This classic is for retrogamers only, there's not much sense in giving it a score.It's like saying that Ben Hur sucks cos it doesn't have any CG.
Personally I'll pass on this, I already have the Mega CD, the Win95 and the Anniversary edition, but the game is a timeless masterpiece, period.
I hope someone publish other laser games (not only DL 1,2 and Space Ace), Like Cliffhanger (fantastic), Super Don Quix-ote and so on. They were as cool as Don Bluth's ones, but they keep being forgotten. QQ
And about taking half an hour to finish... it's 30 minutes of pure action, not like modern games where you have something like: video, tutorial, video, 1 minute action, video, video, walk in an empty area, 1 minute action.
I really don't understand who likes easy games... if you finish them it just means that maybe you don't have some big neurological problems.
Where's the thrill? Would you watch a Lakers Vs Midget Team match?
Opposable thumb and not being in coma are the only requirements many games have skillwise. How fun can be to play such games?
I understand that old arcade games (Legend of Hero Tonma imho is the best example) were too hard for almost all the players, but isn't it possible to set the difficulty to something between "killed while inserting coins" and "finished blindfolded"? Something like '90s games... Thief, Doom and such.
And about the article... it pretty much looks like advertising to me... "to all people fed up with uber ez games, BUY GOW:J!".
The funny part is that I'd really like to see a hard single player FPS, but I can't stand the "hide behind a wall, health auto regen, max 2 weapons at the same time" playstyle, so I won't buy GOW anyway.
@speed45823 Those were times! Even Ultra-Violence would be enought imho. Now most of ""Hard Mode"" is between "I don't want to die" and "Hey, not too rough" Doomwise.
This Max Payne is exactly what I thought it would be the first time I saw a picture of Max looking like Niko Bellic.
Many people called Fallout 3 "Oblivion with guns", the same people will call MP3 "GTA 4 with bullet time".It's no mystery that famous developers buy old brands to catch the fans of the serie (or maybe cos they lack of the imagination needed to create a new character) and make a game similar to the ones they usually make.
The game isn't particularry good, but it isn't utter crap either. For once a game that it's somewhat hard in hard... well... harder (usually hard means "piece of cake, but a hard one") than the average.
Cutscenes make the game really boring. Unskippable + blinding effects. You can't even turn off the monitor because the action starts right after cutscenes.
Looks and sound are awesome, the rest is decent.
Graphics and sound worth 9, the rest is more likely a 7.
Thanks to the name Max Payne (or Rockstar Games) it worths a 9, if it was an indie game it would worth no more than 7, but of course if it was Metal Gear it would have been 10.
@Chris_theViking: Actually I've killed Diablo in Inferno and I'm farming Siegebreaker and Izunal. When I get bored of farming I lvl an alt or play with friends. Still I'm enjoying the game quite a lot.
I don't want to brag, but it looked like people liking the game were all lowbie and didn't know what'll be waiting for them.
In general: It's way easier than D2 used to be. It took me months to clear D2, while it took a little more than 2 weeks with D3. People just don't remember how it was back in the late '90s. It's silly to read people complaining about few builds available later in the game... if you could clear the game with any build you would have complained that it was too easy. Also it's partially false, at least for Demon Hunters, you can clear almost all the fights with "open" builds. Of course some powers are mandatory (Smoke Screen, Caltrops), but others, like Maked for Death, can be switched with Bat Companion or even Stampede (or anything you might want to add to your build).
About nerfing classes. The monk being able to fight without ever being hit or the Demon Hunter with 15+ secs of continuous invulnerability were clearly too OP. You can clear the game with any class even after those nerfs, check youtube if you don't know how to do it. About lowering the difficulty. I know Blizz is thinking about that (devs nowadays think only about making all the online content available right away to all the players, like Bioware did on SWTOR, but then everybody gets bored after a short while), but I really hope they don't do it. It's already easy as it is. Inferno should be a place for hardcore players (not meaning hardcore mode ofc ^^), not for every player who hits 60.
You dunno WTF to do? Try different builds, change your gear or... there's a thing called youtube with loads of guides.
You don't have the right gear? I don't see how can someone be astonished by the fact that that you need to farm in D3 when in D2 you used to do the same.
Drops are kinda frustrating, but if every boss dropped uber loot every time, how long would the game have lasted? Hit 60 and get dressed up right away, easy fights so everybody can clear the game half afk eating chips and answering the phone... nothing to do after a month (like SWTOR and many other games who did the same).
The real problems:
- No offline mode is indeed a pain in the 4$$ (if you play at your friend's house Blizz will think you got hacked and most likely will block your account), but it's the only big issue of the game.
- There were servers issues but they seem solved.
- Multiplayer in Inferno sucks, each player joining gives mobs +100% hp and damage (this happens in all difficulties, it's just that in Inferno you feel it a lot more). Even if you can res each other it's still way easier to solo everything.
I'm not a fanboy of either Blizzard or Diablo, what I wrote is just about what I think of the game. Nowadays many people knows only how to complain. If a game is too easy they complain cos it's a piece of cake, if it's a little harder they complain cos it's impossible for them.
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