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@@tormuse2916 I didnt try NYM, no. It's not my cup of tea. Plus, my "thesis" statement kiiind of revolved around Hard Boiled. >anakha's complaints in CDA review Well. I did say had some VALID complaints too. :p All in all, these are a good time capsule - nowadays the thought of inclusions like these is just funny, but thats because someone probably gave it a shot in the meantime and we saw that maybe - some ideas just dont work. >constipation face No, I've read that description *before* 2007, when Yahtz started. Which is another reason I couldnt find the source - I wouldve thought it was a passage from CDA review, but I'm either this fucked by ADHD that it escapes me, or it isnt that... >difficulty changes Mind you, those supposedly death rate related changes only apply to Fugitive. Hard Boiled and DOA have set in stone immutable values. >MP2 shooting from ground I did try to include that in the footage, but couldnt be arsed to get something better than "good enough" footage of it by the time I got around to filling that part. Plus, I find Max Payne 2 way too depressive, especially this year. And I cut the reload part for brevity, honestly. When you have a vid on the desk for literally 5 months you definitely have dropped some parta by this point. >odin connection Oh, it gets funnier, and it was civvie11 pointing that one of all people: The plot kicks off with the murder of Alex Boulder. The events of Ragnarock in norse myth kick off with the murder of *Baldur*. ...then again, even in MP1 had less than subtle moments of norse myth connections, cough cough, Jack Lupino being the fucking allusion to Fenris...

I think you missed my point slightly; I didn't say it was not revolutionary - what I say is that at the time not everyone would say that, in good part due to the massive delay in release (original plan was to release the game in 1999 I believe, in 2001 a lot of publication would say Remedy was ripping of Matrix - which wasn't true, lol, but that's journalism for ya). And mind you - even the publication I am citing in that gave MP1 a 9+/10 - even if a few issues later (issue 13/2001 - CDAction had this shtick for a while, that for the end of the year they would push an additional issue outside of their usual monthly schedule, as year's summary of sorts) another author in that same magazine named the game as one of the biggest disappointments of 2001: not because it wasn't good or great even, but because hype built around it, in Smuggler's eyes, compaired to what the world got justified placing it amongst things like Duke Nukem Forever being further delayed, the typical polish player's preference for bootlegs over legitimately sourcing their games or almost technophobic approach of that times Polish government towards access to the Internet (back in 2001 even in the capitol city of Poland having Internet access was a luxury, even if technically the access was possible). In much shorter summary, in the eyes of some they were promised ambrosia, straight out of Greek myth, instead they got the finest steak in 200 kilometer radius. I mean. It's fucking amazing. But it's just not what they were told they would get. ^^ I hope outside of that you enjoyed my review? ^^

@@Schwalbe1728 right on, i see that.

It was? Oh my, now that's a nice surprise. Glad to hear you enjoyed it! ^^ Although I need some time to deal with stuff on my end, especially all the tasks I'm behind with at work, and more importantly - learning a new video editing tool, since I told adobe to sod off - before I make the next one, so please be patient lol.

@@Schwalbe1728 braver man than I to leave the Adobe hole of creative cloud

​@@WonderfulWorldOfSuitI dunno about bravery, for me I was bitching for the longest time how the adobe asks double I was willing to pay for performance of their wankfest of an editor. That each update kept making worse UX-wise. And then they announced they are increasing monthly fee. ... Lol no. Rushed the review out, and sent then to hell, the pricks.

Interesting, never really tried evasive rolls, or ... even stumbled upon them to be fair. Hmmm... really? Overshooting with pump action shotty? What's the logic? From purely mathematical standpoint I would say aiming at neck would ensure some damage - then again, I just kinda complained about it in the video... Interesting. Usually what I do is shootdodging to end BT, wasnt aware the reverse is possible. From my research it's technically not true - DOA is supposed to push certain aspects further in the difficulty curve, at least numbers wise; whether the difference is tangible enough, well, I cannot attest, and just like every review I made with torturous development cycle, I will probably not touch Max Payne 1 for at least a year. Dont get me wrong - it is fun. But this project had became my personal white whale after 3 months. And it took me 7...

Great write up by the way. And I do appreciate how polite and dry it is! Curiosity, cause you seem to know your max payne stuff: how would you say my efforts fare compared to other MP1 videos on youtube? ^^

​@@Schwalbe1728 Hey, I checked it from the source code and I remembered a bit wrong. In MP1 DOA gets a bit harder than HB, but in MP2 it goes in a way that Detective (same as Fugitive) at it's hardest is equally hard to HB, which is equally hard to DOA but you get limited saves. The difficulty levels in MP1&2 are not the best ones to choose from and they were experimental, but I recommend trying NYM in MP1. It gives a different challenge, the enemies are medium tough but you have to keep going or the time runs out and it's game over. The pump-action shotgun aiming was a rather new discovery, I think if you aim at the top of the head or even above you just get more headshot multipliers rather than safe neck-upper chest are hits. In MP1 the dot is there to give some idea where you aim but the bullets have to physically travel, if you aim a bit above head at an angle you kind of aim behind the enemy's head if you get the picture.. The evasive rolls or side rolls are basically an exploit popular among speedrunners. If you just roll thru a level, the bullets just go thru (it says so in game's code) and you travel a bit faster when rolling sideways, you also don't have to beat every enemy in every level so you can just roll past them lol. Also the micro-managing of BT is pretty unnecessary but if you disable the option which aids you in saving BT (so it stops when you shootdodge) you can use it any time you want. You can land more than 1 pump-action shotgun shot while shootdodging that way. Also your effort on this video was pretty cool, you brought up some less talked points and got me to write a reply :)

@@hevitonttu2251 Ah, you see, that's the difference. I try not to look into the source code. See, I'm a game developer and software engineer... the latter thing is a matter of debate, but that's a long and bittering story, so sod it. What I'm saying is, I've seen enough shit in my 15+ years of coding that I learnt not too look too much, lest I face the same madness I did helping finish Re-Legion. _shudders_ Or, in other words, I'm seeing enough code in my day-to-day life I don't need more of it outside of it, please, and thank you. xD I based my information on trusting the steam community posts; but it's good to have it confirmed by another party willing to dig. It's always the risk that gnaws at the back of my mind when I'm doing my analysis - that because no one is omniscient, I may very well lack crucial info, rendering my musings moot. ...then again, I do my best for those to be at least entertaining. ...still a bad look when I'm calling out others. xD Nah, I figured the shotgun thing being about maximizing the 5 times headshot damage modifier. I was just surprised you would do so by hitting above. But if you say that reticle is targetting a bit behind... hm. Interesting. Although I'm not entirely sure how they did it then. It sounds to me like Remedy coders either put the reticle at the fixed distance from the current viewport, or it's shenanigans resulting from having an infinite depths target reticle that the third person controlled character needs to follow when firing. Hm. I'm... pretty much the opposite of a speedrunner, frankly. xD But alright, that's also good to know. As for the not killing all the enemy, yeah, figured. Although I will say, this kinda makes me look dumb - my point, my feeling, based on having played the game never using the rolling feature was that it requires some degree of skill, and the gameplay (at least in regards to Hard Boiled) is better fine-tuned than a lot of people seem to give it credit for. The way you present evasive rolls to me kinda push it in the direction of complete power trip on paper... would need to play it like this myself, but after months of this video being my white whale, excuse me for not being super enthused for that. xD More than 1 shotgun blast in shootdodge being not possible was a gross exaggeration on my part. It did happen to me few times, even without your hint. It's just - it happened rarely and not exactly reliably the way I play the game, therefore I let myself make it a little easier for me. If I covered everything in exact detail, I would never have finished a video, and even if I did - it would be downright unwatchable. I'm glad my effort is appreciated. And I respect the shit out of the fact you consider having to think on such a write up a positive - it's a nice change. Have a good day - back to the programming trenches for me. (also, I need to actively look up your replies, because YT just does not notify me... blergh)

@@Schwalbe1728 It's pretty hard to get everything correct while making long videos such as these especially if you are feeling perfectionist (I know the feeling lol), you are definitely not supposed to look at the game source code to check the facts however I'm a modder so I had the game files at hand and I made the claim about difficulties so I had to check it :) My big frustration a couple years ago was almost every MP1 video having Max shootdodge really low because of the fps bug but I think people making newer videos caught up to it :) My pump-action shotgun claims are just in my own mind, the weapon is pretty nice especially in Part 1 and even in Part 2 of MP1, you get pretty solid kills even if you aim to the chest as you kind of would expect to do, unless you hit the arms accidentally because that reduces damage. But anyway, the aim dot is projected to the game world so it's not glued to the center of the screen, and every bullet travels physically at certain speed and has a random spread. It doesn't have mechanics such as bullet drop which would not have much uses unless the game was about using a sniper rifle anyway. But I really liked in when the game came out in 2001 that the bullets are physical objects, because then and even now 90% of games are purely laser shooters if you know the term, tho even if it's a laser shooter you can still include a bullet drop and delay if you want to. Okay I do get notifications from your replies tho but yt sometimes has weird features. Anyway, have a nice day and good luck with your work!

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*screams in overworked confusion*

@@eyeofevilgood8577 thank you.

Why didnt youtube show me your comment until now...? Anyway - I will agree the quality of their takes varied a lot - what is kinda tragic is they always had both better quality of writing/editing and... dunno, more chill? Fun at their job? As compaired to competition at the time. At least in early 2000s. Nevertheless, it is an 8nteresting tine capsule, wouldnt you agree? Y u p . No worries. You aint alone feeling old.

Thanks, I'm glad it was enjoyed! ^^

*screams in amphetamine withdrawal*

either I'm too sleep deprived to get this one or... dunno. but I didn't get it. x)

@@Schwalbe1728 Recently I'm most often watching modern reviews of old games, especially of the RTS genre :P Funny for me, that there's such a big demand for the modern reviews of old classics, often aiming at modern gamers to try these gems for the first time :D

Glad you enjoyed. ^^ You are incredibly lucky, because a new and fresh serving of my reviewing will be premiering on Friday. ...I'd say stay tuned, but my upload schedule rivals that of SovietWomble. -.- ugh.

@@Schwalbe1728 I will for sure! Thank you for the heads up

@@AlexIncarnate911 The premiere page had been set up: th-cam.com/video/xczrDjUeLws/w-d-xo.html

Trying to, lol. As evident by how late I was to reply. New videos premieres in 3 hours, btw.

Yeah, no, I feel you there. I've had some titles like that. It's always bleeding annoying, even worse when the title is one like KULT - argueably mid in too many regards to have particularly succeed/become known...

You're welcome! And I hope you enjoyed it as well. :)

Tanc A Lelek for the main action. ...soooomething royalty free from youtube library for the beginning portion - I'd have to check.

oh and don't get me started on how behind every powerful man in this game there is an even more powerful woman, usually in a skin-tight dominatrix onsie

Ok, to start his surname is DEXON. And I think I did make a visual reference to Bennett in the review of Chrome LOL. As for the women behind the plot... yeaaaah lets not start that topic cause it might get uncomfortable fast HAH

@@Schwalbe1728 i always thought Carrie was in turn meant to look like Uma Turman in Kill Bill... for some reason?

Yeah, much as I hate how the video turned out (quality wise), this was one of the most brilliant cases of emergent gameplay for me that stuck in the memory - and thats an achievement. Enjoy the idea - hope it saves your arse in need like it did mine! ...as for the recommendations, yeah, lets just say I am not good at thumbnails. I hate clickbait on top of that. So I am glad you checked it out and, I take, enjoyed. ^^ Cheers. This means a lot to me, not in the best shape lately. Good luck, stalker.

​@@Schwalbe1728 Get well soon, mate. World's not entirely in great shape and people, especially us, are affected by it. Let's all celebrate a better tomorrow.

Heard it's good, so I'm very much doing exactly that That said, I've heard Mass Effect 1 or Fallout 3 were good games too. Guess the jury is due. ...or however the phrase goes, I might've been accommodated by friends with a lot of alcohol this evening, GOOD NIGHT SIR.

enjoy yourself it was my game of the year for that year@@Schwalbe1728

Come Nerevar, come and loo upon the heart

Absolutely not suspicious at all

I genuinely have no idea what is awaiting me with that one. Though I guess it wasn't smart to even make this shitpost, cause now I received signals that I am not exactly incorrect? ...it wasn't encouragement to spill the beans, just me whinging. xd

Y U P .

You did a banging job too mate - sorry once again for an ASAP kind of notice, it shouldn't have happened like that.

@@Schwalbe1728 No worries man, had fun with it

Cheers! Glad you enjoyed. :)

God I fucking hope it's better. Fuck 2023.

Ho, ho, yo mum jokes aside, thanks man, glad you enjoyed it!

*throws a brick at Kraja for that pun*

@@Schwalbe1728 Chill out there, stoner. We don't practise sharia here yet. god im such a smug shit today lol

The goodest. : )