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Yup that looks like a CMON game alright! Enjoy!

If you’ve never met hot, sane, women, at some point you need to take responsibility for where you go to meet people and how you live your life.

That’s awesome. Hopefully they didn’t have to work themselves to death to achieve it.

Sweet. If your plan is to eventually get / play Hitman 2, then 3, and you already own 1... I’d say play Hitman 1 long enough to determine if you like it, then either get Hitman 2 and the legacy pack that lets you play Hitman 1 levels in Hitman 2... or just get Hitman 3. If you spend a lot of time in Hitman 1 levels in Hitman 1, none of your mastery unlocks will carry over. If you play Hitman 2, anything you unlock can carry over into 3, including stuff from the Hitman 1 levels. This is basically a long winded way of saying that if you start Hitman 1, like it, and you will eventually wanna play the content from 2 and 3, you’re likely best off just doing all of that in Hitman 2 or 3. So you don’t spend a shitload of time in Hitman 1, start up Hitman 3, and realize that you have to unlock everything from the Hitman 1 levels again. It’s a weird content situation, but it’s super cool that ultimately the whole trilogy will be in one game / app / launcher. And if you don’t care about unlocking shit from Hitman 1 and using it in later levels, or if you won’t wanna unlock stuff from 3 and then use it in a level in 1... then just do what feels good. And yeah, a huge part of the fun in Hitman is figuring out how all the cogs and gears in a level wind together. The series has its own, bizarre fridge logic that becomes really fun to take advantage of. And the game throws literally hundreds of challenges at you across the levels, the description and previews of which help inspire ways to think about the level. “Kill so and so by electrocuting him in a puddle? Huh lemme watch him and see if he even walks by one, maybe I don’t have to bait him. Okay, he does walk through one on his loop. Guess I need a screwdriver to fuck with the electric box, plenty of those around lemme find one. Huh I guess messing with the box while I’m wearing a tuxedo would be a suspicious action, I wonder if I should distract everyone around this thing somehow, or maybe there’s an outfit that wouldn’t raise suspicion with this action...” It’s that kinda thing. Figuring out which costumes let you get away with what, that starting at different points you can unlock will give you more insight into the story / level... It’s so good. The games have story prompts, where if 47 hears someone talking about something that is a story thread, you can ping it and follow markers through the level. They’re not granular, it’ll say something like “get this costume” and it’s up to you to figure out how, but the breadcrumbs lead you through those beats. You can also turn that off completely and it really changes the game into something where you don’t know definitively which banter is flavor vs. meaningful, it’s pretty cool.

This Hitman trilogy is just this sublime collection of little clockwork style murder simulator levels. Every character is a small accident away from dying horribly, every map has so many ways to approach the targets that are so satisfying. Then the escalations play on your knowledge of those levels to add different targets worth increasingly different victory conditions. The levels also have remixes with completely different scenarios. Then they have elusive targets where you have a limited amount of IRL time to find and kill the target (most of the time, your targets get marked when you use Batman vision, the the elusive targets do not get highlighted). If you die during an Elusive Target run or if you successfully kill the target, you can never try that target ever again, so trying to kill them with the Silent Assassin Suit Only condition is easily the most intense gameplay experience for me last gen. They’re not perfect games and I don’t wanna say that they’re “Souls like” at all, since that has a specific connotation that doesn’t apply to Hitman at all. BUT if part of what turns you on about Souls games is the feeling of derping through a level the first time, replaying it a lot, then kicking the shit out of it once you know what makes it tick... Hitman IS like that except the emphasis is on you knowing the “puzzle” of the level and not about flowing with the combat. That feeling of running through Sapienza and getting a Silent Assassin Suit Only run in < 7 minutes with the default load out when the first time through that level took me 45 minutes is just so good. Unlike the Souls games, where even if you watch a video of how to do a level / boss you still need to be able to actually play the game well... watching someone shred a Hitman level before you get to know it kinda ruins the feeling of having spent days in a level to find an item in a crucial location, or a sweet route through a map. Gah I can’t wait for Hitman 3. Also if you’re going to get 3 at some point, might be worth playing Hitman 2, since unlocks and progression from 2 will carry over to 3, but I don’t believe anything meaningful carries over from 1 to 2.

This Hitman trilogy is just this sublime collection of little clockwork style murder simulator levels. Every character is a small accident away from dying horribly, every map has so many ways to approach the targets that are so satisfying. Then the escalations play on your knowledge of those levels to add different targets with increasingly different victory conditions. The levels also have remixes with completely different scenarios. Then they have elusive targets where you have a limited amount of IRL time to find and kill the target (most of the time, your targets get marked when you use Batman vision, the the elusive targets do not get highlighted). If you die during an Elusive Target run or if you successfully kill the target, you can never try that target ever again, so trying to kill them with the Silent Assassin Suit Only condition is easily the most intense gameplay experience for me last gen. They’re not perfect games and I don’t wanna say that they’re “Souls like” at all, since that has a specific connotation that doesn’t apply to Hitman. BUT if part of what turns you on about Souls games is the feeling of derping through a level the first time, replaying it a lot, then kicking the shit out of it once you know what makes it tick... Hitman IS like that except the emphasis is on you knowing the “puzzle” of the level and not about flowing with the combat. That feeling of running through Sapienza and getting a Silent Assassin Suit Only run in < 7 minutes with the default load out when the first time through that level took me 45 minutes is just so good. Unlike the Souls games, where even if you watch a video of how to do a level / boss you still need to be able to actually play the game well... watching someone shred a Hitman level before you get to know it kinda ruins the feeling of having spent days in a level to find an item in a crucial location, or a sweet route through a map. Gah I can’t wait for Hitman 3. Also if you’re going to get 3 at some point, might be worth playing Hitman 2, since unlocks and progression from 2 will carry over to 3, but I don’t believe anything meaningful carries over from 1 to 2.

You pervert!

It’s not you, the UI is bad.

Also I love these well produced, slick, serious trailers... then 15 minutes into the game and I’m throwing expired spaghetti sauce at someone’s head and killing them with rubber duckies.

Good luck, 47.

What a weird ass list of names.

Part of the issue is that a non-trivial number of the QAnon / Brunch Covidian set think that Democrats are having people arrested and killed on the DL.

Easily a bottom 3 Daily Show moment.

I do enjoy how everyone’s just winging it this generation. Went to the PlayStation store and spent a few minutes looking for the PS5 version of Hitman 3 unsuccessfully. Finally read the description of the game and learned that if I get the PS4 version, I get the PS5 version for free! Because this is an intuitive way to sell software. Also after initially installing Miles Morales and playing around on the PS5 menu, I realized the app was defaulting to the PS4 version. Why would that even be an option, let alone the default?

Especially if one of them becomes the **~~~ Official Thread for Re-Tweeting and Otherwise Engagement Boosting of Right Wing Pundits for Whatever Fucking Reason~~~**

Still waiting for all those 2A stanning, well-regulated militias to volunteer and help ensure the peaceful transition of power, or for groups like the NRA to condemn an armed, seditious mob threatening the lives of elected representatives and the disruption of constitutional process.

I’m really sorry to hear that Our beagle is 8 so hopefully she’s got a lot left in the tank, but I know I’m going to be useless when she goes. Hope you’re hanging in there.

You think Trump talks to the help? LOOOOOOOOL

Of course someone on Trump’s detail obliterated Obama’s toilet. Of course that happened.

I never finished it, no. If The Old Hunters is a separate area, I never ended up there, though I have the content purchased. I think part of the issue I ran into was that I feel like I ended up in an area “out of order”? I remember going to a new place where the difficulty seemed to spike dramatically, I went from normal Dark Souls level struggle to getting washed / one hit by every mob in whatever spot I was in. But it’s been long enough that I’m not confident my recall is correct and I have no knowledge of what was waxing me. Bugs? Vampires? Bug vampires? No idea.

I went from playing Spidey and Miles to Bloodborne and it was like whiplash, LAWD. I forget how far I’d gotten in Bloodborne before I fell off it for some reason. I really enjoyed it, but I dunno how likely it is that I’ll go back to it for reals with the DeS remake sitting on my shelf and the connectivity issues I was having.

Capped at 30, maybe, it definitely isn’t a consistent 30 FPS.

Can we please never talk about Ben Shapiro again? Please?

Booted up Bloodborne on the PS5. Aside from the fact that I kept getting errors about being able to connect and getting booted to the main menu, holy shit I forgot that game runs like absolute ass.