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Why Fans Feel Apprehensive About Max Payne 3

gossipgamers.com — Most people were initially pretty excited when the game was announced back in March, but since then some people have started to feel a little bit concerned that Max Payne 3 won’t live up to it’s predecessors. Here are some of the concerns fans are having.

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  • Murrabbit, on 06/28/2009, -3/+91Bleh, a cover system? Back when the first two titles were released on PC there already was a cover system, just like with all PC shooters - get behind something! These kids today with their knobly clackin' xboxes and play stations are just too lazy to actually move their character!
  • gdenne, on 06/27/2009, -6/+84Because Max Payne 3 won't be a Max Payne game?
  • Lane, on 06/28/2009, -2/+57In short this is the anti-max payne. It's a fat, bald, bearded fellow in a tropical local. No writers from the first two, really all they need to work on now is eliminating bullet time that the series pioneered and get rid of the guns.
  • AmnesiacJack, on 06/28/2009, -0/+50If it doesn't have a noir setting it's not Max Payne, simple as that.

    Say what you want but that's why I bought the first two and why I won't be buying this one.
  • gizmo12688, on 06/28/2009, -1/+29Seriously. Couldn't agree more.
  • Traiklin, on 06/28/2009, -4/+32oh grandpa, talking about the old days again.

    tell us the story about when the internet made a sound and you had to wait for it to connect.
  • gozroth, on 06/28/2009, -1/+28I think they approached the game with a "people don't want more of the same" kind of mentality as opposed to a "people want more of what they loved" mentality, like they should have done.

    Ironically, it looks like more of the same if you compare it to all the boring generic games out there.
  • thizzlebot, on 06/28/2009, -0/+24Because max payne now looks like Carl from Aqua Teen.
  • pathy, on 06/28/2009, -1/+23Hey, I heard they're going to be making a new Star Trek movie but it has no spaceships at all and it's all set in a Jungle. But if you like it don't watch it.

    Hey I heard they're going to make a new Bioshock game but it's a text adventure game and there's no combat at all, but if you don't like it don't buy it.

    Hey I heard they're going to make a new Half-Life game but it's actually a beat-em-up, but if you don't like it don't buy it.

    Hey I heard they're making a new Grim Fandango but it's actually a shooter, but if you don't like it don't buy it.

    I could go on with a lot more ***** examples, but hopefully I made my point. Fans like things and don't want them to be ***** up even if they CAN ignore the ***** up.
  • BubonicLouie, on 06/28/2009, -0/+20I think the reason people are apprehensive about this is that the game doesn't look like it has any connection to franchise except for name. Maybe the marketing department should focus on how this the game connects to the past two entries.
  • Egotrippin, on 06/28/2009, -0/+15Game developers need to come up with a new haircut for these protagonist.
  • gozroth, on 06/28/2009, -0/+15It's funny that I did that exact scenario hundreds of times in Max Payne 2 without a magical "magnetize to chest high walls" button.
  • Barackalypse, on 06/28/2009, -0/+14Frankly I'm most disturbed that formerly gritty Max Payne now appears to be a somewhat whiter version of Vin Diesel.
  • canthraxp, on 06/28/2009, -1/+15... and add a crap-brown filter over it.
  • AmnesiacJack, on 06/28/2009, -1/+13Back in my day sonny we payed for our mistakes with a quick death and a slow reload and we LIKED it.
  • BTConan, on 06/28/2009, -1/+12But this is digg. Our panties are perpetually in a bunch.
  • Mship, on 06/28/2009, -0/+11You know its people like you who make the video game industry put out ***** games.
  • TheNinjaJesus, on 06/27/2009, -15/+25Because they're morons.
  • ruskicommi, on 06/27/2009, -3/+13It looks like Splinter Cell Conviction.
  • EtherGnat, on 06/28/2009, -1/+10At least we have something in common. We don't give a ***** what you think either.
  • bfogarty27, on 06/28/2009, -1/+10i could do that in the old ones by positioning myself nicely behind a wall and diving to the other. but having the game keep you safe is stupid.
    the first 2 were great but i didnt care about the story at all it was just awesome action
    this is nothing like the old ones they could call it something entirely different
  • HamSandwich, on 06/28/2009, -2/+10I think someone has a bit of sand in their vagina...
  • insinuate, on 06/28/2009, -1/+9no *****. the crying baby?! OMFG NIGHTMARES.
  • doubledmateo, on 06/28/2009, -0/+8Yep, I just don't see how this will retain any of the vibe from the old one. I loved the atmosphere of the first two, plus the city (New York) was the main character. That's gone now.

    Who knows though. Perhaps Brazil is merely the only part they're talking about yet. Maybe the meat of the game takes place back in the gritty city.
  • pathy, on 06/28/2009, -1/+9The only things gamers should concern themselves with is whether a game is fun or not? God ***** damn, get the ***** away!
  • pseudologue, on 06/28/2009, -0/+7haha. Actually I mostly hated them because they were pretty pointless.
  • dikky, on 06/28/2009, -1/+8can pretty much guarantee any old pc franchise that gets a new game will be dumbed down all to hell
  • bnitro, on 06/28/2009, -0/+6Because, as John Davidson said, he looks like Jeff Bridges? I like Jeff Bridges but I do not get this direction.
  • Manberries, on 06/28/2009, -1/+7Well for one, Noir means "black."
  • pseudologue, on 06/28/2009, -4/+10God, I hated those dream sequences.
  • mungabba, on 06/28/2009, -1/+7plus film grain
  • RSS14, on 06/28/2009, -0/+5Why do characters become bald when they something crazy happens to them?

    /Sam Fisher
  • christoast, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4I never understood how panties actually get into a bunch. unless you take them off and put them in a bunch or squeeze them into a bunch.
  • 7aji, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4As if the movie didn't ruin the game enough.
  • mungabba, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4I often think it's just easier to make a guy with a bald head than get someone to make hair that moves and stuff. Maybe it increases the frame rate. I don't know I'm not a game designer but I hate it how everyone has a shaved/bald head in games these days. They'll be doing it to the women next.
  • Darksoul, on 06/28/2009, -1/+5How can you play any of the Max Payne games and not care about the storyline, sorry but you sound like a douche bag for saying that.
  • DarkHornet, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4I think that's the direction a lot of people intend to go in. I know I will be.
  • insinuate, on 06/28/2009, -0/+4oh ***** you.

    sorry. it's 2 great games.
  • christoast, on 06/28/2009, -10/+13Why not try it out before we get our panties in a bunch
  • B1665r, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3Actually, I think you could do a scene for scene remake of the original Max Payne, only with a modern game engine and it would be an awsome game.
  • doubledmateo, on 06/28/2009, -2/+5what dha07030 is really saying is that anyone's opinion that differs from his own is not valid and should not be stated.
  • B1665r, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3Wii Table Tennis
  • rgaino, on 06/28/2009, -2/+5I am very excited because it will be set in my beloved São Paulo. Maybe I could go for lunch at Consulado Mineiro or have a beer at Filial. Or maybe I can get to shoot those goddamned motoboys in the head (or should I start with their knees?)
  • ruskicommi, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3Oops, I meant it looks like Double-Agent
  • kinseyincanada, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2people always complain that we get sequel after sequel of more of the same, Madden the same very year, Guitar Hero. Now a company tries to refresh the look of an older franchise and everyone complains. You can never please the internet.
  • JollyDumple, on 06/29/2009, -1/+3I know! I've been using cover in games since Doom! I've also done it in Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Half-Life, Halo, and Call of Duty. These days you have to hope that you can rely on the developers agreeing with you on what you should be able to hide behind. It seems to work most of the time, but when it doesn't, it is very frustrating.
  • geoman2k, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2different writer, different development team, different style, different character design, different voice actor... this is absolutely not a max payne game in any way. will it even have a comic-book style narrative? i'm not saying it will suck, but when almost every single aspect of what made max payne unique has been removed, it ceases to be a max payne game. this might as well be a sequel to dead to rights or one of the other bullet time games that have come out in recent years.

    its all about cashing in on the franchise name. far cry 2 all over again.
  • austinshea, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2"I transitioned to console gaming for a number of valid reasons, and I do feel its an ultimately better experience."

    why?

    also why not just say whatever it is you're thinking? a number of valid reasons?
  • deathandtaverns, on 06/28/2009, -1/+3I do not think I will be playing this game
  • pfhayter, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2It's easier to find a tin foil hat that fits with a bald head.
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