r/HelloNeighborGame • u/Someday_itwillbegood • 1d ago
Artwork virgin release game vs chad pre-alpha alpha 1 version of hello neighbor
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u/ScaryBr0 1d ago
Hn1 was never meant for children :3, nikita confirmed it was meant for teens and up
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u/KubaGamer535YT 1d ago
And teens apparently aren't children?
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u/ScaryBr0 1d ago
5 vs 15 real old qhos more responsible
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u/KubaGamer535YT 18h ago
both can do stupid shit, thats one thing, second thing i think nikita said it would be more for adults rather than minors at all, but it wouldn't change shit because horror was very popular back then and every age group would enjoy it. No matter how gory and scary it'd be.
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u/nuggit_life2000 18h ago
Teens are still minors but don’t fall into the same category as children… it’s why teens are called teens and not children
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u/_Murd3r_ 1d ago
HN1 wasn't meant for children cause no child could beat it without lots of help.
Honestly, even 'teens and up' can't beat it without a guide, so..
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u/ScaryBr0 1d ago
Thats kinda because of how the game was structured as told by nikita; where basically it was meant to be something akin to ready player 1 where a huge group of players attempt solving this mystery neighbor game, which this falls apart almost immedietly because either some smart aleck solves everything and people piggyback off them or you lack all that outsider knowledge and get stuck
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u/Sammy_Ferr 1d ago
Actually he compared it to P. T. Silent Hills, many things in the demo were discovered through community help
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u/ScaryBr0 1d ago
Yea I misrembered there my bad, but the point still stands that such progression just sucks for the long term longevity of the game
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u/Sammy_Ferr 1d ago
I honestly think a lot of puzzles in final game are overhated, most of them were very clear to me like the globe, the no guns allowed room etc. Only puzzle i genuinely found poorly designed was the part using the toy rifle to obtain the red key, it should've been actual targets rather than random objects
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u/ScaryBr0 1d ago
The toy rifle red key puzzle is fucking insane, the only way to properly do it is to hit the last target then run into the basketball room so you can superthrow the basketballs and hit the lever to get the red key. That one doesn’t get a pass lmao
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u/Sammy_Ferr 1d ago
Now THAT was cryptic and hard for the sake being, to me everything else was crystal clear at least
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u/Mrgrinn96 1d ago
Not true, in his interview with MegaM he says that he didn't give it much thought aside from expecting people around his age to play and was surprised with the child audience the game had gotten.
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u/Ruraliser 1d ago
That's a nice opinion, did a Youtuber give it to you?
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u/KubaGamer535YT 1d ago
Real. I have fucking enough of these "boo full game!!!! yes only the early alphas that last less than 5 minutes in gameplay!!!!!!!!!"
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u/just_satori 1d ago
Hello Neighbour Prototype graphics and style+ Hello Neighbour Alpha 1 house+ Alpha 2 cutscenes and basement+Hello Neighbour Alpha 3 story
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u/Weird_jokeyfella20 1d ago
So, just average Hello Neighbor fangame?
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u/crazycabbie1999 22h ago
no because everyone wants the "sPoOkY nEiGhBoR iS dEvIl!!!1!!!111!1" story from alpha 1 and not the actually good alpha 2-beta 3 story
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u/SkylerFloofi 8h ago
Alpha 1 and Pre Alpha neighbor have shitty ai, plus the pre alpha visuals SUCK 😭
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u/SylveonGamingreddit 3h ago
firstly, the AI in Pre-Alpha and Alpha 1 are really bad
with the Pre-Alpha, it's because all the code was dogshit... and with Alpha 1 they restarted the project so it was extremely barebones (btw in Alpha 1 they literally somehow broke his normal state, he never goes back into his normal casual state once he goes into hunt or attack mode... also for some reason he cannot see through windows, I do not understand why)
secondly, while I like the old artstyle it is objectively unfinished, and it looks really bad at times as the quality was super inconsistent from artist to artist (just look at the shovel box and teachers desk in Alpha 1, the textures are terribly flat and dull, and the shovel mesh itself has a really really flat shovel head)
thirdly, I never liked the devil plotline and no amount of glazing it will make it a better story than it was, there was a reason they scrapped it
fourthly, all the horror was unintentional, their main goal was to make a thriller as DynamicPixels had stated on their 2015 Kickstarter and as Nikita had stated in 2015, it always was meant to be a tactical thriller puzzler not a stealth horror
and finally, they made the decision to remove swearing for a reason, even in the Pre-Alpha they intended on lowering their target audience sooooo you're just gonna have to cope with that
god it's 2026, information has become more widely available, the issues with the game has nothing to do with "old good new bad" or the artstyle change or story change, it's purely just how badly they implemented the tactical thriller puzzler elements... they restricted the amount of interactability with the neighbors house due to many reasons, and the AI got more and more botched due to the replacement AI programmer not being able to recode the entire damn thing so they could actually understand what they were working with
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u/KubaGamer535YT 1d ago
Ahh... Another one. Another full version hate post. Can we just stop? I get it, you hate the full version.
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u/One-Somewhere8773 17h ago
100th "duude hello neighbor pre-alpha > hn1" hn pre alpha was boring asf im sorry, let that shit go bro
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u/crystal-productions- 1d ago
A lot of what made the early builds work is that the house was 2 floors at absolute most. No matter what his ai was going to break down just given the circumstances of what happened behind the scenes.