Quick Look: Hitman: Episode 4: Bangkok

I mean, I've been watching Dan and Brad from the beginning and everything looks fantastic but my point is more that playing alone doesn't seem to be as great because, it looks way more fun if you could play and laugh with somebody when the dumb things happen etc.

Brad is such a pro at this that he even made sure that it was a neat 1 hour package.

@schnoo

What if CBS decided to create their own internet? NCIS and 2 Broke Girls information on every page!

10/10

I wish you guys would do one more play through. Show off one more opportunity, like the audio recording of what really happened between Cross and his dead girlfriend, which is super emotional and intense... It's the highlight of the season so far. Google search Hitman sitting Cross' chair and confronting him, then make another quick look, please? If not, I'm looking forward to the next ET.

I was afraid there wouldn't be enough shenanigans for a while there.

Dan telling Brad to just shoot the sucker...

I think I finally found my reason to play Hitman, which is to dress up 47 in the silliest outfits possible.

This game is the best.

I'm glad Brad was the one frustrating Dan instead of Dan being the unrelenting annoying troll to everyone he usually is.

@pkmango7: there are a number of silly outfits in every level. That is my favorite part too. The drummer's hipster outfit is outstanding; one of the best. Not all he outfits are as easy to find.

As a drafstman, it was painful to watch them stare at a floor plan and not recognise it as an opening. However, it was interesting to see them rely on a map to decide where to go instead of actually looking out the windows :P

Once Brad shot that canister a part of him was free and started playing it loosely

Dan and Brad - once you've unlocked the exploding cell phone, I definitely recommend trying it out on the Summer Bonus Marrakesh mission (A House Built on Sand). Helps makes the point that people really shouldn't answer cell phones during business meetings.

Dan mentioned that he saw the exploding golf ball kill, but what if the victim became a golf ball?

@brad just a tip when you get caught trespassing almost always if you remain still when you are caught they will just escort out of the trespass zone instead of turning hostile! Keep up the awesome videos!

Blood Money was one of my favorite games of all time. After seeing up to the last summer mission (the movie set) I was dying to play this game from watching Giant Bomb. After purchasing it I've done a few of the elusive missions but I am still not even past Sapienza or Marrakesh! I can't even believe there is Bangkok at this point. This game is riddled with content for only having a few levels, kudos to the level designers as that is one of the biggest accomplishments of this game as well as Blood Money - just excellent level design (short of maybe the first few levels in Blood Money but Columbia / The Opera House / Heaven|Hell are some of the funnest levels.

Can't recommend this game enough! It is easy to put 20-30 hours in and not even get past one level. I spent 5+ hours on the tutorial alone. Can't wait to see how this one ends because a few of their live elusive targets have ended with a very loud sigh.

worst level yet.

also you guys thought that an explosion near people would be silent??

I think the maps are getting mroe and more difficult. This map is a lot harder than others. Your disguises aren't fool proof. There is a lot to do in this map, but if Brad and Dan don't want to do opportunities then it's going to look boring.

Watching the Hitman series has made me want to be a sneaky killer again... thanks guys, will get the PS4 version of this for sure!

I might pick this up after the season is over. This game is slowly looking like it's going to be better than Hitman: Blood Money, the best game in the series.

And well done again, Brad. You're suppose to suck at video games.

Looks like that lawyer...was just another brick in the wall...

@brad You magnificent circumspect circumchef! Another fine caper ended in the most haphazard hijinky way possible.

I really like that this level has ramped up the difficulty and made more opportunities that require several steps. I also enjoy the connections among characters within the level and between the various levels.

But there are plenty of easy things, like getting to walk all the way into your own hotel room in your suit because you are a guest, which I found awesome even though I felt twitchy the entire time just walking through the hotel in my suit.

This is like one of those reality TV things where a normal guy puts a radio in his ear and some jerk with a walky-talky thing tells him to do stupid stuff.

In case no one else has mentioned this yet - for those who were wondering the song is from a musical called Chess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7NhOb1CbHs&list=PL65F4A99DB2E9570A) it is actually a pretty good musical and is worth checking out to learn about what it was like for smaller countries during the cold war. I was born in America in 78 so I lived through the 80's but as a child. So I learned some things by watching my sister perform in it at community theater and then seeing a better version later. Great song yes but even better play. The arbiters song is especially good.

I...miss Dan? Wow.

Damn, that audio stutter is really distracting.

Sold.

I've seen enough now to feel confident that this is a sequel to the incredible Blood Money, and not the atrocious Absolution.

great stupid end. lol

and Brad just too good now. better than Dan now

@jedted: Yeah, the audio stutter happens in that level while playing for me, as well. I haven't heard it on any other levels before.

I really, really liked this level. I'm only level 12 mastery, but following the opportunities leads to some best-in-series gameplay sequences and moments. It does feel smaller, more segmented by specific keycards and disguises, and less generous with items than the previous levels. But I feel like each of those has been a response to how I've generally blundered through my early runs on previous levels using copious space, body-hiding, and lockpicks. This one took more experimentation and planning (and actually using the guided opportunities) to figure out how to pull off later challenges. I'm cool with having a mix of these different levels in the season. They both have their own merits.

One thing that felt crazy about Bangkok (I guess Marrakesh was similar) is just how many random drinks and food items are poisonable with no mission reason to do so. I guess those are spare tools for contracts and escalations?

Haha, one of the opportunities is called Are 'Friends' Electric.

Isn't the Highmoore girl the one that Dalia in Paris wanted Helmut to hook up with to get to her dad?

The mystery deepens!

Consolation prize is that if he had gone out there he would have been tresspassing

Dude there is a trespassing indication that shows up under your mini-map. It doesn't look like you are noticing it. Also I thought it was interesting that on this level when you are the security guard you can walk around with the Machete without being "visibly armed." Played through it once seems good. Lots of little nooks and crannies.

I've accepted the fact that none of the GB crew ever looks at onscreen text, ever since the infamous Chrono Trigger ER. This acceptance makes watching content on this site 1000% less frustrating.

Just realised I would rather watch Dan play.

I've finally got around to playing Paris, can't afford the new episodes yet. I like all the different things you can do to get the kill, all the challenges and that stuff too but after wandering around for ages and not being able to figure out how to do the interesting stuff I still ended up shooting dudes in the head and running away under gunfire. I probably just need to skim over some walkthroughs while playing to point me in the right direction and get the most out of it.

Oh man, 27th birthday..

Thats damn good writing.

I find it funny and amazing that anyone actually wants Brad and Dan to "learn the game."

Why the hell do you want that? Part of the reason why these videos are so much is because they don't know what their doing. That's the point.

Having Brad actually learn the game, would imho ruin this series and make them into standard QL and/or walk-throughs.

Why does anyone want that???

Return of the circumscientist.....

What is with Brad's constant need to change outfits? He gets the outfit he wants then still wants to change into someone else for no reason at all. He did it a lot during that last illusive target mission.

Stone cold drummer.

How is it more "powerful" than anything else? The internet is the internet.

Because in this case "learning the game" means "learning the basic mechanics of how the game functions" rather than speedrunning it with the most efficient strategies. There are some humorous moments that come from them bumbling around like idiots, sure, but it's just so frustrating to see them completely fail to grasp the core mechanics of a video game. I don't think Brad has ever once looked at the minimap while playing.

It's not like he's streaming it over twitch. Like for example even skype on a good connection has a maximum latency of 100ms which is on the same level as some plasma tvs.

@whiffleballdude: I don't get that. If i wanted to watch someone play the game with just basic proficiency, I'm sure there are a bazillion twitch streams of exactly that, or I could just play it myself.

The fact that both Brad and Dan each have their own unique stumbling, bumbling, clueless method of playing is the only thing that keeps me watching these videos.

*goes back into a kitchen, with shit tons of people looking at him*

*takes a couple seconds to realize he's trespassing*

I'm pretty sure Brad is just trolling at this point.

Dan says "Don't do anything dumb"...that doesn't sound like the Dan Ryckert we all know!

Loved it, but dan seemed really impatient in this one. In previous hitmans just stabbing a guy [unless with that special knife like in sapienza] or just shooting a guy like suggested would have been super off limits. Also I think the manual saves ruined a lot that the previous ones didn't have. In the past they got themselves in really silly situations, but if they just manual save before they try anything it makes the episode a lot less exciting, which in previous episodes rarely happened if at all except for like right before the exploding body situation, which is a fine exception to the rule to have.