I've been thinking about this for a while now and...is Max

File: 1.jpg (33KB, 700x394px) Image search: [Google]

33KB, 700x394px

>>383583345
How can West even compete with him?

Criminally underrated

I'd say Alpha Centauri has better writing but since this is really a Max Payne thread
I wish 2 was better.
I wish 3 was better.

I've only recently played Max Payne for the first time, and I hated it.
The guns do peanut damage and the bullet time mechanics don't even let you dodge since your body hides where the bullets are going if you're planning to shoot back as well. The default bullet time/action shoot wasn't even configured to be different, and often times I action shot when I wanted to go bullet time. It's silly to think I needed to change the default button mapping for that.
But when I finally finished the game, something kicked inside of me. I wasn't glad that I was finished, I was sad. I realised that I just finished a good game. I missed everything instantly, the gunplay, Max's monologues, the enemies; but when I came back to go for a Hard-Boiled run, I thought it was still shit.
What other games give this feeling?

it has really fun gameplay too

shame mp3 ruined the series

>>383583717
>I wish 2 was better.
>I wish 3 was better.
I'm fine with both 2 and 3 never existing. Max Payne should've been a one-off game.

>>383583345
One of my favorite games, with Max Payne 2.

The story and atmosphere was great. It was dark. It was cold. Still unprecedented in my opinion.

>>383583345
Yes, MP is the best third person shooter.

File: 220px-LoK-Overview.jpg (14KB, 220x293px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 220x293px

It's the perfect video game story. But if we're talking about the best written, it has to be pic related.

>MP3 is bad meme

le sigh

How bad is the PC port?

>>383583992
It's released in PC first and foremost you idiot

>>383583761
>The guns do peanut damage
...what?
did you literally play the game only using Berettas, without aiming to the head?

Also, the bullet time ain't for dodging shots, but to kill everything in the house before they have time to realize you're there.

But yeah, MP is one of the swansongs of the era where a small group of FRIENDS could make a game THEY wanted to do, and make it well, thus turning into a success story. Plus, MP1 was like this "Crysis" of the early 00s with its visuals and animations.

>>383583992
>port
it is a PC game that was later ported to consoles, ya dork.

>>383583969
MP3 isn't bad, it's just not really what fans wanted.

It probably is. The only other game I enjoyed as much was Nolf

>>383583992
You might have some problems getting it running on a modern system but after you get through that the PC "port" is good.

>>383584067
>LITERALLY gimping myself to play the game with Berettas only
>when it's supposed to be Payne's trademark weapon
At least make the enemies realistic and not take a quarter of a shotgun shot to the body and still run around with perfect aim
Also hate the fact that you get lead pipes and a baseball bat as melee but you can't get close to anyone without them noticing and shooting you down

>>383583596
>dude makes new game after Payne and Wake
>it's shit even with CIA in it
What happened /v/ros?

>>383584129
>>383584058
>>383584424
I guess I'm a retard.
Thanks

>>383584815
Sold his soul to Microsoft.

The bigger Remedy got the shittier they became.

>>383584815
I'd blame Microsoft, but I don't really think it was their fault.

File: UqrYMOl.jpg (36KB, 700x525px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 700x525px

>>383584815
Microsoft

>>383583969
its a terrible qte/tutorial/bland shooter that comes off as a bad fan fiction of the original story line. it was all wrapped up in 2 no need for a 3rd one jewstar.

>>383584956
The problem is Remedy themselves.

They were too ambitious for their own good, all their games take fucking forever to make and they always wants to be bigger and badder.

Max Payne 2, Alan Wake, Quantum Break; they were always trying to out-do themselves. But in reality they were biting off more than they could chew.

>Game saved

>>383585224
Is Sam Lake the John Kricfalusi of videogames?

Alan Wake was better

File: max payne gun phone make sense of it.jpg (44KB, 422x422px) Image search: [Google]

44KB, 422x422px

Playing through MP1 after not having touched the game in close to a decade and it's held up surprisingly well.

It's pretty hard compared to the sequel though, to the point where I'm spamming quicksave every minute because I don't want to get buttfucked by a shotgun wielding thug hiding behind a corner.

>>383585546
MP1 isn't that hard, it's more that MP2 is super easy.

Having bullet-time slow down more for every kill was a neat idea but it broke the game.

File: maxpayne1.jpg (176KB, 1440x900px) Image search: [Google]

176KB, 1440x900px

>>383585546
It's that dynamic difficulty system that buttfucks you if you're doing too good.

i cant be the only one who didn't like max payne 2? it took itself way too seriously and the whole sappy love story between mona and max didn't grab me at all. and it looks like they got a completely different model for Max (not sure but it cant be sam lake) and even his voice sounds different, like he's trying too hard to be dark and serious. then in 3 they do a 180 and max looks and sounds like sam again albeit older.

they also made it so when you jump off a building thats high enough to kill you, the camera does this shitty birds eye view from miles up and you can barely see shit. jumping off aesir tower and seeing max bounce was cool as shit

>>383583345
I'm actually playing the trilogy for the first time and I'm loving it. 1 kept fucking me so I found myself savescumming like a bitch every few moments. And fuck those dream sequences where you have to balance yourself on those blood trails.
Haven't gotten far into 2 but I'm liking Max and Mona so far. What I find really interesting is seeing Sam Lake's already working with the idea of the tv giving hints or parallels with the main story, like it happens with Alan Wake plus the manuscript pages.

>>383585882
MP 1 was all about the grizzled NYPD cop with nothing to lose getting framed and going all Hard Boiled to unmask and kill the kingpin of a corporate criminal underworld.

MP 2 was so fucking shit that I don't even remember the plot aside from Vlad being a bad guy and Vinnie being alive.

>>383585882
No, I don't like 2 either. Like you said it took itself more seriously and I also didn't like the changes to the gameplay.

I actually like 3 better than 2 because even though I don't like the writing the production values and tech are insane and it sort of feels like Die Hard.

>>383585224
Remedy forgot to make an actually good game first and foremost, and leave toying with the meta-narrative self-aware moviegame thing to afterwards.

Also, Max Payne 2 was one of the first of those games you can literally complete in an afternoon I remember playing.
I don't really remember if it actually started that irritating sub"genre" of the supershort-yet-fullpriced game, but I'm still not forgiving it for it. It felt like an expansion pack for MP1.

File: Max_Payne_2_-_actor_shot_11.jpg (28KB, 539x394px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 539x394px

>>383585882
They modeled Max after an actor, the same guy that was in the comic book style cutscenes. I liked MP2 just in terms of how well it played and how the weapons sounded, it was a clear upgrade from the first game. The levels however weren't all that great.

No idea why they couldn't just keep the setting of the first game, then again I'm a sucker for snowy levels in video games.

File: 8832111_heres-alan-wake-and-max-payne-playing-quantum_3ba6ca4d_m.jpg (21KB, 630x354px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 630x354px

Sam is a treasure.

File: 9164512.jpg (149KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

149KB, 1280x720px

>>383583345
>back on time
>cold night
>you got some coffee and a blanket around you
>playing MP1
>pic related appears

IT WERS LIKE BAGDAAD WITH GEE STRINGS

File: 20170313232656_1.jpg (296KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

296KB, 1920x1080px

>>383584815
gameplay in QB was good it was just very short

File: 20170708113728_1.jpg (434KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

434KB, 1920x1080px

>>383586683
I wish the sequels had more snow levels

nothing beats playing MP1 during the winter

File: 1470831837764.jpg (167KB, 400x400px) Image search: [Google]

167KB, 400x400px

>That dude in 2 playing Late Goodbye on the piano

File: 1390123912933.gif (828KB, 200x189px) Image search: [Google]

828KB, 200x189px

>>383586683
>playing this back in 01
>pretty spooked by the first nightmare sequence
>enter the second, drug fueled nightmare
>walk into a dead end on the blood trails
>that wailing baby cry that turns almost demonic

3 was shit
i liked the nyc flashbacks though

>>383587150
nah 3 was alright. would have been 10/10 if not for the psychedelic filters and constant cut scene interruptions that were unfucking skippable

>>383586924
Holy fuck that cry.
That spook the shit out of me.

File: 1415104838954.jpg (30KB, 429x410px) Image search: [Google]

30KB, 429x410px

>>383587252
>cutscene
>max runs into a room filled with enemies
>alerts everyone to his location
>control is handed back to the player

I wanted to like 3 but it just did so many things wrong

File: RainyFeels.gif (365KB, 500x275px) Image search: [Google]

365KB, 500x275px

>that absolutely perfect menu tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv0y0On8ZGQ
Literally Feels: The Theme

File: 1469533557457.png (85KB, 379x329px) Image search: [Google]

85KB, 379x329px

>>383587774
That theme is perfect in my eyes.
>Max spending the entire trilogy trying to play it

>>383587942
>The theme song of my life

File: 1489626861401.gif (1MB, 480x351px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 480x351px

>Max Payne released 23 of July 2001
>Max will be 16 years old in few days

File: here, have a.png (122KB, 249x345px) Image search: [Google]

122KB, 249x345px

>>383585853

literally every fucking panel works as a reaction image

File: rhetorical.png (414KB, 501x613px) Image search: [Google]

414KB, 501x613px

>>383588172

File: PxBsaP9.jpg (83KB, 311x501px) Image search: [Google]

83KB, 311x501px

>>383588076
I hope Remedy does something to commemorate, even if just a video. Their videos tend to be pretty funny.
>>383588172
If it wasn't for Sam, I don't think Max would've been so remembered or loved. His weird expressions, the weird painted strokes look that accentuated even more the expressions.

File: reality.png (1MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1920x1080px

>>383588076
tfw

File: Atlas.jpg (201KB, 1024x695px) Image search: [Google]

201KB, 1024x695px

>>383588459
>I hope Remedy does something to commemorate, even if just a video.
I do as well anon, the trilogy is probably my favorite series of all time.

Also helps the comic how fun the writing was by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34b_zmWpdcY

File: 23f5477de29c308e50542fe2f493ed63.jpg (241KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

241KB, 1024x768px

I should start my annual playthrough of 1 & 2 soon, thanks for reminding me /v/

File: 1498148987683.gif (522KB, 255x255px) Image search: [Google]

522KB, 255x255px

I will always love Remedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEpTlRuLXkg
>1.50

File: the_things_that_i_want__by_max_payne_by_maxpaynesmisery-d4etnlr.jpg (251KB, 900x1192px) Image search: [Google]

251KB, 900x1192px

What game did love as good as MP2?

File: 1493256176302.jpg (40KB, 599x528px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 599x528px

I'm hopelessly nostalgic for MP1 and 2. I just get this warm feeling when I start my annual playthrough in the middle of winter. Remedy managed to channel the essence of the Finnish soul with these games.

File: 1485873036707.jpg (21KB, 420x393px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 420x393px

>>383588986

>0:58 "Rush through time, confusing enemies"

>>383584685
You can bait them to run to you lol

File: abcth.png (216KB, 386x525px) Image search: [Google]

216KB, 386x525px

>>383583345

I don't know but it certainly has the best quotes
Like every fucking thing they say in the game sticks with you

>>383586819
>nothing beats playing MP1 during the winter
fuuuuuck yessssss. Such good memories of playing MP at night. Windows open, pot of coffee next to me. MP atmosphere was so good. Really made me feel like I was alone in NYC at night, like I was in a parallel universe

>>383583345
sequel was better

File: 1464217947184.jpg (120KB, 500x660px) Image search: [Google]

120KB, 500x660px

>>383588986
>copying files to desktop

Ladies and Gentleman its the pain in the butt

>>383590052

Pain to the MAX!

File: 7a5.gif (29KB, 482x800px) Image search: [Google]

29KB, 482x800px

>>383589597
>tfw even as a kid I knew how great the writing for this game was
Young little me was blown away by hoe cool everything sounded.

>>383589597
IT'S PAYNE
WHACK HIM

>>383590052
Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to present MAX PAYNE!
New York's finest with the biggest mobster bodycount ever!

File: shatner1.png (444KB, 674x398px) Image search: [Google]

444KB, 674x398px

>got home from shitty job last winter
>decided to play MP1 for the first time
>mfw playing it
Fuck me, I could not have picked a better game to play during the winter time. I don't usually replay games but I'll make an exception for this, it's too good. 2 and 3 were fine but they didnt give me the same feeling 1 did.

>>383589597
>>383590168
Playing it bogart.
I was quoting this as a kid but had no idea what it even meant.

>Boris can be beaten super easily even on DOA by throwing a molotov into the room he's in, running backwards, and then stunlocking him to death with the baseball bat
>beating the game on DOA sends you to a secret room where you have to fight 20-30 killer suits with low ammo and no bullet time. If you survive, you get to see photos of devs and concept art
>if you Shootdodge while low on HP, you actually can't be killed until you land on the ground

Any other neat stuff you guys found in this game?

In a time filled with badly animated cut-scenes and shitty low res fmvs, this was a fresh take on storytelling.

Did anyone else just use the baseball bat for the entire game? You're invincible while rolling and everyone is stunlocked with it

File: 505669-vlad8.jpg (200KB, 352x910px) Image search: [Google]

200KB, 352x910px

The only gripe I have with MP2's story is that Vlad doesn't have enough screentime. The final battle and his death are great but I wish he had been in the game more prior to that

>>383590612
My biggest gripe is that he was the villain at all, I really liked him and it made no sense for him to turn on Max.

PC audio doesn't work. Rockstar support told me to close background apps and play GTA 5 instead.

>>383590725
this. instead of coming up with new characters, they just used whatever was left from the first one, no matter how little sense it made. In the first one, Vlad was just some doofus, not a criminal mastermind. And why did they turn Vinnie into a literal clown. Thats just lazy writing

File: ItsPayne.jpg (1MB, 1920x965px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1920x965px

>>383589597
It was over. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point.
I released my finger from the trigger.

File: DELET.png (396KB, 894x430px) Image search: [Google]

396KB, 894x430px

>>383588172
All the disposable thugs can be reactions too

>>383590854
Reused characters makes sense since the theme of the game was deal with past. And I wouldn't call Vlad a mastermind

File: Screenshot_3.png (86KB, 231x316px) Image search: [Google]

86KB, 231x316px

>Check MP3 game clock
>40 or so hrs of playtime
>atleast 11 hours was waiting for the few cutscene that you cant skip instantly

File: 204100_screenshots_2015-02-17_00025.jpg (261KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

261KB, 1920x1080px

>>383583345
Which one is your favorite quote in MP anon?

MP1
>Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Frankie "the Bat" Niagara.
>Niagara as in "you cry a lot?"
>He had a baseball bat and i was tied to a chair. Pissing him off was indeed a smart idea.

MP2
>I had a dream of my wife. She was dead...but it was alright.

MP3
>I had a hole in my second favourite drinking arm, and the only way we were likely to get Fabiana back now was in instalments.

>>383591168
I had a bullet with Nicole Horne's name on it. I had ten thousand bullets with the hag's name on them.

File: 1499784068196.png (101KB, 291x334px) Image search: [Google]

101KB, 291x334px

>>383591072

File: 1497254912634.png (128KB, 289x294px) Image search: [Google]

128KB, 289x294px

>>383591072

File: fsOaZOMj.jpg (129KB, 1252x1252px) Image search: [Google]

129KB, 1252x1252px

>tfw you realize the amazing heavy winter setting is really just a clever way to justify having empty streets and less to render.

Gotta love the ingenuity of old game design.

>>383591168
I really liked the stupid thug conversations

MP1
>Red, blue, or green?
>its always red or blue in the movies
>So, green?
>No! Not the Gre-

MP2
>But what about moving?
>What about moving? You put one foot in front of the other.

MP3
>*random Portuguese*

>>383591103
You can reuse them, but in a natural way, dont press them into characters that dont make sense. Also there should be new characters, otherwise its just more of the same. In the 2 Vlad is trying to take everything over, all of a sudden even having had this one guy from the first one as a mentor to tie everything neatly up for no reason

>>383591168

After Y2K, the end of the world had become a cliché. But who was I to talk, a brooding underdog avenger alone against an empire of evil, out to right a grave injustice? Everything was subjective. There were only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you.

>>383591504
Turning technical limitations into a tool for atmosphere/gameplay is something we are not going to see anytime soon again.

>Silent hill included the heavy fog to hide the short draw distances in the city.

File: 1469551847550.jpg (7KB, 225x225px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 225x225px

>>383591646

>Rockstar said they went to Brasil and " made various trip to the vast metropolis, while there studied the “highs and lows of city life” in order to incorporate what it learned into the game’s characters, storyline and the situations which will befall Max."
>Every single time an insult is spouted in brasilian is "Filha da Puta" (sort of a Son of a bitch/Motherfucker)

As an Argie with Huebro's it made me laugh every time

File: IT'S PAYNE.jpg (122KB, 1179x1179px) Image search: [Google]

122KB, 1179x1179px

How do we save Remedy? Sam has gone full retard with his EXCITING NEW WAYS TO TELL STORIES meme that ruined Quantum Break.
There was a thread a while back where someone jokingly suggested an Alan Wake/Max Payne team-up game. Thing is that could actually work and turn out amazing since Alan Wake is all about fiction becoming reality and you could tie the two universes together pretty easily.

>>383590725
He Didn't want to turn on Max if i remember right, Max just wouldn't stop trying to figure the mystery out. Vlad was just after vinnie and woden

File: file.png (2MB, 1280x1024px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1280x1024px

I remember also playing GTA III back then. Both of these games had an amazing atmosphere

I always thought The Punisher and Max Payne were the best PS2 TPS games, that's the console I had and how I remember it to be anyway.

Would Max Payne 3 be better if everything took place in shitty streets of Hoboken?

File: maxpaynee.jpg (190KB, 944x598px) Image search: [Google]

190KB, 944x598px

>>383591072
I liked how apparently almost all faces in Max Payne 1 were just the devs faces plastered to the NPC's.

File: 2mqnk29j6t7z.jpg (50KB, 1410x356px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 1410x356px

>>383592294
The problem of MP3 were the writing, level design and loading times, not the setting

>>383592294
No.

MP3's enviromental variety was one of its biggest strengths.

>>383583969
>mp3 is good meme

ebin

>>383590862
when I first played this I laughed my ass off when it came up to his face

>>383584685
Nigga a good shotgun blast will take someone out. 2 if youre bad. But guess what, the sawed off shotgun allows you to doubletap people easily. The pump action allows you to shoot twice in a shoot dodge. The desert eagle packs a punch. The dual ingrams allows you to ventilate everyone you like with 100 bullets. Later on you get the jackhammer and colt commando which are pure rape machines. So step the fuck up and stop shooting their legs

THE FLESH OF FALLEN ANGELS

>>383592489
And everyone in the graphic novel are just random dudes from the office
Nicole Horne is literally Sam Lake's mom

>>383592939
Not gonna lie, that whole level spooped me as a kid.

>>383591168
>I felt the rise of that old familiar feeling.
>I hated it, I welcomed it.

>>383593081
The RagnaRock levels or those weird hop the bloodtrails dream sequences?

File: 596058_73969ee1f4493b9a86be62a5d7d72dc8.jpg (30KB, 600x356px) Image search: [Google]

30KB, 600x356px

>>383593000
>Sam lake virtually killing his mom.

What did Lake mean by this?

File: Huh.gif (872KB, 294x200px) Image search: [Google]

872KB, 294x200px

>the bank robbery level
>enter bank
>alarm howling
>shoot alarm to turn that shit off
>Payne grumbles "thank you"
>mfw

You're welcome, Max.
And that, ladies, is how you do fourth wall breaking. You don't come barging through it like a wrecking ball; you knock softly on it and make them wonder if they really heard something or not.

>>383593203
RagnaRock levels but now that you mentioned it, both really.

>>383593280
Max Payne has a surprising amount of little touches that really complete the experience.

>>383593280
He does the same thing if you shoot the elevator speaker playing the shitty musak

File: latest.jpg (65KB, 400x480px) Image search: [Google]

65KB, 400x480px

>>383593280
https://youtu.be/Z53X9CxHiOE

>>383592056
I think Remedy is still alright. They're experimenting. When they have bigger budgets they experiment even more.
And it's hard to say for the team-up. Both games, despite their ocassional campiness, are still somewhat serious. I don't know how it could work gameplay wise. In terms of just storytelling, this is my guess. Alan Wake is fictional in Max Payne's world and vice versa.

File: wackem.png (240KB, 366x400px) Image search: [Google]

240KB, 366x400px

>>383593280
>the bank robbery level
>max: We come to you now live from the crime scene.
>Bravura: Who is this?
>Max: Right back at you.
>Bravura: This is deputy chief Jim Bravura from the NYPD. You are to cease your criminal activities and surrender immediately.
> Max: Sure thing, Jim. Me and the boys have been talking, and everyone's real sorry. They'll never do it again.

>>383593203
>hop the bloodtrails
Why did they think it was necessary to add a floaty platforming sequence?

>>383583345
>is Max Payne 1 actually the best written and presented video game of all time?
No
>It rides the line perfectly between drama and camp, the budget limitations which resulted in stuff like the graphic novel cutscenes has only made it more timeless. It's goofy, but it's not schlock
Oh so Evil Dead is the best written and presented movie of all time then?

>>383593721
What's your point? Evil dead is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TepSYnRmcyk

nothing will every come close to the in game tv shows of Max payne. Such fucking classics, Lords and Ladies, Dick Justice, Address Unknown

MiRrOrS aRE mORe fUN ThAn tEleViSIoN

File: michelle dead.jpg (10KB, 480x360px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 480x360px

She did nothing wrong

File: max.jpg (11KB, 188x192px) Image search: [Google]

11KB, 188x192px

>>383593675

Max is the original smug game character

>>383593909
My point is that evil dead is not the most well written or presented movie of all time

>>383593921
this, I fucking wish audio worked on PC version, I loved stopping the action to listen to all the broadcasts, I'd get pissed if I accidently shot one in a fire fight.

File: maxpayne.jpg (241KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

241KB, 1600x1200px

>>383593280
>>383593402
>>383593675
>>383593921
They just don't make them like they used to. Max Payne is an unique game and it oozes that they made the game because they wanted to, not simply for the money.

>>383594051
Audio problems? I know there's a patch out there to fix it for 1

>>383594051
You need to download an unofficial patch for the audio for Windows vista or newer.

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Max_Payne#Missing_audio

>>383593921
Address Unknown is basically twin peaks
weird dreams that happen in red places, IT WAS ME IT WAS ME ALL ALONG, cryptic dialogue and all that.

File: urtrialwillbeheldatthecitymorgue.jpg (31KB, 439x316px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 439x316px

>>383593921
>It's PAYNE WHACK HIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUzyCNlZIWI

Max payne 2 had some funny as fuck dialogue too

>>383594051
I had to use a user fix to get 1 running properly but after that it was flawless.
>>383594165
I'd say Remedy still works this way. Alan Wake had its share of problems but they didn't feel like they came from publisher pressure. Haven't played Quantum Break yet but from what I've seen it was still Remedy, just with a bit more pressure to get the GRAPHICS for Xbone.

>>383594286
This is something so many games get wrong. Usually, you'll have the MC saying "have to do x" over and over because the devs thinks the player is a retard and forgot what they were supposed to do, while also adding these sort of details. Max Payne just lets the player hang around and explore, fucking up the AC unit in the break room, getting in front of the tv while the other two cops complain,etc.

File: x8v4PmV.jpg (120KB, 630x776px) Image search: [Google]

120KB, 630x776px

>>383593721
>Oh so Evil Dead is the best written and presented movie of all time then?

Yes.

>>383593921
>when that guy spoils the series in 2
>the name of the killer was John Mirra and when he's in the john and looks in the mirror he finds out it's him
>tfw playing Max Payne on acid was like a taste of schizophrenia
Don't do it.

File: 300904-blackangel.jpg (228KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

228KB, 1920x1080px

Max Payne has some of the best, and most atmospheric music in any game. Max payne 2 especially, its so fucking good.

Only games that come even remotely close are deux ex and VtMB and maybe stalker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcq3Gzj7Kw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spK_F8zsttI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so3TUeGwMHs

Hell even mp 3 had amazing tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYXbb0aN20Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWVoZqlpeE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCj-I4LoqtQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSbs4r5eFp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWQsggup7I4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEH_LSL4rVw

>>383594165
>These textures
>The insane ammount of bullet decals and cases
>The crips and sharp looks
>In 2001

What went so wrong. You can't even found the ammount of little visual details in modern games, like when you shoot a soda can.

>>383594680

You forgot some

https://youtu.be/2J0OtECdtMQ?t=223

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNDyOptaTJQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q2xbMuVYuc

>>383594753
Devs were competing with a fan base that cared. Titles like Half Life 2, and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

Hell, even the Duke Nukem Forever 2011 title had a similar amount of attention to detail, but it gets shat on because nobody cares about charm anymore, they just want features, and grinds to get cosmetics to show off online.

>>383594753
Lazy devs bending over for console limitations and not bothering to truly customize and optimise their games.

File: bigguy.jpg (9KB, 480x360px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 480x360px

At one point, Max Payne was planned to go up against giant mutant thugs
How does this make you feel

>>383594860
Panama is one of the best tracks
the first time you wake up on the ship and have no idea whats going on

>>383594997
the drugs they were on were like a super steroid, i wouldn't be surprised if a few of them got super dedicated to lifting and getting stronger.

>>383592294
I didn't like the hue hue fiesta setting, but it was honestly only partly why i dont like it and i dont think changing the setting alone would do anything. There are just too many things that the game does wrong or at least worse than the previous titles.
That being said i kinda liked hoboken and the graveyard level was probably the best in the game.

>>383594680
>That shootout in the airport terminal
>Game is blasting TEARS
Might have been the best part of the game

>>383583345
Who cares about the writing? The gameplay is literally the best TPS ever made

>>383594970
DNF got shat on because it's a fucking awful game

>Mona, these guys look like professionals
>Doesn't look like that from where I'm standing
>Dude is having fun doing a catwalk for his friends

>>383583345
WIth all the bullshit remastering going on, I think maybe MP would benefit the most from it.

>>383595427
You're a fucking awful game, fuck you. Duke Nukem Forever was fun.

From drawing dicks on the white board for the battle plan, to interacting with all the little things in the environment, to all the silly one liners he'd spout as you explore levels.

That game had it all.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT'S THE PAIN IN THE BUTT.

File: 1497277176973.png (137KB, 275x319px) Image search: [Google]

137KB, 275x319px

>>383595691

>>383583345
Maybe not of all time but it's certainly a DAMN FUCKING GOOD game.
The dialogues, music, panel-based sequences. Damn it.

File: AlexBalder.jpg (10KB, 200x200px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 200x200px

Still up for poker Thursday night, RIIIIGGGGHHHHTTTT?

Don't answer that.

>>383583932
Now that's bullshit.
If we're talking of best story that goes to Blood Omen.

>>383594997
You got some sources on those "things that didnt make it into the game"? Im curious.

File: file.png (247KB, 500x281px) Image search: [Google]

247KB, 500x281px

>>383594680
The club is my favorite MP3 stage.

That music.

If anyone is interested here's the lossless song:

https://mega.nz/#!NHwwXATa!7e_8u1Q8Z1-hmEhV9z8OlR0uaB0f6eqTO-Z1BhsmjBM

File: 1480909782172.jpg (26KB, 588x393px) Image search: [Google]

26KB, 588x393px

>>383592876
Amen.

>>383596232
That image was from the 1998 E3 trailer.

>>383583345
I played it for the first time 2 years ago

its actually not all that exciting

>>383583345
It's good until it goes american supersoilders on stetoids.
The story itself isn't great but the storytelling is top tier.

>>383588613
holy shit

>>383596297
That club stage was tight but i prefered the other song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPKwromlsgc

>>383584873
It's buggy on more recent windows.
You might have to cheat to beat it.

>>383584873
>he emulated PS2 Max Payne on his PC.

>>383591646
>piece of crap
>careful it might bite
>dududud killer vending machine
>shut up!

and ofc the whole dick justice conversation

>>383591874
all they had to do was watch Tropa de Elite

>>383596548
>super-soldiers on steroids
Every max payne game ends up with max killing Spec-op Commando types
I always find it more enjoyable when the bullet fodder are street level thugs and trench-coat gangsters

>>383592489
Why don't devs do this anymore?

>>383597524
Bigger budget=use professionals

>>383597524
Most companies aren't friends having fun anymore. It's just a business.

>>383592939
>THE FLESH THE FLESH.
>I think I die. I think I'm dead.
>I don't know. I DON'T KNOW.
The miniseries are one of the reasons I legit prefer Max Payne 2.

>>383597524
They can just make good faces now, even copies of the devs' faces.

I loved they way they handled Late Goodbye on Max Payne 2.
You can hear bits and pieces of it everywhere:

>Max Payne owns an album titled "Late Goodbye" in his apartment.
>Ed the Janitor hums the song when Max encounters him. (No 'Us' in This)
>Mona Sax sings the song in a shower in her hideout when Payne finds her. (A Linear Sequence of Scares)
>The Cleaners play the song on a dead man's piano. (The Million Dollar Question)
>Numerous enemies hum the song throughout the game.
>The one cleaner that actually cleans anything in Max Payne's last nightmare sings the song.

And then, in the credits, you can finally hear it fully. Perfect way to end game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCj-I4LoqtQ

Where would be a good location for a Max Payne 4? Hong Kong?

>>383585194
Max Payne 3 doesn't even have qtes you memeing autist, and the shooting mechanics and physics are phenomenal

File: 20120504maxpaynecomic.jpg (43KB, 668x190px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 668x190px

>>383587774
Two is a great follow up for it as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u116HbMOF_Y

>>383583717
>I'd say Alpha Centauri has better writing
Most of AC's writing consists of copy pasting quotes from elsewhere. Granted, it is very good copy pasting.

File: 1355043738899.gif (2MB, 400x228px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 400x228px

>>383585882
You're not alone. Max Payne 2 was nothing like the first to me and I cordially dislike it.

>Sam Lake's face gone replaced with standard hard-boiled badass a dime a dozen
>Mona forced romance
>Vlad turns from bro into finall villain because they had nothing else to use

>>383597874

I thought it was really stupid the way they kept crowbarring that mediocre song into the game and then I discovered that Sam Lake is a personal friend of the band and it all made sense. I'm glad he got his buddies a job but we really didn't need to hear that song over and over again.

Sam Lake is objectively a better writer than Hideo Kojima tbqh.

File: scientificamericanmind0714-11a-I1.jpg (21KB, 500x163px) Image search: [Google]

21KB, 500x163px

>>383597965
Make it Die hard, so the entire game is just one building. Like a bank robbery and Max being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

>>383598484
Max Payne: The Raid

>>383585882
I only really liked how they added a physics engine to 2. Shooting that first commando and watching him fly into the cabinets was really satisfying the first time around.
Everything else was not as memorable
>Serious tone means the graphic novel segments aren't as memorable
>Bland levels. All of act 2 takes place in a bland construction site

File: mp3.jpg (146KB, 640x360px) Image search: [Google]

146KB, 640x360px

>>383587774
>>383587942
>>383587991
Despite all the flak MP3 got (and partially rightfully so), it was alright in my book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9opajfv24fg

>>383597965
Nothing, you make Dick Justice spin off which can justify anything because it's not directly connected to the story of Max.

File: 2201629-2012_01_23_00083.jpg (53KB, 960x542px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 960x542px

God I fapped way too many times to these back then

File: 14945223581364678.png (245KB, 450x349px) Image search: [Google]

245KB, 450x349px

>>383598758
>those nude mona mods

>>383598686
MP3 is so good and so optimized.
Damn remedy for using their shit ass Alan Wake Engine for Quantum break
I love rockstars advanced engine so much.

File: shot0002.jpg (232KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

232KB, 1024x768px

>>383598929
>use "debug" mod to travel through walls
>go spy Mona under the shower in that one chapter

Good times. I just wish there was a mod to put Sam Lake's face back in 2.

>>383599010
>so optimized
Those unskippable cut scenes everywhere pissed off a lot of people and rightfully so

>>383586924
>>383587447
Yeah, I'm not sure how I had the balls to complete this back in 2nd grade. Literally the very first game I ever beat.

I loved MP3's shooting and physics. Amazing game. The soundtrack... Damn I love MP3.

>>383599282

>modeled nippled when we normally would not see them unless we used debug

They knew

>>383599340
That has what to do with optimization nigger?
I liked the cutscenes the first playthrough though
Also MP3 is the best TPS to me

File: doc68791630_437674669.gif (3MB, 350x225px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 350x225px

>>383600220
Best TPS ever.

>>383583969
It's a good game but it feels so disconnected from the rest of the franchise. The transition from Film Noir to modern gritty crime stuff was handled awfully. Still, I like the game.

>>383600220
What makes the cutscenes great is largely down to hearing Max's inner monologue, and that doesn't necessarily require a cutscene unlike the banter and dialogue so a lot of that felt gratuitous and interrupted the flow of the game. Still a great game but if they ever make more I hope it'll be closer to the originals in that, maybe even bring back the graphic novel panels or at least keep the cutscenes to one or two, max three per level.

>>383600513
>playing MP3 on console
SAD!
Like fuck I play it a 3K 60fps, beautiful.
But yes I would say ever GTA V would be there if they didnt make the bullets disappear in 2 seconds and the bullets go in a straight line. GTA V also has top tier first person though.

Am I alone in loving all three games?

I wish the multiplayer in 3 wasn't dead. I had a fucking blast with it. Hands down the best 3rd person gunplay ever. I have no idea why Rockstar just didn't copy-paste it into GTA.

>>383601993
No, MP3 is amazing. One of the few Single-Player centric games I've actually bought in the past few years.

Look like we have a Rockstar employee.
Also, MP3 level design suck donkey dick.

>>383601993

My nigger. I love all of them, and the MP was fun when it lasted

Currently playing Max Payne 3 after having played the first two games a couple of months ago for the first time.

My feelings for MP3 are conflicted, on one hand the gameplay is amazing and polished so hard you can use it as a mirror, on the other hand I am very disappointed in how different it is from MP1+2.
The Story isn't bad at all but just not what I imagine a Max Payne game to be about, Max's inner dialogue is alright but not enough.

I kind of wish that Max Payne 3 was its own new franchise instead and just a spiritual successor to the other games.

>>383600513

Fucking classy

Do you all think something like Max Payne 1 could be made today?
It's not like it's that old but I wonder if it came out today how it would've been received.

>>383583345
>I've been thinking about this for a while now and...is Max Payne 1 actually the best written and presented video game of all time?
Honestly... probably.

What I like most about it is how it makes a clear distinction from the story presentation (the comic book style and voice acting) and actual gameplay, which is pure game. It also made the story side completely skippable so you can stay right in the gameplay.

I liked MP3 but it completely threw this design philosophy out and made those fucking awful unskippable cutscenes and game transitions that takes the control out of the player's hands. Really unforgivable and unfortunate. I still did like the game a lot though despite that.

>>383598758
>Tfw this scene probably gave me one of my first erections

>>383603430
The graphics are pretty dated but honestly, if some indie studio pushed it out today I can totally see people falling for its charm and praising it for being unique.

The mere fact that Max Payne 2 quotes a Tom Waits song makes me happy and makes me love Sam Lake even more.

File: 212.jpg (10KB, 200x160px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 200x160px

>>383603456
>That dream sequence that starts with a bunch of moans
>The same dream, getting to the bathroom to hear Mona asking for more, harder and harder

>>383585882
You are not alone, it is not a bad game, but it is objectively inferior to MP1.

>>383583345
Yes it was great. The dream sequences were too crazy, especially the second one.

And then there are the cheesy one liners. I loved Max's cynicysm.

>>383603430
What, in terms of gameplay and story? It could pass as a hidden gem game that has modest reception from the normies, like it is today.

>>383594997
Max Payne supposed to had a multiplayer mode too.

>>383603430
5/10 - too difficult
Seriously though, as long as the graphics were really good by today's standards the game would still be very praised and loved, I believe. Thing is that I doubt it could happen in today's climate, back then you didn't need a huge team and budget to make a graphically impressive, highly detailed game that can compete with the best on the market. Nowadays it'd either look shit compared to the average AAA release or it'd have a decent budget and would be ruined by publishers.

File: maxpayne2.jpg (607KB, 1280x1643px) Image search: [Google]

607KB, 1280x1643px

>>383603754
>sounds of a leather jacket

>>383607808
>That undertit

Good times.

>>383591646
I kinda liked the stranger in a strange land aspect of MP3.

>>383603754
It looped if you didn't move. First and only time I masturbated while playing a videogame.

>>383607808
Just this pannel it's better than some entire AAA actual games story.

>>383603754
>That level in the fancy apartment
>bump into one of the doors
>load sexy moaning plays

File: KqSKnIT.jpg (78KB, 800x495px) Image search: [Google]

78KB, 800x495px

>Passion project by a small group of people wanting to make a game inspired by John Woo movies and film noir.
>Can't afford fully rendered cutscenes, so they use comic strips to tell the story instead.
>Can't render a lively New York, so the game takes place during a massive blizzard.
>Coworkers, friends and parents play characters because they can barely afford real actors.
>The iconic look of Max Payne is the fucking lead writer.
>Future titles have real actors, proper cutscenes and way higher production values and yet they can't touch the original.

Max Payne 1 was a beautiful product of a special time and place.

>>383608551
Isn't most of the textures in Max Payne 1 actual pictures turned into textures?

The faces sure as hell are, and I think it worked out way better than any "actual" face modeling technique could have worked back then.

>play the demo thanks to a pc magazine
>all that fun
>quicksaving and try different kills and suicides with grenades or molotovs with all that slowmotion
>molotof the junkies
>shooting on the enemies knees

I had to pirate because it was the fastest way thanks to a schoolmate. I bought the pc version later and as the xbox. Good times, it was just a great experience and that world had a personality something that new games miss, they are too bland or generic

Only Max Payne could take a motherfucking parking lot as an entire level and still make it awesome as hell.

File: 1485115784916.png (65KB, 210x240px) Image search: [Google]

65KB, 210x240px

Max Payne is a such a special game that sadly never got the appreciation it deserved. Hopefully that changes soon.

>>383609113
Alot of games did that anon, in fact Id hazard the guess most of them did.

Thread is dead.
But its all right.

>>383609762
It's one of the most acclaimed shooters ever released, tf you talking about

>>383611446
I couldn't stop. I had to go on.

>>383611624
I doubt most people have played it. At most 3 for being closer to AAA plus having R* as devs and not just publishers. Hell, for a long time I didn't. I had heard how great it was, saw some webms, knew a few things about but never went out to play it until recently.

>>383609827

Max Payne was the first game to use photo textures extensively.

It's easy to forget now, but when it came out it was already infamous in the industry for being vaporware and for offering revolutionary graphics.

>>383612463
That's because you probably weren't even born when it came out
Every oldfag fondly remembers Max Payne

>>383608551
>Can't render a lively New York, so the game takes place during a massive blizzard.

This element contributes so much to why I love the game.

It just feels apocalyptic. It's the kind of night where you get the sense anything could happen, that the spirits of the damned have raised from hell for one night of horror.

One of the most awesome moments in any videogame:

>"What do you mean he's unstoppable? You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped, you outnumber him at least 20 to 1. Do... your... job!"

Hearing the main villain affirm your badassitude as you mow down wave after wave of junkies, mobsters, lunatics and mercenaries is just so awesome. You knew the end was coming and that you were going to seriously fuck some shit up.

File: silent-hill-2-3.png (372KB, 670x377px) Image search: [Google]

372KB, 670x377px

>>383583345
>best written and presented video game
That'd be Silent Hill 2, but Max Payne is up there.

>>383612597
92. At the time I just had a shitty computer that could play Monkey Island and nothing more. Eventually got ps2 but max payne just kinda fell to the backlog of must play games before I die.
And it was fun as fuck.

>>383612831
the first one shit on it so hard.

>>383609562
This is so fucking true.

File: IMG_20170711_222126.jpg (3MB, 3772x2828px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 3772x2828px

If you don't have boxed copies of both games you need to gtfo of my board.

>>383613581
If I have them as a compilation in one box can I stay?

>>383613581

If you don't have the Max Payne mousepad you're a fucking 00s kid scrub.

>>383583345
It's really good. I quite liked Alan Wake too.

>>383613581

Shame Max Payne was released right at the time when big boxes started dying out.

>>383613869
Alan Wake is one of those games I love despite all its flaws but it still makes me sad to think about what could have been. It used to be such an ambitious project.

>>383585882
>it took itself way too seriously
What?
>Everything that goes on TV, like fucking Dick Justice
>Vinnie's demise
>some of the dreams are really darkly funny, like the quiz show between Vlad and Vinnie
>lots of mook banter

>>383614059
My exact feelings. With a few tweaks the game would've improved significantly. It's also a shame that, for the time being, its not even available for purchase.

>>383613735
Yes you're alright.

Max Payne 1 is the best video game of all time.

File: 1455580422835.jpg (233KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

233KB, 1024x768px

>>383588172

>>383613581
Get rekt faggot.

I have the Max Payne 2 cardboard box. It's thin like yours, but it's not in plastic.

>>383583345
>Max Payne 1 actually the best written and presented video game of all time
No.

Hai tis is Säm Leik from öö ää öö Remedi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SVuIRjiucM

>>383594286
The best part is how it's making fun of the first game's story. "Just give me a gun and set me loose".

>>383587774
Anyone have the video of the enemy playing the piano before noticing Payne?

>>383614659
kek
>>383615238
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWXT4p_EjJ8

I have a theory about Max Payne that is probably just wank but I really like it. I feel like all the mythical references in 1 are a little more than that. I feel like the story of the game itself is taking a myth about a hero and placing it in a pseudo-modern setting, so when you have Max being literally unstoppable it makes sense because this is not a realistic story in spite of being set in a vaguely realistic world. And then you make the hero self-aware and that's a recipe for one of the most unique video games ever.

>>383615338
The mythical stuff was V(hallucinations) numbnuts.

>>383615338
Don't know if canon wise it's more than a bit weird hard boil noir story. I think its just Remedy wanting to use the New York setting with their own folklore.

>>383614793
Sam Lake is just so cute desu
No homo

>>383614793
Don't diss his english man. His rally english is legendary.

>>383614754
If you're gonna disagree you could at least provide some examples.

>>383615484
So everybody just hallucinated Aesir, Woden, Ragnarok, etc? Wew.

>>383615514
I feel like it's a bit more, I mean there's really the whole epic weird conspiracy.

I honestly feel bad for people that never played Max Payne 1 and 2. These games were true masterpieces, especially the first one.

That atmosphere...

That New York City during a snow storm...

It was AMAZING.

I wish I could go back in time and play it again.

>>383615740
Aren't the references to norse mythology just in the names? I have no idea if each character actually follows the same character in mythology.

>>383616028
They're more like name and a theme. I mean Lupino = Lupus = wolf = Fenrir = herald of the Ragnarok. Woden is one-eyed and wise. But I'm saying it's more than just references, it's there to set up a certain theme and mood.

>>383616018
they haven't held up.

>>383586283
I remember getting the first Max Payne as a birthday present from my friend and playing it all the way through the same night.

>>383616176
>it's there to set up a certain theme and mood.
Oh yeah, definitely. You do get that sense of something much bigger than you, which makes a perfect setup for the conspiracy. The constant snow storm is genius, not only for the technical limitations but for setting up that world changing plot.

>>383615292
Yes this was the one, thanks.
What song is that? It's very nice.

How did Alfred Woden not get killed after he woke up from the dead when there's hired specialists everywhere?

>>383607808
Is this kino?

>>383616472

You don't recognize it? It's Late Goodbye, the song that plays during the credits.

>>383586924
This is the only reason it took me like 15 years to do a second playthrough.

>>383616485
The specialists were probably too busy getting killed by Max.

Though wasn't it somehow implied that he paid them off or somehow anticipated the attack and used it to further his own goals?

File: 1499702052434.png (439KB, 1280x738px) Image search: [Google]

439KB, 1280x738px

>scripted grenades

Max Payne 1 is a waste of a good /vr/ tech

>>383616592
But there were literally hired thugs inside the meeting room when Max revisits it
There was no way Woden could've escaped without people noticing

>>383616028
>Alex Balder dies in the opening act. Baldr dies to herald the beginning of Ragnarok, the end of the world
Other than it, its mostly there for an overarching feeling
>The whole blizzard thing represents the Fimbulwinter

>>383583768
>Shame the one with the strongest writing and most compelling and socially relevant story ruined the series

>>383583345

Favorite line of dialogue in Max Payne - "The Cleaners.."

>>383616802
>not playing them for gameplay..

does mp3 have the awful sluggish controls from the more recent gtas?

>>383616549
Oh yeah, so it is. Thanks.

>>383616802
>socially relevant story
YOU ARE TURNING PEOPLE INTO GLUE

>>383617119
I'm still kinda pissed that you never get to kill the head Chaca Preto guy or the head Commando Sombra guy in a firefight

>>383590760
>>383595215
Even that level though missed the mark, tonally it was max payne 1 but the writing was like GTA shit. Self referential parody. The whole game suffered from this.

File: 1497716679824.jpg (27KB, 293x268px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 293x268px

>>383617343
>Baghdad with G-strings

>>383616951
It doesn't, which only fucking makes it more confusing that GTAV had it.

>>383607808
>tfw no destructive passionate romance that ruins everything around me
JUST

Guys I NEED things that are similar to Max Payne in tone and style.
I don't know anything about film noir but I do know that the shoot-outs and bullet time was inspired by John Woo movies so I got that down.

>>383583969
it had way too many overlong cutscenes that caused so many people to get annoyed over the game

File: 1484381576421.jpg (8KB, 250x250px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 250x250px

>>383594680
>mfw late goodbye after finishing the game first time
I felt like shit at least 3 days after I finished this game back in 2003

>>383598929

>nude mod

Link now.

The Valkyr case was anything but closed.

>>383618073
The Punisher.

>>383618073

Strangehold.

>>383618581
>There will never be a Max Payne and Chow Yun Fat team up

File: MaxPayneMonaSax.jpg (18KB, 375x372px) Image search: [Google]

18KB, 375x372px

Name a better vidya romance than this, I'll wait.

>>383585546
I quicksave and load so much in my games
Even if I did alright I'll keep retrying until I feel like it went almost perfectly and I did enough cool shit

I wish I could quicksave in real life so I could buttrape cuties :)))))

>>383618845
I really liked how Sands of Time handled it.
That final scene is fantastic.

File: 1476049649477.png (22KB, 762x207px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 762x207px

>>383615338
>>383615484
>>383615514

File: 1491576772684.gif (2MB, 468x278px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 468x278px

So is ded Mona canon or not?

>>383619174
That is cool but I doubt Sam's intention with Max was to make him an actual norse beserker. More like a parallel between the two stories, a sort of modern retelling of it.

>>383619174
This is my headcanon now.

>>383619671
Yes

>>383617119
I didn't get that line, they're harvesting organs, not starting up a glue company

>>383616951
No, where gta 4 and 5 feel like you're controlling real people with weight, mp3s makes you feel like you're controlling a real, middle aged, man who loves jumping all over the place

File: 1498904707278-1-1-1.jpg (19KB, 164x129px) Image search: [Google]

19KB, 164x129px

>>383583345
I only played 2 was kinda cool

>>383619750
Does he say that she died in MP3?

>>383619671
I think so. They could easily bring her back but it fits Max's life.
Although I'd like to see the sorry bastard happy for once.

>>383619871
Not outright but he probably wouldn't be such a mess if she was still around
Apart from that one line and the couple of gravestones it's like MP2 never happened anyway so it doesn't even matter

>>383619863
You are missing out anon

File: Don't answer that.jpg (58KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

58KB, 1280x720px

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8IEiwBLSxw

>>383583345

If only you knew how bad things are going to be.

What was up with the baseball bat-boy comics? Were they connected in someway?

>replay MP3
>feel satisfaction at getting enemies knocked down
>suddenly feel disappointed as I realize that the enemies in MP3 aren't like RDR's

File: 1391369064584.jpg (118KB, 500x417px) Image search: [Google]

118KB, 500x417px

>>383583345
I enjoyed all the MP games 3 was even gud and fun

>>383620560
It's just silly little world building
>That mission where you escort Vinny in the Baseball batboy costume

>>383620560
I though it was another reference to Max and Mona relation, with the villian being Vlad

File: Untitled4.jpg (413KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

413KB, 1920x1080px

Max had a hard life

>>383595681
Too bad that the gameplay was shit.

File: 1492200752227m.jpg (96KB, 1024x949px) Image search: [Google]

96KB, 1024x949px

>>383589597
I actually used some phrases of the game in a story I had to write for school
>mfw everyone thought i was deep

>>383596212
Blood omen had some nice bits spread out through the run time but not enough to make a complete, quality story.

>>383621149
>Oh anon, you're so troubled
>I really like the part WHACK HIM

File: acmap.jpg (1MB, 4096x2030px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 4096x2030px

>>383583345
>Max Payne 1 actually the best written and presented video game of all time?
No, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is. Everyone knows this.

>>383616802
What crack are you smoking, story is by far the worst part of mp3. You go around either drunk or hungover chasing people you have no attechment to with an annoying asshole that leaves you to die at some point. Story is so forgettable I can't recall anyones name or even why you were chasing the big bad guy on the airfield.

Where is that good writing youre talking about.

MP1 had dealing with death of your family, revenge, norse mythology references, dealing with the mobs

MP2 had starting over and romance arc

What did MP3 have? Something about abducting people being bad and getting over your alcoholism.

File: we must dissent.png (951KB, 1026x509px) Image search: [Google]

951KB, 1026x509px

>>383598139
Almost all of the quotes in SMAC are original.

File: vapathy 2-620x.jpg (31KB, 620x344px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 620x344px

Max Payne 3 is a very underrated game, I understand why people dislike it, but I still think it's a worthy installment. It has three big problems, the writing feeling extremely Rockstar at times (fuck characters like Marcello), it has too much cutscenes/loading and the game feels like it retcons a lot of events. It's pretty much half reboot and best approached as such.

I actually like that it deliberately feels very different in style. Very good shooting, amazing technology and production values. Campaign is very diverse, I love how it throws different locations and different looks of Max on you; keeps the game from getting stale. The story is somewhat interesting and I like the whole fish out of water aspect. The thing I probably like most is what a fucking wreck Max is in this game, it doesn't really line up with how 2 ended, but it's something quite novel for a video game protagonists. You don't really see MC's this fucked up very often, so the scene where he shaves his head and decides to get his shit together is super satisfying.

Also, "You'll walk, WITH A LIMP." is probably one of the greatest comeback lines ever.

>>383621581
MP2 was about deal with the past so Max could be in peace with his life

>>383620078
Yeah I was thinking getting 1 and 3 lately.

File: 1428645107382.gif (1MB, 250x207px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 250x207px

>>383613581
I have Max Payne in a jewel case but I have Max Payne 2 in a cardboard box. that shit is so cool.

File: 1497290773033.gif (2MB, 159x146px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 159x146px

>>383621149
>Was kind of an edgy emo kid
>Kept on saying "The flesh of fallen angels"

>>383621691
Marcello got fucking incinerated via tires and gasoline, so there's that