Having played all of them now I believe the first one is the best Payne. 3 isn't a bad game, the production values are great and James McCaffrey delivers great VO once again but the plot isn't really about Max and he admits as much. I get the symbolism but it didn't work for me. The gameplay is good but I felt like I was fighting against the cover system and Max's slow realistic animations as much as the thousands of generic BRs.
2 is essentially the same as 1 and it's too short, a great ride while it lasts but it does reuse the limited environments it has to try and get as much milage out of them.
ITS PAYNE
>>333609982
you aren't wrong. I just wanna say though, having the mirrors in the 2nd game actually reflect what happened in the game world was a huge "TECHNOLOGY" moment for me, way more than the bullet time.
>>333611559
I always like when games do this and was happy to see that 3 also did it, would be embarrassing if it didn't
>>333609982
I still think 2 is the best and 1 is only the weakest because 2 does everything 1 does but better, with a more (subjectively) interesting storyline.
I really don't get all the hate for 3 though, the gameplay is fucking excellent as long as you aren't playing it like a cover shooter and while the story is weaker, it servers purpose to give Max an appropriate ending.
>>333612603
The gameplay you get is bookended by cutscenes every 5 minutes or less. I like the scenes but goddamn, this isn't a movie. And while you are playing max is constantly telling you to hurry and move on to the next scene.
It's also really hard not to play it like a cover shooter since the levels are designed like that painkillers are limited (only ever managed to get like 3 at once) and the euphoria animations make shootdiving have a long recovery time. It's fun when it works but very hard to clear the airport without using cover.
Storywise I felt closure from 2. I would rather have had a whole game being chased out of the city by the mob boss those parts really felt like Payne to me.
![Max_Payne_2_-_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VYApLQx.jpg "Max_Payne_2_-_1[1].jpg")
>>333613301
>torywise I felt closure from 2. I would rather have had a whole game being chased out of the city by the mob boss those parts really felt like Payne to me.
Yeah, maybe continuing the secret ending, Max undercover again or retired and now working as a pi (if we go all out on the film noir cliches)
>>333613301
I found myself using cover like I did in 1 and 2. Using the sticky cover is almost a surefire way to get murdered, but standing behind a wall/pillar to reload is still super useful.
>>333613939
I was a little disappointed in the setting for 3, but when it makes sense. Max couldn't move on from his old life, he had to leave NY/NJ to escape his past and past self.
Rockstart new Max Payne when? Sam Lake as director.
>>333609982
should have skipped the cover system and gone max payne
>>333609982
i prefer 3 over 2
>over-reliance on a stupid fucking gimmick
>bad controls and gameplay
Sigh. Nugaming. When will it ever end.
>>333614665
(you)
>>333609982
Played all the games for the first time a year ago, and I agree, 1st is my favorite. Second game lost the charm of actual developers being the cast in the comics, the story felt forced, like when you had a nice, self-contained story in the first game, but here comes the second one and you just have to make something up. 3 was far enough into the timeline to be it's own thing again, like half life 2, though. I also HATED those escort missions in the second game.
>>333614349
Even this would be shit then
Quantum break is average and gta 5 wasnt that great either
>>333615664
You remember Rockstar did MP3 on their own right?
>>333615872
I know but sam is a hack and rockstar downgraded their technology with gta 5 which was the only good thing about max payne 3
I guess A sequel would be trash
![maxpayne3_loading_screen[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LORXMlb.jpg "maxpayne3_loading_screen[1].jpg")
>>333615872
>[...]as Rockstar continued developing the franchise on its own, but some Remedy employees kept supervising the making of Max Payne 3, like Sam Lake
>>333616662
>I guess A sequel would be trash
Yeah, since it would probably entail 60 year old Max Payne jumping around in an assisted living facility and breaking his hip. They could try doing a prequel or a Mona spin-off, but I'm not sure how good either would be
>>333616662
Remember how we used to discuss and dream about GTA 5 having MP3 shooting mechanics? Little we knew...
>>333618089
>prequel
How about we just leave Max Payne alone?
There's nowhere for the character to go. And prequels would just damage it.
Just make another IP: Jack Issues
>>333618723
Todd Damage
>>333618723
How about max payne travels the world?
Hes gotten over the whole thing somehow, and you just travel the world, looking around at shit, with him commenting on stuff.VR
>>333619775
or a super serious washed up old useless alcoholic fuck simulator, where you manage him, and its fucking grim and horrible and you get this nasty feeling of "this is going to be me" deep down inside, and then you pour another one and talk to the screen again
>Max Payne 4 gets announced
>You don't play as Max Payne
for what purpose?
>>333619775
Yeah, Max got a new bodyguarding gig in which he travels around the world, levels all over the place, fighting in a crashing jet, in busy Japanese streets, Moskau, trying not to get blown up in Kabul, all the while as a side plot following the steps of a female assassin
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