Don’t bother with features contracts unless they have a challenge locked behind them and I finished all those years ago. Right now I’m just working on the last three challenges remaining for me in Freelancer.
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Currently in the “pause” section of my 3-4 months cycle with the game.
I was going through the last batch of FCs at the start of the month, when I stopped having fun midway, and so exited.
Currently playing the Ace Combat Holy Trinity on the week-end.
4-5 hours each, good immersion to take a full breather.
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I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 a lot lately, myself. I’ve finished it half a dozen times now and I’m just going through all of the origin characters and finishing each of their stories.
Once we get a new roadmap I’ll get back into Hitman but I honestly haven’t even started the game since whenever they re-released the Whittleton Creek elusive target (and did the Splitter at the same time) and I probably won’t play it again until the next roadmap comes out.
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Does anyone else almost always turn the music off in a video game?
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I always turn it to about half volume so I can hear the voices and sounds from the game, but I don’t turn it off.
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I do the same, lowering the volume to hear the voices. Hell if movies offered that option I would do that there as well. I sometimes think developers or movie makers assume people live in cinemas or something.
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Almost always. I like to listen to some records while playing. Sometimes I turn the music on but only for about 10 to 15 minutes and I get bored again.
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Depends on the game. Some music I like while other times I turn on my CD player.
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If I’m not turning it off completely, I’m taking down the volume so that it won’t overlap with my music
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I have this but in a different way: music from an action scene not ending when the action is over because of a bug, and still playing in the next cutscene. So you’ve got an emotional cinematic event between two characters discussing their feelings, but fast paced run-and-gun music blasting over them
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Depends on the game. If the music gives me anxiety, looking at you Destiny 2, while I’m playing it’s getting turned off with the quickness. Otherwise I just turn it way down.
It makes sense, yes. But that’s not why it’s mocked. From a character like Edwards, you would expect a more elegant way of getting that point across.
It just sounds goofy.
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My thoughts exactly, and after all of the Season 1 cutscenes had such perfectly crafted dialogue, hearing that line sounded sloppy. Almost all of his dialogue in Hitman 3 was super generic.
I also think they did him a disservice making his takeover of Providence “playing the hand I was dealt”. It would’ve been so much more crafty if he’d arranged for Grey to be on Cobbs’ security detail, knowing his proximity to the man would mean he’d figure out his connection to Providence and begin his crusade against them, forcing the Partners to change identities via Haven and allowing the Constant to oust them and have ICA tidy up the loose ends.
One part I did enjoy though was when Lucas Grey died and the Constant appeared to Diana, he knelt next to her and closed her laptop poignantly. In stature, he lowered himself beneath her; unlike so many egotistical villains that need to loom from above to feel powerful, he wielded enough of it that he didn’t need to project it.
Then his target bio hastily said “he was egotistical and his ego was bruised by Diana, k bye”
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I don’t think that’s totally the case. His bio says that he sees her as an intellectual equal, but that his ego dictates that he must outmaneuver her and convert her to his cause
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And yet previously he had no ego whatsoever, beyond being a bit smarmy (though I interpret that as more amusement at people’s naiveté).
Him being spellbound by Diana was sudden but kinda worked to progress the plot, but then to ask her to essentially be his right hand man - and have access to him - was just begging for her to turn on him. It was so obvious she was going to Trojan horse 47 again like in Blood Money, that I felt sure the Constant was simply testing her. But then he’s surprised to see 47 “guess I brought this on myself” o.O
I don’t get how the mastermind of Providence got played so easily, other than the fact that the game’s short and the plot needed to be compressed into it? Or maybe he’s just not that a great strategist 
he was after all, not a Partner
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It’s an awkwardly worded sentence meant to sound deep but just comes off like Edwards is less intelligent than we know he is.
@Gontranno47, Edwards was sure he had Diana in his corner when he showed her the truth about her parents. Knowing why Diana went down the path she did because of that event, to reveal that she had been working with her parents’ murderer the whole time would be the perfect thing to get her to turn against 47 and ICA, and to join him. Or at least, it would have been if Edwards had factored in the possibility that Diana understood 47 well enough to know that he killed her parents during a time in his life when he had no say over his own life, and was truly just a soulless killing machine, a gun firing a bullet where others aimed it, and that it was actually Providence who did the aiming. That’s why Diana was able to get over the shock and pretend Edwards had turned her. Aside from that detail, he had a pretty decent chance of success. Although, overlooking the fact that Diana knew Ort-Meyer and Blue Seed were both Providence and therefore his organization were the ones who sent 47 to do the deed was surprisingly shortsighted on his part, to the point of plain boneheadedness.
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Complete disagree. I think it is one of the best lines in the series. Edwards is arguably psychopathic. He does not care about people, relationships, or murders. He simply sees the pieces on the board as means to an end. These things are just things that get him to the thing. The words are deliberately chosen as vague catch-all terms to represent the cold, calculating nature of his puppet mastery.
He could have used something better though, less awkward sounding.
I suppose you’re right, that the Constant still viewed 47 as a mindless tool and didn’t factor in that he’d grown into his own person. Hence why when he told 47 he was making a mistake (in stabbing him with the amnesia juice), 47 said “It’s mine to make”. A lot of 47’s journey in Hitman 3 seemed to be him breaking from the mound of being a weapon, and making his own choices
However, the Constant himself pointed out the special bond between Diana and 47 on the train 
How abooooout
“I never cared about power.”
“Power is a tool, Miss Burnwood. Worthless in itself, but you can’t build an empire without it.”
Kinda unpolished but at the very least ‘thing that gets you to the thing’ could’ve been replaced with ‘stepping stone’
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I did enjoy
“The ball’s in your court, Miss Burnwood. I do have other candidates, y’know. Most of whom have never tied me to a chair”. Ignoring that in Hitman 3, Edwards now using more informal slang like y’know, I did like this bit of dry humor. It also made me go “Wait, most of them didn’t? Who else did?” 
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