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Hotline Miami 2 Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:25:23 de5719 No.16579482

Anyone have any tips? I feel like I’m playing the game wrong. I usually just shoot, draw attention, then wait in a room as all the enemies in the level funnel in and I kill them one by one. Feels awful compared to the first game.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:26:44 8a8011 No.16579492

git gud

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:26:53 1c108b No.16579497

Its shit compared to the first

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:27:37 93bfe1 No.16579506

welcome to the reason HM2 fucking sucked compared to the first: garbage level design. that's basically the only way you can actually win the game is by door- and corner-baiting

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:28:41 d1c198 No.16579512

get a shit computer and run the game at lower speed

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:32:35 7761ed No.16579545

File: b56d57f82b896be⋯.png (500.96 KB, 564x417, 188:139, typical hlm2 level.png)

>>16579482

The first game was designed to give the player a decent shot at just tearing through the level in one go, organically adapting as you went along. For the second, they decided that they needed to bump up the difficulty so that it'd be challenging for veterans of the first, and unfortunately the way they chose to do that was with really punishing level design. Instead of asking the player to be quick on their toes, you either go full trial and error while you memorize the layout, or you tiptoe through the level and peekaboo bait everything.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 00:34:43 ebe36a No.16579559

>>16579506

That and the executions taking dramatically longer than the first game for some reason.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 03:18:44 dbd39f No.16581867

File: 556dd524665e9be⋯.png (210.97 KB, 550x749, 550:749, 123614126345345.png)

>>16579482

>Feels awful compared to the first game.

It really is. Unlike the first game which is forgiving in terms of each game level, the second one is just fucking shit.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 04:03:46 b923e5 No.16582088

File: 323a8672d7c48be⋯.jpg (292.75 KB, 2756x3016, 53:58, HM1 vs HM2.jpg)

The game is shit. I S ranked every level in HM1 and quit HM2 after clearing the power plant level with beard because of how tedious it all was. Yes I could have sloughed through to the end, but I could already tell a couple more hours of corner baiting wasn't going to be worth whatever happened next. Games are supposed to be fun, and HM2 simply wasn't. It was just hard for the sake of hard.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 04:46:41 c65295 No.16582170

It took me until Death Wish where I figured out exactly what was wrong with HM2. In order to FC Tony's part you have to lure 4-5 enemies in a row, some of which require you to dodge direct gunfire. In order to FC Zoey and Ash's parts you have to abuse the shitty luring mechanics and hope you don't kill the fat guy at the end using the chainsaw. Mark's part was piss easy and offered a very small glimpse of what this game could have been. If you really hate yourself try the DOOM map where you have to constantly snipe people using the revolver.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 05:10:42 3a3cc6 No.16582257

>>16579482

But that's the optimal strategy for HM2 because 90% of the time you'll get shot from offscreen through 7 layers of glass anytime you try to rush in.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 06:50:43 950694 No.16582544

File: 316cd60f66070b9⋯.png (4.8 KB, 490x550, 49:55, No_mask.png)

>tfw the most fun character to play as only gets two fucking levels

Jake's lethal throws could make even the trashiest levels in the game much more fun, and with the Dallas mask it feels like playing with a non-shit version of Tony without the retarded dog executions.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 07:02:55 cdde7a No.16582570

Protip: Skip the game, listen the OST instead.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 12:35:10 393808 No.16583432

The only good thing about it was the story.

I enjoyed looking at the legacy Jacket left behind, and the effect he had on the world as a whole. And a bit of his backstory explained (besides the tie-in comic book).

I beat it 3 times on S, and I don't really regret it.

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 12:58:05 aa88fb No.16583492

File: fc919e9174068a1⋯.mp4 (11.54 MB, 640x360, 16:9, Manhunt All Executions (HD….mp4)

>Anyone have any tips?

Yeah, go play manhunt instead. all the fun, without any of the glass taking up most areas of the game

Anonymous 06/11/19 (Tue) 13:54:56 aa80da No.16583651

I thing the only level in HL2 that's straight up bad is the sewer level, while the map is so fucking big that pressing shift to look ahead just doesn't help you notice shit.