There is a hilarious interview with Sam Lake on why they used to choose two different actors for portraying a character such as Alan Wake and Max Payne in one and two but when Remedy saw the Rockstar's take on Max they were dumbfounded that James Mccaffrey could voice and physically play the character himself and Remedy felt like idiots on how they themselves never considered to ask James to play the character in previous installments .
@@checkmate5336@checkmate5336 While I am not sure about MP2, during the end of developing MP1, Remedy still haven't found a face they deemed fit for Max himself and they are running out of time, so the team just ask Sam Lake do the role himself, and he did with a smile on his face. Why didn't they ask McCaffery to do the role you ask? Well…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@themoongateofficial Oh definitely, even those slightly amateur-ish comic cutscenes have a certain charm in them, and the story is my favorite out of the trilogy.
nah he drinks alcohol and eats trash food pizzas an all that shit and just a stupid example… Juice WRLD die taking a lot of Oxycodone, and he was chubby
@@mr_smiles4213 Combining whiskey with painkillers might lead to weight loss because alcohol can suppress appetite, and painkillers often have similar effects. Together, they can reduce the desire to eat and may disrupt digestion, which could lower calorie intake. Additionally, since both are processed through the liver, this combo might influence how your body breaks down nutrients and fat, possibly leading to weight changes.
@@mr_smiles4213 Yeah, alcohol can actually be good for weight loss. I know I was downing a bottle of vodka a night when I went down to 10 and a half stone (about 150lbs). You're either so drunk or so hung over you never feel like eating.
The new world trade center being in that concept art makes me wonder when the remakes will be set, I hope it's still the early 2000s, the Y2K era technology really added to the Neo-noir feel
I'm also hoping for it to be set in 2001 and 03 again. The strong mafia presence also makes sense for that time, and aside from that, setting it in the present would pretty much retcon Max Payne 3 out of the story completely.
Max Payne being skinny and roughed up is actually in character. Dude was popping pills and drinking for 8 years, no way he would be jacked like he was in the vanilla game. Though having beard on Sam Lake would be a nuce touch
@@rambii. Exactly, that's what's jarring. Not that he's skinny, it's that they didn't scale down his head to match his body structure. Dudes got a bobble head.
1:30 probably the reason he looks so wierd is that the model in the first game is like 6'8! So they had to compres his image or make him look unnaturally skinny
Having proper Sam Lake model is nice, but definitive Max for is and always will be James himself. Him voicing and being the character is what shouldve happened sooner and in live action movie. I'm glad he got to get his role in full in MP3. When Bryan Cranston got a breakout wiht Breaking Bad out of small and forgettable tv shows, James was robbed of that and never got to do more dramatic work in film or more serious TV shows as the star. Max Payne 3 was his and should be so, i hate when people act like he didnt deserve to have Max's face be his, just because of nostalgia.
I actually think that smirk from the first game fit Max perfectly. Throughout the game the narration gives us a pretty good idea that Max feels kind of removed from what is happening to him. After the worst thing imaginable already happened to him, he has this super dark sense of humor about everything. He's super sarcastic and self aware of the cop on the edge cliche he's become. It's that bit of wry humor makes the tone of the game so special.
I really hope he was able to do his lines (if they're redoing the voice work) before his passing, if not, I think him in Alan Wake 2 was a great swansong for his work
@@themoongateofficial I HATE that Idea, what are people talking about, that's a terrible Idea, we want a REMAKE, I want them to go beyond the first game, really make it longer and revamp the structure, Maybe even add a bit of detective work or a small open world to drive in the blizzard. I played Max Payne 40 times, since its the first game I played when I was 4. I can say every line in the game, Im sick of it, I want them to go beyond the restrictions of the first game, instead of them just creating levels and a comic for the story, I want them to go beyond the Call of Duty and make a masterpiece, and that means making 10 times the dialogue. so when people say just reuse the old lines like snake eater I start to fume.
@@Raccoon.City.Police.Department this game is all about... the noir comic... panel aesthetic... yeah, it was purely to save on cutscenes, but you're basically asking for a new art direction. I mean, Rockstar tried to blend comic panels with cutscenes, but many of the captioned words weren't important. They were just glorified buzzwords with no substance or double meaning behind them. It could work, but I'd rather them be animated panels that activate in chronological order. As far as audio goes, they just need to do some volume adjustments. Levels can be reworked and better optimized, and maybe they can expand the levels to make more alternate routes and secret stashes, but an open world?
This mod is very impressive and I was amazed when I first saw it. For the remake I'd like (and could also maybe see them doing) either having Lake, Gibbs or McCaffery as the main face, then the other 2 who aren't the primary face as unlockable extras.
I might be the only one but i think the first Max Payne really fit into atmosphere of 1970s New York rather then early 2000s It also would fit into narrative why Max Payne looks much older in third game
If there is a face funnier than MP1Max's smiley face, it will be MP1Max's death face. It looks like Sam's dog jumped onto his nuts while he is shooting the photo or something.
The dad bod reminds me too much of Michael, even though MP3 was a year earlier. Considering we see Max drinking a lot more than we see him eating, it's a fitting look. For the remake - I don't really care how he looks. Finding a suitable voice actor that can still portray the darkness, despair and indifference like James McCaffrey did is going to be much more challenging. The key isn't sounding like JMC, it's feeling and understanding Max Payne.
a bunch of people seem to agree that max looks too skinny with the original mod, so someone made it so the edits only affect the head (while also keeping the beard from the base game). imo best version of the mod
I really want someone to mod a Younger James McAffrey in Max Payne 1 & 2. There was a mod for Max Payne which modded Sam's Max into Max Payne 2 and even replaced him in the graphic novels.
Hearing you laugh genuinely spooked me. Yeah this mod is great and honestly I kinda dig super skinny Max Payne, adds to his self destructive behavior while also explaining why he can still jump around like rabbit. For me James is still THE Max Payne, RIP.
@@matajuegosoriginal I mean yeah I kinda get it in that regard but it just looks abhorrent 🤣🤣 at least the pixel blovk one looks like it’s obviously supposed to be a bit of a funny skin
you're telling me a hobbyist with infinite creative time can do more work on a personal asset than a salaried worker creating hundreds of assets under strict deadlines???? Wow, this is truly inconceivable!!!
I think using James's young appearance for the remakes would be an amazing tribute. I know Sam Lake is iconic but James look fits much more to Max than Sam's. Also, I'm worried about Max's voice. I don't think James got to work in anything related to the remakes. Will they try to use some kind of AI to keep his voice? I think it would be a good thing, with James's family approval of course. His voice will always be legendary and I don't think any other actor could replace him as Max.
If McAffrey's family gave them permission to do so, I'm sure they'd have no problem using his likeness again and just making him look like how he did in the late 90s/early 2000s. I highly doubt they're going to use an A.I. voice though, that would just not sound right. I also don't think they're gonna reuse the old dialogue like what's being done for MGS3. The best bet would be to just conduct a search for an actor who can pull off the voice and do the character justice.
i guess it depends on the quality of the og recordings and if they still have the source recordings could be that those sources are much higher quality so it would work great i am sure they will find a way
@@BadgerGoodger yeah I don't know about the tech behind it, but I didn't mean to create the voice via AI. I thought of some kind of...overlay? Filter? that mimics his voice to put over another voice. But as I said, I don't know if such thing existes just yet.
@@Shapershift maybe. As I said to Badger, I thought of some kind of "overlay" or filter put over real recordings, not to create voice via AI, but I don't know if that tech exists.
Ideally, they'd just re-use Alex Casey's model and give him the threads, remake Timothy, and just re-use the old dialogue, but we have no idea if they're going to be that faithful.
There's a mod that allows to spawn npcs and set them as enemies it allie which gave the game a replayability. I wish it was possible to create custom maps just like the first 2 games. I did manage to add a Vinnie ally npc in the Woden Mansion by replacing him with an already existing npc, he fights with max but no one see him as an enemy, at least it work. You can see it on MP2 Moddb.
wtf? Im brazilian and I saw 0:20 I thought with myself... how could I miss that news? then I realized its probably portugal (the place were people speak portuguese brazilian).
Of all the faces Max has had, Sam's was always the one the fit the character the best imo. He had an everyman look to him that grounded him in a surreal, violent new york. The tough guy aura and monolgue also just fit that look better. I was never a fan of them changing his face in MP2 to resemble the typical handsome, chisled jaw detective archetype.
I installed the classic max payne mod for mp2 and I don't regret it. mp3 with the Sam Lake mod kinda looked weird to me a little bit but I played the mod with it.
apparently They modeled Max Payne 3 face after James McCaffrey so they could motion capture much more efficiently. Which incidentally at the time James McCaffrey looked stunningly like the actor they chose for Max Payne 2. Honestly, I have no problem with the redesign throughout the series, I view it as an aging process.
Taking a closer look at that concept art at Remedy HQ. It does resemble Timothy Gibbs but the head shape seems a little off. Chin and jawline not as prominent. Although it is admittedly hard to tell because the shadows are so dark. To me it almost looks like a younger James McCaffrey. Or it could just be me seeing things and it is just Gibbs again. The guy has aged, he might not look the same 20+ years ago.
Max Payne is and will always be Sam Lake (voiced by Giorgio Melazzi in the Italian version of the first two games, but that's another story), I never appreciated the change that happened for the second and third, Sam Lake made him iconic, for better or for worse (for me only for better) that changing him made no sense. Moreover, after Alan Wake 2, where Sam Lake plays Alex Casey in the dark place, he is practically Max Payne and there is no point in discussing him again. If he is not there again as a face, it would be disappointing.
Lmao I could see this as Alex Casey, James and Sam both are such perfect for the character, but the voice could only be James, Sam’s face just have that sense of black humor and hard boiled lmao
I can't believe when you were talking about how skinny the Sam Lake body model is, that you didn't do a single "Minimum Payne" joke. Just left it right there on the table, tsk tsk.
Wow, I’m so interested in seeing how they respect McCaffreys performance. There’s no way they should try to replicate his voice, I can only hope they put in 110% directing whatever VA has to fill these massive shoes 😢
RIP McCaffery
Long live the king
based
RIP Sam Lake
@@misanthrope5063 Sam is still alive, redo your research
@@misanthrope5063 Sam is still alive, what's wrong with you?
There is a hilarious interview with Sam Lake on why they used to choose two different actors for portraying a character such as Alan Wake and Max Payne in one and two but when Remedy saw the Rockstar's take on Max they were dumbfounded that James Mccaffrey could voice and physically play the character himself and Remedy felt like idiots on how they themselves never considered to ask James to play the character in previous installments .
So it wasn't about cost or anything?
They just FORGOT to ask him to model his likeness in the games?
@@checkmate5336@checkmate5336 While I am not sure about MP2, during the end of developing MP1, Remedy still haven't found a face they deemed fit for Max himself and they are running out of time, so the team just ask Sam Lake do the role himself, and he did with a smile on his face.
Why didn't they ask McCaffery to do the role you ask? Well…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@Armed_Plumbertbf max payne 1 is iconic
@@themoongateofficial Oh definitely, even those slightly amateur-ish comic cutscenes have a certain charm in them, and the story is my favorite out of the trilogy.
@@Armed_Plumber I think It was because they didn't know the voice actors likeness maybe, after all he was in America, and they were in sweden.
While it looks a bit strange, Max Payne being so skinny actually makes sense given how many painkillers he downs throughout the game
Just ignore the alcohol lol
nah he drinks alcohol and eats trash food pizzas an all that shit
and just a stupid example… Juice WRLD die taking a lot of Oxycodone, and he was chubby
@@mr_smiles4213 Combining whiskey with painkillers might lead to weight loss because alcohol can suppress appetite, and painkillers often have similar effects. Together, they can reduce the desire to eat and may disrupt digestion, which could lower calorie intake. Additionally, since both are processed through the liver, this combo might influence how your body breaks down nutrients and fat, possibly leading to weight changes.
@@mr_smiles4213 Yeah, alcohol can actually be good for weight loss. I know I was downing a bottle of vodka a night when I went down to 10 and a half stone (about 150lbs). You're either so drunk or so hung over you never feel like eating.
The new world trade center being in that concept art makes me wonder when the remakes will be set, I hope it's still the early 2000s, the Y2K era technology really added to the Neo-noir feel
I'm also hoping for it to be set in 2001 and 03 again. The strong mafia presence also makes sense for that time, and aside from that, setting it in the present would pretty much retcon Max Payne 3 out of the story completely.
I agree. It should be late 90s early 00s.
Damn, that gives me bad vibes for the remake. Why even call it a remake if it will be set in modern times? Maybe a reboot?
@@AeroFix94 It's been 23 years and devs still have no balls, to add world trade center twin towers
It might just be an oversight. As in, the artist just taking a photo of NYC and using it as a reference without putting much thought into it.
Sam Lake is an absolute legend.
That said, James McCaffrey is Max Payne for me… rest in peace!
in the voice of course. MCaffrey looks like an anti-charismatic cousin of Micheal from GTA 5
Max Payne being skinny and roughed up is actually in character. Dude was popping pills and drinking for 8 years, no way he would be jacked like he was in the vanilla game. Though having beard on Sam Lake would be a nuce touch
But why is his head so big?
@@rambii. Sams kinda... is
@@rambii. Exactly, that's what's jarring. Not that he's skinny, it's that they didn't scale down his head to match his body structure. Dudes got a bobble head.
The dude who self inserted so hard into Alan wake 2 I thought he was the main character
2:56 bro finally broke character 🙏😭
Cringe as hell comment.
@ 138 ppl disagree
@@RedneckRedemption1 Doesn't change anything. Its till cringe and unoriginal L
@@The_Don_ your opinion doesn’t matter bro go elsewhere
@@RedneckRedemption1 Don't call me bro. And no my opinion DOES matter. It matters just as much as yours.
To think Rockstar originally wasn't going to use James Mcaffrey to voice Max Payne in the 3rd game
1:30 probably the reason he looks so wierd is that the model in the first game is like 6'8! So they had to compres his image or make him look unnaturally skinny
Having proper Sam Lake model is nice, but definitive Max for is and always will be James himself. Him voicing and being the character is what shouldve happened sooner and in live action movie. I'm glad he got to get his role in full in MP3. When Bryan Cranston got a breakout wiht Breaking Bad out of small and forgettable tv shows, James was robbed of that and never got to do more dramatic work in film or more serious TV shows as the star. Max Payne 3 was his and should be so, i hate when people act like he didnt deserve to have Max's face be his, just because of nostalgia.
Do you mean James was considered for the role of W.W.?
I'm pretty sure more people watched Malcolm in the Middle than those that played Max Payne..
Never thought I'd see the day where I would hear Badger's laugh
Me neither
I actually ported the Alex Casey model from AW2 to Tony Hawk about a year ago. Seeing Sam Lake in HD is surreal.
I actually think that smirk from the first game fit Max perfectly. Throughout the game the narration gives us a pretty good idea that Max feels kind of removed from what is happening to him. After the worst thing imaginable already happened to him, he has this super dark sense of humor about everything. He's super sarcastic and self aware of the cop on the edge cliche he's become. It's that bit of wry humor makes the tone of the game so special.
I've never heard Badger laugh, help😭
He laughs quite a lot on his twitch stream
He only laughs at YOU, and only when you're not around 🫵
😂😂
2:56First time seeing him laughing 😂
It's been... concerning since the announcement of MP1 and 2 remakes. Since McCAffrey passed, I wonder what the progress even looks like.
I really hope he was able to do his lines (if they're redoing the voice work) before his passing, if not, I think him in Alan Wake 2 was a great swansong for his work
I would honestly accept them redoing just the gameplay but keeping the old audio
@@themoongateofficial I was pretty surprised that the lines didn't sound that compressed. Granted, the same VAs were reused wherever possible.
@@themoongateofficial I HATE that Idea, what are people talking about, that's a terrible Idea, we want a REMAKE, I want them to go beyond the first game, really make it longer and revamp the structure, Maybe even add a bit of detective work or a small open world to drive in the blizzard.
I played Max Payne 40 times, since its the first game I played when I was 4.
I can say every line in the game, Im sick of it, I want them to go beyond the restrictions of the first game, instead of them just creating levels and a comic for the story, I want them to go beyond the Call of Duty and make a masterpiece, and that means making 10 times the dialogue.
so when people say just reuse the old lines like snake eater I start to fume.
@@Raccoon.City.Police.Department this game is all about... the noir comic... panel aesthetic... yeah, it was purely to save on cutscenes, but you're basically asking for a new art direction. I mean, Rockstar tried to blend comic panels with cutscenes, but many of the captioned words weren't important. They were just glorified buzzwords with no substance or double meaning behind them. It could work, but I'd rather them be animated panels that activate in chronological order.
As far as audio goes, they just need to do some volume adjustments. Levels can be reworked and better optimized, and maybe they can expand the levels to make more alternate routes and secret stashes, but an open world?
Same Lake will always be Max Payne to me. That face is what makes it.
This mod is very impressive and I was amazed when I first saw it. For the remake I'd like (and could also maybe see them doing) either having Lake, Gibbs or McCaffery as the main face, then the other 2 who aren't the primary face as unlockable extras.
I might be the only one but i think the first Max Payne really fit into atmosphere of 1970s New York rather then early 2000s
It also would fit into narrative why Max Payne looks much older in third game
0:22 "Biggest chorizo in the world feeds 300 people"
kkkkkkk
There was some really funny stuff in Max Payne 3. I loved the Brazilian soap opera with the demon baby 😂
Yeah during that time Rockstar's writing team have the humor sense of 14 years old teenagers, and I appreciate them for that ´_>`
If there is a face funnier than MP1Max's smiley face, it will be MP1Max's death face. It looks like Sam's dog jumped onto his nuts while he is shooting the photo or something.
This has been your friendly reminder that Nicole Horne was played by Sam's mom.
When I saw the video I actually assumed it was ported from AW2, but good job modder thats some good work.
The dad bod reminds me too much of Michael, even though MP3 was a year earlier. Considering we see Max drinking a lot more than we see him eating, it's a fitting look. For the remake - I don't really care how he looks. Finding a suitable voice actor that can still portray the darkness, despair and indifference like James McCaffrey did is going to be much more challenging. The key isn't sounding like JMC, it's feeling and understanding Max Payne.
I mean you can dress Micheal exactly like Brazilian favela max in GTA V
@@unoriginalperson72 And his early suit is also Micheals default suit option.
The anorexic look makes more sense for a pill popper who doesn't take care of himself.
My Man butt loves dad bods 😂
They made my guy Max look like he had been pricked by one of those needles on the first game 🤣🤣
Ummm… He actually DID received an OD of Valkyr in the 1st game XD
Badger uploaded a new video. It's a good day
My guy finally lost it 2:56
ITS BEEN YEARS WE’VE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR YOU LAUGH BADGER
i can’t wait for the max payne remake
Surprised they didn't rip the face from Alan Wake 2. That might be difficult, but sculpting the face from scratch is just insane.
It was made before release of Alan Wake 2
a bunch of people seem to agree that max looks too skinny with the original mod, so someone made it so the edits only affect the head (while also keeping the beard from the base game). imo best version of the mod
Max payne is always my favorite game
But tbh no one can not replace Sam Lake and James McCaffrey.
The actors in max payne felt more grounded and appropriate then the following entries.
that is such bs
agreed, always favored sam lake's version of max payne.
absolute true.
this something about the first game that made it so unique
It actually works very well to being idealistic. Even since Sam Lake use his face while James was voice overing is a fun tribute to the imagination.
The thing is that the sam lake face had a lot of character, and that added a lot to the game.
I really want someone to mod a Younger James McAffrey in Max Payne 1 & 2. There was a mod for Max Payne which modded Sam's Max into Max Payne 2 and even replaced him in the graphic novels.
Hearing you laugh genuinely spooked me. Yeah this mod is great and honestly I kinda dig super skinny Max Payne, adds to his self destructive behavior while also explaining why he can still jump around like rabbit. For me James is still THE Max Payne, RIP.
Its astonishing to me that a guy in his bedroom can do a better job on a character model(s) than a tripple A game studio can
I think it had to do something with the launch of GTA V becoming a thing a year after. All focus was on that more important title.
i mean it was a joke skin
@@matajuegosoriginal I mean yeah I kinda get it in that regard but it just looks abhorrent 🤣🤣 at least the pixel blovk one looks like it’s obviously supposed to be a bit of a funny skin
you're telling me a hobbyist with infinite creative time can do more work on a personal asset than a salaried worker creating hundreds of assets under strict deadlines???? Wow, this is truly inconceivable!!!
@@naii_ that’s a bullshit argument and you know full well that it is 🤣🤣
This is clearly Alan Wake writing the existence of this mod so we can play Alex Casey The Game.
So happy I met Sam, James, Matt, and Courtney Hope a year before Control came out.
I think using James's young appearance for the remakes would be an amazing tribute. I know Sam Lake is iconic but James look fits much more to Max than Sam's. Also, I'm worried about Max's voice. I don't think James got to work in anything related to the remakes. Will they try to use some kind of AI to keep his voice? I think it would be a good thing, with James's family approval of course. His voice will always be legendary and I don't think any other actor could replace him as Max.
If McAffrey's family gave them permission to do so, I'm sure they'd have no problem using his likeness again and just making him look like how he did in the late 90s/early 2000s. I highly doubt they're going to use an A.I. voice though, that would just not sound right. I also don't think they're gonna reuse the old dialogue like what's being done for MGS3. The best bet would be to just conduct a search for an actor who can pull off the voice and do the character justice.
AI would just sound weird and unauthentic. Best bet would be to find someone with a similar voice but younger.
i guess it depends on the quality of the og recordings
and if they still have the source recordings
could be that those sources are much higher quality so it would work great
i am sure they will find a way
@@BadgerGoodger yeah I don't know about the tech behind it, but I didn't mean to create the voice via AI. I thought of some kind of...overlay? Filter? that mimics his voice to put over another voice. But as I said, I don't know if such thing existes just yet.
@@Shapershift maybe. As I said to Badger, I thought of some kind of "overlay" or filter put over real recordings, not to create voice via AI, but I don't know if that tech exists.
Hey! New Badger video!!
I'm really worried what they're going to do with the remake
Both in terms of voice and the face of James McCaffrey
Ideally, they'd just re-use Alex Casey's model and give him the threads, remake Timothy, and just re-use the old dialogue, but we have no idea if they're going to be that faithful.
There's a mod that allows to spawn npcs and set them as enemies it allie which gave the game a replayability.
I wish it was possible to create custom maps just like the first 2 games.
I did manage to add a Vinnie ally npc in the Woden Mansion by replacing him with an already existing npc, he fights with max but no one see him as an enemy, at least it work. You can see it on MP2 Moddb.
I actually like Max's smaller frame in this mod over the dad bod Rockstar gave him. Hope Remedy goes with something similar for the Max Payne remake.
Fun fact: There's also a MP1 Sam Lake model mod for Max Payne 2.
where can I find it? I really want to play it that way.
@@sluxi It's called Classic Payne iirc
Hopefully Timothy Gibbs will return to the franchise as new VA Max, his voice is pretty similar to James and it closes “the circle”.
Regarding the remake, Remedy has been all in about digitizing actor, so Max is going to look like whatever the voice actor is going to be.
bro you got me cracking up over here lmao
wtf? Im brazilian and I saw 0:20 I thought with myself... how could I miss that news? then I realized its probably portugal (the place were people speak portuguese brazilian).
It’s actually neither. It’s a Easter egg from Max Payne 3.
max payne 3 takes place in sao paulo
The skinnyness of sam lake almost gives me Rorschach form the watchmen vibes.
Of all the faces Max has had, Sam's was always the one the fit the character the best imo. He had an everyman look to him that grounded him in a surreal, violent new york. The tough guy aura and monolgue also just fit that look better. I was never a fan of them changing his face in MP2 to resemble the typical handsome, chisled jaw detective archetype.
rest in peace James McCaffery
I never loved the 3rd game, but this might justify a revisit.
LAUGHE BABY, LAUGHE, I LOVE IT.😂😂
Your voice is smooth like brother
I always thought you sounded like Max Payne lol.
I installed the classic max payne mod for mp2 and I don't regret it. mp3 with the Sam Lake mod kinda looked weird to me a little bit but I played the mod with it.
As much as I like the OG MP1 face of Sam Lake, I'm really glad R* gave James McCaffrey a chance to be the star in MP3, both face and voice. RIP.
apparently They modeled Max Payne 3 face after James McCaffrey so they could motion capture much more efficiently. Which incidentally at the time James McCaffrey looked stunningly like the actor they chose for Max Payne 2. Honestly, I have no problem with the redesign throughout the series, I view it as an aging process.
Also side note there is a mod that puts sams head on the dadbod max payne.
2:55 XD
Ahh this video is too goood
Taking a closer look at that concept art at Remedy HQ. It does resemble Timothy Gibbs but the head shape seems a little off. Chin and jawline not as prominent. Although it is admittedly hard to tell because the shadows are so dark. To me it almost looks like a younger James McCaffrey.
Or it could just be me seeing things and it is just Gibbs again. The guy has aged, he might not look the same 20+ years ago.
God he looks like a mix of Beavis and Butthead.
the head looks just a touch too big
He looks like speed freak being that skinny
skinny Max Payne gives me Rust Cohle from True Detective vibes xD
Max Payne is and will always be Sam Lake (voiced by Giorgio Melazzi in the Italian version of the first two games, but that's another story), I never appreciated the change that happened for the second and third, Sam Lake made him iconic, for better or for worse (for me only for better) that changing him made no sense. Moreover, after Alan Wake 2, where Sam Lake plays Alex Casey in the dark place, he is practically Max Payne and there is no point in discussing him again. If he is not there again as a face, it would be disappointing.
No way I heard Badger laugh
Badger laughing is like a movie villain laugh where you don't know if they're genuinely laughing or about to snap and kill someone
I thought it was an AI until he laughed.
Max Payne 3 is still one of the best games I played
jack quaid should play as sam lake's max payne
“The only way to play as Sam Lake” Forgets original game exists.
Lmao I could see this as Alex Casey, James and Sam both are such perfect for the character, but the voice could only be James, Sam’s face just have that sense of black humor and hard boiled lmao
Who will be the voice of max payne in the remake?
It is a remake so they will just reuse the voice
I feel like Max these days
I can't believe when you were talking about how skinny the Sam Lake body model is, that you didn't do a single "Minimum Payne" joke. Just left it right there on the table, tsk tsk.
My boy!!!!
"I looked like a fat bald dude with a bad temper"
hmm, the new wtc is in that artwork... maybe the remakes are set post 2015?
Just need to wait for remakes
I had no idea McCaffery died. RIP.
Yeah, a while back. :( Met the man back in 2018.
Max if he traded painkillers for meth
I hope they update the original games as well so they can be played on modren systems without any weird audio bugs
Give me James McCaffrey all day every day.
Please rockstar do a collab with remedy and give is a faithful max payne game.
some side shots it made me think of Charlie Sheen XD
Sam Lake will always be Max Payne to me.
*PAYNE TO THE MAX BABY!!!* 🔥🔥🔥
He kind of looks like chris cooper in some parts
I always thought they used Johnny Knoxville for the first 2 games
giant ass head tho
At 3:09 why would that be a cool mod Bruce Willis‘s head on max’s body
Wow, I’m so interested in seeing how they respect McCaffreys performance. There’s no way they should try to replicate his voice, I can only hope they put in 110% directing whatever VA has to fill these massive shoes 😢
With this mod Max Kinda looks like CJ when it's skinny and bald 😂
Well said 👏
Impressive
Am i the only one who thinks Badger has a similar voice to McCaffery?
Addicted to Ozempic - ahahaha😂