Quick Look: Hotline Miami

Well I guess when I get home I will be grabbing this ... been wondering about it for a bit now. Looks great

RADICAL.

Drive the game = A MUST BUY

Ok. It's not often I lose it watching a quick look but, damn it!

For anyone playing this like Patrick, remember this: You press the middle mouse button to lock onto guys! Makes it so much easier to clean out rooms or shoot guys with precision.

Also: never not be holding down shift.

FUCK THE GAME I WANT THAT NASTY SOUNDTRACK!

The release trailer looked like a wantonly grotesque, civilian-killing twin stick shooter.

That was a poorly illustrative trailer.

Totally thought "Drive: The Game" when I started watching the video. Looks awesome!

This game looks fucking awesome

I'm getting a Jeff-style reaction right now where everyone talking about Hotline Miami and how awesome it is is making me less interested in the game. It is completely irrational and really stupid, but the massive positive buzz this game has been getting over the last few days makes me want to play it less. This doesn't normally happen to me, I don't really know what the deal is.

I won't let it stop me giving it a try when it goes on sale at some point, though, and I'll definitely try to keep an open mind about it.

@GanbowKi said:

God damn the soundtrack is cool. Oh and the game looks cool to.

Totally! This soundtrack is fucking amazing. Found a bandcamp for it! I'm so happy!

The music in the level after the game crashed was soo damn good.

I wish retrocity looked like this

For those of you who bought the game, the soundtrack is in the install folder in .ogg format, if you want to listen to it.

I would love to see this game as a Jason Statham movie. With that music and him dying over and over again until he gets it right.

Patrick playing with a mouse and keyboard?!?!

@CuervoJoe: Is that Steam or GoG? Because that will make my decision to buy the game.

I don't care how buggy it is, I need this.

The best way to get high scores in this game is the SMB approach: know your level well, then blaze through it like the Juggernaut (barehanded).

Is that a DeLorean you're driving? Of course it's a DeLorean.

Looks fun, great music. Reminds me a ton of some freeware 2D Japanese game made by (I think) one guy. You could bust through walls with grenades, vault/shoot through windows and whatnot. Some missions involved you murdering everyone, some were about flipping switches or saving hostages. Can't recall the name, but I'd love to play that again if someone knows which game I'm talking about.

Holy crap, I never realized how fucking hard this game is. Looks fantastic but my patience isn't all that great with games like this.

@MediumDave: Probably on both. It's definitely the case with the GOG version.

This soundtrack is AWESOME. I'll have to get this game too.

@MediumDave: Steam, but I gotta imagine it'd be the same on GOG.

I love the last line that Ryan says! "Guys wanna get out of here? This place is kinda dead."

Groovy soundtrack. I almost wish Max Payne 3 would've had similiar music in all of it's levels, even if the game didn't take place during the 80's...but that cruiser level was just so goddamn amazing with it's music!

Game seems like a fun shooter as well!

I definitely got the Drive vibe, especially from the 3rd level. That musicccccccc

hell yes! was just thinking last night, hoping they did a quick look of this!

@JMatrix said:

Groovy soundtrack. I almost wish Max Payne 3 would've had similiar music in all of it's levels, even if the game didn't take place during the 80's...but that cruiser level was just so goddamn amazing with it's music!

Game seems like a fun shooter as well!

I thought Max Payne's soundtrack was absolutely fantastic in its own right. The airport shootout again shows no one knows how to use music quite like Rockstar. My favorite was also the start of the raid on the boat though if that's what you mean. Had a really eerie vibe.

@MEATBALL said:

I'm getting a Jeff-style reaction right now where everyone talking about Hotline Miami and how awesome it is is making me less interested in the game. It is completely irrational and really stupid, but the massive positive buzz this game has been getting over the last few days makes me want to play it less. This doesn't normally happen to me, I don't really know what the deal is.

I won't let it stop me giving it a try when it goes on sale at some point, though, and I'll definitely try to keep an open mind about it.

Your mindset seems completely backwards and very hipster-y. "Everyone's saying the game is awesome? Oh well I guess that means the game sucks"

@ArtisanBreads said:

@JMatrix said:

Groovy soundtrack. I almost wish Max Payne 3 would've had similiar music in all of it's levels, even if the game didn't take place during the 80's...but that cruiser level was just so goddamn amazing with it's music!

Game seems like a fun shooter as well!

I thought Max Payne's soundtrack was absolutely fantastic in its own right. The airport shootout again shows no one knows how to use music quite like Rockstar. My favorite was also the start of the raid on the boat though if that's what you mean. Had a really eerie vibe.

Oh yes, it was great overall, especially that airtport bit and the boat one. But this soundtrack...I'm not really even paying any attention to what's happening in the game, just listening to that music floooooow....

@JMatrix said:

@ArtisanBreads said:

@JMatrix said:

Groovy soundtrack. I almost wish Max Payne 3 would've had similiar music in all of it's levels, even if the game didn't take place during the 80's...but that cruiser level was just so goddamn amazing with it's music!

Game seems like a fun shooter as well!

I thought Max Payne's soundtrack was absolutely fantastic in its own right. The airport shootout again shows no one knows how to use music quite like Rockstar. My favorite was also the start of the raid on the boat though if that's what you mean. Had a really eerie vibe.

Oh yes, it was great overall, especially that airtport bit and the boat one. But this soundtrack...I'm not really even paying any attention to what's happening in the game, just listening to that music floooooow....

haha yeah I know what you mean. Definitely gives the game this strange drug fueled, fever dream vibe even more.

been waiting a while for this.

that song is amazing

this game is a certified banger

Killer soundtrack!

What a cool freaking game! Holy crap....

I had no interest in this at the beginning of this Quick Look, and was totally sold by the end. Seems super neat.

I need to remember this soundtrack in case I ever want to go on a masked, murderous killing-spree.

The game starts with the title screen in Russian. This is already great.

I can't get over how fast his Steam client is.

OMG that soundtrack.

This game is ridiculously intense. Love it but hate it at the same time. Like Super Meat Boy in that regard.

Played a bunch of this game last night. It's quite good.

God does Patrick fucking suck at video games

If this game doesn't win for soundtrack of the year, God is dead.

This is awesome. I think I'm gonna pick this up.

Why can't patrick figure out to pop a shot off in the hall to make them come through, then PUT EM THROUGH THE GRINDER

The gameplay trailer of this made it seem like a mindless dualstick shooter or something. It is far more than that and now I'm really interested.

i'm gonna buy the shit out of this when the christmas sale hits.

I need this in my life.