@demus: After Brad and Dan bumble their way through the basement of the ice cream shoppe, they walked right past the twins who loop by there.
I can understand why Dave Lang found these videos so frustrating to watch, but of course when he says it they listen, when the GB audience says it we're being unreasonably harsh :-/
Yup. It's weird.
@ripelivejam: Sorry dude but most people who've gotten deep into Hitman would probably disagree with you. Brad doesn't have a grasp on the mechanics and more or less bumbles through every mission. At this point it's reminding me of that now infamous Polygon Doom video, if Dan weren't there it would be impossible.
I love Hitman and the Hitdan series of videos, but I really think if they both just took some time to learn the mechanics a little bit better these would be way better. Brad spent a lot of time just confused about stuff or missing things only to come around to them much later. Like with throwing coins - if someone sees you throw it they're not distracted by it, so you have to be out of sight. If they open the bathroom door next to the cameraman guy when he walks over there and then throw a coin into the bathroom, he'll go in there, eliminating the need to poison the hookah in the first place.
I hate to complain with how they're playing but Jesus Christ, at the beginning of the QL Brad says they need to look at the mini-map and then proceed to not see the stairs on the mini-map that they circle like 5 times while then deciding to drop everything to be frisked for the stairs past two different stair cases and miss the opportunity. Holy shit that was frustrating.
Also I agree with @dhiatensor, this episode is easily the weakest. My first run through I did everything perfectly and saw 90% of the level. Where as the other levels I keep finding stuff I hadn't seen on repeated run throughs. Replaying Sapienza gets annoying after a bit though because you have to keep going to destroy the virus and there is really only one way to do that so you just repeat that same process over and over.
Also this, about the stairs. I think the level is amazing though, the last two episodes have absolutely been as good and complex as anything in Blood Money.
@sinjunb: but a perfect score? Alot of old school players dont like it.
Who? The impression I'm getting is it's universally loved at this point. The only murmurings I've heard of "old school" players disliking it are brutal doom fans who think this should have been identical to brutal doom. I'm an "old school" player, my first game ever was Doom at the age of 7 in 1995. I love this game to bits, it's everything I ever wanted from a modern Doom.
Dan and Brad seem to like it, but Brad seems to regard Rise of the Tomb Raider as a better game. And both already stated that the platforming from ledge to ledge get's pretty old. Jeff won't like it since it's Uncharted and Austin also sounds like he's not going to fight for it.
Yeah, true enough. It baffles me that while Brad recognizes how good the story is in UC4 he still seems to like RoTTR more. The writing there was so bad and so boring. I don't think it did anything particularly amazing gameplay-wise to make up for that.
Also, the enthusiasm for Doom is a relief after how near-unanimous the dislike of TW3 was. Nice for my taste to align with theirs in a big way after how totally disconnected I was from those talks. Doom is the best game I've played since TW3 released.
Last thing, they should have played this on the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRpYH8u8oFI
Already predicting a heated battle between Doom and UC4 for somewhere in the top 3 GOTY deliberations. Personally I can't imagine anything beating Doom for my #1, unless Witcher 3 DLC counts...
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