Hotline Miami or I am in awe.

[Metro]

Who really paid attention to the story? I doubt they'd do a sequel 'for the fans' -- the game was 99% arcade action and 1% story. It sold well, seemed pretty easy to create so a sequel makes perfect sense.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

They have to go all Bioware and do homoerotica.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Just bought it for 8 potato. I made a great decision when I decided to not fund the western privilege by buying it earlier. The same with Gratuitous Space Battles and Spiderweb Games.

 

[Eyeball]

Who really paid attention to the story? I doubt they'd do a sequel 'for the fans' -- the game was 99% arcade action and 1% story. It sold well, seemed pretty easy to create so a sequel makes perfect sense.

Action was meh. What made the game memorable was really the fucked up aesthetics of the thing, blood, entrails, mindwarping music and swirling drug haze colouration.

 

[DefJam101]

Hotline is the best arcadey try-this-shit-a-thousand-times scorewhoring game since Super Meat Boy. If the action was meh everyone would rightfully call it a pretentious mess of a game with a good soundtrack.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

Is this game primarily made for mouse and keyboard? I was considering picking it up on the Vita, but was afraid it might control like shit with a gamepad.

 

[Markman]

When it was released on PC it had only mouse+kb support but I think they added x360 support too cause people are whiny bitches.
M+kb is the best way to play cause of the responsivness but maybe they slowed the game down a bit for consoletards.

 

[Haba]

I can't imagine playing it on a pad, it requires split second reactions with precise aiming sometimes. Consoles probably have auto-aim or some other crutch.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I wished Postal would have mechanics like these when playing them.

Anyway, it's fucking awesome. It's like that thing that Awor was talking about when talking about modern/futuristic setting cRPG mechanics.

 

[Roguey]

I recently bought and completed this thing and have a few things to say about it. The targeting is too finicky for my tastes and it could used more aiming assist imo. However, the levels themselves are fantastic, the kind of flexible puzzles I easily fall in love with, like the kind in Blood Money and World of Goo. It's not as nigh-perfect as those though, because of the aforementioned finicky aiming and also the bosses. Those bosses are god awful trial and error garbage; typical European obstinate ineptitude. I'd prefer the sequel do away with them altogether if they can't make them fun. It took me a while to understand how I was supposed to complete the stealth level, but I didn't find it so bad.

Killer soundtrack. I've been listening to it a lot. McinJosh is also right about one thing: killing people in this game is superfun. Not feeling any urges to do it in reality though.

 

[Multidirectional]

I can't imagine playing it on a pad, it requires split second reactions with precise aiming sometimes. Consoles probably have auto-aim or some other crutch.

You can lock on targets with kb/m too. Anyway, I tried it with gamepad for a bit and it didn't feel right at all. Might be doable if there's no other choice, but kb/m is clearly a superior way to play.

 

[SwiftCrack]

The bosses are pace-breakers, not a bad thing in itself.

The only one I really hated was the final boss because of the near pixel-perfect timing that is required.

 

[Roguey]

The bosses are pace-breakers, not a bad thing in itself.

The only one I really hated was the final boss because of the near pixel-perfect timing that is required.

The one with the molotovs, armorlords, and gun-guys is comparably bad, particularly because of the randomized weapon drops.

 

[Siveon]

I actually beat it on my Vita, the pads do a mediocre job at aiming, but the highlight (surprisingly) was the touchscreen. This made locking onto targets quite a bit easier and I had no real trouble controlling it.

 

[Great Deceiver]

This was probably my favourite game of 2012, and I would say a big reason is this:

 

[LarryTyphoid]

Can't believe all the graphics whoring that was going on back in 2012 on the Codex.

 

[Falksi]

I want the sequel - Thotline My Mammaries