june gloom on 11/6/2009 at 19:25

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go go beard of sorrow

Not sure what to make of this, and I'm a big MP fan.

Thirith on 16/6/2009 at 12:19

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From what little we know, I think the game has the potential to be quite cool - added to which I've liked most of what Rockstar has done in the past. My only (but pretty major) quibble is really that so far there's nothing about this that explains why this is a Max Payne game. Other than the obvious, of course: it's a name that sells, whereas New Franchise With John McClane/Jeff Bridges hybrid doesn't.

Unless it's about the unholy offspring of Korben Dallas and The Dude, of course. With German nihilists threatening to cut off your johnson and thugs peeing on your rug in bullet-time.

Wille on 16/6/2009 at 14:14

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What's the point with cover system in a game that has both bullet time and shoot dodging? Kinda kills the whole idea of slow mo action if you can just wait behind a piece of cover and pop out whenever you can get a clear shot to bad guys :rolleyes:.

(http://www.k1bond007.com/Downloads/Shack/Payne3.jpg)

Muzman on 17/6/2009 at 10:12

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I find his build the most interesting bit. It's like he really left behind the wiry, introspective city tough guy with the foppish love of his leather jacket that flaps just so, and went off drinking and stevedoring his way around the tropics.
Maybe that's how it starts; he wakes up one day in the merchant marine "Welcome aboard! Here's your cargos, wife beater and corn cob pipe".
Could this also mean no more tortured, similie laden, run-on-sentence noir prose. Instead we get... Hemingway.

Muzman on 18/6/2009 at 23:15

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Yeah. I have no investment in the guy either way so whatever they like. It's a pretty big change though, so I guess I can see why people might be perplexed.
Really Hammet and those original noir writers weren't all that far from Hemingway (which is why Max Payne is a parody of a Mike Hammer parody more than anything else), they were just brash instead of sorrowful.
The shift to a, say, Cormack McCarthy kind of thing could work rather well. Given how he looks now, the worst thing they could do would be to not change it accordingly, I think.