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Ledgy posted:Okay, The Abyss was creepy as gently caress I did the thing with the floppy disc, but then nothing happened, it just cut to the next soldier mission. What am I missing?
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Guess who got the game to run finally. Apparently starting in fullscreen is a bad idea. But yeah, only two levels in (Fans and Detective's firsts) and... well, something just feels off so far. Like, this feels more like "kill everyone to survive" instead of "do as the weird voice says and murder". But so far? It's okay. I actually took the levels slowly and planning instead of "path for optimal murder". So yeah. I'm willing to say this game's like coming off a memorable high. It wasn't great, but it felt good going through said high. And this game's taking you through the fallout of said high, what lives you changed et cetera. I mean, it'd explain some backlash. People got high on the first game, and the sequel's not giving up that high people want. In other news, kudos to Dennation/Devolver for the Content option.
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Ghost Head posted:I guess you died a lot recently and came to this thread to vent? I guess you got sick of the imp zone recently and came to this thread to shitpost?
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Mar 11, 2015 21:05
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Jehde posted:This thread has gotten good. be careful you might anger people TheJoker138 posted:I did the thing with the floppy disc, but then nothing happened, it just cut to the next soldier mission. What am I missing? Did you pick the tapes on Jake's body as the Reporter ? They're right next to him in the evidence room
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Mar 11, 2015 21:05
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I thought dying over and over was the point of the game? Certainly a game wouldn't be a game if there was no personal mastery going on, but taking the scores and 'difficulty' seriously in this game is totally missing the point of these mechanics.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:05
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Ledgy posted:I'm really sorry to say, but Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a game where, in order to win, you have to get good. It's funny to me that people over the age of seventeen are ignoring the "I beat the game" part of complaint posts so that they can shoehorn in boasts about how good they are at the cartoon video game. I beat the game. It wasn't hard. It was boring. I went back to the original and it wasn't boring. I hope these simple sentences make it clear.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:06
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I beat this game, eh it's alright but not as good as the first I MUST GET BETTER SO I CAN LIKE IT MORE
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widespread posted:Like, this feels more like "kill everyone to survive" instead of "do as the weird voice says and murder". But so far?
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Mar 11, 2015 21:10
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Holy poo poo, this loving thread. Half of the posts are "this is bullshit this game is terrible they ruined it gah it sucks so bad" and the other half is "lol scrub get good 360noscope420smokeweederrday." Meanwhile, I'm just over here, smoking my cigarette, drinking some Dr. Pepper, having beaten the game on Normal. Fantasizing about doing it on Hard, which hey maybe I can complete maybe I can't. The level editor will be pretty dope. This is one of the best games ever. I hope the level editor will have "Jacket" and "Biker" modes as well. Like you can't even ruin my mood right now with this game. And yet, I get where the haters are coming from. Holy poo poo it's really hard, really REALLY hard. But that's the point. Would you play this game if it were easy? Imagine how Hard mode is gonna be, but if you go all the way from Normal to the end and then play on Hard you'll be prepared to tackle the challenge, right? And for the people who are being dicks to the people who find the game tough, don't even. You know you had the same issues, everyone does playing for the first time. Calm down, you're getting all pissy over nothing, and anyone who knows me (eg 1/2 of this thread right now) knows I'm the king of getting pissy over nothing so when I tell you to calm your tits, you're probably waaaaaaay out of line. And you are, you're being dicks. Stop being dicks. Now everyone relax and listen to some M.O.O.N...
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Mar 11, 2015 21:10
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Did you hurt other people ? If yes, go hurt some more people. And then some more.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:12
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Mar 11, 2015 21:13
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Amorphous Blob posted:Do you like hurting people's feelings? The game does, for sure 
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Mar 11, 2015 21:15
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"Do you like blowing up other people's furniture?" is the real question you should be asking. Man, there is a lot of destructible poo poo in this game!
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Mar 11, 2015 21:16
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Ledgy posted:The game does, for sure It took me 5-6 hours to beat the whole thing but I spent over 40 minutes on at least a couple of stages.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:18
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Really interested in seeing the S rank videos that will pop up. How exactly people manage to get through some of the later levels in one fluid motion is beyond me, but then again I am an old grampa with mummy hands. The thing is I dislike the vast majority of the game. As I've said before I feel the maps are too large, not just open, I mean too big so when you die you lose a lot of progress. So the emphasis is now on gun usage instead of the scrappy "Whatever is at hand" feel of the first. Now the argument I've heard is, "Well it's a sequel, you wouldn't want it to be a simple rehash." And that's true, I like the new enemies, I like the new characters and story but the core gameplay element just feels so vastly different from the first. To sum it up I can accept you have to play this game differently to the first, but it's really not for me. Also can any tech whizzes out there compare the map sizes? Like, Assault to the first floor of the Son's final level?
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widespread posted:In other news, kudos to Dennation/Devolver for the Content option. Does it do anything other than strip out that moment in the intro?
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Mar 11, 2015 21:19
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Skunkrocker posted:Holy poo poo, this loving thread. Half of the posts are "this is bullshit this game is terrible they ruined it gah it sucks so bad" and the other half is "lol scrub get good 360noscope420smokeweederrday." I think there are also a lot of people that are just kinda let down
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Mar 11, 2015 21:22
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Lasher posted:To sum it up I can accept you have to play this game differently to the first, but it's really not for me. Not acceptable. You must either hate the game or hate the players.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:25
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Getting S-ranks is surprisingly easy on the fan levels if you just play as Alex/Ash and tear through everything, especially on the levels where you start off playing as other fans, just because they were designed for the fans you're forced to use the first time through.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:26
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So I'm up to Act 3 and the best part so far has definitely been the swans. I was barely getting combos started, then this level rolls around and I'm up to double digits.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:29
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Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I can't seem to get Alex/Ash to work. The chainsaw swinger moves around, but the gun wielder just stays outside. Glitch maybe? Tony is loving satisfying though, holy poo poo.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:30
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Dugong posted:So I'm up to Act 3 and the best part so far has definitely been the swans. I was barely getting combos started, then this level rolls around and I'm up to double digits. The swans are the best because it lets you lure guards to you so you can kill them with melee without actually having to put down your melee or stop rampaging, which makes them the only good fan.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:31
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Game owns. Everything I wanted in a sequel. I've died a ton of times but my KD ratio is probably 10000000:1 or something similar so that's cool.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:32
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Hakkesshu posted:I guess you got sick of the imp zone recently and came to this thread to shitpost? Stop acting like every person who shitposts is from Imp Zone. Game's difficult. That appeals to some, not to others. 
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Mar 11, 2015 21:32
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Capn Beeb posted:Tony is loving satisfying though, holy poo poo. Tony #1 fan NA
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Mar 11, 2015 21:33
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Capn Beeb posted:Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I can't seem to get Alex/Ash to work. The chainsaw swinger moves around, but the gun wielder just stays outside. Glitch maybe? You have to guide the Gun Swan through doors, the AI is pretty poo poo. Bait people with the gun and cut them with your chainsaw.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Stop acting like every person who shitposts is from Imp Zone. I love difficult games, and I'm still annoyed by the level design. It's just awkward at times, not really difficult.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:34
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I'm curious about hard mode changes- just not curious enough to play through this whole thing again. I think S ranks may actually be impossible on a couple of the normal mode levels- this may be why the achievement is only for A+. S is meant to signify, afaik, tripling the par score.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:35
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Discendo Vox posted:I'm curious about hard mode changes- just not curious enough to play through this whole thing again. It's more than possible, I've gotten 2 or 3 by accident when replaying earlier levels for achievements (and the Abyss by accident). Edit: Misread your post, disregard. It would be strange if they hadn't tuned this stuff, though.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:37
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Tested out the flamethrower and it's really fun, plus it makes the Hawaii levels a breeze.
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Lasher posted:Really interested in seeing the S rank videos that will pop up. How exactly people manage to get through some of the later levels in one fluid motion is beyond me, but then again I am an old grampa with mummy hands. It feels like the levels were created with an optimal path in mind for S Ranks. Like the map designers had a cool run in mind, designed it around that run, and were able to nail that every time without trying too many different things. You see it a lot in stuff like Doom modding, where every weapon and enemy is carefully placed to do the run-through the creator wanted. I'm guessing high ranks reward map memorization more than anything, as I got S Ranks in the first game on levels I'd never seen through improvisation. Overall, there's not as much satisfaction. There are so many times where I was just firing off-screen (even while zooming) at windows and waiting for the screen to flash, which removed me from the visceral, face-to-face "Rainbow Six for Crazy People" strategy of the first game. It's just more dull. Not bad, necessarily, just less fun. I liked it overall, but I'm a little more open for community map projects, now. Plan Z fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Mar 11, 2015 |
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Broken Cog posted:I love difficult games, and I'm still annoyed by the level design. It's just awkward at times, not really difficult.  In my experience it's less difficult and more annoying/frustrating. "Oh, you died because the shotgun enemy decided to walk in this direction instead of the other one, sorry." rather than challenging. In HLM1, the RNG was minimal, in comparison, and you rarely if ever had to really guess at things. It also feels less cohesive as a whole, with the disjointed storyline being confusing instead of intriguing.
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I can't wait to run through the recreated HLM1 levels* as Ash & Alex  *:The ones the community will make
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The writer is so loving cool. He's pretty much the god drat Batman. Thanks for the tips about the secret level. That one was a lot of fun. S-ranked it, too.
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Serperoth posted:
The level editor trailer showed that in the enemy placement setup, among the different options, one was "random". That option just plain shouldn't have been in the game- or at a minimum it should bind the enemy to wander in a particular area.
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Vlad the Retailer posted:Does it do anything other than strip out that moment in the intro? If the intro was more than just the guy saying "THIS PARTY SUCKS", yeah. Just got to the director guy's first stage in the police department, not sure if it also stripped out any moments with him and his TV show dream. Side note, holy gently caress is that guy deranged. Both the kid-killing and the "gonna answer the phone" bit.
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Mar 11, 2015 21:44
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Thanks for the Abyss info, got that achiev AND the Don't Let Anger Get The Best of You (with A+ on The Abyss) B)
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turboraton posted:Thanks for the Abyss info, got that achiev AND the Don't Let Anger Get The Best of You (with A+ on The Abyss) B) Ooooh ! That's why I couldn't unlock that drat achievment ! I thought it was bugged since you're forced to kill that one henchman in his first level, that makes sense now.
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Ledgy posted:Ooooh ! That's why I couldn't unlock that drat achievment ! I thought it was bugged since you're forced to kill that one henchman in his first level, that makes sense now. I glitched the poo poo out of that level in order to not kill the henchman. Managed to get one mobster outside and grabbed his pipe but still 
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widespread posted:Side note, holy gently caress is that guy deranged. Both the kid-killing and the "gonna answer the phone" bit. It's not real- it's part of the movie they're shooting.
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