Max Payne 3 Delayed

I speak for all of the true MAX PAYNE gamers. FUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT.

Maybe this is a good thing. Max Payne 3 looks to be quite disappointing, unfortunately. :(

Can't say I'm disappointed. Hopefully they're delaying it because of the fan backlash so they can undo most of the things they fucked up. Yeah, right.

I played a bunch of Max Payne 2 over the weekend. It still holds up really well.

Everyone knows this sequel would come, if they do the same gameplay as the first two games they will do alright, kinda want to see gameplay videos to see how much is different or what they have changed.

Internal Memo, Feb 8th, 2009, 7:16am

hi evrywun!

gameplay, storyline, artwork and levels r pretty much done. good job gang. now we just have to come up with a catchy title and a name 4 teh main character... any ideas?

-Project Lead, Generic 3rd Person Shooter #547

Contrary to vox populi I actually think both the character's "even more fall from grace" and the ditching of New York may be a good way to continue the story. By itself, the fact Max is bald and older or it's not set in the US doesn't actually say anything inherently bad or good about the premise, it's just a ground rule for the actual game concept.

What I'm worried about is Rockstar's ability to fashion a gripping third person game without the abstractions/game "features" that invariably affect a game's verisimilitude. It's hard to explain without examples, but a recent example would be (though completely unrelated to where MP3 could do wrong) is Borderlands. Now, a game like Diablo 2 does things that are semi to totally incomprehensible in terms of the gameworld, because of its hack and slash, multiplayer-friendly nature. Rats that drop mauls, ludicrous travel between continents, pathetic creatures that by virtue of being coloured differently are a thousand times stronger, etc. Borderlands, however, crosses some personal invisible boundary of mine with its "renaming stations", free vehicle spawners, enemies that are stronger just because they have a bigger number, continuous and almost absurd respawning, micro-quests solved by walking 5 meters, out of the blue achievements, and many, many more deal-breakers. All these things don't tell me "Here's Pandora, a harsh world, go find the Vault", it just screams of "Here's a game, level up".

So, what I'm worried about is Rockstar fucking up Max Paynes' pitch (at least in my mind) "Here's the distillation of what constitutes a good noir graphic novel about Max Payne in the game medium" to something more mundane like "Here's a third person action game, caipirinha stands works as checkpoints, cover system!!! ".

This does not look like Max Payne. Call it something else!

It might be a cool action game, just for the gameplay. But I'm not getting a "story" feel from the screenshots and info.

Looks like it'll be a generic, modern gun-fu shooter. Max Payne is dead.

I hope this game pulls a "Convictions" shift like Ubisoft did for Splinter Cell.

The original advanced tactical hobo fighter wasn't very appealing when you got deeper from the surface

mw2 beat them to the favela setting and now they have to find some other location unrelated to the originals in which to set it?

One more post to lament how horrible this looks (compared to the New York noir crime drama it should be), and hope that this delay allows them to turn it around.

Let's be honest though, folks. A 6 month delay, if they meet their minimum, won't give them enough time to rework it that substantially.

WELL HE AIN'T GETTING ANY YOUNGER GUYS

Damn, this isn't the Max Payne I remember. Who is this guy?

The only good news in this "article" is that Mafia 2 is still on track. Cant wait for it, my new PC is desperately waiting for it.

Damn. I was looking forward to playing it sooner than that.

Fucking gay

I wish we would get some sort of gameplay video of this, the screens and uninformative preview in Game Informer is what has me underwhelmed.

If they delay it for almost a year, I doubt they weren't able to predict that.