Max Payne 3 Trailer

Wtf are you talking about? Alan Wake I thought was a great game, and like both Max Payne games it had EXCELLENT atmosphere, some of the best in a game.

gameplay wasn't meant to be like Max Payne in Alan Wake, it wasn't an action game or meant to be one like their previous games.

I do want Remedy to make it, obviously it's not gonna happen, but they know the world the character, and both games nailed that noir atmosphere which the third one seems to be missing completely off the mark.

It takes more then having "shadows" to make something Noir, and from all the pics, and trailer, etc it seems there's just no more noire atmosphere to it from what we've seen.

Alan Wake's gameplay was completely broken. The game focused on its own self-indulgence and nothing else.
 
The minute I heard that Max Payne theme music, it was like a wave of nostalgia swept over me. Damn I miss that music......


Yeah me too, but then I saw the game.....fucking bullshit, take your Max Payne 3 and choke on it!
 
^ My thoughts. Why is this called Max Pain?
Its not, its called Max PAYNE 3.


I'll probably end up getting this, fan of everything they've done thus far. LA Noire was interesting and it looks like they're taking some of that and putting into this (via the cutscenes).

I will say this is no where on my pre-order must haves.
 
coming from rockstar, there's a good chance the game will be good.

do you really want more of the same ol same old ? There's no story to continue from max payne 2.
 
It has the name, it has the music and it has bullet time, but it does not feel like Max Payne to me. It looks like a game meant to capitalize on the franchise and attract 15 year old wanna be gang bangers.
 
Alan Wake's gameplay was completely broken. The game focused on its own self-indulgence and nothing else.

I wouldn't say broken, infact I think mechanically the gameplay functioned extremely well. However it was extremely repetitive after the first 2 hours or so due to a lack of enemy variety and very few situation based encounters.

I don't agree with your call on self-indulgence however, I found every other aspect of that game fantastic.
 
I wouldn't say broken, infact I think mechanically the gameplay functioned extremely well. However it was extremely repetitive after the first 2 hours or so due to a lack of enemy variety and very few situation based encounters.

I don't agree with your call on self-indulgence however, I found every other aspect of that game fantastic.

The dodge mechanic was unreliable at best, the character couldn't run five metres without getting puffed out during intense encounters (and don't say "he's a writer not Usain Bolt lolz" - fat people can run faster and further than that when they are in fight-or-flight response), the game insisted every conflict had to occur in ridiculously cramped areas and the game destroyed all sense of progression by removing all of your items/weapons/ammo at the end of every level and giving you new ones, thus punishing economical use of items and completely removing the "survival" part of "survival horror".

The sheer amount of Stephen King and Twin Peaks worship qualifies as self-indulgence. Add to that the story was uninteresting, Alan Wake himself was extremely idiotic and the game was about as "psychological" as an episode of Oprah. Even if the story was great, it doesn't excuse making the gameplay so bad.
 
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Everything that made the first two Max Payne games as great as they are, seems to be missing from this one. I mean yes, they have the original voice actor, but that didn't save DN:F from being garbage and I doubt it will here either.

While there may be reasons for Max changing his appearance I can't help but want him the way I remember him, only older. Not some 50's something grease-ball with lifeless eyes, lacking the cool story and presentation of the originals.
 
Funny, I thought the new visuals seem to fit Payne's character perfectly, given how far he deteriorated during Max Payne 2. Biggest difference seems to be the daylight...

"OMG it's not noir anymore!" I bet half the people on the Internet whining about this didn't even know what 'noir' was until the word turned up in the title of the second game...
 
Funny, I thought the new visuals seem to fit Payne's character perfectly, given how far he deteriorated during Max Payne 2. Biggest difference seems to be the daylight...

"OMG it's not noir anymore!" I bet half the people on the Internet whining about this didn't even know what 'noir' was until the word turned up in the title of the second game...

Yeah, I mean totally because some people didn't know what "noir" was it means it's completely ok for Rockstar to ditch the whole angle and take it into generic non-noir atmosphere?

I'm sure most of us never saw Chinatown, or Blade Runner or anthing.
 
Small side note though, anyone recently replayed the originals? It is hilariously awful. I can't do it. I am normally okay with old games, but I just can't replay these, especially the first one lmao.
Regarding how he looked then (above) and now, I definitely miss his 90's styling lol.

LOL... I did actually, takes the patches and stuff just to get it working with sound again... I'd be up for a MUCH higher polygon count HD remake on it. The controls are fine, just needs a face-lift.

it's supposed to be awful... in a kind of noire B movie soft-of way, not in a AAA glamore title wanna-be sort-of way.

3 feels like a rich kid trying to be bad.
 
Funny, I thought the new visuals seem to fit Payne's character perfectly, given how far he deteriorated during Max Payne 2. Biggest difference seems to be the daylight...

"OMG it's not noir anymore!" I bet half the people on the Internet whining about this didn't even know what 'noir' was until the word turned up in the title of the second game...

You're right because I've never seen You Only Live Once, Stranger on the Third Floor, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Stranger...etc. :rolleyes:
 
It's been years and the Max Payne franchise died so if Rockstar wants to bring it back in any shape or form I'm not complaining.
 
You're right because I've never seen You Only Live Once, Stranger on the Third Floor, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, The Stranger...etc. :rolleyes:

I said half, not all. And I didn't say this forum.

Really, learn to read.
 
There's so much gray area in that commit it could be anyone.
 
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Looks good, but my guess is that is a port and will play like shit on the PC.
 
Fuck yeah. I've got fond memories of Max Payne 1, if this feels like that even a little bit I'll be happy.
 
Had I not been told it was a Max Payne game, I don't think I would have been able to tell. I loved the first two though.
 
I wouldn't get your hopes up.

All those Hawaiian shirts weren't enough to tip you off?

I could feel the heat of the bullets flying past me like an exploding Volcano.

All around me the air was filled with gunfire and hawaiian shirts.

A sea turtle crawled through a pool of a blood and I thought.

This is hell.
 
I understand why some are upset but I'm willing to give the game a shot. It looks like it could be an excellent game. I'm also a fan of the first two Max Payne games but understand things change, at least it's not as bad as the new Dante in DMC.
 
Change sucks. It probably won't run on your Athlon X2 anyway.

GET OFF MY LAWN.

:rolleyes:

Change sucks if it's bad. Heh, that applies to a number of subjects.

The jury is still out here obviously.
 
They're using a franchise that was popular/had a good name in the past and are molding it to appeal to the console kiddies. I don't believe Sam Lake is even participating in the development of this game.

I'd definitely call it a cash grab.

Although I agree with your overall sentiment, it's ironic that you'd think they are trying to appeal to "console kiddies" when the reality is that most console kiddies, when asked, would say "Huh? Max who?"...;) (ClearM4 asks, in this very thread, "Why is this called Max Pain?" quote, unquote.) I think the very fact that the game is entitled "Max Payne" indicates which specific audience they are trying to reach. Where I agree with you is in thinking that they have largely failed in that bid.

I am very disappointed in this trailer. I was surely not a "Gran Torino is Alive IV" fan (pun intended), and turning this game into a "Thrill to edge-of-your-seat scenes of an enraged but still youthful Max Payne as he throws down the bottle, shaves his head, and takes on the 2011 Latino Gang Wars!" epic strikes me as both insulting to the original Max Payne fans and idiotic at the same time. It's very close to a straight parody of the original franchise. If it turns out to be a parody, then what a cheap shot and what a lost opportunity.

OTOH, If the game is substantially different from what is displayed in this trailer then all they've accomplished with releasing it is to shoot themselves in the foot. Max Payne fans expect a story in which the life of Max Payne continues from the first two installments--or at the very least doesn't contradict the original games and builds on them. Doesn't seem to me that this would be very difficult to do.

Last--I agree that the game is a "cash grab." But all games are cash grabs...;) I don't think anyone objects to "good" cash grabs that deliver the goods--it's the "bad/poor/rotten" cash grabs that absolutely nobody likes.
 
Amazing how much people already know about a game that's still a good 6 months off at least.
 
Change sucks. It probably won't run on your Athlon X2 anyway.

GET OFF MY LAWN.

:rolleyes:

But I don't have an Athlon X2.........:confused: If your going to start off your complaints with personal attacks at least show me the decentcy of getting your facts strait.


I hope this game will be half as good as Redneck Rampage.
 
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"OMG it's not noir anymore!" I bet half the people on the Internet whining about this didn't even know what 'noir' was until the word turned up in the title of the second game...

The so-called "noir" genre/style in the US has its origin and roots in early-mid 20th-century black and white and color television--many dramas were heavily narrated by the star--not just the detective/PI/Police television shows. Back in the earlier days of US television, where budgets were very small and special-effects were mostly homemade gimmicks, narration was an absolutely essential device for telling and creating the story.

For instance, even a show primarily concerned with free-lance scuba diving, Sea Hunt, with Lloyd Bridges, was heavily narrated in a noir-ish style.

While you may have already known this, I wanted to bring up the fact that "noir" was hardly original with Max Payne II...;)
 
Well this is a spot of good news.

"Rockstar initially claimed that series staple James McCaffrey would not return to the role of Max Payne, instead opting for an older actor.[15] However, in Edge it was confirmed that James McCaffrey will not only return to voice Max Payne, but will also return in a full acting role through motion capture".[5]. A trailer was revealed on September 14th.
 
maybe it's just me, but whenever I see a main character with a shaved head, it strikes me as just lazy by the developers, that way they dont have to spend any time modeling hair behavior and physics. Just throw on a stubbly normal map on his head and call it a day!
 
Red Dead Redemption is awesome. I still play the hell out of it. That GOTY version coming out in October needs to come to the PC.


RDR gives me confidence that this probably won't suck.

Not being released on the PC is only reason I didn't buy RDR myself.

The trailer for MP:3 looks good. Like movies though, I wait for a couple of reviews, as I've seen great trailers followed by lousy products.
 
Not being released on the PC is only reason I didn't buy RDR myself.

I don't know if you own a console but if you do: It's a fantastic game. Buy it! I still play it even now.

I don't think Rockstar is ever going to bring it to the PC although this October would have been ideal with the GOTY version they're bringing out.

A damned shame.

It's for games like these I'm glad I own a PS3.

The trailer for MP:3 looks good. Like movies though, I wait for a couple of reviews, as I've seen great trailers followed by lousy products.

Yup.
 
I'll wait to pass full judgement, but so far I can say I don't like the direction it's taken. Killing strangers in other countries feels less interesting. The original had complex character interactions amongst the people close to Max. Max in Brasil seems to make all the characters strangers. We wouldn't trust any of these people on a good day.
 
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