Max Payne 4? No, they'll be remaking the first two.

[Marc_LFD]

https://investors.remedygames.com/a...-rockstar-games-for-new-max-payne-12-project/

The PS3/360 era received a lot of HD remasters of games which were only available in standard definition previously so that was great, but then the next generation arrived and remakes have became the standard somehow. :-/

Max Payne 1-3 are fantastic as it is, so logically I as an enthusiastic fan have been hoping for a 4th game.. yeah, np, doesn't seem like it's happening.

Rockstar says MP ended with the third game, yet they don't mind milking it.

https://www.svg.com/128285/why-rockstar-wont-release-max-payne-4/

Seems like publishers and developers these days are more keen on remaking old games than original, creative, brand new games (and this goes for movies and shows, too).

 

[Reploid]

Modern rockstar would not make MP justice, they already didn't once, and they were a better shape back when.

 

[Axido]

Max Payne 3 was rather mediocre in my opinion. I don't think it was a bad game, but a bad Max Payne game.
I wouldn't want MP4 to be made by Rockstar again, at least not if Remedy isn't going to be involved. MP's charme came from it being a gritty story about a New York detective, not a bald drug addict in Brazil.

 

[FAST6191]

Given the site's name I do have to suggest people check out the GBA game. It is a fantastic port/conversion. https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-recommends-max-payne-advance.129523/

As far as remaking the first two... I can see it, especially the first. I doubt they will capture the charm but then again I doubted 3 would either and I can definitely respect it -- unlike most modern games it kept my attention and chimed well with the earlier games that I adored (granted I did 2 then 1).

Modern Rockstar I might doubt following the GTA remaster and all the nonsense they have since engaged in since but modern Remedy if they were given it back to work on I could see as they pulled off Alan Wake well enough.

As far as sequel not being merited by the story then yeah the only things I could see is Max Payne being an NPC/playable sections, or they do some kind of prequel... 1998 being the first game and him in his mid 30s then at best they can't quite do 70s New York if doing typical timeframe for old school New York crime drama (thinking something like Q - The Winged Serpent) but something could still get done (Joker was 80s New York after all and that worked well, and could probably do crack as well for the driving force).

 

[Marc_LFD]

Given the site's name I do have to suggest people check out the GBA game. It is a fantastic port/conversion. https://gbatemp.net/threads/gbatemp-recommends-max-payne-advance.129523/

As far as remaking the first two... I can see it, especially the first. I doubt they will capture the charm but then again I doubted 3 would either and I can definitely respect it -- unlike most modern games it kept my attention and chimed well with the earlier games that I adored (granted I did 2 then 1).

Modern Rockstar I might doubt following the GTA remaster and all the nonsense they have since engaged in since but modern Remedy if they were given it back to work on I could see as they pulled off Alan Wake well enough.

As far as sequel not being merited by the story then yeah the only things I could see is Max Payne being an NPC/playable sections, or they do some kind of prequel... 1998 being the first game and him in his mid 30s then at best they can't quite do 70s New York if doing typical timeframe for old school New York crime drama (thinking something like Q - The Winged Serpent) but something could still get done (Joker was 80s New York after all and that worked well, and could probably do crack as well for the driving force).

I used to play Max Payne GBA and oh, man, that game was so much fun and weirdly bloody violent for a Nintendo console.

 

[AncientBoi]

I have MP on my PSP. Sorta finished it. Was fine as a game. Don't have MP2. Didn't know there was one. LoL And now it's upto 4? sheesh.

 

[ut2k4master]

- this was announced ages ago
- rockstar isnt making them, the original studio remedy is
- the originals didnt age well, especially on consoles. they very much feel like pc games of the late 90s/early 00s

 

[Marc_LFD]

- this was announced ages ago
- rockstar isnt making them, the original studio remedy is
- the originals didnt age well, especially on consoles. they very much feel like pc games of the late 90s/early 00s

Rockstar isn't making, but they'll be the publisher.

Also, this isn't 4chan or whatever to write in that format.

 

[The Catboy]

I am expecting another mediocre open world game. Current Rockstar is just soulless and their games lack the fun and charm of pre-GTA4 Rockstar.

 

[ut2k4master]

Rockstar isn't making, but they'll be the publisher.

Also, this isn't 4chan or whatever to write in that format.

rockstar owns the license but remedy is working on it without any external input. your whole thread is baseless rambling