{"id":26221,"date":"2015-03-18T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26221"},"modified":"2017-07-05T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:32:07","slug":"hitman-absolution-ep4-ranting-and-raving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26221","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Absolution EP4: Ranting and Raving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. This is why I agreed to cover this game. This very cutscene. Buckle up.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmoc1QgJwrQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dmoc1QgJwrQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chris and Josh for letting Rutskarn and I monopolize the show. I know how frustrating that is. Thanks for playing along. Next episode we return to our regular format. This was a special occasion.<\/p>\n<p>We skipped a lot of my gripes because the whole thing was dragging on too long. And I thought of some new ones while re-watching the episode just now. This really is a disastrously incompetent cutscene.<\/p>\n<p>Think about how stuff like this is produced. The writer writes it. Then the voice actors &#8211; with guidance from the director &#8211; perform it. Then the mo-cap actors do their part. Then some artists take all those assets and create the cutscene, which involves watching it many, many times over. This thing is pure torture to watch, and I can&#8217;t get through it once without shouting outraged questions at my screen. How did the team get all that done without correcting any of the glaring problems here?<\/p>\n<p>I find it hard to believe that so many people let the scene slip by without noticing any of these issues. Instead, I imagine this cutscene is the result of a writer in a position of power where nobody was allowed to question his bullshit. And that makes me mad. <\/p>\n<p>This is bad. It&#8217;s not bad in a fun way. It&#8217;s not bad in a campy way. It&#8217;s not bad in a playfully subversive way. This is just horrendously sophomoric trash that&#8217;s been undeservedly elevated to the status of AAA movie-game. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I gave one of these out, but you clowns earned it:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/goldun_riter.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Shame on you IO Interactive.<\/p>\n<p>For fun: Try to spot all the errors Rutskarn and I missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. This is why I agreed to cover this game. This very cutscene. Buckle up. Link (YouTube) Thanks to Chris and Josh for letting Rutskarn and I monopolize the show. I know how frustrating that is. Thanks for playing along. Next episode we return to our regular format. This was a special occasion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[190,477],"class_list":["post-26221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-goldun-riter","tag-hitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}