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Posted October 09, 2012
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.
Posted October 09, 2012
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gameon: That's not me criticising GOG, just stating that Hotline Miami fits in here.
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SLP2000: Yep, next to Postal.
Maybe.
GOG is nicely balanced. I am (really) waiting for more Humongous Games, since Moonbase Commander is available here!
Posted October 09, 2012
Sweet, was hoping to see this somewhere besides Steam. Insta-buy.

EDIT: Also, reading the butthurt comments about GOG's downfall from releasing such filth as this has been quite entertaining.
Post edited October 09, 2012 by EC-
Posted October 09, 2012
Eh, this game looks like utter crap. I'm not going to argue as to whether or not it belongs here (though I think it doesn't,) but you can bet I'm not going to give it a second glance.

GoG has better games to spend its time and effort on.
Post edited October 09, 2012 by mkell_226
Posted October 09, 2012
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BeorntheBear: After reading the description and watching the trailer for "Hotline Miami", I began to wonder why GOG decided this game was a good match for the spirit and ethos of the GOG. From everything I've seen and read on the web, it is nothing more than an ultra-violent slaughter-fest that glorifies (and rewards) unnecessary brutality. If it were a "Good Old Game" that had historical relevance to computer gaming, then I could understand its inclusion. But it's not.

Sure there are plenty of pixel games from the 80s and 90s that included intense graphic violence, but none of them rewarded players by mutilating bodies on the ground by blowing off their head, beating their brains out, slicing the jugular, etc. Violence (and sex) have their place in video games, but there is a line between extreme content and indulging in a fetish.

This is not a retro-style video game; it is 16 bit snuff-film. I hope GOG seriously reconsiders hosting this title and thinks more thoughtfully about how the video games it endorses impacts the mission/values of GOG and the culture of the GOG community.
They do have several other "outrageous" games, and in their defense they seem to space those kind of releases out. I wonder if the virtually back-to-back releases of Carmageddon, Retro City Rampage, and this game create such an extreme sense. Carmageddon is historical and fun, Postal 2 actually lets you avoid violence (and is historical and, admittedly, gory fun); this game may end up being meaningful in some way (although I doubt it).

Here's my personal problem with this: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/preorder_hotline_miami/post139

I'm also wondering if GOG would stop releasing meaningful adventure classics initially aimed at kids (I can understand avoiding educational games that don't necessarily stay up to educational standards, like Jumpstart, but I think Humongous is more "timeless" than those) because they don't want kids browsing here and finding the ultra-violent games mixed in with the other kinds. But maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. :P (And I do own Postal 2 on here...)

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SLP2000: Yep, next to Postal.
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vicklemos: Maybe.
GOG is nicely balanced. I am (really) waiting for more Humongous Games, since Moonbase Commander is available here!
YES! Thanks compadre (sp?)! :D I, Barry_Woodward, Roman5, and various others (I believe) are really looking forward to these releases. I just hope GOG will actually add these eventually. (I can respect not having them due to contract problems, running issues, etc., but not here because they're somewhat short, originally made for kids, etc.? It's hard for me to "calm down" over a rejection based on that, given the reasonable amount of popularity support for them, and how they aren't available elsewhere online.) Bring us the Pajama Sam, please.

By the way, if you have the original CDs, and are interested in some early Jeremy Soule for nostalgia, here: http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?s=2a75991b07284264d2414a1451bec27b&p=2787924&postcount=17
Post edited October 09, 2012 by tfishell
Posted October 09, 2012
Wow. A lot of knee-jerk reactions here. It's not a game I'm very interested in, but everyone that actually played it seems to say it's very good at what it tries to do (being a fast-paced action/stealth/try-until-you-don't-die game).
Posted October 09, 2012
Ahhh. I inhalate the weirdness
Posted October 09, 2012
So much hate about the game that hasn't even been released now and nobody heard before.

Yeah, I wonder why game pubs don't take gamers seriously.

And who the fuck is forcing you to buy it?
Post edited October 09, 2012 by keeveek
Posted October 09, 2012
Nice addition, I didn't want to buy it on steam. :o)
Posted October 09, 2012
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catpower1980: Nice addition, I didn't want to buy it on steam. :o)
Bought it! Thanks developers and GOG too!
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BeorntheBear: After reading the description and watching the trailer for "Hotline Miami", I began to wonder why GOG decided this game was a good match for the spirit and ethos of the GOG. From everything I've seen and read on the web, it is nothing more than an ultra-violent slaughter-fest that glorifies (and rewards) unnecessary brutality. If it were a "Good Old Game" that had historical relevance to computer gaming, then I could understand its inclusion. But it's not.

Sure there are plenty of pixel games from the 80s and 90s that included intense graphic violence, but none of them rewarded players by mutilating bodies on the ground by blowing off their head, beating their brains out, slicing the jugular, etc. Violence (and sex) have their place in video games, but there is a line between extreme content and indulging in a fetish.

This is not a retro-style video game; it is 16 bit snuff-film. I hope GOG seriously reconsiders hosting this title and thinks more thoughtfully about how the video games it endorses impacts the mission/values of GOG and the culture of the GOG community.
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tfishell: They do have several other "outrageous" games, and in their defense they seem to space those kind of releases out. I wonder if the virtually back-to-back releases of Carmageddon, Retro City Rampage, and this game create such an extreme sense. Carmageddon is historical and fun, Postal 2 actually lets you avoid violence (and is historical and, admittedly, gory fun); this game may end up being meaningful in some way (although I doubt it).

Here's my personal problem with this: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/preorder_hotline_miami/post139

I'm also wondering if GOG would stop releasing meaningful adventure classics initially aimed at kids (I can understand avoiding educational games that don't necessarily stay up to educational standards, like Jumpstart, but I think Humongous is more "timeless" than those) because they don't want kids browsing here and finding the ultra-violent games mixed in with the other kinds. But maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. :P (And I do own Postal 2 on here...)

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vicklemos: Maybe.
GOG is nicely balanced. I am (really) waiting for more Humongous Games, since Moonbase Commander is available here!
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tfishell: YES! Thanks compadre (sp?)! :D I, Barry_Woodward, Roman5, and various others (I believe) are really looking forward to these releases. I just hope GOG will actually add these eventually. (I can respect not having them due to contract problems, running issues, etc., but not here because they're somewhat short, originally made for kids, etc.? It's hard for me to "calm down" over a rejection based on that, given the reasonable amount of popularity support for them, and how they aren't available elsewhere online.) Bring us the Pajama Sam, please.

By the way, if you have the original CDs, and are interested in some early Jeremy Soule for nostalgia, here: http://www.lucasforums.com/showpost.php?s=2a75991b07284264d2414a1451bec27b&p=2787924&postcount=17
That's my boy. Nuff' said!
Post edited October 09, 2012 by vicklemos
Posted October 09, 2012
Getting Dreamweb vibes from this. Will buy.
And would also buy Dreamweb again if it landed here...
Post edited October 09, 2012 by Erich_Zann
Posted October 09, 2012
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BeorntheBear: After reading the description and watching the trailer for "Hotline Miami", I began to wonder why GOG decided this game was a good match for the spirit and ethos of the GOG. From everything I've seen and read on the web, it is nothing more than an ultra-violent slaughter-fest that glorifies (and rewards) unnecessary brutality. If it were a "Good Old Game" that had historical relevance to computer gaming, then I could understand its inclusion. But it's not.

Sure there are plenty of pixel games from the 80s and 90s that included intense graphic violence, but none of them rewarded players by mutilating bodies on the ground by blowing off their head, beating their brains out, slicing the jugular, etc. Violence (and sex) have their place in video games, but there is a line between extreme content and indulging in a fetish.

This is not a retro-style video game; it is 16 bit snuff-film. I hope GOG seriously reconsiders hosting this title and thinks more thoughtfully about how the video games it endorses impacts the mission/values of GOG and the culture of the GOG community.
This post offends me more than anything I've ever read on this forum.

If this is trolling, it's absolutely first class work. If it isn't, I'm just glad that more people don't think like you.
Posted October 09, 2012
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keeveek: So much hate about the game that hasn't even been released now and nobody heard before.

Yeah, I wonder why game pubs don't take gamers seriously.

And who the fuck is forcing you to buy it?
Keep in mind, that I never said the game itself was poorly designed or not "fun" to play. I only questioned the content and its place on GOG, which was originally founded as a game preserve for classic computer video games. There are many diversions and forms of entertainment people enjoy that I also think is questionable and inappropriate for certain businesses to distribute.

I also think all of us have a line we believe should not be crossed regardless of fact no one is forcing us to participate, purchase, or condone it.

By all means, feel free to critique the content of my post but at least focus on what I wrote, and not the vague feeling of what I wrote.
Posted October 09, 2012
It looks like I'm total weirdo here :D
Just watched that Dopefish preview for xx time, still can't stop laughing, he totally made my day! Can't wait for this game!

p.s. soundtrack is incredibly good - please GOG, please!!!! add this as bonus!!!!
Posted October 09, 2012
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cyboff: It looks like I'm total weirdo here :D
Just watched that Dopefish preview for xx time, still can't stop laughing, he totally made my day! Can't wait for this game!

p.s. soundtrack is incredibly good - please GOG, please!!!! add this as bonus!!!!
LMAO I just came to link this. I don't really watch this guy's other videos, but he's really the perfect person to be previewing a game like this.

Also, the music sounds excellent.
Post edited October 09, 2012 by EC-
Posted October 09, 2012
Wooow. Fuck the haters.

I was wondering if this game would come to GOG and I'm glad it did, if you don't like a bit of the ol ultraviolence then don't buy it, is it that hard?

And if you don't like indies we probably know already, from the 100000 other times you've said it.

/annoyed
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