I couldn't even bring myself to finish this game (played

Yeah it's shitty , go play the first 2 since the developers knew what the hell they were doing.

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>>375674449

The only two things I actually really disliked was the setting and the excessive cutscenes.

Gunplay was fun, but really, just do what >>375674757 said. Two of the best in the genre.

>>375674919
The guns felt nice and fun to shoot. Everything else ruined it. Like Max's sluggish movements, getting constantly knocked into stuff (Euphoria Animation!! Wow technology!!), and of course, the god damn cover system.

>>375674919
I always find myself coming back to MP2. Thank god that game knew how to condense story elements and get you to the meaty gameplay with decent amount of downtime. I could gush over this game forever

1 > 3 > 2

>>375674449
This game would have been great if it weren't for the FUCKING UNSKIPPABLE TEN MINUTE CUT SCENES EVERY TIME YOU ENTER A FUCKING AREA.

I really like the third one too, way different than the first two for sure but I still enjoyed it a lot. I think I've replayed it three or four times even. HEALTH's soundtrack is the shit too. Cutscenes only bothered me if I got frustrated and quit the game and then returned to it and had to go through the same ones again. But yeah probably not for everyone, the first two are better.

>>375675416
Well at least you enjoyed the one with the best level design and charm.

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The most kino videogame.

>>375675056
>using the cover system
lol, they tricked you. using that is a death sentence because kills in succession reduce the speed of time and lower the damage multiplier you take while increase what you deal

if you literally used cover ever your a casual and the devs are laughing at you

the game literally becomes easy mode if you just dont stop

The meme of disliking Max Payne 3 is a few years stale at this point. Patrician historians have long since decided it's the best Max Payne game.

>>375674449
The gunplay is fucking great.

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>>375676515
>Not making the game harder on yourself and playing it like a normal shooter without bullet time
Sorry man you're the casual here

You know a game is not good when you consistently hear people say the best part of it is a fucking song.

>>375676795
>willfully playing max payne as a cover shooter

lol

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>>375676635
Only people who haven't seen Man on Fire think this game is great.

I still can't play this fucking game to this day, I get over 100 fps then I get to the underground garage on the first level and it's dips to the low 20s. I will never buy rockstar game at full price for the rest of my life after being cucked by this game.

>>375674449
Thanks for sharing that insightful opinion of yours.

I really liked it. A few years ago, I played all three back to back for the first time. MP3 felt the best in actual gameplay, but the atmosphere was better in the other games. I liked the comic book cutscenes instead of the weird quirky ones and I liked following Max from start to finish in one go instead of him traveling all around the world and all the time skips.

It's a great game. The only people that didn't like it are autistic ADHD retarded children on /v/

>>375675416

Holy fuck kill yourself storyfag.

2 > 1 > 3

>>375678015

>storyfag
>elevates the one with the worst story to the top

2 was a mishmash of flashback bullshit and some of the worst escort missions I've ever seen in video games. The only thing it did better than 1 was graphics, and 3 has 2 beat on graphics by a country mile.

>>375675416
>>375678015
2>3>1

3 would have been much better if it was more prone to replayability, like actually letting you skip cutscenes and not having so many moments where you just do some minor contextual 'thing' instead of running and gunning

>>375678324
>Comparing graphics
Holy fucking shit
>Worst escort missions
You must have been a shitty escort or just complete shit at the game

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I don't really care if anyone hates or likes this game, but...
>that panama level

>>375678738

>hey, we've got this grizzled cop who's taken on the entire mob as well as a cult and a private army alone
>let's make him into a bumbling retard for a while and force the player to keep him alive because that makes any amount of sense
>also just recycle the level, we're short on time

Escorting Max was a worse move than anything Max Payne 3 did.

>>375677894
>Stupid lighting and filter effects 24/7
It gave me ADHD you dense motherfucker

>>375678971

>its an autism episode

>>375678931
>Reusing a large fucking level
>Defending Max Payne 3 retarded evidence collectible system where the camera zooms in for a good 10 seconds with the lighting filters blaring out.
Max Payne 2 hasn't committed at bigger sin than that.
>Max Payne 2 has a survival mode
>It's fucking DLC in max Payne 3

>>375674449
Best gunplay of all time you're a fucking pleb

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>>375679059
I get those often

This game is pure kino, once again op is a faggot

>>375678324

Yeah storyfags are cancer, 2 is the best because it has the best gameplay. Who cares about muh story. Not that 2 was a bad story anyways I thought it was great.

>muh graphics

kek who cares fag. Actually 2 aesthetically looks the best anyways.

>>375678924
you mean the level on the cruise? i've always thought it was one of the standout levels, though the part after you get off the boat is hard

also enjoy the new york level (NOT CEMETERY), the level in the branco offices, the police station level and the first 2 levels (skyscraper & nightclub)

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>>375679304
>Binary Domain exists

>>375678015
>kill yourself storyfag
>procceds to put 2 at best

lol

>>375679464

Because 2 has the best gameplay of the series.

>>375679226
not him but don't pretend that playing as mona wasn't fucking cancer

i really didn't enjoy any of the 'revisited' levels like the vlad club, the address unknown revisit, etc and also the vinnie gognitti part wasn't great either

>>375679610
Don't forget MP2 has the best sound design , neat details and conversations , physics , and different guns at you're disposable, oh and you can use grenades.

the story is ripped off garbage like every other rockstar game and there's way too many falling from great height in slow mo set pieces. then you get that bullshit where it plays a cut-scene and it switches your weapons. the actual parts where you're not watching a movie are good though but the game really makes you work for them.

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>>375679794
>The weapon switching

>>375674449

They have the gunplay and bullet time just right. But the cinematics, story even old grumpy max was a disaster that didn't end. When I played it I could not believe they took their beloved max payne character and did THAT to him in story. Why all the brazil stuff I have no idea, even max's narration says many times he has no fucking idea why he accepted being in brazil considering he's a one man army.

>>375679682

Mona was great. Wow you had to snip some guys in 3 two minute long segments. So fucking bad. In reality, that section wasn't even bad, I dunno what you cucks are complaining about.

You have bad taste in levels too, all those levels where great, and also what about the Rosco Street level before you meet Vinnie where the whole gang war was happening? That level was a masterpiece.

>>375679786

It did. MP2 was goat in all aspects. MP2 is leagues above 1 and 3.

1 and 3 are both good but flawed games, and both are around the same quality as each other. 2 is on a whole other level and is a perfect game.

Anyone who prefers MP2 over any other should be gunned down by Max himself. Game mechanics were great but the level design is so fucking awful it hurts.

>>375679401
That's exactly why I love it, I feel like it does a great job at showing how lost Max is, but still has the same problems.
Max drinks to forget his wife, Mona, his mother, all the people he's lost. Passes out, wakes up to pirates raiding the boat, and he doesn't even speak the language to call for help on the radio. He finds his employers moving foreign money to a local banker. Then tries to find the girl he was told to protect, who really wasn't all that important to his employers. Same situations, different country.
Also the music is fucking incredible

I wished they brought the gunplay to GTA V like they said they would. Rockstar are faggots.

>>375680084

I hope you get killed for having bad taste.

Aside from gun mechanics, the highpoint of 2 was in fact the level design. 2 had the best level design in the entire series.

I think only a cuckold would disagree with this.

MP1 = 7/10
MP2 = 10/10
MP3 = 7/10

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>>375674449

>tfw when the steam version of MP1 is still broken and will never be fixed being on a arificial difficulty level past hard boiled it's nearly unplayable.

Stranglehold > 1 > 2 = Vanquish > 3

I found the gunplay not even that good. The slow mo tricks get you killed even faster so you're forced to duck and wait for longest of times.

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>>375680307
I fucking hate this sort of shit.
I finally got it to run semi consistently by downloading a sound fix
I had to specifically download it to my C drive and not any other one.
Limit the frames to 60, which some programs didn't even do, while some did.
And finally I've got the game running, but even though I locked it to 60 it still stutters slightly.
>mfw

>>375680302
Sorry I must be a cuckold but
MP1 = 8-9/10
MP2 = 9-10/10
MP3 = 7/10 (3/10 for the multiplayer)

>>375680427
The diving is literally useless in every MP game. You should just activate bullet time and run around blasting people.

>>375680427
sounds like a classic case of git gud

>>375680654

No it's only useless in MP1 and MP3.

Diving is fantastic in MP2. I dived my way through the entire game.

>>375680654
It's useful as fuck in Max Payne 2 when you're out of bullet time or have the high ground against some enemies

>>375680780
it's not useless

>>375677791

OP here.

I would be willing to forgive the dull gameplay if the game was anywhere as atmospheric as the old titles. Not that MP3 isn't atmospheric, but the problem is that it takes it self so insufferably seriously. Like really, not a hint of irony in its neo-noir settling and pulpy dialogue.

It feels so thematically inconsistent to have someone like Max Payne in a realistic crime drama story.

>>375680836
Its really useless in MP3 , unless you have a SMG.

>>375680937
>MP3
>dull game play
Are you perhaps brain damaged?

>>375676635
>Faggots with no taste have long since decided it's the best Max Payne game.
Fixed your typo anon

>>375678665
>1 the worst
Kill yourself

1 = 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3

kys OP you're a massive faggot

3>1>2

>>375681161
>Enter big open room
>Max alerts every enemy immediately like a retard
>Brazilians pour out of every opening like fucking whack-a-mole
>Shoot them with your assault rifle because there's no room in your inventory for situational weapons
>Max whines and spews bad Houser dialogue
>Repeat

>>375681457

kys yourself faggot cuck. Holy shit that bad fucking taste literally the opposite of reality.

how can anyone dispute that max payne 3 is good? its fucking thrilling
narratively it's one of the more interesting efforts rockstar has made, transplanting the protagonist of a third person shoot em up into a semi realistic setting where his antics are treated with the attitude befitting: the characters in max payne 3 are constantly astonished by how crazy max is, and max himself is aware that only a fucking moron would attempt to do the things he does, and over the course of the whole game he struggles to come to grips with that, culminating in a fucking awesome end sequence that hearkens back to the first game, as max embraces the madness one last time

i seriously cannot comprehend how anyone could pick this game up and not have fun playing it
load it up, rebind the dodge roll key to M3 and become a fucking bullet ninja

>>375675416
this is the truth

>>375682029
>"b-but max wouldnt act that way!"

>>375681831
kys you cocksucking nigger lover

>>375682029

Gameplay wise it's just bland and the constant cutscene interruptions certainly don't help.

>narratively it's one of the more interesting efforts rockstar has made
No. Fuck off. It's the work of hacks. Everything is ripped off. Fucking everything.

The style of the game is a blatant rip off of Tony Scott. The setting is a blatant rip off of Man on Fire. The Max Payne character is a blatant rip off of John McClane. I'm really getting sick of Rockstar being praised for plagiarism.

>>375683293
Nothing is original. If it was a direct ripoff, they would be ripping dialogue straight from those sources my dude. you're just sour about how they turned a new leaf on Max Payne's character and themes.

>>375683502
>Nothing is original.

You don't get it. There isn't just similarities, it's the exact same shit. Some of it, like the cutscene style, is ridiculous. I cannot fathom how someone would have to balls to do something like that, much less get away with it.

There was nothing really original about Max Payne 1 or 2 either. The difference there was that they were inspired by other works, did their own thing with it. In the case of Max Payne 3 it's just plain old plagiarism.

>If it was a direct ripoff, they would be ripping dialogue straight from those sources my dude
Shit IS directly lifted from those other works, you moron.

>>375683293

Man on Fire didn't take place in Brazil. Max has more in common with Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon. Neither movies involve organ theft. Superficial similarities are not 'blatant ripoffs'. If Rockstar drew inspiration from other sources, they would only be doing what literally every creator done and has done for hundreds and hundreds of years. Besides that, originality shouldn't be the objective - unless you're a hipster.

The gameplay is hardly bland. Simplistic, yes. Formulaic, absolutely. But the mechanics are sharp and polished while maintaining responsiveness, which is an impressive feat, regardless of how much you want to shit on the effort that goes into making a big game. I have nothing to say about the cutscenes, except that every game has loading screens. I don't like them, but I'm also not an idiot who expects modern games to load like old NES cartridges.

2>=1>3

2 edges out because of the added mechanics and smoother controls and of course better levels.

do people honestly hate 2 because of mona sections? I think they were decent, well better than following a blood trail with screaming baby sounds in the background

>>375684295

This, I don't get how people can even hate on Mona. Her sections are at worst, slightly worse than man, and most of the time exactly the same.

Then 1 has some fucking dream hallucinations that are pretty shitty and people defend those platforming segments in the dark with the blood trails. So retarded.

>but muh story

Gameplay > Story

>>375684060
>p
Literally where is it lifted? If you could get me one example, I would admit i am wrong. Max Payne 3 is just as derivative as the first two, I just don't see why you have a problem with it and not the first two. That some serious mental gymnastics. just accept it and have fun.

also I read or heard a rumor that Rockstar managed to weasel their hands in the Max Payne IP stating that Remedy didn't reach the quota of sales so they were forced to sell the IP to R*

>>375675416
I agree.

>>375684587

MP1 had a perfectly serviceable story with its mechanics and it wrapped up well. 2 barely added anything besides those wack-ass reload animations, so trying to argue gameplay > story is idiotic when 1 still had a better story than 2.

>>375685080
1 had a better everything than 2 in my opinion.
Even the art direction and graphics looked better to me for some reason.

>>375684868

Rockstar got the Max Payne IP because Take Two, their parent company, purchased Gathering of Developers, the publisher of Max Payne 1. This is why Rockstar were the publishers of Max Payne 2.

It's kind of sad tale because the whole point of Gathering of Developers was to allow developers to hold onto their IP but it turned out the same way Activision did, a company also founded to protect developers from "evil" publishers.

>>375684295
>do people honestly hate 2 because of mona sections?

No I think it's because you're killing people dressed as janitors for nearly 2/3 of the game. At least generic mobsters have different colored jackets.

>>375685208
now that's just sad.

>>375685238
I hated 2 because it felt really repetitive for some reason. I don't remember anything notable from it yet I remember everything from 1 & 3.

>>375685080

Do you have reading comprehension issues or something?

When I say Gameplay > Story, I am saying that in any video game ever, for all video games in general, gameplay is more important than story.

So I don't give a fuck of MP2 didn't "add anything". Who cares. Story isn't what's important. Gameplay is.

MP2 is better than MP1 because MP2 has the best gameplay, and gameplay is all that matters.

it's not that hard.