Same, everyone should play Hitman and Gremill keeps delivering top quality sarcasm on twitter and should be remunerated

whoops

That's a lovely offer folks, but I couldn't possibly. I'll find the cash somewhere!

Yeeeaahahhh

I demand a recall of 2016 goty

Downloaded the freebie, will try play soon.

So I've started playing this and I'm quite enjoying it. I've done the introduction and the Paris mission (once) so far and it's all very Hitman. Which is nice, but I'm a bit underwhelmed at the moment - it doesn't seem that different to the games I played on PS2.

I can see where there's quite a lot of freedom to execute the missions in different ways, but I'm finding that either there's a bewildering range of options or its handholding a bit too much and pointing me in exactly the right direction to do very specific tasks.

I suppose the glory is found in the replays, yeah? That's not something I'm used to doing so maybe I need to change and not the game...

FranticPea wrote:

I'm feeling the same Grem. It's not clicking with me at all yet.

Also, on the Paris level I was about to go to bed and thought I'd have a mess about.

Spoiler:

I walked into the crowd near the catwalk and machine gunned the target in plain sight. Everyone freaked out and I ran away and hid. A few minutes later it was as if nothing had happened, with people chatting quite happily next to the corpse.

Hmmm

Yeah, I know what you mean. Maybe it's asking too much for a completely consistent non-gamey response but that's kind of my feeling too.

Not even in as extreme a context as that though - I'd have liked to have seen dudes being a lot more persistent when trying to follow me when I raise suspicion. All you really need to do is walk away and they sharp lose interest.

Yeh I love the improvisation it encourages, and my Paris mission was pretty tense. I need to put more time in.

Actually I'm very wrong. This is now very amazing.

Uninstalled.

Strange kind of mixture of holding your hand but at the same time expecting you to understand how the mechanics work from the off. More frustrating than helpful. I kind of expected that if you followed the instructions given, then you would kind of have a chance of finishing the level.
Seemed to be too many times I was triggering something but not always sure why it was happening.
I guess it needs more time, and I'll give it some more as well. currently it is very average atm.

The only way I've got any target is by shooting them then running away. I don't know, for example, how to get poison from a glass on the table into the target's mouth. There's no "fancy a drink?" option.

The hand holding complaint is kinda getting old. Without having to read too far back, basically everyone just says turn it off.

Everything else, yes, you need to work it out. Save lots and be of a mindset that the levels are going to be replayed by design. There is a loose time constraint too. Mini dead rising style.

Easy to just spend 45 minutes scoping all the areas of Paris just to see what stuff does.

Kow wrote:

The only way I've got any target is by shooting them then running away. I don't know, for example, how to get poison from a glass on the table into the target's mouth. There's no "fancy a drink?" option.

Not everything in a level is in service of killing a specific target. In Paris the main target, being a mega rich fashion designer, will only drink specific cocktail, so you have to jump through a lot of hoops to poison him.

Other glasses might be good for targets outside the main hit though, like the user generated ones or the escalation targets.

To get the most out of the game you have to approach it like like a clockwork puzzle, not a real life scenario. You need to revel in the artifice, like it does.

I'll revel in your artifice in a minute.