baconbutty

Too much weight is being put onto the points system.

When I first started knocking guys out, I too was disappointed to see negative numbers popping up. But this is *no different* to blood money. The only thing that is different here is that this information is being surfaced to the player dynamically.

That score system is all in service of getting "Silent Assasin" or the highest grade you can achieve at current skill level. Don't forget as well, that stashing a body completely negates the negative score you got by knocking them out. - Seriously, try it. Knock a guy out, then stash his body - you're back to where you were, points wise, before you even knocked him out. And also, achieving the main goals of the level gives you a massive score boost of 30/40/50/60k. Knocking out those guards don't matter in the long run, unless you're shooting for a "Perfect" run.

And those "Perfect runs" in blood money, also punished knocking out guards. So, less has changed than you might think.

First time you play through this game? Go nuts. Kill whoever you want. Knock guys out. Stab civilians who witnessed your crime in the neck, and coldly push their corpse off a ledge to hide them. ENJOY YOURSELF. And when you're done with the game, go back and do it all over again differenty and if you really want to, shoot for Silent Assassin on every level - THAT is when the score should matter to you.

It's different to Blood Money, I'll grant you that. But not *that* much different. It's a great game which I feel is being sadly misunderstood by most long-time Hitman fans. (I am a long time Hitman fan)

Took some getting used to, but after my session last night, I have decided I now love this game.

I went for normal as, although I am something of a Hitman veteran, I knew that this game was going to go in some different directions for the series. So I decided I wanted to get to know the levels, and get to understand the new mechanics, before tackling the "Real" game, which for us is playing on harder difficulties and rising to the challenge.

It was a smart move, since I have been fumbling around like a moron, accidently hitting people in the face with bottles instead of distracting them, and shooting people in the spine with a loud pistol instead of taking them out silently. Oops!

I like how one of your points is that it's trial and error. All Whitman games have been trial and error.

This is a cross post from a different thread, but these are my feelings on it so far...

(just got to "Hope")


I’m not really sure how I feel yet.

I’m enjoying it as a game. It looks great, it sounds great. It feels good to play.

But as a Hitman game, I’m not so sure.

It has definitely been a long ass time since Blood Money came out, and I feel like all of the story sections in this game, are IO trying to play “Catch up” with the rest of the industry – “This needs to be a Hollywood blockbuster of a game” – And I do not feel like they succeeded. Where it falls shortest for me is the characterization.

“Birdie” is the worst example. Who the fuck is this? A guy, who seems young, has perfect hair, very well dressed, is fairly well spoken, smart ….. but hangs out in a trailer full of birds and lets them shit all over his clothes?And he just hangs out as normal, like he isn’t covered in bird shit? That is just kind of weird. .. it doesn’t ring true for me. And it smacks of a hamfisted attempt to come up with an “original, interesting character”. It just comes off as super weird.

Also, whenever that developmentally challenged gentleman is on screen, I instantly feel uncomfortable. Lenny is clearly disabled, and yet playing the role of a gangster? Is this supposed to be funny?Am I suppose to laugh at this…… ?

I’m playing this with my girlfriend sat next to me and …. I find it difficult to defend gaming’s legitimacy when Lenny limping about and being all disabled and saying he wants to be in charge and …..

… ehhhhhh. .. ugh.

I’m not really sure how I feel yet.

I’m enjoying it as a game. It looks great, it sounds great. It feels good to play.

But as a Hitman game, I’m not so sure.

It has definitely been a long ass time since Blood Money came out, and I feel like all of the story sections in this game, are IO trying to play “Catch up” with the rest of the industry – “This needs to be a Hollywood blockbuster of a game” – And I do not feel like they succeeded. Where it falls shortest for me is the characterization.

“Birdie” is the worst example. Who the fuck is this? A guy, who seems young, has perfect hair, very well dressed, is fairly well spoken, smart ….. but hangs out in a trailer full of birds and lets them shit all over his clothes? And he just hangs out as normal, like he isn’t covered in bird shit? That is just kind of weird. .. it doesn’t ring true for me. And it smacks of a hamfisted attempt to come up with an “original, interesting character”. It just comes off as super weird.

Also, whenever that developmentally challenged gentleman is on screen, I instantly feel uncomfortable. Lenny is clearly disabled, and yet playing the role of a gangster? Is this supposed to be funny? Am I suppose to laugh at this…… ?

I’m playing this with my girlfriend sat next to me and …. I find it difficult to defend gaming’s legitimacy when Lenny limping about and being all disabled and saying he wants to be in charge and …..

… ehhhhhh. .. ugh.

I used to enjoy running people over in games too, but now that I'm past "immature asshole" age, I've come to appreciate the value of pedestrians jumping out of the way.

And more importantly the bummer that is some innocent person being killed when i just wanted to park somewhere for a mission.

In won't answer the OPs question though. It's a stupid loaded question.

Forms like these scare me 

@vikingdeath1: Yeah me too.

Gave me a headache, before I realised what it was supposed to say.

"I finally put Resident Evil 6 to be earlier this week" To be?