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I love Headhunter, despite everything. It's like playing a direct to DVD movie. The newscasts are legit great. Not good great but, y'know... ORGANS.
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Angela cooks only one thing in this update. 06.  Mix chemicals.
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Nov 30, 2016 17:30
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There was an impressive amount of detail in that control room to store two items.
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Dec 1, 2016 03:08
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I like how this game saves the state of your sunglasses but I am deeply disappointed that there aren't any sunglasses related effects/debuffs, like not being able to see anything at night while they're on.
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Dec 1, 2016 04:59
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Cathode Raymond posted:I like how this game saves the state of your sunglasses but I am deeply disappointed that there aren't any sunglasses related effects/debuffs, like not being able to see anything at night while they're on. Considering the genre we're working in ("Sarcastic hero" is its own genre in my head) wearing your sunglasses at night would make you see better.
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Dec 1, 2016 20:40
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Kibayasu posted:Considering the genre we're working in ("Sarcastic hero" is its own genre in my head) wearing your sunglasses at night would make you see better. Only if you're JC Denton. So I only played this game up for a bit of time (up to the first mission I think), but I keep seeing it everywhere, including, for some reason, a PAL Dreamcast copy in a used game store in Rochester NY. Watching this now I can see I didn't actually miss out on much. Considering when it came out and considering its topics (organ smuggling, private law enforcement) it feels like this came out of a Hideo Kojima fever dream but as translated through western developers that don't have the chops to make it work.
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Dec 1, 2016 20:53
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07.  Things I can't swallow.After the in-video discovery I checked another design. What were they trying to create?  Maybe decided to give their MP5 the front of the Pulse Rifle.
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Dec 7, 2016 18:38
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My first thought at seeing the helicopter was "That's Airwolf! What the hell?!". Then you confirmed it. The end-of-video sting was perfect.
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Dec 7, 2016 20:49
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The Headhunter theme is too good for Headhunter. It almost made that cutscene exciting. Copying aside I can't believe that wasn't a helicopter boss fight. Maybe they're saving that for later. Also so many things are causing me to twitch, even if I know the actual reason. Why didn't Angela just go with Jack to the evacuation ship? (Because they wanted a scene of "Quick, get in!" or they first planned out the scene of Angela needing time to find out who the Don was then changed it later for some reason) Why does the chief deliberately ask for a meet in a location that he knows Jack can't access, assuming this isn't a complete trap? (Because they couldn't think of/pay for anything between the ship and now) Why can't Ramirez shoot his minigun after the lights are shot out? (Because the fight would be impossible otherwise) The only question I can't think of the answer to is: why do I remember liking this game? Kibayasu fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Dec 7, 2016 22:46
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Thank you Headhunter for the twist everyone saw coming. No poo poo the weird creep who got your father's company and power is the bad guy.
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Dec 8, 2016 00:17
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The Airwolf theme song, huh? Sure has been a long time since I heard that one. Yep.
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Dec 8, 2016 00:38
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Kibayasu posted:The only question I can't think of the answer to is: why do I remember liking this game?
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Dec 8, 2016 06:43
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It's a pity that Ramirez died in that cut scene, because "rear end Hunter" actually sounds like a reality show that would get made in the wild and crazy Future 90s of Headhunter. And it would've starred Ramirez the Gay Mexican Cowboy. I need more sleep is probably my point.
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Dec 8, 2016 16:14
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SelenicMartian posted:It's all in the ending. I never got to the ending, which is probably why I remember the game so much. I liked it but couldn't beat it because 16 year old me couldn't figure out what the game wanted me to do in a very specific part. It was probably a ridiculously obvious thing that I just couldn't think of but I'm honestly looking forward to learning what the game wanted me to do there more than anything else.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:27
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Man, the music's amazing, way too good for most of this game (basically, anything but the newscasts).
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I feel like this game somehow predicted our present to a degree, or at least our incoming present...
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Jeez I think that was an Elian Gonzalez reference in that one news segment during the latter part of episode 3.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Jeez I think that was an Elian Gonzalez reference in that one news segment during the latter part of episode 3. As Carl Sagan wrote, "Time is a flushing toilet, spiralling inward to oblivion."
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Dec 12, 2016 18:01
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Esoteric Banana posted:Thank you Headhunter for the twist everyone saw coming. No poo poo the weird creep who got your father's company and power is the bad guy.
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Dec 13, 2016 00:29
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah that may have been the most predictable twist I've seen in a game. The moment you see the guy, it's super clear he's a creep and the bad guy.
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Dec 13, 2016 02:27
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Yes and this game is basically the plot of a bad 80s/90s action movie Jack keeps reminding me of Chuck Norris which is driving me nuts
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Dec 13, 2016 02:33
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Jack has more charisma and emotional range than Chuck Norris.
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Dec 13, 2016 05:21
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I'm up to my ears in work-related crap this week so the update is coming late. In the meantime... 
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Dec 15, 2016 20:05
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Dance, Jack, dance!
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08.  The headhunter way.
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Dec 18, 2016 05:26
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And here I thought this game couldn't get any shittier, but no, it just turned the climactic showdown between Wade and Hank Redwood into a loving QTE. Just marvelous.
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Dec 18, 2016 14:13
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The most annoying part about her not holding the gun with both hands is that her left hand isn't even helping her pose or look cool, it's just stiffly hanging here. 
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Dec 18, 2016 14:16
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So I think that was the first QTE I had ever encountered in my life and I could not pass it. I don't mean the entire sequence either, I mean the very first prompt. To this day I don't know exactly why I couldn't do it, maybe my controller was broken, maybe I kept on using the D-pad instead of the sticks (or vice versa, whatever actually works) but Hank is where my Headhunter experience ended. So bad game or not, I'm really looking forward to what happens next.
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Dec 18, 2016 22:37
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Croccers posted:The most annoying part about her not holding the gun with both hands is that her left hand isn't even helping her pose or look cool, it's just stiffly hanging here. I can explain that. You see, the sequel was heavily influenced by Jurassic Park: Trespasser. By which I mean they are nothing alike but are both terrible. Why are there tollgates in the motorcycle interludes? And why aren't you going to LP that terrible sequel? I want to see the generic boss with the big gun square off against our generic wobbly-armed heroine. Also, I laughed out loud when it turned out that you had to drive through a pointless motorcycle interlude to a VR simulation of a pointless motorcycle interlude.
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Dec 18, 2016 23:15
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Cathode Raymond posted:And why aren't you going to LP that terrible sequel?
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I can't believe a game that ruined the Robocop lovely world ascetic went further down the needlessly grimdark road with a sequel that doesn't even have comically stupid news people nor the same five adverts. Its just a perfect little bush era diamond turd of a shooter. Also I think I can envision the QA testing of the theoretical Redneck Rambo fight - we gave the player a lovely bazooka not five minutes ago. Either the bazooka sucks very much and it blows up on them or the level sucks and Hank could go down in five seconds as soon as you scroll over the right weapon. "Well its too much work to do anything different, just make it a goofy 4 button QTE!"
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Dec 21, 2016 11:58
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The RoboLP fits the game, in a way. 09.  The final solution.
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Obligatory X-Must is Since the game never explicitly explains it I'm going to assume that Sharpe died from the force of that pun. Clearly we've got one more fight again Adam, we've still got Chekov's Judgement Cannon to see. My only hope is that it is inexplicably Ramirez again and he says something like "I think it's time for my rear end to hunt you." (Because he's a naked 10 foot man, you see)
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After the end credits Headhunter shows you 4 (four) vital playthrough statistics. Make a guess which ones. Also, I'm confused whether the game is ripping off RE or MGS harder in its final breaths. 10.  Nanites.
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Dec 29, 2016 19:16
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"I miss Hellforces." Now that's a sentence I didn't think I'd hear. And oh my god that loving ending. That was actually really neat, what the hell?
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Dec 29, 2016 19:58
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They really liked their Stimulator pun, not that I blame them. It's pretty good. 2016 sucked but at least I finally know what happened at the end of Headhunter. So I wonder, is "Xterminate, Xtinguish, Xtinct" X-Must's regular slogan or did Zeiwberg change it to that just to have one last creepy German laugh.
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TheMcD posted:"I miss Hellforces." Same here; I had a giggling fit.
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It came to me in the shower, but I think I know what they ripped off for the ending: Halloween III: Season of the Witch. From using a TV ad as a trigger to a world-ending event, to the implication that just when the Good Guys Win, They Lose.
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Yep, Halloween 3. I thought the same thing. I think ADAM being the final boss may have been more effective if he'd been Fulci. Like, if the mad scientist had been helping him, trying to make him super human because in his egotistical pursuit of power he wanted to rule the ACN and the Syndicate forever mwa ha ha~, and then the doctor sabotages him and makes him a puppet. "You vanted to rule the world, but now I rule you, and soon the vorld will be destroyed!"
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