Today’s game is Max Payne. I’ve had this for a while and with how much Alan Wake II takes from Max Payne i thought it would be appropriate to at least visit it.

At first i tried playing with controller and struggled, but i found that once i switched to PC it became far more natural. The Bullet Time mechanic is satisfying to use, and the story scratches an itch which only L.A. Noire seemed to hit up until this point in time. On top of that i love the setting. I love big cities and especially during the winter. Not to mention i love the graphics retro graphics of it.

On top of that, I finally got 100% on Alan Wake 1 today! I went through and got all the collectibles and the misc achievements. It took going through almost the entire game again but by basically speedrunning it i did it.

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    I love this game. I loved the Bullet Time feature, and the overall plot was really good. I forget if it’s this one or MP2 that I played as a kid… >!There’s some woman who is following us around, we are also trying to seek revenge for the dead family or something…!<

    • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      You are thinking of Mona Sax, she makes a brief appearance in the first game, but its in the second game where she shows up in most of the chapters (often showing up right before or after Max arrives to a location) and you play as in her in some of the later chapters.

    • MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      The Bullet Time is so satisfying. And I love Max as a character. I’m a sucker for Everyman characters (part of the reason Alan Wake is one of my favorites too). I would have killed to get to experience this game as a kid. It’s so much fun I’m disappointed that I never played it sooner lol

      • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Life. The things I wish I could’ve played as a kid. I wish I could get into stuff like One Piece as well, but these days it’s so hard to have enough time for just one episode a week, let alone binging 5 a day to finish the minimum 1000+ episodes.

        • MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          7 days ago

          I feel ya. I tried one piece but only got like 12 episodes in. It’s so hard to find the time nowadays to get into new things

          • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            The fact that the common argument in favour is “it gets better at the 100 episode point” like, bro… I have a life ffs.