Forum Overview :: Hotline: Miami

I'm with Worm, it fucking sucks (spoilers) by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/16/2012, 8:21pm PST If you ever tell a person that is too stupid to have heard about Caltrops that Wikipedia sucks, they get defensive. It's OK, they are idiots. They don't know any better. *I* was that idiot, with Hotline Miami, till just now. I didn't listen to what Worm had to say, but he was correct. For the first five levels, Hotline Miami is a great game. Everything you want out of a new kind of beat 'em up. However, these two little shits had the audacity to make the last half of the game full of this nonsense: 1) Constant unseen death. There is a reason this is considered universally bad. 2) Lack of save-anywhere. 3) The hospital level is a "throw away all your guns" trope. This is shit! I don't care if it is 'subverted' by putting you in a hospital. 4) The "wobbly controls" thing. If you move too quickly in the hospital, ho ho ho, the camera spins. Sorry, this is SHIT. 5) These assholes actually put a second level of the hospital in. It was already completely unfun, and now there is a second level. And unlike the gun levels, if you are SEEN, the level is over. So there is absolutely no point in doing anything other than exploring and restarting until you get a mental map of the level. What the fuck? 6) An unreliable narrator. 7) I read the Wikipedia entry for this game. Apparently you could "collect" things in the early levels, though the game gives you absolutely no indication that you'd want to do this, or HOW to do it. Which button is the fucking "pick clues up" button? Dickheads, if you're going to pull this shit in an age without manuals, you can-- Never mind. Yes, it's absolutely worth $5, but I've never seen a great game come off the rails and enter shit territory like this. The designers are waaay too cocky. Make games for 20 years and then maybe I'll be interested in how you make the common failings of video games work. Till then, you're just proving why they suck in the first place. Hotline, you were giving me letter grades like B-, C+ and D. Well, I've got a letter for you: negative!!! ICJ

I'm with Worm, it fucking sucks (spoilers) by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/16/2012, 8:21pm PST     Ah, maybe I spoke too soon. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/17/2012, 12:56am PST