omg @hotlinemiami is $5 for the next [4 days] buy it you fools

LabouredSubterfuge said:
Honest question: why is it good?
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It's a top-down brawler that encourages mayhem and rewards tactics and creativity. Some videos mostly show you running from room to room causing destruction, but in reality you'll die quite a bit until you have a level down to a science. In my honest opinion, the soundtrack is among the best this year and it (along with it's visual aesthetic and simplistic yet gritty story) makes it one of the better games to tackle the seedy criminal life in the 80s.
 
LabouredSubterfuge said:
Honest question: why is it good?

Note: If your answer is pixel art/the graphics style or the soundtrack you need not reply to this post.
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It's good because it's an action puzzler with multiple solutions for each level. As violent and fast paced as it is, there is a level of analysis to be done on each level that is well beyond your normal brawler type beat em ups.
 
LabouredSubterfuge said:
Honest question: why is it good?

Note: If your answer is pixel art/the graphics style or the soundtrack you need not reply to this post.
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Sumptuous 80s feel; heavy surrealism in story and art; precise, frenetic, violent, and tactical combat with great visual and audio feedback

And yes, the soundtrack is awesome, especially once you get in the zone in some level and it's blasting.
 
The soundtrack is the selling point. The rest of the game is more okay than great once the novelty wears off.
 
Okay, after listening to a few tracks posted by Mr. Wario, I caved in and bought the game. Hope the gameplay itself doesn't dissapoint.
 
Bleh, the stupid changing colors makes me nauseous and music does get annoying after a while. I think I'll definitely pass since it makes me sick just watching the video.
 
But Mass Effect 2 is only $9. Wouldn't the thrilling, original, and thought-provoking world of Mass Effect be more worth my time and/or money? Strategy, action, romance, drama... can Hotline Miami really top Mass Effect in these areas?
 
SJRB said:
As you wish. Or you could watch GiantBomb's quicklook.
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Thanks for the video. I was in bed on my phone and couldn't really bring anything up so this is much appreciated.

Now I have a dumb question. I gifted this to myself because I thought I'd get a download code but instead I just got link... Is the code in the link my download code? I got this because I think my brother would like it and I want to put together a cute Christmas card with the code inside.
 
Tain said:
The soundtrack is the selling point. The rest of the game is more okay than great once the novelty wears off.
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Exactly how I felt about it, the novelty of the violence and surreal story can't carry the game. Luckily the actual puzzle solving/combat is satisfying enough to pull you through to the end.
 
Forkball said:
But Mass Effect 2 is only $9. Wouldn't the thrilling, original, and thought-provoking world of Mass Effect be more worth my time and/or money? Strategy, action, romance, drama... can Hotline Miami really top Mass Effect in these areas?
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Mass Effect 2 is a much better value and if you only get one of the two then get Mass Effect 2.
 
Ryuuga said:
Music tends to do that, but yeah maybe it is starting to have an effect on you.
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HEY FUCK YOU BUDDY. :P I meant to say the music gets annoying but ya, the biggest thing is it makes me nauseous. Gameplay seems like it would be fun but those swaying colors gives me that feeling like the motion sickness I get with some games, I barely made it through the 20 minute video the other guy posted.
 
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Was almost my GOTY until The Walking Dead curbstomped it, but Hotline Miami would have wanted it that way. $5 is a goddamn steal for the music alone, get it!
 
This is what I said in the thread for this game:
charsace said:
Finally got to play a few levels of this game. This is the most disturbing game I've ever played and I've played quiet a few games that have been billed as being disturbing. There are games out there with more detail in regards to the violence, but all elements in HM combine to form something very dreadful, dark, depressing and disturbing.

The intensity, music, sound effects, neon colors and game play combined creates a ball of negativity. The game requires split second decision making that gets your heart pumping, especially when you bum rush a room that has more than one guy in it. Having to manually aim is perfect for the game play. There were a few times in the slice that I played where I was scrambling like a little bitch after blowing a guy's brains out all over the wall to line up a second shot on another enemy that was in the room.

I think one of the key reasons this game causes people who play it to feel negative emotions is that the graphics are simple. It causes your imagination to run wild. When you get sucked in your imagination adds more detail to what you're actually seeing. When I was watching the vids I never got this feeling, but because I'm playing the game and being sucked in by the intensity of the game play it causes my brain to run wild. This is a discussion that's been had a thousand times on GAF alone. Its one of the reasons why things like the FF6 opera scene really stuck with people.

I don't know if I would let kids or unstable people play this. This is the rare game that can really fuck with a person's emotions. And rarer still in that it taps into mainly the negative ones because the only positive emotion I've felt was of achievement when I beat a level. Other than that its been mostly negative. I feel like I could trek a couple blocks to the nearest drug house and step on someone's neck until the stop moving. That's why I didn't play this game too long.
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People are calling this game a GOTY contender for a reason. This isn't a game that people will say something like, "most technically impressive game so far," so you know that when people call this a GOTY contender they are talking about it in game play terms. Because the game play in this is excellent.
 
Derrick01 said:
That sounds like a bad game to me.
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That's because he worded his post poorly. The game has very simple, solid, fast-paced, skill-based gameplay. It's just what shines is the atmosphere and soundtrack because of how ungodly amazing these are. I'm 100% sure you'll love it.
 
I got this game for 10$ a few weeks ago, worth every penny. This and Mark Of The Ninja are my games of the year so far. Get this shit fool!
 
charsace said:
This is what I said in the thread for this game:


People are calling this game a GOTY contender for a reason. This isn't a game that people will say something like, "most technically impressive game so far," so you know that when people call this a GOTY contender they are talking about it in game play terms. Because the game play in this is excellent.
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I feel like a lot of the GOTY talk is coming from the on the nose story and the style.
 
Why should I get it?
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It's a hugely exciting overhead shooter with addictive as fuck scoring that enourages fast risky gameplay and mechanics that are a blast to play around with (mowing down a load of dudes with an assault rifle only to run out of bullets as one more guy rushes round the corner, knocking him out cold by throwing the empty rifle at him, and in turn smoothly picking up his golf club from the floor to cave in the head of another dude emerging to see what is going on in one continous motion).

It's a little rough and buggy but it's practically being given away, has a superb soundtrack and interesting overall aesthetic, provides its own OMG deep critique of violence in videogames and a midly interesting Lynchian narrative to boot.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
HEY FUCK YOU BUDDY. :P I meant to say the music gets annoying but ya, the biggest thing is it makes me nauseous. Gameplay seems like it would be fun but those swaying colors gives me that feeling like the motion sickness I get with some games, I barely made it through the 20 minute video the other guy posted.
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Haha yeah I know this game is not for everyone. It treads a little too far into the ultra-violent realm, but the gameplay itself is quite solid where it counts.
 
Ciastek3214 said:
That's because he worded his post poorly. The game has very simple, solid, fast-paced, skill-based gameplay. It's just what shines is the atmosphere and soundtrack because of how ungodly amazing these are. I'm 100% sure you'll love it.
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No, I really did mean that the non-soundtrack elements of the game make up something decent but not great.

It's a cool idea marred by some seriously ugly visuals, a super-casual retry structure, and a lack of variety (enemy types and their behavior sets). I'd like to see this done by another developer.
 
Ryuuga said:
Haha yeah I know this game is not for everyone. It treads a little too far into the ultra-violent realm, but the gameplay itself is quite solid where it counts.
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Ya, if there was a way to get the colors not to change like it does I would buy it but I'll wait until it's cheaper probably since it does make me sick. :/
 
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