Unpopular opinions about Hitman

I hate the Clown suit, Santa suit and every other silly suit that you can unlock. Side note, the Rubber Ducks are awful and doesn’t fit 47’s personality. They should have stayed in the Asylum where they belonged.

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I also pretty much never wear these silly suits.
- Urben, before he managed to mod his pfp into the game

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:flushed: I remember you modding the winter sports to look like your pfp, but have you managed full Urben?

Did no modding yet, I wait for some better tools because I want to combine some outfits elements if possible:

  • Clown suit gloves
  • Masked Tuxedo suit (without mask)
  • Vampire magican cape (recolored green)
  • Whittleton Creek construction worker helmet (recolored green)

Would of course be extremely cool to remodel the head into the helmet. Gonna need to throw some money on modders I think.
EDIT: Oh wait comercially modding the game might be against the TOS of the game. :thinking:

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I’d say there’s a distinction between selling a mod for general release and commissioning someone to make a mod specifically for you :man_shrugging:

Or just ask them to make you the mod and then pay them $50 for a drawing of a cow. They’re making the mod for free

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And Vetrova sounds like Vetrover. I thought it was part of that accent.

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Yes, the only female name that ends with an “A” that he can pronounce is Diana, everything else is Rebeccer, Vetrover, Olivier, Emmer. I find it hilarious though

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I have yet to play Hitman 3 and I’m not sure if I’m going to. Top tier unpopular opinion! :triumph:

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I’m a bit nervous stating this one but imma say it.

In Absolution and the WOA trilogy there were many actors whom outperformed Bateson’s 47.

Alright let’s get him out of here

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I’d argue that other actor have it easier tho because their characters naturally emote more than 47. So they can ham it up and be angry or confused or sad, so they shine in those ways. But Bateson let’s 47 walk a fine line of keeping the voice calm and perhaps a tad monotone, while also subtly injecting pieces of emotion in there.

Especially in H3 with very emotional events happening personally to 47 I think Bateson nailed that fine balance. Making 47 emotional without breaking the character of him

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I fear by speaking The truth blasphemy that you have included yourself on the HMF hit list.

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See the thing is, I feel there wasn’t really that gap in H2-BM. I think Bateson was a lot better at nailing that balance back then. There’s still a lot of variation in the way he could depict the voice as calm and monotone. Maybe he got older, or maybe it’s cause McKee was there (I think she’s his coach right?).

To be fair, I know part of the problem in Absolution was because Bateson didn’t do the mocap, so he couldn’t necessarily play off the other actors. This is one of the scenes I had in mind when I meant Absolution.

Like here I felt Bateson was so flat compared to Isabelle Fuhrman’s performance. But yeah you’re right too, he does have only two lines, and he is trying to mute his emotions as well.

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Absolution also the problem that it was, from start to finish, a chaotic mess. They basically spent a lot of it, particularly with the stories and performances, throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something would stick. Hence why you get the weird mix of performances and narratives. (Hence why Travis gets a prosthetic hand for no reason)

Odds are good a lot of Bateson’s dialog was repurposed and he may very well have just been asked to read some lines with no context, or with a completely different context to what they ended up using the dialog for. Also he may have had instructions they retconned like “sound hungover”

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One of the best parts about Bateson’s performance in Absolution is found in the intel menu, where you hear 47 thoughts on the level/objective.

I personally found them really memorable and a great insight into his mind.

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I said it before, I think the other voice actors from the main characters did a better Job than Bateson in H3. Especially in that post-Mendoza cutscene. He’s in the ground, poisoned, not knowing if he’s dying, betrayed by his wife. And there isn’t even a real “fight” in his voice, like heavy breathing or anything. That was a moment where I think others did better.

I still love Batesons voice and he is an amazing voice actor, don’t get me wrong. But sometimes I think he could add more facets to his voice.

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That’s why I like the mission stories in Mendoza or when he whispers the names of the Agents in Berlin to himself. I like it when 47 navigates himself through his missions.

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Agent 47 got way more audibly angry when he called Diana a word I won’t call her here on this forum back at the end of Blood Money.

I don’t love that performance but he didn’t under perform like in H3, and this is after 20 years of betrayal instead of like 5 years. I feel like Bateson is on a tight rope of how to express emotions as 47 and it doesn’t always win out.

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squad goals

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Am I the only one that passionately hates starting locations that give you any kind of disguise?

I’m fine with varied starts, even fine with ones that put you in trespassing areas like the consulate garage and the shrine in Mendoza. But I hate starting undercover somewhere and wish it wasn’t in the game at all.

Doesn’t matter if it’s a disguise that let’s you use weapons or not. Anything that isn’t a suit start is bad in my opinion.

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