{"id":32453,"date":"2016-05-30T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32453"},"modified":"2016-05-30T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:18:50","slug":"errant-hitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32453","title":{"rendered":"Errant Hitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and Josh got together to stream some Hitman for everyone. This is the result. It&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/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\/kM7ut4fgb5M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kM7ut4fgb5M'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I love that Hitman seems to have turned itself around so quickly. <em>Hitman: Absolution<\/em> was <a href=\"?p=26152\">so bad on so many levels<\/a>, and I just assumed it was in the wrong creative hands and there was no way for the series to pull out of that nosedive.<\/p>\n<p>But here we are. The idiotic story is gone, along with the ugly, overblown cutscenes. We&#8217;re back on proper thematic ground, with Agent 47 traveling the world and assassinating important targets instead of bouncing around the United States fighting wrestlers and bondage nuns. The levels are large and open again. Disguises are useful again. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t played it yet. As I&#8217;ve belabored in the past, my gaming habits don&#8217;t mesh well with episodic games. But it&#8217;s still good to see Agent 47 back in his element. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and Josh got together to stream some Hitman for everyone. This is the result. It&#8217;s a lot of fun. Link (YouTube) I love that Hitman seems to have turned itself around so quickly. Hitman: Absolution was so bad on so many levels, and I just assumed it was in the wrong creative hands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453","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=32453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}