Max Payne 1+2 Remakes Will "Bring Them Upto Modern Standards" & Combine Both Games Together

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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?


In an interview with VGC, we asked Sam Lake about the remakes, and how Remedy's initial announcement suggested it was going to be a significant undertaking.

Lake replied that the project is indeed a large one, with a lot of work involved.

"It is a significant undertaking in the sense that even if they are old games, just thinking about bringing them up to modern standards and combining them into one, you can see that it's a big, big project," he explained.

Upon being asked if he would be reprising his role as Max from the first game, Lake laughed.

"No comment!" he replied. "That's going too far."

Remedy announced back in April 2022 that it was starting work on remakes of the first two Max Payne games.

The games will be sold together as a single package and will be released on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC.
 
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Cannot wait to see this. Such great memories of this franchise on PC back in the day. Dark, gritty, violent. Obviously you had Doom, quake etc. before this. But Max Payne really hit me when I was younger and probably shouldn't have been playing this, about how video games can tell incredible stories and make you really "feel" what the character is feeling.

As a parent now, even though it's a game, the narrative is a true nightmare.

baby scene was some haunting shit
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Alan Wake 2 using that "Dark" new york is clearly prototyping/asset creation to use in the MP remakes, so if thats anything to go by it's gonna be fuckin' stunning.
 
Welp there goes any interest I had in these. Thank god for original game installs. They better sell it as a separate library entry I swear to god I hate these forced updates that ruin the legacy versions.
 
Hmm, I really hated the changes on the bullet time mechanic on the second entry, so I wonder what they consider modern. Also kinda worried if they will touch the comics.
 
People in this thread have reminded me of the dream sequences. These parts really dragged an almost perfect game down, I absolutely hated them passionately. Anyway, really looking forward to this!
 
Upon being asked if he would be reprising his role as Max from the first game, Lake laughed.

"No comment!" he replied. "That's going too far."

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I don't think so since Rockstar/T2 hold the IP, so they'd have a say on publishing (and I believe Rockstar are actually also the publisher here). And both like money quite a lot.
Which also means physical release too
 
Hot damn! With the superb Control, Alan Wake 2 and now this Remedy is on the way to be among the best gaming studios ever. Actually they already are
 
They will expand the story and Max Payne will reveal that she indeed is Maxina Payne, a trans non binary that identifies as black lesbian, the baby was adopted of course.
We need to know where that adopted baby came from. Like, was it also a prom night dumpster baby?
 
I recall ruminating on how quickly I finished the first two games and questioning their value for the price. I was told that if I finished them within a few hours I was playing them wrong. I still sometimes think about that and what it means.
 
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I don't know if it's stupid or not but I do remember when I was a teenager and playing Max Payne 2 for the 4500th time, there was this one room in one of the penthouse suites that looked cozy AF, and I remember thinking to myself something along the lines of "man, these digs are dope AF, finna get me one of those for myself when I grow up."

And then I grew up and never got an apartment as cozy as the one from the game, but they'd better remaster that fucking shit right, or else!
 
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