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Hitman reboot is like a big book split in 3 parts.
About 10 to 15 minutes actually, including the cut scenes
It's worse than that, they are charging extra for escalations, which the previous two games gave you free
It is, but the first two parts are substantially longer.
Hitman GOTY (2016) = 2 prologue/training missions + 6 main missions + 4 bonus/seasonal missions + 4 GOTY missions
Hitman 2 Gold (2018) = 8 main missions + 3 sniper missions + 4 special assignment missions + 1 seasonal mission
Hitman 3 (2020) = 6 main missions (1 of which is smaller than all the missions from the other games with zero challenge, you just walk to the end and your final target stands there to let you kill him, so it's 5 real missions and 1 interactive cut scene)
And that's before you look at the escalation missions, first one had 56 for free, second one had 30 or so for free and the third one only has a dozen or so and they will cost you extra (for the deluxe and sin pack DLCs which have no real missions, only escalations)
In comparable value the second game + goty legacy pack is $120 for the full content of the first two games, over 30 missions and dozens of escalations. The third game is $100 for 5 real missions, 1 mini location you walk through and a handful of escalations.
I took my time with the game and each mission (except for the final one) lasted me an hour, and I didn't even care about completing challenges which there are less by the way.
But yes, it's not worth the full price since the game's content is less than the predecessors.
Any future content for the game will be only Escalations, Elusive Targets, and reskins for existing weapons and items.
They won't bother reviving Sniper Assassin and Ghost Mode, and they confirmed themselves they won't make another map.
They won't be arsed to make another proper mission even though some 'special' Escalations could've been actual missions like Berlin Egg Hunt, Dartmoor Garden Show, 7 Deadly Sins, etc, and they certainly won't revisit their cut content that would've been nice to see finalised like 16-Player Assassination Race, "Outbreak" or even some kind of "Golf" mode.
Also, seeing VR Mode being restricted to PlayStation 4 only sucks too.
Oh and IO Interactive has taken a hard stance against dataminers and probably dislikes modders too since there's a mod that unlocks all Elusive Targets, that's real nice.
Just to clarify, there are free Escalations in HITMAN 3 including ones for that game's maps but it's true that the DLCs comes with supposedly unique Escalations that just add screen filters and objects to the maps instead of actual missions that drastically remixes the entire maps.
Please pay attention while reading. I did not say 15 minutes for each mission. I said 15 minutes TOTAL.
Anything beyond that is you taking your time or wandering around.
Dubai can literally be done in 20 seconds or less. The train is a straight walk to the end with a target that stands there and waits for you to kill him. The rest aren't that much more complicated taking no more than a few minutes each.
6 locations/missions, 2 of them of dismal size and replay value compared to to the volume of the first two games (when you count up DLC, bonus, seasonal, etc. ~ and let me remind you they've already stated they will not be adding any additional content like this as they had with the previous two games, so it's small and won't get the year+ of additional content that both previous games had added on)
The first two games were both bigger and continued to have expanded content, 3 is the smallest amount of content with no more coming (other than escalations, many of which are $5 each instead of being free like they had been)
Please don't say this as if it has any bearing on the value of Hitman 3 by itself, you paid for all of that content. Hitman 2 as a DLC for Hitman 3 is $100 all by itself. Hitman 1 as a DLC is a $35 add on by itself (which is stupid because you can buy it within Hitman 2 for only $20 and then get it free duplicated in Hitman 3)
Had you paid full price along the way since the beginning (like many fans did) the price you are talking about to get the full content would have been $80 + $100 + $100
Hitman 3 with all the content you are praising it for is nearly $300 for those buying each part at release prices.
When talking about the value of the content of Hitman 3, most (sane) people are talking about the content added from Hitman 3 itself which is at this point the least amount of content for the price compared to either previous game.
The fact that you can use that previous content inside of it is cute, but don't pretend it was free. (it's not even all of it if you want to talk about what's been removed, you'd still need to own the previous two games in full to experience all the extras)
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And before you try to lecture me on how long things take or how much time you CAN choose to spend to spend playing, let me put it in perspective of my own Hitman gaming experience:
I have over 1100+ hours in Hitman (2016)
I have over 1600+ hours in Hitman 2 (2018)
Combined that's over 2700 hours played across the first two games. I have 100% completion in every location for both games. I've created 100+ contracts in each game. I've played every mission in every possible way.
Hitman 3? First play through taking my time: 1 hour. Second play through for a speed run (not nearly as fast as the real speed runners that are even better than me) done in 10 minutes. Played to 100% challenge completion: 10 hours.
Hitman 3 was short enough that I didn't even need to buy my own copy, I borrowed it from a friend and finished it in a weekend. The previous two games I played endlessly for years.
The replay value of Hitman 3 is predicated on the fact you have the previous two games inside of it, both of which were not free and will only have a meaningful impact for those who didn't already fully exhaust that content. What's added by Hitman 3 is of so little value I still haven't bothered to buy it myself.
I'll wait until next year when it's $20 or less, because the size and scope of the Hitman 3 content is barely on par with the expansion pass for Hitman 2 (the expansion pass that added 2 more locations and 8 missions) and should have been a DLC to the existing game, not a stand alone at full price + extortion priced DLC of questionable value.
You are vastly exaggerating things that I didn't even say in my post, bud.
I just don't like it very much when people pretend that "LOLOL THE GAME LASTS ONLY 2 HOURS" when it is evidently false, since even 3's levels still have good replayability even when compared to old Hitman games. That and it also depends on the player, and whether you enjoyed the levels or not.
Me personally? My first playthrough of 3's levels lasted around 6-7 hours.
And before you try to lecture me on how long things take or how much time you CAN choose to spend to spend playing, I'll just say that your first playthrough time isn't objective and isn't the absolute truth either. :)
You may have failed to notice I wasn't only responding to you but to the thread context as a whole.
You've missed the point, no matter your playstyle the content volume is less for the price being asked compared to the previous two games. You attempted to pervert that idea by shoehorning in the previous two games as if they were part of 3 which is irrelevant when comparing prices because none of that content was free.
This wasn't a debate about quality or your own personal choice to spend more time with the game. Obviously length is subjective not objective, it's also why I gave you a time comparison relevant to my own play experience.
If it wasn't clear (or if you failed to read it all) I'll summarize it again for you:
Hitman (2016) = 1000+ hours of content for $80 (original retail price)
Hitman 2 (2018) = 1000+ hours of content for $100 (original retail price)
Hitman 3 (2021) = 10 hours of content for $100 (original retail price)
Tell me again which one I got more value from.
Did I say everyone will experience the same thing as me? No, but that was the point to share a perspective from someone that actually can and will put in 1000's of hours into this content and still considers Hitman 3 to be of no more value than just a very small expansion pack for Hitman 2 overall.
Your own hours will obviously vary, but if you're getting more hours out of Hitman 3 (the actual Hitman 3 content) than the previous two campaigns, you're flat out lying. You said it yourself, "plus you get like 20 ♥♥♥♥ huge levels when you have Hitman 1 and 2 levels in 3" ~ That's the value of the previous two games, not the value of Hitman 3 since it's literally 3 different purchases required to have it all.
I'm not sure what you are arguing against, if you can't see that Hitman 3 is the least content for the price compared to what you get from the first 2, you're just blind.
If you answer how long the game's average playtime is by responding how the missions can be completed in minimal time possible, that's just incredibly disingenuous as not everyone is a speedrunner or quick-witted like you, especially not when they're playing the missions on maps they're not familiar with for the first time. No newcomer with level 1 Mastery would finish Dubai under 20 seconds barring the intro segment.
I doubt an hour long is even the average time of beating H3's story once, it's more likely between 4-6 hours for experienced players and perhaps more for newcomers.
I already said myself they won't be doing any more maps (according to this source[www.thegamer.com]) but I don't recall they explicitly stated they won't be doing any more traditional (Bonus) missions.
Though it is safe to assume they won't revisit Sniper Assassin and Ghost Mode.
They have made another seasonal content but it's an Escalation and it does seem that any future content they make that isn't an Elusive Target will be an Escalation.
If we insist on how long the previous two games take by how fast they can be completed.
HITMAN (2016) can be completed in 8 minutes and HITMAN 2 can be completed under 6 minutes.
That's if you know how the games works, memorised the maps' layouts and NPCs' routes.
Of course, it would much take much longer for an average player who have no interest in speedrunning and it would take much, much longer than that if you go after completing challenges and unlocking everything you can since replayability is the main point of these games.
No reasonable person does and IOI won't change their mind.
They haven't for six years, and it will stay that way because while they may be talented developers, they're incredibly stubborn with their decisions.