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Remedy has yet to reveal the development budget of Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake or Alan Wake 2, but Finnish analysts estimated Alan Wake 2's total budget at €70 million ($75 million), with €20 million of that dedicated to marketing.

Reporting its financial results for the fiscal year, CEO Tero Virtala said Alan Wake 2 “has already recouped a significant part of the investments made by Epic Games Publishing” after selling over one million units by the end of 2023. Alan Wake 2, which went on sale on October 27 as a digital-only release across PC via the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, is the fastest-selling Remedy game.

“As Control proved, a great quality game can have excellent longtail sales and we expect this to be the case with Alan Wake 2 as well,”

Virtala added.

As for Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake, Virtala said its development team “made considerable progress throughout the year.” “Max Payne 1 and 2 remake is going to be a major new game with great potential, enabled by a similar development budget as Alan Wake 2,”

Virtala said.

via iGN

 

[acm2000]

one thing is for sure, its going to look glorious

 

[Hudo]

Max Payne 2 is one of the best games of all time. So I hope they don't fuck it up!

 

[TintoConCasera]

Curious to see how this ends up. None of those games need a remake at all imo, but if they are remade in the RE4R way, changing a few things here and there, expanding some areas and changing the gameplay just enough so it feels the same but still fresh, then it might be worth it.
I liked the gameplay in Max Payne 3, so my guess (hope) is that the remakes will play like that one.

I also hope they don't butcher the music, Max Payne 1 specially had an amazing one with some 80's action movie vibes to it.



Good stuff.

 

[Randall365]

"Major new game"?

You may be in for a surprise - Mx Payne?

 

[StereoVsn]

Let’s hope this won’t be digital only and EGS exclusive. Otherwise there will be another Pikachu face when sales don’t meet the expectations.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Was day 1 either way

 

[Dr.Morris79]

After everything that's gone down and now knowing the company kept at Remedy I think it's safe to keep my expectations in check in regards to one of my favourite games of the last thirty years getting remade.

Half expecting a black Maxine Payne to be on the revenge over the loss of her lesbian lover from another white arsehole

Who the fuck knows at this point

What I do know is if they've still got that dogshit company involved something will have changed and not for the better.

 

[Švejk]

As excited I am about MP 1 & 2 Remakes, I wish they'd drop us a simple port of MP 3 on current consoles (like they did MP 1). Never got a chance to try it... not sure how I missed out, because it looks fantastic.

 

[TastyPastry]

i hope remedy still knows how to do great gunplay

 

[M1chl]

Sucks that Jim MccAffrey died

 

[Ben87fr]

Without James McCaffrey i don't see how it can be done, he was Max Payne, nobody can replace him and anyway those games have aged well, just remaster them we don't need a remake

 

[Loope]

one thing is for sure, its going to look glorious

Everything about it will be glorious.

 

[nkarafo]

After all the shit that happened with Sweet Baby... How can you still be excited Remedy is making these remakes right now? As if now it's a good time for remastering/remaking older games? As if they won't be censored or altered as per usual?

Pass me some of that hopium pls.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I hope they still remember how to make a game that is actually fun to play after AW2's design philosophy being that sporadic, half-assed gameplay only exists to further Sam Lake's auteur bullshit.

I love the originals and would prefer remasters in the Tomb Raider or Metroid Prime vein. Updated textures, models and some geometry or whatever.

 

[BosmerCulter]

If Sam Lake isn't involved, it will be good.

This dude is so overrated. He wasn't the true mind behind Max Payne and Alan Wake 2 show it.

 

[Big Baller]

Max Payne 2 is one of the best games of all time. So I hope they don't fuck it up!

They are gonna make Mona Sex black

 

[Senua]

AW2 having a black woman as a protag really fucked gaf up huh

 

[Big Baller]

Sucks that Jim MccAffrey died

Damn, I missed this somehow. Hope they include his voice

 

[kyussman]

AW2 having a black woman as a protag really fucked gaf up huh

Yea,that's certainly the whole issue around Sweet baby Inc......having one black female protag,not the fact they are a bunch of racist cunts.I wish I could live in such a simple world as you.

 

[nkarafo]

AW2 having a black woman as a protag really fucked gaf up huh

Nice attempt at patronizing and understating the issues the game has.

 

[Chuck Berry]

No McCaffrey, no buy

And I have no faith in Remedy anymore after AW2

Sweet Baby Max

 

[SJRB]

Sucks that Jim MccAffrey died

Huge loss indeed.

 

[Jigsaah]

If it happens...day one.

 

[Senua]

Nice attempt at patronizing and understating the issues the game has.

What issues? It has a black protag, and it has one eye rolling line that her shadow utters, the shadow it's trying to put negative shit in her head to confuse her so she cannot think clearly. Context is key. Now every Remedy related thread is full of "Alan Woke" and other mind numbing shite. Just gets boring to read.

 

[TintoConCasera]

AW2 having a black woman as a protag really fucked gaf up huh

Didn't it "blackwashed" an already existing character in order to do that?

 

[TGO]

Let’s hope this won’t be digital only and EGS exclusive. Otherwise there will be another Pikachu face when sales don’t meet the expectations.

Oh it will be

 

[nkarafo]

What issues? It has a black protag, and it has one eye rolling line that her shadow utters, the shadow it's trying to put negative shit in her head to confuse her so she cannot think clearly. Context is key. Now every Remedy related thread is full of "Alan Woke" and other mind numbing shite. Just gets boring to read.

Social - Steam curator warns players if Sweet Baby is involved in a game

Source (Niche Gamer) https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44858017-Sweet-Baby-Inc-detected/ A new Steam curator is making it their mission to warn gamers if Sweet Baby Inc. has been involved in a game’s development. For those who don’t know, Sweet Baby Inc. is a narrative consultation...

www.neogaf.com

I know it's a lot of pages but there's a lot of information behind this group and their intentions. Spoiler alert: They are proven racists. They put their ideology in games and the subtlety in the way they do it varies.

And btw, this character wasn't even black originally. So i really wonder, what was wrong with the original character?

 

[TGO]

Didn't it "blackwashed" an already existing character in order to do that?

Apparently that doesn't count because it was over ten years ago and noone played Quantum Break anyway.
For consistency I just pretend that QB isn't canon.
It's even funnier that the guy whose her father is in Quantum Break too.
So that wouldn't have worked if they kept it the same.

 

[fatmarco]

Sucks that Jim MccAffrey died

I don't think McAffrey could have pulled off Max Payne at his age, he didn't sound good as Payne in Alan Wake 2.

In any case I hope it forces them to use the original audio, and subsequently forces them to make a more faithful remake than I otherwise fear they might do considering the current state of their studio.

I don't trust their creative vision when it comes to "new" Max Payne at this point, nor do I trust them to be faithful if they were given actual free reign to make different choices.

(Also I really do not want to see Sam Lake's face in this remake. He thinks he's gaming's David Lynch with his self inserts, and even Lynch's were pushing it)

 

[Dacvak]

Wait what the hell did I miss, I thought GAF liked AW2?

I’m pretty excited to play the remakes. I never got around to playing the original console games, though I was sent a review copy of the GBA game way back in the day. Last year I decided to play through it again, and it absolutely holds up. I still think it’s a solid 8/10 GBA game.

 

[Kings Field]

Loved MP 1 and 2 but I will stick to playing the originals if I ever get the urge to play them.

 

[Kerotan]

Didn't know remedy was making this. Hype has intensified.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

What issues? It has a black protag, and it has one eye rolling line that her shadow utters, the shadow it's trying to put negative shit in her head to confuse her so she cannot think clearly. Context is key. Now every Remedy related thread is full of "Alan Woke" and other mind numbing shite. Just gets boring to read.

If it had any to do with the protagonist being black you might be onto something

 

[tusharngf]

those new york apartment levels will be insane on new build

 

[violence]

Let’s see what the poison pill money does.

 

[M1chl]

I don't think McAffrey could have pulled off Max Payne at his age, he didn't sound good as Payne in Alan Wake 2.

In any case I hope it forces them to use the original audio, and subsequently forces them to make a more faithful remake than I otherwise fear they might do considering the current state of their studio.

I don't trust their creative vision when it comes to "new" Max Payne at this point, nor do I trust them to be faithful if they were given actual free reign to make different choices.

(Also I really do not want to see Sam Lake's face in this remake. He thinks he's gaming's David Lynch with his self inserts, and even Lynch's were pushing it)

Well he was terminally ill...

 

[Chuck Berry]

If it had any to do with the protagonist being black you might be onto something

The DEI funding probably is what afforded them to make the game in the first place and turning Saga into a black female was probably part of the deal. Not shocking either that the majority of the game is focused on her.

Id put my left nut on it at this point.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The DEI funding probably is what afforded them to make the game in the first place and turning Saga into a black female was probably part of the deal. Not shocking either that the majority of the game is focused on her.

Id put my left nut on it at this point.

Probably true, but even so, a black protagonist isn't a bad thing. It's the utterly gush writing that goes with it that does it in for me

At ten minutes and eight seconds in it's 'Big boss lady' off the bat, it's written in that shitty Disney/Sweet baby way

Just awful characterization. But that's what Sweet baby are known for in regards to their input.

That's why I'm hoping they don't have any here. Leave them out of Max.

 

[april6e]

This is the closest I'm ever going to come to getting an Enter the Matrix or Strangehold remake.