it’s up on gamepass too
They really never thought this plan through all the way
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that first image is just straight up an error, right?
if you want Hitman III on Steam, 60 bucks
if you want Hitman but don’t own I and II, 100 bucks
the pricing on any DLC for III is irrelevant because it comes with the base paid product
alternatively, look at the fucking deal you’re getting, just absolutely dunking on those Train Simulator simps
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it is a screaming deal in its own way, that’s true
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Hitman’s flurry of DLC combinations is also really confusing in the context of the Epic store. And also in the ingame main menu. In some cases the title is cut off so it looks like “Hitman 2 - …”, “Hitman 2 - …”, “Hitman 2 - …”
At least once I bought a Hitman content that was different than I intended based on misreading the tiny cover art on the Epic store thumbnail, and that was after pondering the question for 2 minutes
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Anyway for anyone new to this series, IMO Hitman 2 is the best one and I recommend playing that one first. It delivers the best on atmosphere and it’s the most clever and pointed in terms of the social-class criticism playfully expressed from the POV of various assumed identities, with settings like a New York bank, a posh Vermont suburb and an Indian megacity.
Looks like for all the bundles there’s no discount on Hitman 2 yet, but you can at least play the introductory simple mission (New Zealand) for free, and IMO it’s also the best one of those in the series.
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Man for me Hotline Miami 2 is a disaster on par with like… Drakengard 2 but I’ve loved seeing love for it here and in the video
I really had a complete opposite experience though, I could rush through HM1 levels, and improvise on the go while I had to play 2 extremely slowly, using baiting strategies all the time while the music relentlessly clashed against the actual experience
I even S ranked HM1 with the combo mask right before HM2´s release, and could barely get through the second one. Gunfire from offscreen was everywhere and constantly cheap
I guess we don’t entirely disagree if I sum this up as « Hotline Miami 2 is easier than HM1 if you’re good, harder if you’re bad » which, ok, probably. Owned
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Just thinking about setting up this problem – Okay, you’re two years away from releasing Hitman and you need the purchasing to be clear and simple for a year or more of DLC and it needs to flow in your game but it also needs to make sense on Steam and Playstation Store and Xbox and whatever storefronts show up in the future and what if you make a sequel and what if you make a third sequel and how will the storefronts look different years and years down the line and what if you change the model and what if you have a cross-gen game and what if you sign an exclusivity deal with a just-launched PC storefront because you don’t have a publisher and it didn’t break out hit and you need to mitigate risk as best you can?
A million ways the purchasing experience can go wrong, and it did.
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I think the user experience for playing it all from Hitman 3 is excellent. They need to simplify the purchasing to three level packs but I suspect the DLC cruft is non-negotiable from the business side.
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That’s the one they have the most control over, and they did a better job. I wonder if their distribution deals with Warner have made consolidating the level packs more difficult. Warner has lawyers whose main purpose is to respond to any question with, too risky, can’t change it.
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seeing Hotline Miami talk always reminds me of one of the first pieces i wrote for a website 10 years ago that the developer saw and then emailed me all upset about and then later sexually harassed me at GDC (and then when i called him out on twitter, he spent a lot of the event apparently glaring at me at a distance). fun times!
i don’t do this kind of criticism anymore because it turns out it makes everyone and their mother think you’re some pretentious schoolmarm who hates fun and then they antagonize you on forums and twitter about it for the rest of your life. (God Hand voice) i love it!
Hotline Miami cribs so much shit from that one Japanese game maker dev who i always forget the name of and is hard to google anyway. the game and aesthetics are fun enough but its attempts to do some kind of Lynchian story are so stupid.
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OK, I’m lost. I’ve got Hitman-2-with-Hitman-1-and-stuff. I’d like to buy Hitman 3 plus the extra stuff, which one am i looking for? Standard? Does that include the deadly sins?
looking at it on an xbox now, the experience seems to be a single download of Hitman Trilogy (free on game pass), one big purchase of Most Of The DLC, and then one other smaller purchase of a hitman-3-exclusive dlc set if you want that. which is the best it’s been so far
I had a heart attack reading
But then
Never trust this site I guess
Edit: see BAstromech’s post below
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i believe that, right now, hitman 3 deluxe comes with hitman 3 levels + five extra escalations, and that deadly sins is a separate purchase no matter what
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good to know that even half of the cryptobros out there think having NFTs in games is a dumb idea
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found it - i mean this:
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their platformer ninja game is really good too, and seems like a direct inspiration for dustforce
oh neat, looks like they’re still making games:
http://ikiki.la.coocan.jp/himoji/game.htm
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It’s a useful site that has an explicit anti-blockchain editorial policy, but it has a lot of filler press release reword articles.
edit: I wasn’t sure what “NFT / crypto panel” meant in this context, and as this has blown up they’ve clarified. It looks like it’s the more expected, less inflammatory reading:
The Good Gamer Group panel was created by Interpret and comprised of 24,000 players; it is intended to represent the overall gaming market, from casual mobile to hardcore PC audiences. The 5,000 member NFT/crypto panel was selected to be representative of that larger panel.
“The only criteria to get into the panel is, they must be aware of what an NFT is,” Interpret senior vice president of growth and innovation Jesse Divnich said. “It is important that we have people who don’t own or don’t like NFTs in the panel. We need to track sentiment over time, talk to them to see what the barriers are, etc.”
The question when reading this is, is Interpret an interest group pushing a viewpoint or a reputable market survey group? I don’t recognize their name enough to make a call.
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