Isn't Dishonored a first-person ripoff of Hitman?

[Thekokiller]

Like seriously, they took every idea from hitman and posted it in first-person, added some bioshock mechanics, some skyrim sword fighting mechanics, and made the game. Doesn't everyone think so? Not hating on the game, it looks great, just saying i don't like people ripping of a whole game idea. Just like instinct mode and point shooting, but thats something else. So anyone else think s so?

[Jace_Auditore]

Originally Posted by Thekokiller

Like seriously, they took every idea from hitman and posted it in first-person, added some bioshock mechanics, some skyrim sword fighting mechanics, and made the game. Doesn't everyone think so? Not hating on the game, it looks great, just saying i don't like people ripping of a whole game idea. Just like instinct mode and point shooting, but thats something else. So anyone else think s so?

One of the co-creative directors of the game was the lead designer of Deus Ex.
That´s the game that influenced Dishonored the most.
Deus ex is very similar to Hitman(freedom of choice,non linear level design,etc...).

[tbcdlad]

Originally Posted by Thekokiller

Like seriously, they took every idea from hitman and posted it in first-person, added some bioshock mechanics, some skyrim sword fighting mechanics, and made the game. Doesn't everyone think so? Not hating on the game, it looks great, just saying i don't like people ripping of a whole game idea. Just like instinct mode and point shooting, but thats something else. So anyone else think s so?

The developers of Dishonored are not stealing gameplay features from Hitman. Sure their similarites are quite noticeable, but many companies use certain gameplay mechanics from other games, and it's not really ripping off another game. As you said, Dishonored does have sword fighting mechanics similar to Skyrim, as well as shades of Bioshock, Thief, and Hitman, but it isn't copying ideas from those games, it is merely inspired by what those games accomplished with those ideas and wishes to improve on those elements, by shaping these original ideas into something that could work with Dishonored's story and gameplay style, setting, and even the musical score of the game.

A good example of this is found in Sleeping Dogs which came out last week, sure it has similar fighting mechanics to Batman Arkham City and Batman Arkham Asylum, but it isn't stealing those mechanics simply because they were designed specifically for Sleeping Dogs, the developers were obviously influenced by Arkham City, but they built upon what made Arkham City's fighting system awesome, while also making the combat system unique to Sleeping Dogs. It's not copying, it's evolving and improving, and every artist does this, all in an effort to make a unique and stellar gaming experience. They take inspiration from something, and they use that inspiration to create something unique and special, all artists do this, from film directors to video game developers to musicians.

IO Interactive does this as well. Take Absolution for instance, and compare it to past games. Sure they have their similarities, such as a similar name, protagonist, and premise, but they didn't just remake Blood Money and name it Absolution, they took what made the past games so awesome, and built upon that, while improving what wasn't so great about the past games. And that is why most games, like Dishonored, are not ripoffs.

[sgg847]

What dishonored is ...youtube was helpful... another boring stealth for "extremely creative" with pressing autosave button every 3 seconds... it is definitely ripoff of hitman blood money...the latter was first who used "Drunken Sailer".

[nonprofitkilla]

^ don't you have anything better to do then troll?

[JFarm13]

it looks like they combined alot of games but it still looks pretty good, and will keep me busy until Hitman comes out

[JFarm13]

I take that back I took a second look at it and it looks like there is too much going on and it looks eh

[Nick@IO]

Dishonored looks really good, I think. Yeah, it shares things with Hitman but certainly also traces inspiration from both the Deus Ex series as well as Bioshock in terms of look and feel. I can't wait to try out the different powers and see just how far we can actually break the game in terms of doing things that the devs didn't anticipate.

Yup, pretty hopeful about this one.

[Reven]

Dishonored is Deus Ex meets thief meets bioshock meets Half Life 2 meets Arx Fatalis. But i would say that is closer to the classic Thief feel more than anything else.

[BigBoss]

Originally Posted by Nick@IO

I can't wait to try out the different powers and see just how far we can actually break the game in terms of diong things that the devs didn't anticipate.

^This

One of the many reasons stealth games are my favorite genre, it has the best AI

[tbcdlad]

Originally Posted by Nick@IO

Dishonored looks really good, I think. Yeah, it shares things with Hitman but certainly also traces inspiration from both the Deus Ex series as well as Bioshock in terms of look and feel. I can't wait to try out the different powers and see just how far we can actually break the game in terms of diong things that the devs didn't anticipate.

Yup, pretty hopeful about this one.

I couldn't agree more.

[Sadistic_Sandbox_Player]

I'm surprised at Nick@IO's post, In a good way. I thought the local comunity manager would be stuck with some kind of anti competence rule and never say any good about other companies' games.

I'm also disgusted at sgg847's post though, plain bad trolling

[Xcom]

Well, I've seen some Dishonored footage on youtube, and honestly, last thing on my mind was that this is some kind of Hitman ripoff. It doesn't look or feel like Hitman. You're supposedly some kind of magical assassin who uses stealth, but if that qualifies as Hitman "ripoff", I don't know any more. The gameplay that I've seen does resemble Thief somewhat... IMHO.

[tbcdlad]

Originally Posted by Xcom

Well, I've seen some Dishonored footage on youtube, and honestly, last thing on my mind was that this is some kind of Hitman ripoff. It doesn't look or feel like Hitman. You're supposedly some kind of magical assassin who uses stealth, but if that qualifies as Hitman "ripoff", I don't know any more. The gameplay that I've seen does resemble Thief somewhat... IMHO.

I have to agree, sure the story is based on an assassin in both games, but that's really the only similarity between Dishonored and Hitman. Other than that, it's much closer in comparison to Thief or Bioshock.

[Sadistic_Sandbox_Player]

Dishonored took as much from Hitman as Tomb Raider took from Super Mario. You know? You jump a lot in both? Seriously...
I'm just glad I see a few more good looking stealth games than usual.

[Striike]

I hope they are exactly alike, as in hoping they both are great to play. Only thing better than a new Hitman Title would be 2 new Hitman titles, just one with a different name.

Seriously, though, Dishonored seems more like Assassin's Creed than Hitman to me.

[Jace_Auditore]

Originally Posted by Striike

Seriously, though, Dishonored seems more like Assassin's Creed than Hitman to me.

Both games have characters that have hoods and jump around,and that´s the only thing they have in common.

[mcescher1]

looks a lot more like Half Life than hitman to me

[Jace_Auditore]

Originally Posted by mcescher1

looks a lot more like Half Life than hitman to me

The art style looks like Half Life becouse they actually have the same art director,the guy that designed City 17 in HL2.

[NoWitnesses]

Dishonored does share a lot of elements from Hitman, but I don't see what the problem with that is. Its not like we have a overflow of Hitman games. Think about it, how many Hitman-like games do we have? Its the 4 Hitman Games, Death to Spies and now Dishonored.

So, yeah, thank god for more Hitman-esque games