Interesting - how are the old games better? To me, the World of Assassination trilogy is peak hitman, a condensation of all theyāve learned from the past many games, and an all-round improvement on Blood Money.
Oh I hear you, the new hitman games are far from bad, and I agree with you they are kinda a culmination of lessons learned in the previous games.
The main thing which bothers me is the handholding, where it comes up āmission story revealingā and then guides you. Iād love to at least pretend Iām working it out for myself. I understand you can turn that off, but Iāve also read online that doing so skips some story dialogue, would love it to turn out thatās wrong.
Itās also down to personal preference for me; I just happen to prefer some of the levels from the classic games. I also dislike the UI and general vibe of the new ones, how it feels like a live service. I appreciate my word choice of āsuperiorā was overly strong in hindsight, I really meant it subjectively and was not trying to make a reaching claim. Both classic and new are very good, marketing and DRM aside.
The handholding is too much, I agree, but I had honestly forgotten it since I turn off that and the minimap at the start of each game. It doesnāt seem to skip any dialogue, Iāve at least not seen any dialogue online that wasnāt in my game, but I guess I wouldnāt know.
Overall the games are indeed not that challenging if you know a little about what youāre doing, but I appreciate that you can set your own challenge, and be rewarded in-game for e.g. silent assassin or suit only runs.
Yepp doing Silent Assassain / Suit Only really adds the challenge back in where the handholding takes it away. Itās what Iāve spent most of my time with the game doing.
That said, thanks for your insight on having the guides turned off. Itās only just hit me I can always just turn it off and replay levels Iāve already done to see what I miss, if anything. So Iāll do that next time I play.
Interesting - how are the old games better? To me, the World of Assassination trilogy is peak hitman, a condensation of all theyāve learned from the past many games, and an all-round improvement on Blood Money.
Oh I hear you, the new hitman games are far from bad, and I agree with you they are kinda a culmination of lessons learned in the previous games.
The main thing which bothers me is the handholding, where it comes up āmission story revealingā and then guides you. Iād love to at least pretend Iām working it out for myself. I understand you can turn that off, but Iāve also read online that doing so skips some story dialogue, would love it to turn out thatās wrong.
Itās also down to personal preference for me; I just happen to prefer some of the levels from the classic games. I also dislike the UI and general vibe of the new ones, how it feels like a live service. I appreciate my word choice of āsuperiorā was overly strong in hindsight, I really meant it subjectively and was not trying to make a reaching claim. Both classic and new are very good, marketing and DRM aside.
The handholding is too much, I agree, but I had honestly forgotten it since I turn off that and the minimap at the start of each game. It doesnāt seem to skip any dialogue, Iāve at least not seen any dialogue online that wasnāt in my game, but I guess I wouldnāt know.
Overall the games are indeed not that challenging if you know a little about what youāre doing, but I appreciate that you can set your own challenge, and be rewarded in-game for e.g. silent assassin or suit only runs.
Yepp doing Silent Assassain / Suit Only really adds the challenge back in where the handholding takes it away. Itās what Iāve spent most of my time with the game doing.
That said, thanks for your insight on having the guides turned off. Itās only just hit me I can always just turn it off and replay levels Iāve already done to see what I miss, if anything. So Iāll do that next time I play.