Quick Look: Hitman: Episode 5: Colorado

I haven't played any of this game only watched the videos GB do and I feel like I have a better understanding of this game than both Dan and Brad who have/are playing this game.

Was bummed out by the description of this episode.

(an intense infiltration mission and the toughest assignment yet...a Colorado farm compound that has been converted into a private militia training camp...from the moment you set foot in Colorado you’re on enemy ground...)

To the point that I haven't bothered checking it out yet and feel no particular urge to do so. Sounds like Hitman missions I've disliked in past games. Entirely hostile areas with no civilians or freeform recon, where you're never to be seen and sit behind cover until the guards move away. I want Hitman in my Hitman, not standard stealth game.

Looks like this level opens up once you acquire a disguise.

Did Dan combine Jurassic Bark the Futurama episode with a Japanese folk story he made up in his own mind?

@awkwardloser: I think Jurassic Bark was influcenced by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D

2:10 Dan channeling his inner game store owner.

Anytime I hear Freedom Fighters I think Freedom Force and wonder where the super heroes are.

Man I love this series, great video. Looking forward to the follow up!

@highpriest: Same here, also on POS Roku.

This is gonna be Giant Bomb's GotY isn't it?
Or BoxMaker.

@vibratingdonkey: Actually I found this level pretty easy to move around in, of course after you get a disguise as you said. There are actually relatively few people who can see through disguises on this map, especially compared to the last couple.

@wrecks said:

Aside from the terrain, the economy, the culture and the fact that everyone is obese, Kansas is pretty much identical to Colorado.

When Dan was gone, Jeff sat in. After watching him play one single target in Paris, he was able to recall far more info about it a week later than both Dan and Brad combined.

It's pretty crazy how useful it is to actually pay attention to the game sometimes.

I couldn't take it anymore, I've watched most of these videos but never played the game. I'm downloading it now (31.5 Gigs @ 1.9MB/s takes a long time) to try my hand at some of these objectives. I hope to be at bit more situational aware than the dynamic duo here. As for the other subject of the comments, yes I've heard of the Tamil Tigers, knew they were on Sri Lanka (or Ceylon as I knew it when in grade school) but I don't know the origins of their conflict or their desired outcome.

I'd love to see Will Smith in a video/podcast with Dan in which Dan asks the questions to stuff you would think he knows but doesn't. I think Will would explode at some point.

Have they ever really known?

@thedigitalistic: It is frustrating to watch these two play the game sometimes, because now that they've crossed over a few hours of playing the game they don't really have an excuse to not know how things work. Normally I'd give Brad a break because playing a stealth game for an audience is hard, but you should have a basic understanding of the systems, especially since the game is being played on a system that is so slow at loading that you can read a ton of tool tips.

About Dan being ignorant of the Tamil Tigers, this is a guy that doesn't know what gravity is. I think a basic knowledge of world terrorist groups should be part of growing up, but Kansas is a state famous (in the US if maybe not worldwide) for the low quality of its educational system. I don't want to live in Colorado either, but MAN Colorado is better on almost every spectrum except perhaps corn grown.

I'm kind of wish the Hitman developers catch on to these guys playing through the game and throw in a reference somewhere. Like maybe giving the mission briefing lady a line like 'The target has planted a Giant Bomb somewhere in the premises....' and the G and B are capitalised in the subtitles for extra nudge nudge wink wink. Would be funny.

I don't expect that to happen of course.

@highpriest: I'm having frame rate issues with this video in my roku. Don't have any issues on other videos.

Hachiko is the dog's name.
HOW DOES BRAD GO HIS WHOLE LIFE NOT KNOWING THIS!?
I thought the GB staff knew everything about everything!

Anyone else getting weird audio crackling in this video? My ears hurt.

@peleus: actually. It's going to be Hokkaido

[hundreds and hundreds of slighted users]

@vibratingdonkey: yeah I had the same concern, but really it just means that more NPCs see through whatever disguise you have. You can still largely wander around freely, as long as you keep an eye out

...man

lol if you have cares

Great segment again fellas, this game looks beautiful. GOTY contender for sure.

rip ears

i am disappoint

Specifically just for about 30-45 secs right around the 24 min mark. Nothing terrible, just turn down the volume for a minute. Thanks for the heads up!

@brad@danryckert I noticed one of the loading screen tips said that guards will disarm any explosives they see. That's probably why the mines you tossed into the shed didn't detonate.

We need Jeff on this QL he would have given good advices and noticed obvious gameplay information