‘Hitman’ Future after Hitman 3

[Lewisnic1]

@Urben

The director’s commentary in the Deluxe Edition say 47 created his own agency. Depending on the nature of this agency he is now a freelancer agent or the boss tied to his desk job. Which would pretty much rule him out to be the protagonist.

It’s going to be pretty cool to see. Maybe Olivia might pop up again in the future story and work with Diana and 47? She did provide mission handling details to 47 when he invaded the ICA? She just sort of disappeared after that so who knows?

@Nazareth

Story wise I’d like to see 47 and Diana in the process of building their own company rather then the story taking place after it’s already established. This way we can be there from the ground up, hiring a new staff and expanding the list of main characters. Always wanted to see a clean-up crew. With the ICA being exposed, it seems likely to have a negative impact on the clientele so they may have to do some work to acquire a new one. Possibly some ICA members and old clients will be targets as well.

I’m pretty sure some former ICA members will be part of 47’s future hits. There’s bound to be a few of them that will find out that 47 destroyed the ICA from the inside. Anyone is possible in Hitman

[Generickillz]

Contracts had a story. It set up a villain, the Inspector, and Hunter and Hunted had you kill him. No different from Hitman 3 just on a smaller scale.

[Yacob]

Yes it did. It’s mostly just non connected levels though. The story is the smallest of all the Hitman games.

[Soupienza]

@Urben

In the last cutscene you hear that every leading figure stepped down “due personal reasons”

More realistically they lost “that thing that would have kept them on top.”

For example I know of a businessman who was part of an… “axis” of sorts with a couple of politicians. He was very successful for many years. I went to his parties but I didn’t really get close. Others whispered his business only worked because of the “axis”. That the politicos kept his imported product costs low because they were on the take and so on.

It was a meteoric rise. One year he had a Camry. The next year he was in some top of the line Lexus. He moved from a compound to some big mansion. You just know something’s going on.

Sure enough when one of the politicians lost re-election… the company suddenly got dissolved. To the surprise of some, but not to others.

[Soupienza]

@Nazareth

Story wise I’d like to see 47 and Diana in the process of building their own company rather then the story taking place after it’s already established. This way we can be there from the ground up, hiring a new staff and expanding the list of main characters.

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[Soupienza]

@Piano_Man

I’d like to see Olivia make a return again.

If she comes back. She dies. That’s how it goes in these kinds of stories.

[Franz]

I wouldn’t mind letting 47 rest a bit.

I would like a game as the young Agent Soders.

Benefits of this approach:

• Different era, different weapons, different environments
• Continuity with existing lore
• Find out more about the ICA’s beginnings
• Chance to revisit Cuba (and perhaps the Night Thief?), but without the cardboard boxes. Just the authentic missions, sprawling environments around them included
• You’d still be a Hitman, so the series’ name doesn’t have to change
• You get that little magical Mafia - Mafia 2 “red car and garden hose” cutscene vibe going on, only inversed.
• Fewer “unbeatable clone assassin”-vibes, but he was still the best of his time so he should also be able to climb a drainpipe or two.

Drawback:

• Yeah, letting 47, and by extension David Bateson, rest a bit doesn’t feel so right after all.

[Soupienza]

Or how about something like NOLF?

[iEmeralds]

I’d rather they introduce new characters then reuse old ones. Maybe having old characters as a cameo would be nice, but we need totally new antagonists, and allies.

[Lewisnic1]

@Piano_Man

I’d like to see Olivia make a return again. Actually, I’d like to have something where 47 and Diana’s new “Agency” recruit some familiar faces… Such as, Olivia of course, perhaps working as a handler or gathering mission info etc. Victoria from Absolution? (Don’t know what her role would be… maybe the person who smuggles 47’s equipment in before missions.)

Another person… maybe Birdie? depending on what IO plans for him. I still to this day wouldn’t mind a mission where we have to eliminate him. Or, if they somehow tie in a “story” where he actually ends up being good then that’s fine too. He could work as an informant or something like that. Maybe a person who helps out 47 on missions once in a while? Like how Smith was to 47 at times. Could have some useful information, or something we need to obtain to complete the mission.

Could Smith be a possibility still after what happened? Maybe 47 deleted his tracks too lol
I doubt this one, but maybe Mei Ling? Lmao she would probably be around what? Late 40’s early 50’s? Maybe she got her life together and became a skilled assassin would be cool to see her again.

To start out, I think seven is a pretty good amount of people to being something “new.“ Could always introduce brand new people into it later as well. But I’m sure they could build something nice out of this roster. All just a thought on my end, just spitballing here lol

• 47
• Diana
• Olivia
• Victoria
• Agent Smith
• Mei Ling
• Birdie

I wouldn’t be against Olivia returning to assist Diana and 47, but I personally wouldn’t like Victoria to return because I know a lot of people didn’t like her character. Agent Smith returning makes sense because no doubt 47 will end up pulling him out of trouble again

As for Birdie, he definitely should come in as a target if anything. After he more or less betrayed 47 at the end of Absolution, he definitely needs the fiber wire around his neck haha

[Screaming_Meat]

@Lewisnic1

I personally wouldn’t like Victoria to return because I know a lot of people didn’t like her character.

what character?

20 character requirement

[Franz]

@Yacob

I mean a stand alone story where 47 is in his 60s.

I just discovered what he’ll look like:

Strenght and class to spare, but some welcome signs of the good, honest, Kingpin life.

[Yacob]

I have this idea in my head that 47 wouldn’t allow himself to get fat.

[StingingVelvet]

@Quinn

I think the only Hitman game in which the story actually dictates the gameplay is Hitman Absolution (And recently Hitman 3, though to a much lesser extent). I just resent this view that the game is somehow at its best when it has “no story”. They tried contextless killing with Hatred, that wasn’t exactly fun.

I don’t think anyone wants no context or story. It’s the larger continuing story, shadow clients and Providence and such, that I am not a huge fan of. The stories behind the contracts themselves like a virus that kills specific DNA strains, and the stories within those levels like Silvio’s stuff with his mother, the idle dialog of the guards and things like that, are all good and essential.

[Franz]

@Yacob

I have this idea in my head that 47 wouldn’t allow himself to get fat.

Did you just call the Kingpin “fat”?
That’s not fat. That’s the good life metabolised into pure muscle.

[Screaming_Meat]

@iEmeralds

How about this?

With Providence ‘dismantled’, a new era of change has started, and with it, chaos ensues. Lots of high level people stepping down or else being ‘retired’ causes the world go into a sort of dystopia. Buildings get run down, the government is in ruins, and lots of damage has been done to the world.

eeeeh that would retroactively imply that the super secret cabal of super-rich fuck pigs running the world were A Good Thing all along; like they were the lesser of two evils.

[CNC]

But if there is a power vacuum then chaos will happen with everyone fighting for the top seat and more over then not will be corrupt people in these sort of areas. Be more Diana and 47 weeding out the corrupt and so forth even how for splinter groups be formed trying to dominate with separate organisations similar to the ICA.

[captainBodaggit]

The franchise has so much untapped potential in terms of the core gameplay that it’d be a sin to call it quits, but I could not care less about the story after 2016.

[Lewisnic1]

Well you never know what the future story is going to be? IOI have already said they are moving away from the WOA storyline in the next game, so I’m assuming by that new enemies are showing up and maybe even some enemies linked to past targets like those who were part of the Franchise? Might be looking too much into it but you never know?

[captainBodaggit]

Honestly, I just ignore the story and I would expect another “soft reboot” when they come back to the franchise. I think fans of the early games see how Hitman had the ingredients of a great movie, but the actual movie was a joke. With how far games have come in terms of cutscenes and cinematic gameplay, I see no reason as to why a Hitman game’s story shouldn’t be the great movie that’s hidden in the clay, so to speak.

But I don’t play the game for the story anyway.