They’ll probably be some 47 Easter egg in the game somewhere haha
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Oh, most definitely!
I think ‘James Bond’ will allow IOI to create a game with a crazier fashion: gadgets, fights, infiltration etc. James Bond is another nuance of a hitman, quite not the opposite of 47, he can be in the light but shares it with noone haha. I don’t know what to expect though.
Over the years, every Hitman game brought up new gameplay that served great stories (or made-up stories such as Contracts). With the World of Assasination, they reached the perfect blend story and gameplay, but more than anything i really enjoy the story within the story. Each level has his macroscopic ambiance, each one reaches a level of sophistication that makes it impossible to go back to something linear. IOI has proved that one level can serve many opportunities for plots. I mean plots here, not game.
Gameplay wise, it needs more maturity, which is totally doable for the next installment, and i hope it will. Making a reboot would be a huge disappointment, especially since… the world is theirs now.
I was disappointed that IOI made a joke about Absolution being something that never took place. I thought Victoria could a be another character in a later game. I love works of fiction that tie things together and i thought why not include Absolution? Why not make Knight and Stone have their own stories for next game? There is something to do with all of them now. It’s one of the few ideas i have for a next game.
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A joke, however, is all it was. It lets those who don’t like Absolution have their little fun in pretending it doesn’t exist, while still acknowledging it for those of us who admit it does and know that it is canon. Hence, Diana’s joke is that it happened in “a parallel universe,” which only means that so many things were outside of the ordinary for her usual work with 47 that it might as well have been a different reality, but she’s not suggesting it actually was. If it really were in a literal parallel universe, how would Diana or Tamara have known about it. I don’t read too much into that joke other than a playful nod to the fact that Absolution was a… special situation.
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I couldn’t have said this better myself 
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Another interview here in case anybody has missed it.
It was a while ago now, but Hakan just goes into some small details about giving 47’s character a rest and does say he will return eventually 
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Well, they better abandon this mindset at some point within the next 10 years, because there will come an inevitable time when the game will either be removed from the servers, or the servers themselves will be shut down, making the bulk of the game unplayable. This also applies to any future games they and other companies may make while using this awful model. I will not tolerate losing access to the additional features and modes of the trilogy, which I intend to continue playing well into my advanced old age, as long as my hands and eyes allow it. There is no world anyone can reasonably envision 50 years from now where this game is still available online, because let’s face it, no gaming company not named Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo will still be here by then. So IOI had better shore up the game’s offline play in preparation for the far future, and not apply this same damn model with their next game in the series. I’m already pissed off enough at Ubisoft for this crap, I don’t need to add IOI to it.
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I suspect that over the next decade, video game technology will change so much, that IOI will likely have to overhaul and upgrade Hitman with the changing decade in many aspects, yet never create an offline mode. It was the core franchise for IOI over > 20 years, so the servers aren’t likely to be ever shut down, and when they do, there won’t be a Hitmanforum for anyone to complain, probably.
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I won’t need the hitman forum to complain to them, and those servers will have to be shut down eventually. Unless something is done where any and every part of the game can be played offline, it will never be an acceptable situation.
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I agree with you that it would be great if the Hitman Trilogy would be playable offline. But realistically, IOI has more incentive to ensure an always online connection and almost no incentive to create an offline mode.
What IOI learned from Hitman Absolution, that they made mistakes which could not be corrected once the game was printed to CD/DVDs.
They learned from Hitman Absolution that all future Hitman would be online, as a “games as a service” product, where they could ensure updates and changes, and a permanent connection to their community.
I think that we can expect that the Hitman Trilogy will be maintained for more than a decade regardless, because Hitman has been the key franchise for IOI over the past quarter Century.
Despite any blowback from those wanting an offline mode, it makes no sense from IOI’s perspective ever to create an offline mode.
Once an offline mode is created, it becomes a static game, which can be changed by modders, and distributed. The counter to this is for Hitman to be a live game, that is under the complete control and modification by IOI as they see fit.
Unless you have to go online, at least for a time, in order to get new updates or additions. The point of offline playability is so that we, the consumer base, can continue to use the produce we paid for even after such a time as the provider of that product is not longer in business. IOI may not have incentive now to make it playable offline, but if they are planning to stick around long term they are going to need to be able to please their customers with products they can always use even when they stop providing services for it and have moved on to other products, or they will face issues once the time comes to cease services for that product. Not to mention the constant disconnects are fucking irritating and some of us would like to continue playing our game even when the servers are down, like it used to be.
Everything that’s not the main campaign mission on the main maps is online only.
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In the modern world, you don’t buy a game and have no ownership in it. You don’t “own” your copy of Hitman 3 any more than you own the content in your Amazon video library, unfortunately. You have a license to it that can be revoked by the publisher at any time they want. In the far future when the game is no longer playable due to not having a viable off-line mode, you will simply no longer have a license to play the game any longer.
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All what you say is true. But I don’t think that IOI are planning to disband their connection to Hitman at any time, because IOI have 25 yrs so far invested in the franchise. If we get to the “ever” case, well, eventually, yes the servers may be available or not available, but this will correspond to a future date when not many will be interested in playing Hitman anyway, and if they do, it may be ported offline, when it is of no value to IOI. While of value to IOI, in my opinion, Hitman won’t have features of the online mode, offline.
If I buy a physical copy of a game, that copy is mine, and I can play it on any device that allows it, and there is nothing the company who made it can do to get it back from me if I don’t wish to. This swing to online and digital gaming, unfortunately, is stamping that out, but hopefully the industry will wise up before it goes too far, because the anger at the industry for these and other offenses (micro transactions, Kinect, etc.) are only growing, albeit slowly, amid more imminent controversies.
That’s fine with me, that’s the point in time to which I’m looking toward in regards to this issue.
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That definitely seems to be the way that the industry is going though, unfortunately. Companies like Amazon are big enough that they don’t really care whether the public likes the model or not. If enough people refused to buy into it, maybe there’d be change, but most of the public seems happy to just consume.
Blind idiots, I say as I unquestionably consume anything my favorite franchises in any entertainment media industry put out.
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I do the same thing. I will happily sit in a movie theater watching the latest Marvel movie while simultaneously complaining about how watered down the franchise is.
IOI feels exactly the same as Heisenberg and every consumer. IOI want to continue to support their online product as long as consumers are willing to support it. IOI aren’t going to support it, when it is no longer a consumer product that the consumer wants to play. But in my humble opinion, it won’t likely ever be ported to an offline mode.
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New content takes time to develop. If there aren’t things in the pipeline now, then there won’t be a year 3 beyond a few elusive target releases, maybe some arcade sets, and some featured contracts. When Travis says that Year 3 is “TBD”, that doesn’t (to me) imply that they haven’t thought about it or that they haven’t decided whether to do a year 3 or not. It means (again, to me) that they aren’t ready to discuss it or release any info on what it will include.
If Year 3 were literally up in the air as to whether it will exist or not, I think Travis would have said “we don’t know if there will be a year 3 yet” instead.
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Unless the game is, say, Overwatch, and the company just mandatorily patches your install file and makes whatever physical medium you bought obsolete.
Just saying. It CAN happen, and not everything is forever.
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