Hotline Miami: Sociopathy Visualized
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
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"It takes place in an alternate history America. A politically chaotic nation in a state of rapid decay"...wa...wait a minute...
that sounds awfully familiar
@@lordtoomas a...little...bit...like...
@@mrpassive976 1984 literally 1984 dudes!
Times were good in America for a long while.
You know what they say about good times...
@@dustinjones7458 it actually just nostalgia and all a lie
Ill go off on a bold take and say Hotline Miami downright spawned the resurgence of 80s in media. I legitimately dont remember other games/series that created such a butterfly effect in that aesthetic
I'd say you're right. Hotline was obviously influenced by Drive and it's 80's inspired soundtrack, but Hotline's popularity shot all these unknown synthwave artists into the public conscious and sparked a cultural movement.
@@thelastdinosaur4978 I think a lot of non-arthouse indie people know drive because of hm, otherwise it would be a pretty obscure film. With its very unique soundtrack, a lot of synthwave artists shot up in popularity
@@savage7882 Hotline Miami definitely contributed to Drive's popularity, but the film predates the game. The Devs acknowledge The Driver as the inspiration for Jacket - a stoic, silent blonde clad in his signature outerwear. You can even spot The Driver's iconic apparel on the floor on Jackets bathroom in one of the mission precludes.
@@thelastdinosaur4978 I know that, im just saying that as a film it is very niche, and a lot of people, myself included, would have no clue it existed if hotline miami didnt reference it
Honestly, from what I can remember I'd say you're right.
As a person with ASPD I can confirm that this is how my average day goes
Just for the record, I use the term "Synth Wave" and "Neon Synth" as sort of catch-all terms for the 80's nostalgia movement. I understand that that genre of aesthetic is fairly broad and can be divided up into dozens of sub-genres (Vaporwave, Outrun ect.), but for the sake of the video and convenience, I chose to look at the movement in broader terms.
This video underrated as hell, hotline Miami is that one game that sticks in your head for years after you play it.
Badass music. Badass storyline. Badass artwork. Badass level design.
The brutality of this game is easily the best part. When you master the game you just go on auto pilot then you look back at the room and it looks like a tiger make of razor blades on adrenaline came through.
"do you like hurting people?"
Yes
Great Video, one more time.
Hotline Miami is one of my favorite game, and I think you have point why I love it : Because of his duality. In one side, it's a intense and precice game, with no place for error and a real pleasure when you traverse a level without stopping, playing a partition with no error, it's the same feeling when you one-credit a manic shooter.
And then, everything stop. Just some noice, and you look at what you done, the vibrant red of the blood turning into a more dark, stainy red. It's the weird calm after the storm, almost cathartic in it's own way.
The universe of Hotline Miami is the setting behind the setting. Behind the dazzling Neon lied a ugly and filthy world, and it's what the game love to show, through his gameplay, his Artistic Direction and his story.
It's a duology of game that I replay a lot, and will still replay more with the time, because of his uniqueness (and it's really fun, let's be honest. It's actually do a good work as a way to let steam off, especially after one of the hardest chapter I read in Subahibi... or a bad day), and I recommand the two of them a lot.
Yeah, thanks again man. And you're totally right. It's really crazy how much emotional range it captures, and how it does so with so little effort. Like the side story with the girl Jacket rescues in the first game, it's such a short minor thing, but it's an extra level of detail to the level and story that goes such a long way. Same with the abrupt music cutoff at the end of stages.
Also, my friend, just a small tip, in English when we refer to games we don't use gender specific language. So if you're talking about Hotline Miami it would be "it's duality" instead of "his duality". But that's really the only thing that confused me about your comment. Out of curiosity, what language do you speak natively?
@@Ryan-Petre Another thing that wasn't mentionned but is really interesting his the fact that the vendor in the first game is always the same, and give you free stuff. It's not something you see at first, but when you notice it, it's the only thing you can see for the rest of the game.
And yeah, seeing the girl in Jacket appartement living her life (taking a bath, sleeping, etc etc) was a really good detail for the immersion.
Ah, yeah, I'm French, we don't have a non-gender/impersonnal personal pronoun, and I'm not use to write in english (translate it, sure, it's a bit of a side-job of mine... but writing is an different story)
Yeah dude, I love that element of the first game. I just didn't want to talk about it cuz it might get into spoiler territory haha.
Your writing in English is really good, man. Obviously there are grammatical errors, as I pointed out haha, but your writing style and the way you talk about things is very expressive and I always understand what you're trying to say. Guess I'm just saying that I appreciate your comments man 👍
Hearing roller mobster slowly kick in was nice.
wtf this is the content youtube is missing, keep up the good shi man
Thanks so much, dude, and don't worry I plan to.
If you keep making brilliant content like this you're going to blow up in no time, dude. Loved the vid, I look forward to bingeing your channel.
Thanks so much man, I hope you enjoy!
I like the storyline of this game too, the politics and intrigue that can be found in it. The Cold War had heated up again a good bit in the 1980s, so it’s no surprise a game with an 80s aesthetic would also incorporate the history and politics of the 1980s into it.
Violence just creates more violence which creates more violence
It hooked me in with the gameplay and music, but came out loving it due to it's story and message.
This is why i always play jacket with his mask sociopath deck mix of pistol and melee build with a bat and duel jackets piece in payday 2
I refuse to not play jacket nor go without using Mark/The Bear's full auto + dual MP5 loadout
Postal is interesting in the way that, while in the first game the distorted, garbled ambience and near complete lack of music, the disturbing imagery and the silence after you cleared a level make it painfully obvious that the Postal Dude's the bad guy here for killing everyone, Postal 2 makes the player the bad guy by making you *want* to kill half of Paradise, all mainly by making the characters unlikable, giving you a massive arsenal of options on how to ruin and/or end someone's life, making said arsenal actually fun to use, and most importantly, it's simply more exciting and therefore feels more rewarding.
Meanwhile Postal Brain Damaged is a really cool back and forth. There's nothing quite like having an absolute blast with how fun the fast-paced violence is, and then being thrown into the game's second cutscene and realizing that, oh shit, right, this actually has some serious elements that help analyze the Postal Dude's psyche. Then imagine having such a blast with the final boss and the ending, then going to check said final boss' Codex entry and realizing that, holy shit, there's actually so serious details here.
It's impressive how Postal 2 and Brain Damaged give you the kind of dopamine that makes you completely forget about most other things than killing, or the chores in 2. Hell, in Brain Damaged, I often even completely forgot what the goal actually was. If every second chapter level's loading screen wouldn'tve reminded me, I would've entirely forgotten.
postal is easily one of the best game franchises cause of this, 1/redux leaning HEAVILY into the insanity of going postal, postal 2 making you want to go postal, and brain damaged being in the damaged mind of somebody going postal
@@thecrimeskeleton4848 Couldn'tve put it better holy shit, thank you.
The Hotline Miami games are so good from the pure perspective of gameplay and challenge but the same for the Meta narrative and The 4th wall breaking moral questions it asks the player. Hotline Miami and Spec ops the line defied all Expectation and asked questions that are extremely interesting to ponder.
Played the game for the first time to kill in brutal inhuman ways, keep playing it to se what happens next.
"I don't think that's supposed to go there"
a little off topic but in the main menu of hotline miami 2 it depicts a nuke exploding, check the all the options in the menu
The rage of fucking up repeatly probably helps u not care about killing
I seriously couldnt have cared less about the killing to be honest. Maybe cause i played the 2nd game first (oops) but i didnt pay it any mind even then cause i just kept repeating the levels so much the rage buildup made me just wanna finish the level and nothing else. Especially when you play the game to let out your negative emotions lol
@@bababoey3916 about the same I ended up 100% both games the torture of playing dead ahead on hard was pain in the ass but after playing the games over and over u got good enough to where some of the harder missions became pretty easy getting big ass combos and what not I even managed to do Dead ahead in a single combo
@@xaviertyler2674 noiceee. Impressive to be honest. I like playing this game cause its just so good, cool and hyped. The only time i feel sumn negative playing it is either raging (lmao) or feeling bad for ending the level so fast. Its one of those games that you play very hyped, let go for a while but sometimes you find yourself enjoying it again either thru the story, levels, gameplay, characters or just the soundtrack. And its for a good reason, its one of those games that were made with passion and i love it
AMS: "when you finish the level and the music stops, the adrenaline rush stops and you see your actions for the horror that they are, invoking pity and sympathy within you"
99% of all players: "uuuuughhh... Now I gotta go all the way back to the car..."
Tbh yeah. I dont really think i looked back at the bodies in any serious manner. Once after ending a floor i saw a dude still crawling around so i just got in and 180 his neck. Not sure how it happened but i disnt really pay it any mind just being confused where i came from to end the level lmao
Great video. It’s not over dramatic or several hours long. You make your points with clarity and don’t over do it. Keep it up!
Not gonna watch this since I have yet to play Hotline Miami. But rest assured I’m going to come back to it
Did you come back?
I like the type of game that is a complete and utter mindfuck, like the entire postal franchise and hotline miami.
And the stanley parable most recently
Yeah, alot of this video gives me massive Postal vibes. I can recommend checking out Leadhead's video on Postal, it's basically like this video but instead of it being "Sociopathy Visualized", it's instead "Making the player the sociopath without them realizing it".
really interest visual content, thanks for putting this together
Thank you, my friend.
@@Ryan-Petre it's great to get some inspiration
@@THEMARTINDECKERSHOW True, are you working on something similar?
@@Ryan-Petre not so much a computer game, I'm inspired by that 80s feel with the synth and the images. I might some of the ideas for an episode in the future
@@THEMARTINDECKERSHOW Cool, well best of luck to you!
I love this video but I love the transition from deep cover to roller monster straight clean
Fantastically articulated!---Thank you
You have good videos dude don’t stop the grind
Great to be here before this channel explodes
Gonna view every video on your channel
you should have talked about how the music fits so well with the scenes it plays over
Great video, great quality!
Thanks my dude!
Love this series, I hope they take it to the 3D realm. It reminds me of how GTA got started.
I played this game throughout HS whenever I had free time. Sometimes I’d even blast the music through the classroom.
Another top notch vid ;)
Thanks honey boo!
You have a new subscriber :)
Awesome, thanks dude!
damn im late, good video
Thanks dude
such a good video, youre very underrated!
If you're following the story in the second game, nearly all the characters will start to feel like that one character in a story that everyone hates but refuses to die, and the things they do never have any positive effect on the world around them, ultimately making their actions seem pointless. It's a harsh contrast to the exhilarating and stylish gameplay designed to make you feel like a badass .
Woah this video is amazing!!!
Cool I sub
Thanks bro. Happy belated birthday btw
nice
What is the font at 0:01
"Justice Outline Semi Outline", or "justiceoutsemital".
www.dafont.com/justice.font
@@Ryan-Petre thanks!
What’s the music that starts at 0:54
Roller Mobster by Carpenter Brut
@@Ryan-Petre thank you so much. Awesome Video by the way
I’ll summarize this video for you guys: This game is so. Fucking. Good.
sorry to ask but how is beard a sociopath?
7:15 does anyone recall this game's name?
Contra 3
Second one?
Hotline Miami is one of the best games but it’s replay factor is kinda low because it becomes so easy. Since it is a puzzle game by the 3rd time you play it you know all the solutions by heart. Also it doesn’t have many levels. Hotline Miami 2 solves that problem flawlessly. More levels and a hard mode hell yeah what a fucking blessing that game was
Terrible gameplay. You scuffed the video
controls in this game are fucking ass