theslitherydeee: I'm hoping someone makes a mod to allow you to play Hotline Miami 1 as the fans.
Hm, I just played a bit of Hotline Miami 2 and right off the bat I noticed several things I didn't like. First off, it auto-selects your language based on your OS, a pet peeve of mine, but okay, for many people it might be convenient, and it's acceptable for me, as long as I get a chance to change it. But the game starts right away before offering an options menu where I could do that. So I press Escape, quit the scene and go to the options menu to select English as language. Then I quit and restart the game to start from scratch in English. But the game just skips the intro/tutorial scene I was supposed to be playing when I quit to the menu. It seems there's no way to watch and play it now anymore, apart from reinstalling (which would probably erase my language settings again), since I guess it only shows up the first time you start the game.
Next thing is the off-screen shooting you mentioned. Yeah, it's annoying, until I find out there's a key for looking around (didn't know that because I couldn't play the intro/tutorial anymore). With that feature it's okay, but I want to reconfigure keys, only to find out the re-configure menu is apparantly quite restricted and really buggy; it doesn't let me choose RMB for looking, and when I choose F for picking up weapons instead of RMB, but then want to revert to RMB, it doesn't work either. I can't undo it. Though when I play now, I can still pick up things with RMB and suddeny I'm permanently in Look mode, when I just move the mouse around without pressing anything. Weird. The key menu still displays the wrong keys.
Anyway, the way it's set up now, with permanent Look mode on the mouse, seems to work ok for me now (even if I have no clue how I did it), so maybe I'll come to enjoy it regardless, but that was a bad start.