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Max Payne
9 hours playtime
no achievements
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
6 hours playtime
no achievements
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Max Payne 3
9 hours playtime
11 of 67 achievements
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Minit
2 hours playtime
18 of 27 achievements
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March
Max Payne
More very old games. Max Payne released in 2001. I bought it in 2014 along with Max Payne 2 and 3. I had played a little, but didn’t really make an effort to complete it until this month. Very dated graphics, but a pretty fun game. There are some bugs and glitches, I’m guessing because of newer versions of windows. It runs at a ridiculous frame rate most of the time, there are some problems jumping or running in some parts of the game, and there is a risk of getting stuck in certain parts. Whenever this happened, I just did a quick search and found solutions like jumping sideways instead of forwards.
Two screenshots, one from the final scene and the message you get after beating the game. There are no achievements, so after a total of 9 hours play I can mark this as complete.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Straight onto the second in the series. Slightly better graphics in this one and no glitches (in my experience at least). Pretty fun again. The levels were a bit more varied and you get to control a different character for some levels. Not as dark and disturbing as the first one.
One screenshot this time. There was no message at the end of this one, so just a shot from the final scene. No achievements again, so after 5 hours play I can mark this as complete.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Onto the last in the series. Released in 2012 and you can tell it’s much later than the others. The graphics look much better. Great graphics considering it’s now 7 years old.
There are a lot more cut scenes in this game. At the start I found it pretty annoying. It reminded me of Dragons Lair, where you just sit and wait for ages until there’s a point where you interact with the game. Nowhere near as bad as those early interactive movies, but a lot more cut scenes than the others in the series and most games I’ve ever played. I got used to this after a while and enjoyed the game, but still think it would have been better with fewer clips.
Right, I’ve moaned about it a bit, now the good parts. It looks great, the voice acting and dialogue is good (I’m no expert on this, but I enjoyed it) and the game seemed tighter. Changes to the controls worked well and I was never searching for keys as I sometimes did in the earlier games. The story was pretty good and it kept me interested.
Unlike the earlier games in the series, there are achievements. A lot of these are multiplayer though, which I’m unlikely to get. Might add a few more to the ones I have, but I’m unlikely to get anywhere near 100%. Marked ‘Beaten’ for now. A couple of images from the final scenes below with Max looking a little like Walter White. Not the most exciting shots, but they don’t spoil the story and show the improvements in graphics.
Minit
I actually beat this in January, but didn’t add it to the report. I think I expected to go back and try and get all the other achievements. I played a little more in February, but haven’t really felt the urge to go back to it. Sooo….just marking this as beaten for completing the main story for now. Fun novelty game. Not much else to say! The main appeal is the 60 second limit to each playthrough. The graphics, dialogue, or story aren’t going to win any awards.
Other news
I’ve been playing Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (not as fun I remember the first game being, but maybe I’m looking back with rose tinted glasses) for the last week or so and have just started Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (A Steamgifts win, that I can already tell I’m very bad at!). I went to Thailand for a short break last week. Nice to relax a bit, work has been pretty stressful recently and I’ve been looking around for other jobs but nothing is as secure and/or well paid as the role I have now. I’ve continued the relaxation by not arranging any extra work this weekend and will be watching UFC and One FC fighting events tomorrow. Hope everyone else has had a good March :)
The first Max Payne is unfortunately unavailable in my region, so I never got around to playing it. The other two I did play (MP2 a few years ago, MP3 2018). I don’t remember a lot about MP2 other than that it was a nice experience. I wonder what impression the series would make on me, playing all games, like you did. I think it makes for a very interesting experience, playing all parts of a game series right one after the other. It gives you a point of view very different from someone that played the parts of the course of several years. And yeah, I didn’t even bother to get most of the achievements in Max Payne 3 either…
Do you already know what you will play next? Hope your April will be less stressful!
It’s unusual that MP2 and MP3 are available but not the original MP. It had a dark theme, but wasn’t any more violent than the other two. I guess it’s so old that not many people would buy it now, even if it was made available.
I’m not sure what to play in April. I don’t often set a target, I just see what I feel like playing and how much free time I have (so I’ve never taken part in the Challenge Me section of this site). I might try and finish Dishonored:DotO and Dishonored 2. I got these together in a pack that was some kind of pricing mistake from Nuvuum. They noticed and sent me an email to say they would refund the money and take the games back, but that was 6 months ago and I still have them!
I see you recently finished Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. I have the 2nd in that series waiting for me in my backlog. I have trouble sticking with RTS because they eat up so much time. I should probably try that soon. I feel like I’ve made some good progress on my backlog, but there’s always more to do :)
Ha, that’s lucky that you got to keep the games. Very good!
Dawn of War 2 is not really a regular RTS, like the first part or Age of Empires or Starcraft, judging from what little I played a few years ago. It’s not very long either, according to HLTB, so I wouldn’t say it’s a typical RTS. I’m also looking to play it, but I’ve got to finish all the expansions of Dawn of War first :)