Thread 720404407

Which one should I play in 2025? Considering playing blacklist or chaos theory

Or should I try hitman for the first time? Or dishonored? BRO WTF DO I DO

>Should I play the game that killed the franchise or should I play the unanimously agreed best game?
Tough choice OP
>>720404460
Hitman is a whole different vibe and might not satiate you if you want some good old fashioned stealth gameplay. Dishonored is OK but casual from a stealth viewpoint.

>>720404407 (OP)
1, PT and CT.
Shitlist is like the Hitman Absolution of the seires, along with Conviction whic is equally bad but for other reasons.
DA is weird because it's a different game depending on palttform.

>>720404407 (OP)
If you're looking for a more fast-paced, shooter experience, I would choose Blacklist.

If you're looking for a slower, more methodical, quieter, more traditionally Splinter Cell experience, choose Chaos Theory.

>>720404634
where the fuck was the black box? i remember playing the level with a friend when i was a kid, but had to go home before i could help him find it

>>720405140
you had to check the laptop I think

>>720404407 (OP)
I played all six games back to back a few years ago and really enjoyed all of them. Only caveat is I strongly recoomend playing the original 3 games on an OG xbox as the pc ports are kinda fucky. But as whole it's a solid franchise.

>>720404634
unreal how this game has better lighting than most modern games without RT turned on

>>720404407 (OP)
Okay, so
>SC1
a rough but solid initial start, Xbox or PC with the restored patch, but it's still a WIP
>PT
more of SC1 with some minute improvements and starts stuff CT would settle, you can find the full thing for PC on Moddb with a proper patch because it got legally abandonwared ages ago
>CT
the apex of the series, you don't really get any better unless you like DA old-gen, Xbox or PC as there's some patches for PC version to get it working right
>DA
just play the old-gen version on Xbox because it plays like more CT, and ignore the PC/next-gen version if you ever see them because those are pretty rancid dogshit
>CV and BL
they're okay games if you love a hybrid of action shooter and lightweight stealth, but they're not really Splinter Cell games, ports are unified albeit with no more online multiplayer
>PS2 and GC ports
downsized, chopped up, and filled with a lot more loading, ports got better as they went along but OG Xbox version kept the graphical fidelity above them all; if you can't find an OG Xbox old-gen version of DA, then these are a fine substitute as it got the best old-gen port to these two of the generation

>but i just gotta have a game to play of the series between the ones I listed in the OP
If you're up for some old game design that can be a little vague or clunky just to appreciate the medium at its console-ified purist besides the Thief games, then go hit up Chaos Theory and then know the first two games kinda pale in comparison. If you prefer modern controls, a lot more shootan and just want something streamlined and to the point, you can pretty much jump into Blacklist because despite acknowledging past games and especially Conviction, it's reserved enough to be standalone and its own IP almost thanks to the actor changes.

do the xbox versions emulate well at all?

>>720407212
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4YQwMrJ8o
You're gonna need a beefy CPU to handle it, and shadows are unfiltered compared to the real OG. Upscaling resolution breaks shit and effects too. But if you can tolerate and handle that, you can mostly play the game otherwise, though it's also unstable with certain sequences.