Hitman Studio Apologizes For Nun Massacre

[Aprilgold]

Nothing wrong with being sexy in combat, but that just didn't fit Hitman or anything for Combat. No ammo clips on them, no pouches, nothing to hold a knife. All these things just kinda were in their hands and thats just bad design. NOW GO TO YOUR ROOM, HITMAN TEAM AND THINK OF SEXY, BUT ACTUAL WORKING CLOTHES FOR THE NUNS TO WEAR AND SHOW US AGAIN!

Joking aside, the best way to handle this would be to come up with actual working outfits for combat. The best thing I could think of, if they really wanted to keep the sexy in there is just what Laura Croft wears. One regular shirt, some holsters on arm / arms for gun / guns then shorts with pouches on the belt with ammo or gadgets then more holsters on the legs for more guns then finally combat boots or hiking boots. For extra tactical points, add in a gun thats slung over their shoulder.

 

[ElPatron]

I am disappointed, I didn't expect them to backpedal.

I can buy Blystad's story that the trailer wasn't meant to be taken quite so seriously, but his statement that it wasn't intended to "provoke" people is nonsense.

GAEMING JOURLANIZM!

Perhaps they were trying to sell the action and the sexuality of the game, not trying to make controversy a selling point.

No ammo clips on them

Might have worked in WWI or WWII. Today our firearms use the more advanced magazines.

First of all I think it is degrading to women

In what part? Several highly trained women in "femdom" costumes were obviously considered powerful enough to take on 47.

Just because they didn't know they were facing a freak created in a lab with the purpose of being a killing machine doesn't mean it's degrading.

That's like saying that it's degrading for men to have soldiers die from IEDs in Afghanistan.

 

[Aprilgold]

No ammo clips on them

Might have worked in WWI or WWII. Today our firearms use the more advanced magazines.

Ammo Clips are just another name for magazines still or am I that behind the times.

 

[ElPatron]

Ammo Clips are just another name for magazines still or am I that behind the times.

Only Hollywood and gangsters think they are synonyms.

The reason they are not the same thing is because a firearm that is reloaded with clips still requires a magazine (with a spring mechanism) inside it otherwise it wouldn't feed. Clips feed magazines, magazines feed the gun.

A bunch of S&M dominatrix latex wearing nuns get brutally beaten up and killed by a big bald guy.....and they say they wasn't trying to offend anyone? I mean really - How could they not see a reaction like that coming?

Perhaps they assumed that people would not get upset and just let it go instead of trying to create yet another storm in a cup.

Internet Hate Machine assemble!

 

[idarkphoenixi]

A bunch of S&M dominatrix latex wearing nuns get brutally beaten up and killed by a big bald guy.....and they say they wasn't trying to offend anyone? I mean really - How could they not see a reaction like that coming?

I'm fine with killing women in a movie/video game if it serves a purpose but when you hyper-sexualize them like that, it just sticks me. That entire trailer made absolutely no sense at all, it just seemed like an excuse to stir up some controversy (after all, ever since the "no Russian" MW2, every game needs controversy otherwise they can't sell enough copies).

 

[ElPatron]

Building on that, some firearms do use clips, like the M1 Garand, which used a stripper clip with eight rounds. They were less bulky than magazines, but the downside was that you couldn't reload in the middle. When you fired off the last round, the clip ejected with an audible *ping*.

It's an en-bloc clip.

It still needs the internal magazine to work, though. And you can reload in the middle. I remember that Call of Duty and Medal of Honor convinced me that you can't reload a Garand without expending all the ammunition. I was wrong, lol.

I mean 47 does wear a suit which is also highly unpractical. I love how people are angry at sexy nuns in a Hitman trailer but were silent when Duke Nukem Forever came out and was infinitely more vulgar.

Suits are not that impractical.

Perhaps a ninja costume would allow him to kick more ass and run faster (and on walls!) but he would stand out in the crowd.

Suits allow for weapons to be somewhat concealed while easy to draw at the same time. Plus, he is able to change outfits all the time.

 

[Gandanga11]

I mean 47 does wear a suit which is also highly unpractical. I love how people are angry at sexy nuns in a Hitman trailer but were silent when Duke Nukem Forever came out and was infinitely more vulgar.

 

[Eamar]

Pull the other one IO, the trailer was a blatant attention grab, as is this apology.

Assuming the apology isn't all part of a planned PR scheme, there's no real need for it. They just needed to learn from it and not do it next time. Personally, I wasn't offended as such by the trailer, but I did roll my eyes and think "here we go again..." I've accepted that large parts of this industry have yet to grow up, and take comfort in other parts that do seem to have got over the "LOL TITS" stage (incidentally, I'm loving the redesign of Lara Croft).

They should have pulled a Neo where they rip off the nun outfits and are just loaded up with weapons - and appropriate clothes for a gun fight.

Now this would have been AWESOME

 

[WaysideMaze]

This is the biggest issue I've had with the whole argument over the video. Everyone seems to be questioning "why were they dressed like that to assassinate someone?" yet no one questions "why is he wearing a formal suit to assassinate someone?". The answer to both questions is the same, but only one is being asked.

A man in a suit doesn't attract attention. just another face in the crowd. 7 attractive women in s&m gear is the opposite.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

People are really making mountains out of molehills.

 

[IceStar100]

I can't say anything since I liked it. I though it was cool seeing them come dressed as nun. Good cover then they even uses a rosyery as a weapon. They where shown to be just as much a threat as anything else not just a pair of breast to oogle. Remind me of the hooker in the last hitman who turned out to be an assassin herself. If you got it use it. Then at the end Agent 47 shows respect by closeing the eyes.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

People are really making mountains out of molehills.

Is that a breast joke?

...lol, I guess it is now.

 

[WaysideMaze]

This is the biggest issue I've had with the whole argument over the video. Everyone seems to be questioning "why were they dressed like that to assassinate someone?" yet no one questions "why is he wearing a formal suit to assassinate someone?". The answer to both questions is the same, but only one is being asked.

A man in a suit doesn't attract attention. just another face in the crowd. 7 attractive women in s&m gear is the opposite.

A bald man with a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his head, walking around in a monkey suit with leather gloves, certainly would attract attention in your average crowd.

The point he was making is that the reason they were dressed like something out of Kill Bill is the same reason 47 looks like he does.

Because it's cool and 'why the fuck not, it's a game'.

oh I agree, its cool as hell. But a man ina suit does not attract as much attention as a group of s&m enthusiasts. Even a man with a barcode tattoo on the back of his head.

 

[Eamar]

Pussies.

People are constantly complaining that the industry itself is what needs to grow up.... Bullshit. It's the whiny, precious little consumers who somehow think that violence against digital women is soooo much worse than violence against digital men.

No one would have given two short fucks if 47 had have done the EXACT same thing to a load of guys in priest gowns that fell off to reveal leather hotpants or someshit. Infact people would probably have called it progressive.

Frikin selective hippies.

While I'm not denying that some people had a problem with the violence, I'd like to point out that the comments about the industry needing to grow up tend to refer to the sexualisation of women, not the violence.

Now, I'm not about to say that all sexualisation is a bad thing, but you have to admit that this did look like something an adolescent would dream up, surely? Hence the "grow up" comments.

 

[Gandanga11]

Pussies.

If I was their PR department I'd have sent out a very clear 'Piss off buttercups' in response to the, frankly alarming reaction this trailer got.

People are constantly complaining that the industry itself is what needs to grow up.... Bullshit. It's the whiny, precious little consumers who somehow think that violence against digital women is soooo much worse than violence against digital men.

No one would have given two short fucks if 47 had have done the EXACT same thing to a load of guys in priest gowns that fell off to reveal leather hotpants or someshit. Infact people would probably have called it progressive.

Frikin selective hippies.

Exactly. I mean every male game character has to be a chiseled alpha male or devilishly handsome and suave. Im sensing double standards.