66 - HITMAN feat. Alice Caldwell-Kelly
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Alice Caldwell-Kelly (Trashfuture/Kill James Bond!/Well There’s Your Problem) inducts the lads into the World of Assassination as they do a suit-only, silent assassin run through IO Interactive’s pinnacle of video game design: Hitman. Topics include the richness of the game’s environmental storytelling, the tardiness of chandelier repairmen, and that beautiful, bald backstabber of the bourgeoisie: Agent 47.
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Alice Caldwell-Kelly's podcasts:
- Trashfuture is a podcast about business success and making yourself smarter with the continued psychic trauma of capitalism.
- Kill James Bond! is a comedy film review/ pop culture commentary podcast about the eponymous English spy, James Bond. Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon watch a different Bond movie every fortnight in an attempt to give 007 the socialist, feminist comeuppance he so richly deserves. Free episodes are released every fortnight on all major podcast platforms and bonus episodes are released for supporters on Patreon on the interstitial weeks.
- Well There’s Your Problem is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Hitman: World of Assassination by IO Interactive. Available on Steam/PS5/PS4/XBOX
- “How the Simulation of a Hitman Level Works” by@NoclipDocs
- “Why Hitman is My Favorite Trans Game: A Comic” by Carta Monir, Polygon (November 16th, 2017)
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Featuring Eleanor Philips as Mortimer/Jacques/British Bobby/The Scotsman
It’s incredible how much a game level can create such a sense of place that you start describing the smell of it
Hearing November's takes on hitman are so relatable
One of my favourite silly details in the hitman trilogy is that when you use the scope of the Sieger 300 Advanced sniper rifle the game plays Ave Maria.
yay alice
Just looked up cancer on wikipedia and this explains so much! Wow, can't believe I didn't know about it before..
Also, Releasing games on a schedule like this isn't exactly new. Started with Telltale's "Sam & Max" series, then "Tales of Monkey Island" and "Back to the Future: The Game"
Literally 23 seconds in and I'm here for whatever the hell happens next LMAO. Alice, I started as a Roz fan, and then a Liam fan, and now I'll follow YOU anywhere. I'll go down any damn rabbit hole you tell me to.
_Hit Man: Rabbit Revenge_ is the next title on the release schedule
I started as a BtB fan, ended up into the rabbit hole by Lions Led by Donkeys -> WTYP -> November Kelly fan in all things
2:47 "The worst of all possible Alices" - the hosts had no idea how seriously November would take this...
I just loved this episode! I have been a PC gamer for a long time and completely missed Hitman. Alice is lovely, too!
Bought hitman because of this episode 👍🏻
I did feel that the third instalment fell off a bit. The Dartmoor and Berlin levels were great and the Winery one was OK, but here were only a tiny fraction of the 'mission stories' there were in the other two parts. Those were always my favourite bits as I enjoy all the quirky writing and puzzle-solving. Without so many stories, it had far less replayability. They seemed to have assumed that they'd make up for that by pushing user-generated content and the 'Escalations', but I found most of that completely tedious. 90% of them are based around being able to pull off obvious game mechanics with very good timing rather than really testing your lateral thinking or providing you with a satisfying payoff. I'm sure a lot of people enjoy them, but that was never what I liked about the Hitman games.