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'Cause it aint 2012 anymore :v

Beat Max Payne 3;

Despite the radical change in setting it still manages to maintain much of the same atmosphere, James Mccaffrey is unmistakably Max Payne and the dialogue echoes Sam Lake's writing style often. Max is definately a lot grumpier and angrier than before, it feels kinda weird having him drop so many F-bombs after usually just uttering "Damnit" in a messy situation.

The environments were astounding at times, especially the Favella, the look, feel and musical soundtrack through those sections was very Brazil. I was especially impressed with the skybox detail, it felt very much like a huge bustling city just going about it's daily business in the background.

I had *some* issues;

The introduction of a cover system was a mistake, it forced me into using it instead of bullet time because it didn't last long and you died from a small amount of gunfire (which is funny considering you don't always kill an enemy instantly with a headshot, some messed up hitboxes going on there). When you did use slow motion, Max would always end up on the floor getting hit repeatedly until you realise you're suppose to get him up off of the floor this time around. Also he kept switching weapons after every cutscene and sniper aim was inverted... wtf?!

I thought it was odd that the Portugeuse dialogue appeared written in the language in subtitles rather than an English translation, I suppose the point is Max doesn't understand it but it would have been nice to know what they were saying half the time.

I had a few moral issues with one of chapters, namely

When you're storming the UFE HQ, you're basically going around killing Police. I know that the organisation is supposed to be corrupt but that doesn't mean everyone working for it is.. does it? I don't know, I just felt it was a bit OTT.

I thought the New York sections were wasted since

there were only two of them and they were pretty short

which was a shame.

Overall, I did very much enjoy it but felt it lacked the polish of the previous games...

Btw did anyone notice the theme to the ending? It references part of MP2.

When Max confronts Mona at the funhouse in Chapter 2;

Mona: What do you want from me?

Max (narrating): A smoke, some whiskey, for the sun to shine...

..and that's what he got in the end, so I think we can assume that this is the end of the road for Max, he finally has some kind of peace...

That said;

if an Mp4 were to be made where Max moves to Russia then I'd be hyped

:cool:

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D3ads

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If the fucking thing wasn't 30gbs I'd install and play it again right now.

Wtf.. 30GB?!! How the heck is the PC version that big...?

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  • 6 months later...
Minos

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Grave diggin!

 

After months of playing this on and off... I just finished Final Fantasy XIII-2

 

This was a pretty interesting case. To be honest I never cared much about Final Fantasy until about a year or two ago, but ended up skipping FF 13 due to the bad reviews. Earlier this year I got an itch for some Final Fantasy and decided to pick up this up since it seemed to have fixed most of the problems with the first one and had cool environments.

 

At first I found the characters a bit annoying and the story convoluted. At some point I just gave up trying to follow what the hell was going on cause the amount of information was just overwhelming. I even gave up the game halfway through a few months ago due to a very annoying part (

Academia 400AF

. There are so many places and branches to go and the game never really explains how to use the level navigator screen either so I decided to just use a faq to figure out where to go at some points.... and damn, does this game get better on the second half.

 

The story (even though it's confusing as hell at first and takes a while to pick up the pace) is actually pretty clever and refreshing, with some really interesting and unexpected twists. I'd place the experience on this one at the same level as when I played Mass Effect for the first time.

 

It's shame this game got ignored by the main public, it almost feels like a hidden gem even if this is a proper Final Fantasy game.

 

Anyway, pick this up if you have an open mind, like some grinding or just likes good time travel paradox stories :)

 

9/10

Sprony

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It's been a good year so far :)

 

PC:

 

Quake 2: Ground Zero

Far Cry 3

Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

Dishonored

Max Payne 3

XCOM: Enemy Uknown

Brutal Legend

 

PS3:

 

Darksiders

Darksiders 2

 

Xbox 360:

 

Bioshock Infinite

Chimeray

Chimeray

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Shelter (the badger game). Saw a lot of potential in this one but it didn't live up to its expectations. I also finished it in 76 minutes so that probably makes it the shortest game I've played on Steam :P

Too bad, could've been an emotional journey but it's just lackluster.

 

Game dev tycoon, played it for about 10 hours but that's cos I really like simulation games :D Pretty decent!

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  • 2 weeks later...
Sprony

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I just finished Company of Heroes 2. I heard about pissed of Russians downvoting the game on metacritic due the game's portrayal of them. They go way too far in this because there's a lot of truth in the story and they need to accept that. However, I can understand where the offensive is coming from. The game's primary focus seems to show how horrible the Russians were. It gets old pretty fast and they could have toned it down a bit. The Germans look like choir boys in comparison to that.

 

The game itself was very enjoyable. Just more of the same really and the original was already great, so no complaints. The only thing that bothered me was the "always fire" attitude of your own army. Never in a game did I loose so many troops to friendly fire. Oh, your fighting close combat with your veteran squads against a outnumbered enemy. Fuck you! You've just stepped in range of my mortar fire, bye bye now! 

Beck

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Just completed GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony over the past couple of days to get my GTA fix before V gets here.

 

Quite enjoyed it!

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