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H1KE posted:Hotline seems to be a psychotic mashup of Take No Prisoners meets Vice City. This looks loving fantastic. Goddamn, I used to play the poo poo ouf the demo of TnP. I still remember it for being a strange mix of badass violence and extremely filthy and oppressive atmosphere and aesthetics reminiscent of Skynet.
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| # ? Aug 14, 2012 14:24 |
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A smug sociopath posted:Goddamn, I used to play the poo poo ouf the demo of TnP. I still remember it for being a strange mix of badass violence and extremely filthy and oppressive atmosphere and aesthetics reminiscent of Skynet. I recently fired up Dosbox determined to finish it. I remember getting stuck with no idea where to go next. I found myself in one of those 'Haha this is so primitive...what the gently caress it's midnight!' moments. It's a loving badass game once you get over the orientation and controls. Hotline will likely do the same thing to me.
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| # ? Aug 14, 2012 14:28 |
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22 minute preview with some youtube guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuRZIss4ajI
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 20:54 |
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For those reading the thread who wanted more music like the trailer, Cactus gives credit to the two artists who contributed to the official trailer. El Huervo is responsible for the slower, lounge-style music and Perturbator made the driving 80's as gently caress synth music. They're both fantastic musicians if you're looking for soundtrack-style ambient music, especially Perturbator, whose goal seems to be making music for awesome films that don't exist. Also you should check out Niklas Åkerblad's artwork, it's all crazy intricate neo-meso-american stuff. Frankosity fucked around with this message at Aug 20, 2012 around 22:33 |
| # ? Aug 20, 2012 22:31 |
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Reive posted:22 minute preview with some youtube guy: This looks like the most cathartic game ever. Their vague release date can't come soon enough.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 22:33 |
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The best descriptor I can come up with for this game is it looks like a gorier but hopefully less balls hard Mission Impossible for the NES. A fun game marred by the fact that it actively hated you and wanted you to die at every opportunity.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 23:07 |
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I dunno about that assessment, so far it looks like this game is doing its absolute best to kill the poo poo out of you constantly.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2012 23:25 |
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The game levels with you a bit, allowing you to pan your camera around the whole area so that you can see where the enemies are, what they're armed with, and their patrol routes if they have any. There aren't bullshit deaths in this game, nothing requiring you to die at least once in order to figure out how to get past that part. The only character in the game who gets to be the kind of psycho who pops out of a closet at just the right moment to immediately cut off someones head with an axe before they can react is the protagonist.  It's really encouraged to play like this as well!I wouldn't say that the game wants you to die, but rather that it wants you to have an idea as to how you're going to get through the area without giving your enemies the chance to fight back. It feels very very satisfying when a plan works out and the enemies don't have a clue what hit them.  But if you can't do that, then yeah you are going to be dying a lot.Worth noting that this is where melee weapons and the silenced pistol come into play. If you use a shotgun, smg, assault rifle, etc. then I hope your plan also includes how you expect to take out every enemy that gets alerted after you fire your first shot.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 02:16 |
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Reive posted:22 minute preview with some youtube guy: That guy managed to be simultaneously annoying and informative. This game looks amazing and cathartic, thank you.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 02:56 |
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Reive posted:22 minute preview with some youtube guy: This game looks awesome, but that commentator is literally the worst loving commentator I've ever heard.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 04:43 |
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Literal Nazi Furry posted:The game levels with you a bit, allowing you to pan your camera around the whole area so that you can see where the enemies are Whoa what? How do you do this? I've had a preview copy for a while now and never knew that you could do that  The game really is as fun as it looks though, for anybody wondering. It hits that sweet spot that very few games accomplish whereby if you die, you just hit restart without even thinking because it's that fun. All you care about is getting right back into the action and causing chaos once more. It's freakin' glorious, and I've no doubt that this will be Cactus' major breakthrough game that finally gets him the attention that he deserves.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 06:09 |
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MUFFlNS posted:Whoa what? How do you do this? I've had a preview copy for a while now and never knew that you could do that 
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 06:57 |
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Jukebox Hero posted:This game looks awesome, but that commentator is literally the worst loving commentator I've ever heard. You should consider yourself lucky, there are many worse commentators out there. This game looks great and the music in the trailers is awesome.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 09:13 |
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In the dystopian near future, the soundtrack of this game will be used to amp up our unmanned drone pilots to kill and it will be more effective than lovely energy drinks and custom-modded xbox controllers combined
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 09:19 |
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Frankosity posted:For those reading the thread who wanted more music like the trailer, Cactus gives credit to the two artists who contributed to the official trailer. El Huervo is responsible for the slower, lounge-style music and Perturbator made the driving 80's as gently caress synth music. Aw yeah, this is great. Does anyone know if any of their stuff gonna is be in the actual game, or was it just a trailer thing?
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| # ? Aug 21, 2012 21:08 |
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I was working ("working") taking photos at GamesCom all week and I went to the Hotline Miami stand every day, always too late except one day when I went at lunch and played the gently caress out of it. Dennis, the artist, was looking after the stand. I spent a good few hours talking to the guy over the week and he's an awesome dude. Oh and he swears he had never heard of Dreamweb until someone pointed it out, by the way. Anyway, I can't stress enough how good this game is. It's absolutely under my skin. My particular take on attempting to categorise it would be a hosed-in-the-head Alien Breed crossed with Hitman, where everything is a one hit kill. A typical scene will pan out like this: you use shift to scope out a bit more of the level, plan an attack route, wait for the right timing so everyone's in place, then you fly and you loving have the most intense 8 seconds you could imagine. Then you gently caress up because you flap and you jump out of your skin because some dude comes hurtling into the room you didn't account for and BLAM your loving head is halfway across the room. You hit r and immediately restart and have another go. Now you're hooked. Everything about it feels like an intense, ultra violent late 80's action film. It's got all the sweat, the neon colours, the heat, the tension, the gore. It's the moments where you've got your route planned, you think "ok...ok..here we go....any second now..." and that tension as you wait for the exact moment (and sometimes you end up hesitating for a while - always a sure fire way to die) and then you burst in, put the plan into motion and, if it comes off right, you feel like a loving badass and everyone is down in a few seconds. Except it's not that easy. This game is definitely hard, but immensely rewarding. When I had finished, my WASD hand was loving sore and cramped up because I hadn't moved it for the whole session. My throat was bone dry, my forehead covered in sweat and I had to apologise to Dennis for sweating all over his keybaord. It's like you've taken way too much coke and you're on edge to gently caress and you know that, in a second, you'll have to kick that door open as the guy goes past, throw your bat at the other guy before he fires, smash the first guy's head into the floor until it bleeds, run over and curb stomp the other one (using the wall, that is), then get his shotgun, shoot the guy who walks in shortly afterward and then loving get ready for madness as four guys come hurtling in the room that all need to be dispatched fast, clean, without missing, or you're dead meat. My throat is dry just talking about it. More specific details: Most of the characters in the game are Dennis' friends and contributors to the game. The bands that made the music are all hanging out in the bar. Dennis' mask is indeed the best. You can knock someone over using a swinging door. you can also shoot the door to swing it open and knock someone over. Punching someone or throwing a weapon at them (apart from knives and scissors and the like) knocks them down but doesn't kill them: you have to finish them off which takes a couple of seconds. Every gun, thrown sharp object and swung melee weapon is a one hit kill (both ways) and when you combine that with the speed of both you and the AI, it makes the combat intense as gently caress. This is a proper game, with emergent tactics and strategy - Dennis said I'd invented a new tactic he hadn't seen before (  ) which was to throw a melee weapon at a guy armed with a gun who is in a tough spot to approach without getting seen and shot. The guy gets up, picks up the melee weapon you threw at him and comes looking for you. Takes him out of his post and he doesn't have a gun anymore. It's fun as gently caress: it is genuinely one of the only things at GamesCom I enjoyed playing (Absolution was the other). Sorry about the sperging but it really is loving great. You owe it to yourself to play it. EDIT: and it absolutely must be played with headphones.
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| # ? Aug 22, 2012 21:03 |
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Since there are no huge news about the game but I'm stoked about it I'm just gonna leave here a couple of links: Twitter, they post the stuff people leave on their hotline and stuffies https://twitter.com/HotlineMiami They also posted a link to the awesome awesome song that from the trailer http://soundcloud.com/moon_music/hydrogen I wish they let us preorder for the prototype.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2012 17:48 |
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So i know that Perturbator did one of the trailer songs, but does anyone know specifically what track it was? I can't seem to recognize it on either of his albums.
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| # ? Aug 31, 2012 12:02 |
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I can't find it, either - it sounds the most like Payback Pursuit, so I was wondering whether it was a reprise of that, but I don't think it is. EDIT: Got it - it's a reprise of Night Driving Avenger - http://soundcloud.com/perturbator/p...engance-hotline Gazmachine fucked around with this message at Sep 1, 2012 around 11:15 |
| # ? Sep 1, 2012 10:55 |
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Gazmachine posted:I can't find it, either - it sounds the most like Payback Pursuit, so I was wondering whether it was a reprise of that, but I don't think it is. Yesssss. That is sick. I hope it ends up in the actual game, it would make for an insane level track.
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| # ? Sep 1, 2012 12:14 |
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I am so glad I randomly stumbled on this thread. This looks like a more violent version of Drive. I never thought I'd type that sentence. I also love the twitter page: " The Official Hotline Miami strategy guide is just a loaded handgun and a shot of adrenaline."
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| # ? Sep 1, 2012 13:09 |
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Made a thing;
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| # ? Sep 1, 2012 20:23 |
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Yeah well this needs to come the gently caress out right now. Seriously.
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| # ? Sep 1, 2012 22:06 |
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I am very disappointed with this thread. I shouldn't have to click on any links to figure out what the gently caress you're talking about. Someone else care to tell me what this is? The thread title makes it seem possibly alright.
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| # ? Sep 2, 2012 02:57 |
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It is an overhead shooter. You can see enemies even if they are out of your line of sight, but they can't do that and rely on hearing and line of sight. You are sent into buildings, consisting of floors, to kill everyone and occasionally retrieve something; you can kill anyone in one weapon attack or grapple, and they can do the same to you. If you die, you restart on the floor quickly. It is a mixture of stealth, killing, planning paths to killing, and killing. It takes place in Miami in the late 80s, you take jobs on your phone from people that might not be real, you can wear intelligent animals masks that might also be not real, and frankly everything in your jobs and outside of them seems a bit hazy. And neony, and synthy.
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| # ? Sep 2, 2012 04:23 |
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ZombieLenin posted:I am very disappointed with this thread. I shouldn't have to click on any links to figure out what the gently caress you're talking about. What are you, an infant?
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| # ? Sep 2, 2012 07:40 |
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ZombieLenin posted:I am very disappointed with this thread. I shouldn't have to click on any links to figure out what the gently caress you're talking about. That's because there's basically no way to decently sum this game up. Watch the trailer. e: Holy gently caress this song. 
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| # ? Sep 2, 2012 08:28 |
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ZombieLenin posted:I am very disappointed with this thread. I shouldn't have to click on any links to figure out what the gently caress you're talking about. Read Nova Police's post straight after this, then read my post about my impressions of playing it, then apologise to the thread.
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| # ? Sep 2, 2012 08:59 |
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Shoeicide posted:Made a thing; Just wanted to show some love for this, the only problem is that the bottom is a little hard to make out. Other than that it's brilliant.
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| # ? Sep 7, 2012 00:10 |
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Hotline Miami will be at the Eurogamer Expo in London. You should definitely go and try it out. I can't stress enough how so much of what makes this game good is the feel of playing it. For me, it turned from a curiosity I heard mentioned on Giant Bomb, to a "huh that look pretty cool" from the trailer to "I loving love this to death" after playing it.
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| # ? Sep 8, 2012 07:56 |
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I really hope that whoever is in charge of the Hotline Miami twitter feed and hotline phone number is not allowed anywhere near developing the game's story. One of the things that was good about the demo version of the game is the fact that it never spends time talking about or thinking about the actual act of violence. Even the phone calls that send you out on your missions leave out any murderous instructions and they tend to emphasize discreteness, something that the twitter feed seems to lack.
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| # ? Sep 8, 2012 19:48 |
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Shoeicide posted:Made a thing; This has been my desktop background since you posted it. Thanks, man! Does anyone know if this game has a ranking system after you complete a stage? I've been playing They Bleed Pixels to (somewhat) get in the right mindset for this, and I think it would be great.
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| # ? Sep 8, 2012 20:01 |
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slouch posted:I really hope that whoever is in charge of the Hotline Miami twitter feed and hotline phone number is not allowed anywhere near developing the game's story. One of the things that was good about the demo version of the game is the fact that it never spends time talking about or thinking about the actual act of violence. Even the phone calls that send you out on your missions leave out any murderous instructions and they tend to emphasize discreteness, something that the twitter feed seems to lack. Doubling up on this, someone that states their favorite color is stabbing probably shouldn't be around story boards or any kind of script creating material.
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| # ? Sep 8, 2012 20:23 |
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Bovineicide posted:This has been my desktop background since you posted it. Thanks, man! Yeah, it does. No names, just straight up A+ to something like D- grades. Score is based on loads of things, like variety, boldness and some other stuff I forget.
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| # ? Sep 8, 2012 22:37 |
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Gazmachine posted:Hotline Miami will be at the Eurogamer Expo in London. You should definitely go and try it out.
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| # ? Sep 8, 2012 23:14 |
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Yeah I would. If I'm not taking photos there then I'll probably just buy an afternoon ticket and go and play it (and have a peek around other bits and bobs)
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| # ? Sep 10, 2012 15:05 |
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Gazmachine posted:I can't stress enough how so much of what makes this game good is the feel of playing it. For me, it turned from a curiosity I heard mentioned on Giant Bomb, to a "huh that look pretty cool" from the trailer to "I loving love this to death" after playing it. Yeah, it looked pretty great when I first saw it, but I ended up just losing about four hours to the game immediately after receiving a preview build. It's great stuff.
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| # ? Sep 10, 2012 15:12 |
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Some things related to Miami and lost hitmen: One of the folk behind the game's music and general Cactus collaborator El Huervo made a nice poster/cover-art for the game, which can be seen on the game's facebook page. There was a preview on EDGE Online with a quote I liked and a brief spoiler at the end. The quote is “The main character uses the masks to disconnect himself from guilt,” says Wedin. “As we all know, animals can’t be held guilty for their own actions. Gameplay-wise, the masks will alter the player’s attributes to a certain extent, from smaller things like walking speed to the possibility of using a unique weapon.” The presumably minor spoiler is that one of the levels is composed of, or contains, a dreamy hospital escape sequence. Sweet dreams.
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| # ? Sep 20, 2012 05:37 |
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You can preorder this now - GetGamesGo's installer is wonky, though, so I'd recommend holding out for the Steam release.
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| # ? Sep 27, 2012 13:29 |
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Vlad the Retailer posted:You can preorder this now - GetGamesGo's installer is wonky, though, so I'd recommend holding out for the Steam release. What do you mean, "wonky?" Serious question, I've never used GetGamesGo before.
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