{"id":26640,"date":"2015-05-02T18:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T23:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26640"},"modified":"2017-06-19T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:40:20","slug":"hitman-absolution-ep18absoludicrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26640","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Absolution EP18:Absoludicrous"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/8GocN0fspPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8GocN0fspPA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>And so it ends. Here is Rutskarn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1555\" title=\"Clod of Cthulhu: Introduction\">Clod of Cthulhu series<\/a> that I alluded to during the episode. As we announced in the credits, next season is likely going to be <em>Arkham Asylum<\/em>. I&#8217;m really looking forward to some positivity after so much bellyaching.<\/p>\n<p>I know we already awarded this earlier in the season, but for the sake of people skimming the archives I&#8217;d like to remind everyone that Hitman Absolution is only the fourth game to claim this prize: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/goldun_riter.jpg\" title=\"Congratulations, loser.\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->More importantly: <strong>This is the worst writing I&#8217;ve reviewed on this site.<\/strong> Dumber than <a href=\"?p=5015\" title=\"A Star is Born: Let&#39;s Play Champions Online Pt. 1\">Champions Online<\/a>. More obnoxious than <a href=\"?p=2105\" title=\"Fable 2 Part 1: A Bird Crapped on Your Head\">Fable II<\/a>. More tonally confusing and inept than <a href=\"?p=1670\" title=\"Indigo Prophecy: Plot\">Indigo Prophecy<\/a>, and more at odds with its core gameplay than the <a href=\"?p=14464\" title=\"Skyrim Thieves Guild Part 5\">Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I guess the gameplay is serviceable, but it&#8217;s still a step down from the previous game and the &#8220;proper&#8221; Hitman gameplay was outsourced to the community using the contracts mode<span class='snote' title='1'>And even that is reportedly shallow and under-developed.<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>I do feel bad for chucking insults at the writers. That&#8217;s an ugly thing to do and I&#8217;m not proud of it. In my defense, they started it. In playing the game I couldn&#8217;t escape the notion that this couldn&#8217;t be an accident. This felt less like the work of an idiot and more like the petulant mocking of someone who loathed Hitman and hated Hitman fans. I&#8217;ll admit I could simply be paranoid. Perhaps after staring too long into this abyss and straining to find order behind the chaos I&#8217;ve begun to imagine malicious intent where there was no intent at all. If that&#8217;s the case, I apologize. <\/p>\n<p>But the game is still atrocious either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) And so it ends. Here is Rutskarn&#8217;s Clod of Cthulhu series that I alluded to during the episode. As we announced in the credits, next season is likely going to be Arkham Asylum. I&#8217;m really looking forward to some positivity after so much bellyaching. I know we already awarded this earlier in the [&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-26640","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\/26640","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=26640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}