>Absolution could be a pretty nice blueprint for their new 007 game
The story and scope of the last trilogy is straight up a Bond story, replace 47 with 007 and nothing even feels out of place.
With all the 007 references in it, I think you might be right. Still, I must say that I really enjoyed seeing 47 in bright, sunny locales, and Bond would have far more shootouts. I don't think I've seen a dedicated rampage mission yet, haven't played 3 though
I'm more surprised it took more than 2 decades fro them to grab the 007 license as the gameplay of the games is probably the cloest thing we could ever get as a 007 game when the actual 007 games were literally call of duty clones.
With all the 007 references in it, I think you might be right. Still, I must say that I really enjoyed seeing 47 in bright, sunny locales, and Bond would have far more shootouts. I don't think I've seen a dedicated rampage mission yet, haven't played 3 though
The World of Assassination trilogy has more MI references than 007. And that's a good thing.
This problem was present even in Silent Assassin. The Hidden Valley level in particular.
The real offender is that you need to use instinct to bypass certain moments, and it's downright broken on the higher difficulties because it doesn't regenerate.
This.
If it wasn't for some of the textures and and the terrifying wax mannequins in the cut scenes I never would have guessed the game was over a decade old.
It might feel a little janky at first but I think it adds to the charm.
1 may be dated, not sure
Silent Assassin bit date but worth a play I guess
Contracts worth a play for sure
Blood Money a must play
Absolution not my cup of tea. If you go in with the expectation of a linear stealth game and not the deep Hitman sandbox it's playable. I can see how people like it.
1 2016 is good
2 2018 is good
3 2020 is good
TLDR they're all playable. Absolution your mileage may vary.
If I'm an autist who feels a compelling need to understand the story in an assassination game, can I just start with Hitman (2016) and skip all the earlier games? Or do I need to start with Codename 47 and work forward through all of them.
You can start with either. Hitman isn't really known for its story tbqh, and I'm a huge story autist too.
It's like asking "should I start with Christopher Nolan's Batman or Tim Burton's Batman to understand the story?" They're both kinda the same story but different. You can start with either.
There's references you wouldn't understand in Hitman 2016 if you didn't play earlier titles, but they're still not necessary imho. Hitman 2016 is like a relaunch for the series.
That being said, I do recommend the earlier Hitman games. They're very good, especially Blood Money.
On one hand, the story between series entries is a bit all over the place and not a lot of them are consequential to the next one. But on the other hand, C47 is the only one that really tells the story of how 47 came to be. If you're a complete lore autist, you might need to visit C47 to see why there even is a 47. Contracts remakes some missions and the TM trilogy references it, but they don't really tell you the full story. Other than that nothing really interesting happens in the other games lore-wise, the one in 2SA is hardly referenced anymore and Contracts is just a flashback montage
Thanks bros. I played Codename 47 back when it released but I remember absolutely nothing about it because I think it filtered me in some capacity. I'll probably just take a deep dive from the start then.
Glad to help. You can't go wrong however you start. Personally I started with Contracts as a kid, then went back and played earlier titles. Love the Hitman series.
On one hand, the story between series entries is a bit all over the place and not a lot of them are consequential to the next one. But on the other hand, C47 is the only one that really tells the story of how 47 came to be. If you're a complete lore autist, you might need to visit C47 to see why there even is a 47. Contracts remakes some missions and the TM trilogy references it, but they don't really tell you the full story. Other than that nothing really interesting happens in the other games lore-wise, the one in 2SA is hardly referenced anymore and Contracts is just a flashback montage
Contracts is a partial-remake of the first two, so start there. Then Blood Money and finally 2020 since it includes 2016 and 2018 levels. All the same content and then some, unified progression, but no panties.
In nuHitman the story connecting the 3 games is hot garbage, don't worry about it
the stories in each level about the targets are solid if you like taking in the scenery
The story unironically doesn't matter. I play it as a sandbox kill game. It's just some fricking Bond Wick superspy government conspiracy thriller shit but it doesn't matter
You're a science experiment by an eastern european mad scientist who combined the DNA of five donors to create someone with perfect genes, and then brainwashed and tortured the kid for most of their early life to purge anything resembling emotion or empathy from him, and then trained him to be an expert in every subject under the sun.
47 eventually gets out on his own and joins the super secret global assassination agency because he's the best and its all he knows. Gets a handler with a sexy ass voice to ASMR him on missions, and then goes on a series of globe trotting adventures taking out high profile targets by staging elaborate accidents and escaping unseen.
>1 2016 is good >2 2018 is good >3 2020 is good
I remember liking 1 and playing 2 non-stop, however after finishing 3 even with all the levels I didn't want to play it anymore
I was playing a Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign at the time this was happening and infuriated one of the neckbeards in the group so bad over my constant use of Dalé that he actually tried to kill my PC and then ultimately got kicked by the DM. Still lol about it sometimes.
Blood money for classic hitman, with small to medium sized maps.
HITMAN 1, 2 or 3 (basically same game with different maps) for large assassination maps, there are a couple of things you can do in each map, but if you play too many maps map to back it can get tedious.
Any other non absolution game in the franchise if you want an experience similar to blood money, but maybe a little less polished.
Honestly they're all pretty good. Absolution was a misstep, but they managed to recover with the next games. It's one of the most overall solid franchises out there.
the story mode was garbage sure but the the contracts mode was nice
too bad they shut down the servers (which will happen to the new games as well eventually)
The fricking DLC system is convoluted as shit and the semi always online system is also annoying. Imo if it weren't for these 2 issues Hitman would've been much more popular.
Regardless of these issues Nu-Hitman is genuinely great and from what I can tell all 3 games+ DLCs are just 60€ right now. That's absolutely worth it. If youre unsure just download the Hitman 2 demo, which is the first mission of Hitman 2 (there's also the Hitman 1 demo which is less enjoyable albeit worth a playthrough)
Hitman Absolution is meh, but might be enjoyable. i enjoyed it (although I wasn't Hitman fan prior to that)
Blood Money is old but still great. I bought it after playing Hitman 1 and still had a lot of fun, even without any nostalgia.
Anything prior to that might feel to dated for you. I personally dropped Silent Assassin.
Yes the Trilogy is cracked, but you can't unlock anything. You'll have to download a save file.
Is the Hitman 2 port better than 2016 ?
I downloaded H2's demo and it ran way better than 2016 does on my machine, but it also took place in Bumfrick Nowhere Kiwiland with almost no npcs so I'm skeptical if it will be worth it to buy it just to end up refunding it when Miami or Mumbai makes my computer slow down to 5fps.
>Is the Hitman 2 port better than 2016 ?
Maybe marginally? I've never noticed or heard anything about the newer Hitmans running much better than the first one, although it's been a while since I played. In your case it's probably the fact that the H2 demo is simply less crowded than the H1 demo, although I might be wrong.
its amazing how clean his head is. all the 47 actors were obviously shaven
I have a buzzcut at no guard rn and I want the game 47 look, not the movie one, do I just grab a disposable razor and go at it ?
How do you get a head as smooth as that ? I have never used a razor anywhere other than my junk and face (in that order)
Play the WoA trilogy ASAP before they shut down the servers and they are lost in time like tears in rain. If you like them and want more, and don't mind eurojank in exchange for atmosphere and SOVL, play the following:
All of BM, Contracts and SA.
The following missions from C47: traditions of the trade, the massacre and cheng chau fish restaurant, the lee hong assassination. Use cheats to skip the remainder of C47 (trust me).
I'm new to these games and only played the recent trilogy, can I get an explanation on Colorado's failings? I actually enjoyed the level a lot but I don't really have a lot of perspective to go on.
A lot of people don't like Colorado because the whole mission takes place in a restricted area, and every single NPC has a gun. This makes doing anything at all in that mission extremely difficult, and Silent Assassin is nigh impossible unless you follow the speedrun strategy
Not him but I'd give Colorado a 6/10.
Unless I missed it it didn't seem to have as much choice as other levels. The House wasn't as interesting to explore as Beldingford Manor or the English Estate in nuHitman 3. Not much elevation in the level aside from the House itself. I dunno, just didn't have as much character and story telling as other levels. IIRC you had to eliminate quite a few people so it felt like an online mission somebody made.
Okay, I can see that. Thanks.
not the same guy but it's visually bland and very open
Not him but I'd give Colorado a 6/10.
Unless I missed it it didn't seem to have as much choice as other levels. The House wasn't as interesting to explore as Beldingford Manor or the English Estate in nuHitman 3. Not much elevation in the level aside from the House itself. I dunno, just didn't have as much character and story telling as other levels. IIRC you had to eliminate quite a few people so it felt like an online mission somebody made.
The only ones playing are the modern trilogy, original 3, Blood Money >1
Lol no >2
Better left as a memory than actually trying to play that shit >Absolution
Kinda works as a generic stealth game, otherwise no
Who the frick knows. There's a gorillion versions because of the fricked up architecture that spans the three games. Also, every limitation of Hitman 2016 could never be fixed in the two other games because of the need to support the previously released levels.
>"HITMAN 3 is the best place to play every game in the World of Assassination trilogy. If you’ve already played HITMAN 2 on Steam, the locations that you can access in that game will be converted into an ‘Access Pass’ for HITMAN 3 when you buy the latest game. The Access Pass DLCs will be applied to your account and the locations will be available and ready to play from the first time you launch the game."
the store page says this, but it doesn't say anything about keeping hitman 1's levels since i only have that game's levels in 2. The wording's all really vague and seems to intentionally leave out info to cause confusion.
False. You can carry it over as long as it's on the same platform, but you can do it only once and one way so if you go back to play 1 and 2 you can never bring its progress forward again
>if you go back to play 1 and 2 you can never bring its progress forward again
As in if you unlock another achievement there you can't bring it forward again?
Who the frick knows. There's a gorillion versions because of the fricked up architecture that spans the three games. Also, every limitation of Hitman 2016 could never be fixed in the two other games because of the need to support the previously released levels.
All of them are worth a try
Even Hitman Go is one of the few good mobile games without bullshit micro transactions, I can recommend it to people who like turn based puzzle games and the board game aesthetic is near
Elusives go on rotation every now and then but the one shot mechanic persists. It's over if they shut down the servers
How can new Hitman games innovate on the formula? The last 2 games have largely just been map packs of 2016 with some improvements here and there
Personally I would love it if they can pull off dialogue as part of the manipulations. Like for example smooth talking your way out of a hairy situation by saying you're a dumb new recruit, using a commander disguise to gaslight rookies to be suspicious of their own, things like that
Of course the UI would be a problem and can take you out of the game, so I'd be totally fine if they just stay where they are and don't fix what isn't broken
>following the try hard speed run strats?
People find that fun? Yeah Hitman is awesome blind. If you frick up just play on or save regularly, however you wish to play.
It might feel fun to go on a rampage every once in a while but it's a lot more gratifying to perform a very clean run where you only take out the target and leave very little trace
I'm a stealth autist the type who seethes and resets whenever i get caught in games but i did a few rampages in nuHitman and they're actually pretty fun. On lower levels it is surprisingly challenging.
all. but beware of 1 and absolution, 1 might feel quite rough around the edges and absolution is like an insane hitman fanfic with all the good and bad that implies
Maybe? I'd prefer that over the usual standing behind a door, waiting for ages for a spot somewhere etc. Dunno, would be interesting but could make or break the game I think.
>latex nuns >totally out of place sexual shit like the guy asking why he's hard when he's dying >47 tries to choke some gigantic guy with piano wire and gets btfo >he later snaps said guy's neck in full view of hundreds of people >has to protect some girl so he does this by dumping her in some orphanage >she gets kidnapped because she was put into some orphanage >she has a magic USB drive that makes her stronger than 6 fully armed guards at once despite having the build of a preteen girl >somehow this is more valuable to the agency than a gun >some guy just goes about his life coated in bird shit, 47 decides to just give him his fancy guns for info
oh yeah i forgot, the stripper near the stripper cake. In a lunchroom in a landmine factory. Seriously, what was with all the out of place sex shit? Funnily enough the stripclub handled it the best
Dont forget you had the moron cowboy who murders a waitress to frame 47, then decides to burn down his hotel to kill 47, even though he had him unconscious right in front of him. None of it makes sense and no one has logical motivations. Its painful to listen to the plot.
Nothing to do with plot, but they were also seriously going to consider axing David Bateson and using Nolan North for 47. No decision sense over at IOI.
>no spoof mission where somebody ends up tracking 47 down because of Diane's predilection towards using the name, Mr. Tobias Rieper
but yeah the Trilogy Pack nets you the main story of World of Assassination trilogy. the premium add-ons will load you down with escalations and two extra hitman2 maps that weren't included in the trilogy pack for reasons.
and Absolution's plot was a shitshow. The chicago gangster cowboy villains should've tipped you off even before the latex nun bodyguards did; that's some good finnish humor right there.
>Good day Apu Apustaja. Our client today has a very “vigilante-esque” mission for you. She is willing to pay a huge sum for the target’s assassination. So, get ready, Apu Apustaja. >Your target for today is the Jannies, a bunch of homosexuals that moderate Ganker for free. >Jannies never sees the light of day, as he always stays indoors, either eating cheetos or jerking off to coom threads. He also have... a box of estrogen pills, which I know you’ll get a few ideas from it on how to kill him. >That is all, Apu Apustaja. Good luck.
yea
don't bother with the DLC or deluxe editions tho, they contain nothing more than a few cosmetics and escalation missions
at least 1 and 2 offered new maps and a new campaign
>shoot camera >if no guard is in earshot of the bullet it will not be investigated >investigations do not result in alarm status depending on how camera was disabled
there were a bunch of little details that made the overall package
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>be lazy guard >1 feed goes out >'oh well probably gotta call IT later'
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>kill guards manning cameras >get spotted by camera >guards are radioed my position because i cant disable radios
also the maps with multiple camera stations not controlling different sets of cameras so the frickin secret biolab in sapienza is monitored by father franchesco
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I agree it could be deeper, but I remember a time when it never even mattered to be caught on camera doing illegal shit. The problem with going into alert mode is that all it essentially would do is make it so for every camera you shoot you just gotta hide in a dumpster for 5 minutes while guards walk around until they resume calm mode.
You have the hindsight of knowing who he is and what he looks like. In his world he's a ghost and only diana and a few others know/knew what he looked like. You see the barcode and think HITMAN others might not even be able to tell what it is or just think its some random tattoo.
I always did think it was funny 47 was designed to be able to blend into a crowd and be unmemorable, and then you see this 6'2" brick shithouse with a bald head, identifying tattoo, and a stare that can see through walls.
But that's just the fun of hitman, where you can see a guy go behind some boxes, hear a coin drop, send your buddy to check it out, and then be not at all suspicious when he returns 3 inches taller, bald, and telling you he makes a baklava that's to DIE for in a creepy monotone voice that could only belong to a robot lacking human emotion trained to kill.
What a fashion god, I copy the Italy and Bang-wiener suits every summer.
This year imma cop some white gurkhas and a purple linen blouson and copy Columbia.
Get older and I'll start rocking Morroco.
All of them except Absolution. Start with Blood Money, then play Contracts if you want more of the same but more challenging, or the nu-trilogy if you want something more modern and accessible. Only play Silent Assassin if you love Blood Money and Contracts, it has kino atmosphere but it’s even more punishing than Contracts with some janky AI in parts. Then play Codename 47 if you want something even jankier but with some kino levels still.
Just bought the trilogy and have been trying to achieve all silent assassin suit only on my first playthrough. Sucks that certain things like lethal poison and lockpicks are locked behind mastery levels. Otherwise, its a really fun and challenging experience.
SA/SO is the true way to play the game but your first experience should be a casual run. You don't know the maps and target's routines yet. I would recommend casual, then SASO any loadout (not hard, there are some really cheap tools in the game), then SASO master difficulty default loadout default start location. If you want to go one step further you can do no KOs and no guns as well but that gets into deeply autistic territory.
Hate this meme. When did this become the standard? 47s whole shtick is that hes a chameleon and blends in and gets into places with outfits. Suit only is just a stupid challenge and probably the reason this shit has gone more into 007 territory than hitman.
The anon I replied to said its the true way to play which I greatly disagree with and by him saying that to a new player he's steering them down the wrong path.
There is no good way to balance disguises, they either make the game trivially easy or you have the paranoid schizophrenic guards of H2:SA who open fire if you walk a bit too quickly. Disguises are fine for novelty and for exploring a level but 'beating' the game means SASO on every level, in my opinion. It has been the tradition from the beginning.
>It has been the tradition from the beginning.
not him but I disagree
the early games REQUIRE a disguise if you wanted a good rank. even Silent Assassin, which introduced the Silent Assassin rank
Not every disguise is foolproof, and you've got noticers all over the level. Not to mention knocking someone out and stealing their clothes opens up an opportunity for things to go sideways.
I think everyone has misjudged the patrol patterns and had someone walk in as your dragging a body across the floor and having to go into "containment mode" which usually turns into me saying "If I can't have five stars I want no stars."
>like lethal poison and lockpicks are locked behind mastery levels
most levels will feature some sort of poison including syringes. most locks can be busted open with a crowbar or have a key/keycard that you don't even need a KO to get
>When you leave the estate, please use discretion regarding Miss Carlyle >When I'm gone I shall consider her dead
47's lines are the best thing in the game.
Colorado suit only silent assassin has been the hardest challenge for me so far. Getting Penelope without having her body found was tricky. Had to take everyone else out first.
Penelope and Sean both go into the house and give you clean opportunities. You have to shoot the hay bale to kill Maya otherwise she's a nightmare. Ezra can be tricky and requires knocking a few dudes out to be safe. Bangkok is now the hardest to SASO because they patched out the default exit for some reason, the only exit is guarded by multiple cops.
a big stationary red one that she paths directly past while the guards keep a safe distance?
nah
also forgot the cars if you can get them to blow up at the right time
Placing propane cylinders in your targets' routes and sniping them all from the same vantage point has to be the most kino way of doing a Hitman level.
It writes itself and there are a lot of things you could do >stage a prison riot >play along with his escape plan before killing him and stuffing his body in the walls >Illuminati panopticon where its really hard to not be spotted at every moment >smuggling in a lethal object is harder than throwing a briefcase over a dence and hard to find in the prison >one starting location has you crawling out of a hole behind a rita hayworth poster
Then again I think their location scouts were more concerned with getting a nice working holiday.
Hitman Codename 47 is only worth watching an LP of at this point
Silent Assassin is good, people say it's buggy because of one mission and not understanding the suspicion mechanics, although it can be ballbustingly unfun forcing you to walk everywhere if you're not an autist
Contracts is literally the perfect game, the moody atmosphere fits the fact 47 is supposed to be a grim less-than-human killer and not some homosexual 007 wannabe, it's also got a nice balance between difficulty with suspicion and shit like that, you can run but if you bump guards you'll be detected
Blood Money is the most approachable and easiest in the franchise, that's why people enjoy it. You can literally sprint around the map and run circles around guards and they'll never discover your disguise unless you're high notoriety, its the last good Hitman game before it turned into detection rings and meters and all that homosexual shit
Absolution should be avoided
nu-Hitman reboot games are dogshit if you're a proper fan but they're playable games if you're not attached to the previous franchise and how it has been entirely pissed on completely, plus if you want a James Bond game then you've come to the right place - beware the shitty service model and how they pretty much spell everything out for you including challenges, leaving no discovery for your own person, it's more or less a fricking job tier game where you complete missions over and over again just to watch numbers go up and not because you enjoy that particular level or the gameplay, if that's your thing you're going to love it
Every time I do the Carlyle Mansion I cant seem to find enough proof to accuse Emma, what am I missing? I've even found the secret note from Montgomery.
Probably the evidence you have to collect using 47's smartphone
And now let me tell you how hilarious it is to imagine our untraceable veteran assassin is just carrying an Apple around in his pocket...
Numan is good. Here's the flowchart you need if you want to get everything from all three games with hitman 3. It's 70 dollars on sale right now but for the amount of content you get it's well worth it. I got it on the summer sale and already have over 24 hours in it and am barely halfway through the first hitman's campaign
This flowchart is moronic. It should go like this >Do you own Hitman 1 and 2 on Steam? >No >buy them from key sites because it is 100x cheaper than buying them as addons for Hitman 3 (unless the original games are re on sale) >make sure it's Hitman 2 Gold and Hitman 2016 GOTY >redeem them on steam >then buy Hitman 3 standard edition >no you don't want the deluxe edition >just launch hitman 3 and everything will work automagically.
Hitman 3 (you can get all the content of Hitman 1 and 2), Blood Money, and Contracts.
Silent Assassin is good.
it's kind of erring on the side of bad and broken
Is that true? Don't you have to pay extra for those levels?
you do have to buy it all over again
>all over again
no you dont. if you buy it once and buy the next installment the levels are free as long as you connect your accounts
all you need is the trilogy pack, best value since all three games nets you a frickton of gameplay hours
More or less this. The others are either too jank from being such an unproven genre or mired by modern gaming aesthetics.
If you GOTTA get more hitman they're not terrible, but 3, BM, and C are equally top tier.
fpbp, half the levels in SA are pure garbage. don’t even get me started on Japan
most of them, even Absolution is dumb fun
Absolution could be a pretty nice blueprint for their new 007 game, if they bring back point shooting I would be very interested
>Absolution could be a pretty nice blueprint for their new 007 game
The story and scope of the last trilogy is straight up a Bond story, replace 47 with 007 and nothing even feels out of place.
With all the 007 references in it, I think you might be right. Still, I must say that I really enjoyed seeing 47 in bright, sunny locales, and Bond would have far more shootouts. I don't think I've seen a dedicated rampage mission yet, haven't played 3 though
patient zero last mission ends up being one for me
PZ is DLC and non-canon
Patient Zero, easily turns into a massacre
I'm more surprised it took more than 2 decades fro them to grab the 007 license as the gameplay of the games is probably the cloest thing we could ever get as a 007 game when the actual 007 games were literally call of duty clones.
Anon reread your post slowly, of course the 007 suits are going to want to trendchase with COD clones
The World of Assassination trilogy has more MI references than 007. And that's a good thing.
>wear disguise that totally cover's 47's face
>everyone wearing something similar suddenly gets xray vision
hated the disguises in that game. You're better off just going guns blazing.
This problem was present even in Silent Assassin. The Hidden Valley level in particular.
The real offender is that you need to use instinct to bypass certain moments, and it's downright broken on the higher difficulties because it doesn't regenerate.
Blood Money. Play it blind. Now.
This.
If it wasn't for some of the textures and and the terrifying wax mannequins in the cut scenes I never would have guessed the game was over a decade old.
It might feel a little janky at first but I think it adds to the charm.
Same. Blood money is peak hitman.
>unlock guns
>can mix stealth and guns blazing
>nice open level design
Hitman 2016 while much more grand, is missing these components.
this.
remove your eyeballs with a spoon, then play it.
as others have said, most of them
Frick you Todd your disguises don't fool me.
nicely spotted
I have yet to play 3, how does it hold up compared to the other two?
Someone stop this man.
>man
think again
>Bethesda acquired IOI
1 may be dated, not sure
Silent Assassin bit date but worth a play I guess
Contracts worth a play for sure
Blood Money a must play
Absolution not my cup of tea. If you go in with the expectation of a linear stealth game and not the deep Hitman sandbox it's playable. I can see how people like it.
1 2016 is good
2 2018 is good
3 2020 is good
TLDR they're all playable. Absolution your mileage may vary.
If I'm an autist who feels a compelling need to understand the story in an assassination game, can I just start with Hitman (2016) and skip all the earlier games? Or do I need to start with Codename 47 and work forward through all of them.
You can start with either. Hitman isn't really known for its story tbqh, and I'm a huge story autist too.
It's like asking "should I start with Christopher Nolan's Batman or Tim Burton's Batman to understand the story?" They're both kinda the same story but different. You can start with either.
There's references you wouldn't understand in Hitman 2016 if you didn't play earlier titles, but they're still not necessary imho. Hitman 2016 is like a relaunch for the series.
That being said, I do recommend the earlier Hitman games. They're very good, especially Blood Money.
Thanks bros. I played Codename 47 back when it released but I remember absolutely nothing about it because I think it filtered me in some capacity. I'll probably just take a deep dive from the start then.
Glad to help. You can't go wrong however you start. Personally I started with Contracts as a kid, then went back and played earlier titles. Love the Hitman series.
Enjoy.
On one hand, the story between series entries is a bit all over the place and not a lot of them are consequential to the next one. But on the other hand, C47 is the only one that really tells the story of how 47 came to be. If you're a complete lore autist, you might need to visit C47 to see why there even is a 47. Contracts remakes some missions and the TM trilogy references it, but they don't really tell you the full story. Other than that nothing really interesting happens in the other games lore-wise, the one in 2SA is hardly referenced anymore and Contracts is just a flashback montage
Contracts is a partial-remake of the first two, so start there. Then Blood Money and finally 2020 since it includes 2016 and 2018 levels. All the same content and then some, unified progression, but no panties.
>but no panties.
dropped
homie play the nu-hitman trilogy and skip all fricking cutscenes. Literally nothing matters. The missions are the only point.
In nuHitman the story connecting the 3 games is hot garbage, don't worry about it
the stories in each level about the targets are solid if you like taking in the scenery
The story unironically doesn't matter. I play it as a sandbox kill game. It's just some fricking Bond Wick superspy government conspiracy thriller shit but it doesn't matter
You're a science experiment by an eastern european mad scientist who combined the DNA of five donors to create someone with perfect genes, and then brainwashed and tortured the kid for most of their early life to purge anything resembling emotion or empathy from him, and then trained him to be an expert in every subject under the sun.
47 eventually gets out on his own and joins the super secret global assassination agency because he's the best and its all he knows. Gets a handler with a sexy ass voice to ASMR him on missions, and then goes on a series of globe trotting adventures taking out high profile targets by staging elaborate accidents and escaping unseen.
>1 2016 is good
>2 2018 is good
>3 2020 is good
I remember liking 1 and playing 2 non-stop, however after finishing 3 even with all the levels I didn't want to play it anymore
>that brief moment in Ganker history where every hitman and icewind dale thread gets spammed with "MR WORLDWIDE"
I personally preferred the Sean Bean memes.
i gotchu senpai
I was playing a Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign at the time this was happening and infuriated one of the neckbeards in the group so bad over my constant use of Dalé that he actually tried to kill my PC and then ultimately got kicked by the DM. Still lol about it sometimes.
based ioi
>icewind dale
Why? fill me in
Blood money for classic hitman, with small to medium sized maps.
HITMAN 1, 2 or 3 (basically same game with different maps) for large assassination maps, there are a couple of things you can do in each map, but if you play too many maps map to back it can get tedious.
Any other non absolution game in the franchise if you want an experience similar to blood money, but maybe a little less polished.
hit man
Honestly they're all pretty good. Absolution was a misstep, but they managed to recover with the next games. It's one of the most overall solid franchises out there.
the story mode was garbage sure but the the contracts mode was nice
too bad they shut down the servers (which will happen to the new games as well eventually)
I NEED TO USE THE BATHROOM
Tobias Reaper.
Are the new games piratable yet?
The fricking DLC system is convoluted as shit and the semi always online system is also annoying. Imo if it weren't for these 2 issues Hitman would've been much more popular.
Regardless of these issues Nu-Hitman is genuinely great and from what I can tell all 3 games+ DLCs are just 60€ right now. That's absolutely worth it. If youre unsure just download the Hitman 2 demo, which is the first mission of Hitman 2 (there's also the Hitman 1 demo which is less enjoyable albeit worth a playthrough)
Hitman Absolution is meh, but might be enjoyable. i enjoyed it (although I wasn't Hitman fan prior to that)
Blood Money is old but still great. I bought it after playing Hitman 1 and still had a lot of fun, even without any nostalgia.
Anything prior to that might feel to dated for you. I personally dropped Silent Assassin.
Yes the Trilogy is cracked, but you can't unlock anything. You'll have to download a save file.
Is the Hitman 2 port better than 2016 ?
I downloaded H2's demo and it ran way better than 2016 does on my machine, but it also took place in Bumfrick Nowhere Kiwiland with almost no npcs so I'm skeptical if it will be worth it to buy it just to end up refunding it when Miami or Mumbai makes my computer slow down to 5fps.
>Is the Hitman 2 port better than 2016 ?
Maybe marginally? I've never noticed or heard anything about the newer Hitmans running much better than the first one, although it's been a while since I played. In your case it's probably the fact that the H2 demo is simply less crowded than the H1 demo, although I might be wrong.
johnny sins would make a good 47
finally someone else who thinks so
its amazing how clean his head is. all the 47 actors were obviously shaven
I have a buzzcut at no guard rn and I want the game 47 look, not the movie one, do I just grab a disposable razor and go at it ?
How do you get a head as smooth as that ? I have never used a razor anywhere other than my junk and face (in that order)
You'd need chemo if you wanted it that smooth. Your hair will be visible again within hours.
Play the WoA trilogy ASAP before they shut down the servers and they are lost in time like tears in rain. If you like them and want more, and don't mind eurojank in exchange for atmosphere and SOVL, play the following:
All of BM, Contracts and SA.
The following missions from C47: traditions of the trade, the massacre and cheng chau fish restaurant, the lee hong assassination. Use cheats to skip the remainder of C47 (trust me).
Pretty good list tbqh. Solid advice too.
Will there ever be a level that beats A New Life?
Everyone I ever talk to about Hitman immediately references that level. Great stuff.
>Colorado anywhere other than the lowest tier
I dislike Colorado but the worst levels in SA and C47 are borderline unplayable. It's not quite that caliber of bad.
>but the worst levels in SA and C47 are borderline unplayable
Fair enough
I'm new to these games and only played the recent trilogy, can I get an explanation on Colorado's failings? I actually enjoyed the level a lot but I don't really have a lot of perspective to go on.
A lot of people don't like Colorado because the whole mission takes place in a restricted area, and every single NPC has a gun. This makes doing anything at all in that mission extremely difficult, and Silent Assassin is nigh impossible unless you follow the speedrun strategy
Okay, I can see that. Thanks.
But muh farm aesthetic.
not the same guy but it's visually bland and very open
Not him but I'd give Colorado a 6/10.
Unless I missed it it didn't seem to have as much choice as other levels. The House wasn't as interesting to explore as Beldingford Manor or the English Estate in nuHitman 3. Not much elevation in the level aside from the House itself. I dunno, just didn't have as much character and story telling as other levels. IIRC you had to eliminate quite a few people so it felt like an online mission somebody made.
First reply is pretty spot on but I'd like to add that the map did not feature as much verticality as the others before it did
The only ones playing are the modern trilogy, original 3, Blood Money
>1
Lol no
>2
Better left as a memory than actually trying to play that shit
>Absolution
Kinda works as a generic stealth game, otherwise no
If i own all the maps in hitman 1 and 2 but in Hitman 2, what do i buy for 3?
You gotta buy the dlc in 3 again anyways because IOI is israeli AND moronic
>"HITMAN 3 is the best place to play every game in the World of Assassination trilogy. If you’ve already played HITMAN 2 on Steam, the locations that you can access in that game will be converted into an ‘Access Pass’ for HITMAN 3 when you buy the latest game. The Access Pass DLCs will be applied to your account and the locations will be available and ready to play from the first time you launch the game."
the store page says this, but it doesn't say anything about keeping hitman 1's levels since i only have that game's levels in 2. The wording's all really vague and seems to intentionally leave out info to cause confusion.
also remember that the carry over thing only works if you buy it on epic
False. You can carry it over as long as it's on the same platform, but you can do it only once and one way so if you go back to play 1 and 2 you can never bring its progress forward again
>if you go back to play 1 and 2 you can never bring its progress forward again
As in if you unlock another achievement there you can't bring it forward again?
AFAIK yes. Same for unlocks
>also remember that the carry over thing only works if you buy it on epic
no it doesnt, carried over on my machine
Who the frick knows. There's a gorillion versions because of the fricked up architecture that spans the three games. Also, every limitation of Hitman 2016 could never be fixed in the two other games because of the need to support the previously released levels.
it should just carry over automatically, but I know some anons here had issues before
DAL-E HUEVO
DAL-E HUEVO
only the first one
is a proof of concept it didnt need to expand further
All of them are worth a try
Even Hitman Go is one of the few good mobile games without bullshit micro transactions, I can recommend it to people who like turn based puzzle games and the board game aesthetic is near
For some reason they also ported it to PC and PS4
Can you play elusive targets now or are they gone?
What happens once they shut down the servers?
Elusives go on rotation every now and then but the one shot mechanic persists. It's over if they shut down the servers
Personally I would love it if they can pull off dialogue as part of the manipulations. Like for example smooth talking your way out of a hairy situation by saying you're a dumb new recruit, using a commander disguise to gaslight rookies to be suspicious of their own, things like that
Of course the UI would be a problem and can take you out of the game, so I'd be totally fine if they just stay where they are and don't fix what isn't broken
How can new Hitman games innovate on the formula? The last 2 games have largely just been map packs of 2016 with some improvements here and there
Which is the best game of the nu-Hitman trilogy?
All equally good I think.
If you are prepared to lose all your progress when they pull the plug on the servers, the new Hitman (3)
Otherwise Blood Money is still pretty comfy game.
All of them with the exception of nu-Hitman.
Are these games most fun if you go in blind without following the try hard speed run strats?
Yeah, the exploration is an unsung but vital component of the game
It's cool visiting new parts of the level over the course of different runs, finding out where good items are and that sort of thing.
>following the try hard speed run strats?
People find that fun? Yeah Hitman is awesome blind. If you frick up just play on or save regularly, however you wish to play.
Its pretty fun to go full autist mode trying to get saso without a guide or speed run strats
>tfw you get less points for killing everything that moves on maps but it's fun to systematically clean out a map
It might feel fun to go on a rampage every once in a while but it's a lot more gratifying to perform a very clean run where you only take out the target and leave very little trace
I'm a stealth autist the type who seethes and resets whenever i get caught in games but i did a few rampages in nuHitman and they're actually pretty fun. On lower levels it is surprisingly challenging.
I've been playing Hitman 1, 2 and 3 lately, they're great games to just pick up and play
all. but beware of 1 and absolution, 1 might feel quite rough around the edges and absolution is like an insane hitman fanfic with all the good and bad that implies
Would a Splinter Cell Chaos Theory-style shadow and variable lighting detection system benefit Hitman?
Nah, very different styles of stealth.
Maybe? I'd prefer that over the usual standing behind a door, waiting for ages for a spot somewhere etc. Dunno, would be interesting but could make or break the game I think.
Could work if they don't go full hard on using this gimmick on every location, could add the ability to use lightswitches.
Realistically only during Suit Only runs, because good luck hiding in a shadow while wearing a bright red security outfit with light reflectors.
wtf was Absolution's plot?
>latex nuns
>totally out of place sexual shit like the guy asking why he's hard when he's dying
>47 tries to choke some gigantic guy with piano wire and gets btfo
>he later snaps said guy's neck in full view of hundreds of people
>has to protect some girl so he does this by dumping her in some orphanage
>she gets kidnapped because she was put into some orphanage
>she has a magic USB drive that makes her stronger than 6 fully armed guards at once despite having the build of a preteen girl
>somehow this is more valuable to the agency than a gun
>some guy just goes about his life coated in bird shit, 47 decides to just give him his fancy guns for info
Absolution was a fricking fever dream.
oh yeah i forgot, the stripper near the stripper cake. In a lunchroom in a landmine factory. Seriously, what was with all the out of place sex shit? Funnily enough the stripclub handled it the best
Hey I thought a streets informant named Birdie was pretty cool. I wish we could've seen more of him
>cliffhang him selling out 47 at the end
>completely ignored in newer games
lmaoo
I think its cannon that absolution is told from an unreliable narrator.
It isn't what actually happened, but the cover story. Or something like that.
Some of the worst writing in a game ive ever seen.
there's also the bit where he slices the barcode off, giving him a very noticeable bandage all game long, because 47 doesn't know what coverup is
Dont forget you had the moron cowboy who murders a waitress to frame 47, then decides to burn down his hotel to kill 47, even though he had him unconscious right in front of him. None of it makes sense and no one has logical motivations. Its painful to listen to the plot.
he also has 47 tied up in a prison basement later on, and proceeds to not shoot him. Colonel Sanders is beyond moronic.
Nothing to do with plot, but they were also seriously going to consider axing David Bateson and using Nolan North for 47. No decision sense over at IOI.
That would've been more blasphemous than Frank's voice getting recast in Dead Rising 4
Is Nolan North cheaper than Bateman?
god I love this game
which mission is that? i genuinely cant tell despite having played all three woa titles
elusive target for the dartmoor map
>no spoof mission where somebody ends up tracking 47 down because of Diane's predilection towards using the name, Mr. Tobias Rieper
but yeah the Trilogy Pack nets you the main story of World of Assassination trilogy. the premium add-ons will load you down with escalations and two extra hitman2 maps that weren't included in the trilogy pack for reasons.
and Absolution's plot was a shitshow. The chicago gangster cowboy villains should've tipped you off even before the latex nun bodyguards did; that's some good finnish humor right there.
are you fricking kidding me
what game?
>Good day Apu Apustaja. Our client today has a very “vigilante-esque” mission for you. She is willing to pay a huge sum for the target’s assassination. So, get ready, Apu Apustaja.
>Your target for today is the Jannies, a bunch of homosexuals that moderate Ganker for free.
>Jannies never sees the light of day, as he always stays indoors, either eating cheetos or jerking off to coom threads. He also have... a box of estrogen pills, which I know you’ll get a few ideas from it on how to kill him.
>That is all, Apu Apustaja. Good luck.
hitman3 is on sale on steam... worth it?
>all three games for 40 bucks
definitely
I already have the first two games on steam, just wondering if I the Hitman3 standard edition is worth
yea
don't bother with the DLC or deluxe editions tho, they contain nothing more than a few cosmetics and escalation missions
at least 1 and 2 offered new maps and a new campaign
AK47 is a JOBBER and a homosexual
Is it ever explained how he goes around being a Hitman and disguising himself with a fricking barcode on his head?
Hats and shades, what more do you need?
Huh?
"HQ, heard a weird noise, going to check it out."
see this is where i wish nu hitman had the radio and camera mechanics of mgsv
I would really like a camera mode. I know there's the camera in 3, but its just a first person view.
you mean Nvidea ansel?
sorry its for ansels only, no incels
>camera mechanics of mgsv
They've been "manned" for years now, a camera catching you will alert the nearest guard about you.
>shoot camera
>if no guard is in earshot of the bullet it will not be investigated
>investigations do not result in alarm status depending on how camera was disabled
there were a bunch of little details that made the overall package
>be lazy guard
>1 feed goes out
>'oh well probably gotta call IT later'
>kill guards manning cameras
>get spotted by camera
>guards are radioed my position because i cant disable radios
also the maps with multiple camera stations not controlling different sets of cameras so the frickin secret biolab in sapienza is monitored by father franchesco
I agree it could be deeper, but I remember a time when it never even mattered to be caught on camera doing illegal shit. The problem with going into alert mode is that all it essentially would do is make it so for every camera you shoot you just gotta hide in a dumpster for 5 minutes while guards walk around until they resume calm mode.
You have the hindsight of knowing who he is and what he looks like. In his world he's a ghost and only diana and a few others know/knew what he looked like. You see the barcode and think HITMAN others might not even be able to tell what it is or just think its some random tattoo.
I always did think it was funny 47 was designed to be able to blend into a crowd and be unmemorable, and then you see this 6'2" brick shithouse with a bald head, identifying tattoo, and a stare that can see through walls.
But that's just the fun of hitman, where you can see a guy go behind some boxes, hear a coin drop, send your buddy to check it out, and then be not at all suspicious when he returns 3 inches taller, bald, and telling you he makes a baklava that's to DIE for in a creepy monotone voice that could only belong to a robot lacking human emotion trained to kill.
All of them
damn
>put tons of effort into building realistic international locations
>voice everyone with the same 3 American accent VA's
Ruined. What's the point?
it was unironically cringe in 2
like why the frick would foreign people be speaking english with obviously fake accents lmao
Because video games are for americans, as God intended
*tink*
What a fashion god, I copy the Italy and Bang-wiener suits every summer.
This year imma cop some white gurkhas and a purple linen blouson and copy Columbia.
Get older and I'll start rocking Morroco.
weird how i don't remember imperial classic's mission (after columbia, before suburban suit)
It has gloves, so its probably from escalations.
oh i guess it was his outfit in india though, right?
Yeah, mumbai for the noglove version I think.
For me, there is only one suit worth wearing.
All of them except Absolution. Start with Blood Money, then play Contracts if you want more of the same but more challenging, or the nu-trilogy if you want something more modern and accessible. Only play Silent Assassin if you love Blood Money and Contracts, it has kino atmosphere but it’s even more punishing than Contracts with some janky AI in parts. Then play Codename 47 if you want something even jankier but with some kino levels still.
I like the TECHNOLOGY in the trilogy games.
>dumping her body in the manhole
nobody will ever find a dead body in a manhole, it's the perfect crime
like leaving them in laundry bins or dumpsters
anyone remember when a guy would make hitman threads with joseph clarence as the op, and the op text was just
>-
whatever happened to him
.
nothing
>posted 17 minutes before my message
huh
Just bought the trilogy and have been trying to achieve all silent assassin suit only on my first playthrough. Sucks that certain things like lethal poison and lockpicks are locked behind mastery levels. Otherwise, its a really fun and challenging experience.
SA/SO is the true way to play the game but your first experience should be a casual run. You don't know the maps and target's routines yet. I would recommend casual, then SASO any loadout (not hard, there are some really cheap tools in the game), then SASO master difficulty default loadout default start location. If you want to go one step further you can do no KOs and no guns as well but that gets into deeply autistic territory.
>SA/SO is the true way to play the game
Hate this meme. When did this become the standard? 47s whole shtick is that hes a chameleon and blends in and gets into places with outfits. Suit only is just a stupid challenge and probably the reason this shit has gone more into 007 territory than hitman.
SASO is a franchise tradition, doesnt mean its the best way. If you havnt attempted to do it, then you are just missing out on a new puzzle.
The anon I replied to said its the true way to play which I greatly disagree with and by him saying that to a new player he's steering them down the wrong path.
There is no good way to balance disguises, they either make the game trivially easy or you have the paranoid schizophrenic guards of H2:SA who open fire if you walk a bit too quickly. Disguises are fine for novelty and for exploring a level but 'beating' the game means SASO on every level, in my opinion. It has been the tradition from the beginning.
>It has been the tradition from the beginning.
not him but I disagree
the early games REQUIRE a disguise if you wanted a good rank. even Silent Assassin, which introduced the Silent Assassin rank
Not every disguise is foolproof, and you've got noticers all over the level. Not to mention knocking someone out and stealing their clothes opens up an opportunity for things to go sideways.
I think everyone has misjudged the patrol patterns and had someone walk in as your dragging a body across the floor and having to go into "containment mode" which usually turns into me saying "If I can't have five stars I want no stars."
>like lethal poison and lockpicks are locked behind mastery levels
most levels will feature some sort of poison including syringes. most locks can be busted open with a crowbar or have a key/keycard that you don't even need a KO to get
Who needs lockpicks when you have F I R E E X T I N G U I S H E R S
but i need those to launch at people's heads for the satisfying PONG it makes
>When you leave the estate, please use discretion regarding Miss Carlyle
>When I'm gone I shall consider her dead
47's lines are the best thing in the game.
Colorado suit only silent assassin has been the hardest challenge for me so far. Getting Penelope without having her body found was tricky. Had to take everyone else out first.
you can just accident her
But where? The greenhouse?
isn't she susceptible to a chandelier crushing if you can get into the house?
and the lawnmower and the propane kitchen and the water in the greenhouse
Penelope and Sean both go into the house and give you clean opportunities. You have to shoot the hay bale to kill Maya otherwise she's a nightmare. Ezra can be tricky and requires knocking a few dudes out to be safe. Bangkok is now the hardest to SASO because they patched out the default exit for some reason, the only exit is guarded by multiple cops.
Propane cylinder kills is cheating.
a big stationary red one that she paths directly past while the guards keep a safe distance?
nah
also forgot the cars if you can get them to blow up at the right time
Is it cheating if you get all the ICA assassins killed with one cylinder at the same time? Cuz that's just skill.
Sniper Assassin kills is cheating, you dont even have the move from the entrance!
elusive target arcade kills are cheating you were supposed to be locked out forever if you fricked up
>forever
They cycled around.
Most of the hitman 3 missions I saw for the first time during elusive targets. Mendoza was fun blind.
>They cycled around.
only if you missed them not failed
Those don't get you silent assassin rating by counting as an accident like the propane does.
>he doesn't snipe chandeliers
>played the first one (got stuck when i was a kid at release) and finished it
i should start 2 but i really dont enjoy much stealth games
lol it pisses off david bateson?
aw yeh
aw YEH
lol is this lost XD?
Placing propane cylinders in your targets' routes and sniping them all from the same vantage point has to be the most kino way of doing a Hitman level.
Whats the most fun level to go full murder rampage mode? I've only done it on Bangkok so far.
I always wanted a mission where you had to assassinate a target in a supermax prison.
>assassinate Epstein
>lure guards from security room
>shoot camera recorder
>disguise yourself as an inmate
>stage suicide
It writes itself and there are a lot of things you could do
>stage a prison riot
>play along with his escape plan before killing him and stuffing his body in the walls
>Illuminati panopticon where its really hard to not be spotted at every moment
>smuggling in a lethal object is harder than throwing a briefcase over a dence and hard to find in the prison
>one starting location has you crawling out of a hole behind a rita hayworth poster
Then again I think their location scouts were more concerned with getting a nice working holiday.
ur dence
gottem
>disguise as the guy who slides inmates a tray of food
>poison it
too easy for 47
We could've had greatness, but it was turned into a sniper mission instead
>Go pick that up!
>Dude, stop throwing your trash around!
>UUUUUHM, really, man?
For me it's throwing a fire extinguisher at someone while they're looking at you
>WAIT! OH NO-NO-N*KLANG**THUMP*
Hitman Codename 47 is only worth watching an LP of at this point
Silent Assassin is good, people say it's buggy because of one mission and not understanding the suspicion mechanics, although it can be ballbustingly unfun forcing you to walk everywhere if you're not an autist
Contracts is literally the perfect game, the moody atmosphere fits the fact 47 is supposed to be a grim less-than-human killer and not some homosexual 007 wannabe, it's also got a nice balance between difficulty with suspicion and shit like that, you can run but if you bump guards you'll be detected
Blood Money is the most approachable and easiest in the franchise, that's why people enjoy it. You can literally sprint around the map and run circles around guards and they'll never discover your disguise unless you're high notoriety, its the last good Hitman game before it turned into detection rings and meters and all that homosexual shit
Absolution should be avoided
nu-Hitman reboot games are dogshit if you're a proper fan but they're playable games if you're not attached to the previous franchise and how it has been entirely pissed on completely, plus if you want a James Bond game then you've come to the right place - beware the shitty service model and how they pretty much spell everything out for you including challenges, leaving no discovery for your own person, it's more or less a fricking job tier game where you complete missions over and over again just to watch numbers go up and not because you enjoy that particular level or the gameplay, if that's your thing you're going to love it
Every time I do the Carlyle Mansion I cant seem to find enough proof to accuse Emma, what am I missing? I've even found the secret note from Montgomery.
Probably the evidence you have to collect using 47's smartphone
And now let me tell you how hilarious it is to imagine our untraceable veteran assassin is just carrying an Apple around in his pocket...
Look at the ICA, those guys aren't using a verizon business plan for their agents.
Is there ever any time you actually use the phone besides in the Hong Kong level with the security panels?
you can use it to unlock windows in dubai
evidence in the manor
security panels in china
it was a pretty minor addition, all in all
Forgot about Dubai. They really ought to make the phone more useful in some way. I'm sure it'll be the main utility in the new 007 games...
I really want to buy 3 but I dont want to support their moronic practices.
*clink*
What was that?
They should penalize breaking open doors with a crowbar. Either more noise or set off an alarm if someone finds the broken lock.
Numan is good. Here's the flowchart you need if you want to get everything from all three games with hitman 3. It's 70 dollars on sale right now but for the amount of content you get it's well worth it. I got it on the summer sale and already have over 24 hours in it and am barely halfway through the first hitman's campaign
>trilogy edition
Kids don't know how good they have it.
This flowchart is moronic. It should go like this
>Do you own Hitman 1 and 2 on Steam?
>No
>buy them from key sites because it is 100x cheaper than buying them as addons for Hitman 3 (unless the original games are re on sale)
>make sure it's Hitman 2 Gold and Hitman 2016 GOTY
>redeem them on steam
>then buy Hitman 3 standard edition
>no you don't want the deluxe edition
>just launch hitman 3 and everything will work automagically.
Absolution
>hitman thread
>new how not to play hitman comes out too
This must be a sign for me to buy Hitman 3