i feel like maybe nintendo sort of used this to trojan horse the series into western people’s homes in the first place. i think the nes games were perhaps the single biggest selling point for me and people i talked to about the gc game at the time - anecdotal, sure.
but the embedded games thing, it’s neat - it’s an interesting way to dangle a carrot for the “core” gamer to your “casual” game, even back in the early aughts before this shit was all codified.
please enjoy a very good speedrunner beating mario extremely fast inside animal crossing
I don’t remember if I was aware of them before playing (I seem to remember the weird note about there being a “special gift” in the included memory card that I think stuck out to me for being something that wasn’t done before) but I liked taking “a break within a break” and using them for passing time after my usual routine in the game sort of like later Yakuza and Shenmue (in that case a good way to pass in-game time as a character diegetically goofing off when you weren’t able to skip ahead to events)
I can help with that. I have a bunch of things by this developer. (We are acquainted, but I have not talked with him in a few years.) Here you go.
Awesome, thanks!
I haven’t read any of the thread because these are a lot of posts to catch up on but I did a ctrl+f and in 450 posts have there really only been two mentions of Hitman? Hitman 2016 is like the western counter part to Way of the Samurai and one of the few games (series at this point, I guess) that truly make good on the dream of Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment.
I had Hitman: Blood Money (the most recent one I’ve played) on my list but any other mentions of Hitman I saw were of 2 (which does look great) so it got bumped off by something else. If I see a Blood Money mention, I might swap it back in but fine with 2 being The One (or 2016 for that matter, I’m not very familiar with them beyond Blood Money).
the 2 new ones pretty much render the old ones obsolete to be honest
the old ones are neat but the new ones are fucking great
Are the new ones less gross? Like I’m able to focus on the gameplay and look past much of the creepy CG-rendered pin-up posters plastered everywhere and the grotesque Playboy bunny types in Blood Money but it sure would be cool if that stuff wasn’t a thing. Not to mention the depiction of some of the “gangstas” in that first level (idk maybe I’m remembering it as worse than it was, I just get a skeezy vibe from an otherwise fun little sandbox assassination toy).
As far as I can recall in the “World of Assassination” (I think this is what the new trilogy is collectively called) the concept of sexuality does not exist. I am not sure anyone’s bodies are even capable of such acts considering how rigid they are. I think they might all be robots.
I don’t recall any kind of sexual content so if it’s there I think it’s probably minor. There is definitely nothing to gawk at, like pinups.
Edit: Blood Money was from the baditude era, right?
the new ones don’t have any of that sort of stuff. the old ones were a little too faithful to the misogyny and racism elements of the pulp type adventure stories they were inspired by
is this like, canonized in the story at all? do they have some cutscene where they talk about how sexless the world is or do they just never address it? (either is fine but if its the former i need to look up youtube videos of the game)
That’s cool. Like, sexuality is not a problem at all, just the way Blood Money expresses it is kinda “aimed at teenage boys” gross (and as an ex-stupid teenage boy I am not innocent of being like “oh, har, har, har, niiiice lol” at such things back then).
yeah, it was really weird how they decided to make 47 into duke togo for a very brief moment there when canonically and logically he should be ace
That last Hitman is one of the few big budget Western games I’ve enjoyed over the last decade. It’s real nice and not very gross.
No, I was more making a joke because thinking back on it I could remember absolutely zero sexual content in the game, which was very odd for a modern game (so there’s probably something somewhere, but nothing notable). And everyone has these extremely rigid animations that seem incapable of doing anything other than walking, sitting, leaning over, or rag-dolling to the floor. In a good way.
agent 47 is asexual and in the first game (the 2000 one not the 2016 reboot one) reacts to a girl kissing him like he’s 5 years old and she just gave him cooties so I like to imagines this is reflected in the game world around him especially in absolution where he goes rogue and all the enemies talk about fucking all the time.
Whoops nevermind, I just remembered in one mission you can disguise yourself as the secret lover of one of the targets and pull a True Lies on her by sitting in a dark corner of the room when she comes to whisper sweet nothings to you while her husband gets blown up by an explosive golf ball you planted on his tee a dozen yards away.
Hitman 2016 is free on epic this week y’all.
Gotta second Lalaland.
Hell yeah.