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WARNING! THIS IS A LONG ASS POST! this is a long ass post about the Max Payne video games. Only read this if you want to hear a crazy guy talk about video games and if you're willing to fairly judge i... View MoreWARNING! THIS IS A LONG ASS POST! this is a long ass post about the Max Payne video games. Only read this if you want to hear a crazy guy talk about video games and if you're willing to fairly judge it to see if it would make a good you-tube video. for i don't want that "follow your dreams :D " crap. I want to know if you think it would.
So I finely beat all three of the Max Payne video games and after playing all three, i have no fucking idea if i love them with all my heart or fucking hate them with a burning passion hot enough to boil Satan out of hell. What's worse, is every game has it's own reasons why it's amazing and shit at the same time.
Max Payne 1
If i had to sum up Max Payne 1 is "it's a rough gem that was shoved down your throat that you enjoy coughing up along with the blood" For, the way this game tells a story is amazing! the comic book noir thing is a rare site to see and they make it work! the story is great to, the short if it the government made a super horrible and additive drug and are selling it bad peope so they can make a shitload of money. and these additics killed his wife so he after the truth! tell me that isn't badass Max Payne himself is a cool dude too. like he's super sad thanks to all the horrible sad shit. but he still cracks jokes, he still tries. he feels fleshed out and i understand him. also the people you kill are also say some super funny shit, some lore and they help the stroy. the combat is also just AMAZING! slowing down time to just gun down large groups of people feels great every time! more so they didn't cram in set pieces to make it annoying. it's pure running and killing in slowmo! now at this point you might be thinking "wow! this sounds great! what's bad?" well let me tell you what's bad! this game is HARD! for you can only take few hits before you're DEAD! and this game, this fucking game has no issue throwing you into a room ware you're flanked from the right and left, two snipers and ambush coming from the back. and guns are still guns so in slow mo they still move fast. Lots of fights boil down to "you better get head shot after head shot and not get shot ONCE or you're dead!" for heath kits are RARE and they don't heal you a lot. the best way to win this game is not be _good_ it's save before every fight. die brutally. learn the fight and re-do it till you beat it. but once you do it's fucking GREAT! not the game cares. you think just becues you took on a huge ambush you can stop fighting? HELL NO! here is the next wave of foes. you can sleep when you're DEAD! like to give you a taste of how brutal this game can be. there is a part ware you have to go up a staircase. but a dude throws a nade down. . . if you go backwards you die. end of story. the ONLY thing you can do is rush towards the guy, only to find out it's a group of dudes, and as you kill them. you find out you're in a room with a overhang that has like 20 more guys that gun you down the moment you get to close. more so, this is a old ps1 era game. so you get every bit of fucking jank that comes with it. dumb ai, hard to see foes, windows 10 screaming as it suffers through playing it. like don't even play this game with out getting all the fan made patches.
frankly, if you want a game that's hard, but fun. . . and you can handle some jank. Max Payne is great
Max Payne 2
this one is the BEST game out of the three. for Max Payne 2 fixes everything that's bad about the last one. they toned down the difficulty to the point ware it's hard. but never to the point you wanna scream at the game being bullshit. they made slowmo more fun, for now when you pump a dude full of lead, there bodies go flying like some crazy action move. the game also looks great for a game that came out in 2013. the jank is 100% gone and it's great. this did come at a cost though. for the story this time around is. . . . . okay. . . . i mean, it works and ties everything together. the jist is, he's horny for this chick so he's going to prove that's she and he is innocent . . the wrighting for Max Payne is now. . . "i'm sad and horny" that's who he is now. . . no jokes nothing. . . but the writing for the bad guys is GREAT! like one thing that stood out for me was two dudes were talking about why there isn't any vampires in alaska, for the sun gone most of the time it was great! even though they did make the combat much better, they also kind of ruined it too. . . for all the guns SUCK other then your rifles. pistols can't kill fast enough, the shotguns are sad joke, uzi's ca't hit shit. but the riles? oh yeah they can fucking take on the whole red army with ONE FUCKING CLIP! you also take less damage and heath packs are easier to find. so the game just, feels less tense. ware Max Payne 1 felt like you were a doomed man going from one horrible fight to the next. Max Payne 2 feels more like you're Hollywood hero going from fight to fight. i'm not sure if this a good or a bad change, i can say i didn't like it. with such a sad story you think you would feel "helpless" and not fucking Rambo who cries between battles. if i had to sum up Max Payne 2. it's like eating a chocolate chip cookie that ALSO has raisins in it. close to being good but not quite
so if you want to play a good, yet hard game that you might forget someday. Max Payne 2 is worth your time.
Max Payne 3.
I will start this off by saying Max Payne 3 is shit, i hate it and don't play it. the reason is. . . this time Max Payne is just "sad drunk" he's also a FUCKING DUMBASS this time around. i'm not joking, this game would be two hours long if he didn't fuck up all the time. like he never cracks a joke, all he dose is get bullied, beat up, robbed, he cries and hates his life. . . it's just. . .sad now. . .the story is shit to.. Max Payne is a body guard for a rich family. . . people want the family dead so they kidnap the wife and daughter. it's lame. all the foes talk in a mix of Spanish and other tongues that i don't know. . . AND THERE FUCKING ISN'T SUBTITLES! so you more so the combat has changed. for in the frist two games, you were in slow mo all the time! now it's. . .short bursts? it's also cover shooting now. . . AND you can only hold two guns. . . it's just such a shit downgrade and i hate it! so lets recap! bad story, lame people, boring combat. . . the game isn't even hard now. it's just a lame walk in the park
don't play this game