Hotline Miami -

[RetardBus]

Hotline Miami is a really fun top down action game where you play as a man known simply as "Jacket", who is receiving mysterious phone calls blackmailing him into slaughtering the Russian Mafia. Thought I'd make a thread for it because a little less than a month back we got gameplay footage of the upcoming sequel, which I'm really looking forward to.

Love the idea of multiple playable characters, all of which have different playstyles. Another thing I love about this series, like I do with just about any franchise that has it, is the lore. The game is intentionally very vague about most of the story and the characters. I don't have anything on my mind right now, but speculation and theories are another part of why this thread was made, so sperg away.

 

[Mauvman Shuffleboard]

It's been a while since I played Hotline Miami, but Payday 2's getting some Hotline Miami themed DLC at the end of the month which is pretty fucking sweet.

Spoiler: Large Image Wow!

I've got some dank ass coupons for either game if anyone wants them. 50% off for the next two weeks.

 

[Iä! Iä!]

So there are fellow heisters here? Neat!

edit: What I love the most about HM is the soundtrack. I honestly bought the game just for that, though the game itself didn't disappoint.

 

[c-no]

One thing to love about Hotline Miami is how aggressive the game wants you to be as you slaughter every mobster within the level whether it's with a bat or even a shotgun. It was also fun playing as Biker since you're going in pure melee with a cleaver and your only ranged weapon is just three throwing knives. Also, this rather good and catchy tune from the game:

One thing to say though, Jacket might not really be a victim of blackmail, not when you consider a certain item that is in his home before a certain level (Biker has one too when you play as him).

 

[Sigma]

Necroing this thread because some guy's making an unofficial Hotline Miami sequel called Midnight Animal. At least it was advertised as such. Today he updated it out of the blue and it looks like he transformed it into largely emo weebshit because his girlfriend broke up with him or something.

Original Greenlight link
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=635112545

New- Steampage version
http://store.steampowered.com/app/453800

Spoiler: Dev Rant

"Yes, Midnight Animal was for several months the only thing keeping me alive, the only bulwark against an ocean of overwhelming despair and mutilation....But it's also killing me"
"But no matter how hard I try now, I feel like it's not enough. There's this quote from GTA V which always stuck with me. "This guy Franklin's just saved his friend Michael from an abattoir after the latter's been captured by some criminal element from his past, and Franklin asks in anger why he took the choice to save himself at the cost of everyone around him." "To which Michael responds: 'It was that or die. Look I know it sounds cold I don't expect you to understand it, not yet but you will when you got ties of your own." "Look, you wake up one day and your legs, they just give... and you just can't run anymore."
"my girlfriend broke up with me." "Next week, exactly, we would've been together for a year." "Certainly, this is a subject more fit for a therapist than an audience of gamers, but anyone who's gone through the experience (which I imagine to be many of you) knows just how crushing it is." "For those who don't know, the first couple of times, you feel this pain distinctly and sharply, this unprecedented kind of agony which cuts deep and punctures straight through you." "But after that, you start getting used to it, and the pain dulls down, and you get used to it; you stop hurting so bad, and eventually, all that's left is just the interminable ache of nothing." "And that's where I am: no longer sensitive to the slings and arrows of bitter misfortune, but a straw man cored and left with nothing but the sensation of hollow emptiness inside my chest - no pain to validate the sudden subtraction of a former essential, yet still haunted by that terrible ache, the irreparable loss of holding someone dear."

 

[TiggerNits]

Anime continues to ruin everything

 

[SoberBlitz]

Damn, this was not what I was expecting. If you want to have some fun with this, there is some salt on the Hotline Miami subreddit (what doesn't reddit have a subreddit for?).

https://www.reddit.com/r/HotlineMia..._midnight_animal_store_page_has_been_updated/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HotlineMia..._midnight_animal_store_page_has_been_updated/
I'll quote one of my favorites:
"Anything related to hotline miami is gone, the only thing relatable is the top down gameplay and the combat mechanics.

He took out the masks and made up some BS about spirit animals. Added a weeb story with anime gutter. This fool kept us in the dark for like 4 months. Decided for the third time (maybe more) That the aesthetic was unappealing and then knocked off other games and used that. Hang on let me just "borrow" decompiled HLM code to make a completley different game, but then say it is a mod. This ain't no mod for hlm, and does not have any significance with hlm at all. It's weeaboo "visual novel" anime.

The only thing good I liked from all of this were the actual gameplay mechanics, purchasing weapons by obtaining money through contracts, and I also thought the mask design was alot better then HLM, but was scrapped. Why is it called Midnight animal then?

I'll play it when its released and give it a chance, but i am just as confused about how abruptly this went to shit."

 

[Overcast]

Damn, I was kinda interested in the idea of Midnight Animal. What a strange transition.

Anyway, I've enjoyed both games.

The first one was a very tight game with simple yet refined mechanics that make for a very fun and fast paced style of gameplay. And I really enjoyed the 80's style it has.

The second I feel is held back a bit due to larger and more open levels leading to getting blindsided far more often, the story, while interesting, I feel is a bit bloated in certain areas and went on a bit longer than I personally would have liked. The final level was pretty sweet though and was a nice way of tying things together.

Both are worth playing definitely. Although I'll probably go back to 1 a bit more often.

 

[WonkeyDong]

I played the demo for it, the gameplay of hotline miami is still there, which is good, its just like, persona hotline miami or some shit

 

[GS 281]

sounds like the plotline for nols life

 

[Moomin]

I've played both games, and I even have a Corey cosplay, big fan here.

That being said, what the fuck is up with the anime shit? One of the notable visual aspects of the game is having sort of ugly or odd looking faces for characters, and the anime style takes away that. Not to mention that the style of the anime stuff he wants to put in totally clashes with the heavy pixelized Hotline Miami style. I'm not one to normally bitch about graphics, but when aesthetic is a huge part of why the game is appealing to so many people, you really need to take that into consideration.

It's still a work in progress though, so if he can still pull off something that feels like Hotline Miami, it might be worth checking out when it's finished.