Hard difficulty is terrible, change my mind.

[Poor Yurik]

I've 100%'d Hotline Miami 1 and 2, gotten nearly every achievement in Surgeon Simulator, etc. so I have no problem grinding through difficult games.

With that said -- the Hard difficulty setting in this game makes absolutely no sense to me. I got to the fat zombie boss who spits rats and I had a grenade and full pistol ammo. I threw the grenade at him, emptied all of my pistol ammo into him (missing some shots due to rats getting in the way) and then emptied all of the pistol ammo on the desks into him. And he still didn't die. Melee is suicide against him due to his zero-cooldown AOE vomit attack.

I watched someone on YouTube beat him on a lower difficulty and it appeared to take 50% of the shots I landed on to kill him which seemed reasonable. I also watched the next boss fight with the human centipede thing and it's immediately obvious that fight will be even more absurd than the fat zombie.

Am I missing something?

[nalim_86]

It is possible to melee him if you use charged attack between his barf/vomit attacks and when he spawns rats. It is not a reliable way to deal with him, but you can manage to hit him twice in the beginning of the fight and that is all it takes - plus all the ammo you can find. I the end of the fight I was left with 1 ammo, I missed one shot and didn't use any grenades.
Centipede fight seemed easier because you have more options/weapons. I think the trick is in stunning them with shots so they stall and start to turn.
Second fight with the cook was so much easier with shotgun :)

P.S. I struggled with hotline miami 1/2, but still enjoyed them a lot. The above is my experience from my first playthrough, I havent' finished it yet. It's on youtube (though in Russian) too. The game is not well-balanced in hard, but it is still doable :)

[CitizenX3639]

The difficulty balance is horrid. I dumbed it down to easy and found it feels like hard mode if that is any help. AND i start and finish every game on hard. Fck them rats.

[Rasg0s]

Im about to refund this game cuz I find it annoying, as you said, I completed really hard games on the hardest difficulty and I enjoy doing so. But this game is just annoying. I mean atm im at the first tunnels with "disco vision" and I cant get past the 3 big rats, as soon as I break the wall the rat hit me with an insta-kill every time, and If I dodge that I cant hit them without getting hit instantaneously. Any tips or something?

[Poor Yurik]

I refunded the game shortly after my post above (almost a year ago).

[Rasg0s]

Originally posted by Poor Yurik:

I refunded the game shortly after my post above (almost a year ago).

I tought this game was new. Ok good enough, im going to refund it. cheers

[inovade]

yeah, i really want to know how are dev are actually finish the game on HARD themself.
sure they might ACE it, but not everyone could

[Rasg0s]

Originally posted by Inovade:

yeah, i really want to know how are dev are actually finish the game on HARD themself.
sure they might ACE it, but not everyone could

I mean, I could finish it If I commited to it. But It feels wrong and annoying, so I wont. Lacks good mechanics. I wanted to try the guns in the game, maybe the game gets better at that point, but I couldnt put myself trough the melee. A shame, I love hard game, isometric games, and gory games. But this one is just bad.

[gnoll]

Wow how are people so terrible at games these days? The rats in the tunnels? Simple kiting exercise. The big rat spawning guy and the centipede? Its called stop missing shots for a second you damn scrub and those fights become painfully easy on HARD.

[gnoll]

I'm sick of noobs existing in this world and causing devs to dumb down their games/ add difficulty sliders *glares at Pathologic 2*. Challenge adds meaningfulness and interesting layers to a game. Shut the ♥♥♥♥ up and put some thought and effort into the games you play and you will have a much more cathartic experience.

The truth is that HARD mode in GARAGE: Bad Trip is designed to require extensive planning and skill from the player in order to achieve a horror-style HOTLINE MIAMI feel wherein the player must perfectly execute a well-thought ballet of violence in under a few seconds. Its actually a masterfully implemented difficulty.

[Poor Yurik]

I said in the very first line of my post that I 100%'d both Hotline Miami 1 and 2, which invalidates your premise.

This game wasn't entertaining enough to me to warrant "extensive planning". If you want a game that is as good as the Hotline Miamis, I recommend Ruiner.

[Rasg0s]

Originally posted by Да пошёл ты:

Wow how are people so terrible at games these days? The rats in the tunnels? Simple kiting exercise. The big rat spawning guy and the centipede? Its called stop missing shots for a second you damn scrub and those fights become painfully easy on HARD.

game is garbage bro

[gnoll]

Originally posted by Rasg0s:

game is garbage bro

Actually, you're just garbage, and you shouldn't buy interesting, difficult games if you're just going to whine and moan about perceived "unfairness". HARD mode in Garage takes thought (which I guess you lack).

You probably think you're good at isometric games because you beat Hotline Miami or something, but that game is essentially a brain-dead rush fest (HM2 Hard mode was easy and thoughtless, except for the last part of the dockyard level with Manny Pardo, can you say RNGesus?).

[gnoll]

Originally posted by CitizenX3639:

The difficulty balance is horrid. I dumbed it down to easy and found it feels like hard mode if that is any help. AND i start and finish every game on hard. Fck them rats.

That's pathetic. Just start your kick animation as rats are approaching you to avoid damage. For the big rat fight just walk backwards, take out the little ones first, and then range poke the boss, ezpz fight.

Actually, if you're having trouble with that fight, don't even continue because the later chapters will chew you up and spit you out like the insignificant pleb you are.

[EnemyHostile]

^ This guy lol

[J-12]

This is indie game, what did you expect? They probably didn't playtested it all the way trough on hard.