Redesigning Hitman's Agent 47
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We talk to Hitman's lead writer Michael Vogt about creating a contemporary Agent 47, and the world of assassination that surrounds him.
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It just occurred to me what a privilege it is to have this kind of insight into the development process behind games, and for free no less. Thank you, Noclip team, and thank you patrons for funding it.
Yeah, it's the sort of thing that back in the day you could only get on dvd packed with with special editions of games.
@@ouroldhouse3674 true, but even then there were certain things that wouldn't be said to protect interests. In this method I think we get a clearer picture.
Oh yeah. It's really a wonder. Development insights are a Rarity.
Some games have dev blogs (which are hard to follow and go back and read everything plus they might be too technical etc etc) but certainly not big/medium budget games.
@@ouroldhouse3674 MGS2 making of DVD is still one of my fav insights into how video games are made. I got it with 1st edition MGS2.
You can find it easy on YT if you have never seen it.
I would love to see something like that but for rockstar games, well I would have before the soul of the company had left.
another thing that those documentations showed me, that Hitman 2016 had some great music!
Yeah, I really wish they kept Hitman 2016's menu music for hitman 2, or at least gave you the option to change the menu music to that of 2016
All the series is missing is Jesper Kyd’s music. Please bring them back!
Jesper Kyd is great, but this trilogy already has phenomenal music in its own right
I love that the Ark Society theme is that intentional. Just great stuff.
This was fascinating! The narrative director is clearly an incredibly brilliant person. Awesome job Noclip!
Just when I think the best episode in the series has been released, the next one is uploaded. Incredible work.
Kudos to David Bateson for voicing our favourite assassin for two decades!
I really want to dual wield the silverballers again. It's not because I want easier combat, but 47 has always used both Silverballers at once. I have 2 silverballers, and yet I can only hold one at a time, why?
That was really an interesting series, same as always I want more episodes ^^'. Will we get the extended interviews?
I don't even really play the Hitman games but these Noclip docs on it are fascinating. Great work to Noclip and to the Hitman team.
IOI: Please make the rating system more interesting
Thank you for making this! I love Hitman, especially the newer ones. Listening to the creators talking about the game has brought yet another dimension to it all. Interesting and entertaining!
I love how he spoke about 47 being superhuman, but not quite, it's his ability to take in information that makes him deadly. That and his reflexs and speed of course. So intreasting
Good job Noclip. I have been waiting for this one since you began, and my god was it worth it. Was waiting for every episode because it was just so interesting
Watched this while having my 3am milk and cookies. Good stuff.
Good stuff I've always assumed that there's much more interconnectedness underpinning things, so good to have that confirmed. I really dig on listening to the small talk that permeates the game and wondering if these mentioned characters are going to re-appear down the road.
JUST BRING BACK JESPER KYD HIS MUSIC WAS CRUCIAL TO THE ATMOSPHERE
That was back when the atmosphere was more akin to a gritty crime flick rather than the slick, intrigue-heavy spy movie style that the last two games have had. Different atmospheres require different music, and I like the musical choices they've gone for. It calls to mind the music of something like Skyfall, my favourite spy movie of all time.
This one of the best development video series I've ever seen, amazing work. Can't wait for the next topic!
A slow burning thriller is really the best way to go with Agent 47. Something the Hitman films could never figure out since they always tried to be action movies.
Need to show this to my brother. He is a huge Hitman fan.
This series has been so great.
I love that Agent 47 was made into an anti-hero style character. I actually described the game as playing as an anti-hero and only eliminating bad-guys not just random people. The game never felt like I was playing some chaotic evil, but like I was playing a chaotic good. Agent 47 very much plays like The Punisher or other dark comic book characters. The 47 storyline is so much more defined now and so much more realistic, rather than "Crazy hitman who will kill for money."
excellent documentary.. i love the hitman franchise, its what got me into gaming in the first place with the Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, It was the game i've re-played over 10 times at the time that i was too broke to afford the latest games. Nonetheless, more power to you guys IO Interactive, wish you'll triumph as CDPR.
Whit 007 and 3 I had to watch these for the umpteenth time
This game is an amazing game. I wish I could do level design like this
I love these series of documentaries
The story in this game is actually pretty immersive.
I wish they’d bring back the cgi cutscenes from the first game...
Those earlier cutscenes were more than likely funded from Square Enix's pockets, since most of their games tend to have highly-advanced and -realistic CGI movies, but because IOI has separated from Square before Hitman 2's release, the more constrained budget forced them to cut costs and we're left with the Hitman 2 cutscenes as they are.
Square Enix have an in-house CGI team that handled season 1's cutscenes. They of course lost access to that during Squexit.
As everyone else said, the split was the cause. The Bank is evidence enough that they have solid footing again
@@Leinad0001 Which is really great, the bank is an awesome level :)
Those cutscenes have some of the best cgi characters I've ever seen, yet rarely do they get a mention by mainstream games media outlets, in fact it's the same for Hitman in general.
Love these videoes.
However I am missing a video on the music for these games.
And maybe an explanation as why They abandoned Jesper Kyd.
Yay another episode :D
I literally see you everywhere man
@@TheGhostFreakz Hello
Also doesn't that mean you're also everywhere?
@@DANNYonPC true, I especially remember you from the Battlefield 1 pre release hypefest on reddit
Any chance of doing a documentary of Bungie and Destiny after departure from Activision?
I second this!
10:57 instant karma lol
When he was talking about a character who's serious as a brick, but funny at the same time, I immediately tought of K from Men in Black, as a good example =D
I need to buy season 2 pronto D;
Hitman 2 is an incredible game. The story's not perfect but it has a lot of potential to improve, and the world building is amazing. Not to mention the gameplay of course
What about a doc about hello games rising from the ashes
Fuck this series gonna make me buy Hitman 1 & 2 for my PS4
I've always seen Agent 47 as a sort of Taskmaster sort of figure
What I want to know is, what was the name of the song for the trailer of the 2016 Hitman where he's running through the snow?
So does this mean after hitman 3 ioi is done making hitman games or am I overthinking it
Thank you for the video.
Hitman Absolution was my favorite Hitman I don't understand why people don't like it. I love the story the graphics is amazing the set pieces were great
I keep looking at th steam store page, on the fence weather to buy the gold edition or wait for a sale
There's a sale going on for both the standard and gold edition over at uk.gamesplanet.com right now.
Try cdkeys dot com bro
@@robinplkn that's awesome thanks man
@@bmd103 If you're gonna buy the game grey Market, just pirate it outright. Devs don't see money either way.
@@Cross31415 Cdkeys isn't G2a they are a legit seller.
The gun fights suck though, and it makes sense, since there isn't any developer left from Hitman 1 and 2.
And its about time you introduce all the previous elusive targets into singleplayer to play as many times as we want.
I'd love someone of the team to tell about Hitman's psychological type, like MBTI type.
Oh hell yeah! Amos actor from the expanse, you can totally imagine him getting bald and become agent 47!
Great again guys! IO rocks !
47k views. Nice one
The Eternal Joke will always belongs to ioi interactive's Hitman... for Eternity
Agent 47 is suppose to be a super-human though. If you played the games from the beginning you would know he’s literally a genetically engineered hyper strong and intelligent assassin breed for killing.
Is the background music from the Hitman OST ?
Yes
@@TheGhostFreakz wish they would get Jesper Kyd back..im sure he'd do it
Oh no! No Bateson interview? O_O
Ahh missed chapter
I played the old Hitman games and for me there isn't enough context for most of the new story.
when will the next location be released?
"Hitman is not really anyone himself, which makes it easy for him to be everyone else."
I love how that single quote can literally define Agent 47.
47 likes... Sorry i'm not gonna destroy this perfection
I really like Dexter and 47. Hearing the idea of having a moral center outside yourself to give motivation etc. made some personal things clear for me.
6:20 if anyone is wondering
@ nothing wrong about appreciating the fact that the writer can perfectly distill the main character into a single sentence. Not all writers can so easily encapsulate their protagonist, so yeah, it's worth giving props for.
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Hitman is the most replayable game if you have the patience and skill to play it. My fav game of the year. 👍
The Chodester agreed I actually wasn’t a fan of the style before but after giving it a chance and learning maps and opportunities I grew to love it a lot and recognized how much effort the devs put into the maps and AI.
You dont even need skill to enjoy this game, only done one SASO in H2 and i just love throwing expired spagetti at people i made loads of videos just messing around 😁
I have 100s of hours on the Hitman 2016 and Hitman 2 reincarnation of the game. I think the modern game became so replayable because of how many ways there are to manipulate the map and manipulate the characters within the map. Sometimes I spend a solid 25mins just walking around scouting or exploring thinking of ways to do things or plotting, planning for future runs.
I spend hundreds of hours on Hitman and Hitman 2. It's really amazing in terms of getting the classic Hitman experience with the guide story missions, then learning all the paths to get around in suit only and then to do the challenges. Even shooting is excellent fun and I often try to kill every single guard in the Paris level, but if any of them fire a shot at me I restart and if an alarm is triggered I also restart. It's like an hour of headshot meditation I can watch movies next to. It's really satisfying when you burst into onto the terrace and headshot everyone there without them running away or to go into the auction area and kill everyone before they react and run away. You gotta be really fast to do that, so it's a fun challenge and I love the game for working so great as a sandbox that us players can come up with all of these approaches to a level in addition to tons of cool challenges provided by IOI. Games as a service is an absolute blessing to Hitman. Alway keeping it fresh with new suits and challenges. Best game of the decade. (and if you care to know, the last decade it was Dragon Age :D )
You don't need patience on the game, you just need the patience for installing the game for it's size.
"Gameplay always comes first."
What a refreshing thing to hear in this industry, holy shit.
And from the Story Lead no less.
@@jakejutras5420 47 likes. I like that.
@@tmas47no
This is now my favorite series that Noclip has done! Absolutely loved it.
The Witcher series is a close second.
agreed
what about doom ?
@@swafsal yeah, the doom series was great as well. That hugo dude really impressed me in how he "gets it"
@@swafsal That one was good aswell but for me hitman and the witcher are more interesting than doom, witcher 3 is also my favorite game
completely agree. also the hitman reboot and hitman2 were sitting in my steam library, now getting into them
Wow I never clicked so fast!!
This is my favourite series
All I want is one question answering.. why did they take that subtle tilt out his head when he walks, he used to slightly tilt it to the left like some serial killer OCD.
Oh, damn, you just reminded me of what really triggered in the past games! I've long forgotten about that...
Because now he's a hero! A inspiring example LOL. But seriously I actually miss the kind of darker tone of 47's character
How many times can I "thumbs up" this comment. That was the first thing I noticed when I played season 1. That is such an iconic animation, I even do it when I walk down the stairs lol.
I had a mate that used to walk like that years ago. He said he'd only do it when he felt like people were looking at him lol.
Like in Hitman 2: silent assassin?
You saved the best for last. Thank you for the phenomenal effort with this series. You granted the Hitman community a very rare glimpse into the hub of Hitman and for that we will be forever thankful. Hopefully you can return and make another series later down the line.
As an old hitman fan I think they nailed it with the new direction.
I hated it at first, as an old himan player but it grew on me and I think the things they did just made the franchise better.
I dont care for the story at all though, just doing hits.
Holy shit i never knew that Bangkok interaction between the targets that's amazing!
There's a moment where you can toss Cross of the glass roof and he will land RIGHT next to the lawyer... and he will quite often not even notice. It seems odd that they didn't allow for the same double kill you can get in Paris. :)
The main menu theme never fails to remind me of The Bourne Conspiracy movies
The Embassy scene in the first (and best IMO) Bourne film is always in the back of my mind when playing. It could be a Hitman level... the grabbing of the security guard's earpiece, the ripping of the map of the wall... The scaling of the exterior...
Damn I want an Embassy level... and a massive Cruise Ship level.
@@packatrix there is a level with an Embassy in Hitman 2016.
To me it sounds heavily inspired by the House of Cards main theme. Both are great
@@jakejutras5420 Marrakesh - of course! very different style to Bourne sadly!
5:01 Really made me laugh. That is perfect 47 deadpan humour at it's finest.
Then the camera zooms away and you're automatically given the option to knock the guard out
I swear to Christ, I thought the title said “Retiring” and I almost lost my shit.
If It actually said that I would lose everything to my marbles to my shit
It's funny, playing the game it did feel like I was playing in a Bond film.
The way i play it feels like im in jonny english film 😂😂😂
That was quite prophetic since they are working on a Bond game now.
7:00 The subtitles for Vogt say "luminaries of dissonance" but I think he's actually referring to "ludonarrative dissonance".
EDIT: It's been fixed.
Those must be some unique luminaries...
This series has been like Hitman itself. Like in each game, I'm left wanting more after the end but it's fine because it's so damn replayable
Please don't stop making these.
Easily some of the best game documentaries on TH-cam.
HUGE Hitman 2/Blood money Fan here. I just started my first playthrough of Hitman(2016) just as this YT series started.. Now I'm on Hitman2 (few episodes in).. Gotta say I'm absolutely HOOKED on these titles again. The Vigilante vibes, to the dark humor, then the challenges, are all keeping me playing. Suit only challenges are the freaking BEST. Feeling stylish xD Really badass you guy offer the original look all these years later. Thank you so much for all your work iOI and NoClip. I can't wait to finish Hitman2 & get hyped for the 3rd entry!
@@Obie422 Played them all man great series. Silent Assassin was my 1st. Went back recently and the game is pretty damn difficult in the later missions
Eyes Wide Shot without the Sex, Best description so far :)
Just so happens I watched the film for the first time couple of days ago... and it immediately clicked
I give this video a Silent Assassin rating 👍
Wrong, this video has way too many witnesses to be ranked Silent Assassin!
I give it “Armed madman”
Did they remove ratings?
Paris: Oh, interesting.
Sapienza: Huh?
America: Fuck this.
Bangkok: Aaah!
My reactions exactly.
Michael Vogt kinda looks like 47 with hair. It’s something about his blue eyes and forehead
47s appearance is loosely based on his voice actor David Bateson too
In case you didn't know 47 was bald because in the first game the developers couldnt be arsed to get hair his hair physics right. So they were lazy and gave up and made him bald.
5:10 You had *great* restrain from whacking that guy.
Someone IOI lost is Torben Ellert, since he left the ellsuive target has gone dark, love that concept, and accutally like that the targets is coming back, but since he left, it feels like no new elusives is coming :(
I don't like how people think video game stories were bad or somehow lacking before Last of Us came out. There were tons of great game stories for years before LoU was even a concept.
And Last of Us story is alright at best.
It's kind of funny when people who work on the Hitman 2 project talk about the various ways you can take out targets - and then they go '...saying that out loud it does sound a little terrible, huh?'
They all seem like really fantastic people - It's been incredible seeing some of the processes behind the games. Thank you for another spectacular documentary!
They mentioned The Expanse!!!! ❤
Love this series!
Earth must come first! Get the skinnies out of here! :D
@@waraidako I want to watch BSG again now. 😅
@@NariKims One of the best sci-fi shows ever created.
This series was so much fun! I'm thinking I'll have to remove these games from my steam wishlist once and for all and put them in my steam library instead.
Any plans on doing a documentary on Devil May cry? It’s like my favorite franchise, and I quite enjoy your stuff felt like it might be lit if you tried it
Hey you may have seen but please if you like game docs, check nick930 he did a brilliant history of devil may cry 😁👍
11:05
Massive respect for setting out to create an explicitly Marvel-inspired interconnected Universe, and only saying that was the plan after they've already demonstrated they could actually do just that, rather than trying to make that the main selling point of the game.
47 Looking very distinct and still somehow being able to assume anyone's identity will never stop being funny.
Especially in Bangkok and Hokkaido... It's nice that each facility's cleaning, restaurant and security staff are so willing to employ non natives... there's seems to be a bit of a height discrepancy... 47 must be a dab hand at lowering hemlines and cuff lengths.
I think some of the main targets should have guns and try to kill you if they catch you trying to kill them, don't most of the Main targets or all of them just run away from you if they catch you? I remember getting chased by an old samurai in Hitman 2 Silent Assassin or getting murdered by a coked out Drug lord in Hitman Codename 47, stuff like that would be cool would give the main Targets more balls.. and bring back 47 clones in missions that try to Snipe you.. that would be awesome!
I gotta say, that trailer for the 2016 game was superbly made.
Hitman is slowly but surely reviving the stealth genre. and with singleplayer trend on the rise I'm absolutely excited to see the genre thrive again.
Thought this was supposed to be a 4-part series? Either way, glad this doesn't seem to be the final one :) Always loved your videos but this Hitman series is what got me to finally sub.
Azra Rillian it’s just really odd to end this series abruptly. No conclusion statement(s), just ending on a story/narrative-specific sentence. Can’t be mad I guess, cuz this series was super enlightening.
9:00 “but gameplay always comes first”
Idk but I love that statement
I've loved this entire series, but my number one favorite part of The whole thing is learning that one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite IPs, Amos from the Expanse, was a bit of an influence on the modern 47.
Incredible.
is it just me, but Michael Vogt looks like a Shadow client? the Lucas Grey?
Love love these documentaries. Didn't realize that indeed, you went from exploring new money to low crime to old money. Rather fascinating how much thought they put in these games.
Thanks for these documentaries!
Thanks for these documentaries.
The recent Hitman 2 is the game that made me fall in love with the series. I had kind of experienced it before, I played the first one years ago and didn't like it... then I gave Blood Money a chance since a friend raved about it and I started to see the appeal, but just couldn't get along with it. But Hitman 2 was the first one I was really patient with and after giving it that patience I bought the first season and Blood Money again and finally saw what made the series stand out for so many.
You really do just have to give it some time. It's a game that makes trial and error fun, largely because of just how experimental you can get.
I really enjoyed the Expanse reference. Amos is such an interesting character.
"And when you get to Marrakesh it's like 'fuck this'"
lmao that was actually my reaction to Marrakesh first time I played it
I don't know why everyone is shit talking absolution, I fucking loved that game.
I don’t need justification for rampant bloody murder but yeah it definitely adds to the story
11:00 that's really fun
12:20 this stage is a throwback to a Blood Money stage. the one with the party. man, that stage was Hard. I just killed everyone... Very fun to do that though hah
11:02 breaks my heart. I don't think I could finish this mission if I saw this... too well done..!
You guys should do introversion software next. How they went from Indie hard knocks, to the super successful prison architect, and then selling their baby to paradox. I imagine there's an awesome story there.