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That's madness, goddamn

Please no one buy it

Out of their minds.

Squeenix have a real talent for making surprisingly good games and then ruining them with shitty business stuff (which in turn leads to less money made than by just selling it normally)

That's one sweet looking tie. I'd be baller as strawberry float with one of them.

No you wouldn't. But you do know you can buy red ties in real life, right?

I love how they advertise the box as part of the bargain.

Remember when a game used to come out and you got a disc in a plastic case with a manual, and that was it.

Good times

That statue is pretty strawberry floating sexy.

The game has gone to hell now though, episodic will kill this.

I'll just wait for the bog standard retail version.

That statue does look pretty neat, but no physical version of the game included? get strawberry floated.

I'm going to probably prefer order and cancel through the store to get access to the beta

NickSCFC wrote:

Not going to get too excited about this until I play it, but this is really starting to sound like a true sequel to Blood Money. Have the PS4 version pre-ordered for the beta, but I'll be nabbing it on PC.

I've pre-ordered as well. Eurogamers write up on this today has got me interested again. As long as the Beta shows me a game thats more Blood Money than Absolution they may have gotten a sale from me.

If I preorder do I get the beta code straight away?

I pre-ordered via PSN and it added the beta to the store to download. No code needed.

Downloading the beta now. Pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood.

From what I've played so far, this is Hitman. And By Hitman I mean Blood Money not Absolution.

Beta seems to consist of a tutorial level which you go through once with guidance (Go here, take this, use this etc). You then get to go through again however you want, which is where it blossoms opens into the Hitman of old. There also seems to be one further "Test" as part of the Tutorial, but I've not done that yet. All told there's not a lot to do here, but the "freeform" test has lots of replay value from completing small challenges (Kill the target with rat poison, use a specific disguise etc) and finding new and inventive ways to take out the target.

I'm in. This definitely feels like Hitman should feel and I'm already looking forward to playing about with it some more.

I'll wait for reviews to decide if I'm gonna buy the episodic gooseberry fool or wait for the full thing though.

I'm not so sure after playing the beta

-Disguises do seem better than Absolution but the white dot targets are off-putting.
-Weapon targeting feels really off. I hate the lack of a dot reticle
-That framerate, christ. The full game better have a higher fps

Right now I'm on the fence. Sure that was just the "training" area, but there's a lot in there that has me more worried than excited.

Can't say I noticed any massive framerate issues. You could tell it took a dip when there were a lot of NPCs on screen at a time but it never bothered me. Though I freely admit to not really giving a fig about frame rates unless it makes something unplayable.

I do agree with you on the reticle making aiming trickier than it otherwise would be when you're moving though. When you have time to line up a shot it's not an issue, but in a quick situation it can cost you.

As for the white dots on people who'll be able to see through the disguise you might be able to turn that off. I know I turned off instinct as soon as the game started and it does seem to be quite flexible in terms of what assists it lets you turn on/off.

But yeah, I'm still far more interested than I thought I was going to be. The return to something much closer to Blood Money has ensured that at least.