The Rise and Fall of Max Payne
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Few features are as ingrained in the fabric of modern shooters as bullet time. Whether included as a mechanic that one can use at the press of a button, or an occurrence that only happens in scripted moments, bullet time is the punctuation mark of every game it graces; an awesome, yet functional tool that gamers and developers alike can’t get enough of. And it wouldn’t be nearly as popular as it is today were it not for Max Payne.
Released in 2001 by Remedy Entertainment, a video game developer based in Espoo, Finland, Max Payne put players in control of its titular protagonist on a slow-motion massacre through New York’s underground. It was dark, it was intense, and - most importantly - it was much more than just a series of reality-defying firefights, with its story spinning an intoxicating, noir-inspired yarn about Max’s descent into madness as he attempts to avenge his family’s death.
Players lapped it up in droves, leading the industry at large to try and integrate its mechanics into their own products, and Remedy to produce a follow-up: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. The latter offered an even slicker rendition of Max’s twisted world and mechanics, as well as an earnest attempt to try and portray a love story at a time when the medium, let alone shooters, rarely featured them. Unfortunately, while its reception was even more impressive, its sales struggled to pass muster, and for a period of time after its release, it seemed as if the series had nothing more to offer - barring a mediocre film adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis.
Yet like Max himself, its spirit refused to rest until it ended things on its own terms - and in 2012, Rockstar Games released Max Payne 3. Featuring a cruelly aged version of the series’ protagonist, and a setting more reminiscent of Man on Fire than The Big Sleep, the threequel offered long-time fans a rather different experience that what had come before it; one that thoroughly used the mechanics, systems, and characters Remedy had cultivated during the series’ heyday, but still felt distinctly Rockstar in its execution. Not all were pleased with this change in direction, and its sales, while better than its predecessor’s, underwhelmed once more. But even its most ardent critics agreed that as far as shooters went, it was still duly impressive.
Like any video game series no longer being worked on, Max Payne’s absence from the current realm of triple-A games is sad. But when one evaluates what the series managed to accomplish while it was alive, it’s hard not to be appreciative of how it went out.
This is the rise and fall of Max Payne.
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The series never fell; Max just retired, and he earned it.
👏
Max on the beach, at a tiki hut, sipping on a soda pop, watching the aftermath of the good that he finally got to do. And he prevented Passos from going down the same path as him.
Yeah he really love making click bait shitty title like every game needs to be milk to ground like call of duty or assassin's creed with never ending plot.
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I'm the 200th person to agree.
I'd rather have a solid trilogy than a milked franchise.
Like Final Fantasy
i agree with you, endless franchises never end well and usually at point of 3rd or 4th game/movie/season/volume - everything starts to turn into shit, sometimes even 2nd part fucks up everything.
@@riotriguez5854 Eh, the FF's are all pretty different. The only thing in common is that they're JRPG and called Final Fantasy. They could just as well title it something else
@@riotriguez5854 this is just a stupid comment lol
I'd like if Rockstar made their own linear shooter, seeing as Max Payne wasn't their character and cover-shooting's their preference. But they're only focused on open world games now.
Max Payne 3 is one of the most underrated games of all time. It still holds up fantastically even today. It is well worth a replay if you haven’t played it in ages.
I regret selling my 980ti pre-covid :(
Underrated? It scored pretty good at release as far as I know and has a large fanbase. Rightfully so, the game has a mindblowing gunplay if not the best in the industry
I’ve played through 3 countless times. It’s timeless. The story and characters keep me glued time after time. Let alone the badass gameplay.
Thank god it flopped)
I replay it at least once a year for sure. If you want one-two days of non stop shootouts, Max Payne 3 is for you. On top of that the locations they show in the game look spectacular.
"He was trying to buy more sand for his hour glass. I wasn't selling any." - Max
Nice Max Payne quote
@@L1ve2Win cough*...Sam lake
He said this to Angelo Punchinello
He was tryin to get some cheap likes on a youtube comment, i didnt give him any... i gave him a dislike tho
I love that my thumbs up for this comment was number 665. Neighbor of the beast.
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over."
"To make any kind of sense of it, I need to go back 3 years, back to the night the Pain started."
Aaaand I should go back to replay this masterpiece.
The dialog was absolute masterpiece!
And a masterpiece was born
Poetic
Greatest quote in gaming < my opinion
"Suddenly it all made sense, siloueted health bars, ammo count time slowing down to show off my moves... I was stuck inside a computer video game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of" - Max
One of the best 4th wall breaking moments in gaming ever.
Fan fictions - “you sure about that?”
yo are these all quotes from max payne 1?
@@tanmayjagtap9621 yes
I thought it was perfect the way they ended MP3, Max always kept saying that he wanted to walk away in peace and drift off into the sunset and that's what they showed, a perfect end to a perfect trilogy.
Yes
Agree 👍🏻
"he wanted to walk away in peace" and thats why he moved from NY to one of the dangerous places in the world))
Max Payne didn't fall. He was a perfectly constructed story and game series. How a series should be.
The 3rd opus's story was a bit too grand for my taste.
But the gameplay is still one of the most impressive I've seen in my life.
Truly makes you feel like you're John Wick
I agreed my dude
@@_timetravels4528 What you actually meant was "John Wick actually makes you watch a decent Max Payne movie, unlike that shitflick with Mark Wahlberg."
The second game is titled "The Fall of Max Payne", though :D
@@romaliop You got me there!
"A barely recovering alcoholic and an unarmed pregnant woman. We were hardly a SEAL team"
The dialogue was damn fine. That much can't be denied.
And by "alcoholic" he means "time-slowing god of ballistic murder"
@@LightTrack- It was fucking horrible. It was kind of appropriate in 1 and maybe 2. By 3 it had worn out its welcome and max appeared like a bellyaching whining dullard.
Don't forgot about "I had a hole in my second favorite drinking arm"
@Heroin Bob I must have forgotten to laugh due to all the rage and hate that I was feeling. Seriously though, the dialogue was trying way too hard. The previous MP had overwrought, campy dialogue, this was just stupid.
"If the Max Payne movie succeeded in doing anything, it was uniting fans across the world in their dislike of it."
XD
StingrayX we’re still using XD huh
i mean yes but there are far worse movie adaptations of games out there the worst part 4 me was rly mark wahlberg with his shitty babyface just didnt fit at all
@Joe L'Horri why? hes like one of the worst actors ever
If they just swapped names for some random whatever to help forget it was a MP, then movie might have been a bit more tolerable. "Might" and "a bit", not much improvement.
@@miceatah9359 You must be watching the wrong films
Max Payne fell just right. While MP2 would have sufficed as an ending, MP3 was no failure. You expected his story to end miserably, in a hail of gunfire. Instead, he chooses life eventually.
No more games are needed for this character. He's earned his rest. And he went out on a high note.
Yeah but guys like max dont go out on that kind of high note. I would love to see. Old man max and Mona in a return to glory Mona doesnt have to be dead her ass always live
@@THEYCANTSTOPME well she did alive in the alternative ending but I think max is ready for his own wheelchair for dodge and shoot plus walking for god know how long
I think a prequel to Mona story is a lot better in my opinion
@@THEYCANTSTOPME she isn’t dead Dan houser didn’t know what to do with her storywise in MP3 in MP4 they can create a story where Max has a long lost child from Mona and he goes back to the U.S to reunite however Max child turns out to be a hired killer like Mona and the mafia dude still looking for Max whiles he at war with the punchinello family Max is caught in the middle of chaos while the bigger picture unfolds involving some type of corrupt government agenda
@@ishmeelcurry3394 or the story could be about old lady Mona being a loose end assett for the gov. And her killer trained son is thrown in the fire with her. Then they can maybe do a 5 as 4 would end with Mona finding out they looking for max as well and drags her son to panama to get max as they come back to the states to fight back one last time Max can find out he has a son and ultimately agrees to help after not caring and accepting his demise. "It was no more running, hell as old as I am Id just be a hamster running in a wheel, I couldve ran forever but Id be going nowhere. Still inside a wheel in a cage, feds wouldnt even have to have the drop on me".
@@THEYCANTSTOPME I like that story hopefully they create something like that seems logical
A remastered edition of 1 & 2 would be amazing.
Yes
no
Game is to old for remastered version, if the would do it then it will a remake Not remastered
@@edwardwilliams3333 its a remake, remastered would be the same game just with better graphics. But for Mafia 1 they used new engine and also bonus content. It is to old to be a remastered. So this is why crysis is a remastered, its not that old just with new graphic
Agreed, it needs an RE2 style remake. I'll dish out 60 bucks for a 1 and 2 combo that at least put the graphics on par with 3.
For me the Max Payne games are as close to a perfect trilogy as you can get. I'll never not get chills when I hear the game's theme.
I agree with you about the first two games but the third is too much of a departure that it almost feels like a different IP instead of the last in a trilogy.
Yeah, I actually played Max Payne 1 after finished Max Payne 3, in MP3 Rockstar focused on the narrative part with their camera angles and cutscenes and feel more heavier than Max Payne.
The ending was good enough to not need a sequel. It was perfect
Gotakibono *I would call Max Payne 3: Jungle Bullshit the opposite of perfect. That fucking joke of a game was like making a game with Commander Shepard roaming the world of Mario with the Normandy to save a fucking mushroom princes*
@Joe L'Horri nah i felt the third one ruined it. i don't even count the third game tbh
>Fall
I'd rather think of it as Max just retiring from the whole thing finally, at least based on 3's ending.
Just let him rest, he's been through enough.
Android 2990 Version 2.0 he needs to kick Japan’s ass now... perhaps killing off the yakuza?
Johnny Flannigan Stop before it became crap
@Johnny Flannigan - Stop before they reboot Max Payne but as Maxine Payne the transgender.
Max Payne 2 was exactly like Max Payne but nobody bought it. So they change it up for Max Payne 3 and fans complain it isn't like Max Payne 2 (the game that didn't sell). Gamer's love to complain about everything.
@@kummakummakummakummakummac8606 Yes, they do. Whiny.
I would change the title "fall" to "end" it ended with dignity and with a badass last game
Retirement even
@Romanogers4ever true but it makes sounds like the games got worse
Max Payne 3: Heisenberg
Wait what
@@abramsullivan7764 waaaaiiiitttt whaaAAaAt -Abram Sullivan
@@GuddishNuggish wAAaaAAaAiIiiiIiitttt wWwwwHaAaAaAAaAttttTTt -Abram Sullivan -E Reg
More like Mike Ehrmantraut
pasos, i have cancer we need to cook meth in brazil
I like how he refered to the main character at the end as if he were real and aware that his game was no longer being made and that it was a relief to him.
Gotta tug those emotions.
I will never forget the first time i've played Max Payne during a crazy snowstorm, much like the one in the game.
'You're in a computer game, Max'
Wow, same here! The perfect atmosphere to play this game!
same when i was younger, we had a fairly bad one that year in Michigan, i was like 7 or 8 when i first played it. it just fit looking back playing it in winter. then every couple of years ive played it since its been in the winter. 2010 or 2011 i was left alone at home (i was like 15 16 at the time) while the rest of the family went to a big town that did a NYC new years eve ball drop style thing i played it on my ps2, and then a year or 2 ago when it came to ps4 i played it in December i played it again. it just FITS
Lol glitch in the matrix
Playing Max Payne in a snowstorm. Ultimate immersion there, man
Same. Also the first time I played Max Payne 3 was during a heat wave and that game takes place in a tropical environment.
i miss max payne
Yo what’s up Zac
I know
We all know a Payne just without bullet time or anything badass
and Max.... is surely missing you too
max payne 3 is one of the greatest games ever made. they need to remaster it for ps4. the story is just fantastic
"You want Payne, I'll give you Pain!" - Max Payne - E3 1998
"Don’t answer that, a rhetorical question."
"Ladies and Gentlemen! It's the payne in the butt."
"Ha-Ha. Payne to the Max."
Was that a superchat?
You’re killing me.
Is this the Payne residence?
*No, this is PATRICK!!!*
I played the entire Max Payne series and I love all of them.
I only played the third but watched gameplay of the first two. I still loved the franchise regardless.
I played the 2nd game first and then the 1st game because Im only just become a PC gamer in late '04. Man I love the 3rd very much, its gameplay satisfaction and gorgeous graphic and effect made me wanted more I even replay some of the stages after finishing it to be as perfect as possible, its the thing rarely happened to me)
@@axx012 No, you don't love the franchise. If you would love the franchise, you would fucking play the first games for yourself. Now GTFO with your "love" for the franchise.
i played through the whole series in one week and it felt well worth the spent time.
same
The series never fell. Max had one of the most satisfying endings. 🙌
Who's here after the announcement of the Max Payne remake? I'll never forget what it was like playing a Max Payne for the very first time!!!
One of the best experiences of my earlier life. Truly a golden age of gaming.
The thought of a fourth entry would be amazing if not for the death of James Mccaffery. 😢 I hope the remake of 1-2 pay him tremendous tribute.
" I'm an American Has Been, in a Brazilian Never Was"
Brilliant series.
MP3 is very flawed but I love some of the cheesy dialogue, it was very much Max Payne "I'm not slippin' man, I'm slipped".
@@Grandmastergav86 how was it flawed
"It came down to an American Has been and a Brazilian Never was to get the girl back..."
@@Archy871
My memory has it totally wrong then? :) Perhaps a good time to replay this fantastic game.
That's not the line....
People didnt like the third one ?
I actually found all of them to be extremely well made games and personally i liked max in the third one a lot
Me too
Well when I played the third one it was super buggy. I liked it but it was very open and the story was short not really thought out as much. I did like the building shootout and bus shoot out, but i felt it should have been longer or maybe I ask for to much who knows
@fukka I wish for a remaster of 1 and 2 made longer and more action packed as well, but you only get so much from that.
Same
Not to understate the importance of his multiplayer. First being refuge for lots of red deads frustrated players after the modding could let u forget about actually playing on a console, - just to become refuge again for ppl like me, once gtao started to bore the shit out of me, even well b4 it turned into this unrescuable mess of today. N while the xbox360 community slowly started dying of,on ps3 it still is alive n kick... killing dodging n refusing to leave. After all that years. There even still r ppl starting it. That truely earned the title "evergreen". Edit: Lmao,i've just yet seen the guy saying that it's online community died of much quicker, than their other online modes?... I struggle not to pee myself - did he even played it or is he just repeating bullshit of journos who definitly were painting a narative back then,that should help getting gtao over. The time of that first drop pretty much fits in the time the other was released. N still it's here n prves why game journalism mainstream is on the way to the junkyard of irrelevancy just like film critics r. These two groups today must b decode with reverse psycology to get at least a chance of some useful info.
Max Payne 2 is still one of my favorite Games of all time.The Soundtrack is so great!
I have MP3 on my MP3 player. God thats a terrible pun. Plz dont tell Max. Seriously tho SAME BRO.
Max Payne 2&3 are the best 3rd person shooters ever imo.
Honestly Im glad we just have the trilogy, it ended perfectly and rebooting would just kill what perfect trilogy it ended
What we need is to remaster 1 and 2 with the engine of the third game
@@rdzr1kinpin that'd be awesome, if only that particular part of the RAGE engine was free to public, there would be a community dedicated making a remaster through a mod
It would be simple enough to make a similar style of game with a different protagonist, in the same universe - Max could even cameo.
That would be my favoured way to take the series.
Nah i miss Max Payne. I wouldn’t mind a Remake for Max Payne 1 and 2 for ps5
Most underrated game. People ask for a John wick game, well Max Payne 3 is the closest we can get to a John wick game
Surely you mean John Wick is the closest we can get to a Max Payne movie?
romaliop it works both ways I guess
John wick a great max payne movie
Max payne a great john wick game
Splinter cell conviction is the best john wick sim
@@stolenname94 that game was also good
Max Payne 2 is one of the greatest games of all time. And probably one of the greatest love story in western gaming industry.
Absolutely, it is so atmospheric. I had no idea it failed to meet expectations on the money side of things because it is so good in my mind. I have replayed that game infinite times when I was younger.
@@jackevans1092 You really should give it another try, it's worth every moment. Even though the graphics are somewhat dated, the story in Max Payne 2 is the best in it's series.
@@jackevans1092 I know the feeling. I've got the same with Half Life series.
Poff Nada incel detected
@ReturnoftheBrotha not really. But just for the sake of the argument and a couple of laughs, why would you say something like that?
Never understood the hate for 3. It changed things up just enough to keep it fresh, and told its story beautifully.
Late goodbye was an amazing ending credits song, i still remember choosing credits when i finished (3 times) the second game, just to hear it. I will never forget the first 2 games by Remedy.
I remember downloading it onto my first MP3 player
"I ain't slippin' man - I've slipped. I'm a bad joke."
got a bullet hole in my second favourite drinking arm
Haven't you figured out I don't speak your fucking language?!
@@superdrinkingpepsi man I loved max's angry sweary lines in the 3rd. I know a lot of people didn't but shit like that works for me
@@escalator9734 That's one of the main things I loved about 3. No hold, raw, emotional dialogue.
"Je-zus Christ. These Goons make The NYPD look like Hare Krishnas." My favourite line. 🤣
@@superdrinkingpepsi "- what do you do about life ?
- pffff... 'I'm standing in a night club, listening to music I can't stand, I'm 5000 miled from home, I'm armed and I'm drinking. You don't want advise from me amigo..."
The Max Payne movie: Make a movie based on a video game that takes elements from movies, but don't use any of the elements from the movies the video game was based on.
So true. How you can fuck up a Max Payne movie, I just don't understand. Guy Pearce, John Woo, Boom, Done.
I say give it an another shot with Joe Carnahan directing and Patrick Wilson as Max
@@nicklander3301 mel gibson or thonas jane as max
That's what most game-to-movie adaptations have done, and a big reason why they end up sucking.
Max is one of the best characteres made for videogames. A true human being.
I love this franchise so much, Sam Lake words drilled into you through every level, the funny thing is though the first one had the best story telling but worse off mechanics where as the second was the vice versa
Max Payne 2 has by far the best script in my opinion. Max Payne 1 storytelling was special, revolutionary and badass but, looking at it today, even if it's still very good and unique, you can see that it has a classic videogame structure. While Max Payne 2, if it were a movie or a book, it would be amazing anyway and perfect as it is. Max Payne 2 is pure existential poetry. It's so complex, deep, full of metanarrative...everytime i play it feels like i'm learning something new about the story, the characters, the themes and the world where it takes place.
Anyway i think both Max Payne 1 and 2 are masterpieces. If i have to convince someone that videogames can be art, i would show them Max Payne 1 and 2.
One of the greatest gaming franchises ever! Max Payne 3 truly deserved more commercial success.
A true gem in gaming. :)
One of the most amazing games I’ve played till this day. Story was amazing!
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I think Max has suffered enough. Let him have his eternal vacation on a sunny beach somewhere!
yet kratos survived a few games after gow 3 before the reboot saved it, Max can always return as he is one of the most iconic game characters of all time.
neilingleton
@@THEYCANTSTOPME kratos is a god!
@@ihatemyjob9502 no the point was that Max payne is overused and time to end the franchise when it just needs a fresh take like how God of war was getting stale until the PS4 version. Same as spiderman.
I must be in the minority that love all three games. It’s a near-perfect franchise with no bad games.
Facts
Vinnie Gognitti, best character in Max Payne.
PAYNE!!!
This is kinda sad. A great trilogy that was released in the wrong time when online multiplayer shooters were the flavor of the month.
The online was amazing
Tbh after the playstation 2, the next gen games were nothing but generic overused trash, regenerative health, Cod influence, Weapon limit, fps gameplay, bland colours, it got better in 2011 but fuck me the gaming industry was shit, now its still shit cuz we are dealing with DLC bananza.
A great duo-logy, with a third installment that never should have existed.
Nuno30318 Nah i would day after the Xbox 360/PS3 era games aren’t fun anymore
The online mode was brilliant though, it had a lot of players at the time.
"I didn't deserve to walk away. There are no happy endings."
For me, this is one of my really favorite game series, and I love all games. Each one is different in their way, but they all are very good!
Amen my brothers and sisters Preach On
11:30 so it's the original "Coming when it's ready" huh? Glad at least someone keep up with that promise.
Lol doe
One of my favourite game series. It's just dark and gritty. Love the comic style storyboard. It's very well made.
Max Payne's story has ended, so there is no need to make a fucking superhero out of him and think of crazy ideas of a story, which wouldn't work. They successfully finished the story of a New York cop, let him have a fucking happy ending and let's forever praise Remedy for their brilliant idea!
Well, tell us how you really feel.
Just one more please I'll leave him alone after the 4th Installment!.
@@justinmcgillxboxreigns6591 they are making remske of first and second game finally god listened our prays
I love that GVMERS express the same thing I do lol, another Max Payne game would be great but damn can we just give Max a break the dude has so much PTSD now.
Maybe remasters of 1 n 2 in the style of 3 and add something new
@@Krondon-SSR Actually I wouldn't mind that. I'm just a bit hesitant about remaking classics lol.
Games sales are always disappointing. I bet even GTA 5's profit margins are disappointing to Take 2. Greedy twats.
A remastered edition of 1 & 2 would be amazing.
Sure! Max Payne 3 doesn't have the film noir it did in 1 and 2, but it has an grimy 2000 action drama film feel like "Training Day" "Man on Fire" "Street Kings" or "Waist Deep". and the mechanics are insanely well developed. MP3 is such an underrated game.
It is the best 3rd person shooter of all time gameplay wise imo.
Ironically the sequel was called "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne"
someone posted that earlier
@@HOTD108_ Coincidence. It would be ironic if it was titled rise of max Payne.
MP2 is my favorite out of the the 3
@@HOTD108_ Neither ironic nor coincidence. It is meta. The main writer Sam Lake loves to use meta.
@@SuperHns Righteous, my favorite too
the rise and fall of Syphon Filter
I'll vote for that. Syphon filter 2 was like the uncharted 2 of PS1. Such a wonderful game series. Whatever happened to that? We need to know. Please.
@@VKDante Its crazy though because it had a lot of fans of the series but it also wasnt a widely popular game. I remember when Syphon Filter Combat Ops dropped on PSP and hardly anyone ever played it even when it first came out
@@robert1317 IKR? It's probably one of those game I wanna know more about and still hope that some day some one will revive the series. I really wanna know why the series died a slow death. Again, like Max Payne money/revenue could be the issue but why are the fan base so strong yet so few. Would be interesting to see what happened.
This needs to be a thing
YAAAA!!!! I miss gabe logan sniff sniff
These documentaries are great. Brings back the good memories I had playing this amazing game. Max Payne forever.
I love how you use high quality footage of the games in your videos! It is much appreciated.
I loved Max Payne 3 so much... that was the best TPS I've ever played.
MP3's soundtrack has that longing feeling. Pain forever repeating in memories yet you find comfort in it. Comfort in knowing living life is stronger than death.
You deserved your vacation Max. Thanks for the journey from a long time gamer.
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RIP Dead Space, man
That longing feeling HEALTH gave to it was perfect , it represented perfectly max fucked up life and the longing feeling for the ones he lost through his journey
HEALTH was the perfect sound for Max Payne
HEALTH is a fantastic band and perfectly captured Max Payne in that song
This narration is like solid gold. Never have I heard such a good sounding narration on a youtube video. I could just put this on, relax and fall asleep. Love the video and the game.
Wow...Thank you very much for the kind words! Err...but falling asleep while watching the video would probably not go over well with the Gvmers team. LOL!
I was surprised by how in-depth and informative this video was. Thank you
Man, such an underrated masterpiece, I still remember my first I’ve played MP3, I was amazed of how great the gameplay and the campaign is, I miss you Max Payne series
Breaks my heart to see so many modern documentaries using footage from the PC version of the original Max Payne without fixing the shootdodge bug. Max isn’t supposed to drag along the ground like that. It’s caused by modern systems running at too high of a frame rate and is easily fixed with a fan patch! Besides that - another great documentary! Just distracted by the lazy footage
Ikr
Same here. Max is supposed to jump across and not slide across. High FPS also causes Max to slide down stairs and make the second dream sequence virtually impossible due to the bugged physics caused by high FPS.
Wow. Genuinely thought nostalgia was getting the bettsr of me and it was slways like that.
No more stories to tell for Max. He lost his family in the 1st one and finally managed to save Passos's family in the 3rd one. He came full circle, a closure.
One of the best series in gaming history.And i wouldn't call it a fall.all 3 games were great and Max's story had a great closure.Can't wait for the first 2 games remake !
"I had a dream of my wife. She was dead. But it was all right." this quote almost brings me to tears everytime. and sometimes it actually does. such a strong story 💕
Your past is like pieces of a broken mirror. You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself.
Love that line!
Great work! Thanks for this insightful and very well executed documentary.
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i heard the intro music and man... my body went full goosebumps...the story the athmosphere of these games...
I was trying to look for the answers, but every gunshot, instead of closure, was just a hole with more questions leaking out. A spreading labyrinth of questions, like a pool of blood spreading on the snow.
I remember sitting with my copy of Max Payne at the Chermside bus station on september 12, 2001 ready to enter a game set in New york city.....what a strange time!
I just wanna say thank you for making & posting this video. I was 18 fresh out of high school when I saw an ad for this game coming out soon called Max Payne, it grabbed my attention and curiosity immediately. Luckily my curiosity was put to rest that Christmas, when a roommate of mine gifted me the game on PS2. And to be frank after the first 5 minutes I've been a huge fan of the series. In my personal opinion the story and the first game is in my top 10 favorite game story lines ever. To this day I'll go back and play the game through at least once a year. I just got such fond memories of that game and that time period in my life. Once again, just wanted to say what a great job you did on this documentary. With that being said I would like to tip my hat to you. Cheers
How have I just discovered this channel? It's like you've built a conceptual framework around my childhood that allows me to relive it through understanding. Nearly every game you've covered is etched into my memory. Fucking dope dude.
Every single one of these is amazing.And i still play Max Payne 3 here and there.
Literally finished it for the 8th time yesterday.
3 was crap
@@TheDyingScotsman Let them enjoy it.
@@TheDyingScotsman Obvious troll is obvious. Yes, I know it's your opinion and I don't care.
Српски патриота MP3 is amazing, the campaign was great and I enjoy every single moment of it, oh let’s forget the multiplayer a fun time I’ve had
I played and restarted Max Payne 3 26 times-yes, you read that right-before allowing myself to complete the game.
It's without question my favorite game of all time, surpassing the likes of Earthworm Jim, Mass Effect, Resident Evil 2, and Vice City, all of which i hold dear.
Wauw! I have played part 1 and 2 soo much! This video is a wonderfull trip down memory lane! Thanks so much for making this!
Maybe when Remedy wants to make Max Payne 4 either Rockstar can let them develop it and they can publish it or they each can co-develop the game together. It seems like if Max Payne 4 were ever happens it will be more on Remedys time table than Rockstars, as long as Rockstar is willing and allows Remedy to take the financial risk to develop it.
"And the band played on..."
"it only takes one bad decision, for friend to become foe"
Sincerely Paranoia burst
The saddest part to me was hearing about how Max Payne 3 didn't make up development costs. It's a shame considering how hard the team worked on the project and the quality product they produced.
I'm not all that crazy about remasters/remakes, but I'd be down for this trilogy to be redone. I've played through these games a lot. Especially MP2.
very glad I found this channel, these documentaries are superb
Palpatine watching GVMERS channel:
"Long have I waited..."
Goooooooood
The research into these videos is insane. Great youtube channel, deserves more love!
"I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANGELS, BUT IT'S FEAR THAT GIVES MEN WINGS"
Let max fly again...😊😊😊
That was awesome. It was everything that could've been said about Max and his legacy in one very well made documentary. Excellent work.
I love the Max Payne games.
same
The amount of info this channel gathers for their videos always amazes me.
That was incredible. Thank you for allowing me to revisit one of my favorite video games.
I love this franchise to death. Easily holds up somewhere in my top 5 as a tie between all three. MP3 has a love-hate relationship with me; On one hand, it's got one of the most relentless, grittiest campaigns i've ever played and by far the most improved and weighty TPS gameplay ever, and in other ways the story had me longing for a proper chapter of Sam Lake's fascinating, bleak and goofy criminal underbelly to bring closure with the NYPD trigger-happy grief-stricken cop.
I feel much the same.
Seen as a stand-alone game, it wasn't bad. But seen as a Max Payne game... It left me wanting more... More Max Payne... The old Max Payne, that is...
This game neither felt, not played, as a Max Payne game. The cover mechanic hampered the flow of the game play (as it always does). I didn't like the changes to bullet-time... Max felt much slower and shoot-dodging while picking off a handful of thugs felt completely unsatisfying.
Best OST to a videogame hands down, extremely deep and emotional.
This video was well researched, well voiced, and well written. Well done.
So well done documentary. Your voice is so good. I can listen to it all day. Please make something like this for Prototype.
I remember the Kung Fu mods. One of those rare creations that completely changed the gameplay and yet remain enjoyable.
Kung Fu mod was the best... except when it broke the level scripts LOL
This video and raycevick's videos on the trilogy perfectly complement each other. You should go check them out after seeing this one, as it delves deeper in gameplay and story while leaving a little more out of the developer side of things, something that this video nails.
I loved how you included the end theme of the third game as you concluded your video. Very nice touch.
Still baffles me how 2 and 3 didn't sell well....
New sub, thankyou for your work these videos are so informative and beautifully put together good stuff!
Still one of the best pc games ever made. I still get goosebumps seeing that intro video on the 1st one 😎
Remedy has always been revolutionary. I’m playing through Control right now and the physics and mechanics are so fluid and well done, one of the best games of the year imo. Wish that Remedy could make a Star Wars game...
I remember being like 13 the first time I played Max Pain at my friends place. To this day, it’s because of Max Pain, I have any appreciation at all for morbid and horrifying psychological based games, because that game was the first time I had any experience at all with a game that made me think _“My Character I’m playing as, is an actual psychopath”,_ and it made me feel bad at times, both for Max and the things he did to get his _“revenge”._ It was genuinely horrifying to me, seeing his kid dead, I never seen that in a game before and it shook me at the time. Now I kinda laugh a little at what made me upset, just seeing some pixels and labeling them as whatever (Plot device that makes main Character angry) was enough for me back then to be more than invested. Makes me wonder what the hell happened to games nowadays, they got all the technology in the world, yet none of them made me _“feel”_ as much as games I played as a kid. Now at 29 I basically don’t play video games, I watch others review them; and not be surprised at how much I knew they’d suck, because publishers and developers only care about flipping a quick buck off the backs of their customers.
Payne actually his last name has a y in the name.
th-cam.com/video/EQnXPIwYDF4/w-d-xo.html Max Payne 2
An amazing piece of content. Too bad the sales fell short, I loved part 3.
It would be awesome to have a remaster of the 3 past games for the new generation, but even better, a new one.
Or even better - A new full game on current gen *PLUS* remasters of the original trilogy as well!
I would be down for Max Payne 4 only if Remedy is going to develop it.
1-2 with new physics and the bullet cam from sniper elite now that would be hot
These are so well done, makes me nostalgic and grateful to be a gamer.
same
I'd love to see one of your videos talk about the rise and fall of Soldier of Fortune. I've greatly been enjoying the documentaries. Keep up the great work!
One of my favorite games, especially part 2. Great channel with very professional approach to the subject. Btw, I may be wrong, but the voice of the narrator in this movie irresistibly reminds me on the voice of the narrator that I was being able to hear in Doom 3 video game. Yeah, I'm pointing on all those video messages on the personal pad. ;)
Notice: the version of Max Payne 1 that is shown in this video is a buggy mess,
The leaps that Max's doing aren't supposed to be this bad.
Was just searching the comments for answers as i was sure that it doesnt look right lol
yup. to fix this all they had to do was limit their fps to 60. old games + high fps = bugs
I came here exactly to say this. People who have never played the game will think the bullet dodge is supposed to look that bad.
Why did he keep showing that buggy bullshit
@@ubersoldado The first GTA on modern hardware with no FPS limit is pretty dope. The game logic is tied to the individual frames, so the higher the frame rate is, the faster everything happens in the game.