16 years... time passes faster than a piss soaked subway train on a busy New York day.
I remember when a friend came over after school on a hot summer day with a CD with the words Max "Paine" on it with a black CD marker.
Things were simpler back them.
"You gotta play this, it's like Matrix" he said.
But what I experienced was beyond my wildest fever dreams.
Wait what the fuck. I've played Max Payne countless times and never knew about the hidden sex dungeon in Woden's room.
Can't wait for him to talk about Max Payne 3.
IT'S PAYNE WHACK 'EM
I haven't played any of the Max Payne games
I was thinking about picking this up (and the original F.E.A.R. too), is the original Max Payne still worth playing? I want to play the whole trilogy
[QUOTE=Killowatt;52690149]I haven't played any of the Max Payne games
I was thinking about picking this up (and the original F.E.A.R. too), is the original Max Payne still worth playing? I want to play the whole trilogy[/QUOTE]
They're all worth playing. Gameplay wise 1 and 2 have aged pretty gracefully, there's not much to them that makes them feel super old or outdated.
played through this again very recently, sometimes the gun accuracy and damage feel like bullshit, with mooks surviving point black shotgun blasts to the chest with a flinch
[QUOTE=simkas;52690161]They're all worth playing. Gameplay wise 1 and 2 have aged pretty gracefully, there's not much to them that makes them feel super old or outdated.[/QUOTE]
Except for the sawed-off shotgun reload in Max Payne 2, unfortunately
[QUOTE=halfer;52690362]Except for the sawed-off shotgun reload in Max Payne 2, unfortunately[/QUOTE]
Spin to win.
[QUOTE=Killowatt;52690149]I haven't played any of the Max Payne games
I was thinking about picking this up (and the original F.E.A.R. too), is the original Max Payne still worth playing? I want to play the whole trilogy[/QUOTE]
Is it still worth playing?
Don't answer that. A rhetorical question.
You're killing me
[QUOTE=halfer;52690415]You're killing me[/QUOTE]
Max Payne in the butt.
did he not check the controls menu or something
he complains about the bullet time and shootdodge being the same key but you can totally change them to seperate keys in like 15 fucking seconds
i wish i could play the series, but all three of them are unavailable in my region and it sucks hard
[QUOTE=Killowatt;52690149]I haven't played any of the Max Payne games
I was thinking about picking this up (and the original F.E.A.R. too), is the original Max Payne still worth playing? I want to play the whole trilogy[/QUOTE]
You really should, they're all great games.
Also RIP kitty0706.
[QUOTE=Killowatt;52690149]I haven't played any of the Max Payne games
I was thinking about picking this up (and the original F.E.A.R. too), is the original Max Payne still worth playing? I want to play the whole trilogy[/QUOTE]
Man, FEAR really is that one game that people always bring in to the conversation.
I fucking love that, and how everyone loves it.
[QUOTE=simkas;52690161]They're all worth playing. Gameplay wise 1 and 2 have aged pretty gracefully, there's not much to them that makes them feel super old or outdated.[/QUOTE]
It's not very noticeable on the first playthrough, but the first hasn't aged super well in terms of AI. It's very obvious that the AI isn't sophisticated at all, all they know how to do is move around a bit and shoot. Every time they do something funky like throw a grenade or retreat, it's pre-scripted.
[QUOTE=9millmeeter;52690515]did he not check the controls menu or something
he complains about the bullet time and shootdodge being the same key but you can totally change them to seperate keys in like 15 fucking seconds[/QUOTE]
Last time I played Max Payne, I played for so long I caught myself starting to shootdodge out of the bathroom.
The graphics are definitely dated, and in the outdoor sections you can tell you're in a small linear box with a sky painted on it, but the story and the atmosphere carry the game so well that the graphics quickly stop mattering. Same for Max Payne 2.
both max payne's were fantastic and i never got why people were upset with the third, it took a different setting and managed to make it work really well, and i was really liking the atmosphere in much the same way i liked the atmosphere of the first two.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;52691700]It's not very noticeable on the first playthrough, but the first hasn't aged super well in terms of AI. It's very obvious that the AI isn't sophisticated at all, all they know how to do is move around a bit and shoot. Every time they do something funky like throw a grenade or retreat, it's pre-scripted.[/QUOTE]Max Payne 2 can have some wacky AI as well.
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I've wasted so many hours to Max Payne 1 and 2.
There was a handful of great mods for them too.
[QUOTE=Killowatt;52690149]I haven't played any of the Max Payne games
I was thinking about picking this up (and the original F.E.A.R. too), is the original Max Payne still worth playing? I want to play the whole trilogy[/QUOTE]
F.E.A.R. and Max Payne are two of the best PC games I ever played. Yes and yes.
Despite everything, Max Payne 3 is the one I periodically get back to, because its story really takes me in more than the first two games. Also the fact that while MP1 and 2 painted a dark picture of the United States, MP3 does it for Brazil which is very unusual in this medium. I just love everything about MP3.
[QUOTE=Melnek;52691860]both max payne's were fantastic and i never got why people were upset with the third, it took a different setting and managed to make it work really well, and i was really liking the atmosphere in much the same way i liked the atmosphere of the first two.[/QUOTE]
Because Max Payne 3 has a pretty different tone and style compared to the first two. The first two are kinda tongue in cheek and self aware meta games that manages to never fall into pure comedy. Max Payne 3 meanwhile takes itself very seriously, Max as a character might as well be a completely different person and large parts of the plot and artstyle is ripped from the movie "Man on Fire".
[QUOTE=Amakir;52692766]Because Max Payne 3 has a pretty different tone and style compared to the first two. The first two are kinda tongue in cheek and self aware meta games that manages to never fall into pure comedy. Max Payne 3 meanwhile takes itself very seriously, Max as a character might as well be a completely different person and large parts of the plot and artstyle is ripped from the movie "Man on Fire".[/QUOTE]
Eh, I don't know about the second one. It's the first one I played and I was absolutely blown away by this game as a kid, but replaying the series pretty recently I noticed how the first game is mostly focused on the conspiracy theory and revenge story elements, while making fun of the genres a bit, while the second games leans hard into melodrama (intentionally so) and seems to lose the ironic tone. It's very earnest in it's drama, which ruins it quite a lot, since it's not strong enough on it's own terms.
The only reminders that the game was tongue in-cheek at one point are the Lords and Ladies shows, that are mostly parodying soap operas (again, melodrama), but even they are in the second game mostly because they were carried over from the first.
I thought Max Payne 1 to 3 went darker as they went along. So 3 feeling different to 1 made sense to me. In Max Payne 2 he's not cracking so many jokes, he's depressed as shit. While in the third game he's pretty much just given up on trying until later in the game.
Something about the Max Payne stories just always gets me and hits me. I loved Max Payne 3 the most for it's cinematic presentation and artful designs around that, it really felt like a movie at times but not in an "Order 1886" way. Just the cutscenes and such had such style and substance at the same time for me. I was also going through film school then so it was a good time for the game to hit me anyways.
The comic panels always worked so well to convey a lot of emotion and thematic approach to everything and those have aged well because of their nature so that's kind of neat.
[QUOTE=Thechuz1337;52693536]I thought Max Payne 1 to 3 went darker as they went along. So 3 feeling different to 1 made sense to me. In Max Payne 2 he's not cracking so many jokes, he's depressed as shit. While in the third game he's pretty much just given up on trying until later in the game.[/QUOTE]
It's not so much about cracking jokes as it is about the kind of lines that's being delivered. Max in the old games used a lot of purple prose in his monologues in order to invoke old noir movies whereas max in 3 just swears like a sailor and uses very simple language.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52693543]Something about the Max Payne stories just always gets me and hits me. I loved Max Payne 3 the most for it's cinematic presentation and artful designs around that, it really felt like a movie at times but not in an "Order 1886" way. Just the cutscenes and such had such style and substance at the same time for me. I was also going through film school then so it was a good time for the game to hit me anyways. [/QUOTE]
Thing is, the cutscenes style is not really original. Just like most of the premise the directing style is ripped straight out of the movie Man on Fire, complete with the unstable digital camera effects.
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