JumpingTheGun
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Max Payne 3 |OT| Funny as hell, we couldn't decide on a sub-title
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get gooder.
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Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnn son. Ice cold.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
Somehow I miraculously got the cheev/troph for the headshot during The Rooftop Tremors. Fuck that when trying to do it on purpose.
+10 for acceleration. Should have been set up that way from the beginning. I think most people will go for soft/hard lock and they won't "get" what's so great about this game.
Play one of the more recent CODs on Veteran. Those games are fucking brutal for no reason.
I'm starting my Hard playthrough tonight. We can compare notes later.
HawksWinStanley
Member
Wow.
I just got to Chapter 3 and I'm having a blast. I would've gotten further but I had to replay the
night club section
I started on Easy after hearing about how hard the game was and I wish I started on Medium. It's pretty easy so far but still a ton of fun. I can't stop shootdodging, any time there's more than one guy left I'm diving through the air picking off heads.
I'll be sure to do another playthrough right away on Medium, maybe Hard if I'm feeling up to it.
Net_Wrecker
Member
The best part of free aim isn't the headshots, it's when you DON'T get headshots and Euphoria starts to work its magic. That feeling just isn't the same when you use lock-on aiming. Some of the kills and animations I've seen in combination with bullet time has left my jaw on the floor, even after GTAIV and RDR.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
Is there really an Easy mode?
I generally like to think I'm good at games. I mean, by no means am I anything to brag about, but I enjoy games that are specifically made to be tough- your Demon's/Dark Souls, and STALKERs, and indie stuff like Day Z.
This is just horseshit though. It seems people are having a tough time on medium, but hard is poorly balanced at best. Difficulties should scale without compromising the core conceits intended in a game's design. This reminds me of playing the early hours of Skyrim on the harder difficulties, where scaling would cause bears and sabrecats to dominate dragons. Obviously there's nothing quite analogous in this, a linear shooter, but it's that sort of goofy difficulty scaling that seems to plague it.
But then, maybe I'm just a bitch. Or getting old. Or both.
Being able to shoot dudes in the legs and arms -- to stagger them -- if they're wearing flak jackets is also pretty crucial. And shooting dudes in the pecker, obviously.
JumpingTheGun
Banned
I didn't need a whole explanation duder. just learn to budget your bullet time. remember, being in cover will refill it as long as you're being fired at. budget. bullet. time.
As cruel as it sounds, shooting people in the crotch with Euphoria and the bullet physics is pretty damn entertaining.
Probably because they're wearing bullet proof vests. Also, are you using Free Aim?
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
They really aren't. People need to not use soft lock, or if using free aim, stop shooting them center mass. Those flak jackets take too much damage. Target heads, arms, and legs.
Regret Truth
Member
Just beat the game.....longest credits ever? Its been going for at least 7 minutes.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I noticed that too. A lot of the trophies need a lot of work to get them... hence the 'Grinds'. There are no chapter trophies, just 'part' trophies. Also, you can get trophies during the auto bullet-time bits, but it involves shooting everyone, if you miss someone, it doesn't count. And trophies are involved in collectibles and stuff.
MR BLACKMAGIK
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Finished the game on Hard today. I have to say, it's one of the most enjoyable games i've played in a long time. Especially for a shooter, I play a lot of shooters and most of them have mediocre singleplayer experiences but MP3 was very fun. Started New York Minute today also, the hardcore NYM is going to be very rough.
Rayman Origins' credits are about 25 minutes long. For a game made by 6 people. I'm not kidding.
hmm so it is because I am using soft lock that they seem to take so many bullets? interesting, I guess I switch to free aim, Thanks
This game isn't hard at all, just lead blind fire from cover into an aimed shot, using soft lock or (*shudders*) hard lock and the game is stupid easy. This is part of my problem with the game, it's less effective to play it like a Max Payne game.
Edit: Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a better Max Payne Game than this.
heh, missed this, bite me.
Edit: Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a better Max Payne Game than this.
heh, missed this, bite me.
Kaori's Babydaddy
Banned
The game looks pretty fun I'll have to catch it later.
It just doesn't feel very much like Max Payne to me. The cover plus the euphoria floatyness makes it feel MUCH more like GTA4 than MP2. But I understand some people really liked how that felt. Max does not turn like a boat (like Niko), but Max almost glided in the old PC versions. It felt TOO GAMEY I guess
What settings are you using for the aiming? It felt kind of clunky and slow to me at first but after I adjusted it a bit (all three options at 9 and free aim) the game feels perfect.
Net_Wrecker
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If people came into this expecting Max to control as weightlessly as he did in MP2, it's easy to see why you'd be disappointed. That was never going to happen.
About that: how is the shooting? Is there a big arsenal of guns? Is the physics just as good as in RDR?
ThirtyPlus
Member
This game is.....so. Damn. GOOD.
Regret Truth
Member
Do we have a thread for multi player meet ups? I'd like to get some games going with the NeoGang crew.
I think it would be a very disjointed experience if Eurphoria was applied heavily to enemies but not to Max. For him to be overly nimble and not have great transitional animations that really express weight, it'd look funny, in my opinion.
The game definitely shines in larger, more open areas where there's plenty of room to move about and shootdodge like mad. The final chapter's
middle location
just finished chapter 5 and have been having a lot of fun.
it's the most fun i've had shooting things in video games in a long, long time. it just feels amazing to shoot-dodge and knock off 4 enemies while still in mid jump. the enemy reactions to getting shot is almost too realistic.
fun times.
it's the most fun i've had shooting things in video games in a long, long time. it just feels amazing to shoot-dodge and knock off 4 enemies while still in mid jump. the enemy reactions to getting shot is almost too realistic.
fun times.
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I'm trying to fucking join a multiplayer game and it's telling me "INCOMPATIBLE DATA" wtf that mean? Fuck this game.
SafeinSound
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People having problem with the difficulty need to utilize the tools given to them. Activate bullet time while behind cover, shoot head, rinse, repeat. Easy.
lol is it worth throwing a fit over? How many different playlist types have you tried?
I havent played the game yet and this post is probably the most discouraging thing in this whole thread.
Thats a boring way to play Max Payne.
..change your avatar, man. That's horrible advice.
SafeinSound
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No kidding it's boring, but it's what you have to do at times when the game get's hard. This is in extreme situations, by the way. This is not an indication of how the whole game is.
BobTheFork
Member
I'm going in the MP now, can I get an invite to NeoGANG please?
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Yeah. Soft Lock gravitates the reticule to center mass, which unfortunately for you, is covered by a flak jacket but the CP and UPE enemies. Free Aim is the best targeting system.
I love the Chapter Select in this game. You can pick so many places from where to start from in the game.
They should have done this for soft lock, half squeeze of the LT to soft lock on foes, full squeeze for free aim. Would have made it a lot easier to acquire targets easily.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Yeah the guns don't have the sharp pop they should have indoors, nor do they have the Michael Mann-esque echo you would expect outdoors. But that's a complaint I have with nearly every shooter. They feel beastly though which makes up for it.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
COMBAT DRUGS! - A track by HEALTH!
This is the track that plays during the
level. It was also used in the second trailer. God, HEALTH is so good. Love this track. That level was so great too, it was so moody and chaotic.
http://soundcloud.com/rockstargames/police-precinct-90-sec
This is the track that plays during the
Police Precinct/Riot
http://soundcloud.com/rockstargames/police-precinct-90-sec
Great news!!! I hate that in most games, you can't. I'd have played more of Alan Wake If I could start from where I wanted, for example.
But you'd never be able to explain this to new players. You could do this, and in theory, it sounds great, but it's too much to ask of a new player. There are going to be tonnes of new players with this game (who've never played a Max Payne game) so they've made the decision to make it easy to target dudes unless you have the built-in GAMER KNOWLEDGE required to adjust things in an options menu.
To be honest, I still find myself holding LT when I'm in mid-shootdodge sometimes. It's hilarious.