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To clarify, I don't know if it's the second playthrough or the fact that I know how to use guns fast that's making me enjoy it more.

But, it's more likely the latter since it's been a couple years since i played this game.

>>13967484

Biker is the best mc. His ending is also canon.

>>13967668

>not Le Perv

global reported

>>13979406

>Not Run

Found the pleb

>>13967461

>I can't believe I'm enjoying this game after trashing it so much

It's a decent game on it's own, however when it came out everyone was expecting something better than the first one. When it didn't live up to the expectations everyone got pretty pissed about it, specially since they fucked up in stuff like game design and storytelling, both which the first game had done in an excellent way.

>>13979917

>game design

*level design

>>13979917

>>13979925

To say they fucked up the level design is an understatement. In 1, once you got the hang of things, you could blitz your way through the levels relying on sheer instinct. You get a glimpse of an area and you can instantly formulate and execute your plan of attack. In 2, the only way you're going to go fast in most levels is with foreknowledge of the layout and enemy placement. That shift from raw reaction speed to trial and error (or even worse, door baiting and slowly scanning off-screen) ruins the gameplay.

>>13979966

I bet you like roller mobster, faggot.

>>13967461

>I tried hard mode once and then upon realizing the only real change was inverted maps and weird enemies with body armor I switched back to normal.

You are either blind, retarded or both.

The difference is changed maps, halved ammo for a weapon that is dropped and faster enemy reaction

where do I paste workshop levels? I downloaded a bunch from here a while back.

Get over it, Hotline 2 was shit and killed the franchise.

>>13980011

i dont understand, someone mind explaining?

>>13999107

Can you really say it “killed the franchise” when the devs never had any intention for it to be one in the first place.

>try 1st one

>music sucks/doesnt appeal to me

>pixel art that you cant really focus on in the heat of running through levels

>gameplay is passable if a little cheap

I am now playing through 2 and while I try to like the games, it doesn't feel fun. It feels like I'm playing the games wrong. Cheesing levels is boring, running through levels rarely works because you get sniped the second you get in the view of a gunman and I play with shift constantly held down. My main qualms so far are how the camera "jumps" when you are facing one way and then turn around. The aiming reticle also feels a little useless since you can't see it anyway and fuck trying to use it for anything.

This is weird considering how I used to play the fuck out of a proto-HM multiplayer browser game, where you run around as a stickman killing other stickmen and picking up weapons. That had some good kinaesthetic feedback, HM just feels off every time I try it.

>>13999191

git gud

>>13979994

>To say they fucked up the level design is an understatement. In 1, once you got the hang of things, you could blitz your way through the levels relying on sheer instinct. You get a glimpse of an area and you can instantly formulate and execute your plan of attack. In 2, the only way you're going to go fast in most levels is with foreknowledge of the layout and enemy placement. That shift from raw reaction speed to trial and error (or even worse, door baiting and slowly scanning off-screen) ruins the gameplay.

This is true, the majority of people walked into Hotline Miami playing it like a top-down peak-a-boo-shooty from behind a corner. It's not till you get fed up and rush through a level and turn the place into a slurry of mobster do you really know how the game is meant to be played. You can see this in most jewtubers first playthroughs. Hell, the only exceptions are the hospital level, the russian mob boss, the fight against Biker and the hotel level. The hotel level even has Cactusquid snickering at the player for trying to play it like a stealth game and not gunning down those 2 mobsters at the end of the hall.

>>13999107

Nigger, it was meant to be the last one.