Hitman 5

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...everyone who didn't buy this game already fucking DO IT NOW. Daddy needs his Seasons 2 and 3!

edited 16th Jun '17 3:24:45 PM by Psyclone

So there's comic for the Hitman series called Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman and it's prequel about the past of Agent 47 and Diana Burnwood. Interestingly, it retcon some things from the previous games.

• In the games, 47 has never travelled abroad until his escape from Ort-Meyer's Asylum when he was 30 years old. In the comic, 47 did traveled aboard with his brother 6 when they were teenagers as assassins as a favor for Ort-Meyer's sponsors, Providence, meaning this isn't the first time 47 had a run in with Providence.
• Turns out, Diana has a connection with 47 when they were younger as her family were killed in a car bomb planted by 47 and 6 due to her family suing a medical company who poisoned a nearby river which made her little brother sick which the company ordered the Burnwoods death to stop them from exposing their crimes. This in turn led the young Diana to seek revenge against the company by working with a crime group.
• Furthermore, 47 is shown to be much more emotional when he was younger with his brother 6 acting as his conscious which the latter questions what they are doing.

See that just makes me... irritated. [[spoilers: Hitman "babies"? REALLY? Not everything needs to be linked! Why do Origin stories DO this? It isn't cool.]]

Ah well, at least we're getting more.

‘Hitman’ Series In Works At Hulu From ‘John Wick’ Creator Derek Kolstad

Even though the creator of John Wick is in it, i hope they focus more on the stealth than action and the various ways Agent 47 eliminates his targets.

Agreed. My perfect Hitman is basically a noir detective story of the detective protagonist reconstructing eat hit and trying to work out the method. And you meet Agent 47 only maybe partway through the series, and even then briefly - have him cameo in disguise in the backgrounds.

Why they keep thinking he's some sort of James Bond expy who they have to assign heroic virtues to I don't know. Part of that is the IO guys seemingly falling in love with the grindhouse vision they tried out, or being wowed by their creation being all HOLLYWOODED... but eh.

Let met guess... 6 is the Shadow Client, isn't he?

edited 15th Nov '17 12:57:59 PM by Psyclone

Why they keep thinking he's some sort of James Bond expy who they have to assign heroic virtues to I don't know. Part of that is the IO guys seemingly falling in love with the grindhouse vision they tried out, or being wowed by their creation being all HOLLYWOODED... but eh

When has he NOT been that? 47 has always been a James Bond EXPY. He's not a villain protagonist either since he's not got any selfish motivations. He doesn't have sex, do drugs, or mansions—he does killing because it's what he was made to do and what he was trained to do.

He's always gone after the "bad" guys too with a minimum of collateral.

Issue 2 of Agent 47: Birth of the Hitman comic is out.

• Diana trains under the crime lord Savi which leds her to one of the men who ordered the Hit on her family.
• Meanwhile, while 47 and 6 continue their assassinations duties for Ort-Meyer, they secretly plan to take down Ort-Meyer's organization.

A reminder to everyone playing this game: the Season 1 Elusive Targets are appearing again. If you missed an Elusive Target, you have another chance at bumping them off again. However, if you already killed or failed to kill an Elusive Target, you won't get to try again.

I missed the Forger (I bought the game kind of late, so my first Elusive Target was the Paparazzi), but managed to get the Congressman just before he was gone. The Prince will be available in a few days, so those who missed him should get ready.

edited 11th Dec '17 10:58:28 AM by dragonfire5000

It's more that the average playthrough of a Hitman level does not end up being a shootout (The Asylum level from the first game notwithstanding) whereas the films tend to use that as a staple.

Admittedly, the latest film did lean more on him eliminating targets via stealth and cunning... up until the street level shootout. And the skyscraper. But they managed to get a lot more RIGHT than the Timothy Oliphant vehicle.

He's not quite James Bond - there's very little glamour there. Bond is about gadgets and flash - most 47 games really aren't (Not if you "play them right" ) - maybe Jason Bourne could be a better analogy for spycraft.

He is a villain protagonist in that he kills people - the games pivot them all as villainous (because I think the narrative would be a lot harder if you were tasked with murdering a pleasant housewife) as that's more palatable and frames him as heroic. But he isn't killing them because they're BAD - he's killing them because he's been told to.

47 is kind of a character that backs and forths as an audience surrogate. There's been times the developers have tried to make him into a fully fleshed out person.

Silent Assassin Absolution

And show he is a Hitman with a Heart.

However, these tend to be the less popular versions of 47. Generally, I think of 47 as Lawful Evil and desperately wishing he wasn't. He's a Villain Protagonist with Evil Has Standards and feels Trapped in Villainy.

edited 12th Dec '17 9:06:29 AM by CharlesPhipps

Reminder: the Elusive Target "The Prince" is back today. If you haven't bumped him off during his initial appearance, now's your chance to do so.

Bumping this topic with a question.

I've recently started playing the Patient Zero campaign again, and I have a question about the final mission. Is there a way to ensure that Owen Cage never gets to infect anybody? I ask because I want to complete the other challenges in that mission, and I only know that one of the nurses is scripted to be infected by him unless you intervene.

I've managed to complete the mission without anyone being infected, since I knocked out the nurse and then dealt with both targets with fire, but I'm curious if there is a way to make sure he can't infect anyone on the map at all (besides killing him).

I don't think there is. When I watched Many A True Nerd's lets' play of the mission, he also neutralised the infected nurse, only to have the plague show up somewhere else. From what I've seen, the infection keeps showing up and spreading as long as the patient zero's alive.

I see. Thanks for the information.

In the meantime, I just recently achieved Mastery 20 on the Colorado level. It was the one level I hadn't achieved max mastery in yet, mostly because I don't play Colorado as much compared to the other levels.

Also, I got that one achievement in "The Author" (from the Patient Zero campaign) where you can show the target a magic trick. I should try and see if I can do it as a clown the next time I try it.

Worked very well. A Ezio typo, though.

Whoops. I think my original draft had Desmond go into the "bleeding effect" and "become" Ezio for a bit, but when I was putting it here I think I left it in by mistake. Adding him to the mix just made things more complicated.

Like, if this were an animated fight we'd see Desmond "become" Ezio for a split second, but in prose it doesn't really work as well.