Damn, I feel so old hearing this since I have no problems with janky controls in video games.
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On one hand I think Blood Money could be seen as the first time the series realise its potential (though I do go a little earlier than that), but on the other hand I did buy Blood Money for numerous people and they couldnāt get passed Chile.
So maybe he has a point. I just donāt like feeling this.
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Fair play to you, Ro! I struggle with it myself, I have to say. I remember getting Contracts in 2004, and then going and buying H2:SA later in the year and finding it nearly unplayable, so if the jump backwards from Contracts to H2:SA was bad at the time, imagine what itās like for me going back to Blood Money and before after playing the WoA! 
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Blood Money fans jumping back to Hitman 2 SA: āWow this is hard, I canāt ever get passed Japan. Why is everyone shooting me.ā
HITMAN 3 fans jumping back to HITMAN 1: āWow this HUD and inventory icons are giant.ā
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I canāt think of a thread for this, but itās kinda review adjacent
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It might fit into the Retrospects thread, most videos in there discuss specific aspects of the game(s): Hitman Retrospects
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https://youtu.be/5J816SKGqBY Found another weird Hitman 3 review that records it like a cartoon villain and insists that IOās servers are always āfullā like itās a club only a certain amount of people are in.
- good game but really poor connection and none tech support.
I think this would be the better place to post it than the funny thread
Pretty interesting video. Iāve never heard of this person until now and now Iām intrigued about his videos.
His point kinda stemmed from a perspective that Hitman 3 is too pricey and not generally a game to play VR specifically. While thatās true and in some parts heās almost right in that regard, it seems flawed at the same time. He played it on a PS4 so outdated hardware made it seem skewed when the PS5 has vast improvements to performance/quality to certain textures or rendering processes.
I guess in a way this video is more humour-orientated than video essay-orientated. Iāve never watched a video from UpIsNotJump so my best impression I got out of it is exactly that. For someone that titles their videos like a video essay I thought this would have serious tones to this video. Maybe I just hate humourous altogether - in defence of UpIsNotJump I probably should be more open-minded to certain videos than āexpecting the expectedā.
However I did like this video for how derivative its comedy went. He kinda reminds me of NerdĀ³ in a way for their video style. I might start bing-watch more of UpIsNotJumpās videos though, it was entertaining.
(This is also posted in Froteās server, but I felt like reposting here)
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Damn Irate Gamer uploaded a Hitman 3 video? Badumtish.
Dunno, most reviews for H3 from non-game journalists were pretty similar. Price a bit too high for 5 missions, Romania feels too short and out of place, not too many changes and because of how the game is structured it feels like a DLC for H2, story is laughably bad and the whole always online thing and technical issues relating to the servers just hinders the experience.
I donāt see why some canāt accept the reality. 
Youāll never see me defend Blood Money when someone is bashing on it because of the issues it has from either fans or non-fans of the series and that is my favorite Hitman game 
I was mostly making fun of the skits. I thought the story was pretty good, the guy compares it to Hitman 2 and claims 47 is just killing for the sake of it. But 47 is killing for a very personal reason, revenge for his childhood past and to avenge Lucas Grey. Heās very altruistic.
His criticism that āevery level should have a storyā just feels like someone who played the game once. Which is all journos letās be honest.
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True but letās be real, with the exception of hard core Hitman fans and maybe fans of the stealth genre, you will never hear of people like him playing the missions over and over as IO intended. I donāt even know from the top of my head any AAA game that requires multiple replays of levels to get the most out of it. 
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It used to be the standard but alas.
Really liked this review. Thereās some questionable things he says like heāll knock the game for encouraging save scumming but he has good points I think and it was entertaining. I loved his mastery suggestion I thought that was legitimately genius.
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Cvit, previously reviewed all Hitman games, drops his final one.
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good game, i like to play
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Super Bunnyhops take on the whole WOA.
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HSRGVās thoughts on WOA trilogy in general
Before you think iām just blindly hating on this game, please donāt. I donāt hate the modern Hitman titles, i just donāt like them much either. This review was written with constructive criticism in mind.
WOA was never exactly my cup of tea BUT i wonāt deny it had the best gameplay of the whole series, and level design was fantastic too.
Now, like i said, iām not a fan of H6. Quite a few things that i loved about Hitman were either missing or changed for worse. The only time i was genuinely interested and excited for Hitman 6 was back in 2015 when i first saw the snowy trailer and when the first beta came out. That was before i had realized IOIās thematic design for WOA yet. Whenever i play Hitman 6 itās mostly a chore of completing challenges while being mostly bored, and occasionally enjoying it.
For me WOA is mostly just about collecting shit, challenges in this case, and not about coming up with new methods (and improving my time) to kill targets. I have no inner motivation to kill the targets and take my time doing it. The very dull 007-esque tone and unappealing music (i rather play without WOAās soundtrack, which makes it even more dull) puts me off and feels very non-Hitman. All that seems to make sense in this one is to collect all the challenges as fast as i can without any regard for stealth or score. Itās boring, itās very non-Hitman like and it makes me press alt+F4 within 45 minutes of playing.
Interestingly WOA marked the first time i was consistently uninterested in Hitman, i say consistently due to its episodic nature (despite the idiotic reboot naming trend, H1, H2 and so on). I wonāt go into detail with this brief āāreviewāā but objectively speaking H6 also improved on a lot of things, mechanically, and also design-wise.
My dislike of the game was always due to purely subjective reasons, or so i thought.
Then later on this year i realized that my main gripe with the game wasnāt the atmosphere and dull tone after all. Itās something i hadnāt thought on a conscious level before yet it bothered me. And that is, the LACK of challenge and suspense in stealth. This is due to the modern trend of stealth games having all these ridiculously overpowered mechanics, X-ray vision in this case. Now, i love the stealth genre mostly due to the atmosphere of tension and danger. This suspension and sense of danger is severely lacking in Hitman 6.
Due to footsteps being completely silent even at full sprint (yes and 47 being able to see people through walls at a great distance infinitely, i find myself feeling very bored and unchallenged 24/7 whilst playing. Yes, i know, thereās the master difficulty which enables audible footsteps and you can turn off instinct in the options. But the problem is that since āāvery easy modeāā and the ridiculously OP mechanics are the norm in modern video games, games are often designed around those mechanics. WOA was primarily designed with accessibility and the ridiculously easy default mode in mind.
Even if i DO disable all the assisting features, iād still be thinking ā'WHY am i deliberately making this game artificially harder for me, sort of a like a fake hard mode. Especially when the game is more about collecting challenges rather than eliminating targets, and collecting is more about pragmatism and speed rather than immersion and fun as it is with contract killing for me āā.
WOA was a good game for most but it wasnāt for me. The dull, unappealing atmosphere (before someone says it, no, iām not asking nor wishing for a dark atmosphere specifically, many kinds would do), the off-putting, excessively heroic and UNFITTING music, and the boring, unvaried voice acting (except for 47) killed my interest in the game.
Objectively itās a good game, a great game, but it never felt anything like Hitman to me. Yet, sadly, now modern gamers are associating Hitman with only Hitman 6/WOA and how it depicts the series.
In other words, iām glad WOA is finally over and IOIās doing something else. With all this said, i must end this review by stating that Hitman WOA is and always has been a polished, quality product.
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Your review left me some questions.
What are the things you loved in the older games that are not present or weakened in the recent games? Your review is generally hard to relate to without this question being answered.
Many people take their time and come up with new methods purely by their inner motivation. Yet you feel the other way, then why did you feel that way?
Again, what made you think that?
So you feel something wrong with customizing your experience? Do you have any reason?
If you wanted to seem mature and constructive, donāt you think you should have thought again before you writeā¦that?
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