BaronVonFistcrunch
Since: Sep, 2014
03/02/2015 00:00:00
I'm deeply offended you didn't even mention the awful music, awful graphics, awful sound effects, awful everything really.
Max Payne 3, much like every developer at Rockstar, is worthless fucking garbage and I don't know how you can call yourself human if you feel anything but pure rage towards it.
Bastard1
Since: Nov, 2010
03/02/2015 00:00:00
So how come trolls can flag anyone's review at the drop of a hat, but we are powerless to flag their rather blatant trollbait?
DrakeClawfang
Since: Apr, 2010
03/08/2015 00:00:00
I post no trollbait, only my opinions. If you disagree with them you are free to, but don't presume I'm a troll for it.
DrakeClawfang
Since: Apr, 2010
03/08/2015 00:00:00
oh, derp, you meant the other guys comment. My apologies. :p
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Max Payne 3 Is Terrible
I was not instantly hating on MP3 when I heard the change of setting and story. I decided to give it an honest chance. I was not only disappointed, I was insulted. I played halfway through it (specifically up to the level where Max starts getting shot up by street gangs) and couldn't take it anymore. This game is a shining example of They Changed It, Now It Sucks, and also sucks for entirely unrelated reasons.
Max can only carry three weapons at a time, two pistols and a two-handed gun, and in an annoying glitch trying to switch to the latter often causes you to drop it. Cover is a part of the game slows things down, making the game feel like a rail shooter moving between cover points. The game is punishingly difficult even on Medium difficulty, stingy with painkillers and ammo. You'll be forced to fight five enemies or more with less than half HP and barely enough ammo to do a full reload. As if the developers knew the game was too difficult, after reloading enough times they toss you painkillers and extra ammo as a half-assed mercy.
Quicksaves are gone in favor of checkpoints, forcing you to fight the same battles over and over even if you got past them already and are having trouble in the section after.
The stylish graphic novel style cutscenes are gone, replaced with normal cutscenes that occasionally freeze-frame and flash words someone just said on the screen. Max is variably drunk, hungover, or detoxing, and thus the game constantly adds blur effects and fuzziness to the view. It's annoying and distracting. Instead of dark and gritty New York, Brazil is garish and ugly.
The characters are cardboard cliches, like they're auditioning for Jersey Shore. Max is disgusted by how they act and doesn't care about them, and I concur.
The game completely ignores the first two. Max doesn't even mention anyone or anything from them. We fast forward a decade from 2, where Max is retired and decides to move to Brazil and be a bodyguard for no reason. What, a mob boss put a hit on him? Back in the day Max would storm his mansion and shoot him in the head.
It's obvious the developers just did not care. If this was not called Max Payne and didn't have James McCaffrey doing voice work, it would be unrecognizable as a Max Payne game. In the end it still is. It is slow-moving, overly difficult, ugly to look at, and simply not fun to play.