YOU'RE TURNING HUMANS INTO GLUE
YOU'LL WALK
>>333359285
WITH A
>>333359886
Limp
>WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US
>we came for you! you keep killing us!
I still count that airport shootout with the music as one of the moments in vidya of the last decade
>we
>die
>alooooone
I DON'T SPEAK YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE!!
Now you know how horses feel!
>This was like Baghdad with G-Strings
"I’d been sitting at the bar for three hours, or five years depending on the way you looked at things."
Probably my absolute most favorite game rockstar has put out and it's all because of this absolutely phenomenal writing.
How come this game wasn't ever really THAT huge?
>>333361336
released against diablo 3
also not really that compelling besides a few scenes, really good shooting though.
>>333361640
I guess it mostly depends on your perspective. If you are the kind of person that normally feels the same way as Max does, or just either relate or completely understand all his emotions and how he acts, then each and every scene and everything he says is fantastic.
>>333362015
I feel him. And I love the game.
I'm actually going to kill myself tonight. Not sure if this is my final /v/ post, but just in case...Rock and roll fellas. Never always agreed with you, but I loved arguing with you.
I don't understand why Max just decided to go heroic in this part of the game.
Not to mention for a bunch of shitskin nobodies.
>>333362347
Don't do it, man.
>>333362347
well, see ya. or not.
>>333362438
Nothing to lose. Said fuck it
Might as well go for it
It's not hard to understand anon
GOD DAMNIT
>I had a hole in my second favorite drinking arm
>start the airport level
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEH_LSL4rVw comes on
>>333362347
Ok have fun
>>333362347
But who else am I gonna call a faggot for not sharing my opinions?
>>333361162
The actual plot is absolute trash though and the cutscenes were nauseating
>>333361162
>>333360147
>>333362534
>>333362564
Thanks for reminding me that I have to play through Max Payne 3 again.
Surprisingly enough his shout gave me chills, I remember that part vividly. One of the first times you get some emotion out of the guy, it just feels like it could have happened more after that point, but noope.
>>333361336
>unskipable cutscenes
>>333362347
I don't know anything about your situation but you're probably depressed, if that's the case it really does get better.
Don't do it, seek help.
>>333362717
>panama boat music
>police station music
if i had another SSD i might play through MP3 again
>>333361162
>absolutely phenomenal writing.
I don't know, the game felt like a mix bag, some lines were fantastic but others were "It was like Baghdad with G-Strings" levels of hilariously bad
almost everyone max was supposed to protect got killed
>>333362347
>>333362480
Don't listen to him. Do it.
>you tell that to your self in a mirror in your underwear
>>333362347
post benis
>>333362879
that was the point
>airport shootout on old school difficulty
So assuming Max took only cutscene levels of damage from bullets and the like, how fucked would he be from liver damage alone?
>>333361162
>it's all because of this absolutely phenomenal writing.
shirley you can't be serious.
>people being able to shoot you coming out of an intro cutscene, before you can literally move
fuck this game
>>333358927
Is this Cutscenes 3?
>>333363238
>MP1
>people could snipe you with a sawed off across the map
>>333358927
This was how Remedy wanted the Max Payne series to end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPuJzq3oIU8
>It's true what they say about the fall and the sudden stop at the end.
>I'd lain here in the snow while the lurid chain of scenes that had led me here kept playing in my head, a rerun of my own private snuff movie, a memory of my corpse. Alone at my own wake. Thinking in metaphors again.
>The femme fatale was gone. Only a sour taste remained of the kiss that killed me.
>This was a late goodbye. Thirteen years after I'd gotten my revenge, it had finally caught up with me. It'd been a long time to bear the pain.
>My blood painted the snow red -- a gruesome slushie -- dissolved all the scattered painkillers, and leisurely dripped down to the sewer, mingling with the bile of the city, becoming one with it.
>I can see them now, my wife and my baby. Honey, I'm home.
>>333362879
Sure did
Welcome to the story of the game
>>333362347
See ya tomorrow.
as a brfag, I can say that Rockstar did an outstanding job at recreating the setting they were going for
I can understand the story being meaningless and boring for everyone else, but for me it felt very convincing and all around really well executed
some of the brazillian voices were crap though, but that's whatever
>>333363367
I would have loved to see this.
It seemed a little strange when Max killed this guy, but holy shit if it wasn't satisfying.
thought it was way better than gta v
>>333363367
>late goodbye
>poets fall reference
I liked the gunplay but it wasn't a Max Payne game.
Felt like they were 2/3's through developing an unrelated game when some suit came in and said it needed more brand recognition.
>>333363367
>Alan Wake 2 is at least 2 years away
>>333361162
I know what you mean. The story as a whole is an absolute mess, but in the heat of everything, every line is solid gold.
Everyone says Man on Fire, I get that, but I feel City of God rings more true for parts.
>>333363668
And a bit of Tropa de Elite 1&2
>>333363607
Are you legit? I didn't even know Alan Wake was getting an actual sequel.
>>333363594
The problem is that the game was built with cover shooting to the point that the game has you start gameplay in cover several times
You can run and gun 1/2 style but the game was not built with you doing it, I remember one bit in the nightclub chapter where I was running though the level, using slow mo to get headshots without stopping and got to the bathroom where the crowd ran in and then disappeared before my eyes
>>333363785
Sam Lake says it'll happen at some point, I'm just guessing the time frame since Quantam Break is out now.
>>333364013
Anon, they're are a million games that were "supposed to have happened." If something isn't actually in development right now, then I'm assuming its never fucking happening.
>>333364152
It's already greenlit by Microsoft. They just finished Quantum Break, so now they'll move onto preproduction
>>333362858
that was just hilariously good, to me
I don't know, I think it really worked. It wasn't self serious; every time shit started getting heavy something ridiculous would pop back up. Sometimes Max would even acknowledge the absurdity himself.
The way it blended grimdark with gallows humour and self awareness without ever becoming self parodic really worked for me
>>333363668
>>333363731
Man on Fire is the obvious comparison that gets made because of the editing.
City of God and Tropa de Elite (I haven't seen 2) are both close to it in setting and in tone, as well as the cynical take on class (although TdE seems to lean a bit more towards fascism and MP doesn't really even try to comment on either law enforcement or the gangs; MP seems more concerned with just creating a weird fucking gordian knot of a plot)
The plot just seems straight 50's noir, piling misdirections ontop of double crosses with a cast whose only innocents are people too stupid/vapid to understand what's happening around them.
>>333364013
>>333364152
I never did finish the dlc, what did I miss?
>>333362726
>it just feels like it could have happened more after that point, but noope.
>I know.. EEVVVERYTHING
>GOD DAMMIIIITT
>WITH A LIMP
>>333365761
Which DLC? I played American Nightmare but none of the other ones. Still need to watch the show and the rest of the Alan Wake media out there.
>>333363527
Violence toward women is a trigger to Max. One that's a real easy button to push.
>MP3 thread
>people who can't understand basic symbolism or metaphors
>that music that plays during the hangar shootout
>almost all music up until then has been harsh and driving, the only exceptions being the music that plays during some flashback sequences, where the music reflects max's state - getting down to the wire, but holding it somewhat together, culminating in the panama stage music which perfectly conveys the same feeling that max expresses when he wakes up from a drunk stupor and realizes he's fucked up big time and now has to go through a level that's already been beaten except this time, it was cleared by the bad guys
>then you get to the hangar and this fades in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-sRmhZFBzQ
>perfect combination of distortion and the eerie, almost ethereal sound of the flashback stages, like in that moment max is in sync with himself and tapping into the memory of what he'd been before he slipped one last time, like rocky pulling his shit together for a final round
one of my favorite parts of the game
>>333366456
>that file name
I can legit hear Max saying that.
>>333361162
>Houser
>phenomenal writing
It's absolute dogshit.
I won't deny that there was good gameplay in Max Payne 3, but the story, and the setting where they placed it in, is absolutely stupid.
>>333367213
>the setting where they placed it in, is absolutely stupid.
How so?
>>333367317
Should have stuck to New York or another city like it.
Brazil was a mistake.
>>333367348
>crime ridden hell hole filled with brown people or crime ridden hell hole filled with brown people
>>333362347
Please don't do it anon. Things get better.
>>333362609
>he actual plot is absolute trash though and the cutscenes were nauseating
Let's be honest here Anon.
Max Payne games were never really about the plot, it was about Max and the writing.
>>333366456
It's amazing how bad the game can glitch and kill all the emotions they try to put into the cutscenes
>>333367720
The first one was a good crime drama about revenge, the second is a great tragedy about Max's relationship with Mona
The third one just went full retard in the worst ways possible
>>333362347
See you tomorrow anon.
G'night pal.
>>333367895
>The third one just went full retard in the worst ways possible
How so?
>People hate MP3 because it's not presented like a Remedy game.
>mfw that's exactly what I love about it.
Don't get me wrong, I love Remedy and Sam Lake's writing, but holy fuck I'm so glad Rockstar did their own thing instead of trying ot just copy its style.
New setting and a new Max was absolutely the right move. Rockstar knew they weren't Remedy so they didn't even try, the part were Max shaves his head because GOTTA GET A GRIP is fucking amazing.
MP1>MP3>MP2.
I like to think of MP3 as an alternative timeline that takes place after 1, and MP2 as another outcome. It almost works.
>>333361162
>I lost my 2nd favorite drinking arm
kek
>early game when max is wearing a gray suit
>you can see more of his shirt cuffs when he raises his arms
>they actually bothered to implement that
every time i replay this game i notice a new tiny little detail
>>333367952
Max gets dragged into an entire bullshit conspiracy that he has nothing to do with because some old cop he worked with before the first game even took place was told to go find a fall guy. Said fall guy has a history of gunning down many, many, many fucking people and is on the other side of the equator when there are plenty of people in Brazil who would have happily taken Max's place for even cheaper but no, let's get the depressed man who is an efficient killer with nothing to lose
>>333362879
The same happened in MP 1 whit his family and in MP 2 with Mona
>>333368308
Go play the game again, and this time don't drink as heavily as Max did. You might understand the plot that most High School students could.
>character is a shell of his former self and the rest of him is dead
>Game feels fucking painful to just play it's not as fun as it used to be
No but seriously, if this is what they were going for, fucking master work.
This shot reminded me that I shaved my head because MP3.
I always wanted but never got the balls to do it.
To this day I shave my head 2 times a week.
Thanks Max.
>>333365749
You seem well informed and eloquent enough to tell me more.
>>333368308
You can get one brazilian nigger and put him as bodyguard of some white rich people, but a american ex-cop with a lot of experience in shooting and actually killing all bad guys he finds in his way it´s sligthly more reliable.
BTW Pasos was never a NY cop and didn´t even meet Max before the Bar thing
This. I work close enough from the richest guy in the city, and he has in his pocket some police officials, but the bodyguards are all from USA and Germany.A cidade é Curitiba, caso estejam curiosos.
Max Payne 3 is truthfully one of my favourite games of all time.
>>333367587
Nobody has any emotional connection with Brazil. Nobody cares. It was an interesting setting when a few games like cawadoody jumped on it early on, but after that, it grew real stale real fast, and by the time MP3 got on it, nobody really cared for the setting.
Noir York is a classic setting that never gets old. It feels instantly familiar and at the same time it feels natural once you start sinking into the dark side of the city. Things never feel dark or foreboding in MP3. It just feels like you're cutting a swath through a swarm of monkeys in a junkyard. I could never take it seriously which made it feel worse because the game was trying real hard to make things look dark in this colorful shithole.
And then there's this dumb bullshit like pic related, you might as well just start a new series if you're going to disregard pretty much everything in the past two games.
>>333362347
Remember, you are here forever
>>333363913
That actually happened to me too. Really hated that most of the game was designed for cover shooting.
That and losing what guns you already had in certain cutscenes sucked dick along with the load times on non-SSD drives.
>>333368213
I must replay this game now.
>>333361162
I want you to know that I understand you were being sarcastic. It was obvious to anyone with any kind of standards when it comes to writing.
>>333370190
fun fact, most of the time the game says it's loading it's actually just buffering uncompressed cutscenes
>want to replay MP3
>remember the unskippable cutscenes.
>>333371018
You mean the unskippable load screens, right?
If your comp and ssd are fast enough, you can skip the majority of them almost straight away.
>>333363147
He's serious, and don't call him Shirley.
>>333365749
>Man on Fire is the obvious comparison that gets made because of the editing.
It's compared to Man on Fire because its the same damn plot. Max is the same as Creasy; a burnt out alcoholic military/ex-cop who is hired to be a body guard for a wealthy family. The kidnapping happens and everything goes to shit. Pinta, like Fabiana and Marcelo, are brutally murdered (Pinta is also raped but they left that out) and Max/Creasy swears revenge and goes on a campaign to murder, kill, and destroy everyone and everything responsible for the kidnapping and systemically destroys the whole thing from the ground up. In both Man on Fire and MP3 the family is as corrupt as the day is long and Max/Creasy learns of it and goes all the way to the top of the scheme and takes it apart. They both ride off into the sunset at end.
>Max Payne 3 has finally reconciled with /v/
I'm now content.
>>333369741
>the audience doesn't have emotional connection to Brazil
>this means we have to stick to New York fucking again
Fuck off inbred. It made sense within the context of max running away from his past life and mistakes. Plus the whole second half of the game is dark as fuck
>>333371627
>>this means we have to stick to New York fucking again
Except this was pretty much the best part of MP3 and definitely the most atmospheric. They could easily make a new IP and set it in Brazil and it would be fine.
It still made no sense in the context of the last two games since by the end of MP2 he was healing and was getting over the shit in his life, and he had his vengeance. MP3 just wanted to cash in on the story by turning him back around and making him an uncontrollably angry alcoholic who pussies out of the country after he pisses off a few jersey homos to fight all of Brazil all at once
>>333362347
i love you
Dumb sport!
GAWDDAMMIT
>>333373024
Careful, in this town that's blasphemy.
>>333361162
>unskippable cutscenes
>game constantly taking over controls
If they wanted to make a movie, then why did they disguise it as a video game?
I can't hear you, you hit my fucking ear
>>333368982
>Game feels fucking painful to just play it's not as fun as it used to be
>best gameplay in the series
>fucking painful
Someone needs to git gud.
>>333362347
Relax.
Don't do it.
>>333363476
I also liked the story. Others might disagree and even mount a case against that kind of thinking, but the line "nothing's a cliche when it's happening to you" felt like an excuse to take (the story) rather seriously, even personally. I was there for Max's personal drama and life has a way of being completely absurd and over-the-top, no matter what our expectations of it say.
>>333363913
>>333370190
The fuck? Game was definitely not designed around covers. In fact it's way harder if you just try and stay in cover, you get swarmed by enemies and die instantly. The game clearly wants you to use shoot dodge, you can't survive without it on higher difficulty levels.
>>333371337
>They both ride off into the sunset at end
did you watch man on fire OR play MP3?
>>333369741
>nobody connects with brazil!
>everybody connects with new york!
spoilers: outside of amerifats it doesn't matter if it's in new york, brazil or fucking sydney australia
shit is fucking interchangeable. New york is not a "classic setting that never gets old," it's a boring overused setting that never gets any less lazy.
>>333375070
>watch man on fire
spoilers: it was a book written over 30 years ago.
>>333358927
Who /if there aint light at the end, its not a tunnel, ITS JUST A HOLE/ here?
>>333368062
>MP1>MP3>MP2
This. I have no idea why MP2 turned me off so much the first time I played it. It wasn't what I expected of it after playing (and loving) MP1.
It's still a good game but one I have no desire to replay.
>>333360147
>I still count that airport shootout with the music as one of the moments in vidya of the last decade
It certainly is one of them
>>333362480
>>333362750
>>333367694
>>333373643
You people are the same people that cause more suicides than actually make people step away from them.
Telling someone, who wants control of their life, what to do is literally the worst thing you can do. You phrase it like,
>"If you want to, I can't stop you. But I really wish you wouldn't."
The way you phrase it matters more than ever.
Source: working at a fucking suicide hotline.
>>333375520
>"If you want to, I can't stop you. But I really wish you wouldn't."
And if you do not want to see me again, I WOULD UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND
>>333362347
>dying before HL3 comes out
ISHYGDDT
>>333375206
spoilers: when we're talking about the editing we're talking about the movie released in 2004 whose visual style was aped by MP3, most notabl in the cinematics featuring quick cuts, freeze frames and spoken dialoge being displayed over images as white text.
>>333366354
>you didn't like it because you didn't understand it
>>333358927
LEGALIZE IT
>>333371626
deep inside everyone knows it was goty 2012
>>333363527
>good for you, now fuck off
>>333375927
most people on /v/ are midwest plebeians who never went to a proper college so yeah
>>333358927
Reminder to watch Max Payne: The Movie
>man on fire the video game with an organ theft ring thrown in
please stop pretending this game is anything else. it was a nice tps but the story was a blatant rip off and half assed.
>>333373173
>unskippable cutscenes
That's not true though, at least on PC. It was loading the level while the cutscene played. better than looking at a loading screen if you ask me. Not sure about console though? Maybe the load times on those were so long it took the entire cut scene to load, kek.
Unrelated to that reply;
I have Max Payne 3 on disk for PC, and the game will never launch. I've already played though it once but whenever I launch it now the application doesn't open, yet the process still shows up in task manager. I've tried reinstalling the whole game, I've tried patches and everything. Anybody know what could be wrong?
>>333376276
When I was watching this movie Max Payne was in the back of my mind the whole way through.
>>333376432
Probably some Rockstar club bullshit
>>333376432
try running it as admin. might need to update the social club crap that it runs too.
>>333376276
it was a pretty great movie
>>333371627
>missing the point
All of that could have been better had it been placed in a location the audience could relate to. You don't even get to explore or learn about Brazil. It's shallow as fuck.
Also if you are at all familiar with portuguese the game is insufferable because the voice acting is truly abominable. Borderline gibberish.
>>333361162
Gameplay was excellent.
Story was meh.
It's still got some great one-liners though.
>>333375176
>shit is fucking interchangeable.
No it's not you fucking dumbass. Almost nobody here is at all familiar with favelas but pretty much everyone here can identify with 1st world big city life because we're constantly exposed to it if only by the media if not real life.
There is nothing interchangeable about it. One is alien to the other.
>>333376131
>you need a college education to understand MP3
All of my lel
The point is that it's a shit argument that intellectual cowards hide behind because they can't deal with their tastes being criticized.
Besides, the symbolism and metaphors in MP3 are so juvenile and devoid of subtlety that it's an insult to the viewer's intelligence. But it makes sense that a turbo-fag like you likes getting things forced down his throat.
>>333376432
the game is programmed in such a way that it won't start loading the next gameplay segment until it's done buffering the cutscene currently playing
which is why you can load any checkpoint from main menu in ~15 seconds but still have to sit through the first 2-3 minutes of every other cutscene (also pausing the fucking things stops the buffering as well you can't skip them that way either)
why rockstar even came up with this system instead of just making load times work like in any other game i couldn't begin to guess
>>333377161
Making anything and putting it in New Shitass York is fucking gay. I can't think of a single goddamn setting more overused, boring, gay, and stupid.
>>333377843
why did they even use prerendered cutscenes in the first place, there was no excuse it for in 2012 and there still isn't one today. use of them should be banned and prosecutable.
>>333378424
Because it's "cinematic"
>>333362347
>post a fanart of the next Shantae
>Wants to die before Half genie hero comes out.
You could at least wait for the game's release.
