RealityPales
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This game is AWESOME. I'm going to play this instead of MGSV when I get home today, which says a lot.
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MAD MAX |OT| Beyond Thunderpoon
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Chubzdoomer
Banned
Yeah, Avalanche's engines are amazing when it comes to those two things. The awesome performance (at least on PC) is like the cherry on top. I can only imagine how gorgeous Just Cause 3 is going to be! This game is kind of like an appetizer until JC3 arrives. But a damned good appetizer at that. ;-)
Net_Wrecker
Member
I appreciate how long the 24h cycle is. Really lets you bask in the 4 major times of day (dawn/day/dusk/night) longer than most open world action titles. Huge improvement from Just Cause 2 which leaned too heavily on noon lighting with nighttime getting only like 1/3 of the day/night cycle, if that. They nailed the atmosphere. That eerie stillness when you come out of a settlement or climb up from underground, with the wind swirling the sand around and a few cars in the distance revving their engines is so good. Or that constant abrupt shift from high to low intensity and back every time you go into and out of combat. Or that otherworldly feel when the moon is out and the terrain takes on a lunar look, peppered with car headlights or flames you can see for miles.
jimbobsmells
Member
Why has the balloon near jeets base got no fuel? I'm confused. I can't work out how to refuel it.
Follow the power cables to the generator and fill that up with guzzoline and you're set!
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
loving the atmosphere
SlasherJPC
Banned
PS4.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
anyone using nvidia inspector aa etc and can help with settings 
No doubt. Even the sound of the wind is unreal. Especially when you take shelter and can hear it beating and and whipping around the construct you are in. The immersion is outstanding.
N° 2048
Member
Small details like the sand coming in from under the seams of the shelters or the heat waves from the Opus' engine.nice stuff.
Lord British
Member
i5 processor, 8gb RAM, GeForce 660. Am I good to go on Mad Max?
Agreed. It is loaded with so many nice little touches that really add up.
I got mine when I was on foot attacking my first outpost. The sound of the wind and thunder is so violent. Adds a ton to the atmosphere
Played about 12 hours and only explored about 1/4 of the map. It is so easy to get distracted!
Took down my first stronghold but they are telling me where the next story mission is. There are no green story mission marks on the map. Do I just need to defeat the first 4 strongholds to progress the story?
Took down my first stronghold but they are telling me where the next story mission is. There are no green story mission marks on the map. Do I just need to defeat the first 4 strongholds to progress the story?
NickatNite
Member
genuinely quite great
speedomodel
Member
About a hour or two in and just..in love. Game is wonderful
I got both on release day through Amazon's E3 pre-order deal. Played MGSV for 12 hours or so, but reading this thread got me in the mood to load up Mad Max. I'm 4 hours in, and I don't think I'm going back to MGSV (amazing game and all) for at least a few more days
SpaceHorror
Member
Man, as much as I'm enjoying MGS V I can't stop thinking about wanting to play this.
May try to pick it up this weekend.
May try to pick it up this weekend.
Alcoholikaust
Member
Enjoying it more than Arkham Knight and Shadows of Mordor combined-
edit:the game is quite different from them-but I see people making comparisons-
To me that's fucking high praise man. Those are two very well made games.
digitalrelic
Banned
Okay, I feel like an idiot, but how the hell do you take out the Sniper on that early first mission where you need to infiltrate the base?
Alcoholikaust
Member
shadows of mordor made you a god within a few hours- batman had boring batmobile combat (to me)
Mad Max has stellar character progression/car customization -the game hasnt stopped throwing new abillities/gear at me- the combat is similar to batman-but less ice-skatey (you need to be near foes to chain moves together), its gory which also adds to the combat (for me at least)
then theres the car combat- easily the shining star on the package- building the Magnum opus (however you want mind you) is awesome-sure its arcadey at times- but the handling and feeback from the vehicles is great. literally gives the AK bat-tank the finger in terms of entertainment
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do you have the harpoon? shoot and pull brother-
digitalrelic
Banned
do you have the harpoon? shoot and pull brother-
I have the harpoon but no spears for it. Do I have to go somewhere to get them?
WB game made by the people who made Just Cause 2.
The game felt like a mix of a bunch of games like Borderlands, Shadows of Mordor, (fighting of) Arkham Asylum, and more and it doesn't come across as a bad thing.
Simo
Member
Probably not? Which Ubisoft games don't you like? Do you like the Mad Max IP?
I mean Avalanche hasn't pushed or reinvented the open world genre but rather used everything that has come before to make the ultimate Mad Max experience and so far they've succeeded. At least for a big fan like myself.
That is how I feel and I have said I think it is a better game at the core than Arkham Knight myself. It has a similar combat system, but it is more satisfyingly brutal and the car mechanics make the Batmobile stuff laughable. The visuals and effects are better as well, but sure, Batman has stuff like better voice acting and a more flashy presentation. I just prefer a game that is more fun to play.
Alcoholikaust
Member
you have one attached to a rope- just get close-make sure its selected wth the dpad- hold lb-and press B or circle- you have to be relatively close iirc (2 or 3 car lengths aways for initial harpoon)
So, I haven't played a lot of games with car combat, is it comparable to Rage? I'm struggling to think of examples.
I'm aware it's not an Ubisoft title, it's just that Warner open world feels like Ubisoft open world but with Batman combat. I really dislike that formula, but I really do enjoy Mad Max. If the game manages to capture that sort of feeling and have action sequences that can rival some of the stuff we see in the movies, then that makes me very excited.
This is very good to read, the open world Batman titles are already more interesting than most open world games to me exactly because the moment to moment gameplay is fun, even if I dislike the overall structure, just punching dudes is fun, so if this is even better in that aspect, I think I can enjoy it.
Simo
Member
Those War Criers...lol...when they're the last sods left hanging up there they just totally bum out!
"Ugh..I'm the only one left...by myself...with a crazed road warrior drenched in the blood of my brethren....*sigh*"
And now I'm bummed out because it's time for work and no Mad Max for 9 hours.
"Ugh..I'm the only one left...by myself...with a crazed road warrior drenched in the blood of my brethren....*sigh*"
And now I'm bummed out because it's time for work and no Mad Max for 9 hours.
888
Member
Be different. Play max. I have them both and put more time into max. Not saying anything bad about MGS. I was just suprised with Max.
God no, Rage wishes it was this game. Think maybe Road Rash type stuff, but of course it is mostly inspired by the car battles in the movies. Mainly ramming, sideswiping, shooting the harpoon to tear off tires, rip off doors, yank the driver out of the vehicle and shooting your shotgun out the window to ends like this:
d00d3n
Member
It would actually be nice to settle with the underdog. The games that Max steals from are also some of my favourite games.
Mad Max is a TV experience, right? (own it on PC, so I can play it on a gsync display or my plasma)