Remedy is remaking Max Payne 1/2 for Rockstar

>nuRockstar involved
oh no

1 is a little rough around the edges and could do with some smoothing out, but 2 plays really well. I don't think these really need remakes, but if they're decent enough I'd check them out. it's nice that it will be a 1+2 bundle and not individual releases, and that remedy themselves gets to make it rather than shipping it off to some dev for hire studio. how big is remedy these days though, because aren't they working on a spin off of control AND alan wake 3?

Max Payne 2 was added to Xbox BC a few months ago at the same time 1 was.

rockstar still owns the IP after they bought it off remedy, they just made a deal for remedy to remake the first two since who else can you trust to touch those? fucking rockstar inhouse?

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twitter.com/remedygames/status/1511808969165185035

I hope they remove the jumping puzzle from MP1 it really didn't age well

rockstar/take2 owns the ip, cant without them

According to Remedy's twitter the site crashed there was too much traffic at once.

Which goes to show Max Payne was the last of the shooterkino people still give a fuck about.

Was Max Payne the last boomershooter?

>perfectly playable on modern PCs
Bullshit. How?
I can't get it to work on Windows 10.
inb4
>Why did you downgrade from 7
I didn't know better the time and now it's too late. I tried the fan patches and everything and it still CTDs on a level load. It has been years since I've tried though if there were new update.

better graphics and no soul, can't wait!

sike!

>youtube.com/watch?v=Cv0y0On8ZGQ

Do you feel it bros? hells freezing over again...

Nice I still love Max Payne 1 and 2. Will wait and see how this plays out

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Obamna

I played 1 and 2 for the first time last year on w10 just fine, idk dude

Hate to be That Guy, but did you try everything here?
pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Max_Payne
In all honesty, I've only been replaying the Xbox BC versions since they came out, I assumed they worked on modern PCs since it's mentioned as having fixes for Windows 10 on here.

Coming 2027

>No Soul
Implying Sam will remove Address Unknown and Lords and Ladies.

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My lord!

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Last time I tried was years ago, like pre-COVID, maybe even pre-Trump.
>definitive fix

community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2325-max-payne-anthology-definitive-fixes/

> Submitted November 20, 2021
Nope, haven't tried this yet.
Installing the Max Payne games. Regardless if the remakes are any good or not, they're gonna remove the old versions from all stores.

Max Payne 3 is one of the greatest third person shooter ever made.

THE ONLY COMPANY I TRUST WITH A MAX PAYNE REMAKE IS REMEDY LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Modern Remedy fucking sucks. I hope they abandon it.

I don't think they can since Rockstar doesn't own those games.

Sam lake face will probably be a unlockable
i wouldnt be surprised if they just mocaped James Mcaffrey and just deage him

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HOLD IT!

You suck

ITS PAYNE!

Sign me the fuck up

If they just focus on improving visuals, I think it's going to be fine. The problem with post-Max Payne Remedy is that Sam Lake just really fucking wants to make movie games and nobody at Remedy seems to be telling him "no". He is a decent writer and worldbuilder, but he would be a bad movie director.

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>company that hasn't made a single good game since max payne 1 is in charge of remaking max payne 1 and 2, now with tumblerinas in the writing staff
cant say im excited chief

Hope they use its engine, but obviously they won't.

If it's anything like control and QB it'll be a completely weightless and impactless shooter.

Think they're going to adopt 3's physics/movement system or something like it?

Yeah it was, the airport sequence is one of the most memorable things in vidya for me.

>Remedy approached Rockstar
>Remedy does development on in-house engine with full Rockstar funding
>Both titles in a single game
Fucking Hyped. I just hope they don't redo the voices and give you an option to use the original comic panels or make new ones instead of cinematics galore.

It needs the comics, the voice actors, the music and the tv shows to stay.

It's gonna be like Mafia remake. Muh graphx, but without the soul and all that little details from the original.

I have nostalgia for Sam's face, not some retarded soulless version of it.

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That's a nice move by rockstar, they're still shit though

IT'S PAYNE WHACK EM

1 is literally my absolute favorite game of all time and I replay all three games yearly.
They dont need a fucking remake. They haven't aged a fucking day. To try to rekindle lightning in a bottle is a fucking impossible task.

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why not make a new one? they could just retcon max payne 3 and thats it

>they'll remove sam's face
>they'll shoe horn in some gay tumblr shit to the story
>they'll remove the italian accents because muh racism
>they'll remove the nightmare levels
>they'll remove the comics

>rockstar
no thanks

Hopefully the feel the shooting is as good as MP3
Comics won't be there voice will hundred percent Sam's face will likely be an unlockable be there shows as well

I'm am very VERY cautiously optimistic but if they do this right.
Well lets just say PAYNE IS BACK BABY

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>Hopefully the feel the shooting is as good as MP3
it won't be. just play any remedy game lol

MP1+2 with the mechanics of MP3 would be pretty kino, assuming Rockstar still has any of the original MP3 devs

oh god no

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they don't need to remove the nightmare levels, just shorten the blood trail maze parts. it's just unnecessary padding in a short game

he is going to be a washed up perma sarcastic beta male bitch like he is in max payne 3

Same, but sadly these games are not made for people who already loved them in the first place.

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>mechanics of MP3
do you mean the delayed as fuck drunk man tank controls?

Sounds like they are collaborating with rockstar, it might be in the RAGE engine for all we know

Holy fuck. This can go either really well or really badly.
Hell no. 2 is fine, but 1 requires a lot of tinkering and fan patches.

After the GTA "definitive" edition i have no faith in rockstar

nah they confirmed it's northlight

they're collaborating with Rockstar because Rockstar owns Max Payne. The collaboration ends at the licensing.

Remedy will be remaking it themselfs without any help from rockstar it seems and also using Remedy own Northlight engine instead of Rockstar's RAGE engine.
So no i don't think we'll get anywhere close to Max Payne 3 mechanics

Seems like it is going to be made entirely by Remedy, Rockstar just funds it.

It's already confirmed it's made in Remedy's engine, Northlight.

>Max Payne getting retconned into the Remedy universe.

Max, Allen, Jake, and Jesse all team up to fight some SCP Bullshit

I mean they actually gave a AAA budget and gave it to the OG devs. To me it seems like this will be an apology for definitive edition.

They will NEVER be able to remake the magical atmosphere of 1. NEVER. Keep in mind, this isnt a remaster its a remake, meaning all new scripting and pacing.

The wonderful thing on is the desolate city tburied under a blizzard and the drug fueled descent into Hel, literally used as a theme from nordic mythology.

They will never include Captain Baseball Bat, too.

Shit

WHACK HIM!

Max Payne 1 definitely isn't, you have to fiddle with the .exe launch command line shit to get it to run on Windows 10 and even then it may not run well.

these even worth playing? saw some gameplay and it aged like milk

I still have a weird mouse lag on max payne1 after all the fixes

youtu.be/Cv0y0On8ZGQ
how will they ruin the theme?

its real

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Health.

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I dont understand why Remedy even sold Payne to Rockstar to begin with

Is it like how Interplay had to sell Fallout to Bethesda so they wouldnt shut down? You just gave away your best IP.

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>remade on unreal 5

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Max Payne 3 is kino

it's Northlight

>This is Remedy's latest released game
huh

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have it downloaded to my xbox, haven't tried the campaigns yet

youtu.be/1x-82W6LKfg
>Nothing will ever top max payne mods

Will it have the finnish soul?

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I'm excited. Remedy is involved and itt is not running on Rockstar's engine, so I expect these will not play like the janky messy MP3, I hope these games will be as fast and responsive as their originals and I will be happy.

MP3 is basically an MGSV type game: excellent mechanics and presentation, garbage story

They'll probably make the camera shit like their later games. Pass!
youtube.com/watch?v=eLDfUvl1seM

the story isn't bad, it's just intrusive.

It's northlight, their in house engine, you schmuck. Same thing they've been using since forever. Control and Quantum Break being two big ones.

Ah, so this makes sense now.

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Does anyone else think that aiming on MP1 on Xbox feels weird? Feels like you're either moving the crosshair horizontal or vertical, never both at the same time, even though that's not the case. I've only ever played the PC version before, so I'm not sure if people are just used to it.

>garbage story
Its not that bad if you are drunk, like Max

both had pretty average gameplay, inferior to max payne 3 and 1

>flawless exactly as they are and still hold up to this day
Desu senpai Max Payne 1's photo-scanned textures are exactly the kind of transitional 3D graphics that DON'T hold up today. But overall I agree that remaking these games isn't super warranted.

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Huh, looks like a play through of MP1 is now on my to-do list this weekend.

>removed from Steam around the same time it's added to the Xbox store
I wonder why?

Refunded it after Max Payne let his client die in Brazil. Story was retarded, gameplay was OK. The only cool thing about MP3 is the timed difficulty mode. I see people celebrating the remake because its an IP they love. Whatever, be happy and enjoy your shit, Im just sick of how creatively bankrupt this industry is. Might stick to solely Japanese games

I'm so used to it that it doesn't feel weird to me, I dunno. I haven't touched the PC version since I had Windows XP though.

surely they wont ruin the noir aesthetic

how are they gonna do maxs face in 1?

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>gameplay aged like milk
No worries. Remake will hold your hand from start to finish.

youtu.be/DsQVD5ttpog
It was a sign

Gut the aesthetic to smudge out the dark and gritty world for something far more plastic and safe.
Speaking of safe, any stereotypes or belittlement of any women despite the context of the scene will be cut.
Max will actually just be the bad guy by the end of 1 for strong independent woman image.
Mona will have a man's face.
No comic panels.
Somehow fucking up the best lines in the game, "Genius of a hole"
Fucking up the intro of 2 where Max kisses Mona.
Getting rid of the meta commentary.

Anything Im missing?

Why does the Lords and Ladies theme use the HoMM 3 windmill sound
youtu.be/PTMWEL3cFKg?t=167
youtube.com/watch?v=heJrK751zi8

I dunno if it's nostalgiafagging or not, but the photo textures in Max Payne specifically still work for me. They make the game look gritty and sort of surreal.

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I may sound like a contrarian but I did not like for MP3's gameplay, it feels fantastic visually, amazing feedback from shooting, but everything that has to do with playing it feels clunky, like it needs some flies to fix up. The camera gets in the way and is too close and I can't help but feel input delay, the way Max moves doesn't feel responsive.
I feel like MP1/MP2 will not be like this thankfully as they will be running on a different engine.
MP3 is not a bad game but it has too many issues and imperfections that make the experience of actually playing it frustrating to me.

Taken from the same sound library, it's still a pretty common practice.

>but 1 requires a lot of tinkering and fan patches.

A widescreen patch and an audio file to restore comic narratorion is all that's needed to get MP1 working in Win10....

There's not enough gritty games in this age, i hope they don't fuck it up

Hopefully they aim for 60fps it HAS to feel good or it'll be an instant disappointment none of the modern remedy games have GOOD combat

>I may sound like a contrarian
Not really, the gameplay feels far more fluid in MP1&2 because there arent any pointless animations

Also a patch for crashing if you're playing on AMD.
I dunno why fans didn't just make a proper full fan patch. There's even one for fucking Harry Potter games.

It still feels wrong to me, I still get a lot of lag spikes that make it uncomfortable to play.

FUCK YES! MORE REMAKES!
AND JUST IN TIME TOO, NEEDED SOMETHING TO DISTRACT ME FROM ROCKSTAR'S LAST REMAKE FUCKUP!

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