Half-Life Fallout: Max Payne 3 - Half-Life Fallout

For reals, the social bullshit is retarded and glitchy.

I've been playing max payne 3 for the past four hours or so and have been drinking the entire time, GUI is afraid to play mp with me again because I'm getting better. At being drunk.

lmao dat message

I owned Cake in 1vs1 and F4A matches. Scrub.

Cake21, on 01 June 2012 - 08:16 PM, said:

Pop some pain killers while playing, too, just to get really into the mood

DyingTickles, on 02 June 2012 - 06:10 AM, said:

If only I had some.

And you only won because that was the first time I'd played mp and was still changing my controls around. Rematch scrub.

If only I was in a crew so I could challenge you or something . . . OH WAIT, I HAVE TO BE INVITED

stupid rockstar social

4 freaking DVDs?! I fell asleep before it finished installing last night... Seriously. Can't be working a full day AND be expected to insert all those disks, I mean come on! LOLy

So I beat this game once on console and once on PC and spent quite some time playing the Arcade modes and a bit with the MP. Here's what I think about it:

1) The multiplayer is very fun, but like every single shooter this generation you get murdered by people with higher ranks than you. Why? Because when you level up the weight of things you can carry increases, so you'll be level 1 only being able to carry one pistol and maybe light armor while all level 30s are carrying heavy armor, helmets and three guns.

2) The mouse acceleration and varying speeds depending on what actions you're doing are crap. Activated slow motion? Sweet, have fun with the slow as **** mouse sensitivity! Sometimes during forced slow motion sequences it will speed up and you won't be able to shoot anything.

3) The cutscenes and their loading times. This shit is the fucking worst, what are they loading? When you continue from the main menu the levels load in 5 seconds, but during in-engine cutscenes the game can be loading up to a minute. What is it doing? And the worst thing is, if you pause the cutscenes it pauses the loading too.
There's cutscenes for everything in this game, open a door? Cutscene of Max opening a door and monologuing. I hope that by Max Payne 4 every single time the title character spits out one of his monologues the gameplay stops as he speaks and the camera spins around him while sad cello music plays, and if you try to skip it you have to stare at a picture of Dan Houser mooning you for 5 minutes for trying to skip one of his fifty million dollar cutscenes.

4) The writing is shit. Max is a whiny manchild who's crying about his family after two entire games, the rest of the cast is boring and you never care about them. It tries too hard to be mature by showing extreme gore and having swearing and fails all the time. The entire plot can be summed up by the writer, Dan Houser, thinking he's being a grown up because he's quoting the Corruption entry of Brazil in Wikipedia.

5) The difficulty fluctuates wildly even on Normal, a lot of sections are a breeze then you reach one where a lone enemy will shoot you and take out your entire health bar in one shot. Shot Dodge takes off so much stamina/adrenaline even if you activate it for a second that using is a terrible idea if you ever want to use regular slow motion.

Other than that the gameplay is pretty good, the environments are beautiful and varied and the shooting reminded me of RAGE which is a very good thing. It's too bad it seems to pester you all the time with those terrible cutscenes.

I hope Dan Houser gets castrated, raped, set on fire, electrocuted then blown up because his terrible writing and long, drawn-out cutscenes seem to infest every single Rockstar game since GTA3. Outside of GTA4, "holy shit this writing is even worse and more drawn out than Hideo Kojima's" is my only complaint about Rockstar games if I had to simplify things. It's not witty, funny or mature unless you're the kind of person who thinks smoking, drinking, looking at tits and wearing spike bracelets means you're an adult. That's Dan Houser in a nuthsell.

I'm not sure how I'd compare it to other MP games. It has the best gameplay but the writing and overabundance of cutscenes really drag it down.

Cutscenes cutscenes cutscenes dan houser cutscenes.

Damn. Haven't played it yet, because I'm away for the weekend. Should I wait for a patch before playing it? I was excited waiting to play it, but if there are bugs and the cutscenes are annoying, I could wait. Then again, I'm sure I'd watch the cutscenes on my first go anyway.

The varying mouse speeds and acceleration are something I mostly got used to, but for a friend it just made him keep dying and he ended up hating the game.

The loading times during cutscenes will probably never be fixed.

Played it till 3:30am last night now I have just got up at 2pm... better go back to playing Max Payne!

I remember when I got Max Payne 2 for christmas, I played it non stop to finish it and I was getting weird nightmares whenever I went to sleep it really messed me up so I felt a little crazy like max did!

I find it silly the game won't let me go past 2x AA because it says I've run out of memory on my video card but if I force it through the ini file, it's still smooth.

Anyone having mouse acceleration issues should goto the gamepad options and turn down gamepad acceleration to 1 it won't solve it completely but makes it much more tolerable.

The fucking stuttering in Multiplayer is pissing me off so much, not sure if it is just me but no matter what the settings I always get it, seems to be in random spots too might be fine in a really big fire fight but stuttery as hell walking down an empty corridor.

Did you try setting everything to low?

City 17, on 02 June 2012 - 10:36 PM, said:

I had that in the last mp game I played, I think it was just the server because every other game in mp was smooth.

Playing multiplayer in this game with friends owns, I love how it's a series of menus with constant connection failures.