Yup, that's me.
I've started using lock-on aiming more as I've progressed through the game.
Just cleared Chp. 10 and still really enjoying the game.
I'm not talking about the lock-on.
omg @hotlinemiami is $5 for the next [4 days] buy it you fools
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I'm not talking about the lock-on.
NekoToshiro
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Aw I missed this but I did get Zeno Clash.
I was wondering about that...
My bad.
I haven't discoverd how to use lock-view forward yet. (playing with a 360 controller)
Just cleared Chapter 11.
I'm having a hard time taking hostages consistently.
Almost seems random...
sffsa
First to quote gets steam key for this game!
Hi.
EscapingJail
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beanman25
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PM'd ya!
The dev said on twitter that if you buy the Steam version now you'll automatically be able to download the mac release which should be any day now
The wait hurts so bad
that's awesome news! I'm so late returning to this thread I think I missed the sale price though.
I cannot imagine this game working that well with any portable or console control setup. It's pretty much made for mouse and keyboard. So many things require the precision of a move-driven cursor
Blood Diamonds
Banned
Just got the game and it actually runs on my PC yeahhhhhh!
Can't wait to dive into it.
Can't wait to dive into it.
Wrong! Movement would be much better. Aiming would be fine as would melee.
Great game so glad I got it! Everyone must buy this!
I beat the whole thing on a 360 pad. Tried to switch to mouse and keyboard and just couldn't do it.
Ok, played a couple of levels (just finished "Decadence").
Goddamn good game this is, it just feels amazing to handle, and the "dazed and confused" mood is perfectly rendered.
Also playing with a 360 controller, not bad at all, although sometimes i feel a mouse would be better with firearms; i'm using melee most of the times anyway.
Goddamn good game this is, it just feels amazing to handle, and the "dazed and confused" mood is perfectly rendered.
Also playing with a 360 controller, not bad at all, although sometimes i feel a mouse would be better with firearms; i'm using melee most of the times anyway.
revolverjgw
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I love everything about this game except the bosses. Gee golly they suck.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Had some spare dollars in Amazon through gift cards and I got this. I hope is good.
Did you just play it like a twin-stick shooter? Or were you able to frequently use the lock-on feature?
I can't imagine lock-on being that good or useful without a mouse.
I'm glad you liked it that much, but random crashes would have completely destroyed the game for me. I could understand a complex 3D game like Dishonored crashing, but there's really no excuse for a pixel-driven game to have technical problems.
Meatvillain
Banned
It's really hard not to just keep playing when you roll up on the next mission between how much fun it is and the incredible soundtrack.
Beat it in one decent sitting yesterday and for no reason tried using a controller. I greatly prefer using the controller. Just mowing down entire levels with the samurai sword now. Using RB to look ahead is sorta bizarre but I'm having no problems through 10 chapters and haven't had any technical difficulties.
Inskipp
Member
Has anyone managed to get an A+ in chapter 8? I've been trying to get it for a while now with different masks, and the purple cougar- mask seems to work the best, clocking at 69k. But it only grants me a regular A with that score.
Haven't unlocked all the masks yet though, so it could be that I haven't unlocked the proper mask yet.
Haven't unlocked all the masks yet though, so it could be that I haven't unlocked the proper mask yet.
Christmas sales are around the corner anyway.
Complete bullshit from my experience. Melee works a helluva lot better.
I'm playing with a controller and use lock-on frequently.
I open encounters with it and than fall back to free-aim.
Just figured it out.
(left bumper on 360 controller)
TYVM
Used it for "scouting" during last chapter.
http://www.twitch.tv/the_real_safe_bet/b/343148933
Seemed to help a bit.
fluffydelusions
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Hope it goes back on sale today. If not winter sale it is I suppose.
If you're fast enough with it the lock-on works very well in certain situations. You just have to use it well in combination with the manual long-range aiming and manipulate how enemies come at you. You really can't play it like a twin-stick shooter with a 360 pad. My most common strategy was just stacking at doors or choke points and attracting waves of enemies to get slaughtered one-by-one.
Also, I personally never had the game itself crash on me, but I did have Steam itself crash while playing the game, which oddly didn't affect the game at all.
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Deleted member 102362
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Don Juan is the only mask I found myself using. The door slam kill feature was just too useful (and entertaining) to not use.
Ditto.
Though i just found the Unicorn (forgot the name) that gives you
silent gunshots
Game suffers from poor hit detection (especially when guns are involved) and tons of bugs/glitches, but it's strangely compelling and unique as far as top-down brawlers go. I usually find a lot of western games are extremely trial-and-error and you have to sometimes be in the developers' heads to get past certain locales but this game is a lot more freeform and you have a ton of options available to you. That is really the only link I can find with retro 8/16 bit games (which are still on the whole much better than this).
Hate the graphics, they are sloppy, garish, and very hard to read. But I absolutely LOVE the soundtrack even the rather anachronistic mnml tracks on it (minimal techno wasn't popular till 2005, not 1989
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Hate the graphics, they are sloppy, garish, and very hard to read. But I absolutely LOVE the soundtrack even the rather anachronistic mnml tracks on it (minimal techno wasn't popular till 2005, not 1989
)!whatevermort
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Any word yet about the Mac port?
I don't even get the huge comparison to Drive besides the violence (Drive isn't even remotely close to the amount of violence or crazy strange storyline here). The music doesn't sound remotely close to the throwback 70's and 80's styles that Italians Do it Better draw on. It's like people have never heard electronic music before. I think it's possible that the makers watched Drive but it's possible that they've watched and are fans of many directors like David Lynch, Tarantino, etc.
Well, I don't have huge experience with western games but many of the ones I've played give you more options but less -correct- options than Japanese games, while Japanese games are a bit more freeform (especially those of arcade-derived genres) with how you solve things (even if the amount of options seem less). Hell I can recall a few western RPGs that people were complaining about because their character build made it nearly impossible to win the game. Even in a game like GTA that prizes itself on its open-endedness, there are missions that are very rigid where you are forced to get into a specific car at a certain point, pick up a specific gun at a certain point, etc. and follow step-by-step with what you want to do.
I typically see more trial and error type design in Japanese games, but I don't think Hotline Miami falls into a single category. It has the random elements of Binding of Issac, with the speed of gameplay and deaths (and the subsequent feelings of trial and error) of something like Super Meat Boy. At the same time you can get through most levels in enough ways that it can feel like a sandbox. It's not any one thing, which is why I think I like the game.
You can play it in markedly different ways. You can basically take your time and methodically clear out each rooms. Or you can do what I like to do which is speed around the entire floor as fast as possible killing everything, without even stopping. That feels more "right" to me, and it's quite the rush.