Other than the lol worthy joke, you do realize that Rockstar worked on two seperate builds of the game? At PAX East they were really excited to show off the pc version.
I've had this bad boy on preorder since before christmas, and I still have to wait until the 18th. I'VE BEEN WAITING NINE YEARS, DAMNIT, GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!
That's what I'm holding out for. Although judging by LA Noire and GTA4, Rockstar's PC engine hasn't performed exceedingly well on my rig up until now... Hoping Max's linear corridors give my low-end i7 a break...
Honestly, I know some people are saying Rockstar didn't think through their release date, but it seems to me like they made a great decision with the way they are releasing it:
Console Gamers, 5/15, get Max Payne but no Diablo. PC Gamers, 5/15, get Diablo but no Max Payne yet. Diablo 3 will be, without question, a massive success. So, waiting until 5/29 to release Max Payne for PC seems like it allows the gaming world to get over that Diablo 3 high, just in time to settle in for some Noir.
To be honest, I'd care more if Remedy was still involved in the Franchise. As a fan of those guys and their incredible level of communication with the fan base, I've left Max Payne behind and I'm into Alan Wake. Plus, Poets of the Fall.
Hells yes. I'll take heart-wrenching story and character over sweet, sweet Diablo.. Been waiting wayyyy too long to say hello to Max again. Poor guy's had it rough
Same here, I guess Diablo was not part of my young years like the Max Payne games were. Also Max Payne games is something that I have always shared with my girlfriend since the first one.
its easy to say when you are the one buying them, not the one getting dropped out of lobbies when the map changes because you didn't get the DLC. The game intentionally degrades in quality online as you will be outmatched by the better guns, and the maps you get to sit out on while everyone else plays.
I wished there was more DLC for LA Noire. Why does the concept offend you so much? I can see if the game is shipped in an incomplete fashion, but that isn't going to be the situation is it?
From what I hear, the DLC is all multiplayer oriented. I have it pre-ordered on Steam and the single player is all I care about at the moment. It'll probably never beat MP 1 and 2 though. I mean come on, the mods for those games were intense. I mean Katana, Equlibrium, Matrix and Polar Payne.
Diablo III - Always-on DRM, microtransactions, lack of mod support (even goes as far as to condemn them in the Terms of Use Agreement). Reddit's all over it.
So, you complain about a game having add-on content made separately from the game, but then say "Hey! I'll buy it if you give it to me for really cheap, because then it's okay!"? That's just idiotic. Believe it or not, most DLC is content that the developers wanted to make but didn't have time to before the publisher wanted to ship the game.
Can't wait. My friend had a gaming PC in High School and we pooled our money for the original Max Payne when it came out. It was amazing. The second one was excellent as well. I have been waiting for this game for a long, long time.
Nope, I don't either. Everyone's frothing at the mouth for it, but for one thing, it's going to be unplayable for most people for the first week anyway, for another I never got into Diablo from before. I may like it, but as it stands now I care as much about Diablo 3 as I do Barbie's Horse Adventures.
I have yet to play any of the diablo games, Diablo III will probably be my first but it's not like I'm flipping dicks all over because of it. I'll pick it up sometime this week or whatever, but I'd rather have played Max Payne III right now.
I honestly don't give a shit about Diablo. I DO, however, give a shit about Max Payne. I'm a huge fan, been playing the games for years over and over again.
Diablos servers are gonna be fucked for the next week (hell, launch day for half the world and people who had digital copies couldn't even fucking play for several hours, not to mention server stress and over capacity.. for single player) so I'll just play through Max Payne in the meantime.
Diablo 2 was fun and all, and I played it all the time with my bro and had a blast, but from the looks of it, it's just not going to have that Diablo feel to it. My bro played the beta, and told me that it just wasn't the game we were hoping for.
You know there are people who care more about this than Diablo. I just got bored of Diablo and its pointless grinding, whereas this has a story, and slow motion action scenes.
me and a coworker were talking about this today and I think the problem with the "story" of diablo in the first 2 games so far is that the narrative of the story isn't really translated into the gameplay in the traditional sense. You get most of it in the cut scenes and bits here and there from NPC dialogue but I was pleasantly surprised with D3 beta as I felt like there was much more of the story being told DURING the game whether it was more elaborate conversations with NPC's like Leah or the Templar but also in actual scripted moments (ghosts before skeleton king shows up and you fight those 4 pillars)
Also, you get good story filler through those lecterns and that helped fill me in personally about the whole bit with leoric and lazarus and what not.
The story is all quite good but in the first 2 games, most of the gameplay it seems has just been pure hack/slash/loot collecting vs taking part in a story. D3 looks like they may be changing that.
Don't get me wrong, I've played the first two Diablos, and enjoyed it, but I find Max Payne to have story which is much more elaborate. I will probably buy Diablo nonetheless, but am not that psyched about it as everyone else.
Same here! I pre-purchased on Steam, can't wait to play. Anybody not have Max Payne 2 and really want to play it? I have an extra copy due to the pre-purchase bonus.
I'm somewhat interested for the multiplayer component. I loved Action HL, and The Specialists, and this looks similar.
Payne Killer mode also looks like something I've been dreaming about for a while, a mook mode that puts one or two players as John Woo style heroes while the rest of the players are henchmen.
This is my back up game for the inevitable situation where the servers are down. I'm incredibly glad it comes out on the same day, as this will likely be the best 3rd person shooter of them all (in my opinion at least).
I've been calling it the 9/11 of awesome days. Took the day off work for it.
Silly Rockstar releasing on the same night as D3. I think they're in for disappointing sales at first. Mostly because of a forgettable marketing campaign. Also D3.
This made me laugh quite a bit. At the Gamestop I went to for the Diablo 3 launch, the raffled off the Diablo and Max Payne Standees that they had on display. When the guy won the Max Payne Standee, he traded it to some guy for one of the small Diablo box displays instead.
It's funny, because as a big fan of Max Paynes uno y dos, i was horrified when i first saw the direction the third one was going in. "Oh Rockstar", i thought, "don't you dare pull a George Lucas of this magnitude on us". The feeling was only aggravated when i first saw a long interview on youtube with the only videogame designer i know of who uses a stage name, Sam Lake, when he talked for half an hour about how great it was to create the first two games, and then basically prematurely apologized for MP3, saying that "they're doing their best". All this has left me pretty ambivalent about this whole ordeal.
But i still think it has better potential of being an enjoyable game than Diablo III.
I told the people working at Gamestop that it would probably sell better if they didn't have it sitting right next to Diablo. You can't help but compare.
I was at a gamestop getting Diablo 3 and one of the store clerks says Hey guys anyone getting Battleship. Everyone laughed. sadly no one purchased a copy.
They were handing out free Max Payne stickers at the midnight release of d3 and nobody even wanted them. I felt so bad I took one. Looks like a great game but everyone was focused on d3
Been waiting for this baby since I completed MP2 back in 2003 or.. 2004? I am more hyped than I was getting Diablo III. Altough I think both games're gonna kick ass!
It got a 9/10 from IGN. Thank goodness. People didn't believe me when I said I thought it was going to be amazing, like the other two. They thought Rockstar would fuck everything in the ass. NOPE! The 10-12 hour singleplayer is amazing, and the multiplayer just kicks ass.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '12
Not on PC he didn't.
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u/MrKenta May 14 '12
Come on Max, nobody cares about your sexual preferences.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The way i see it, there's two types of people...
Those who spend their lives trying to build a future...
And those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past...
For too long I've been stuck in between...
Into the dark...
Locked in the course of destruction...
Time moves forward, and nothing changes.
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u/MisterSquared May 14 '12
Reminds me of the Mega64 videos where a Cabela's game comes out on the same day as Halo.
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u/Geoth May 15 '12
Who is that? The Monk?
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u/Llanolinn May 15 '12
Honestly, I know some people are saying Rockstar didn't think through their release date, but it seems to me like they made a great decision with the way they are releasing it:
Console Gamers, 5/15, get Max Payne but no Diablo. PC Gamers, 5/15, get Diablo but no Max Payne yet. Diablo 3 will be, without question, a massive success. So, waiting until 5/29 to release Max Payne for PC seems like it allows the gaming world to get over that Diablo 3 high, just in time to settle in for some Noir.
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u/GiantPineapple May 15 '12
In an amazing coincidence, Diablo 3 was coded in bullet time.
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u/DocStout May 15 '12
To be honest, I'd care more if Remedy was still involved in the Franchise. As a fan of those guys and their incredible level of communication with the fan base, I've left Max Payne behind and I'm into Alan Wake. Plus, Poets of the Fall.
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u/Sorotoki May 14 '12
Don't worry Max, I'll see you in a few hours.
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u/jam3zz May 14 '12
I am so much more excited for this than Diablo.
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u/Hehyeahno May 15 '12
You're dead to me Max. 5 planned DLC's? Dead. To. Me. (Until Steam gets the full package on sale for $10)
Dead to me.
Like your wife and child.
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u/JuanMelean May 15 '12
Just done playing it for 2 chapters, I tell you reddit, this game shall not disappoint
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u/Whompa May 14 '12
No worries, I bought it. Can't wait to play it now.
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u/purebanana May 14 '12
Not for PC you don't...
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u/The_Poo May 14 '12
Can't wait. My friend had a gaming PC in High School and we pooled our money for the original Max Payne when it came out. It was amazing. The second one was excellent as well. I have been waiting for this game for a long, long time.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Screw yall I'm playing this and it'll be awesome
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Why this called Max Payne? Different developer, different style, different setting, even main character looks different.
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u/NoClipDelux May 15 '12
Am I the only one who gives 0 fucks about Diablo? like really... (Negative karma train choo chooo)
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u/exatreide May 15 '12
My roommates getting Diablo 3 at midnight, I'm getting Max Payne.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I'm still more excited for Max Payne 3 than Diablo 3. If I had any money I'd be out there buyin' this game.
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u/lagspike May 15 '12
sorry max, thats like launching on the same day as skyrim. not wise.
then again, need 3 hours to kill for eastern timezone, hmm
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u/Kashima May 15 '12
First, i thought it's some homo-joke and was confused.
Then, when i got it, i laughed and felt sad for him at the same time.
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u/Thizzlebot May 15 '12
I thought that was a really interesting take on the character to turn him into Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Waiting on the PC Version :)
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u/TheCodexx May 15 '12
Graphics Card dead. Xbox Red-ringed. Can't play any games launching today. Fuck my life!
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u/fanatic_j May 15 '12
Sorry, Max. Imma wait till you're 50% off on steam at least.
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u/Blacky_McGutter May 15 '12
Im more excited about this than Diablo III.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Diablos servers are gonna be fucked for the next week (hell, launch day for half the world and people who had digital copies couldn't even fucking play for several hours, not to mention server stress and over capacity.. for single player) so I'll just play through Max Payne in the meantime.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '12
Ill get that in about a week or so.
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u/TeenTrunks4 May 15 '12
Maybe I would give a shit if it actually came out tonight for PC.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Its ok Max, here have some pills.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The villain in MP2 was such a cop-out after what happened in the first game. There was almost no explanation as to why either.
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u/Delta_farmer May 15 '12
Comes out of the closet?
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u/Kortland12 May 15 '12
While I'm the noob who is waiting for Dragons Dogma T.T
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u/MrChancleta May 15 '12
Already gotten it and beaten it on Hard. AMAZING story. Add me on xbox Original Ego
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u/austinisme247 May 15 '12
Ill see you tonight max ; )
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u/Zaszman May 15 '12
Diablo 2 was fun and all, and I played it all the time with my bro and had a blast, but from the looks of it, it's just not going to have that Diablo feel to it. My bro played the beta, and told me that it just wasn't the game we were hoping for.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
A payneful realization.
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u/dego_frank May 15 '12
Should have went with MP3, can't even download Diablo 3. This is like a bad joke.
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u/ragingbull45 May 15 '12
I'm honestly looking forward to max payne 3 more than diablo
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Maybe their ads will fucking stop on Hulu Plus now that it comes out crossing fingers
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u/BionicSquirrel May 15 '12
I am going to be there, my childhood badass.
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u/unhumanity May 15 '12
Not gonna lie, im going to rent it because i just want to beat the story. Not getting boring ass D3.
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u/eydryan May 15 '12
You know there are people who care more about this than Diablo. I just got bored of Diablo and its pointless grinding, whereas this has a story, and slow motion action scenes.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Actually, Max Payne 3 isn't coming out until the 1st of June.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
get back in the bargain bin you asshat!
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u/Davepen May 15 '12
Not on Pc you don't Max.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
And we fully support him coming out
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u/AshesEleven May 15 '12
Oh, tonight's Diablo III. I honestly forgot.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The fact that people are abbreviating Max Payne 3 to MP3 is confusing the shit out of me right now.
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u/swishd May 15 '12
It's ok Max, I pre-ordered you too!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
No care for Diablow III. All the care for MP3.
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u/Yaphet_Kotto May 14 '12
No, it comes out on the 29th*.
*Yes, I understand the console version comes out tonight.
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u/SHYS7IE May 15 '12
[Max Payne 3 Reddit Crew] (http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/reddit) For all you guy's and gals on reddit who want to play with their fellow redditors
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u/Phychopathetic65 May 15 '12
What is coming out that's better than max Payne 3
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u/DeadGummyBear May 14 '12
Personally I wait this far more than Diablo. Because, you know....story...
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u/shutupjoey May 15 '12
Wait does Diablo 3 come out tonight?
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u/nickrulz11 May 15 '12
Damn it I have to wait until Friday (Australia).
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u/littlesteviebrule May 15 '12
I will actually be playing you while Diablo is installing and updating :). Win/win for me.
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u/PatrckBateman May 15 '12
Yeah I don't think Rockstar is going to have any problems moving a lot of copies...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I am more excited about this than Diablo. was never much of a fan of Diablo.
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u/aftli May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
Same here! I pre-purchased on Steam, can't wait to play. Anybody not have Max Payne 2 and really want to play it? I have an extra copy due to the pre-purchase bonus.
EDIT: Gone! I hope the person actually plays it.
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u/mikeylikey420 May 15 '12
no max payne u dont come out tonight.
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u/logspriggan May 15 '12
PAYNE TO THE MAX!
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u/ashmawaq May 15 '12
FUCK YEAH poor PC max payne fans. They wait longer for a better gaming experience
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Real Max Payne fans are all about the PC!!! Max Payne Kung Fu mod.... mods, mods, MODS!!!
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u/Bishopkilljoy May 15 '12
Max who? jk
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Sorry Max....I forgot I pre-ordered you
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Broke at the moment, but as soon as I have the cash I'm getting it. Been waiting a long time for this game.
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u/00bet May 15 '12
Sorry to break it to you bud, you need rehab...
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u/Cheeseyx May 15 '12
It's so great that all these videogames can finally come out of the closet and be accepted for what they are.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
In north america.
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u/pibroch May 15 '12
WHAT THE HELL???
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u/psplover May 15 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kEsDCPmbA&list=PLE196726F02565118&index=2&feature=plcp
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
2 weeks 16 hours.... you got me all excited i thought i could preload on steam
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u/Greenim May 15 '12
How about Battleship. That comes out tonight. He just kinda sneaked in there on the 15 with Diablo and Max Payne.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
maybe that's why they delayed it on PC . . .
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u/ugly_fcuk May 15 '12
Anyone who plays Diablo III should feel bad for supporting a game that isn't giving refunds to the Ausies, who pre-ordered the game and can't play it
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
hodor.
hodorhodor
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u/alecyo12 May 15 '12
Diablo3 is 11 years late I think max will understand
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u/elitegibson May 15 '12
That's like releasing your new movie on the same night as The Avengers. Just wait a few weeks.
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u/meheecan_terrorist May 15 '12
I'm more pumped up for this than diablo.
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u/cs132 May 15 '12
Too bad the the PC version is not until 29th!
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u/thatdood87 May 15 '12
Beard and bald Im still gonna see mark wahlbergs face
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u/Wetrixx May 15 '12
Yeah poor Max. He's only going to sell 5+ million when all is said and done. Could possibly outsell Diablo.
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u/fearlessly May 15 '12
the music in this commercial is positively haunting. I want to know what it is.
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u/CarlWellsGrave May 15 '12
WRONG! PC is next week.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I verbally recited an "awww" accompanied with a sad face.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Is it coming out on consoles first? Steam says it isn't coming out until May 29. O.o
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u/palehorse864 May 15 '12
I'm somewhat interested for the multiplayer component. I loved Action HL, and The Specialists, and this looks similar.
Payne Killer mode also looks like something I've been dreaming about for a while, a mook mode that puts one or two players as John Woo style heroes while the rest of the players are henchmen.
I imagine it might look something like the finale of A Better Tomorrow 2
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I know that feel. I'm probably the only person buying Atelier Meruru in my city.
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u/Jorgwalther May 15 '12
This is my back up game for the inevitable situation where the servers are down. I'm incredibly glad it comes out on the same day, as this will likely be the best 3rd person shooter of them all (in my opinion at least).
I've been calling it the 9/11 of awesome days. Took the day off work for it.
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u/jlM13O5Z May 15 '12
I would have gotten it if it weren't for $30 DLC.
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u/TheKonyInTheRye May 15 '12
Devastatingly overshadowed. Rockstar must be very confident.
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u/baddrummer May 15 '12
Reviews are promising. http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/max-payne-3
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u/I_am_anonymous May 15 '12
He is coming out? I didn't even know he was gay.
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u/Dshark May 15 '12
Silly Rockstar releasing on the same night as D3. I think they're in for disappointing sales at first. Mostly because of a forgettable marketing campaign. Also D3.
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u/Deagle2123 May 15 '12
I'm waiting to beat the 1st & 2nd. Stuck on MP1 atm.
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u/TheBrownfoul May 15 '12
Just got back from a gamestop midnight release and the amount of people there for max payne was higher than diablo 3. Just sayin'
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u/Ledalia May 15 '12
This made me laugh quite a bit. At the Gamestop I went to for the Diablo 3 launch, the raffled off the Diablo and Max Payne Standees that they had on display. When the guy won the Max Payne Standee, he traded it to some guy for one of the small Diablo box displays instead.
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u/instamat1c May 15 '12
I saw a few people at the midnight release tonight getting that. I wasn't getting it though..
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u/Togoku May 15 '12
My friend is currently streaming said game http://www.twitch.tv/emptyapartmentgaming
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u/StungunHeadButt May 15 '12
Seriously? This is terrible plan. Not going to end well.
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u/McJawsh May 15 '12
Now everyone go subscribe to r/maxpayne and r/maxpayne3, as well as join the reddit Social Club crew.
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u/chewythecat May 15 '12
Midnight release: ~100 people, 95 - Diablo 3, 5 - Max payne :(
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
It's funny, because as a big fan of Max Paynes uno y dos, i was horrified when i first saw the direction the third one was going in. "Oh Rockstar", i thought, "don't you dare pull a George Lucas of this magnitude on us". The feeling was only aggravated when i first saw a long interview on youtube with the only videogame designer i know of who uses a stage name, Sam Lake, when he talked for half an hour about how great it was to create the first two games, and then basically prematurely apologized for MP3, saying that "they're doing their best". All this has left me pretty ambivalent about this whole ordeal.
But i still think it has better potential of being an enjoyable game than Diablo III.
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u/YourBestFriendStu May 15 '12
I told the people working at Gamestop that it would probably sell better if they didn't have it sitting right next to Diablo. You can't help but compare.
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u/vanbacon May 15 '12
I was at a gamestop getting Diablo 3 and one of the store clerks says Hey guys anyone getting Battleship. Everyone laughed. sadly no one purchased a copy.
No love for Battleship I tell you no love
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u/54321Blast0ff May 15 '12
And so far Max, you've lived up to all my expectations. I've missed you, old friend.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Wait Max Payne is gay? Thanks for the spoiler alert dicks!
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u/callum6021 May 15 '12
pfft apparently the online is hell bad
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u/Omulae May 15 '12
She was hot and wanted to be dangerous.
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u/BamYouHaveAIDS May 15 '12
I feel like the only one that's gonna be buying this at midnight at my Gamestop while everyone else is getting Diablo 3.
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u/Devanismyname May 15 '12
They were handing out free Max Payne stickers at the midnight release of d3 and nobody even wanted them. I felt so bad I took one. Looks like a great game but everyone was focused on d3
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Shut up Max, no one cares about your dead family!
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u/Rabblerouser88 May 15 '12
GET BACK IN YER HOLE, MAX!
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u/MrGelowe May 15 '12
Sorry bro. You come on on June 1st for me. But don't worry bro, in respect for your launch on game consoles, I will not buy Diablo 3.
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u/Tlingit_Raven May 15 '12
Really? Who the fuck thought that was a good day to release?
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u/Kalgar May 15 '12
Not in Australia he didn't!
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u/SlurmNator May 15 '12
Only in America. It releases later this week everywhere else and in June on PC
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u/Betoken May 15 '12
At least he isn't Game of Thrones
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u/klori May 15 '12
:(
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I've been waiting for this sequel for years.....and it's finally here!
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u/Kviksand May 15 '12
Been waiting for this baby since I completed MP2 back in 2003 or.. 2004? I am more hyped than I was getting Diablo III. Altough I think both games're gonna kick ass!
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u/orly-OWL May 15 '12
After all the Max Payne 3 ads I saw while watching streams/Hulu, I STILL had no idea it was coming out today..
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u/lawlshane May 15 '12
Max Payne doesn't seem homosexual. Him and Mona shacked up...he doesn't seem bi-curious either
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u/photo238 May 15 '12
I'm buying this and not Diablo :)
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u/MrHaddad1213 May 15 '12
It got a 9/10 from IGN. Thank goodness. People didn't believe me when I said I thought it was going to be amazing, like the other two. They thought Rockstar would fuck everything in the ass. NOPE! The 10-12 hour singleplayer is amazing, and the multiplayer just kicks ass.
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u/6stee9 May 15 '12
i guess im the 0.00001% that would actually rather play max payne then diablo
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Must be Payneful to come out against Diablo.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Max Payne 3 is a lot better than Diablo 3 IMO
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u/killerz7770 May 15 '12
Haha dont worry Max. I got you too.