Does anyone know who the new voice actor for Payne is?
I ask because the visuals are nice but it was James McCaffrey's voice and delivery that made the first two games awesome.
One of my all-time favorite "Bad-Ass MoFo" lines was from The Fall of Max Payne: "... I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back... one bullet at a time."
hey- its beautiful. i'll forever love max payne. hell, mona was the epitome of what i wanted. love, loss and gritty gun play. still love anything noir- contemporary or not.
I may just have to give this a try because of fond memories of the first two games, and they're actually taking the character in a new direction, which is rare in this industry.
@Thorax: I agree completely. I love it when anything (TV, movies, games, books, comics) take the main character out of their element and we get to see how much they can really handle.
That aspect is probably what I'm more excited about than anything else from both this game and the new Splinter Cell.
I don't even understand why they're calling this Max Payne. It looks like it could be a good game, but seems to have fuck all to do with the original.
It's like someone pitched this as an original new property and Rockstar decided to cram the Max Payne name on to it since sequels sell better.
@Voltron_Force: i didn't see that, if you did could you explain what their points was and how it is a max payne game?
here are my points on how this isn't a max payne game
* No Sam Lake
* Different voice actor for Max Payne
* Fat overweight max payne
* From all screens i've seen they have removed the noir feel of the game
* The game is set in Brazil, Rio.. and is in daylight... ugh
* Remedy are in no way involved, instead a studio that the only decent thing they produced is Bully, which is a mediocre at best console game
* Game is being made for Console first and foremost with silly cover mode
the fact he looks nothing like Max Payne, sounds nothing like him, its in daylight in Brazil instead of a dark and quiet New York or Chicago or something.... nothing to this feels like Max Payne... I highly doubt Rockstar can nail Sam Lake's style... the comic strip style of the past games was great!
I want another Max Payne like most people, but this is the wrong direction for it, this feels like a new action game with bullet time with the max payne name stuck on it to publicize it
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@Amazing_Spiderham: "I sat in the barber's chair, noticing a hole in the pleather just like the one in my heart. He began to trim from the back, each chop of the scissors resonating like the screech of a dying city.
They say hair follicles can't feel pain. But as the barber trimmed closer and closer towards my pain-wracked skull, I thought I could hear screaming.
The screams turned out to be my own, as the barber handed me a mirror, and I saw that I was as bald as the thug I had gunned down on my way over here. I felt like a freak, a twisted sideshow attraction in the carnival that is New York."
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@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.: "To compensate for my loss I started eating and eating, and eating until there was nothing left to eat...except my shirt...so I ate that too".
How many people will I kill in this game before it starts to get boring? Will they be drug-addled folk, or hordes of henchmen who don't make enough to be mowed down by the hero of the videogame they're in?
I wonder what storyline could possibly make me interested in picking this up when it comes out.
@Bondage_Zombie: A Max Payne storyline, that's enough for me to be sold by it.
(The movie doesn't count, that feels more "inspired" by Max Payne rather than based on it.)
@Bondage_Zombie: Would you be interested in storyline of a down trodden man, who decides against his better judgement to save a hooker from a group of armed men, and then delivering the prostitute's baby during a shootout with said men, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen, while getting another hooker involved, one whom ends up capturing his heart, and he ends up going one on 500 vs a corporation, unraveling a conspiracy where that corporation is trying to control the country through a senator?
@metallicorphan: Agreed. The first was epic. I thought that game would never end, but when it did, it was one of the only time I really did become emotional. I....was....bummed.
@metallicorphan: Same here. All the others are just I dunno. It's been years since I played the first but still have fond memories and hmm wonder if we'll be offed by someone related to Tommy.
I absolutely loved the first one.. but I have a horrible, horrible fear of the ocean. The first game was fine -- you were inside the establishment for the entirety of the game.. but hearing about having to fight a giant squid (probably fake, but still) and walking around in the ocean.... *shudder*
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I ask because the visuals are nice but it was James McCaffrey's voice and delivery that made the first two games awesome.
One of my all-time favorite "Bad-Ass MoFo" lines was from The Fall of Max Payne: "... I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back... one bullet at a time."
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That aspect is probably what I'm more excited about than anything else from both this game and the new Splinter Cell.
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My god, can you imagine a post apocalyptic steam punk Zelda?!
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It's like someone pitched this as an original new property and Rockstar decided to cram the Max Payne name on to it since sequels sell better.
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here are my points on how this isn't a max payne game
* No Sam Lake
* Different voice actor for Max Payne
* Fat overweight max payne
* From all screens i've seen they have removed the noir feel of the game
* The game is set in Brazil, Rio.. and is in daylight... ugh
* Remedy are in no way involved, instead a studio that the only decent thing they produced is Bully, which is a mediocre at best console game
* Game is being made for Console first and foremost with silly cover mode
the fact he looks nothing like Max Payne, sounds nothing like him, its in daylight in Brazil instead of a dark and quiet New York or Chicago or something.... nothing to this feels like Max Payne... I highly doubt Rockstar can nail Sam Lake's style... the comic strip style of the past games was great!
I want another Max Payne like most people, but this is the wrong direction for it, this feels like a new action game with bullet time with the max payne name stuck on it to publicize it
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The yellow face! It burn usss, precious!
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"I said take a LITTLE off the top"!
Now Max is going...OVER the top!
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They say hair follicles can't feel pain. But as the barber trimmed closer and closer towards my pain-wracked skull, I thought I could hear screaming.
The screams turned out to be my own, as the barber handed me a mirror, and I saw that I was as bald as the thug I had gunned down on my way over here. I felt like a freak, a twisted sideshow attraction in the carnival that is New York."
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Way to bring the Payne.
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*golf clap*
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I wonder what storyline could possibly make me interested in picking this up when it comes out.
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(The movie doesn't count, that feels more "inspired" by Max Payne rather than based on it.)
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Then go watch Shoot'Em Up.
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So much for striking a balance all year long.
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I absolutely loved the first one.. but I have a horrible, horrible fear of the ocean. The first game was fine -- you were inside the establishment for the entirety of the game.. but hearing about having to fight a giant squid (probably fake, but still) and walking around in the ocean.... *shudder*
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Probably a fake squid?
How could it be a real one?
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I meant the rumor about the giant squid boss was probably fake. :P
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Yep...Think I got that. XD