I'm giving Hitman 2 a go along side my playthrough of Tales of Arise on the ps5.
I used to love the old hitman games and on the gameplay side I'm really enjoying this game but the main menu and overly complicated system and settings are bit of putting, after completing basic training it takes you to a menu where to can continue the story but then each mission has 5 or 6 of its own sub plots and then theirs contracts and then specific targets to go after with out any real indication of what to do next so it's a little bit off putting if I'm honest.
Mabye I'm a bit old school but I just want to be told a target to kill and then be let loose rather than spending alot of time in a menu looking at what I should be doing next or what I missed or what everyone else in the world is doing.
Mabye Sniper Elite 4 will be more up my street I've got it downloaded so may boot it up and see if it sticks.
@MaulTsir It’s encouraging to hear you liked the ship parts in AC Odyssey, because likewise, I really didn’t care for them in earlier AC games. It’s largely what put me off of AC Black Flag. They were okay in AC 3 where the ship missions are minor side content, but when it’s the sole focus of world travel it became annoying to me. Kinda reminds me of the Batmobile in Arkham Knight. I liked it at first but when it kept showing up as a central part to the game it wore on me. So we’ll see.
As far as Hitman 2, did you play the first of the these modern reboots? …I guess we can call it simply Hitman (2016) or Hitman 1… Because although I haven’t tried Hitman 2, your thoughts are similar to mine when I played the first game. I never played the older games from the early ‘oughts’ so have nothing to compare it to, but the game definitely took some getting used to. In the end I only completed about half of it and although I’ve not ruled out going back to it, I found it difficult and a little confusing. People love the open nature with which each mission can be approached, but I found I enjoyed it better when I followed one of the set paths with objectives along the way to guide me. Fortunately those are built in, so you can chose to accomplish the assassination via some predetermined set of checkpoints. Or at least that’s the way the first game was. I wasted a lot of my early hours with the game just wandering aimlessly and triggering all kind of fail states until (with the help of forum users here) I learned to just click on some of the objectives and the game kinda guides you from there. Still, it was pretty difficult for me and I found it frustrating at times, given my obsessive-compulsive nature to try to finish the mission under perfect cover. Each time I was discovered I reset the game and tried over and I think that ruined it for me, because definitely it appears (at least from the 5-6 missions I played) you can just go in guns blazing and still complete the assassination.
@Th3solution yeah the boat sequences in Oddesy are really well done which to be honest they needed to be given how much time you spend on a damn boat! Lol I would definitely recommend Oddesy not really as an Assassins Creed game but more of a Historical Greek RPG, it was a sid 8/10 for me in terms of what a RPG is, its biggest snag I would say it is size, the games length and map are so big you do have to be enjoying it to get through it, I imagine there's so many people with about 30hrs and then just stopped because at that point you still not half way through. In truth I probably only managed it because I had 6 months off work last year after covid so I had plenty of time 🤣
On Hitman I didn't play number 1 of the new Trilogy although in number 2 you have a chance to do number 1 before starting the campaign for number 2 so I have been going through them mission's.
I think the biggest issue I have with the game/menu system is that it's obviously designed for players to do a lot of different challenges and basically make people stick around, but for a casual player who just wants to do the campaign and move on its all abit confusing as it doesn't really give a clear indication of where to go next, there is the continue story tab but also for each level their is different challenges/storys/contracts and assassinations, makes the whole experience abit more of an effort than I want it to be lol.
@RogerRoger The thing is the actual game its self is brilliant, I find my self spending a good hour or 2 on each mission just trying different things out, the gameplay and level design is really good and the AI is for the most part spot on, I've come across the odd bug but nothing that would stop me playing.
It's the actual menu setting that has me in a twist I suppose, as of now I've ran through the training exercise and gone through the recap of hitman 1 to catch up, but now I'm back at the main screen and while it's got the continue story box there is also a contracts section which I believe is some sort of player vs player challenge for each level where you are pitting you self against other players times and kills and so on, there an assasination/target list which when I go on it there's multiple targets but they all say expired and there's not much in the way of explanation of what any of these things are you have to sort of make sense of it your self or Google it I suppose. And then when you do go on to the missions them self's they all have about 5 to 7 sub plots each, which is actually not a bad thing gives you a chance to do the missions in different ways and as I said the game its self is actually fun to play, my biggest gripe with the way it's done is that it gives you no help with any of the stories bar 1 which I assume is the main one, and you have to sort of discover them your self, this is fine makes you explore the game and level more but what I find a bit frustrating is that a few missions now I've been half way through 1 sub plot and then all of a sudden you will find a clue for a separate sub plot and then it completely forgets the original one you where doing and starts doing the other one, this then becomes a bit confusing.
Mabye I'm just making excuses for it not clicking because I really wanted it too, especially after enjoying the originals so much or mabye it's my nostalgia for the originals that is causing the problem either way I'm going to keep slogging through until I've atleast completed the campaign but it's made me think twice about purchasing number 3.
@get2sammyb now that you're a famous game industry person,it's time to get yu suzuki on the line and get them him to make 4,5 and 6 already! offer him your services for free!
Decided to go back to GT Sport after only giving it a quick go back when I got it. It's become my go to for quick sessions. I've just done the 30 lap endurance race challenge. It took a little over an hour but the time went pretty quick. It didn't look I was going to get the gold until quite late when my strategy must have paid off and took the lead with about a lap and a half to go.
Unfortunately someone on my friend list managed it 29 seconds quicker so my competitive nature means I'll be doing it again to try and beat that. I'll probably save the second attempt until another time though.
It's made me think I'll probably get GT7 at some point now.
@BearsEatBeets Good to know GT Sport is holding up. I’ve actually wondered if I should just get GT Sport instead of GT7. I really wanted GT7, but I’ve heard some rumblings that it’s not that much of an improvement over GT Sport. I waited long enough now that I just lost my desire for a racer, so I’ll wait until the mood strikes again, and maybe by then the price will be closer to Sport’s.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I didn't play GT Sport but they do have a different focus. GT Sport is all about online where as GT7 they have tried to bring back more single player content as well as keeping the online aspects of Sport. The licence tests and missions have a strangely addictive quality to them and some of the solo races can be challenging, especially early on where you've only got a handful of cars and not many credits.
I've done quite a few races in sport mode against other people as well. There you can take part in daily races and championships designed by Polyphony. The word "daily" shouldn't really apply as they only change weekly, and also depending on the lobby the word "race" can only be used loosely as sometimes there are some real idiots in there. It's not all bad though and actually the fact that the races are weekly actually works out better if you play it casually because it gives you a chance to give them a go over a number of nights before they get rotated, so you get the chance to improve. Some of the races also include fuel burn and tyre wear which really mixes it up so that it's not just about fastest person wins. When you get in a good lobby and place well in a race it's a great feeling.
It would be better if it was cheaper but I've definitely had my monies worth from it.
@render The whole reason I skipped GT Sport (it was my first GT to not play except for those interstitial releases like GT Prologue games) was because of the online only launch, and I understand that they did add back some single player content and there’s some more traditional solo gameplay aspects now. It has still soured me to the game overall and I just fell away from the whole series although. However, in months leading up to GT7 I had renewed interest because of the ‘single player content first’ philosophy that they seemed to be bringing back. Unfortunately the crazy balancing issues and microtransactions / live-servicey nature has sapped most of my hype. Unfortunately it also released amid a crowded launch period and if I get a full-priced new game it’ll more likely be Horizon Forbidden West. And I look at the difference between getting GT Sport for $10 right now on sale, versus $70 for GT7, I wonder if the new game is actually 7 times better than the older one. 😅 Especially for a more casual racing fan like me who just wants to dabble in and out of races between playing my action RPGs. The DualSense features are one of the major things that tempt me, because I really enjoy the adaptive triggers in these first party PS5 games.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I've put it quite a bit of time into GT Sport now and I've yet to touch online racing and barely touched AI racing. There are loads of tests, challenges to do and if you're like me and redo stuff until you get the best time/score possible there is a ton of content for solo play. I realise this may have not been the case at launch but I think there is loads to do 'single-plyer' in this game. It does always connect to the servers so you may need to be online to play but I don't personally see that as an issue.
I did a half hour Interlagos challenge this morning but only managed 2nd. I think I might need to try a no-tyre change pit-stop.
@BearsEatBeets I didn't realise Sport had so much single player content. From what I'd read it sounded like the entire game revolved around the online racing side of things and hence GT7 was a return to Gran Turismo of old. Perhaps I should have jumped into GT Sport years ago.
Got Homefront The Revolution solely for the TimeSplitters 2 4K port inside it. It’s absolute mince but I have to get like 10 hours into it in order to play TimeSplitters.
@RogerRoger The button combination code to unlock the full game was lost to time until last year! You can play Siberia and Chicago through an arcade machine that boots 4K TimeSplitters 2. When you put the code in, it opens up every other mode! As for Homefront, it’s jingoist, laughable nonsense story wise. It’s playable though, other than the choppy frame rate. Like a poor man’s Far Cry.
Continuing to enjoy my time with GT Sport. Except the Nurburgring, I hate the Nurburgring. I'm thinking of ways to get my steering wheel set up. I was gifted one years ago but it's never been out of the box as I've had no-where to set it up. I'm looking at investing in a stand for it as I'm playing quite a bit now and think it would help a lot.
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