Comments on: Blood Money And Sex

By: XChillaGorillaX

XChillaGorillaX — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:33:52 +0000

ok now I got two fave blogs. yours and 1Fo.. sorry I meant First Person Shouter :D
what a great gaming article. I really love Hitman but i didnt realise all those psychic tricks the developers use on us gamers.
but.. you wrote that there is no reward for accidents. at the one hand its true.. but at the other hand you just feel great and like a genius when you fake a death like this. There is also an archievment on the xbox 360 version for accidents. But well.. it gives you 5 Gamerscore which is like..almost.. nothing :D

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:06:59 +0000

I think the villain was fighting Wolverine and his plan was to not get shot and hopefully escape, but yeah. I should have said "exercise" caution. Jubilee's powers are fireworks, aren't they?! I think Wolverine pities her too much. Maybe it would be mercy. I remember she wrecks an arcade machine and the guys like "DO J00 NO HOW MUCH THAT COST!" and she says "A quarter?"

By: DoctorDisaster

DoctorDisaster — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:17:49 +0000

Wait, I thought we were talking about a villain.

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:22:26 +0000

Maybe the villain wanted to make Wolverine irritated enough to gut Jubilee like a fish.

By: DoctorDisaster

DoctorDisaster — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:33:47 +0000

Seriously? That was the villain's plan -- have Jubilee shoot the guy who heals gunshot wounds in like a second? That must have been an incredibly stupid villain.

I think the black box did attract attention to the possibility of impersonating you. (Why doesn't 'impostor' have a verb form?) It also made it possible to do it just as a way of messing around, without actually confusing people. You have removed the real-world consequences for fakery and now you are reaping the whirlwind, or something.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:16:44 +0000

I remember this X-Men cartoon where there are two wolverines and Jubilee has a gun and one says "Shoot us both! It's the only way to be sure!" and she shoots the other one - who turns out to be the real wolverine, who just says "Well, you live n learn, kid|bub".

1) Get a picture of Tom - one of those ones where he's thoughtfully looking at the top right corner.
2) Copy it and flip it, so there are two looking at the top centre.
3) Apply flexo beard.
4) Repeat for further subjects - apply caution with Rossignol.

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:09:36 +0000

If that really was Tom...
Or do all the impostor's points go to the real Tom?

By: Formerly Cpt.Muffin

Formerly Cpt.Muffin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:44:58 +0000

Tom gains a Futurama contextual reference point.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:59:24 +0000

Shoot Flexo!

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:49:19 +0000

So, should we just shoot you both?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:40:10 +0000

Touché, sir.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:37:42 +0000

Actually, I think I'll do that. From now on, all imposters have a black border to indicate their foolishness.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:21:43 +0000

I can't help noticing that since I made it difficult to imitate me, I've had a lot more people trying to imitate me. I could probably tweak it to replace 'Pentadact' with 'Imposter' when this happens.

By: HoW Monty

HoW Monty — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:26:05 +0000

Sorry bout that, was just testing to see if my comment would come up in black. Well programmed.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:23:30 +0000

Good article.

By: Cptn.Average

Cptn.Average — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:02:03 +0000

Not to be undermine the debate, but Iain I think you may be a little bit overcritical of the games themes considering its title is "Hitman: Blood Money". It's obviously a game that's been designed from the outset to portay a grim subject, and it seems to have at least done it in a stylish and dramatic way, which many games fail to achieve.

By: Chijts

Chijts — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:59:01 +0000

Fair enough, I didn't think of those issues. It must be pretty shit to spend that time on a game and know an idea you have would make it that much better, but no one agrees with you or it's too late etc.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:02:42 +0000

Because having good ideas, especially in retrospect, is much easier than getting 100-some people to follow them, which is in turn inexpressibly easier than implementing them. Assuming the dev team was competent and ambitious - the latter is a given - that notoriety system was probably on the table at some point, but they couldn't get it done inside the budget; axed. Tom's a game critic, and a good one, but only a critic. One of a critic's roles is to note ideas that work and/or suggest improvements to raise the odds that future games will improve on current ones, but at the expense of having no direct influence on any particular game. If you're in an actual dev team, you're working for three years on one thing and 99% of that time is not spent kicking back spinning cool ideas. Even during that one percent, most of the team has no voice. Everyone in video games is an idea man; if anything is ever to actually come out, the vast majority of them must be utterly submerged and they are.

By: Chijts

Chijts — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:49:47 +0000

Pentaduct why aren't you working for a games company? Whenever I read any of your ideal edits to a game practically all of them are screaming to be put into the game in question. Such as in this article here. I haven't played this game yet, but taking your slant on "notoreity" sounds like an extremely logical step to make the game that much more fun... by being fair I guess.

"..but I am getting sick of games where the only way in which you can interact with the game world is by killing things in it."

As for the violence in video games, it's been there since day one. Didn't the first game invented involve two spaceships, with the one objective of killing (I assume a spaceship would have a pilot) the other one first? There has been a vast amount of games since that their goal has been to shoot everything that moves.

There are also plenty of games recently that are much less focused on causing harm, infact the game I've been playing at the moment is Okami, where one of the main goals is to restore nature, which is a gratifying experience. Or even Tom's love - Braid, which at its heart is about puzzle solving using time and space.

The reason we play games is for being able to do things that you can't usually, perhaps even from the enviroment we live in rather then just skill alone. As for the Fifa thing, I can't play football to save my life, but I can atleast be competent at a computer version of it.

By: The_B

The_B — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:32:31 +0000

Oh, and Fifa Street was kind of about having a kick around with your mates, and that didn't do too badly. I'm throwing that in to be awkward.