Finally got some time to play Hitman Absolution

[XSGames]

It's such a cool chapter, anybody played it?

[L1qu1dator]

The worst Hitman game ever so far.

[Plaid]

Escrito originalmente por L1qu1dator:

The worst Hitman game ever so far.

why is it the worst? I have been meaning to play it eventually.

[L1qu1dator]

Escrito originalmente por Plaid:

Escrito originalmente por L1qu1dator:

The worst Hitman game ever so far.

why is it the worst? I have been meaning to play it eventually.

You can hide all kinds of rifles in your pocket.

[76561198356019466]

The save system in that series is too much for a gamer as bad as I am.

[$2 Hero]

Tried my free gog copy. Uninstalled 5 minutes later, reinstalled hitman blood money, yep I made the right call.

[h]

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why is it the worst? I have been meaning to play it eventually.

You can hide all kinds of rifles in your pocket.

deep pockets

[Angel]

It was my favourite out of the original series. Great game and they added variations of gameplay to it. I also wished they kept The Saints in the remake version as they were my favourite villains.

[Moogal™]

Yeah and it felt very meh (the only game in the series that i played)

[saranacX]

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why is it the worst? I have been meaning to play it eventually.

You can hide all kinds of rifles in your pocket.

Is that an M4 in your pocket or are you just happy to be here, 47?

[L1qu1dator]

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deep pockets

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You can hide all kinds of rifles in your pocket.

Is that an M4 in your pocket or are you just happy to be here, 47?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkqnAh_5ODw

or alternatively

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9fEFC0Qvi8

[Basho]

i didnt like the sequential approach of it.
i can appreciate it as a story, but to me it is the wrong franchise to force a linear story into.

the departure from the traditional contract thematic and instead making it feel like an early 2000s shooter was not what i wanted from a game in the Hitman series.

also, to me a big part of the series has been the interesting and often a bit spectacular locations, and the high profile nature of the targets etc.
feels like some James Bond type cloak and dagger stuff.

but Absolution felt like it was somewhere between Max Payne and Kingpin with the grimy environments and lowlife adversaries.
and it is 'adversaries', not 'targets', since you arent really hitmanning much in the game and it plays more like a shooter that gives you bonus points if you play stealthy, though there is little contextual reason as to why you should other than player choice.

the other entries in the series is thematically all about being the "silent assassin", and anything short of this is a sloppy job in the context of the contractual nature of the missions.
story-wise, and context-wise, Absolution feels more like Kane & Lynch, which is not touted as a "silent assassin" game.

so while i wouldnt say i disliked it outright, it didnt leave much of an impression on me and it didnt feel like a hitman game to me.

i will say though that there were some cool set pieces and sequences that would have been put to better use in a different game.
the rooftop police chase early in the game is very cinematic and aesthetic, for instance.
thats part of the problem i think, i feels like the story of the game is a movie script forced into the wrong medium, and the wrong franchise at that.

[tom tomorrow]

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why is it the worst? I have been meaning to play it eventually.

You can hide all kinds of rifles in your pocket.

He also changes his clothes, apparently with the power of telekinesis, in all games. So...

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

Hitman hasn't been good since Blood Money.

Once they forgot what player freedom actually means and started just placing prescribed path interactions around the map, it became a snoozefest of "do these exact steps and get a perfect kill automatically."

[Basho]

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Hitman hasn't been good since Blood Money.

Once they forgot what player freedom actually means and started just placing prescribed path interactions around the map, it became a snoozefest of "do these exact steps and get a perfect kill automatically."

you are not wrong, but as a player you dont have to go those routes.
and even in Blood Money there were things like that, such as swapping the prop pistol on the theater mission, so there is that too.

there is also the freelancer mode in Hitman 3 that change things up quite a bit.

[TwisterCat]

Ain't a Hitman game. Arguably my favorite game series, but Absolution ain't a part of it, in my eyes.