Can reviews of old games become inaccurate or ‘wrong’ as the medium evolves?
The PC version of this game has a very positive 89/100 on Metacritic (based on 32 reviews). Fans like it even more, with some 249 ratings bestowing an average score of 9.1/10, yet this is one of the worst games I’ve played recently. The level design is bland, the AI is unfair, the difficulty is too high and the story arc is unbalanced. While there are glimpses of good writing and a few innovative ideas, it still pales in comparison to nearly every other video game today.
Remedy Entertainment has revealed that Max Payne 1 & 2 remake has achieved critical development goals, while Control 2 is in full production.
I have seriously HIGH hopes for these remakes, hope they can live up to my own hype 🦖.
Remedy has outlined its major goals for the Max Payne remakes, stating that it intends to capture commercial and critical success.
I'm not much of a Remedy gamer beyond Alan Wake, but I can't say I've ever heard anyone complain about the quality of the product, whether we like the game or not.
Um, I’d think that should go without saying… but glad they’re committed to making the quality excellent as opposed to, uh, not.
I don’t think Remedy had anything to do with that. I get you’re referring to a publisher, but you wouldn’t think a developer would be reassuring people about their game when a different developer made a game that dropped the ball that’s under the same publishing umbrella.
Like, why would From Soft have to assure us that they’re game will be be striving for excellence if Namco Bandai is publishing and they’re referring to something like Unknown 9: Awakening?
This is just a weird statement no matter how you spin it, but also good to know.
Well rockstar is paying the bills so they have to project confidence so it isn't cancelled.
What I'm wondering is who is going to voice Max since the og actor died or they are using the old VO like MGS3Remake.
Rockstar has always had a great relationship with remedy this isn't some new fly by night partnership they have worked together for 20 plus years now
Max payne 2 was the last time they worked with rockstar in 2003. And it bombed.
Rockstar asked remedy to check out Max Payne 3 for notes but were not really involved.
So having worked on a project 20 years ago doesn't mean they have been working together for 20 plus years.
Considering some new releases that's good to hear. It is better than aiming for diversity and inclusion.
The Finnish studio also shared a small update on Control 2.
Playing max payne 2 on ps2 for the first time, lol this series definitely needs a remake. The gameplay is rough😅 still a good game tho I hope they keep that gritty feel to it.
Cant wait to see how this turns out. Max payne with Control's level of physics and destruction would be amazing. AND IT BETTER HAVE A PHYSICAL RELEASE
Okay - proof read your god damn articles if you're going to even pretend to be a "writer" of any kind. You forget to mention the game (max Payne) in the first sentence rendering this entire article a terrible exercise in confusion - how hard is it to read the fucking article you just wrote? Or better yet! Give it to a friend!
Movies get magazines and red carpets and video games get journalists who don't even proof read their work.
Typos generally don't invalidate articles, and everyone makes them. I intentionally left the game's title out of the paragraph because I wanted to describe it for readers without bringing in their biases.
Edit: I'm not really sure what you're talking about. I went back to proofread (a second time), and added a comma and changed two words.
You can't really review a game by today's standards. You always have to take into consideration the fact that it's an old game, that the technology that powers our games has changed dramatically. So to put it bluntly, you could have said that Max Payne has not stood the test of time.
Incidentally, if you wanted to be descriptive, describe the title and its characteristics in the first two paragraphs. If people have to read halfway through the review just to get the title of the game you're reviewing, it becomes a chore rather than a pleasure to read. And then people get mad. Just look at our friend wallis up there.