Haven’t played ‘Max Payne’ in twenty years, completely forgot what it looks like in-game, and still the first thought from the screenshot was “Max Payne”.
Dunno about the artstyle: a lot of 90s to early-2000s 3d shooters had that grimy look, perhaps to show off the textures. But the jacket and the casually lowered gun definitely factored into the recognition.
I might be a bit biased too with the art style. My first playthrough was only last year and it’s really stuck with me. But yeah, the jacket and gun are definitely factors
Oh crap. Reminds me that for some reason or other (Mostly just time issues I guess, and because dualbooting Windows was pain I guess) I never completed Max Payne 2. As a giant fan of the first game I loved it.
Wonder if I need to go dig out the discs. Wait wait what, I already have MP1&2 on Steam? How? When did I get them? Never mind. Hope these aren’t a massive headache to get running
I was able to get it running on Linux pretty easily. There’s some issues with widescreen (stretching) there’s an easy fix with that using the WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“d3d8=n,b” command and a patch though (or you can put up with it like i did for my first playthrough)
It sucks when this happens in primarily PVE games too (looking at you warframe), classes go from feeling unique and having roles in a party to all being able to do everything equally effectively and becoming hemogenous.
Still waiting for the full release before buying/playing it. I tend to burn myself out on Early Access games before they are finished, never returning for 1.0.
I often agree with this, though for Death Trash given the slow pace of major updates I figured I’d just jump in. It only took me about 10 hours to beat the main content, and a few more hours poking around to feel finished with the game. This isn’t something like Zomboid with a big sandbox element to sink hours and hours into.
Honestly, at the pace it’s being updated I don’t know if it will get a huge proper ending.
On launch it was quite “difficult” in that good gear was rare (and why wouldn’t you sell a good piece of gear for 20 bucks instead of using it), and the damage being very one-shotty on higher difficulties.
Yeah I remember the travesty of that game at launch. Competent gameplay hamstrung by devs leaving room for their micro transactions. But, you didn’t need to spend real money. You could grind for 20+ hours with pitiful low magic time until you find something mildly better or sell the good items you do have on the auction house to try and close loop to get better stuff.
I played it for a while when it cane out, but I’ll also wait until its done, so I can actually finish the story. Too bad its taking this long, but the game and story were fun, so I’ll be patient
Also, at least in single-player games, and sometimes in multi-player too (depending on exactly where and how) balance is actually not even necessarily a goal you should be pursuing at all. The imbalance is the point, the BFG should be allowed to be the BFG, it doesn't need to be balanced. Even better is subtle imbalances that are not necessarily telegraphed directly. Not only does imbalance indulge the power fantasy when players can take advantage of it, but discovering those hidden "broken" mechanics makes players feel like they've either lucked out or outsmarted the game and is actually deeply gratifying on its own.
It can also lead to some very emergent metagames that maybe haven't been considered. Sometimes the instinctual reaction to immediately patch out and hotfix any mechanic that is found to be unintentionally overpowered might mean you're just being the "no fun allowed" police. And games are supposed to be fun. And in multiplayer sure you have to think about the fun of all players instead of just one, but maybe you should give some thought to what would happen if you embrace the mechanic instead. Maybe it could be a per-game setting instead of just removing it. Maybe it could turn into a whole new game mode. If some people are having fun with it and could have fun using it against each other, maybe let them? It's understandable if you're trying to make your game into an e-Sport but even sports have different leagues with different sets of rules.
Balance is overrated IMO. Imbalance can be entertaining, hilarious, and fun. Consider trying it.
Yeah, I also have to say that I’ll often not even bother trying to work out what’s good and what is not, because there’s a voice in the back of my head that says, well, it should all be equally viable, because of balancing.
That’s a big part of the reason why I like random map generation, because it isn’t possible to make all options equally viable. Sometimes, you level up your axe skill and never find a good axe, and just have to deal with that.
Fun should take priority, and I think it usually does. It’s just that in popular multiplayer games people usually find the optimum play style and then only do that, which can make the game quite boring and repetitive. One of the most viable ways to counteract that is to balance it so other play styles become more popular and make the game a bit more varied.
Another option can be to add some randomness to some mechanics so which play style is best isn’t as obvious or changes more frequently.
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