Singleplayer gaming in 2019

>Buy GOY/Collector/Gold edition of game a year later so all DLC is baked into the disc
>still has to connect to the mother server

Touche Squareenix.

Fortunately they have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity it's called Hitman Blood Money.

Way to miss the point dumbass. He is saying it SHOULDNT BE DRIVEN BY THE SERVER.

Let's talk about why are the animations so stiff, instead. Gosh, were they this bad in 2016?

you're behind user, now they're published by (((warner bros)))
square enix are also fucking faggots though, releasing nier automata GOTY with the DLC as a code

>Square Enix
>we don't want anything to do with Hitman anymore
>but Quiet Man, now that is a game worth publishing

What a mysterious company.

How would online challenges, custom contracts and leaderboards work without a connection to a server?

There is no reason for the challenges to be online. Custom contracts and leaderboards are intrinsically online stuff, but the challenges and stuff are directly related to unlockable equipment, starting locations and other planning elements and they really shouldn't be tied to connectivity for exactly the reason pointed out in OP.

Big Hitman fan, but I've skipped both versions this gen. Sandbox levels are fine. But there's almost no story, no gear load-outs, no Ballers, no offline-only. What the fuck are they thinking.
This too:
IO's animations basically killed Kane & Lynch.

Thanks to holy grail of PC gaming I guess.

>no gear load-outs
???

...

Reason why i didnt buy hitman

100% pure unfiltered retardation. Killed their own series.

> consoles cant be hacked

So thanks to shitty internet provider Vodafone I had no internet for a week. It's fine cos luckily I had downloaded a couple of backlog games to run through right before. Now when I wanted to launch total war warhammer 1 it said it had to be launched through online steam... If course I was not and still am not happy bout this. Fucking bullshit that you can only launch a SINGLE PLAYER game if your online...

>story in Hitman

It’s annoying but hitman 1/2 are in my top 5 games of all times.
I get the criticism but look at the offline sequel to one of my favourite series, metro exodus. That’s all offline but incredibly disappointing.

What makes you guys think this content will stay locked behind a online access log-in? A lot of games just release a patch for offline access before servers die.

If story doesn't matter, then IO shouldn't waste their time coding, recording, and writing one. Either do it and do it right, or leave it out entirely. Don't half ass it with lazy little tidbits like in the last two failures they call Hitman games or I said, it's a fucking waste of their dev time.

PC gaming used to be great before the cancer that is Steam and other "online activation" services. And then when consoles decided they wanted to be more like PCs, they unfortunately decided to copy today's AIDS positive PC games, with online activation, DRM and microtransactions.

What are you even talking about, you fat retard?

>>content driven by a server can't be accessed when the server is inaccessible
>half your equipment and shit like starting locations is driven by a server

I actually agree with you on that. More dev time should've went in making more maps.

The mission briefings are pretty cool though, definitely a step up from previous paragraphed briefings

What made PC gaming great was mods made by the people who love the game
Almost every classic PC game has some must-try mod associated with it too
Now most developers totally lock down modding, even in offline games

>buy denuvo game
>wtf how was i supposed to know this requires an internet connection

>playing Shitman

You deserve this.

kek what can i say I must have been G*rman in a past life cause I love this shit(man) lmfao

What are you on about, Steam has made PC gaming a thousand times greater than ever before. It is now far easier to get any game you want on PC. And Steam can be used in offline mode.

That joke doesn't even make any sense

Everyone else in the thread liked my joke.

I didn't

>Holy shit hold the fucking presses
yeah, that's what happened after the server shitdown

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Playing offline wont give you unlocks, challenges, doesn't even give you any scores after the mission.

eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-ps4-hacked-pirate-games-available-more-ps2-titles-running

Hitman is my favourite franchise so I can make an exception, I really think it's that good.
With that said I always rather buy games from GoG whenever possible, drm should just dissapear

What does that have to do with Hitman only running online?

>Hitman is my favourite franchise
No it isn't. If it was, you wouldn't facilitate its death by supporting this trash.

what do you not like about the gameplay?

played it the other day and had a blast, shame about that

Every time they added a new challenge you'd have to download an update that added it to your local files. You'd be complaining about something else if it weren't this