Max Payne 3 killed by Grand Theft Auto V?

Hey guys, bumping to tell you THIS SHIT AIN'T DEAD.

OH FUCK YES

OH FUCK NO.

A cover shooter?

They made MAX PAYNE into a fucking cover shooter?

Isn't that kinda sorta exactly what Max Payne wasn't. Max Payne was, LTIC, Gun Fu: The Video Game. Aerials, bullet time, an engine optimized to allow spent ammo to be everywhere. It wasn't "hide behind the magic box and shoot anyone dumb enough to pop their head out".

This is a reason I like dead franchises to stay dead.

edit: didn't realize the screens linked were separate from the ones I saw earlier today.

http://www.ag.ru/screenshots/max_payne_3/382907/big#show

Also confirmed in other media directly.

edited 27th Apr '11 9:01:20 PM by deuxhero

Wow, you're reacting to this as if it has only got clear today. It was stated from the start (two years ago) that it will be a cover-based shooter...

And to be honest, I am kinda disappointed in this major deviation because cover shooters are way too easy, at least on the PC (and that's coming from a rather mediocre gamer). But if the writing will be as good as the originals, I think I won't mind. Apparently Max's actor from MP2 is back, so that's something.

Also, from what it looks the game won't be set in just present day, but will also have flashbacks to... well, back when Max had hair. Hopefully that will set the complainers about his looks straight somehow.

edited 29th Apr '11 11:02:53 AM by Litis

Ladies and gentlemen, the first trailer for Max Payne 3 is up and despite not changing my opinion about Max's new look, I'm starting to understand Important Haircut as its justification.

No cover system in sight. However, it doesn't seem like the graphic novel segments are back.

Nothing resembling actual gameplay in sight.

I liked the trailer. I nostalgia'd hard at the music and voice acting.

Frankly, I was surprised at the whole lot of people judging the game already based on his appearance alone. Seriously?

The design of the main character is very important to me. It is the character I'll be looking at the whole game. Add to that the fact that it has none of the atmosphere of the original and is threatening a cover mechanic, and I don't really see much reason why I should like what they did to my favorite shooter series.

Then again, take into the fact that this is nearly a decade since the last Max Payne game. Of course he's not going to be as spry as he was back then. I'd be more surprised if he could even hit anyone while diving forward, much less diving forward in the first place. Since everything else is a "logical" change for Max, why not the use of a cover system?

Then why don't we also make the sound completely muffled with a constant high-pitched squeal, too? After all, shooting all those guns can't be good for your hearing.

edited 14th Sep '11 11:30:36 AM by TheGunheart

Ok so: Cover system in series initially based entirely around bullet-time, bullet-dodging mechanic.

Complete lack of graphic novel cutscenes.

Nearly unrecognizable protagonist, purported to be the same protagonist.

Going ahead and calling in name only on this.

And in addition to pain killers, Max needs Metamucil every other level to keep regular.

I always liked the series for its Film Noir feel and this looks nothing like that. It's just a trailer so I'm still open to the possibility that I might like this but color me unenthusiastic.

I had a laugh when someone compared it to Dead To Rights Retribution. DTR:R was a game that was TRYING to be serious, but failed horrendously. Max Payne was always serious, but with fun gameplay.

Also, with the setting being Sao Paulo (which is one of the highest ranked cities for violent crime and poverty) and James Mc Caffery coming back, this might be one of my first purchases of the spring.

edited 14th Sep '11 11:53:52 AM by SoCalToa

DTR:R was a horrible game. It didn't even feature a Longshoreman X cameo.

SPEED LEVEL FIVE!!!

I digress. I still think Max Payn3 (as I will now call it) has potential, despite the flaws.

... Dead to Rights.

I just saw the new trailer....

I thought I was looking at Kane and Lynch.

Same here, actually.

Is that bad? I've never played the Kane and Lynch games (out of spite for iO not making Hitman 5), so I wouldn't know if that means it'll be good or bad.

It looks baddass, I dunno guys, but sometimes I think Nostalgia is just a harsh bitch,

Everything that doesn make a resemblance to the old games is just a bad thing for you

edited 14th Sep '11 12:11:02 PM by LOEADITOOx

I'm inclined to agree with you, I played Max Payne 2 for the first time a couple of months ago and I didn't find it to be anything to get excited about a sequel for...

So? Either make a faithful sequel or make a different game, without harvesting old IPs just to wring a few more bucks out of the name. That's hardly an unreasonable demand. There is a difference between They Changed It, Now It Sucks! about minutiae and hollowing out the corpse of a beloved franchise to fool you into buying some beep boop generic FPS/TPS from the sequeltron.

Kane and Lynch 2 is probably the worst game I have ever played in my life. I wanted the 2 dollars I spent renting it back.

It was that goddamn awful.

The more I see of this game, the harder I find staying optimistic about it.

"AT LAST A FUCKING TRAILER THANK YOU BASED GOD [a minute and a half later] :|"

Well, at least it's still alive.

edited 14th Sep '11 1:16:35 PM by Litis

Is it just me, or is no one even willing to try cloth physics anymore?