Quick Look: Hitman: Absolution

Brad is not playing this game right, go hard or go home

Was this Quick Look real, or was it CG?

@RoyCampbell: Dumbed down would be another excellent example of a stupid (and overused) buzzword. Would you not agree?

@Grimmie92 said:

Boom! Absolution has arrived.

Perfect.

Vinny has the the best laugh

If you're wearing a guard outfit, the other guards will recognize that you aren't one of them, but other people in the level won't question your disguise.

Basically you have to look out for people who might know the person whose clothes you've stolen. Like, the guards all know each other and can tell you're an outsider, but the maids and electricians and stuff won't bat an eyelid.

It's a great mechanic!

I feel so bad for laughing at the end of this video.

If you're wearing a guard outfit, the other guards will recognize that you aren't one of them, but other people in the level won't question your disguise.

Basically you have to look out for people who might know the person whose clothes you've stolen. Like, the guards all know each other and can tell you're an outsider, but the maids and electricians and stuff won't bat an eyelid.

It's a great mechanic!

The lack of knowledge of anything else other than the US never fails to make me feel sad, so locked up in there Communist mentality. Boy in blue referees to the English term for Police men, Bobbys or Boys in Blue. Sorry felt like a rant

I've never played a Hitman game before but oh man, from this quick look, I am gonna enjoy this.
 
EDIT- Oh wow I am in love with the animation on this texan guy in the cutscene.

when brad just started bustin i lol'd

Really wish I watched this before playing 20+ hours of the game. Having played those first levels, and especially the hotel one, at least 5-6 times to get all the challenges makes it super frustrating to watch.

It's interesting to see how Brad insists on using disguises, even though it actually makes the game more difficult in some parts, like in the Chinatown level where it's way easier to just stick with the suit.

Which brings me to some complaints: disguises doesn't really do you any good, unless you find a "super-disguise" like the janitor one in the hotel-level. You get spotted way too easy. I get that local hillbilly cops and electricians know their colleagues so well that they'll know when something's up, but generic henchman-for-hire-dude with ski-mask seeing through your generic-henchman costume? Or when you wear a hazmat suit, other hazmat-dudes recognize you in an instant even from the back? That is just silly. You're better off doing suit-only for the most part, at least on the lower difficulty-settings.

The game is alright, even though it's more "casual" and action-oriented than previous games. Most of the scripting stuff people are talking about are not true at all. It's true that a lot of stuff is dealt with in cut scenes, but you are doing the sneaking, the blending, and 90% of the killing. It's not true that you get automagically spotted when you're hidden due to scripting, unless you walk into a cut scene (which are behind doors 9 times out of 10 anyway). There are some dumb events like the infamous fight scene, but that's the only part I can think of that I felt was really really stupid and unnecessary. Cheesy cut scenes, dialogue and characters have always been a part of Hitman, so I'm not gonna complain about that.

It's full pants on head retarded that you can't save, and even more retarded that most of the level resets when you go back to a checkpoint (except for the target kills). You turned on a stove and rigged a gas pump as a part of an elaborate plan to take out a dude, activate a checkpoint, get spotted and then revert? Gotta set it up all over again, even though you checkpointed after the set up. I feel that it discourages setting up improvised pieces that aren't part of the challenges.

But I really enjoy the game, there are some true "Hitman" moments in there, and you get a nice sense of accomplishment when you stealth your way through a level. Also, play on PC. Not just for the graphics, but for better controls, and avoiding issues like the item/door button prompt Brad showed.

@skunkdragon said:

The lack of knowledge of anything else other than the US never fails to make me feel sad, so locked up in there Communist mentality. Boy in blue referees to the English term for Police men, Bobbys or Boys in Blue. Sorry felt like a rant

"locked up in there Communist mentality?" What the fuck are talking about?

This + the Ravaged QL have given me a special taste for Brad/Vinny Quick Looks.

The Bane,

of the rate of Frame,

lies mostly in the rain.

@onarum said:

No Brad this is NOT a hitman game, it has already been reported that there are instances where you are 100% in stealth mode, no detections and them a dude will see you regardless because of a scripted sequence COD style... it is NOT a hitman game. oh god that instinct thing is so cheap.

Man you're stupid.

@chughes737 said:

Hitman Abs Solution ...HA! LOL

Never listen to Vinny tell you to do ppl.... saw him years ago talk Ryan into turning his good charactor in a Fallout 3 dlc into a bad kharma character. Vinny is a trip! Not that I am unhappy at all in any QL he is in .

I am more and more convinced I like this game.

@onarum said:

No Brad this is NOT a hitman game, it has already been reported that there are instances where you are 100% in stealth mode, no detections and them a dude will see you regardless because of a scripted sequence COD style... it is NOT a hitman game. oh god that instinct thing is so cheap.

Man you're stupid.

Maybe the worst game you could ask either Brad or Vinny to do a QL of, and they put both of them on this. Funny stuff sure, but I'll have to go to Youtube to watch someone play through a mission w/o effing around.

@Dan_CiTi said:

@Taklulas said:

@onarum said:

No Brad this is NOT a hitman game, it has already been reported that there are instances where you are 100% in stealth mode, no detections and them a dude will see you regardless because of a scripted sequence COD style... it is NOT a hitman game. oh god that instinct thing is so cheap.

Man you're stupid.

Hitman Elite Force reporting in!

By calling someone stupid because they're talking crap on something they haven't a clue on? I'm sure.

Looks neat.
 
I'm pretty sure if Patrick ran this video, he would've said "systems" a couple dozen times.

@Dan_CiTi said:

@Taklulas said:

@onarum said:

No Brad this is NOT a hitman game, it has already been reported that there are instances where you are 100% in stealth mode, no detections and them a dude will see you regardless because of a scripted sequence COD style... it is NOT a hitman game. oh god that instinct thing is so cheap.

Man you're stupid.

Hitman Elite Force reporting in!

By calling someone stupid because they're talking crap on something they haven't a clue on? I'm sure.

Oh please, oh please, oh please tell me that was a Small Wonder reference at 46:27. I would consider buying this game, if so(just consider, mind you).

@csl316 said:

Looks neat. I'm pretty sure if Patrick ran this video, he would've said "systems" a couple dozen times.

If you think he says that a lot, listen to an Idle Thumbs episode sometime

Oh my gosh. Brad showed his dark side again, and Vinny was there as the devil on his shoulder.

Terrifyingly amusing.

I see Tourette's Dialogue is still a thing with M-rated games.

@skunkdragon said:

The lack of knowledge of anything else other than the US never fails to make me feel sad, so locked up in there Communist mentality. Boy in blue referees to the English term for Police men, Bobbys or Boys in Blue. Sorry felt like a rant

ONE CULTURE IN NOT UNDERSTANDING ANOTHER CULTURE'S REFERENCES SHOCKER!!

@DeviTiffany: You summed it up pretty succinctly.

A very entertaining quick look albeit a bit confusing. See this is why I'm not a huge fan of the Breaking Brad videos. It's way more entertaining to watch him fumble to an early gaming grave than it is to watch him triumph over adversity. Brad never seems sure of himself when answering Vinny's questions about the game. It's hard to discern if any of the information coming out of his mouth is accurate unless I'm seeing him actually do it on camera. Vinny was the perfect second to have for this game but then again he always is. I really want to buy this game. If the story is as dumb as Alex's review implies then I'm totally down. I'm probably one of the few people who enjoyed Prototype 2's stupid story so I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes a dumb story is a plus. Thanks and keep making these great videos.

@Dan_CiTi said:

Huh? I was just fooling around, but that guy seems to be speaking extremely and somewhat out of line. Like the fact there's something scripted at a point in the game ruins the game from being good in any way? Pretty dumb. Especially since like a one-off scripted moment(or maybe a few scripted moments at a point that could change depending on how you played) in a game that is usually very free flowing and open can be extremely effective because of how jarring it would be. Also saying how something is cheap on an easy difficulty being cheap is silly. It is like a MGS fan complaining that in MGS3 on the easiest difficulty getting the EZ Gun or something. Of course the easy mode will have things built in to actually make it easy. Anyway, this game seems a lot like Dishonored and Deus Ex:HR, while not just a "graphical update" to the earlier & more hardcore/complex games, but still is quite a good game on its own and a worthy, well made sequel/spiritual successor for the most part at least.

I never said it prevented the game from being good, I said that it prevented it from being a hitman game, and for that I am right, you take a game that, should be, stealth based and at one moment you add a scripted sequence that makes stealth meaningless, basically what the game is telling me is "look I know you busted your ass until this point to not being seen, but fuck it this guy just saw you because I said so", in previous hitman games you could ALWAYS go through an entire level without raising a single alarm, and not because of some stupid cheap gimmick as this "instinct" BS but because you took your time and was careful, and yeah it IS cheap, if you don't consider seeing through walls cheap I don't know what is.

@Dan_CiTi: nope, not okay, maybe is some other game, but not in hitman, it would still be completely cheap.

@Dan_CiTi: nope, not okay, maybe is some other game, but not in hitman, it would still be completely cheap.

@Dan_CiTi: well the map was a bit less cheap in which you had to actually switch to the map, couldn't move around while looking at the map, so you had to check the patrol patterns and plan accordingly, + enemy positions were disabled on the map on higher difficulties.

Game is alright, nothing majorly offensive like some would say but also not that great. When they give you a large map and a target to kill the game is amazing, when your mission is to run through narrow corridors or escape a halicopter it's pretty bad and the rest ist somewhere inbetween. It's okay...just okay

@Dan_CiTi said:

Huh? I was just fooling around, but that guy seems to be speaking extremely and somewhat out of line. Like the fact there's something scripted at a point in the game ruins the game from being good in any way? Pretty dumb. Especially since like a one-off scripted moment(or maybe a few scripted moments at a point that could change depending on how you played) in a game that is usually very free flowing and open can be extremely effective because of how jarring it would be. Also saying how something is cheap on an easy difficulty being cheap is silly. It is like a MGS fan complaining that in MGS3 on the easiest difficulty getting the EZ Gun or something. Of course the easy mode will have things built in to actually make it easy. Anyway, this game seems a lot like Dishonored and Deus Ex:HR, while not just a "graphical update" to the earlier & more hardcore/complex games, but still is quite a good game on its own and a worthy, well made sequel/spiritual successor for the most part at least.

I never said it prevented the game from being good, I said that it prevented it from being a hitman game, and for that I am right, you take a game that, should be, stealth based and at one moment you add a scripted sequence that makes stealth meaningless, basically what the game is telling me is "look I know you busted your ass until this point to not being seen, but fuck it this guy just saw you because I said so", in previous hitman games you could ALWAYS go through an entire level without raising a single alarm, and not because of some stupid cheap gimmick as this "instinct" BS but because you took your time and was careful, and yeah it IS cheap, if you don't consider seeing through walls cheap I don't know what is.

@ZeForgotten: come on, that's not even a level, it comes AFTER the credits FFS, what I'm talking about is completely different, I'm talking about going through an entire level completely stealthy only to be told that it didn't matter anyway because hey, scripted cinematic sequence.

@ZeForgotten: you know I'm starting to get almost convinced by you guys, and rest assured I'll end up getting absolution eventually, but still I don't like the changes.

anyway I rest my case, no point on arguing this stuff really :)

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@Dan_CiTi: well the map was a bit less cheap in which you had to actually switch to the map, couldn't move around while looking at the map, so you had to check the patrol patterns and plan accordingly, + enemy positions were disabled on the map on higher difficulties.

Oh man Drew at the end there with the evil conscience voice.

"You know, you've got those explosives..."

I love your commentary on quicklooks... You spend more time in the menu then the game most of the time lol :P

"How many times can for fake surrender?"

"About as many times as... Jesus"

I can't wait to get this, new to this site so this is the 1st quick look I've seen and they are awesome. Thanks guys.

This rundown hotel is straight out of Max Payne.

@Pyrrhic:Greetings fellow Dodger-ite!!