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Giant Bomb #22 | Drew, F*** This Tank

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justjim89

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The ending to HitDan was so great. The Circumscientist! I agree with you, though, Jintor about being frustrated when they miss something in a room that would help them. Like going to the safehouse but not finding the golf ball, or spending so much time in the observatory but not finding the nearby stairs down to the lab. Still, their bumbling around is what makes it so much fun. Dan is the perfect guy to bring out Brad's goofiness, kinda like he did with Drew in MGScanlon. I'd love to see them try some Contracts mode or Escalations on UPF.
 

justjim89

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Also, I find it funny that in both episodes so far, Dan has assumed that the male target and female target are loving husband and wife. In episode 1,
Dalia is using Viktor for his money and talks about potentially killing him to get him out of the picture.
And in Sapienza,
Francesca is spying on Silvio and keeping on eye on him, if not outright planning to kill him, while Silvio has Francesca's DNA saved in a safe in case he needs to take her out with his FoxDie thing.

A lot less happy-go-lucky and loving than Dan assumes. Some great stories under the surface in Hitman, the people writing their NPC dialogue are great top to bottom.
 

Jintor

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A lot less happy-go-lucky and loving than Dan assumes. Some great stories under the surface in Hitman, the people writing their NPC dialogue are great top to bottom.

SOMEONE'S DOING SOMETHING BAD

i hear there's a bunch of reactions for certain costumes I haven't tried out yet. I really want to wander around in the
Bohemian
and
Plague Doctor
outfits
 
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Noray

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Yeah all the writing in Hitman is great, whether it's being silly or (semi) serious. All the targets are pretty well fleshed out considering how easily they could've just made all of them out to be pedophiles or something like Blood Money (sometimes) did. Francesca in particular I kind of feel bad for killing but hey business is business.
 
Usually watching people play puzzles is trash but there was something really satisfying about the Stephen's Sausage Roll QL. I could definitely watch a playdate of them playing this some more.
 

justjim89

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Yeah all the writing in Hitman is great, whether it's being silly or (semi) serious. All the targets are pretty well fleshed out considering how easily they could've just made all of them out to be pedophiles or something like Blood Money (sometimes) did. Francesca in particular I kind of feel bad for killing but hey business is business.

Yeah, Hitman has always rather clumsily ensured that the targets seem like "bad people," which seems at odds with 47's infamous lack of emotion or empathy. The only exceptions I can really think of are Joseph Clarence in Blood Money's tutorial and the guy in the basement in Silent Assassin. As you said, Francesca can come off as rather sympathetic, and all the targets so far have been pretty well fleshed out. This is the best written Hitman game by a country mile.
 

Jintor

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You're a circumscientist jintor.

mean!

Yeah, Hitman has always rather clumsily ensured that the targets seem like "bad people," which seems at odds with 47's infamous lack of emotion or empathy. The only exceptions I can really think of are Joseph Clarence in Blood Money's tutorial and the guy in the basement in Silent Assassin. As you said, Francesca can come off as rather sympathetic, and all the targets so far have been pretty well fleshed out. This is the best written Hitman game by a country mile.

Absolution's fucking rednecks for miles was iredeemibly shit. I don't know what they were thinking.

Blood Money's "Please kill the US ambassador, but it's okay, because he's secretly running a child porn ring" was probably the most blatant 'listen, don't worry about it' in terms of writing
 

justjim89

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mean!



Absolution's fucking rednecks for miles was iredeemibly shit. I don't know what they were thinking.

Blood Money's "Please kill the US ambassador, but it's okay, because he's secretly running a child porn ring" was probably the most blatant 'listen, don't worry about it' in terms of writing

You seem to be forgetting "Assassinate the current Vice President of the United States in the White House because something something evil clones."
 

demidar

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If they really cared the game should reveal that all these demonizing stories were just made up for Hitman to not try and trigger some subdued empathy and make him go rogue.
 

Gurrry

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Speaking of new premium content, I think we are probably getting close to having the bombcast in video form.

The changes they made to do live editing, the lighting set ups they have been talking about in the podcast room.. they even mentioned "new things coming" at the end of this weeks podcast.
 
Speaking of new premium content, I think we are probably getting close to having the bombcast in video form.

The changes they made to do live editing, the lighting set ups they have been talking about in the podcast room.. they even mentioned "new things coming" at the end of this weeks podcast.

They mentioned somewhere a while back they were doing this. Part of the reason they were decorating the pod room.
 
Have they talked about what premium content they have planned in the near future?

Flight Club
Blight Club
Build Club
Meme Mondays
Ranking of Fighters
The Old Games Show
Unplugged
Load Our Last Save

NB: These are dead features or features that were jokes.
 

pizzacat

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Watching the Persona 5 subtitled trailer, it's kinda crazy how little we know about that game given how long it's been revealed for. We have the most basic of plot details, the names of 6 of the 8 named protagonists and significant details of maybe 3-4 of them. The game isn't that far off either. It's kinda great.
Wasn't p4 like announced a short time before it came out and there was a blowout of information like immediately
 

Strax

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Persona games are games I've never understood why people like them. Even after all the videos I've watched I don't find anything even remotely appealing.

I hate when I just don't *get* things.
 

hamchan

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I'm trying to think of a video game I don't understand people liking but I'm coming up blank.

For example, I don't like Minecraft games or survival games but I understand why other people like them. I can't actually think of something that baffles me.
 

Pedersen

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Persona games are games I've never understood why people like them. Even after all the videos I've watched I don't find anything even remotely appealing.

I hate when I just don't *get* things.

If you are like me and don't have friends, after that in game year is over you will be sad cuz your time with your only friends is over and you have to face the dark reality without your anime friends. Yukiko I still miss u :'(
 

pizzacat

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I don't understand why anyone would like battleborn, not even cosplayers


The only thing that baffles me is people who like sword art online
Don't you want to know what happens to the guy who marries a comatose girl?

i saw something like this happening once when they aired it on adult swim idk if that is actually true because I was sort of out of my mind
 
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