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[Gorays]

I played the orginal Max Payne, I liked and it was fun(never had the chance to play the second one). Rockstar games announced Max Payne 3 just recently, not much of the game is known until now, thanks to these new game informer scans. Max payne 3 will be released for PC, Ps3, Xbox360 and hits this fall(2009).

For more info on Max Payne 3,

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Max_Payne_3

Scans

Edited by Gorays, 14 June 2009 - 12:37 PM.

[Thunder]

Sounds interesting. I liked the first MP, but I wasn't fond of the second one, mainly due to the story.

I'll be keeping track of this one.

[hagren]

Has this anything to do with the original installments? They even change his voice...

[VonVentrue]

hagren, on Jun 14 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

Has this anything to do with the original installments? They even change his voice...

Even the noir theme is completely gone. Surprised? Raping perfectly good franchises seems to be trendy these days.

[Campaigner]

VonVentrue, on Jun 15 2009, 07:57 PM, said:

Even the noir theme is completely gone. Surprised? Raping perfectly good franchises seems to be trendy these days.

If that's true then I believe they're doing it to "broaden the userbase" (MOAR MONEY!!). I'm pretty certain there was another franschise where they turned the gameplay from something unique into more of a standard FPS. Not Resident Evil 4....perhaps Splinter Cell 4 ?   (Haven't played it but read a bit about it).

The noir comicbook cutscenes were so cool. If they remove all that then they should just call this game something else (yes I know why they're calling it Max Payne 3 anyway!).

[Dei]

..I don't wanna play as a guy who looks like a hobo. D:

[Confederacy]

VonVentrue, on Jun 15 2009, 12:57 PM, said:

Even the noir theme is completely gone. Surprised? Raping perfectly good franchises seems to be trendy these days.

Exactly my thoughts. Such a shame that they completely ruined Max Payne now.

Edited by Confederacy, 27 June 2009 - 09:55 AM.

[TheDude]

I love it how we're all agreeing with Von.
And ghostly said this forum wasn't civilized

[Erix]

Not cool...

I want Remedy back on it! (Stupid Alan Wake...)

[stewox.]

Max Payne was actually 3DRealms franchise but it got sold to help development of DNF

[Erix]

I know, but Remedy still made the second one (with Rockstar being publisher IIRC).

Oh, and I've never played the first one, never could get it to work for some reason.

[Erix]

Time to revive this!

http://kotaku.com/58...s-first-trailer

[hagren]

Meh.

[Thunder]

^I second that statement. Meh.

[Dei]

Meh.

[Sean_Seanston]

FFS, I was looking forward to this one and now it's all falling apart.

TBQH, Max Payne 2 itself felt a bit surplus to requirements IMO in that it was a good game but didn't really do anything that Max Payne didn't or do any better. Not to mention that they changed Max Payne's look completely in between 1 and 2 for some reason.
Now his signature voice is gone and it's like the original Max Payne is completely gone. His voice was integral to the whole experience, it's like Simon Templeman as Kain or Jay Anthony Franke as JC Denton. One of the first things I think of when I think about Max Payne is his gravelly noir-voice talking about "V for Valhalla... V for Valkyr..." or "I made like Chow Yun-Fat".

It's going to be lame without the original voice actor. *SIGH*

Honestly, people. What the hell is happening? It's getting downright absurd at this point, where even previously reliable companies are getting in on the fad of ****ting all over gaming, PC gaming in particular. Every time has its bad games but I seriously haven't been properly excited about a game in years. Part of that is being apprehensive from being disappointed and maybe now I'm less likely to take chances and discover games I really like, but it used to be that at least some mainstream "AAA" high-budget games were inarguably brilliant and deep.

Do we have to turn to the indie market now or something for proper games? Because they often look like the kind of things that "proper" studios used to do 10+ years ago, with imagination and creativity and style and depth.

Game I'm currently looking forward to without reservation: SERIOUS SAM 3. WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP . That can't possibly fail.
The best part of all is that SS3 has no console release date. PROPER GAME, GET!
Another thing about a proper game like SS3 coming out is that I want to be convinced that it's modern gaming that's the problem, not me. I haven't changed, the WORLD has changed, I swear .
If SS3 engrosses me like I hope it will, like games used to... then I'll know everything is fine.

Edited by Sean_Seanston, 15 September 2011 - 09:18 AM.

[Erix]

It's still the same voice actor though.

[Gazdakka Gizbang]

Erix, on 15 September 2011 - 10:33 AM, said:

It's still the same voice actor though.

Owned.

Edited by Gazdakka Gizbang, 15 September 2011 - 11:39 AM.

[Sean_Seanston]

Erix, on 15 September 2011 - 10:33 AM, said:

It's still the same voice actor though.

But... it says they decided against using James Caffrey again and they plan on casting a new voice actor

It's right here in the top left:
http://img81.imagesh...yne3scans05.jpg

Though IMDB has McCaffrey but we all know how dodgy IMDB is.

[Erix]

Blazzard also claimed that they had casted a new guy for Raynor, but in the end they apparently went back to the old one.