polaroid inevitably went bust once smartphones became more common, then they were bought out by some crappy electronics manufacturer who put out third rate crap. They're selling some of the worst sh*t ever slapped w/ that well-known brandname as bait.

I honestly don't know much about what led to the Square Enix merger, so I dunno if it's just their new business model, or if there was basically a "hostile takeover". Squaresoft always seemed to have integrity, but I know that Japanese game companies can be insanely cutthroat - at least I gathered that from reading "Console Wars", that great book about Nintendo and Sega of Japan's 90s rivalry. Nintendo's always been like that - the whole NES lockout chip thing, basically monopolizing 3rd party developers, etc.

[Scorpios Society]

that why i dont buy this game now i am wating for div to fix every thing you should learn by now never be the first one to buy the new game i might buy it next year lol becouse they need to fix lot of thing ,

[theonewhoknocks]

"That's it: let loose on that commie, hippie, pinko queer!"

[BurgerFre@k]

You guys are a whiny bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥.

The game is fantastic. DRM and online is not a problem. It runs great and plays great.

Never had any problems.

[ferus]

I am currently more bothered by bugs than by HW problems. My top three being:

- killing non-target NPCs while subduing them is annoying as hell
- sometimes when I load a save game NPCs can see me through walls
- several crashes (all during fist fighting)

I bought the 2 episodes only after Sapienza was released so I only experienced the non-working DX12 problem. That was fixed pretty quickly and now I only have some minor FPS drop - nothing that would prevent me from playing and having fun.

[OXY]

I mean Episodic isn't always a bad thing right?

More time and effort is being put in to missions which I would prefer; I would want a mission that I can get at least 30 hours out of, which I have. (Trying to figure out all the ways, learning the map, completing the challenges etc) Compared to finishing it in half an hour max like in Blood Money. If it is such a huge deal then simply wait until the game is fully released. Problem solved.

I haven't had any problems with the game itself but DRM sounds like a bit of an issue for "some" players.

[Darcy]

[Tim Timsen]

ITT: OP thinks their opinion matters more than anyone else's.