And the 1st was just another suckish 3rd person dime a dozen narrative driven walking sim when it was a Playstation 4 only game....all of a sudden the tunes changed when it went to Xbox, then it turned into a AAA system seller when MS aquired Ninja Theory.
I love their games, Heavenly Sword & Enslaved were great games...
Hopefully HB2 will up the action & pace to change it up, otherwise was is the point of MS's finacial advantages??? The game needs to change it up, & go all out, with the mental health concept still in place.
From the gameplay I seen in the limited trailer, I was very underwhelmed with how it looks.....They should have went all out with this, & reworked it from the ground up not only visually to take advantage of these new machines, but also from a gameplay perspective to tighten up the many weak areas of the game, etc.... as it did have many flaws in that regard for me.... Whereas a redo like Dead Space 1 & 2 only needs a graphics, performance & possible tightening up of the controls to shine again, as the game for it's time & kind was close to perfection.
Put in an arcade racing mode also, as I miss Rock'n'roll racing,Micro Machines, Burnout, Wipeout, Motorstorm, Burning Road, Road Rash, Cruisin USA, etc, etc, type of games with high production values & mass carnage & destruction.
Love the old games....even the PS3 one, as the graphics for the time were excellent. But I don't want remakes of any of those past games......What I want is a full realized new entry that keeps enough of what made the PS1 & 2 games so revolutionary at that time, but also introduces enough in the way of content, game modes, etc, etc to bring in new audiences.... Make an excellent story focused campaign, & the traditional MP of old with modern tropes & sick graphics, artstyles & state of the art effects, physics & vehicular deformation.....And then maybe a mode that replicates Rocket League with the addition of the traditional vehicular manslaughter that TM stands for....lol.
Done right, this game could re-invigorate this series for Sony & us fans, & bring in a new audience....A PS5 & pc launch with crossplay would also be EXCELLENT!
I loved pt.3's story evolution, as it made it not the same crap rehashed over again. The story awesome & the rapid, abuse related ageing of Max made it relatable after the events he suffered in Pt.1. I thought pt.2 was the weakest by far in story & changing the originals artstyle in areas..
Max Payne 3 though, blew the others out of the contest with it's faaar superior gameplay/controls/fluidity.....not even a comparison. I just wish Rockstar could have adapted that to GTA5.
This game was very overrated IMHO.....It just had no variety in gameplay...shine torch for a bit, then hit an area where a cluster of enemies attacks. I much preferred their work on Max Payne 1&2. But, hopefully they may address some of those gripes in a redo, as the game always had potential to me, but just felt a bit underwhelming for the above mentioned reasons.
I have no problem with the dog shooting....I actually miss the exotic animal shooting in Tomb Raider & the other elements of those games that made them so brilliant (especially Tomb Raider 1&2).
I think it is a shame those things have been emitted from many games due to the whole pc movement, etc....it's a game.....shooting stuff in a fake videogame is pure escapism & something balanced (the majority of people) would never want to do. Same with the masses of human killing we are all at ease with in games. Do we really want any element of our entertainment to be attacked with over pc-ing & censorship moreso than is already happening across all fronts of entertainment.
How about just a completely new game in the series, rather than every damn game being a remake, remaster...or how about coming up with new ideas & pushing for new genres or evolving already established genres like used to happen in the PS1 & PS2 era?
Now it seems EVERYTHING has to be a remake/remaster/open world or 8/16 bit sh1tty looking retro inspired piece of crap.
We are not getting the broad batsh!t crazy abundance of variety I saw when PS1/Saturn came along, then PS2/DC/XboxOG/GC.....PS1 gen developers created whole new genres & games that had my jaw agape whilst playing....as terrible as they look now, they were mindblowing as a 20yr old big kid back then. Wipeout, Rollcage, R.E, TR, MGS, Tenchu, Tekken, Soul Edge, Einhander, Burning Road, Rage Racer, GT, Colony Wars, G-Police & just too many to mention that pushed the envelope or created entirely new ones... Where has that gone.....EVERYTHING is cookie cutter now....& I'm not saying I don't enjoy many of them.....but I'd enjoy a Activision team giving us a COD every 2 years & some Singularity type goodness & variety to shake things up, Rockstar giving us some Max Payne 4 over a 3rd gen re-release of GTA5, etc.
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