Really nice video about one of the best games. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5PRRITJu8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5PRRITJu8&feature=youtu.be
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[YouTube] Max Payne... 16 Years Later
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capitalCORN
Member
Great watch. Ah Future Crew, what a throwback. I didn't know about the connection with Remedy and them. And still quite the game to play.
Admiral Snackbar
Member
I love this guy.
Max Payne is still a delight. I think Max Payne 3 has some of the best third-person shooter mechanics around but it doesn't resonate nearly as much as Max Payne 1.
Max Payne is still a delight. I think Max Payne 3 has some of the best third-person shooter mechanics around but it doesn't resonate nearly as much as Max Payne 1.
I miss this franchise so much. Max Payne 3 had the best gameplay of the series for me, but you can tell the story was a big departure from the style of the first two. If they could give me MP3 gameplay with a story as amazing the first two entries, you have an amazing triumphant return for Max.
Pilgrimzero
Member
MP1 is such a great game
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over."
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over."
sixteen-bit
Member
I've only played MP2 but this vid made me want to try the first.
It looks great for a 2001 game btw. Is that how the game looks by default or did the youtuber add mods?
It looks great for a 2001 game btw. Is that how the game looks by default or did the youtuber add mods?
Bedameister
Member
One of the greatest masterpieces out there. Don't even know how often I played it through all these years
dragonyeuw
Member
Man, that game was a revealation back in 2001. The storyline, setting, gunplay, the bullet time gimmick, I was hooked from start to finish.
Rockandrollclown
lookwhatyou'vedone
Weird, started a new Max Payne playthrough last weekend. Pretty buggy on modern machines. Still one of my favorite games of all time.
PositiveGamer
Member
It looks like that. The game was a technical showpiece in 2001.
Soulblighter31
Banned
You have to buy them ? On steam ?
60EffPeeEss
Member
I played all the big PC classics first on PS2. Max Payne was one of them. Fucking loved every minute of it, same with the sequel.
Also, the GBA version! Shit was absolutely amazing. It had the entire game inside it, even the graphic novels!
Also, the GBA version! Shit was absolutely amazing. It had the entire game inside it, even the graphic novels!
MrCunningham
Member
I have been replaying this game in 4k, recently....
This is the Steam version using a widescreen hack and sound fixes.
That's not really surprising. Max Payne came out in 2001, when DVD ROM drives were incredibly uncommon and the majority of PC games were still being released on CD. So the game had to fit on one disk. The cutscenes were nothing more than still graphic novel images and .wav files.
Also, the game's MaxFX development tools were included with the original disc as well, which was awesome. The MaxED level editor, character model animation tool, package extraction tools, and a few other items. I honestly used to spend so much time making my own maps for Max Payne and creating cinematic cutscenes using the scripting features. MaxED was a lot of fun to play around with. Though MaxEd 2 for Max Payne 2 was a better overall editor.
Max Payne 2 in 2003 came packaged with two CD's, one for the installation and the game disc. But Max Payne 2 did not come with modding tools on the discs, they were a separate thing you had to download online.
I absolutely love the game myself, and it's sequel (to a slightly lesser degree). I still have both my boxed copies, as well as the awesome cloth mouse pad that came with the original PC game.
This is the Steam version using a widescreen hack and sound fixes.
That's not really surprising. Max Payne came out in 2001, when DVD ROM drives were incredibly uncommon and the majority of PC games were still being released on CD. So the game had to fit on one disk. The cutscenes were nothing more than still graphic novel images and .wav files.
Also, the game's MaxFX development tools were included with the original disc as well, which was awesome. The MaxED level editor, character model animation tool, package extraction tools, and a few other items. I honestly used to spend so much time making my own maps for Max Payne and creating cinematic cutscenes using the scripting features. MaxED was a lot of fun to play around with. Though MaxEd 2 for Max Payne 2 was a better overall editor.
Max Payne 2 in 2003 came packaged with two CD's, one for the installation and the game disc. But Max Payne 2 did not come with modding tools on the discs, they were a separate thing you had to download online.
I absolutely love the game myself, and it's sequel (to a slightly lesser degree). I still have both my boxed copies, as well as the awesome cloth mouse pad that came with the original PC game.
Soulblighter31
Banned
Cellsplitter
Neo Member
Max Payne, dearest of all my friends.
Pilgrimzero
Member
Still own my original discs and the mouse pad, also have them on Steam.
Looks like I'm due for a trilogy replay.
Looks like I'm due for a trilogy replay.
60EffPeeEss
Member
Half Life, Max Payne, Red Faction (It was out on PS2 first but ssshhh), Deus Ex, etc.
absolutely fucking loved Max Payne when it came out. It blew my mind. Really enjoyed the second one too. Only got around to playing the third last year, put maybe two hours into it.. kept getting bored by the presentation and all the talking, which is odd because I loved those parts in the original. Definitely gonna watch this.
Fudgepuppy
Banned
This makes me realize how much I want a remake/remaster of the game.
Just update the graphics. The rest can remain the same.
Just update the graphics. The rest can remain the same.
Soulblighter31
Banned
Oh, a limited selection that got console ports then. Hope you played MP properly since then. By that i mean, i know kung fu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwu_fd-D86w
As much as I love MP 1 and 2 I really think that Max Payne 3 was and still is best TPS game ever made. And it is really sad that MP3 gameplay and whole animation system was used just once. Story and presentation are different but I wouldn't say that they are bad. All in all it is sad that series is on hold. Maybe one day we will see another Max (or Mona Sax) game.
Pilgrimzero
Member
That would be awesome
video @8:41 said:
I feel like this is an aspect in Max Payne that was somewhat blundered in Max Payne 3. It's not exactly the same as what was originally planned for the first Max Payne, but MP3 forces the player into a ton of stunts that make the player go into bullet time without giving them an option, rather than letting the player create those scenes themselves.video @9:12 said:
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Mirrors are more fun than Youtube
Great video
Great video
MrCunningham
Member
Kenneth Yeung's Kung Fu mod was fantastic for the day. Shame that there weren't more mods in general for Max Payne.
Future Crew mostly split up into Remedy, Futuremark, and BugBear. Remedy actually supplied Futuremark with their first bench marking software. 3D Mark used Remedy's MaxFX engine from 3DMark '99 to 3DMark 2001.
MrCunningham
Member
Max Payne 2 was released two years after the first one, and it does look technically better. Also the play mechanics are much more refined. Here are a few screenshots I took of the game in 4k resolution on PC....
The only mod I am using here is a 16:9 widescreen hack. Otherwise, this is the original game, and it really doesn't look bad at all.
The models are a big improvement over the first games, they are higher polygon and have modeled facial details as opposed to the textured on faces of the original. The game even has facial animation and lip syncing which is also an improvement, though to be honest the lip syncing was much more impressive in games like Half-Life 2 and even Doom 3, which were released months later.
The game does use some DX8 shaders, but it is pretty minimal (I Think Max Payne 1 was DX7) and also uses an early version of Havok Physics engine.
But as much as I like the sequel, I prefer the pacing of the original game more. But that is just me.
EVA UNIT 01
Member
JohnMatrix
Banned
I remember when the demo for Max Payne came out and how blown away my teenage self was. I stayed up all night playing it.
Great series & cool video on how it all came to be
Great series & cool video on how it all came to be
Love this.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Max Payne 2> Max Payne 3