Max Payne 3 announced

[Purkake]

Rhetorical Question: You're not supposed to answer it.

 

Dude, GTAIV is a friggin' huge hit. Calling MP3 a cash-in is just typical gamer pessimism/whininess. Rockstar can afford to take their time.

 

You can never have too much cash, but I guess we'll see when they release trailers etc.

 

My biggest gripe is that it's another studio doing it.

[Gorgon]

Max Payne was getting pretty Kitch, in a good way, by Max Payne 2. As someone already said it had a lot of self-humor. The psychedelic passages were over the top, and the bullet time gunfights worked well, not original or anything even back then, just well done.

 

If they keep the same approach it could be good, if they decide to re invent it and make it solely comic book gritty like the movie, it's probably going to be bad.

[Purkake]

One of the biggest problems with the Max Payne series was that later enemies took a million bullets before dieing. It was beyond funny when a dude gets shot in the gut(in a cut scene), limps around on rooftops, jumps on a train and then has a boss fight with you where you throw 3 molotov ****tails on him and empty 4 ingram clips into him to finally get a cutscene where he ACTUALLY dies.

[Gorgon]

Well, he was a supersoldier.

[Purkake]

Well, he was a supersoldier.

 

I don't remember anything about that. It was just a dude who betrayed you.

 

And toward the end most average thugs need two shotgun blasts to the face to die...

[Calax]

Well, he was a supersoldier.

 

I don't remember anything about that. It was just a dude who betrayed you.

 

And toward the end most average thugs need two shotgun blasts to the face to die...

I don't remember the ending of 2 but I do remember the ending of Max1 was you using a grenade launcher to knock a radio antenna down on a helicopter.

[Purkake]

Well, he was a supersoldier.

 

I don't remember anything about that. It was just a dude who betrayed you.

 

And toward the end most average thugs need two shotgun blasts to the face to die...

I don't remember the ending of 2 but I do remember the ending of Max1 was you using a grenade launcher to knock a radio antenna down on a helicopter.

 

You had to drop a really sharp piece of abstract art on the dude.

 

The puzzle-type bosses were pretty good, I just got annoyed when a desert eagle to the head didn't kill people anymore.

[Hell Kitty]

You can never have too much cash

 

Which is why you take you time to create a quality product rather than attempting a quick cash-in.

[Pop]

I expect MP3's (hurrr) been in production for a good while. The release date is probably 7 or 8 months away.

[Moatilliatta]

The teaser site says winter 2009.

 

So, yeah.

Edited March 24, 2009 by Moatilliatta

[J.E. Sawyer]

Max Payne 3 already came out.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VypiAF_5i74

[mr insomniac]

Awesome.

[Musopticon?]

In reference to boss fights lasting a life time:

First they explained it with how freaking doped up the boss gangsters were, like the leader of the Ragna Rock joint("The blood of angels, gaaa"), but towards the end the endless stream of bullet sponge g-men was starting to be a bit less droll. I liked that they dropped with the m4 pretty rapidly though.

Edited March 25, 2009 by Musopticon?

[Pidesco]

I thought the first game was one really, really cool gimmick and not much else other than embarrassing writing and a bunch of Finnish guys populating the streets of NY. It only barely held my interest until the end of the game, so the third game in the series is really kind of pointless, to me.

[mkreku]

I thought the first game was one really, really cool gimmick and not much else other than embarrassing writing and a bunch of Finnish guys populating the streets of NY. It only barely held my interest until the end of the game, so the third game in the series is really kind of pointless, to me.

And yet again we have someone writing about how disinterested they are about a game, in a thread dedicated to said game..

 

Please. Elaborate how not interested you are about this game. We're anxious to hear more about how this game will not suit you and how crappy it will be. Humour us.

[Musopticon?]

I thought the second one was a really good shooter in its time and still a decent and funny romp with lots of metahumor nowadays.

 

The problem with both was that a lot of players just didn't find the bullet time mechanic interesting enough to finish the games or rate them very high. As shooters go, the amount and quality of writing was certainly up the bar and even over it. I mean, the contemporaries of Max Payne 1, Gunman et al, certainly played around with very different hooks.

 

This is where I disagree with many reviewers, the bullet time didn't get boring for me since I didn't see the basic essentials of shooter gameplay, point and shoot, reloading and cover, to be any different even though you were gliding mid-air in suppressed time. In that regard the game got boring just as fast, or not at all, as any fps or third person shooter in the market.

[Purkake]

I thought the second one was a really good shooter in its time and still a decent and funny romp with lots of metahumor nowadays.

 

The problem with both was that a lot of players just didn't find the bullet time mechanic interesting enough to finish the games or rate them very high. As shooters go, the amount and quality of writing was certainly up the bar and even over it. I mean, the contemporaries of Max Payne 1, Gunman et al, certainly played around with very different hooks.

 

This is where I disagree with many reviewers, the bullet time didn't get boring for me since I didn't see the basic essentials of shooter gameplay, point and shoot, reloading and cover, to be any different even though you were gliding mid-air in suppressed time. In that regard the game got boring just as fast, or not at all, as any fps or third person shooter in the market.

 

I liked the bullet time as well. It was a bit boring that you only had shoot dodge and sloow bullet time. They should use some stuff from Stranglehold to spice up the gunplay. As bad as Stranglehold was, it had some awesome ideas with all the staircase running and table kicking. There should be more acrobatic stuff and more ways to interact with the environment. Maybe some Equilibrium or even Matrix-y stuff.