One of the greatest franchises in gaming history. In case you don't know about it have a look at those videos. The dialogue/monologue written for the game is incredibly good. The story is vivid, authentic, noire. it's dramatic! the direction that came with the game was ground breaking. the movie they made about it in 2008 or whatever was pretty much BULLSHIT, so fuck that. Check out the first 2 videos. Well edited together. Summaries of Max Payne 1 and 2. milestones in gaming history. unmatched
The Story of Max Payne 1
The Story of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
also, a recent summary partially including the latest installment
Max Payne from 2001 - 2012
i totally digg the franchise.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
as you can see,comic book stripes were used as a way of telling the story in the 1st and 2nd game. if you like those maybe you should check them all out seperately. it's entertaining for sure.
also, all cutscenes to max payne 3. it's a movie really. and certainly better than your average blockbuster! many comparisons in terms of the story have been drawn to MAN ON FIRE, justifiably.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
- I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings.
- You play, you pay, you bastard.
- Turn around, walk away, blow town. That would have been the smart thing to do. I guess I wasn't that smart.
- [Opening narration] They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over. To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back three years. Back to the night the pain started.
- He was trying to buy more sand for his hour glass. I wasn't selling any.
- I walked straight in, playing it Bogart, like I'd done a hundred times before.
- Vinnie Gognitti, just the man I'm killing to see.
- You'd find that Lady Luck was really a hooker, and you were fresh out of cash.
- The Brooklyn riverfront was a maze of rusty containers, sharp-boned cranes looking up from the snowstorm. On a night like this you couldn't help but think of the dark army of dead men, sleeping with the fishes, cement shoes in line. No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking deck of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the Charon was waiting, like the ferryman of the river Styx.
awesome quotes : max payne 2
- The genius of the hole: no matter how long you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant.
- There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask "why me?" and "what if?". When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions
- The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper, more terrible it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
- Like always, the dead had all the answers I was missing. It wasn't that they weren't eager to talk; quite the contrary, the dead had plenty to say and once they started, they would never shut up. Their words would keep you awake at night.
- Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second.
- "The things that I want", by Max Payne. A smoke. A whiskey. For the sun to shine. I want to sleep to forget. To change the past. My wife and baby girl back. Unlimited ammo and a license to kill. Right then, more than anything, I wanted her.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
totally worth it. i have it installed. since 2001. always in mah recent games (:
those guys you refer to are REMEDY GAMES and their name is their trade, if that's how you say it. their games are top notch in many aspects. incredibly cinematic, authentic content, great dialogues/story writing, and on a technical level always an innovation. they built the tools for max payne and alan wake, from scratch. the engines, the tools for their lighting effects, all that. they have great knowledge. rly ambitious, passionate and just flat out excellent at what they'e doing.
you know how people make 3D benchmark tests to see how good their graphics card and their cpu is working; in relation and so on? that worldwide established as numero uno program/tool was created by guys who earlier worked with remedy. they're the same people. like, a fraction of "back in the days" remedy people who decided to fully get into the benchmarking game. others decided to pursue game developing. thank god!
around 40 finnish man/woman sit together in their office and just create something great. nearly flawless. it's down to earth development without big hype and all that. they're known to have long development cycles but everyone knows they always deliver a quality product when they release.
the writing genius, responsible for dialogue and story, Sami Lake, was also the face of Max Payne 1. you have played alan wake, you seen dat TV spot, ingame, where alan presents his book in a talk show - sam lake is sitting next to him. and the letterman copy even ask him to do his max payne face ;D
watch those short interviews. you will not regret it. very insightful and informative. that guy there, face of max payne 1
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
i have fallen in love with it ever since i found it. more than a decade later "we" are experiencing our "2nd spring" if you wil with max payne 3 and i just felt like sharing. i love to look back at those great pieces of gaming history. in general i love to post about remedy, look at their art, talk about it, recommend it to others, and so on. they're pioneers of their trade. i could mak a thread about how i bought noodles, aor what i had for lucn h today, but there's nothing special about it to me ;D
REMEDY IS SPECIAL
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
guys, let's play Max Payne 3 Online! I re-discovered this genius game a couple of days ago and now I'm back at it! It would be so awesome to play with people I know.
Who's down for action-packed, styled-out choreograph'd cinematic shootouts in slow motion?
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
Meet me and a bunch of russians there, ready to go bananaz on your potato-head in slow motion
right nizzow!
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
