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It's Full of Vice!

Hotline Miami, a brutal 2D top-down shooter set in the neon '80s, is available for pre-order with a 10% discount for the next two weeks.

***Warning: this game is for adults only***

Every shot is deadly. Keep your composure, be lightning fast. Kill without mercy. Crush their skulls, gut them, decapitate, blow up, cut them in half. You will find yourself pushed beyond the limits of humanity. Wear your mask. Don't forgive. They're scum--the worst kind you can find in 1989 Miami. Will the bloodshed ever end? You tell me.

Hotline Miami is a as-gory-as-pixels-can-be high-octane action game set in alternative 1989 Miami. The top-down stealth shooter mixes lead pipe or katana-driven close combat and intense semi-automatic or shotgun-pumped gunplay. The game is extremely brutal and unforgiving; both in terms of what the masked antagonist is doing on screen and difficulty level. Make one mistake and it's your brain on the wall. Make no mistake and the satisfaction from completing yet another level is huge. Rarely you find a game that packs so much heat and delivers so much joy.

Dozens of weapons, battles with Miami's underground bosses, animal masks, neon corridors, pumping soundtrack, and fantastic visual style--all that and more in Hotline Miami, available for pre-order for only $8.99 until October 23 at 9:59 AM GMT.
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Fifeldor: *snip*
Damn, now you've got me wondering what that game is, LOL. I can't even find video of it on youtube either.
low rated
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jamyskis: And people - all this whinging every time an indie release pops up that it isn't an old game is getting very boring, very old, and very tired.
Yeah, stupid customers should shut up and eat what gets served. Why would GOG want to know what we like?
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Fifeldor: *snip*
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haydenaurion: Damn, now you've got me wondering what that game is, LOL. I can't even find video of it on youtube either.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/preorder_hotline_miami/post58
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Fifeldor: *snip*
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haydenaurion: Damn, now you've got me wondering what that game is, LOL. I can't even find video of it on youtube either.
If you read the whole topic, you'll see that gameon remembered it. ;-)

Edit: Ninja'd.
Post edited October 09, 2012 by Fifeldor
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gameon: Net Yaroze game i think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3FlFU2Dws
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Fifeldor: Goddamn, thanks. It was Psychon, not Psycho.

Edit: The nostalgia, that PSX opening screen and music...
Shit, didn't see this post.
Nope, I don't think that was released in NA. It looks and sounds like an Amiga game, looks indie too.
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Fifeldor: *snip*
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haydenaurion: Damn, now you've got me wondering what that game is, LOL. I can't even find video of it on youtube either.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/preorder_hotline_miami/post87
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jamyskis: And people - all this whinging every time an indie release pops up that it isn't an old game is getting very boring, very old, and very tired.
So very very true. Have a +1.
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Fifeldor: Goddamn, thanks. It was Psychon, not Psycho.

Edit: The nostalgia, that PSX opening screen and music...
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haydenaurion: Shit, didn't see this post.
Nope, I don't think that was released in NA. It looks and sounds like an Amiga game, looks indie too.
Net Yaroze was a homebrew dev kit that was designed for PS1 back in the day. The games were put onto official playstation magazines.
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haydenaurion: Shit, didn't see this post.
Nope, I don't think that was released in NA. It looks and sounds like an Amiga game, looks indie too.
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gameon: Net Yaroze was a homebrew dev kit that was designed for PS1 back in the day. The games were put onto official playstation magazines.
Ah homebrew, now I see why i've never heard of that game. I know some pretty obscure games, but homebrew games are far out of my knowledge of gaming.
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SimonG: Yeah, stupid customers should shut up and eat what gets served. Why would GOG want to know what we like?
No, customers don't have to eat what gets served. They don't have to do anything. But for the most part, they've said their piece, and repeating it again and again doesn't change the reality of things. Common sense would dictate that the supply of old games is starting to run a little thin and GOG needed some other avenue of growth to complement its trade in old games. Apparently customers want DRM-free indie games, or they wouldn't keep releasing them here.

What would people prefer? That we go back to having one or two releases a week at most, or that the gaps be filled with indie games while GOG works behind the scenes to get more older games onto the scene? Because I can assure you, if indie games stopped being released here, it wouldn't speed up the pace of old game releases one iota. All it would do is ensure that we have less releases here, which given the accelerated pace of removals of late would be a very bad thing indeed.

Yes, I would like to see LucasArts and System Shock and XCOM and Blizzard here too, but there needs to be a reality check somewhere. And if indie games are helping GOG to fill the coffers a little while they try and secure the rights to these games, why not?
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lowyhong: +(3.14159265 / 0)
I tried to eat my pi but I ended up getting a divide by zero error. Any tips?
Post edited October 09, 2012 by jamyskis
Well, see you on Thursday, I guess.
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F1ach: Looks like shit, pass.
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xep624: I think that's the whole idea of the game - it is challenging and gore and bloody and difficult - it's not a "feel-good" game....
no, I meant it "looks" like shit graphically :)
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G-Doc: The GOG train will be arriving at the Retro City Rampage station in three hours from now. Sorry for the confusion.
You said there would be cake. Where is the cake, G-Doc?
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jamyskis: Because I can assure you, if indie games stopped being released here, it wouldn't speed up the pace of old game releases one iota. All it would do is ensure that we have less releases here, which given the accelerated pace of removals of late would be a very bad thing indeed.
Yes, because legal costs (licensing), testers (testing), writers (marketing) are free. You can just ad this on top. Obviously those indies are just flying onto the GOG servers with now deduction from the actual GOG workforce or budget.

People always give their minds about new games being released. But when somebody is complaining about Zork having no graphics, I don't see people huffing and puffing to "stop complaining".

And yes, I would like for GOG to stay small, because the growth they have shown in the recent year in personal must be matched with sales. And I don't see that happening with games like this. More companies have failed due to botched "growth strategies" then due to playing it safe.

CDP probably wants to milk the GOG brand as much as they can. Which will delude it greatly.

Btw, I haven't complained, as we had great releases recently. But I complain about the way the "GOG can't do wrong and every release is good" attitude.
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G-Doc: The GOG train will be arriving at the Retro City Rampage station in three hours from now. Sorry for the confusion.
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Adzeth: You said there would be cake. Where is the cake, G-Doc?
:p
Yes, I want some cake as well. Preferably the chocolate variety. Can I have some cake of the chocolate variety now GOG? I need this for cake.