IO Interactive’s much anticipated Hitman installment has had a lot of talks about it being an almost-episodic game with the continuous delivery of free content for several months after the game’s launch. Although it seems no one knows how much original content Hitman will have when it launches, not even IO Interactive head Hannes Seifer.
The month of October is going to be filled with excitement as the Hitman franchise is commemorating its 25 years of being in the business.
It’s the 25th anniversary this year?
I’d have assumed it would have gotten something like a remastered trilogy of the original games or a remake of the first game. Something for a 25th celebration.
Super lacklustre
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From PSU: "Ten years ago, the Hitman franchise was in a transitory state. Blood Money had become something of a classic and with Hitman Absolution there was a clear decision to push IO Interactive’s assassination sim series to a whole new level. That experimental, often divisive, entry turned out to be pivotal in what would follow.
Elements of Absolution, such as its accessibility and player-created content, would be mixed with the more traditional Hitman games’ sense of murderous creativity to birth the Hitman Trilogy 0f 2016-2021. A series that would take its creators on a turbulent journey of publisher changes, independence, and the eventual triumph of being handed the tantalizing 007 license."
This is a really bad situation for IO Interactive to even admit they don't know how much content the game will contain.
And this is precisely the reason I'll be skipping it.
Probably trying to see how much they can get away with charging us overall for all episodes while providing the least amount of content which will be cheaper for them.
Less content for us, less money they spend, more money they rake in
That's what this little episode experiment is with a AAA game.
The episode structure will give us the illusion of choice we are getting the same or more but I doubt we won't be. They would have just gone with a normal release like every other AAA game if they didn't have something planned.
That's why I'm not buying it. They shot themselves in the foot. Hitmans dead to me, smh so disappointed. TR looked like it had hitman elements, that'll satisfy me at least.
....where does the quote even say that?
"“We will [announce what content is available day one] very soon after Gamescom,” Seifert told GamingBolt. “This is a huge opportunity for us to listen to the world and to align with everybody. Based on that we will communicate our roll-out plan. We also need to complete it because I don’t want to promise a roll-out plan we can’t keep. We need to be very sure about this is the quality we can achieve and this is the point in time we can deliver it. When we promise that we will be good with that. That’s why it takes a little bit [of time] to make this plan solid. But I fully agree, before someone makes the commitment to buy the game they need to know what they’re getting. And that’s what we have to communicate in a very crystal clear way.”
Hitman games are about 20 hours long, many times shorter. If the game is 20 hours long, they are MORE then fine, consider free content will roll out for the next year or so free of charge.
Could they not have made a 20 hour game and DLC for the whole year paid?
Why is it that gamers see a glass half empty as suppose to half way full even when the developer is saying free content after launch? lol