Re: Remember Max Payne 3? Oh, my comment wasn't a negative one. Michael Bay knows how to make action sequences look stylish and over the top. I'm extremely excited about this sequel, Remedy or not.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? It still looks like they have all the key aspects perfected and are really focusing on what made the old games great. Despite the change in setting/style they really are remaining true to the original games... nothing seems dumbed down for the new generation. I'm excited .
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? I hadn't been this impressed with animation since Uncharted 2 (thought 3 was a step back really).
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? While that looked good it just really reminded me of why this setting change completely fucks with the atmosphere of the franchise. That was so GTA San Andreas with better graphics, good animation and bullet time...
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? All that talk about bullet time reminded me that rockstar showed a video about bullet time the other day. You can control the kill-cams' speed. MUhahahahaha. http://youtu.be/td7Y6ISS3nk In max payne 2, time slowed down ever more if you kill more and more enemies in your bullet time state. The way they explained it in max payne 3, it sounds like it depends on your kills style.. not very clear. I guess we shall see.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? So it looks like the install size for the PC version is a whopping 35GB. That's about as big as WOW with all 3 expansions.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? Probably a bunch of junk files to make it extremely bloated and huge to discourage piracy.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? So I've been dying A LOT in this game. Probably more than the total amount of times I've died in Max Payne and Max Payne 2 combined and I'm maybe halfway through this game.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? How is it otherwise? I'm in no rush to play it. Seems like the type of game that will be $10 during the Steam holiday sale. Rockstar is usually pretty quick to slash prices on their PC stuff.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? Ya, I'd definitely say do not pay a full $60 for this title if you don't plan on doing multiplayer as we all know, Max Payne's gameplay is linear is a straight forward story. I've seen reviews saying in the 8-10hr range. We'll see how true that is. I'm not sure exactly where I am in the game. I've played it for about 3.5hrs so far and in chapter 5 I think? Max isn't bald yet. It's tougher than the original ones. From my observations, your bullet time builds up as you starting taking fire. So if your enemy is firing semi automatics, it's going to build slowly. So in short, bullet time isn't easy to come by in this game. But there is a cover system in place for this game, so you can get through firefights in a less chaotic manner. You can shootdodge, but you have use it strategically as you'll get rounds to the face if you're just shootdodging around like an idiot. The enemies will flank you while you're in cover sometimes, and since the game is in third person, there will be some crappy camera moments where you can't see the guy flanking so there's a guy coming up right next to you sometimes. If you attack someone up close, the game will go into a short cinematic melee scene and then you trigger the bullet to the face. All in all, the action is really really really seamless due to the animation. There are times when you get shot "fatally", it triggers one of those "last stand/kill or be killed" sequences, but the game handles it seamlessly without huge distracting words. The scene just goes into bullet time and in black and white so you have a chance to pick out and kill a target. There's A LOT of cut scenes in this game, but it's all pretty interesting stuff. Very movie-like and it helps alot that the voice acting is done very well. Since the game is based in Brazil, there's a ton of Portuguese, and it's not translated for you. I guess it's to give you an idea of what Max is trying to deal with. I watched the Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) movies and Max Payne's setting totally reminded me of it. It was done really well. So basically, the graphic novel cuts are gone in favor of cinematic style cuts. Oh and you get to kill guidos. And the game has some pretty epic goriness. So you can kill guidos with epic goriness.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? ya still on the same old i5 lynnfield and radeon 4870 1gb. playing at 1920x1080 with 4x fsaa and details mixed with very high and high. runs fine.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? The graphics are great and it runs really well. I'm running it maxed at 1680x1050 with all of the DX11 stuff enabled and it's perfectly smooth. It seems very well optimized and I'm frankly amazed this came from Rockstar. They normally suck ass at PC ports. They majorly ramped up the difficulty in this one. Ammo and bullet time are scarce. There are a few parts where I've died or screwed up repeatedly.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? It's also not uncommon to die of single shots. I actually took a head shot yesterday.
Re: Remember Max Payne 3? I completed this game the other day, took just a bit under 13hrs. Stunning game indeed lovely fast paced stuff. I also died a LOT in this game..