#Hitman games

[timmydraker]

Tim who is scarily good at the Hitman games.

Everyone is good with it mostly, excluding Cass who won’t play it, with everyone having completed the first few missions at least during a training exercise made by Jason who was hiding an injury and came up with the idea on the spot.

This is how they find out that not only does Tim already have all the games, he’s finished them all, got all the achievements and has over 2,000+ hours.

Turns out it’s what he plays when he feels his mind is running too rampant and needs reigning in. He knows all the secrets and has a spreadsheet made up of all the ways you can complete a mission per chapter. He has a strategy for each type of assassination from getting someone else to do it, killing everyone, making it look like an accident, ect. He’s even managed to kill every soldier in some chapters without getting caught and somehow managed to save Diana from being shot by 47?

It’s kind of scary watching him seamlessly navigate around any new map that comes out and complete all missions under a self imposed time limit.

(His record is 1 minute and 27 seconds)

Bruce is naturally worried and it isn’t helped when the response to these concerns is, “would you rather I do it in real life?”

Tim can do it in real life, came closest with Captain Boomerang, and he has at least thirty ideas of how to kill everyone in his life subconsciously. He doesn’t want to, nor will he ever act on it, but it’s sort of… fun.

It’s like puzzle solving but with higher stakes and Hitman is a good way to test his theories without actually killing anyone.

If playing Hitman made him test how sneakily he could drug people by putting sugar in peoples drinks at Galas when he was nine, that’s just childish curiosity. Plus, it made him put out a campaign when he was older to prevent drugging because he himself knows how easy it is, so win win.

At least he didn’t shave his head like he thought about, though that was only because a certain acrobat did it and made Tim realise how unstylish it was if it wasn’t natural.

At the end of the day playing Hitman made him a better Robin and helped him sneak around the League of Assassin’s base that was filled with people even 47 would struggle against.

And he won the training exercise.

[pan-fried-autism]

I’m remaking the video game buying poll actually I found something else I want

[assassinbracket]

Best Assassin Tournament: Round 2

[maaruin]

I wish Sekiro was a different game

Sekiro follows the SoulsBorne formula: enemies respawn every time you die except for bosses and the world is full of them, boss fights are very difficult so that you will have to fight them many times, you will die a lot but slowly get better and work your way to success.

However, I don't think this formula fits the story. The game experience is an excessively hostile world (because almost anyone you meet is hostile to you) and at the same time uncaring (you can kill the enemies hundreds of times, they always respawn and act as before). This fits the Dark Souls world perfectly: a post apocalyptic world in which almost everyone is undead and most of the undead have gone hollow, so they are incapable of forming new goals and just repeat what they are doing over and over again. But in Sekiro, lorewise the protagonists immortality is an exception. The world isn't, as far as I can tell, supposed to be a post apocalyptic world, and most of the people you encounter are supposed to be normal (or at least mortal) people.

So it doesn't fit that the world is excessively hostile and uncaring. I would enjoy the game a lot more if the world was primarily populated by civilians, minding their own business unless you interact with them. Peaceful interaction with NPCs / social engineering (convincing people to give you access, disguising yourself and playing a role, gathering information so you find the perfect moment to strike) would fit so much better with the story I have experienced so far. I would have liked to infiltrate Ashina Castle by disguising myself as a servant.

Sekiro himself would still be immortal and return to the last sculptor's idol upon death. But the world would react. You wouldn't be able to use the same disguise to fool the same person again if they recognized you in the past. If you kill Ashina soldiers, they stay dead, but the security around the castle gets tightened/the soldiers get more alert. Bosses have a routine and you can attack them in different locations (for that there should be day/night cycle). Bosses would need to be more forgiving, because getting to a boss would be a lot more difficult.

So yeah, a very different game, sort of a blend between SoulsBorne-formula and Hitman-formula.

(Alternatively, if the games lore and vibe was closer to Dark Souls that would also work. But as it is now there is, in fancy terms, ludonarrative dissonance.)

[damiel-of-real]

new hitman comic i just invented

[keirientez]

Pokemon trainer AU, Reborn is the champion meanwhile Tsuna is his apprentice. Tsuna’s design belongs to my friend @Cloud_Knee (Twt or X)

[sixxth]

😶

[pricelessreviews]

[mmothfia]

Sketching this out :p

Plus a doodle

[cosmic-espero]

Not to be Like That but I seriously don't like how P5 vanilla will try and tell me that Ryuji is bad and annoying for being a traumatized teenager wanting positive attention from the people around him and reacting negatively to bullying and then turn around and act like Akechi gets a pass for all the people he murdered because uhhh... reasons

[pan-fried-autism]

Hey chat im considering buying a game but dk what to get

[baska117]

Enjoy :)

[assassinbracket]

Best Assassin Tournament: Round 2

Round 2 is finally here! Get ready to vote for you favourite assassins, in only an hour.

[pixiishi]

love this guy and his unsettling smile

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[gaymer-hag-stan]

Of course Lara Croft is more iconic than Mario, Sonic, Link and the rest, you can cry about it all you want in the replies on Twitter but it's the truth.

She's the most successful woman to ever hit video games.

She jump-started the action adventure genre.

She revolutionised 3D gaming.

She inspired tons of imitations and her likeness (dual pistols, long braid, blue tank top + brown pants combo) continues to be applied to various degrees in female characters to this day.

She has stayed relevant across decades.

She was the very first and only video game character to become a pop culture icon and be treated as a celebrity in the 90s, appearing in magazine covers, advertisements for Séat, Lucozade, Visa etc., touring with U2 and having her own publicist.

She has won multiple Guinness awards.

She has been portrayed by two Oscar-winning actresses.

Her games have been extremely successful, both critically and commercially, and she has outlived her main and only competitor, Nathan Drake.

Lara Croft IS video games. It's just facts