Now that the dust has settled, how did Hitman 2016 compare to older entries and especially Blood Money?

Now that the dust has settled, how did Hitman 2016 compare to older entries and especially Blood Money?

What are the most memorable kills/disguises?

Wrong place to as this. Most of Sup Forums just obsesses over the episodic format.

It was the perfect sequel to blood money

Vastly inferior, if only because it only has a few levels and only half of them are great.

probably the best hitman so far
it's episodic release and online shit certainly weakened it for a lot of people, but that isn't a deal breaker.
it does hold your hand the most, need to turn that shit off in the options first thing you do

>most memorable disguises
easily Helmut Kruger
also liked the drummer

>best hitman so far
worse hitman so far/

Pros are
great level design.

Cons are
handholding quest markers to every hit ruining exploration ad experimenting (what the franchise is known for
Always online, which is terrible and all progress saved to online, with shit servers that it takes very long to restart a mission (which is a franchise staple to perfect mission)
magic pockets despite them saying before release there will be no magic pockets.
no case for weapons
instant spawn locations and gear locations
wall hack mechanics
VO is all american and london english, even in foreign countries
Few missions
Despite levels being larger than any before in the franchise the hits are quick and easy
Sold in episodic instalments
Tacked on contracts mode in a vein attempt to make the game look like it has more content than it has.

There are more issues like terrible AI but these problems have been in the franchise since blood money.

Pick it up cheap retail, play the hits and sell the game after

>handholding quest markers
Can be disabled in options menu

>wall hack mechanics
You can disable it or not use it

>Sold in episodic instalments
Nothing wrong with that

>VO is all american and london english, even in foreign countries
you are trying too hard

You probably don't understand what Hitman is about.

>You can disable it
>sell half a game
>Nothing wrong with that
kill yourself cancer

what, they skimped and got cheap ass VO for their half a game.
Original hitman games had VO from the country where 47 was ffs.
hitman 2016 has asians in Thailand or Japan speaking with a north london accent.

>don't understand what Hitman is about.
wtf is that supposed to mean?
Hitman is about doing hits, trial and error, restarting until you execute your planned hit perfectly.
I bet you are a fag who started playing hitman at blood money, likes quest markers to tell you how to play, unlimited cheat coins and trash AI.
Probably can't even complete missions without a map.
contracts2>1>absolution>blood money>2016

I think it's the best game in the series so far. Benefited greatly from episodic style.

>Most memorable kill
Erich Soders. Tempering with the heart and escaping with the heli without anyone knowing what happened was pretty badass.

>Most memorable disguise
Plague Doctor

The VO thing is regrettable but it might just be a PC decision, nowadays accents are considered racist instead of realistic for some reason. Hitman isn't the only game suffering from this.

>Absolution better than BM and not at the bottom
Shit bait or shit taste

Is the game worth it if I am making my own assassin game to see what they do with their mechanics? Is the game worth it to play for fun?

Is Hitman Contracts still worth playing?

>might just be a PC decision
no it was clearly a budget decision, the reason why they jewed us out on the episodic crap and the company has been closed.

>Shit bait or shit taste
While BM has some great hits, the terrible AI OP magic coins, shit pip distracting camera and the fact that it started the decline of the series puts it low on my list.
It made the game into an action lie arcadey game rather than a puzzle stealth game that the franchise was.
Absolution on the other hand embraces what it is, has amazing hits but on top of that great level designs AI isn't terrible and added mechanics that are actually very good, like throwing weapons, sneaking.
Bad things was that there was a lot of padding missions rather than hits and they attempted to add a story that was not needed at all and incoherent.

Yes, third best in the series.

Absolutely, it's excellent. Gameplay-wise it's as good as Blood Money but with the darker atmosphere of Hitman 1 (most maps are remakes of 1).

My ranking order SA>Contracts>BM>2016>1>>>>Absolution

>SA in top tier

No Jasper kid, no hitman. But Absolution was good.

it was a step in the right direction but nowhere near what ioi should be capable of. none of the levels hold a candle to meat king, beldingford, st petersburg, dance with the devil, or basement killing. the music was generic as fuck. ioi was too focused on game as a service horseshit.

I'm playing it now and it's fantastic

None of those levels come even remotely close to Sapienza, Paris, or Hokkaido, nostalgiafag.

sneezon 2 FUCKING WHEN

Does anyone know how to fix the glitch in Contracts where you animations get slowed down randomly? Also the game completely bugs out during last stands, it pretty much freezes.

>nostalgiafag
as if any of 2016 missions better than basement killing and meat king

I imagine they wont' release the next season as a "season" in parts, now that they're no longer tied to Squeenix. They'll probably drop the $60 sequel in one piece when its ready, hence the wait.

>animations get slowed down randomly
is this original game on PC?
if so I doubt it will run well with modern OS

>no longer tied to Squeenix
I didn't know they bought their freedom.
I guess we will probably see another jewish season then.
imo the franchise needs to die, games getting progressively worse.
they should make a freedom fighters game that game was great

how high are you running the framerate? the game gets really wonky at really high framerate. try capping it to 100fps or so.

Maybe it's nostalgia speaking but to me main problem what that it kept few streamlined/"cool' mechanics from Absolution.

Like locked on throwing and ebin melee kills.

Just tried it at 60. Its still fucked.

>Now that the dust has settled
i'm sorry -- they have finished the game already?..

I remember seeing people say that the game was pretty fucked in some levels.