Today’s game is Max Payne. I went ahead and figured out how to renable the Developer tools again and was just playing around with it. Remedy games are always the most fun to do this with because not only does it let you get out neat screenshots (like the one above), but theres some interesting things to be found out of bounds.
With having played the game before, i’ve taken to just exploring and watching the environment. Max Payne has some of my favorite ambient areas with the snow. I didn’t grow up with it, but something about it is just really pretty looking and nice to just chill and watch. So far this has been my favorite spot to watch. It’s right next to the fire barrel above and the ambient noise is nice to listen too.
I had a clip of me just sitting there watching it but i didn’t realize my mic was on so i can’t share it.
I went and sough out a close up of the rats wandering around the map to get an idea of what they look like up close. I did a similar thing in Halo 3 so i wanted to get an idea here too. Funnily enough they’re pretty close to me, at least on a surface level. I guess at the level of fidelity you don’t really need Rats to have a high polygon count.
I got as far as taking the elevator up before the game crashed as soon as i left it. I’m not really sure what the crash was because its been pretty stable so far. My last save wasn’t too far off though so i just need to load it up again and take the elevator back up before continuing.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Max Payne is still on my list of to-play games
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 day ago
Do it! The story and writing is still great and the gameplay holds up surprisingly well for such an old game (not that it will feel modern, but it’s not a chore to play).
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Just checked my steam library, I have all three games. 2001, 2003, and 2012.
I still remember seeing the demo on a pcgamer demo disc, back when coconut monkey was still a thing. I remember thinking that the game seemed fun, but probably relied on the matrix mechanic too much. And have wanted to play it, but haven’t been strongly driven to for many years now.
Maybe it’s time.