I don’t really understand the endgame of this game. Something like PUBG has a clear goal every game. But here it’s just looting to get better stuff to loot more? With some PVP/interactions in between?
It’s a lot like Minecraft where there isn’t really a definitive endgame (I know Minecraft has the Ender Dragon now but still). There’s quests to do, a skill tree to fill out, loot tiers to climb, but the game leaves it to you as far as when and how you want to do all that stuff. Some people treat it as purely PvE, some as purely PvP, most are somewhere in between… it’s all what you make it.
The real end game is that you get bored and stop playing. The game doesn’t really drop much story, just vague hints and tasks to guide you somewhat towards it.
I agree with OP, and it really became blatant when Starfield got out. Their design patterns and game engine have not evolved with the industry standards, and they don’t seem to have understood that. Fortunately, there are alternatives, like the Outer Worlds, Tainted Grail, etc. I guess the alternatives will become more and more interesting with time, as those game have showed that it was possible to do Bethesda-ish games without the shortcomings (and lies) of Bethesda.
What a coincidence! I was strongly considering starting up a New Leaf file after watching the Golden Net % race on AGDQ yesterday morning. I’m taking this post as divine confirmation.
I played the og gamecube AC for a bit last month. It’s very nostalgic, but damn is there not a lot to actually do. Part of me wants to check out NL or NH … but will I actually play them for longer than two days?! Lol
Do it! The story and writing is still great and the gameplay holds up surprisingly well for such an old game (not that it will feel modern, but it’s not a chore to play).
Just checked my steam library, I have all three games. 2001, 2003, and 2012.
I still remember seeing the demo on a pcgamer demo disc, back when coconut monkey was still a thing. I remember thinking that the game seemed fun, but probably relied on the matrix mechanic too much. And have wanted to play it, but haven’t been strongly driven to for many years now.
Man, old paper magazine PC Gamer… Strong nostalgia overload. Getting a copy was always the highlight of the month, that era of like 1995-2009 was really the golden age of PC gaming.
It definitely is time for Max Payne! Well, unless you want to wait for the RTC Remix mod. And it’s the first step into the wonderful Remedyverse too, culminating in the fantastic Alan Wake 2!
Both MP 1&2 are honestly amazing, and they are very short games too so not really a huge commitment compared to some modern titles. The comic book style slideshow used instead of cutscenes was also ingenious as it has let the game age incredibly gracefully.
Remedy are doing a connected universe, kind of like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. People are calling it the Remedyverse. They’ve started blending their IPs into each other, even IPs they no longer own like Max Payne and Quantum Break (where they just change the names pretty much so “Alex Casey” becomes “legally distinct Max Payne”). It’s very cool and really comes to its head in Alan Wake 2, which really is enhanced quite a bit by playing the other Remedy games in order first.
Max Payne 3 isn’t bad at all - it’s a very tight 3rd person shooter. It’s just that it was made by Rockstar and not Remedy (Rockstar had bought the IP after Max Payne 2). So Max Payne 3 doesn’t really “feel” like a Max Payne game. It’s still a good game though, I just kind of wish it was independent of the Max Payne franchise.
I think it mostly just didn’t feel like a Max Payne game because of the setting. Not New York? Not Max Payne.
Gameplay wise, it was definitely on the right track; and in a way - I remember it fondly as was the last time Rockstar seemingly experimented with game mechanics ahead of incorporating them into the next GTA game.
That’s part of it sure, but it just… doesn’t feel right. Someone else pointed out how it is almost an “alternate universe Max Payne 2” with how it feels narratively like a more follow-up to the first game than the second. It also just has a very different tone and style in the writing. It doesn’t have that Remedy vibe. Everything from the characters and main story to the TV bits, which feel very different compared to Lords and Ladies and Adress Unknown.
It’s by no means a bad game, and the action bits are awesome. It just doesn’t feel like a Max Payne game to me.
I never got to play the 3DS growing up unfortunately. I loved the GBC/A and DS when I was younger, and I was like the target demographic for the whole 3D thing, thinking it was super fucking cool. But when my parents bought me one for Christmas when it was new, I lost it outside like the very next day. I was too embarrassed to tell them, so I pretended that I still had it for months before eventually “the dog chewed it up” one night.
the whole thing was basically held together with duct tape at one point, and the shell’s paint is peeling
Yeah, sounds common on 3DS. I have a Majora’s Mask edition n3DS XL, its paint started flaking on edges for normal use only a year or so from getting it.
Got a free new shell (correct golden colour!) from support back then, so there was that at least. After that I encased my 3DS in a clear rubber protection so the paint doesn’t wear off again. But those rubber things don’t age well and start getting an ugly yellow hue after a while.
I always need the dev console in Max Payne because I like setting the bullet time speed to half of what it normally is so it’s more Matrix-like.
And of course I have to have the plaza shootout level and kung fu construct (for the kung fu mod) from the film, too.
Sidenote: Altering the bullet time affects cutscenes. So, like, the part where the door blows off in the subway can actually kill you cuz the cutscene ends before the door is actually moving. But it also makes catching one of the bosses that you have to chase around the rooftops so much easier because he’ll still be monologuing when you get control after the cutscene.
I almost added the Kung Fu mod, but this is also my first playthrough with the adaptive difficulty patched so I decided to keep it. Plus I saw footage for the first time the other day, and while it was cool, I think it was just a tad too flashy for my taste
This really hammers home how naff the rats in Dishonored were. They’re slightly prettier than these but with eleven years of additional technological progress my expectations were a smidge higher.
My guess is just that the rat making industry didn’t have much of a reason to grow until we got to like 1080p (internal resolution I mean). I suppose you don’t need to worry about that when you don’t usually see the rat
I could see the movement bothering some people, idk it feels more realistic to me than people vibrating all over the place in cod 🤷♂️ especially considering your character is walking around with a backpack full of about 50 lb of loot
I got it and I was really excited to play it but I’m not sure if my microphone is working? It kinda led to me running around yelling “CAN YOU HEAR ME?! CAAAAN YOU HEAR ME? I’m not sure about my microphone let me see… CAN YOU HEAR WHAT I’M SAYING?!” Constantly while people stared then I’d aggro the strongest arc I saw and die so I could go back to the settings and try something else…
Also I don’t have very many friends who play that kind of game so…
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